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by Charley Pride
Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northwestern Wildcat XII
Replies: 93
Views: 49306

Re: Northwestern Wildcat XII

Springfield Grade Road wrote:3 people over 130 ppg?!?!? :shock:
Dude, they were solo, or at least effectively solo.
by Charley Pride
Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:17 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northwestern Wildcat XII
Replies: 93
Views: 49306

Re: Northwestern Wildcat XII

I must say your post was not clear at all what your real thoughts were (and I'm still unsure). Clarification: The set had some misplaced clues, which was probably its biggest issue. I expected players to also complain about question ease, but I just wanted to remind people that we Illinois folk who...
by Charley Pride
Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:09 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northwestern Wildcat XII
Replies: 93
Views: 49306

Re: Northwestern Wildcat XII

I'm not gonna bitch about the question quality. It's been done . However, I would like to compliment the NU guys on a great tournament that was a major improvement with respect to some of the logistical errors with Penn Bowl. This was just a downright fun tournament. More importantly, the field fea...
by Charley Pride
Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:57 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northwestern Wildcat XII
Replies: 93
Views: 49306

Re: Northwestern Wildcat XII

I'm not gonna bitch about the question quality. It's been done . However, I would like to compliment the NU guys on a great tournament that was a major improvement with respect to some of the logistical errors with Penn Bowl. This was just a downright fun tournament. More importantly, the field fea...
by Charley Pride
Sat Feb 13, 2010 1:06 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northwestern Wildcat XII
Replies: 93
Views: 49306

Re: Northwestern Wildcat XII

Dan-Don wrote:Haha yes. I've started a trend. The 2010 WIldcat is just gonna be a tournament full of hobo teams.
Kevin Malis is a wolf. Can't you read?

And I think Chametz is more of a vagabond, considering his recent biography...
by Charley Pride
Fri Feb 12, 2010 8:59 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northwestern Wildcat XII
Replies: 93
Views: 49306

Re: Northwestern Wildcat XII

adeveau wrote:So. If the sixteenth spot is still open, I (and my brother) can take it.
Make it happen.
by Charley Pride
Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:16 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '09-'10
Replies: 568
Views: 141655

Re: Illinois '09-'10

1. Auburn- LloyBid + Zahed + Filip :grin: = #1. You can't talk about Auburn without talking about Jordan Hoffmann. As Nolan said, he's a huge aspect of our bonus conversion, and while his PPG is on the low side, he's an absolutely crucial aspect of our team. It's good to see Filip getting some cred...
by Charley Pride
Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:29 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NIU Huskie Bowl/Prison Bowl Mirror 02/06/2010
Replies: 54
Views: 15835

Re: NIU Huskie Bowl/Prison Bowl Mirror 02/06/2010

It's worth noting that Auburn A's seniors were both absent (Jordan Hoffmann and myself) due to science bowl regionals. In retrospect (since we didn't win science bowl), I wish I was at NIU. Sounds like it was a good day. I'm extremely proud of how Lloyd et al stepped up and won this thing. Abid show...
by Charley Pride
Sat Feb 06, 2010 8:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NIU Huskie Bowl/Prison Bowl Mirror 02/06/2010
Replies: 54
Views: 15835

Re: NIU Huskie Bowl/Prison Bowl Mirror 02/06/2010

lchen wrote:
Oliver Ellsworth wrote: I hear the final was interesting...
What packet was that played on?

Well it was a one-game final, so add one to the full round robin. I wasn't there.
by Charley Pride
Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NIU Huskie Bowl/Prison Bowl Mirror 02/06/2010
Replies: 54
Views: 15835

Re: NIU Huskie Bowl/Prison Bowl Mirror 02/06/2010

Dan-Don wrote:
Top scorer was me.
Yeah, we're real impressed. :grin:

I hear the final was interesting...
by Charley Pride
Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)

This is all awesome, and once again reinforces my belief that no regular difficult tournament can be "too easy" as long as the questions are written well. I'm really looking forward to this. I have to disagree with this. In this set, easiness translated into a lot of guessable answer line...
by Charley Pride
Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:31 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)

I concur with Matt on this. I'd say there were as many hard middle parts as there were easy middle parts, and yes, perhaps overall bonus conversion was higher, but I would contend that this is a result of easy- and medium- difficulty bonuses. That is, middle and lower teams' conversion is increased...
by Charley Pride
Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:30 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)

I concur with Matt on this. I'd say there were as many hard middle parts as there were easy middle parts, and yes, perhaps overall bonus conversion was higher, but I would contend that this is a result of easy- and medium- difficulty bonuses. That is, middle and lower teams' conversion is increased,...
by Charley Pride
Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:08 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)

I personally disagree with such strong criticisms of the set. There were definitely issues, and I've already contacted Matt Weiner about those. Yes, there were inconsistencies, but the fact that so many bonuses were easy is a simple result of people getting better at quizbowl. These stats are consis...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:54 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Organizing Stats Better
Replies: 1
Views: 751

