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Results? Enquiring minds want to know.

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Prelim stats

Finals stats

Early College of Guilford comes from behind to beat Enloe A, who had been chainsawing the field all morning. It was a nice final match.

Eric

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Are the bonus conversion stats right? I know bonus conversion was low all day, but these seem especially low. Some artifact of trying to shoehorn the format into SQBS?

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(corss-posted to tournament announcements) Just reminding everyone of the 8th Right Triangle Open at Raleigh Charter on March 5. This is a house-written tournament with a three-part format: team directed questions, team worksheet, and a pyramidal tossup/bonus section. As usual, it will be Swiss-pair...

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Just reminding everyone of the 8th Right Triangle Open at Raleigh Charter on March 5. This is a house-written tournament with a three-part format: team directed questions, team worksheet, and a pyramidal tossup/bonus section. As usual, it will be Swiss-paired in real time. Fees: $55 for the first te...

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USB connectivity. I am hearing good things about these "computers."

Eric

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The complete North Carolina tournament schedule can be found here.

Eric

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Raleigh Charter had 1685.

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I am interested in how coaches and moderators resolve the problem of teams offering conflicting versions of answers. For example: Team A buzzes and says "The Invisible Man" and the mod signals correct. Team B challenges, saying the answer was (and should be) "Invisible Man." Team...

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Raleigh Charter is interested. We'll be deciding soon.

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Due to a software error during the final match between Guilford A and Enloe A, the match had to be scored by hand. The winner was Guilford A. We will try to recreate the stats and add them to the existing ones, but I can't make any promises. The remainder of the stats are correct. My thanks to all t...

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The packets reflect this. Nearly all the tossups are gettable, but most are really tough up front.

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Tournament is rolling. Round-by-round stats posted live here:

prelims (round 1-6)
playoffs (rounds 7-9)

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ACE camp.

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Enloe was highly impressive. The top scorer in the tournament said that was his first tournament. I find that very hard to believe, but I digress. Great players. He did win the Duke Celebrity Shoot last week. He may not have played a formal TU/Bonus format tournament before, but Enloe's obviously b...

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Preliminary round results (1-5) at the break: http://www.patrickking.com/ncata/2011results/quakerbowl/prelims/quakerbowl_standings.html Afternoon round rebracketing: Mon: Dorman A, Raleigh Charter A, Greensboro Day, Enloe A, Enloe B, Raleigh Charter B Jin: East Chapel Hill, Dorman B, Raleigh Charte...

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Field Update (10/28/10):

Nash Central
Carrboro
Guilford
Russell (KY)
St. Mary's
Richmond Senior
Johnston County Middle College
Thomasville
Johnston County Early College
Parrott Academy
Greensboro Day
East Chapel Hill
Enloe
Chapel Hill

(edit: updated field)

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I was wondering what time the competition is and how many people are on a team. I have a team in Greensboro and we are interested in competing in the tournament. Also, what type of questions will be used during the tournament. Thanks in advance I can supply you with all information. contact: egrund...

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I'll let the tournament officials post the standings and stats. Final match was Early College of Guilford A over RCHS A 460-120. Enloe and NCSSM were the other semifinalists.

Eric

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scquizbowl wrote:
Here's another Brain Game, from WRAL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBxMQfmA ... re=related

OMG this is old. Not that Brain Game is a great example of quizbowl, but it's changed a bunch. Much more recent shows are here.

Eric

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This thing's now at NCSSM instead of UNC. Same bat time.

Eric

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What a bummer we're holding ours on the 13th, also. I'd like to defend my coaches' title as well as competing in the Guitar Hero tournament. I've been practicing.

Eric

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Robinson and Porter Ridge - any tentative dates for tournaments? I'm trying to work on a competition schedule. Thanks. There won't be a fall tournament at Robinson; there might be a spring but we don't know yet--they have a new coach. April usually announces the Porter Ridge tournament a little lat...

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Raleigh Charter HS is pleased to announce the third Bonfire of the Manatees tournament to be held at Raleigh Charter on 11/13. This will be an HFT mirror. $60 for the first team $50 for additional teams -$10 per working buzzer contact: egrunden AT raleighcharterhs DOT org (edit: fixed email address)

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We also plan to pool varsity and JV teams for the prelims, but maintain a JV playoff bracket and championship trophy. Of course, only varsity playoff teams will earn national bids, so if a Fresh-Soph team dominates the field, we will give them the choice of playing in the varsity bracket (for natio...

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limehouse wrote:Eric, are you thinking about mirroring the HFT for Bonfire?

Yes.

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limehouse wrote:Must member schools participate in all three activities to be in contention for the scholastic cup? I'm not entirely sure that's going to be feasible for us.

