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Coach K

Too bad we can't make this a "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" -- but I like February regardless. What is the KY schedule? 5th is Middle School Regionals. ACT on the 12th, but I would guess it's the ACT least likely to cause a lot of trouble (seniors will already have it done, most juniors w...

Coach K

I e-mailed information and registration forms earlier today to everyone on my contact list. If anyone does not receive it and is interested in attending, please e-mail me at [email protected].

Coach K

Who can I contact about this Tipp tournament? Vandy will also likely hold a tournament in November... December also has Kentucky State BETA and the PAA tournament, which would cut Grayson, MadNoHo and all of the Owensboro teams. January... Gov. Cup on the 29th, no matter how much we all despise it....

Coach K

Haha, that's what I assumed. I wasn't trying to be antagonistic, just joking a little. As far as date, I would like to see mid November. October is already loaded and a fourth tournament may be better off in another, less congested month. November is pretty congested too. The first weekend is Tippe...

Coach K

Put us down for 2 teams with 2 buzzers Sandy.

Coach K

Hope everyone is doing well. For our spring tournament, we did rebracketing for the first time and, other than conflict with Thunder over Louisville, thought it went well. If there are no objections, we are going to use that for our fall tournaments as well and forego our previous single eliminatio...

Coach K

SoLegit12 wrote:I think September 25th would be a good date. Problems?

KAAC conference will draw a bunch of people away. :(

Coach K

We will probably go, but that will depend on whether or not we can talk our administrators into using the Wednesday (?) PSAT date. I thought the PSAT was usually taken on a Tuesday. Anyway, is your whole team made up of sophomores and juniors? They have a Saturday time also (each school chooses whi...

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Danville High School is announcing its 2nd annual (Not Quite) Season Opener for October 16th, 2010. We are aware that this is a PSAT date, but it was the date that worked best for us. Provided there is sufficient interest, we will have separate Varsity and JV divisions. Our intention is to use the f...

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Danville is interested in attending next year as well.

Coach K

Coach K wrote: Have Brookwood and Chattahoochee set their dates yet? Yes, Brookwood will be on November 20 and Chattahoochee is on December 11. I don't know how often Danville would want to make the trek down to Georgia but we would love to have you at our tournament as well. And November 13 it wil...

Coach K

Could a Georgia Mirror be held on the same day as the main HFT (11/13)? That would be the only good date to hold a tournament in Georgia in either November or December due to the Chattahoochee and Brookwood tournaments, Thanksgiving, and the SAT. Have Brookwood and Chattahoochee set their dates yet?

Coach K

Similarly, I think this NSC did an excellent job of staying accessible to the bottom 50% of the field, though I suppose stats will bear this out ( and I guess it'll be hard to compare due to format changes). In the five games I read in the 4th playoff flight, at least 16 tossups were converted in e...

Coach K

We could have still had a team. All that would have had to happen was a group of players send a bid to HSAPQ. They didn't even have to be the best team, just be the best group to submit a bid. Obviously though, Kentucky wants to field our best team. So next year when there is a tryout, the quizbowl...

Coach K

The plan right now is to use whatever question provider Danville doesn't use if they hold their season opener again. We're planning on running it again (we're looking at September 11th right now as the probable date). We'll decide on which one to use over the summer and I'll let you know as soon as...

Coach K

The Danville Middle School Invitational finished up a few hours ago using these questions. Everyone loved the set and kept asking me where we got them. Campbell County Middle School finished in 1st place and Holy Name Middle School finished 2nd. I'll get stats posted within the next day or two and l...

Coach K

Grayson will send 3 teams to WKU tournament, as you guys will probably be staffing ours. :wink: I would like to see it use NAQT to be honest, because we will have ours, Danville, and Dunbar with HSAPQ (maybe). We'll decide at some point over the summer whether we'll use HSAPQ or NAQT. It will depen...

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Ok cool. I know we're planning on hosting our fall tournament again in September. Probably the 2nd weekend of the month like this year.

Coach K

When's this tournament, Nick?

Coach K

I've played Danville twice, beating them both times, but the second time was on the last bonus part. They'll make a nice run, as they are probably vastly improved since December. Jarrett's team of South Range will probably do the same. Those are two of the best matches we've been a part of this year.

Coach K

Does any one know why exactly state is moving to Lexington? The location is determined by bid and Lexington had the better bid for the next two years. Also, the Galt House would not "hold" the desired dates for the next two years. It'll be different in Lexington, especially the hotel situ...

Coach K

Does any one know why exactly state is moving to Lexington? I do not have a problem with it, but it seems strange to change to a less central location. Also, I have heard that KAAC is going to use separate tossup and bonus packets next year. Has anyone else heard anything about this change? Isn't L...

Coach K

I had a lot of fun at State, and the competition was great. That being said, something needs to be done in the future about the officials. In our match against St. X to make it to the Semis, Scott buzzed in and said, "hydrolysis", and 99% of the people in the room agreed that they heard h...

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Why would we need permission from the Galt House or KAAC to have a few "scrimmage" matches in our own rooms that we are paying for? And why would it matter if some coaches wouldn't want their players participating? I hate to sound like some sort of elitist, but those who would do well on ...

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How long are you all thinking tryouts would take? Manual is just about 5 minutes away from the Galt House.... I'd have to get approval (which I don't think would be a problem), but we could host tryouts on the last day of State. I do agree that pretty much everyone who would be interested would be ...