Organizing Stats Better

1. I suppose this is the right place for this thread. 2. If it's redundant, please explain to me why, then delete this thread. I was wondering if someone could take up the task of organizing stats for each specific question set in a central location. I haven't yet found an efficient way (searching t...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:39 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)

Thank you to Coach Greene and everyone else who made this tournament so successful. Also of course congratulations to Auburn A, who were, as always, very impressive. We had a lot of fun, though I lament the fact I didn't get to the book bin fast enough to get a copy of Raptor Red . Did somebody say...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:11 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)

Auburn B was sixth. Jonas has a file of the stats, and will be putting them up fairly soon. Thanks to all of the teams who came to play, to our moderators (Riley, Laudermith, Stankevitz, Laird, Greenthal, Houlding, and Weber) who kept things moving along on schedule, to our stats people (J. Wassers...
by Charley Pride
Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:43 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Why we can't have nice things
Replies: 141
Views: 27606

Re: Why we can't have nice things

What questions are your f/s and varsity tournaments run on? I use questions generated in house based on the pyramidal critera set forth by the IHSSBCA paper on question writing. I wrote this years F/S set but as I mentioned before there were circumstances that made writing the varsity sets impossib...
by Charley Pride
Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Why we can't have nice things
Replies: 141
Views: 27606

Re: Why we can't have nice things

Coach Grant, what is going on with your quotes?? I honestly don't know! I highlighted the correct quote, but I must have hit the wrong quote button, and linked the wrong person. I will strive to do better and pay closer attention. Being on my best behavior and being technically correct can be a dau...
by Charley Pride
Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Why we can't have nice things
Replies: 141
Views: 27606

Re: Why we can't have nice things

Shcool wrote:Was that Rockford Boylan or Rockford Auburn?
Must've been Boylan, since I've never seen PORTA at Auburn.
by Charley Pride
Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:46 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Why we can't have nice things
Replies: 141
Views: 27606

Re: Why we can't have nice things

I always thought the 6-post waiting period was a mentoring process to prevent people from fanning the flames right away. I mean, I've seen new users get censored for posting question content. Would it be wise for our moderating staff to take some care in initiating new members? I'm not advocating c...
by Charley Pride
Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:31 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Why we can't have nice things
Replies: 141
Views: 27606

Re: Why we can't have nice things

I don't like it when people say mean things.
by Charley Pride
Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:57 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/09)

MODS: Can we move this to a better place? Gracias. FYI, you can report your own post and keep threads a post shorter. Electron conservation! Things Yeah, sorry Fred. But if you had PM'd me, this thread would have been another post shorter. And Robert, I'm really sorry you weren't invited (or were y...
by Charley Pride
Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:33 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Re: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/09)

MODS: Can we move this to a better place? Gracias.
by Charley Pride
Tue Jan 26, 2010 11:26 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)
Replies: 38
Views: 13012

Second Annual Loyburn Classic @ Rockford Auburn (1/30/10)

Auburn High School (Rockford, IL) will be co-hosting the second iteration of the Loyburn Classic with Loyola Academy (Wilmette, IL) on January 30th. As you may remember, the first Loyburn was held at Loyola and featured the now-defunct PACE format. This year's event will be at Auburn and will be pla...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10
Replies: 70
Views: 11207

Re: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10

As far as reading speed goes, I was a bit surprised at how people reacted to me at Auburn F/S. The one team that complained was Stevenson, though I saw plenty of argument between the players as to whether or not they liked me as a reader. I did receive some criticism from another team's coach, thoug...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:06 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10
Replies: 70
Views: 11207

Re: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10

What SHOULD we expect the match distro to be? If we are going to go IHSA format, then I would suggest something similar to the distro I'm doing next week for WN frosh/soph: 3/3 math, 3/3 lit, 3/3 sci, 3/3 SS, 2/2 FA, 1/1 misc, with additional 2/2 (sixteenth qs and replacement) from the five major c...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 24, 2010 12:26 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10
Replies: 70
Views: 11207

Re: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10

So, to give my own version of today's happenings; Barrington tied for 5th place out of 54 teams (my way of saying we lost in the quarterfinals), we went 5-2 overall, but undefeated against schools not named for failed U.S. presidential candidates. And, I know some of the players are going to bag on...
by Charley Pride
Sat Jan 23, 2010 8:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10
Replies: 70
Views: 11207

Re: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10

It was a close match and came down to Tossup 16, which was in the area of Driver's Education. It was a multiple-choice tossup. Multiple choice toss-up and bonus questions will not be permitted except in the case of vocabulary (analogy) toss-up questions. Fantastic. So they can't even stick to the m...
by Charley Pride
Sat Jan 23, 2010 7:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10
Replies: 70
Views: 11207

Re: Fremd Varsity & Frosh/soph 1/23/10

I was promised these questions would be better. So glad we didn't go...
by Charley Pride
Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Team Illinois Tryouts for NASAT
Replies: 106
Views: 17386

