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- Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:29 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: UMN Fall Tournament [LONE STAR] (POSTPONED)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 766
Re: UMN Fall Tournament [LONE STAR] (POSTPONED)
Due to scheduling conflicts with the MQBA sponsored TRIVIA tournament run on IS-194A, this tournament has been indefinitely postponed. There may be some attempt to run it later in the year or it may be fully cancelled.
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:38 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: UMN Fall Tournament [LONE STAR] (POSTPONED)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 766
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:24 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: UMN Fall Tournament [LONE STAR] (POSTPONED)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 766
Re: UMN Fall Tournament [LONE STAR] (10/24)
Current Field:
Mounds Park Academy (2)
Northfield (1)
Wayzata (4)
Total: 7/16
Mounds Park Academy (2)
Northfield (1)
Wayzata (4)
Total: 7/16
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:03 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: UMN Fall Tournament [LONE STAR] (POSTPONED)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 766
UMN Fall Tournament [LONE STAR] (POSTPONED)
The University of Minnesota Quizbowl team is excited to announce the UMN Fall Tournament on Saturday, October 24th, 2020. The tournament will be an online high school mirror of the LONE STAR question set . This tournament is distinct from the long running Gopher Invitation (GINVIT) tournament that w...
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
Mods could we get this thread archived since a new 20-21 thread has been created?
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 12:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Why are there negs in QB?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2442
Re: Why are there negs in QB?
In general, I find negs useful to help players understand their own behavior through statistics. At least from a personal perspective, controlling my number of negs has been made much more concrete by the presence of negs in statistics, and provided a useful benchmark for improvement as a player. I...
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 12:48 pm
- Forum: Great Lakes Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: Minnesota middle school
- Replies: 3
- Views: 475
Re: Minnesota middle school
Unfortunately, Knowledge Bowl does remain very prevalent in the southern suburbs of the Twin Cities (like Apple Valley), both at the middle school and high school levels. NAQT has been doing an impressive amount of outreach work over the past few years in Minnesota, although Covid has interrupted t...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:42 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Online Events
- Replies: 2
- Views: 577
Re: Online Events
Here are a couple of threads that might be of use: 1. Mike Bentley's thread which goes over a lot of the basics and best practices for running online tournaments. This is a couple of years old, but the vast majority of information is still applicable to tournament's today. 2. A thread discussing Zoo...
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 23845
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
Updated Marketing Material https://i.ibb.co/Y7wmHBp/IKEA-logo-2020.png according to adobe.com the price for an annual subscription to Ps is 119.99 USD. the median weekly earnings for those aged 35-44 was estimated 1,080 USD as per BLS data. walston im begging u stop devoting the vast majority of yo...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Preseason Poll
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5784
Re: Minnesota Preseason Poll
This thread was double posted with the Minnesota 2019-20 thread where the results and podcast discussing the results was posted.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:43 am
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll: RESULTS POSTED
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5686
Re: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll
Shardul Rao : Shardul is an excellent player from his performances at WAIT , EFT , and Prison Bowl . Even if we disregard the online results he's shown to be an excellent fine arts and history based generalist. This is true. Shardul is very, very good at quizbowl and definitely deserves a spot in y...
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
For those not in the Discord, the link to the fifth (and final) episode of the podcast can be found here. Topics include the End of Year Poll, Online Tournaments during the COVID-19 pandemic, and predictions for the circuit next year.
- Tue May 26, 2020 6:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
For the fifth and final episode of the Minnesota High School Quizbowl podcast, the team ran an end of year poll. All ballots were conducted via AP style voting/points system, with the highest and lowest votes being dropped. Teams (15 ranked over 12 ballots): 1. Wayzata A (150) 2. Mounds View A (140)...
- Sun May 17, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Postseason Poll
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2833
Re: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Postseason Poll
Dropping by to shill for my own team. Don't want to flex too much here, but just wanted to say that as an A team, we have the Cars opening monologue down pat. In terms of actual ability, we're pretty unrivaled, too. Wayzata has won Minnesota's largest speedcheck tournament for the past 9 years in a...
- Tue May 05, 2020 3:47 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8047
Re: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
The 2019 WAIT set is now clear. Thanks to everyone who came out and played the set as well as the many sites that hosted tournaments using the set! Packets can be found here once they are approved for the archive.
- Fri May 01, 2020 8:45 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8047
Re: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
Barring the unlikely event in which I receive an additional mirror request before Monday, WAIT will be cleared and uploaded to the archive next Tuesday, May 5th.
