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Full stats have been uploaded to the database here. Thanks again to Bryan Lu for the SQBS parser!

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On behalf of the Academic Buzzer Team at the University of Illinois and the editing crew of ACF Fall, I'd like to thank everyone for an amazing tournament on Saturday! Congratulations to DCC A on their undefeated victory, having cleared the field by two games over Auburn and Urbana Uni. This marks D...

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The field is capped, and any further registrations will be placed on a waitlist. An informational e-mail will go out to all coaches and moderators, and be posted here, on Sunday night.

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We're at 23 teams and I'm going to cap the field at 24, for scheduling and staff reasons. We'll set up a waitlist as necessary. If you're interested in playing, please let me know ASAP! If you're interested in moderating, please contact me and/or Brad McLain; we're noting HS/college preferences and ...

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Field updates (based on who's filled out the ACF registration form) are visible here. We've still got room for more teams, are still looking for moderators, and still excited for a great tournament!

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I am pleased to announce a High School site of ACF Fall 2018, to be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Saturday, November 3rd, 2018. UIUC is also hosting a college site of ACF Fall on this date; these tournaments are separate. Registration Registration for this event has two s...

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Speaking to Christy's note about prelims/playoffs/finals potentially having 3 separate difficulty levels as not being practical for differently formatted tournaments; tournament head editors should actively avoid creating a prelims/playoffs difficulty separation, because some tournament structures c...

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http://www.historybowl.com/nhbb-to-reassume-full-control-of-middle-school-and-elementary-divisions-for-2018-2019/ We are excited to announce that NHBB (i.e. National History Bee and Bowl LLC) will be back in charge of administering the Elementary and Middle School Divisions of the National History ...

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I've got a few applications so far, and a few promises to get applications in in the coming days; I'd like a few more before I start responding. If you were thinking about applying but worried you'd missed the opportunity, it's not too late.

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I've gotten a few e-mails of interest, and will be responding to all at once sometime tomorrow; there's still time to reach out if you're interested.

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2018 IHO's "You Pick, We Write" event, where the players vote on a topic, is Women's History! I'm looking for writers to contribute question(s) for this project; we need 108 tossups total, and my strong preference is to have ~a dozen writers contribute 8-10 questions. My goal for the set i...

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A reminder that applications to write IHSA can now be sent to [email protected], and that I'll start consideration on the 20th.

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I'd like to either play this or play the WUSTL mirror; probably 90-10 split in favor of an online option right now, and automatically the online mirror if it's in August.

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me, in the Illinois forum wrote:I'd like to get the ball ready to roll for 2018-19 IHSA writing. It is my honor to be head editing the set again this year.

I am looking for writers to cover individual categories of the distribution.

(Here's the link; cross-posting for people who don't read the Illinois forums.)

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A reminder that I'll start taking applications next Sunday, and start responding to them on the 20th.

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I'd like to get the ball ready to roll for 2018-19 IHSA writing. It is my honor to be head editing the set again this year. The set is, as usual, 11 and three-halves rounds of 24/24. Regionals is four rounds, Sectionals is three rounds at a slightly higher difficulty level, and State is three rounds...

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We're looking for experienced writers interested in helping write the National Science Bee and National Humanities Bee events for USABB Nationals weekend in early June. Each event is 173 middle school-level tossups (103 prelims and 70 playoffs, with playoffs a bit harder). Writing should be done by ...

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It is my honor, on behalf of the IHSSBCA and its award committee, to announce the Association's new Coach of the Year award and its first annual recipients. The Coach of the Year award program has its roots in a gift from the estate of David Riley, a coach whose own efforts to grow his team and to a...

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It's my honor to kick off page 4 of this year's Illinois thread with the IHSSBCA All-State teams.

Class A and Class AA teams are available at the IHSSBCA page.

Congratulations to all honorees in what, according to every voter, was the most difficult selection process we've ever had!

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Out of sheer curiosity, would stats from this year's sectionals and state be posted anywhere? I don't have all the sectional stats in (and there's a chance I won't ever get some of them) but various stats will eventually be collected and posted. It will be a while before it's done; I'm busy with NH...

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Thank you and congratulations to all the players and coaches for a fantastic state series! Williamsville and Stevenson put on incredibly impressive performances during their championship runs, and were absolutely forced to do so by their outstanding opponents. It has been the honor of my career to w...

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Hello. In our Game 3, the moderator couldn't even read one of the social studies questions and had to throw it out. Do you know why this may have been a problem (were there typos or something) or what the actual answer was? I talked with Arjun via PM about this, and we figured out it was the Round ...

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It seemed to me that some of the questions had unclear wording as to what the question was asking for. I remember several toss-ups where the wording was confusing, especially regarding the words "the/this/those". Other than that, I thought the set was fairly well-written and the difficult...

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I thought that the sectional set was well-written for the most part. One problem that I noticed was that the questions seemed inconsistent in difficulty--some answerlines were far too specific for this level, such as the Checkers speech and the Calvin cycle tossups, while others were too easy, like...

