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- Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/10/2015
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4616
Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/10/2015
The Earlybird Tournament will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Saturday, October 10, 2015. QUESTIONS: We will be mirroring the 2015 Brookwood Invitational Scholar's Bowl set. Information about the set can be found in this thread . FORMAT: The Earlybird tournament will use...
- Tue Sep 09, 2014 7:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/4/2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6855
Re: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/4/2014
Field has been updated several times. We'll be capping the field at 22 temporarily.
- Sat Aug 16, 2014 1:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/4/2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6855
Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/4/2014
The Earlybird Tournament will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Saturday, October 4, 2014. QUESTIONS: We will be mirroring the 2014 Brookwood Invitational Scholar's Bowl set. Information about the set can be found in this thread . FORMAT: The Earlybird tournament will use ...
- Wed Aug 14, 2013 4:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8766
Re: Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?
I'll add some more praise for the Latin American authors. Borges and Garcia Marquez have written some of my favorite pieces of literature (Borges being a short story writer is especially nice if you have a busy schedule). Also Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is exceptionally good.
- Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10866
Re: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
Yeah, there are 8 incisors (4 per jaw). I would say the question was a failure to clarify whether it's per jaw or per both jaws, but there are only 2 canines per jaw.Christ, I Know wrote:Um, aren't there usually 8 incisors?IS 122 round 2 wrote:...It is the normal number of incisors..
answer: _four_
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT: June 15-16 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19992
Re: 2013 NASAT: June 15-16 at Ohio State
http://www.hsapq.com/downloads/tournament41/Off To See The Lizard wrote:Is the set going to be posted soon?
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ideal Question Distribution
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5492
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '12-'13
- Replies: 153
- Views: 82317
Re: Illinois '12-'13
He is a junior.thyringe_supine wrote: Also, is Jackson from Springfield a sophomore?
- Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13
- Replies: 56
- Views: 24533
Re: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13
I'm going to UIUC next year, and I will be playing quizbowl there.
- Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Masonic
- Replies: 65
- Views: 31447
Re: Masonic
Moline's Sectional was:
1. Macomb
2. Dunlap
3. Moline
4. Princeton
The questions were good.
1. Macomb
2. Dunlap
3. Moline
4. Princeton
The questions were good.
- Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament difficulty discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 30067
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament difficulty discussion
On the whole I thought the set was good, but as has previously been mentioned the bonuses with laughable easy part were unpleasant. Enough sets have successfully been accessible without resorting to having as many easy parts that would have been painfully easy to lower-bracket teams that I don't see...
- Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Kickoffs
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9865
Re: Kickoffs
PORTA stats: prelims playoffs combined (This is about the combined stats, I haven't really looked at the others.) I don't know if you actually have the SQBS file, but if you do Macomb B has 155 BHrd, but their 15+10 is only 83, and Abe M. has a mysterious 1.0 GP versus Abingdon that shouldn't be th...
- Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Kickoffs
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9865
Re: Kickoffs
What I know about the PORTA kickoffs: we (Macomb) finished 1st (9-0) and Glenwood finished 2nd (8-1). Springfield was 7-2, so I think they were 3rd.
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:26 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Quiz bowl Topics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10141
Re: Quiz bowl Topics
If you want to look at specific distributions used by tournaments to see how often subject-areas come up: NAQT's IS set distribution is posted here . Distributions used by individual house-written sets are found in the threads here (most of them are very similar or identical). HSAPQ's distribution m...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:44 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: 1 month to get ready for Tryouts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11341
Re: 1 month to get ready for Tryouts
I've always found note carding to be the best strategy. Try to find clues that come up multiple times especially, you'll find that they will continue to come up in whatever set you do for tryouts. You don't need to use notecards to become good at quiz bowl. That's just another form of rote memoriza...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:38 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: 1 month to get ready for Tryouts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11341
Re: 1 month to get ready for Tryouts
The thing is I've tried to go through that stuff, but I'm not really sure where to go from there? Should I be writing down everything in a journal? Should I be making flashcards to memorize them? Or should I just power through them? I'm just really at a loss of what you're supposed to do to get the...
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:51 am
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Any Illinois or Wisconsin Tournaments in Fall 2012?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7145
Re: Any Illinois or Wisconsin Tournaments in Fall 2012?
Dan-Don said that Northwestern may again have a middle school division for Wake Up Call.
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 3:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer systems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 33599
Re: Buzzer systems
I agree with Ryan and Adam--Andersons seem like the most reliable and cost-efficient buzzers around.
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA Issues
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8984
Re: IHSA Issues
I imagine lit is taking a hit from what it was going to be.shrey96 wrote:Wait...but if grammar is back, then what's being lost? Or are packets now 25/25?Leucippe and Clitophon wrote:I just found out that IHSA is going to keep 1/1 Grammar. I have no idea how this happened.
- Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: future of the Torrey Pines housewrite
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13500
Re: Southern California Date Claim 2012-2013
We took care of criticism from the Macomb mirror (which from our side sounded like it turned out fine) and cleared it. This is almost 100% false. After having discussion with people who were at the NIU mirror, I discovered that almost everything I notified you guys about was not fixed (such as the ...
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Date Claims 2012-2013
- Replies: 107
- Views: 621290
Re: NY/NJ Date Claims 2012-2013
Here.ProfessorIanDuncan wrote:does anyone know how i would go about acquiring a HSAPQ packet to use for the tournament? i was leaning towards HSAPQ anyway
- Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Date Claims 2012-2013
- Replies: 107
- Views: 621290
Re: NY/NJ Date Claims 2012-2013
Irvington plans on hosting something at some point, as an introductory pyramidal tournament to Westchester. We would prefer to use an easy set like an A set or mirror a set that isn't too hard. But as all the A sets will be used at some point and I don't know what sets are the best to use for intro...
- Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10401
Re: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
I'm actually confused about Garcia Lorca, as I was told by someone who had studied him that "Lorca" should be an acceptable answer on his own. I was also under this impression. Both of these things that look pretty reputable call him "Lorca": http://www.amazon.com/Lorca-Dream-Li...
- Wed May 30, 2012 5:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Skype Summer Practices
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6957
Re: Open Skype Summer Practices
twilley287
- Wed May 16, 2012 6:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Central
- Replies: 144
- Views: 86351
Re: Quizbowl Central
It seems to be working now.The Atom Strikes! wrote:Hey guys, quizbowldb seems to be down at the moment. Is this a permanent situation? Has it moved? Will it come back?
- Sat May 12, 2012 10:24 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Newsletter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4061
Re: Newsletter
Who gets your newsletter? Is it just via e-mail, or are there paper copies? (Are there any people or schools who get it who don't come to tournaments? Or who don't come often? Or is the intended audience people and schools who are already active?) The newsletter goes to all IHSSBCA members via an e...
- Tue May 01, 2012 7:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Difficulty/scheduling question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1849
Re: Difficulty/scheduling question
Probably the best way for UCF to get involved is to search for existing sets and offering to collaborate. Speaking of this, will there be a thread (like last year) where this can happen (that is, where sets for the next academic year will be announced and clubs wishing to collaborate can offer thei...
- Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: High School Skype Open June 29th-30th
- Replies: 44
- Views: 12622
Re: High School Skype Open June 29th-30th
Any ties in record at the end of this will be broken based upon who won the head to head match, if a circle of death happens, the two teams with the lowest PPB will play one another on a half packet, and the winner of that will play the team with the highest PPB on another half packet. PPG is a muc...
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Painfully Easy Giveaways
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10486
Re: Painfully Easy Giveaways
This is kind of an interesting point. My general policy for giveaways (for HS questions and most easy college tournaments anyway) is to give the easiest clue without resorting to stupid tricks ('rhymes with..."; "shares his name with...") or literal "say back what I just said&qu...
- Mon Apr 09, 2012 6:38 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Back to the future... with the IESA!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10282
Re: Back to the future... with the IESA!
Congratulations to Palatine Quest Academy on their regional championship. TWO weeks before it even begins... http://www.iesa.org/activities/scb/assignments_Regional.asp?Year=2012 Best of luck to Mrs. Groh and her team in the sectionals! :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Is this real or a mistake?
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:49 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: List of Basic books to start out with?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3858
Re: List of Basic books to start out with?
Hey you probably saw my forum about how I recently started quiz bowl so I was wondering if there was a good list of resources to start out with to get a great start. I went to the big website everyone was talking about (quizbowl center I think) but I found a lot of to be hard. I found the easiest p...
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois NAQT State Championship @ Fenton HS, 2/25/2012
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7554
- Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SWAGFEST at Richard Montgomery 2/25/12
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17760
Re: SWAGFEST at Richard Montgomery 2/25/12
The tournament was definitely well-run and there was some good competition. However, the set had too many questions that were [types of common links]. I dont know if that's just me, but i really dont like that type of question. When I played the set earlier this month, I thought it had a pretty nor...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Skype Practice League - Round 5
- Replies: 54
- Views: 16180
Re: Online Skype Practice League - Round 5
Yeah, the reports are apparently not actually uploaded.MattNC wrote:I keep getting an error message on the database. Anyone else having this issue?