- Fri May 01, 2020 1:22 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2020)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8604
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
The fourth episode of the Minnesota Quizbowl podcast can be found here . This podcast was originally recorded on March 8th, but due to the constantly changing nature of new regarding the pandemic, we opted to hold off on publishing for a while... which led to me forgetting about it. But it's here no...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:55 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5335
Re: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020)
Is this tournament considered part of the 2019-20 or 2020-21 season?
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: Online Tournament Tips and Tricks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1222
Online Tournament Tips and Tricks
After running the online mirror of WAIT (WOKE) this past weekend and due to the large amount of online events that are to be played in the coming weeks, I figured that it could do the community some good were I to share what I learned after TDing the event. Mike Bentley's post from just under two ye...
- Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:07 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2399
Re: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
TAG Magnet won the tournament after a very impressive performance in the finals. Three teams (TAG, GDS, and Water Gas A) were all 5-2 at the end of the playoff rounds. In order to finish things in a timely manner, we seeded the teams based on afternoon ppg and had TAG play GDS (TAG won 410-335) and ...
- Sat Mar 28, 2020 11:50 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2399
Re: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
WAIT Online is well underway. Stats can be found here and will be updated throughout the day.
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2399
Re: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
Bonuses will be read.AdiyaSivakuma wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:46 am Will there be bonuses read, or will it be like MWT Open Online with tossups lonely?
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:37 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4508
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
I also just recalled this page , which is great and I think should be done for every state. In addition to nationals finishes, I think that it would also be cool if every state had its own page where it lists all the tournament winners from a state/circuit's history (at least definitely state champ...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:25 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2399
Re: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
Yes. The tournament will be 4 on 4, but if desired teams can have subs who will be permitted to sub in between rounds and at the half.valanjoel10 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:04 pm There's a player 5 and a player 6 column on the google doc. Are these for subs?
- Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:11 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2399
Re: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
The field has been expanded to 24 teams, which will be the hard cap of the tournament. However since many teams listed are tentative still, we strongly recommend continuing to sign up on the waitlist should the field fill up. If there are eight or more teams on the waitlist by the tournament date, w...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:00 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2399
Re: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
The field for this tournament has been expanded to 16 teams.
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:44 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Joint Quizbowl Project
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4232
Re: Joint Quizbowl Project
Can we throw out ideas without committing to working on them? There are several projects that I think the quiz bowl community could really use but that I personally don't necessarily have the time to commit to: 1. Incomplete quiz bowl answerlines (failing to include the entire names of countries an...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:14 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2399
WAIT Online Knowledge Event (Discord, March 28th)
I am pleased to announce the WAIT Online Knowledge Event (WOKE), an online mirror of the 2019-20 WAIT question set scheduled for March 28th, 2020. This tournament will be conducted over Discord. The tournament will be run on the Wayzata Academic Invitational Tournament question set which was housewr...
- Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:00 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: LOGIC Set Available for 2019-20 Mirrors (HS Regular)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9585
Re: LOGIC Set Available for 2019-20 Mirrors (HS Regular)
I'm going to give people until I go to bed on March 22nd before I say that LOGIC is clear to be posted. If you are hosting a tournament and would like to use our set, please let me know soon! Given the large amount of cancellations that are likely to result due to the COVID-19 outbreak, are there a...
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 10:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
The league playoffs happened last night so I will give some of my thoughts here. First a quick objective recap, Wayzata began the evening 4-0 advancing to the advantaged final with a loss to give while Mounds View and Eden Prairie duked it out in the one-loss bracket with EP coming out ahead. EP won...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
I agree with your picks for the most part, however I will note that ties for advancing to the playoffs are played so Minnetonka would have to win via a match (I think they are full matches) and not on PPG. Beyond that, I agree with your five picks for West Division teams. Same in the East. If St. Ag...
- Wed Dec 25, 2019 3:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
The podcast team is running a Midseason MN poll. You can find it here: https://forms.gle/jWaDkhJQfXFFqahSA The poll will close this Sunday, December 29th, at 11:59PM . You do not have to be in high school to fill it out, but you should be associated with the Minnesota quizbowl circuit in some capaci...
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 10:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
MNHSQB Podcast number 2 is now out featuring special guest Aryan Sehgal from Mounds View High School! Please let us know if there are any topics you want us to address in a future podcast or if you want to appear on it yourself!
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 7:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: WAIT Main Site @ Wayzata High School (November 23rd, 2019)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4218
Re: WAIT Main Site @ Wayzata High School (November 23rd, 2019)
WAIT Main Site happened today. Mounds View A defeated Clark High School from Las Vegas in the second game of an advantaged final 385-375. Eden Prairie A took third place and the final qualifying spot for the 2019 PACE NSC. Thanks to all the teams that attended and we hope you enjoyed the set! Stats ...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MIT Fall Academic Tournament (11/03/19)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2819
Re: MIT Fall Academic Tournament (11/03/19)
The private discussion forum has been set up for WAIT. Please join if you want to give feedback on and/or discuss the set!
