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- Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Southeast at Georgia Tech - October 31, 2009
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7728
Re: ACF Fall Southeast at Georgia Tech - October 31, 2009
As of today Emory sort of has a team! Sign us up for one team (it may end up me playing alone, but I have at least two other people who have said they will come).
- Wed Dec 10, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter Southeast @ UGA (1/17/09)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10398
Re: ACF Winter Southeast @ UGA (1/17/09)
If we can get our act together Emory (Atlanta Campus i.e. not Oxford) may send a team or two.
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NYC Area Summer Practice?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4293
Re: NYC Area Summer Practice?
You don't? News to me.dyetman89 wrote:I think Nina should be posting her plans relatively soon - she'd mentioned next weeked as a possibility, though of course I don't speak for her.
I think next weekend would be a good idea. Noonish anyone?
- Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NYC Area Summer Practice?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4293
Re: NYC Area Summer Practice?
I'm really not a creepy stranger. Besides I am 18. I live at home.
I propose Sunday practices. How does everyone feel about that?
I propose Sunday practices. How does everyone feel about that?
- Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:30 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NYC Area Summer Practice?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4293
Re: NYC Area Summer Practice?
You can read packets on the PATH. Take the PATh to 14th. 20-25 minutes on the F train from there to my house. Really not that bad. Ian you could always lie--that would be my route. Or if it makes your mother feel more comfortable and you're a better person than I am (fair assumption) I could have my...
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NYC Area Summer Practice?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4293
NYC Area Summer Practice?
Taking Ian Eppler's lead--would anyone in the NYC area be interested in having weekly practices at my house in Brooklyn (or somewhere else if others wanted to host)? My house is easily accesible from most subway lines and the LIRR, as well as the typical highway routes. This could be a great way to ...
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun Mirror - Maryland - Sat, 6/21
- Replies: 65
- Views: 18684
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun Mirror - Maryland - Sat, 6/21
As far as I know the NYC team looks like Doug, possibly Guy (yes Guy?) and I. We're looking for a free agent then. Any takers ?
- Wed May 28, 2008 8:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Byko Rankings 2007-08
- Replies: 78
- Views: 34972
Re: Byko Rankings
Stuy was 3/4ths Stuy B plus Aidan. I'd say that should be considered Stuy B.
- Mon May 26, 2008 8:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: An Open Letter to NAQT
- Replies: 97
- Views: 20973
Re: An Open Letter to NAQT
I don't want to talk about Comp Math too much, but I do have a problem with it because it is a fundamentally different type of question from other QB questions. Comp Math is about how quickly you can do the numbers, and most questions are about depth of knowledge, ability to recall that knowledge qu...
- Mon May 19, 2008 6:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Problems with the Future
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3869
Re: Problems with the Future
It's possible to do Speech and Debate. The only real issue is one Speech National Tournement is the same weekend as NAQT every year. Tournements sometiems conflict but I've found there are enough of both that more often than not it isn't difficult to juggle.
- Mon May 19, 2008 5:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Potential Mizzou tournaments
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1854
Re: Potential Mizzou tournaments
I'll help with the Science if you'd like.
- Fri May 16, 2008 8:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Majors
- Replies: 48
- Views: 7965
Re: Majors
I think you can triple major if you come in with enough credits.
I'm going for a Double major in Biology and Comp. Lit. and perhaps a minor in either Religion or Medieval Studies.
I'm going for a Double major in Biology and Comp. Lit. and perhaps a minor in either Religion or Medieval Studies.
- Fri May 16, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Problems with the Future
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3869
Re: Problems with the Future
It isn't possible for one good player to really carry around a team that doesn't care. I care and he cares which is why we're almost always at tournaments with some third player that doesn't have anything (church camp/haircut/visit from grandma not excluded) else to do. I didn't say it worked well e...
- Fri May 16, 2008 10:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Problems with the Future
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3869
Re: Problems with the Future
In the end you really need to have players that care. Stuy is graduating all but one of our competitive players, and everyone who is anything but a hobby quizbowl player. Next year we'll probably still have a team, but unless the Sophomores magically begin to care I doubt there will be much of a tea...