Not necessarily, but of course, the more in which you participate, the more points you earn. You could just do really well at a couple.

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Also, I remain curious about the choice to not mention alternative sources of practice questions as well as the issue of the relatively high entry fees. Sources: (1) oversight - we'll add them (2) Since we are using NAQT as the source, it seemed logical to suggest the most similar format and style ...

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I changed the calendar to reflect an error I made. The state tournament is on 4/16, and will be held at NC A&T in Greensboro. The 3/26 date is district qualifying for the state tournament. Winners here advance to state. These will be held locally.

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Untimed.

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I added the Tar Heel Cup and Duke Celebrity Shoot to the calendar. The fall is thickening!

Eric

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NCASA is an advocacy organization first, trying to get more kids involved in academic competitions in general, like KAAC. In addition to advocating, it is also creating new, non-quiz bowl competitions (Quill, Twelve), but also using its size and dissociation from schools to be able to facilitate the...

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Raleigh Charter would be interested in mirroring this again. I like everything you've said about this year's set, Andy. Less trash means more SCIENCE!

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I expect there will be strong overlap between Twelve and quiz bowl; The Quill is a writing and communications event.

To those of you who are wondering where NCATA is in all this, expect a note from me this week showing how we relate. Don't worry about the nature of quiz bowl in NC changing.

Eric

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Bonfire is an event on Facebook; RTO will be eventually.

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limehouse wrote:I predict it will begin snowing on or about October 12, and and on the four consecutive Fridays following, preempting all our fall tournaments. January through March will be 61 degrees with clear skies.

With global warming, who knows what you'll get!

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Raleigh Charter has claimed Nov. 13 for the Bonfire of the Manatees and March 5, 2011, for the Right Triangle Open.

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The current tentative schedule, including testing dates. 09/04/10 09/11/10 - ACT 09/18/10 09/25/10 - Tar Heel Cup 10/02/10 10/09/10 - SAT 10/16/10 - High School Celebrity Shoot (Duke) 10/23/10 - Quaker Bowl (Guilford College), ACT 10/30/10 11/06/10 - SAT 11/13/10 - Bonfire of the Manatees 11/20/10 1...

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smithp5 wrote:The tentative date is October 23

There had better be an Avogadro's number question.

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All that, plus building a coherent strategy for player development. This means prioritizing material for the n00bz so that they get to be the most effective players they can be as early as possible. 10th graders generally can't compete with seniors on the basis of courses taken or oxygen consumed on...

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Stats?

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The prelims and playoffs were round robin. In the second playoff match of 3 (top 4 teams) Cave Spring had come back to be 20 behind with one TU left. They got TU 20, but unfortunately then zeroed the bonus to save RCHS A.

Great effort by Cave Spring!

Eric

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The field for the Duke tournament is like 6 teams, and 3 of them are RCHS. Can anybody else come, please please please? Though it might be fun to play double round robin.

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Noting that Duke is running an NAQT tournament on April 24. See the announcement on the Tournament Announcement forum.

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Ballots for the NC Academic All-Star team are available on the NCATA website. You can submit them electronically to me or just send me an email with your votes. Voting closes Saturday, March 20.

Eric

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NCOAST Registration is now closed. The field is as follows: School/Varsity Teams/Buzzers/Staffers Raleigh Charter 4 4 2 Greensboro Day 2 1 Northeast Guilford 2 Robinson 2 Early College Academy 2 1 Jordan Matthews 2 1 2 Richmond County 1 1 Cobra Kings 1 1 0 Early College at Guilford 1 1 Green Hope 1 ...

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Results for the Western NC Shootout, held at South Caldwell on 3/6: Quarters Patton over Freedom B Freedom A upsets Cave Spring (by 10) Hickory Ridge over Bassett Robinson over T Jefferson Semis Patton over Robinson Freedom A over Hickory Ridge T Jefferson over Freedom B Cave Spring over Bassett Fin...

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Also, registration is ongoing for NCOAST, on March 13 at Guilford College. This is the state tournament, and it is an open tournament, so there are no qualifying events. Just come and play. All we ask is that you bring a coach/player/assistant who is willing to read or score for matches, as staffing...

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Prelim Stats Playoff Stats Results: 1. Cobra Kings A 2. Green Hope A 3. Early College at Guilford A 4. TJ Classical There was a bug in the stats calculation section that screwed up the Bonus Heard and ppb stats. This has been fixed, but the stats can't be corrected. It was an artifact of the way bo...

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At Saturday's RTO I will have data for coaches and players to evaluate in order to pick the members of the 2010 NCATA All-Star team. I've put together the results of all the tournaments in NC this year for which I have individual stats (Bonfire, Speedway Shootout, Tar Heel Cup, Belles' Bowl) by play...

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