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nickdai

I hope its not selfish for me to ask, but this is an event I've been really looking forward to, and I don't know if I'm the only one who can't make these dates due to the holiday season, but I was wondering if alternate dates could be included in the poll, or if there could be a second reading. Than...

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I highkey miss being involved in quizbowl so I'd be interested in editing religion and maybe contribute some random vanity content too.

nickdai

If I were to submit a ballot (which I will not because I am too detached from non-SoCal circuits), here are a few SoCal-ers that would be on my ballot. Amogh Kulkarni and Ryan Sun from Arcadia don't need much explanation from me - they're clearly top in every ballot (except the sophomore and freshme...

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National Contenders Arcadia : Amogh Kulkarni (12 - generalism), Ryan Sun (12 - generalism), Michael Kwok (12 - history), Brian Lam (12 - science) It would take a miracle for Arcadia to not be the top team in the circuit again this year. They return their entire roster, which not only placed 5th at ...

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So I talked to the regulars, and everyone seemed interested in bringing back the tradition of high quality SoCal discussion threads, so here we are. Since both Josh and I have graduated, we have decided that we would post less frequently, to allow for many of the younger interested players a chance ...

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I think I’ll take this time to shill the SoCal players that will be on my poll. From my team, Westview, the player that I think should definitely be voted for is Andrew Jia . Andrew’s science is better than any other of our big 4 category. For reference he went 4/0/0 in just science against Karan Gu...

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We are moving the start time of Sunday play to 9:30 a.m. Eastern. For teams such as my own, which play on Pacific time, starting tournaments at 10:00 AM Eastern is already a major disadvantage due to how early we are forced to wake up. I understand the need to keep the tournament running on time du...

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This year’s set is not power marked. NASAT is a very hard tournament to seed. A pure rebracketing system risks eliminating teams due to seeding rather than performance. Additionally, for the Swiss pairs portion, teams will be made aware of which room they should go to next for their games. It is po...

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If it is fine, can I ask why Stage 1 is in the form of a Swiss Pair format? Looking at the schedule, it appears that each round in Stage 1 is allocated 45 minutes, but a Swiss Pair format would require a gap between rounds to recalculate rooms, which would add on to the delay that has already been s...

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Well, now that PACE is over, I guess it is time for my final post of the season. I was actually planning on waiting a bit longer, but it appears Josh wants to make his post soon. Congrats to TJ for an insane victory! It's even more impressive that the top 3 scorers of the team are all juniors, so th...

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Could I see the Zerg tossup? Thank you!

nickdai

After two long days, Barrington has taken home the trophy for HSNCT. Congratulations! But, PACE NSC is coming up in less than a weak, so I've decided to give a review for the 5 SoCal teams attending PACE NSC, and give my analysis of their HSNCT results alongside a review of their strengths, weakness...

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Since Josh offered his thoughts, I decided to offer some of mine as well. I'll start off with a HSNCT analysis, followed by a short PACE discussion below. S Tier Teams - National Contenders Arcadia : Amogh Kulkarni (11 - literature, history, science, generalism), Ryan Sun (11 - literature, history, ...

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I will be attending UCSD alongside my current Westview A teammates Andrew Jia and Gary Lin (was asked to post for them). All 3 of us intend to be very involved in quizbowl.

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So the West Coast Championship just happened, and I guess there is some stuff to discuss. I'll only talk about SoCal teams in Competitive here, as NorCal can probably create their own thread. Arcadia swept the field, to no one's surprise. Amogh Kulkarni and Ryan Sun were the two highest powering pla...

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Hello! One of my teammates had to drop, and I'm not very familiar with the greater community, so if any of the free agents/others are interested in having some casual fun with some younger players, please contact me on Discord/Messenger/Email! Thanks!

nickdai

If you don't mind me asking, what is the likelihood that the field for HSNCT will be expanded, and if so, how large of a field expansion can we expect? I understand that these logistics may be very difficult to plan out, but this would be very helpful information for teams who can only attend one na...

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I mean, we're almost done with the season, and yet none of the SoCal teams have beat Wayzata H yet? What a let-down. In fact, none of the teams in SoCal have even defeated Wayzata Z (little known fact). Like, come on. Yeah that’s enough. Westview would like to formally challenge Wayzata to a pre-HS...

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I guess it's time for an update regarding SoCal since it has been a long time since our last one. Since Josh addressed most of the important points, I'll only discuss a few things. Arcadia is definitely the best team here. But I don't think they're unbeatable. I was the closest team to beating them ...

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I hope this is the right place to do this, but I really want to thank Jaimie for being such a great head editor! I’ve never edited a non-novice college set before, but Jaimie and all the other editors made sure I felt included and greatly helped me with finding resources and editing questions. I kno...

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Thank you all for playing! Full stats are available here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6737/ Congratulations to Lambert for winning! Most teams elected to not play a playoffs due to long length of the tournament, but I want to congratulate Aadi Karthik (65 PPG), Ned Tagtmeier (51.43), John ...

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I have emailed all the teams with a logistics email. If you have not received one, please contact me and let me know!

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To go off the Francis Parker point, I think it’s worth pointing out that they preformed this well despite not fielding Zach Partnoy or Ari Mazow, who have traditionally been their main scorers. I’m very interested to see what a full Francis Parker A can do! Quite notably, missing 3 A teamers did not...

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Due to paperwork issues, this tournament will no longer be officially connected with Westview. However, this is only a formality. The tournament will still be staffed and directed by Westview Quizbowl members, with oversight by adults from Westview.

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PACE (the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence) has designated 2021 ACF Regionals High School Mirror at Westview, as a platinum NSC qualifier. This means that the top 25% of teams in the tournament (rounded up to the nearest integer) will qualify for PACE NSC!

