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Northern Illinois University's Quiz Bowl Association will host the fourth annual April Tournament Run On Pennies, Halfpence, and Yen on 20 April 2013. This year's tournament will mirror 2013 BHSAT , and will use standard format. The tournament is open to all teams. Schools can register up to two tea...

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Is there no thread for the Northern Illinois University Host site? If we want to sign up do we just email Brad Fischer and will he tell us the details? Thanks. :grin: User was reminded to enable a signature. --the mgmt This has just been brought to my attention, and a thread has been posted .

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Congratulations to IMSA A, who went undefeated in the Competitive Division, and to IMSA B, who was undefeated in the Standard Division. Congratulations, also, to our runners up, Loyola and St Viator A. Standings are as follows: Competitive 1. IMSA A 2. Loyola 3. Tristan Willey 4. Smith School of Ben...

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Morning stats for the Standard Division are here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... d_morning/

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Rockford Auburn has been admitted to the field because they offered a moderator with their teams, allowing us to stretch the field slightly. Keith B has been forced to drop, so we can accommodate one more team in the Standard Division. If your team is likely to field more than 7 players, please cons...

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I'll leave the full congraulating to the TDs, but for now, congratulations to Barrington Station A, who went undefeated in the playoffs to win. The playoff stats are here , and the combined stats for the full day are here . The playoff stats include the games carried over from the morning that teams...

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Morning stats are posted here.

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The tournament will use Chattahoochee's housewrite instead of HSAPQ spring. The initial post has been changed to reflect both this and the lower entry fee resulting from the use of a less expensive set. Thank you to the coaches and players who provided feedback and helped us find a new set while we ...

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B teams have been admitted to the field, and the field has been closed.

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We will be switching sets to avoid the massive conflict with Wheaton North's tournament. I will post further details after I have contacted teams about the changes later tonight.

The field will be updated tonight, and will likely be finalized within the next few days.

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An alert to teams already signed up:

The HSAPQ set that will be used in this tournament is going to be played at Wheaton North's F/S tournament on 26 Jan. If any team from your school is going to play at Wheaton North on the 26th, I ask that you choose not to participate in the Huskie Bowl.

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Just a reminder that B teams will be added to the field this Friday (18 Jan). Given staffing concerns, this will effectively close the field, so get your registrations in by Friday if you're interested in attending.

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I will also state that we stand by our rating of the GSAC set. Furthermore, as I mentioned in my e-mail to Mr. Reinstein, we also felt that Solo was a good set with many excellent questions, but it fell just short of the exemplary status due to the question length and tossup difficulty. The problem...

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This confused me, as well. I don't see the GSAC set as having significantly fewer faults than this year's Solo, and I'm still baffled by exactly what distinguishes an "above average" set from an "exemplary" one for those operating the program. What I am seeing happen is really on...

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Statistics for the Playoffs and the games Combined are now posted. Congratulations to Loyola, who won in a 2-game final over "Smith School of Benchwarming"

1. Loyola
2. Smith School of Benchwarming
3. IMSA A
4. Stevenson A

TheDoctor · Re: Loyburn @ Loyola Academy (Wilmette, IL) 12/15/12 Morning stats are posted.

Morning stats are posted.

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Please remember not to discuss question content until the set is cleared in February. If you have any comments or suggestions about specific questions, please notify me by email at [email protected].

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The Northern Illinois University Huskie Bowl is happening this year on Saturday 2 February 2013. As in past years, we will host a Competitive division for extremely experienced teams as well as a Standard division. Both divisions will use Chattahoochee High School's housewrite . The tournament is in...

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These easy parts are not for you and until I see someone make the same complaint who did not score over 15 points per bonus, I have to take a page from the esteemed Yuri Vinokurov and respond to comments like "insultingly easy," "laughably easy," and the like by rolling my eyes ...

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The criteria for exemplary sets are described in the first post. What I'm asking for is something less general than what is posted above. What is given is: 1. Difficulty control - is this set at the announced difficulty or easier? Does it avoid excessively hard material? Regardless of its stated di...

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Has any set been deemed exemplary? I'm curious about this, too, as a quick browse of the boards and your site don't seem to turn up a record of any evaluated sets. Also, is there a sense of what "exemplary" even means? Is it something like "this is one of the one or two best sets pro...

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Stats from the standard division now come in Playoff and Full varieties.

1. Fenton cleared at 5-0
2. Carbondale, 3-2 with 331 PPG
3. IMSA B, 3-2 with 309 PPG
4. St Viator A, 2-3 with 282 PPG
5. Wheaton A, 2-3 with 276 PPG

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Full stats from the competitive division are here.