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I have a feeling that no matter what we do, there is no way everyone interested will be able to be present. Maybe we should have a back up plan or something through the internet? Have two tryouts?? (but i don't know how we could reasonably compare the results from 2 different tryouts). I mean, stat...

Coach K

Huang wrote:
Coach K wrote: In all likelihood, we are looking at one of the weekends immediately after State (either the 20th/21st or 27th/28th).
Date to keep in mind: March 20th is Vanderbilt's tournament

Thanks Sandy. If we have it that weekend it would have to be on Sunday (which is less than optimal).

Coach K

Am I the only one surprised/shocked that not one Manual kid has been mentioned here? There are several Manual players who are interested. It is important for this to be open to people beyond those simply active on this board. Is there a definitive time, room, etc? A couple of brief updates for ever...

Coach K

Faiyad wrote:I didn't see Apollo in the Pools. Did they lose in their Region? I remember they had some really good players on JV last year and they played us close. They also had some high test scores this year, from what I remember.

Looks like they were 4th in the region with Grayson and Edmonson.

Coach K

The pools for state quick recall have been posted. http://kaac.com/state/HSPoolAssignments-10.pdf Any predictions? I can see alot of second place teams getting out of their pools this year. (KCD, Eastern, Pikeville, Simon Kenton, Danville, Franklin Simpson, and Edmonson) Does anyone know exactly ho...

Coach K

The pools for state quick recall have been posted. http://kaac.com/state/HSPoolAssignments-10.pdf Any predictions? I can see alot of second place teams getting out of their pools this year. (KCD, Eastern, Pikeville, Simon Kenton, Danville, Franklin Simpson, and Edmonson) Does anyone know exactly ho...

Coach K

And what about all of the questions that the other people in the big room get? What happens when several people are inevitably close? How to Form an All-Star Team: 1) Choose player getting the most points in science 2) Choose player getting the most points in history 3) Choose player getting the mo...

Coach K

Let's say Jack and Victor are the two best lit players and Scott is the third best. Further suppose that Dowell is there and is beating Scott in arts. Scott is completely overshadowed by the combination of Jack, Victor, and Dowell, when in fact Scott would compare favorably against any of the three...

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It's unrealistic, however, that we would take three lit specialists and expect them all to see significant playing time. We wouldn't be taking three lit specialists. We would only be taking one. The one who scores the most points in literature. The max we would take would be maybe 2 lit specialists...

Coach K

Let's say Jack and Victor are the two best lit players and Scott is the third best. Further suppose that Dowell is there and is beating Scott in arts. Scott is completely overshadowed by the combination of Jack, Victor, and Dowell, when in fact Scott would compare favorably against any of the three...

Coach K

It's unrealistic, however, that we would take three lit specialists and expect them all to see significant playing time. We wouldn't be taking three lit specialists. We would only be taking one. The one who scores the most points in literature. The max we would take would be maybe 2 lit specialists...

Coach K

Let's say Jack and Victor are the two best lit players and Scott is the third best. Further suppose that Dowell is there and is beating Scott in arts. Scott is completely overshadowed by the combination of Jack, Victor, and Dowell, when in fact Scott would compare favorably against any of the three...

Coach K

And I understand that if their knowledge gets completely overshadowed by someone it's useless. It's unrealistic, however, that we would take three lit specialists and expect them all to see significant playing time. So let's use specific people to make this easier on me (bearing in mind that I have ...

Coach K

I think it makes it much harder to see what players are able to do outside of their specialty (which I think is something very valuable to consider for this type of team). Why would it be harder? I'm pretty sure doing one room versus doing separate rooms won't matter in terms of determining who doe...

Coach K

I'm happy to help out with this in whatever capacity I'm needed. I think the Saturday night of State is probably the best time to do it since we know everyone will be in a central location. Since it's before the State tournament starts, everyone will probably be hanging out with nothing to do for at...

Coach K

grayson77 wrote:So are there any plans for other tournaments (than Dunbar and U of L) this spring?

We've been batting around the idea of hosting another tournament either at the end of March (the 27th) or beginning of May.

Coach K

Dunbar's March 6th tournament is HSAPQ. I'm sure we could arrange for Joe, or whoever organizes this, to use PLD's building for tryouts-maybe on the night before. I think Johnson Co. may be coming and they have some players who should consider this. I'm not sure what other KY teams are coming, yet....

Coach K

I hope you find an eleventh team so you can support a bye. In the event that no team materializes out of the ether, we'll be fielding a house team of my novice freshmen, for that very purpose. Why isn't Danville sending a team? It's not like they have to travel far. Or at all. While the packet writ...

Coach K

Put us down for two teams, Matt.

Coach K

We should have two teams there, Matt.

Coach K

Has anyone in Kentucky thought about mirroring the Collaborative Middle School Tournament? I think it would be really interesting to see how KY middle schools do at good quizbowl. Danville's considering it among other possible spring tournament options. If we did it (or something else) we'd do it t...

Coach K

I think KAAC is a little confused. Under the focus work section Ceremony is listed for JV Challenge. It has been up online since a couple weeks after state last year. Under JV Challenge it says Midsummer Night's Dream is the focus work. I am very confused and slightly mad about this. Coaches receiv...

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I completely forgot Fred. I'll send them to you tomorrow/post results when I go into school (they're on my computer there). My fault.

Coach K

I'll post full results in the next couple of days, but Dunbar A and B were the top two finishers in the varsity division. Dunbar A and Campbell County were the top two teams in the JV division.

Coach K

Just have the appropriate people e-mail me at [email protected] and I'll get a registration form sent out to you.

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