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Loyola C would like to be #24 if you get the staff.

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Field (as of 8/31/11):
Loyola A
St. Viator
Fenton

Waitlist:
Loyola B
Loyola C

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EDIT 9/26/11 - This tournament has been cancelled due to a lack of interest. Rockford (Auburn) is going to attempt to use this set at their F/S and Novice tournament in January. Loyola Academy is hosting a mirror of the Minnesota Novice Tournament, to be held on Saturday, October 8, 2011. The entry ...

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Hey, we are hosting this. How many packets are you guys writing?

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Moving Day wrote:I expect this player to start immediately for Barrington High School's varsity team.

Do you expect Barrington's coach to take them to tournaments this year, though?

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I'll be there to read anyways, so I guess I'll do this.

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All-State Teams for this year: Class A 1st Team All-State Alex Kling - Chicago (Latin) Cheryl Wassenaar - Palos Heights (Chicago Christian) Christofer Hamilton - Rockford (Keith Country Day) David York - Litchfield Greg Dzuricsko - Lisle Justin Brooks - Petersburg (PORTA) Michael Swartz - Lisle Pete...

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On a related note, there seemed to be just a ton of comp math. I think the rooms I read for happened to hit every math bonus, so it felt like the math just wouldn't stop. Has anyone ever suggested that there be less of it? The problem is that every time a non-comp question is converted (which is at...

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Dan-Don wrote:Being good on staff (for the time being), I need to know if WUSTL and Chicago want in. Let me know by mid-week, as Auburn very much wants to be added to the field.

Are you counting me as staff for Loyola? Because I'll be there, and it would be silly to not use me.

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I was referring to your reaction of surprise toward the "Anti-NAQT revolt" which I am sure is due to some of the reasons I stated that I don't like NAQT. I don't know much about other areas using NAQT, but from what I have seen many teams just throw their pencils on the table once the mat...

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What do the brackets look like for this tournament? We only got our own teams' brackets in our folder.

mlaird · Re: Harvard Fall Mirror at Auburn (12/11/10) Auburn 515, IMSA 130

Auburn 515, IMSA 130

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350-305 Deveau final. A lot of ridiculous powers from Andrew in the second half.

mlaird · Re: Harvard Fall Mirror at Auburn (12/11/10) 175-165 Seven Lakes at half.

175-165 Seven Lakes at half.

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About to read Seven Lakes A vs. St. Ignatius. Will post updates.

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Live stats? Any chance, people who are in the stats room?

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I think what Bryce posted is mostly for people who reuse questions for different types of sets, like the large companies that aren't NAQT and HSAPQ do. That way they tailor their sets to specific needs of customers, rather than just putting out a 15 round set with a set distro and format. This is wh...

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cornfused wrote:That's what "not unlike" means - they didn't, and neither did we.

That's litotes, holmes. Know your literary devices.

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Or you could just let Greg and I keep our spot that we registered for many months in advance, playing with the two new people that Greg described above. This is not unlike what Steven Canning's team just did. Greg and I never asked to be removed from the field and we never said we weren't going to f...

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With regards to Carbery, he's leaving our team and striking out on his own, and Brad is simply leaving our team since he apparently is busy having a baby or whatever. So I guess Peterson and I are looking for two more? Anybody who knows any sports would be great to have, but we'll take anyone who wi...

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Edward Powers wrote:I am pretty sure that his precise address is [email protected]

The beepboopbeep or whatever he wrote probably caused the bounce.

I am pretty sure the beepboopbeep was to prevent internet spam robots from stealing his email. But now they can.

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Everything is going well in Illinois. We did have a brief issue with some players having already heard a packet that they shouldn't have heard, but that's been resolved. The Enemies of Turok-Colby Burnett, Brian Hight, and Jeremy White- are putting up just over 500ppg. Sorice Brutality-Mike Sorice,...

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Yeah, I will be there, and will probably team up with at least David Riley and Mike Laudermith. We'll find someone else to be on our team too, since Egan wants to make sure you don't break his school.

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I will show up to this.

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mlaird wrote:I will happily produce one.

Yeah, actually, I don't think this is going to happen. Sorry, dude.

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I will happily produce one.