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IHSA Sectionals results are all posted; congratulations to the winners, and good luck at State!

Discussion of IHSA Sectionals questions is now clear.

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A reminder - IHSA Sectionals questions are not cleared for discussion until all scores are posted on the IHSA ScoreZone, or until I post here saying that I've got all the missing scoresheets. Sectionals is particularly important for this; Round 3 scores have been posted before some Sectionals have f...

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I will note - hearing "zero-one law" and buzzing with Kolmogorov is a significantly different quizbowl experience than hearing "Kolomgorov" + a description of tail probabilities and thinking that "zero and one" might be the answer. I noticed that there was very little R...

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I have O'Fallon's scoresheets; you can now talk openly about question content from Regionals.

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Taking the philosophy described in the previous post to its natural conclusion, you can expect harder questions at Sectionals and State. In particular, Setional rounds 4/5/6 are all meant to be of a certain level, then the State rounds 7/8/9 of a certain level harder than that, then the Championship...

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Apologies. I misspoke. I meant that my theory was that the difficulty of regionals approximated the difficulty of an A set. I didn't mean to imply the writing team modeled their product on NAQT's, rather, I was using a commonly understood metric. No worries! :) Using NAQT's sets as a metric makes a...

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IHSA Regionals are Monday. I hope everyone has a good experience with the set, and I encourage you to give me as much feedback as possible. A few notes: *Regional questions are not clear until all scores are posted. You never know if a site has to get postponed, due to weather or other circumstances...

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And your full top 4s:

1A: Athens, Elgin Academy, Toledo Cumberland, Warrensburg-Latham
2A: Uni, Latin, Williamsville, Piasa Southwestern
3A: Auburn, Stevenson, IMSA, Fremd

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I'd like to publicly express my undying happiness with Packetizor; it's by far the biggest reason I've been able to keep my sanity while putting together three regular season NHBB sets + NHBB Nationals at the same time. It's a magnificent system, and it's fantastic even if you have only one tourname...

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Marengo:
Latin, Chicago Christian, Byron, Timothy Christian

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I can confirm that the same 1/2/3/4 order of Regionals is true for Pearl City (Byron/Keith/Newman/Winnebago) as it is in Southwestern's sectional; time will tell if it's true the whole way through. My guess is seeds'll go up once the brackets are set.

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I run a Provisional Writer training program every other summer to train new writers for NHBB; that'll run next in summer 2019, and you're more than welcome to apply for that when it draws closer. Other than that, I unfortunately don't have a good opportunity to train novice writers. SCOP's probably ...

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Mr. Brightside

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Mr. Brightside
Hey Ya!

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Mr. Brightside [it beat Crazy for a reason]
Chicago
Hey Ya!
Hurt

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Mr. Brightside
Toxic
Paper Planes
Chicago
Hey Ya!
Take Me Out
American Boy
1901

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Fidelity
Maps
Cry Me a River
abstain
Dashboard
1901
Hurt
Crazy in Love

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Hey Ya!
Time to Pretend
One More Time
Bad Romance
Stuck Between Stations
Dog Days Are Over
All My Friends
Rehab

I believe that we can get Stuck Between Stations through to the next round. It's good for me, it's good for you, it's good for America. Do the right thing.

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99 Problems
Hips Don't Lie
Supermassive Black Hole
Paper Planes
Ignition (Remix)
A-Punk
I Will Posses Your Heart
Last Nite

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Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Wake Me Up When September

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

Chop Suey! - System of a Down

Clocks - Coldplay

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

The Rat - The Walkmen

Chasing Pavements - Adele

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I'll second Jerry's guide. I've also got some essays of varying use here, with more beginner essays on the way "soon."

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sambrochin wrote:
Also, Fred, you missed a song.
That's not even the best Barenaked Ladies song of the 2000s.

That's not even the best Barenaked Ladies song of the half of the album it's on. (It is in a dead heat for second, though, with Helicopters.)

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The octant of the bracket led by Seven Nation Army is stacked . The worst song in that set (probably Idioteque, maybe Cry Me a River) is better than everything except 99 Problems in Jay-Z's octant. I look forward to Wake Up knocking out Kanye*, because I live close enough to Dylan Minarik that I'll ...

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The Fear
Dashboard
Move Your Feet
Fidelity - closest call of the set.
Mykonos
Fireworks
Grounds for Divorce
Slow Jamz

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I agree with Donald on championship tier = 12 teams, with parallel pools up top to feed into a final match. To determine all your prelim-into-playoff seeds -- both the "which 5 pool runners up get the wild cards?" and the "how do I seed the 12 teams into the two parallel pools,"...

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I agree with Donald on championship tier = 12 teams, with parallel pools up top to feed into a final match. To determine all your prelim-into-playoff seeds -- both the "which 5 pool runners up get the wild cards?" and the "how do I seed the 12 teams into the two parallel pools," ...

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