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Sorry for continuing to post without giving Mr. Feldman a chance to respond to other stuff brought up, but I wanted to bring up one concern in the Discord about THE AQBL that I think got lost in the flood of messages. A big part of AQBL's mission is expanding outreach, by developing detailed contact...

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Something I'm frustrated by, which I think I brought up a few months ago when LIQBA started announcing their spring online series, is the registration fee. Much like what has happened with NHBB regional tournaments, you're charging a registration fee which is very similar to the going rate and offe...

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Congratulations to your winners! NATIONAL A TEAM 1. John John Groger - Captain & Player of the Year (the Miami Valley School, Dayton, Ohio, 12) T-2. Dean Ah Now (Millburn High School, Millburn, New Jersey, 12) T-2. Matthew Siff (Georgetown Day School, Washington D.C., 12) 4. Avinash Iyer (Mission Sa...

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Reminder that the poll closes tonight so get your ballots in!

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Just a few notes as you get your ballots ready: - In the case of players with the same name, such as Amogh Kulkarni from Wayzata and Amogh Kulkarni from Arcadia, please stipulate their school when you rank them (this isn't necessary for the sophomore ballot where only Arcadia Amogh is a sophomore) -...

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Like last year we are running another player poll for the high school quizbowl season. This poll is harder to run once again because of nationals and the fact that it would be very hard to be able to deem a player's particular specialty or skill in a category from stats alone. We have decided to run...

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Using panelists from across the nation, we have analyzed the postseason poll by regional breakdown in the latest Groger Ranks podcast. The panelists included Groger Ranks members Dean Ah Now, Arjun Nageswaran, John John Groger, and William Groger and special guests Ned Tagtmeier from St. Mark’s (TX)...

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Thank you everyone for the lively conversation and your participation in this postseason poll! While it is impossible to say for sure what would have gone down at a hypothetical nationals, we appreciate hearing from engaged members of the high school quizbowl community about which teams impressed th...

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The concerns came not because of any threat to our plans to run online tournaments (of which we only run a few anyways and which we have decided to not use any of the revenues from for our own purposes), but rather for the potential consequences of “monopolization” of online quiz bowl. You are right...

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Groger Ranks has learned from writers of several sets about a recent phenomenon of attempted monopolization of online tournaments. The scenarios they described were fairly identical where they received a neatly templated email from the Long Island Quiz Bowl Association promising to compensate set wr...

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The poll has concluded. We had 17 different people fill out their ballots, which was much better turnout than expected. Special thanks to Dylan Bowman from Uni Lab for helping get out the vote with his video series. I hope to continue seeing high quality quizbowl content from him in the future. Cong...

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Since other circuits are running their own postseason polls as a result of the premature cancellation of the quizbowl season, it seems fitting for Illinois to have its own. In the ILQB Discord we have designed a poll in which voters are able to vote for who they believed were the top teams, players ...

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Hello everyone! The quizbowl season was obviously cut short due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but we know at Groger Ranks that some teams still want a sense of closure for the unfinished season. Around this time last year we would have just wrapped up our pre-nationals poll, and since that is...

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https://grogerranks.com/2020/04/13/a-statement-regarding-online-tournaments/ It is our belief at Groger Ranks that online tournaments are a valued part of the quizbowl circuit. Not only have many of our members played online tournaments in the past, but we have hosted three online tournaments oursel...

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Groger Ranks will be hosting a closed high school mirror of BLAST for Illinois teams only on April 18, 2020

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Due to significant interest from Illinois teams for a regional mirror, Groger Ranks is pleased to announce that we are running an online mirror of the BLAST set on April 18, 2020 for Illinois teams! This is an HS Regs+ set, so it should be good prep for teams planning to nationals or who just want t...

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Instead of hosting an overflow mirror, we will expand the field for this tournament to 24 teams. We are taking measures to ensure that this tournament runs smoothly, and so will be splitting this across servers. We will explain more to registered teams as the tournament gets closer. In the meantime,...

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The field has been expanded to 16 teams and a waitlist has opened. If 8 or more teams sign up on the waitlist, we will try to arrange a second online mirror of BLAST on a day that works for all the teams

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Groger Ranks is pleased to announce that we are running our online mirror of the BLAST set on April 11, 2020! This is an HS Regs+ set, so it should be good prep for teams planning to nationals or who just want to have fun playing on a harder difficulty set. More information about the set can be foun...

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It will be a closed high school mirror

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The forums announcement will be posted sometime this weekend, but Groger Ranks plans on hosting an online mirror of BLAST on April 11.