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I am told that "IMSA is beating Auburn halfway through an impossible, bad packet." Maybe it is a made up packet from leftover replacements and some old answers plus rounds or something. This is not unheard of apparently.

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They should be appearing here: but they aren't yet? Maybe he isn't getting phone reception? He managed to last year. Maybe he was kicked out for being an NAQT spy.

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IHSSBCA All-State Teams are here. This was voted on by people across the state. The statistics used for this included IHSA-format tournaments as well as traditional quizbowl. Really, nominators could put whatever they wanted on there as long as it wasn't from a solo or subject-specific (e.g. Science...

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So Top Five Teams overlooked in February poll? My vote: 1. Niles West - Never knew they were that good but you don't beat Ig without being a premier team. 2. Mahomet Seymour - Triumphed to take down the Regional at Champaign Centennial, the premier scholastic bowl program in east central Illinois. ...

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Yeah, I read for regionals at WWS yesterday, and I'll also be doing sectionals. How could we get this far in the thread without mentioning the best answer line of the night (and a great screenname), about none other than the leading pioneer in Family and Consumer Science, Ellen Swallow Richards ? D...

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So Loyola got the shaft by pulling Niles North via geography. At least they get until the Regional Finals to get used to the (likely) crappy questions.

EDIT: Also, what the hell Glenwood Regional. I don't think I've ever seen one more messed up than that.

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Dan-Don wrote:Why can't the points be shared? This is an unofficial poll. This is my opinion. I think it makes things more interesting.

This sounds waaaay too much like the IHSA policy of having 3, 4, and 5 part bonuses.

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1. Auburn
2. Stevenson
3. Ignatius
4. Loyola
5. OPRF
6. Carbondale
7. Lisle
8. Niles North
9. Naperville Central
10. WWS

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Following this announcement, the IHSSBCA has made All-Sectional/All-State nomination forms available on its website. Nomination form Rules & Procedures If you are interested in being an All-State selector representing your sectional, please contact me at <<mlaird1 -at- gmail.com>> for info. I al...

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Hm, I think part of the problem is the fact that there aren't writers that will write for this format. I think, if some of us could do some pro bono Masonic style question writing, we could increase the quality of quizbowl within that region. I'm not entirely sure what the distribution of Masonic i...

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I am more interested if there were any particularly harrowing stories to be related about the in-house moderators which were invariably used for the playoffs at this tournament. Since "district employees" have to be given preference over outside moderators due to contractual issues with D2...

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Wasn't this supposed to happen? For those of you out of the loop, here is the most in-depth explanation:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7669&start=0#p131412

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Pardon my ignorance, and maybe this question is addressed somewhere on this message board, but... what exactly is the "blurt rule"? I am thinking that it might be similar to the "non-responsive" rule used at some tournaments here in Georgia. Cathy Hirsch Coach Central Gwinnett H...

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Yo Anant, email me too, cause I can read.

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What was the question source that year? Given the use of the ACF Regionals set, I don't think they'll have time to sort out questions by category according to what we choose. Maybe they will; I don't know. The source was old Panasonic questions, which have an extremely easy to sort category line fo...

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Knight's Challenge is this weekend, isn't it? I have it on my schedule. Is there a field? There wasn't an official announcement, was there?

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But it is not absolutely necessary that you be nominated by your coach: you may put yourself forth as a candidate regardless of team affilliation or coach representation, as long as you are from an Illinois high school.

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I can moderate for this.

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Yo, how is rebracketing being handled at this tournament? How many teams are going to be in contention after lunch? I'm trying to make my picks for my bookie.

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Dude, like I said before, you can count me in as a reader if you need one, or a player if you need one.

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I'll staff. But you already knew that, didn't you?

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I don't quite understand these "conversion statistics". The top of the column says "dead rooms". Does that mean that out of 32 rooms, only 3 of them managed to get a question on Maupassant? and only three got Turandot? And only one person could answer a question about The Adorati...

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I'll play or staff, whichever you need me for to balance out things.

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1. Auburn
2. Loyola
3. Carbondale
4. Ignatius
5. Stevenson
6. OPRF
7. Lisle
8. BG
9. Hobo
10. New Trier

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