The Quizbowl Resource Center

sssssssskkkk wrote:Dang, NAQT tossed up PKU? I'm pretty sure that came up as a hard bonus part at PACE.....

Yeah, I only remember it because my freshman bio teacher had a weird affinity for congenital disorders. Does seem more HSNCT appropriate, but I'd be interested in what would happen with a larger sample size.

We're talking about things that happened in the NBA in 2002, 9 years ago, when current high schoolers were in kindergarten-3rd grade. It takes active NBA fandom to know things from that long ago, so it's fine to lead off a question with that -- actually, even then, nine years back is pretty intense...

In 2002 this team acquired center Dikembe Mutombo in exchange for Todd MacCulloch and Keith Van Horn; even though Mutombo spent most of the season injured, the play of Lucious Harris and Kenyon Martin helped this team advance to the NBA finals, which they lost to the Spurs. More recently, this team...

I don't remember where they decided to hold it this year, but when I went it was at Marymount University, which on a weekend is a long-ish drive to get to anywhere noteworthy. The point being, it's stupid. They held it at the Sheraton National in Arlington, which had a shuttle to the Pentagon City ...

Wait, never mind my memory's going. Sudden death tiebreakers. Either way, the amount of time in between games is ridiculous.

Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote:

sir negsalot wrote:3 hours between games

Were there half-packet tiebreakers?

No, in fact I believe ties aren't broken in the prelims. With only 6 games guaranteed, teams have a lot of times in between games. Daniel I think I may have played you in 2009, I remember facing an RM team.

Also, that NIT idea will gain the least traction with Chip Beall, so as long as he's alive and running the event, expect him to insist his tournament is the only legitimate national championship. Sadly, all too true. The NAC is the exact opposite: a game show without cameras, put on for the amuseme...

That still doesn't change the fact that the questions are poor and do not help determine an actual national champion. Do your teammates like having no idea what to study or being hosed? The second part of this is just not true any more. While I'll concede that the question are far too short and too...

Another question: Do you personally actually enjoy NAC more than you would HSNCT and/or NSC and if so, why? I don't know, not having attended either of those tournaments, but I assume I'd enjoy them more because of the increased games and better questions. However, NAC this year was a fairly enjoya...

That actually currently is the plan. There's still a lot of logistics to work out, but we'll hopefully be hosting a tournament sometime in early 2012, aiming for around 24-30 teams from Westchester and the rest of the NYC area.

My question: why are you even bringing administration into this? In a usual year, the only times we ever talk to administration are a) the TV show and b) when we need to put hardware in the trophy case. We got money from them this year, but if you became financially independent as a club what can s...

As much as he's going the wrong way in saying it, Tom has some good points. The school wouldn't cut the team (shiny trophies do provide some measure of protection), but the "Chip plagiarizes" argument is likely to be somewhat ineffective. First, there's no up-to-date resource with examples...

the #1 team in West Virginia That's not saying much. Parkersburg's a very good team, but you can distinguish them a little more than that. I distinctly remember crushing the Montana champion my freshman year. I have no idea why they chose NAC over HSNCT. It's not a matter of money, as I believe bot...

the #1 team in West Virginia That's not saying much. Parkersburg's a very good team, but you can distinguish them a little more than that. I distinctly remember crushing the Montana champion my freshman year. I have no idea why they chose NAC over HSNCT. It's not a matter of money, as I believe bot...

nadph wrote:I'm certainly interested in some form of online scrimmages during the summer (I'd prefer text- or IRC-based, but could do Skype/TokBox/tinychat as well, I guess). Is anyone interested in attending these?

I'd be interested as well.

rpond wrote:Harrison took the whole thing, with Ardsley taking second:
http://www.jconline.com/article/2011061 ... ampionship

I can confirm this. We beat White Plains in one semi, and Harrison beat Copley (without Saajid) in the other.

Definitely check out the LI and New Jersey tournaments (there's a NY/NJ thread under "National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion"). Also, I'm very tentatively planning a Fall Novice tournament mirror here in Westchester, and your team would be more than welcome to attend. edit: just ...

So, the tournament. It was as well run as I've seen, with the only major hang-up (a Sunday protest that took a while to be resolved) finished in a reasonable amount of time with no major consequences for travel plans. The hotel was a great venue: the rooms were easily accessible, the locations prese...

For the record, I did not hear that question, nor did I hear any fourth-quarter questions remotely that bad. I have a theory on why the questions the general quiz bowl population hears about are so awful; more on that when I finally have some time.

We beat High Tech A 275-200 to win. I was named tournament MVP. More thoughts on the tournament in general, the question quality, and the NAC in general to follow, but for now I'd just like to say congratulations to everyone, especially Southport, Hastings, and High Tech A, who gave us three of the ...

About to play in the finals against High Tech A. We beat Southport in the semis, and High Tech beat Penn Manor.

Zivel wrote:I will be attending Oberlin College, which currently doesn't have a quiz bowl team. I might try to change that.

I know a couple people there who might be interested; I'll try and talk it up to them.

Jake,
Greeley got 3rd. Not sure who the winner is, though.

rpond wrote:I find it amusing that Lancaster Catholic faces every team from Long Island. Such is , I imagine.

And the other two are from Westchester. Geographic diversity, man...

bmanzo44 wrote:My team is going to the NAC in D.C., anyone know if those schedules are available yet?

So are we. Chip sent our advisor an email with the schedule, so check if yours has it. If not, I can email it to you if you want it now.

Your PPG ended up higher than every team in the main division except two. One of those two was in your own bracket. Personally if I was in that position I'd be a little annoyed. I guess, and getting one of those cups would have been cool. But for the crapshoot that it was, it wasn't disastrous. I h...

I think our bracketing was decent actually--our bracket was well balanced. If anyone's interested, that wasn't our full A team; our second highest scorer wasn't there. I thought the tournament was overall well run, but I agree that there were pretty dramatic inconsistencies in moderator speed. The s...

Thank you!

Yeah, White Plains is pretty bad at keeping a date (and finding a decent question provider, but that's another story), but it turned out well. I'm excited to get the team to a non tournament, basically because I can't take non-pyramidal questions and the antics of Les Roby anymore.

rpond wrote:

ChathamNJ wrote:Ardsley

This is a pretty powerful statement if this is their legit team. White Plains' annual season-ender is held on the same day...

It is shaping up to be our actual A team. However, White Plains pushed OMAR back a week, which is the only reason I could convince people to go to this.