Re: Team Illinois Tryouts for NASAT

Yesterday, Mr. Laudermith and I met to work out the particulars of Team Illinois tryouts (supersedes above). Here is the result: When and Where University of Illinois at Urbana (rooms to be determined), Sunday, February 21, 2010, from 1pm to 3:30 pm. Process There will be 5 rounds: Round 1: 1-on-1,...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

I made my post yesterday when I was in a bad mood, and while I stand by my points, I would agree that I presented them in a somewhat exaggerated manner, and I regret that. I think my frustration was a result of comparing NAQT to HSAPQ; at this point, such a comparison is somewhat invalid. And maybe ...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:37 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

reading Kant (in German) Only Abid does this. First off, the original title of this thread was subtitled "Who You [present participle of the not as bad C-word]?". I know NAQT isn't trying to fool anyone; you can blame Evan Silberman for the proper yet slightly misleadng title. Regardless,...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:35 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Already done. Now we're fighting over how the club is paid for. And how we allocate proceeds from stuff we host or win. And how we travel. Congratulations! I feel like I'm being congratulated for beating cancer (no disrespect intended). There really are no interesting details that I know of, so I'm...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:28 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Already done. Now we're fighting over how the club is paid for. And how we allocate proceeds from stuff we host or win. And how we travel. Congratulations! I feel like I'm being congratulated for beating cancer (no disrespect intended). There really are no interesting details that I know of, so I'm...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

styxman wrote:
Oliver Ellsworth wrote:Already done. Now we're fighting over how the club is paid for. And how we allocate proceeds from stuff we host or win. And how we travel.
Wait, wait, you guys deaffiliated? Sweet! Give us more details!
No, we mitosised.
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:09 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Uh, just go anyway? This is a frustrating comment. We have experience with breaking rules and pushing limits, and we're not stupid. We've had all sorts of trouble with a new AD, and with a new principal, we have no idea what kind of latitude we'll have. I really don't care who we offend from our sc...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:01 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Uh, just go anyway? This is a frustrating comment. We have experience with breaking rules and pushing limits, and we're not stupid. We've had all sorts of trouble with a new AD, and with a new principal, we have no idea what kind of latitude we'll have. I really don't care who we offend from our sc...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:49 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Uh, just go anyway? This is a frustrating comment. We have experience with breaking rules and pushing limits, and we're not stupid. We've had all sorts of trouble with a new AD, and with a new principal, we have no idea what kind of latitude we'll have. I really don't care who we offend from our sc...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 1:27 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Stop going to tournaments run badly and with bad, unfair rules. You already have IHSA and Masonic that you have to put up with for that kind of crap; don't bring any more of it on yourselves. This is obvious. I wasn't very enthusiastic about going, but the rationale was that, without Winnebago, we ...
by Charley Pride
Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:50 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Stop going to tournaments run badly and with bad, unfair rules. You already have IHSA and Masonic that you have to put up with for that kind of crap; don't bring any more of it on yourselves. This is obvious. I wasn't very enthusiastic about going, but the rationale was that, without Winnebago, we ...
by Charley Pride
Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

Frater Taciturnus wrote:
Jacopo Robusti wrote:
Also, can someone explain to me this whole concept of NAQT having a distro for the SET as opposed to a distro for each ROUND? What does that accomplish?
It allows to exactly measure out categories that have distributions of less than one question per round in that category.

I don't get it.
by Charley Pride
Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

For the record, the blurt rule wasn't insisted upon by all moderators, and it was never enforced, as there was never cause for enforcement. Still, having a skunk in the room is having a skunk in the room, even if it never sprays its stink.


EDIT: Coherence is good.
by Charley Pride
Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:22 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

Re: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

I know this basically loses me the chance of receiving 8 seconds to begin my answer following a buzz at HSNCT, but I guess I can be content with the standard time...
by Charley Pride
Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Loyola Davey and Goliath Throwdown IV (1/16/10)
Replies: 32
Views: 5057

Re: Loyola Davey and Goliath Throwdown IV (1/16/10)

David Riley wrote: welcme.
[that's a typo]
by Charley Pride
Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?
Replies: 69
Views: 18357

NAQT: Who You Attempting to Fool?

I've kept myself distant from NAQT discussion, primarily because I haven't had much experience with the real problems it poses. It's not even that I wasn't cognizant of what good quiz bowl needed to be or anything, because I've seen and understood issues in the past. Today I was at Winnebago's varsi...
by Charley Pride
Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Team Illinois Tryouts for NASAT
Replies: 106
Views: 17386

Re: Team Illinois Tryouts for NASAT

How do the tryouts plan to test specialization? I would imagine that the best possible team would consist of the four or five best generalists and not necessarily the best four or five players who try out. Am I right? I think you mean specialists. And, if we're being frank here, Deveau (if he's try...
by Charley Pride
Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Team Illinois Tryouts for NASAT
Replies: 106
Views: 17386

Re: Team Illinois Tryouts for NASAT

How do the tryouts plan to test specialization? I would imagine that the best possible team would consist of the four or five best specialists and not necessarily the best four or five players who try out. Am I right?




Edit: Specialists, not generalists.