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I decided to make a separate post here to make viewing the field easier.

Final Field (9/18):

St. Mark’s
TAG Magnet
Westview (Oregon)
Kinkaid
“Robert Bork”
MB
Lambert
Chattahoochee A
Chattahoochee B

nickdai

I am pleased to announce that the High School mirror of 2021 ACF Regionals will be held at Westview on Sunday, January 31, 2021. The tournament will take place virtually on Discord. The opening meeting will begin at 7:45 AM PST and gameplay will begin at 8:00 AM PST. Connor Rankin and Nicholas Dai w...

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My second point is that requirements to keep one hand visible are difficult to enforce and annoying for players to abide by. I'm not sure that enforcing a rule that players have to have one hand visible is any harder to enforce than the tech set ups being described above. I'm obviously not going to...

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Westview, I played against Shahar Schwartz; I knew Shahar Schwartz; Shahar Schwartz was a formidable opponent of mine; Westview, you're no Shahar Schwartz. I- Anyways, like what Nate said, great post Josh! I'm not actually "too tilted to play qb ever again," that's out of context. What is...

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A few months ago, SoCal migrated to a new discord server, where we discuss everything from quizbowl to playing regular amongus games. I realized that the other link is outdated, so I made this post to publicize the server. If you're a quizbowl player in SoCal, feel free to DM me here, on Facebook me...

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Time for another update on my favorite circuit! Today was the first closed high school tournament of the season in SoCal, so this is a great time for a post-summer update! Firstly, I want to thank UCSD and all the other mods for staffing this tournament. This tournament went extremely fast with basi...

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Have enough tourneys happened for me to accurately look at teams again? No. Am I trying to find new reasons to procrastinate from college apps by doing a small writeup? Definitely. Basically, LIT happened today. Only four SoCal teams played but given the fact that these 4 teams consist of some of th...

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If you don’t mind, can you provide us with a sub-distribution of the categories? Thank you!

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Yeah, I concede that my rhetoric is wrong in specifically implying he was a threat to young children, although to the best of my knowledge he has posed a significant threat to others, and possibly older minors. Most of the information I know about Charles Meigs that was not public on the discord wer...

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I noticed that this thread has seemingly died off without any definitive solution presented to the problems that we presented. I think it’s best if we come up with some sort of reasonable plan to tackle the possibility, or more likely, the eventuality that a situation similar to the Charles Meigs in...

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The signup spreadsheet is still locked right now, and we cannot access it.

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I was originally intending on writing a follow up guide to this regarding recording all voice audio during tournaments where moderators could mark parts in the audio where they heard inappropriate statements or witnessed misconductive behavior that the TD can revisit later. However before I introduc...

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On an unrelated note, I would like to propose for the moderators or admins to split this off into a separate thread. While we started off discussing the harassment in the THAT Discord, I feel it is necessary to let that topic stay by itself as we divert from an extremely specific recent case into a ...

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Even more, from a more personal perspective, this event was held in my church, who's campus we borrowed. I did not attend the event myself because of a church event, but as someone heavily involved in my church, I understand the events and policies that we have. On Saturdays we have many other chil...

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This is related to the subject, but if needed I think this may need a separate thread, so if so, can the mods please split this into a new discussion topic? In the summer of 2019, Charles Meigs attended SoCal's NASAT mirror, Lindsay, and played the tournament. He has also staffed a few other tournam...

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With the beginning of the 2020 - 2021 Quizbowl season looking as though it will move online, I decided to make a guide for tournament directors on how to use discord bots for enforcing rules regarding misconduct. This guide can also be used for other discord servers in general, although some of the ...

nickdai

One of the most common review methods is carding I think most "carding people" will agree with this, exactly as worded: carding is a good review method, but not often the best way to learn . That is my bad. I should have emphasized that in my post. Jacob Reed is entirely correct. My comme...

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One of the most common review methods is carding, which is basically putting common clues from quizdb into flashcards and then repeatedly reviewing them. Two guides on how to card can be found here and here . A separate less specific studying guide can be found here . Carding by itself is not very e...

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Also, probably vote for Kris Noori. I completely support this. As one of the few players with the honor of facing Kris Noori, I can safely say that I view him as a top 3 high school lit player, or maybe even THE best. At Michigan Winter, he continuously powered lit over other good players such as S...

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I feel inclined to shill a few SoCal players, so here it is: Shahar Schwartz from Westview is without a doubt the best SoCal player. He does literature, science, fine arts, trash and myth. He is one of the highest powering players in the nation (and one of the highest negging), but he should probabl...

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Past versions of Oxford Open were not powermarked. Is there an intent to powermark this year’s edition?

nickdai

I’m just a high schooler who‘s not exactly good and wanted to play some Brit content, and I don’t want to come off as disrespectful, but I was wondering why it would not be possible for the field to be expanded to 28 teams (which seems appropriate for the waitlist/FA list) and then have prelim brac...

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I’m just a high schooler who‘s not exactly good and wanted to play some Brit content, and I don’t want to come off as disrespectful, but I was wondering why it would not be possible for the field to be expanded to 28 teams (which seems appropriate for the waitlist/FA list) and then have prelim brack...

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A team that many of you might forget about is Del Norte. Del Norte was another SoCal team that would consistently rival top teams like Westview and CCA. Them being forgotten might be attributed to the fact that they have placed 2nd at 5 tournaments this year, yet never winning a single tournament. T...

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natekang wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:58 am
Edit #2: I was just informed of some “questionable info” in my post.
Can you elaborate on that Nicc

It was some inaccurate information about the grades of players that I fixed.

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