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These are all very interesting and thought-provoking suggestions. However, I cannot come up with the unequivocal solutions until I commune with the fantasy league gods. Unfortunately, this may take anywhere from 2-6 weeks due to the massive overload of traffic at the Gods of Leagues of Fantasy (GOLF...

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Posted by wereplayingbasketball in DC/Metro Area 2006-07 topic:

"Why do we have so few posts in this thread? We seriously need to step it up in the nebulous prognostication department. To help stimulate this, i propose a quizbowl fantasy league."

Ditto.

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About the room assignments: They definitely try to stick you with a team member first. I think that if there is an odd number of boys or girls from your team, the oldest one has to room with someone else. I am fairly sure that they try to room by state/region. Our floor was almost exclusively Illino...

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Thank you, sabine01.

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Edit: to reflect wording SIVster wanted ~ TS

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At Auburn, I don't think we ever really have enough people to warrant a try-out, and we have the magnet gifted program for Rockford. I find that highly ironic.

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This reminds me of a tournament this year (I'm not sure if I should give the name or not) where the TD specifically asked teams to hold back and at least give the other team a chance to buzz first if a blowout was under way. That totally screwed our team up. It was a lot harder than you would think ...

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I don't think that would be a bad idea at all, considering the earliest part of the season is about three months away or so.

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Was every single one of the recommendations approved?

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I am going to be attending the SEMO camp this year, and I was wondering about my major. I've just finished my freshman year in high school, and the highest math classes I've already taken are Algebra II and Geometry. This fall, I will be taking Trigonometry first semester and Analytical Geometry sec...

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I have noticed it makes more sense to be more aggressive against a better team. I know this all too well from personal experience. We played Sterling in the first round of the Masonic State Finals, and I don't think even they thought they had a real chance of winning. But lo! and behold, they playe...

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You know, I was considering those very questions myself. Probably, I'll just write them. As far as a focus, I'm thinking a combination between my worst areas, the areas that our team needs as a whole, and some stuff off of whatever list or resource I'm currently flipping through. Carlo, you may be a...

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Thank you, Dr. Chuck. Certainly a lot of food for thought. As far as Wikipedia goes, I think its excellent for gathering topics of interest and getting some relatively deep information on them. The best part of it is the hyperlinking within documents. I can go for hours on Wikipedia just jumping fro...

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...the ultimate goal of writing questions is to attain a sense of where a question should go. 1. Wouldn't this mainly entail examining questions written by others, preferably the source you will play with most of the time? 2. And thank you, by the way, for the speedy response. 3. Since I play in Il...

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I figured that this summer would be a great time to start writing questions to improve my own knowledge. Pretty much everyone I've talked to has agreed that that is one of the best ways to become a better player. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to begin. Can anyone give me some tips or techniques?

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Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

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This sounds like great stuff.

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I like this idea. It might actually bring a kind of horse-racing flair into things. You know, the whole Triple Crown thing. Heck, if NAQT State works out well, then we could have a Quadruple Crown! However, the biggest problem with those ideas is probably funding. Of course, I'm just a freshman, so ...

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The world needs more people like thepowerofche.

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So do you guys think that the blind drawing is more fair than some sort of seeding? I'm not sure myself, I just want to see the arguments for both sides. And potato0328, thank you very much for your kind comments. P.S.:If anyone might have thought that I was trying to take away from Fremd and their ...

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I felt that against Fremd, we just did not get into much of a rhythm. I think that if we played them in the second or third pool round, the match would have at least been competitive the entire way through, instead of just 3/4 of it. Then again, the "shoulda, coulda, wouldas" don't really ...

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That 9th article of the Constitution thing actually happened the exact same way to a team we were playing at either regionals or sectionals this year; you probably know which, Trevkeeper, considering it had to be the same question. Needless to say, when the poor guy on the other team said it, I near...

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Congratulations to everyone, especially Fremd and Latin. Also, thank you to everyone who spent so much time making all of this work. We, as students, truly owe all of you so much. Again, thank you.

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Thank you for clearing that up.

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Mr. Reinstein, are those pool assignments official?

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Ha, Hunter, you might enjoy this article.

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As for loud people, yeah, they can be really annoying. I remember a competition where there was a team that talked constantly during the toss-ups and it was really unnerving for me. Hunter, I was referring to loud machines, not people. Haven't you ever seen one of those thin-ish, window-height deal...

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Masonic was an interesting experience.

Was anyone else rather bothered by the loud blowers in some of the rooms?

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I think I speak for the rest of Auburn when I say we're looking for another great game with Bloomington.

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I actually noticed a huge, huge load of science questions. Not too much social studies....The upper level math was mostly calculating limits, and I didn't see that much lit.

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I see. Thank you, Mr. Egan. Now that you mention it, the name does sound a little familiar...

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Thanks, Trevkeeper. We're definitely going to Masonic. I don't even know what Culver's tourney is.

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Does anyone know of any particular resource(s) that are very good for studying about the presidents, especially for Scholastic Bowl?

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Why are those three people not eligible for All-State?

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WN most definitely did not rout us. Though it seemed like they did for a while, we made a very impressive comeback effort that simply fell short.

Edit: Major kudos to Carlo. He kicked butt all day at tryouts.

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Amen.

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And on a completely different note, what are the available subjects for the Team Illinois tryouts?

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In all fairness, (and as Auburn's captain, I think I have the right to say this), Wheaton North beat us. End of story. Do I really think the score was nearly indicative of the team's talents? No. However, I would rather lose by 300 points than be a sore loser. I'm just looking forward to when we get...

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Speaking of Superbowl Sunday, what time will the tryouts be over?

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Point taken. It would indeed be unwieldy to make a new thread about every single little desultory topic. My bad.

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Class A teams only hurt themselves when they going to a match against a Class AA team thinking about the unfair advantage of the other time. In my experience, at times when I let myself think too much about any deficit against any team, my reflexes are always slower, which only benefits the other te...

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