- Thu May 15, 2008 5:44 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Playing Charter a lot
- Replies: 118
- Views: 17536
Re: Playing Charter a lot
Sometimes writing questions isn't enough even when you practice a couple times a week. I know for me sitting down and studying is the most helpful. Use lists ( but only if they're really beginners), Stanford Culture Pages, or packets from the archives not meant for practice. Not to say I'm any sort ...
- Sun May 11, 2008 9:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 National Tournament Prognostication (archived)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7808
Re: National Tournament Prognostication
I'd just like to point out that Stuyvesant's Team for NAQT has 3 B team players and the 4th highest scoring A team member. Our team might make still make the playoffs, but it's a severly depleted team.
- Sun May 11, 2008 8:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Playing Charter a lot
- Replies: 118
- Views: 17536
Re: Playing Charter a lot
Playing six charter teams shouldn't be an issue. If there had been a field with say Dorman, Whitman, WJ, and RM, and you played the aforementioned teams plus one other team in a 5 prelim rounds then you might have cause to complain. As it stands Charters A-F are not all at the same level. Certainly ...
- Sun May 11, 2008 1:39 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ 2007-08
- Replies: 225
- Views: 54230
Re: NY/NJ 2007-08
I think Doug is underestimating his chances of coming to PACE. My prediction would be that Doug and I show up, and either Aidan or Danny drops out at the last minute per last year.
- Sun May 11, 2008 1:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Freshmen
- Replies: 41
- Views: 5827
Re: Freshmen
We've had a similar problem with complaints about "how hard" those college packets are. Here's a trick--don't tell them it's a college packet. It works. I tried it with a Regionals packet (something that usually gets a whine) and no one complained when I didn't tell them what packet it was.
- Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: women in Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15092
Re: women in Quiz Bowl
Also, I'd like to just say that being good at quizbowl is really not an indication of high IQ, merely an indication of intellectual curiosity and decent memory. Which are not at all associated with IQ. Where would I get a silly Idea like that. To be honest I'm glad there are not a lot of women in q...
- Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: women in Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 50
- Views: 15092
Re: women in Quiz Bowl
Hi, I'm Nina (18, Stuyvesant A). I'd like to apologize for the next thing I say before I say it. I beleive there are fewer women in quizbowl because on the whole there are fewer women with very high IQ's compared with men. In addition, teenage girls tend to be more concerned with whether or not they...
- Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:43 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What got you into Quizbowl?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 19151
Re: What got you into Quizbowl?
I had no idea a quizbowl team existed at my school, but I had rather pathetic crush on Doug my Sophomore year. I followed Doug to practice mainly so that I could hang out with him, but I never left. So thank you Doug for ignoring me just enough to keep me coming back until I followed you to quizbowl...
- Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Evolution of High School Quizbowl
- Replies: 81
- Views: 26541
Re: Evolution of High School Quizbowl
I think it depends how good your B and C teams are as to whether or not you should split up your players. Three of the four A-team players could single handedly beat our B, C and D teams all playing together, and so for us you have to split them up. A team like Dorman could have the B and A teams pl...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 10:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to coach Good QB
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8061
Re: How to coach Good QB
As someone on a team that is without a coach, I can tell you that trying to "coach" teammates is very difficult. Especially if you don't want them to call you mom and fear you greatly. In any event it is easier, and in my experience more successful to suggest studying, and to make reading ...
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Senior Destinations 2008
- Replies: 103
- Views: 23364
- Sun Mar 30, 2008 9:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XVII (3/29/08) at Yale (New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 42671
Re: BHSAT XVII (3/29/08) at Yale (New Haven, CT)
East Timor came up three times, and there was a tossup that started out " Rastafarians based their name on this man's name . . . " In addition, "Invented by Kary Mullis" began a tossup on PCR. The packets were "edited for repeats" which is apparnently why we had to wait...
- Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl Goodness: BYO Dagger (3/15/08) @GMU
- Replies: 148
- Views: 43044
Re: DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl Goodness: BYO Dagger (3/15/08) @GMU
I have all of Stuy's scores if you're missing any of ours.
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 500 things...
- Replies: 87
- Views: 13277
Re: 500 things...