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New rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2020/02/27/febr ... -rankings/

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Interview Thursdays is back! In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Shawn from Groger Ranks interviews Abhinav Karthikeyan, Justin Posner, Derek Chu, Kyle Liao, and Danesh Sivakumar from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland. We discuss rebounding from the graduation of seniors, the...

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New rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2020/02/14/febr ... -rankings/

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Results are up on the Groger Ranks website: https://grogerranks.com/2020/01/12/2019 ... l-results/
Thanks to everyone for your support!

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Today is the last day of voting so get your ballots in ASAP

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Like last year, we have compiled a spreadsheet by the best ppb and powers per game for each set to aid voters in the midseason polls (with comments added to note incomplete rosters): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... i5DA6I6zg/

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Many players would agree that pure mathematical rankings can’t tell the full story about any given team's strengths and weaknesses. Each team has a unique story and personal character which cannot be gleaned off of a mere look at a stats page. This is why we believe player-submitted polls are crucia...

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The Midseason Rankings are up! Here are the overall rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/12/25/overall-midseason-rankings-top-250/ Here are the NAQT-Only rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/12/25/naqt-only-midseason-rankings/ Here are the mACF-Only rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/12/25/m...

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The Illinois midseason poll is live: https://forms.gle/9vZo6bYhBRWJgCZZ6

All you need to do is rank your top 10 teams in Illinois and give justification for your picks. Happy voting!

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In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Shawn from Groger Ranks interviews Matthew Siff, Nathaniel Rosenberg, Arthur Delot-Vilain, and Alex Moon from Georgetown Day School in Washington DC. We discuss their aggressive buzzing strategy, the status of the very competitive DC circuit, their tournament ...

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In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Arjun, Dylan, and Katherine from Groger Ranks interview Arul Belhe, Brian Lin, Bryanna Shao, Cece Shao, and Ben Weiner from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, MN. We discuss their travel plans, their attendance at college-level tournaments, and their strategy to...

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New rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/11/28/nove ... -rankings/

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In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Dylan and Katherine from Groger Ranks talk to Karsten Rynearson, Vincent Fan, and Irura Nyiha of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Find out about how an already strong program has been performing with the transfer of top-tier generalist Karsten as we...

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Groger Ranks is pleased to launch our latest project. As a complement to our normal rankings and the analysis articles we collect from members of the high school quizbowl community, we are launching Interview Thursdays! On Thursdays, we will publish short interviews with high school teams about thei...

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New rankings are up! https://grogerranks.com/2019/11/13/nove ... -rankings/

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The long-awaited Steven Liu article explaining the methodology for calculating ranks is out! https://grogerranks.com/2019/11/12/the- ... ger-ranks/

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The private forum for BLAST has been created, so if you have any feedback or questions please join!

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The private forum for BLAST has been created, so if you have any feedback or questions please join!

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The private forum for BLAST has been created, so if you have any feedback or questions please join!

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We get to launch this new thread as the new season begins to unfold! We have a couple disclaimers right at the beginning, but don't let that stop you from checking out our new rankings at https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/17/october-16-2019-rankings/ Steven Liu will explain some of the more confusing ...

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Shahar from Westview wrote a nice write-up of the tournament, which can be found here: https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/14/powe ... i-writeup/

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Some people in the Illinois QB Discord have written a summary of the recent Earlybird tournament: https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/09/earlybird-writeup/

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Dean Ah Now from Millburn and Pedro Juan Orduz have written a recap of the tournament: https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/02/phsat-xxvii-writeup/

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The mirror happened today. Congratulations to Uni Lab from Illinois for winning in the first game of an advantaged final 505-100 against fellow Illinoisans Nonvit! Full statistics can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5861/ Thank you to everyone who came to staff and play today! W...

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We are increasing the field size to 12

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A common question to the post centered on what constituted “school affiliation”. I have edited the post to clarify that school affiliation means playing only with people who attend the same school, not that teams are required to play under their school name.

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Groger Ranks is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an online discord mirror of Prison Bowl XII for high school teams. This is last year ’s iteration of Prison Bowl and so teams that play this can still play the upcoming Prison Bowl XIII later in the spring! Prison Bowl is an hs regs+ set an...

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James Stevenson from GPS isn't mentioned on the Groger Ranks post at all, but I'd like to congratulate him for being the well-deserved unanimous first place among the RMPSS ballots. We addressed this in the website link, but due to a lack of responses we did not do awards for geo/ce/other and RMPSS...

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Here are the winners for your 2018-19 National Groger Ranks Awards! National “A” Team Hari Parameswaran - Captain & Player of the Year (Beavercreek High School, Beavercreek, Ohio) William Golden (James E. Taylor High School, Katy, Texas) Ethan Strombeck (Rockford Auburn High School, Rockford, Illino...

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