1. Dorman cleared the field at 11-0.
2. DCC, 9-2 with 492.3 PPG
3. Belvidere North A, 9-2 with 435.9 PPG
4. IMSA A, 8-3 with 421.4 PPG
5. Auburn A, 8-3 with 397.3 PPG

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The stats from competitive represent the first 6/11 of the 12-team round robin in that division.

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For those interested in the progress of the competitive division, here are the stats after six rounds.

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After 5 morning rounds, here are the stats for the Standard Division.

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Stats have been updated.

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Since that game didn't count for actual stats, we felt the correction was not necessary to make after the tournament.

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Stats!

Master Post
Morning
Combined
Combined without the tiebreaker games

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Thank you for posting stats! If you played this tournament, please remember that the set will not be clear for public discussion until February 2013. If you want to comment about specific questions, please email [email protected]

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Any specific comments or complaints about the questions can be sent to [email protected].

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cchiego wrote:It took 2 hours of reworking the stats to make them manageable.

Ah, that's rough. I'll be in email contact, then.

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Please send any specific comments about the questions to [email protected]. We would like to improve the set for future use, and learn what we can do better next year.

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Please send any comments about specific questions to [email protected].

Is there any chance you could repost the stats with round report enabled?

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Also, any chance you could repost stats with round report enabled?

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Please direct any specific notes or complaints about the set to [email protected]. We would like to improve the set for future mirrors.

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Justin wrote:TP found out about the NI mirror a week before

We received confirmation that we could use the set on 17 November 2011.

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As the host of the tournament in question, I feel like I ought to clarify a few things, particularly the misconception that we had a lot of time to look over the questions or the opportunity to switch packets when we found the set was lacking. We chose last year's set in a hurry after the first set ...

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The set will be mirrored by: Richard Montgomery High School (MD) on 6 October 2012. Contact: Jonathan Marx and Shelley Reback (rmquizbowl@gmail.com) Tuscumbia High School (MO) on 13 October 2012. Contact: Jason Loy (jloy@tuscumbialions.k12.mo.us) Oakville High School (MO) on 13 October 2012. Contact...

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The third iteration of the SCOP Novice tournament is seeking mirrors for Fall of 2012 (the beginning of October through the end of January). SCOP is written by a conglomerate of writers, primarily in Illinois, for play by new and very inexperienced players. For a more objective assessment of the set...

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Ah. It should be fixed now. Thanks for keeping the stats honest.

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Boeing X-20, Please! wrote:Stats: Half-games are currently put in as whole games

A half game counts as a full win. Check the TUH in the round; half packet games will have 10 rather than 20.

Boeing X-20, Please! wrote:I only played half of our first game against Loyola B.

Sure enough, the scoresheet agrees. Did you get here late?

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David Riley wrote:Stats?

The tournament
The Charity Doubles Event

Brad will post more detailed information soon.

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Where I disagree with this is where teams are forced into certain break weeks. We can't expect everyone in the community to have their lives revolve around the quizbowl schedule, nor should we. We're not. We're just setting up suggested breaks to ensure that everyone can take one periodically witho...

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The way I see it, the problem isn't so much that all of us feel pressured to attend events we otherwise wouldn't, but that we feel compelled to attend many or all of the good quality tournaments, and give up a ton of time to support them because we feel it's the right thing to do. Personally, I'm a ...

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Illinois History Bowl and Bee State Championships happened today. Bowl stats here and Bee stats below.

Thanks to Coach Laudermith and Fenton for hosting, and to everyone who staffed and attended! Congratulations to Champions, New Trier, and to Blake Tutt, the Bee Champion.

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Thanks, everyone, for attending this year's Huskie Bowl. I would like to apologize to all of you for the quality of the questions. Though I'm sure many (if not all) of you are as incensed as I am over the myriad problems with these questions, I'd like to remind everyone not to publicly discuss speci...

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We have posted all the stats. Standard: Morning Playoffs Combined Uber: STAAAATS Congratulations to Fenton, who won the Standard Division in a two-game final with Auburn B, and to Loyola, who won the Uber-Competitive Division by default when we ran out of usable questions. Edit: TEH GRAMMARZ

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FIELD UPDATE: THIS TIME, IT'S PERSONAL (AND FINAL) Upper Auburn A Belvidere North A Carbondale IMSA A Loyola A New Trier Lower Auburn B Belvidere Belvidere North B Christian Life Fenton Hybrid (bring your extras, please) IMSA B IMSA C Keith Country Day Lisle Loyola B Maine South A Maine South B Roll...

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Current, still not final.

Upper
Auburn A
Auburn B
Belvidere North A
Carbondale
IMSA A
Loyola A
New Trier

Lower
Belvidere
Belvidere North B
Christian Life
Fenton
IMSA B
Keith Country Day
Lisle
Loyola B
Maine South A
Maine South B
Rolling Meadows
St. Viator A
St. Viator B
UIC College Prep
Westmont

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