62. Sometimes the answer is "Smith". ( or Jones or Brown or Johnson)
- Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl Goodness: BYO Dagger (3/15/08) @GMU
- Replies: 148
- Views: 43044
Re: DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl Goodness: BYO Dagger (3/15/08) @GMU
I know this isn't a huge deal, but I'd just like to point out that the personal stats are wrong at least for my team. There are games where the names are mixed up, and some games where points are missing entirely. ( I kept stats of my own some games. ) That being said, I'm very impressed that you ma...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wallace Stevens Literature Singles at GMU (3/14/08)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11059
Re: Wallace Stevens Literature Singles at GMU (3/14/08)
According to Ted it is supposed to start at 6. I know we're having some trouble getting there that early, but we're working on it.
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 2:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ 2007-08
- Replies: 225
- Views: 54230
Re: NY/NJ 2007-08
At yesterdays tournament the team consisted of two A-team members, a B-team member and a C-team member. I wouldn't take yesterdays performance as an example of well the entire A-team plays together.
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Weekend of Quizbowl Hotel Thread
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2742
- Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Players
- Replies: 67
- Views: 15736
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pirates v. Ninjas I : DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl Open Doubles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12632
- Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 Housh Classic (01/12/08) at TJHSST (Alexandria, VA)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 43737
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 HSNCT Announced
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4468
- Tue Nov 13, 2007 9:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 HSNCT Announced
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4468
Catholic Nationals are in Appleton, Wisconsin, and regular Nat's are in Las Vegas. NAQT conflicted with Catholic Nationals last year as well. Until two years ago it was all Speech and Debate all the time at my school. Once quizbowl was started it was still all about Speech and Debate. It's strange t...
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 HSNCT Announced
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4468
I realize very few people involved in Quizbowl are also involved in Speech and Debate, and that there are a limited number of weekends in the year, but I have something that needs to be pointed out. (Well, I'm really just venting, but who's counting. ) NAQT is the same weekend as Catholic Nationals ...
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Geek Wars II (Dolgeville, NY) 11/10/07
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3617
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament (11/10/07) in Cambridge, MA
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18617
I have just one more word about the science: Plastics. Oh my. As far as the music was concerned, the answer choices seemed appropriate, but all of the music tossups and PLEASE MAKE FUN OF ME BECAUSE I SPEAK NEITHER LATIN NOR ENGLISH seemed to be little more than chord progression, and a list of inst...
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament (11/10/07) in Cambridge, MA
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18617
This might just be sour grapes because Danny Zhu wasn't there, and thus we were completely incompetent at all things mathy, but it seemed like there was a lot of mathy stuff. 1/1 Comp. Sci.? 2/2 math? Who knows how much physics--it felt like there was very little Bio. and more chem than Bio., but cl...
- Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Worst Match Ever
- Replies: 45
- Views: 13914
- Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: TJIAT 07 (10/13/07) at Thomas Jefferson HS
- Replies: 67
- Views: 26665
- Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Weekend of Quizbowl Goodness?
- Replies: 96
- Views: 38521
It seems like the 22nd isn't still up for discussion, but I'd just like to point something out. Most schools( or so I assume, I know NYC public schools do) have Good Friday off. It would make traveling to a tournement much easier for teams, and it might help to draw teams from farther away because t...
- Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Weekend of Quizbowl Goodness?
- Replies: 96
- Views: 38521
- Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACE website characters list
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5483
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament (11/10/07) in Cambridge, MA
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18617
- Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Preseason
- Replies: 84
- Views: 32678
Gonzaga: My dark horse for top five. Dan is the real deal, and I think Kevin is set on improving his play. I think there's real potential for the 3-4 spots to reach double digit numbers. Or not. Please don't let me down guys, or Yetman will laugh at me while clinging to his GED. Stuyvesant: Doug ha...
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Preseason
- Replies: 84
- Views: 32678
- Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Magnet school discussion
- Replies: 58
- Views: 20840
Magnet schools don't necessarily get a large number of students interested in quizbowl. I can say from experience that all students at magnet schools are not necessarily drawn to a more intellectual environment--some students are bright, but not brilliant, but they see magnet schools as the first st...