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:34 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8047
Re: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
WAIT premiered at MIT fall this past weekend. A private forum has been set up. Please apply through the usergroups panel to give us feedback on the set once you have played it!
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 9:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
What does Minnesota quizbowl look like away from the metro area? (I mean, I know somewhat since I lived in the state for eight years, but I'm wondering what, if anything, has changed.) It's not great. KB still dominates most of the schools not from the Metro. Red Wing sent a team to SnowCAT at Carl...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:41 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8047
Re: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
My team is attending the Chattahoochee CATT XIV tournament on Saturday, November 9. Are there any previous WAIT sets out there with a different name, and if not are there any other sets to which you would say your questions are more similar? This is the first year that a WAIT set has been produced ...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 12:17 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: WAIT Main Site @ Wayzata High School (November 23rd, 2019)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4218
Re: WAIT Main Site @ Wayzata High School (November 23rd, 2019)
WAIT Mainsite Field (Teams/Buzzers/Moderators):
Breck (1/0/0)
Clark (Las Vegas, NV) (1/0/0)
Chanhassen (1/1/0)
Eden Prairie (4/2/0)
Minneapolis Southwest (1/1/0)
Mounds View (3/1/0)
St. Paul Academy (1/0/0)
Total: 12/5/0
Breck (1/0/0)
Clark (Las Vegas, NV) (1/0/0)
Chanhassen (1/1/0)
Eden Prairie (4/2/0)
Minneapolis Southwest (1/1/0)
Mounds View (3/1/0)
St. Paul Academy (1/0/0)
Total: 12/5/0
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
Three weeks ago, Shardul Rao (Mounds View), Brian Lin (Wayzata), and I (Wayzata) got together to record a podcast to discuss Minnesota quizbowl. That podcast can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/ben-weiner-916005443/minnesota-high-school-quizbowl-podcast-1 I will try to get it up onto YouTube (...
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 9:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: WAIT Main Site @ Wayzata High School (November 23rd, 2019)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4218
WAIT Main Site @ Wayzata High School (November 23rd, 2019)
Wayzata High School Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce the main site tournament of the WAIT question set , which will be held on November 23rd, 2019 at Wayzata High School in Plymouth, MN. The tournament will be run on the Wayzata Academic Invitational Tournament question set which was housewritten by...
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 9:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
Hello everyone! Maxwell Ye from Mounds View High School made a preseason poll for the Minnesota High School Quizbowl Circuit. We encourage anyone who is knowledgeable about the circuit to fill out this form. A few guidelines: 1. Please rank the teams that you think will be in the top 10 overall at t...
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 12:46 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Running Club Meetings
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10549
Re: Running Club Meetings
First of all, what is the best way to keep attendees in check? It often gets pretty noisy during meetings, even though we are a small club. There are a lot of side conversations going on and the players, especially the ones in my clique, are just chatting with their friends instead of actually list...
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 3:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Minnesota '19-'20
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8753
Re: Minnesota '19-'20
Since I would like to see a Minnesota annual thread not die immediately for once, I guess I will give my basic thoughts on the circuit this year. The Big 3: Wayzata: I think Wayzata will likely remain the best team in state this year and overall post a strong performance. Brian Lin is probably the s...
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 6:46 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8047
Re: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
As of July 23rd, WAIT is now 75% complete meaning that we are on track to be done writing by early August. This will give us around two months to continue editing and make final changes to the set before it is able to be played starting on September 28th. UPDATE: As of August 9th, 96% of WAIT is now...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:32 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8047
Re: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
Mirror Sites: MIT Fall Academic Tournament @ MIT (Cambridge, MA): November 3rd 2019 CATT XV @ Chattahoochee High School (Johns Creek, GA): November 9th 2019 WUFAT V @ Washington University (St. Louis, MO): November 9th 2019 Pilot Grove Fall Invitational @ Pilot Grove High School (Pilot Grove, MO): N...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 11:46 am
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8047
WAIT set available for Mirrors in the 2019-20 Season (HS Regular)
Wayzata High School Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce the Wayzata Academic Invitational Tournament (WAIT), a high school regular difficulty housewrite set for the 2019-20 season that will be available for mirrors from the weekend of October 19th to the weekend of May 16th (the weekend before HSNCT). ...
- Mon May 20, 2019 9:29 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 27390
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
Is this going to remain a doubles tournament or will it be switched to triples like the ICT tournament was?
- Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:24 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Super ACRONYM 2: Global Announcement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6481
Re: Super ACRONYM 2: Global Announcement
You missed the fantastic opportunity to call this Super Acronym 2: Electric Boogaloo.