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Central
- Replies: 144
- Views: 86351
Re: Quizbowl Central
This may be a dumb question and if so i am sorry. I was wondering if anyone knows how to make an acount. I wanted to try the multiplayer, but when I clicked create, in order to submit a username/password it did nothing. But other than that minor issue the website is really useful and i using enjoy ...
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '11-'12
- Replies: 211
- Views: 52718
Re: Illinois '11-'12
So ... anyone else care to post their members poll ballots? Top 20: 1. IMSA A 2. Auburn A 3. Loyola A 4. Carbondale 5. Latin 6. Macomb 7. Belvidere North 8. New Trier 9. IMSA B 10. Buffalo Grove 11. Centennial 12. Stevenson 13. Wheaton Warrenville South 14. Auburn B 15. Loyola B 16. Springfield 17....
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '11-'12
- Replies: 211
- Views: 52718
Re: Illinois '11-'12
@ Laird and Prince: Is the IHSA coming after either of you, or is it just me they're after?
(I'll give more details to the general public about this later after I've done some more research into what's happening.)
(I'll give more details to the general public about this later after I've done some more research into what's happening.)
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA
- Replies: 125
- Views: 34870
Re: IHSA
From what Coach Basque told me some of the coaches at their seed meeting seeded purely based on some statistic (I forgot what he called it) involving W/L record in comparison to games played, which might explain something. Does anyone know if weird inaccurate statistics are a common thing in seedin...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 4:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - Herp Derp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 108775
Re: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - so is this where i complain?
The Bloomington Mirror of IMSANITY's stats are here: http://www.ihssbca.org/statistics/2012_ ... ndings.php.
- Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournament Overload
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7039
Re: Tournament Overload
I remember Matt Weiner mentioning stuff about Illinois having a ridiculous amount of tournaments and like, problems with too many of of them in the mid season podcast, but I can't remember what he mentioned off the top of my head Matt Weiner was saying that his criticism of the number of tournament...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:17 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Central
- Replies: 144
- Views: 86351
Re: Quizbowl Central
Right now I "don't have permission to access /~sharadmv/ on this server."
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: A Hypothetical Illinois State Championship
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6625
Re: A Hypothetical Illinois State Championship
Seriously, bring the NAQT tournament back down here. Springfield or Bloomington are more than capable of hosting, and the drive is fairly simple (55/155/72 for the former, 55/74/39/Hwy 51 for the latter). The teams that want to come will come. I'd be willing to bet a significant amount of money tha...
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BMI2 in Bloomington, IL on January 14, 2012
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5209
Re: BMI2 in Bloomington, IL on January 14, 2012
Will this tournament be having bouncebacks?
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ATROPHY 3 @ Northern Illinois University (4/28/12)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 26329
Re: ATROPHY 3 @ Northern Illinois University (4/28/12)
I'll be there with an Uber-Competitive team, 0 buzzers, 0 moderators.
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '11-'12
- Replies: 211
- Views: 52718
Re: Illinois '11-'12
I wish they would be, but that's something we'll have to work on getting the tournament to do for the future.mrgsmath wrote:Tristan, will full stats be posted at some point?
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Skype Practice League - Round 5
- Replies: 54
- Views: 16180
Re: Online Skype Practice League - Round 5
Andy Woodruff from Macomb wanted me to tell you to reserve him a spot.
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '11-'12
- Replies: 211
- Views: 52718
Re: Illinois '11-'12
I thought the set was very good. They've heard the problems (all were pretty minor) that I noticed and I told them some things they might want to look at, so I think it will probably be even better when you get to hear it. I thought it felt pretty similar to OLEFIN, but with bonuses that were a slig...
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '11-'12
- Replies: 211
- Views: 52718
Re: Illinois '11-'12
Macomb's Varsity tournament was held on good questions for the first time in its 14ish year history yesterday; it was played on the TP-RM-Bellarmine set. What were the coaches and players response to the switch to "good questions"? Teams like PORTA and Glenwood were of course pleased. I d...
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '11-'12
- Replies: 211
- Views: 52718
Re: Illinois '11-'12
Macomb's Varsity tournament was held on good questions for the first time in its 14ish year history yesterday; it was played on the TP-RM-Bellarmine set.
Results looked like this:
1. Macomb A
2. Glenwood A
3. PORTA A
4. Moline
Results looked like this:
1. Macomb A
2. Glenwood A
3. PORTA A
4. Moline
- Sun Dec 25, 2011 6:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Macomb Frosh-soph (12/17/11)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1758
Re: Macomb Frosh-soph (12/17/11)
All the stats are here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/43/ I don't really know what happened in the lower brackets in the playoffs, but there should have/may have been more games than I have knowledge of/scoresheets for. I know a lot of coaches in those brackets seemed pretty displeased th...