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- Mon May 14, 2012 2:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
No, no one stuck around except for Oakland Mills, so we canned it. If Maryland wants to get a NASAT Team together, they should figure out who can go and do it soon.
- Thu May 10, 2012 12:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC-area tournament size and split field discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12442
Re: DC-area tournament size and split field discussion
Man, I don't remember making that post at all. It's a pretty good post. I still agree with most of it. Last weekend, Maryland Spring pulled in a disappointing 18 teams [17, if you count one of them as a scab team]. What went wrong? Well, it wasn't an ideal weekend. AP exams are coming up and the sem...
- Sun May 06, 2012 4:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
GDS won two games over "Ontological Academy" in an advantaged final to take the tournament. Prelim stats are here . Combined stats are here . Thanks to everyone who came. Much thanks are to SteveJon Guth, Brian McPeak, Gary Weiser, Paul Marchsteiner, Chris Manners, Dan Puma, Jeff Amoros, C...
- Fri May 04, 2012 12:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Article in Slate about ACF Nationals
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12144
Re: Article in Slate about ACF Nationals
Even worse than those "ACF is impossible" posts is seeing my father "like" them for some reason.
- Thu May 03, 2012 7:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
This tournament nears, and we now have 17 teams! Another team should sign up.
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 9:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2011-2012 Season
- Replies: 63
- Views: 33141
Re: Player Poll 2011-2012 Season
I realize I did this to myself by being modest by ranking him higher than me on my own ballot, but the number of people ranking Rafael higher than me (by a lot) is starting to grate on me. Open ballot: 1. Rafael Krichevsky 2. Matt Bollinger 3. Eric Mukherjee 4. Chris Ray 5. Matt Jackson 6. John Law...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
This field is getting larger, but there's plenty of room left. Sign up!
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
It's not too late! Please email me at [email protected].
- Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
If you guys want me to, I'll stick around after the tournament and read for some sort of tryout. But I don't really want to be the arbiter of who makes the team.Lord Hatefun Complainington wrote:Soooo, is this gonna host NASAT tryouts?????
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
We can probably work something out on a case-by-case basis; in your instance, you'd probably also get a distance discount.I Min Alsklings Tradgard wrote:Ok, understood. Would students wishing to play solo receive a discount on the entry fee?
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
Look, I'm sorry, but this is not an open tournament. If you want to play the tournament alone, please do, but I'm going to say no on combined teams. Playing tournaments alone is a lot of fun, anyway.
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
Unfortunately I'm having trouble mustering enough manpower to be able to go because of AP exams, and because many of our good underclassmen are busy. I wish I could just sign onto someone else's team, I REALLY don't want to miss this one... You could always continue the proud Isaac Hirsch tradition...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
Here's the distro--
Literature 4/4
History 4/4
Science 4/4
Fine Arts 2/3 or 3/2
RMP 3/2 or 2/3
Trash 1/1
Social Science 1/1
Current Events 1/0 or 0/1
Geography 1/0 or 0/1
Literature 4/4
History 4/4
Science 4/4
Fine Arts 2/3 or 3/2
RMP 3/2 or 2/3
Trash 1/1
Social Science 1/1
Current Events 1/0 or 0/1
Geography 1/0 or 0/1
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 12:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Painfully Easy Giveaways
- Replies: 30
- Views: 11230
Re: Painfully Easy Giveaways
But this discussion isn't about me, or how hard I think things are; it's about accessibility for newbie teams. Again, freshmen in my school with no prior experience can get science tossups. They can't get literature, and for them fine arts has a conversion rate of about 0%. I'm only bringing up how...
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 4:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Painfully Easy Giveaways
- Replies: 30
- Views: 11230
Re: Painfully Easy Giveaways
"Painfully" easy giveaways may not be painfully easy for everyone; the point of a giveaway is to make sure that most teams can convert the tossup, as dead tossups kinda suck. So there's nothing wrong with giveaways like this.
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
With less than a month to go, we have our first registration from Quince Orchard!
- Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals prediction thread
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11567
Re: ACF Nationals prediction thread
Here is my ranking of how teams will do, based entirely off of how much I have seen them play: 1. Maryland 2. VCU 3. UVA 4. Penn 5. GMU 6. UVA B 7. Yale A 8. South Carolina 9. Harvard 10. Columbia 11. Haverford 12. Ohio State 13. Minnesota 14. Rutgers 15. WUSTL 16. Chicago B 17. Chicago A 18. Chicag...
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:02 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How do you keep newer players involved?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18876
Re: How do you keep newer players involved?
Fortitudo Bologna wrote:counterpoint: I do not understand how to correctly make a post
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Maryland NASAT team
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4870
Re: 2012 Maryland NASAT team
That'd be fine with me, especially because it means interested people would register for Maryland Spring!
- Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Maryland NASAT team
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4870
Re: 2012 Maryland NASAT team
Sure. What times do people want us to hold them?
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Prediction Thread
- Replies: 111
- Views: 50114
Re: ICT Prediction Thread
Yes, but it's a good thing Lehigh and Maryland B are attending.
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 3:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Prediction Thread
- Replies: 111
- Views: 50114
Re: ICT Prediction Thread
Here's my rankings: 1. UVA A Recovers well after a rocky start where they neg the first 10 tossups against Texas A&M. After Matt negs the 11th question telling everyone to stop negging, they come back and win the game and do not neg for the rest of the tournament. 2. UMD A Chris Ray uses the con...
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Maryland NASAT team
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4870
Re: 2012 Maryland NASAT team
We'd [by we I mean me, I guess, I don't want to speak for the team] would be okay with helping run team tryouts, assuming our campus is accessible enough for try-outers.
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 5:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
This tournament is now on Sunday, the 6th. Now let's get some registrations!
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/5/2012
Right, that's why we'd consider moving it to that Sunday. Would RM be able to play the day after?sir negsalot wrote:RM is in the It's Ac semifinals
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 12:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/5/2012
Question: Would people prefer we move this to Sunday, the 6th? We'd dodge It's Ac that way. No one's registered yet, so I'm not sure who'd be inconvenienced.
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Peaceful Resolution at George Mason University (3/3/2012)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10751
Re: Peaceful Resolution at George Mason University (3/3/2012)
I like exciting things!
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18413
Re: Beyond the canon...
Yeah, and those sets are all of equal quality and difficulty.TheBulgarSlayer wrote:Matt Weiner wrote:There are already more sets being produced than weekends to run them on
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18413
Re: Beyond the canon...
Man, it's a good thing we have infinite resources like question writers and time to make these sets! Also, it sure is great that everybody is equally good at writing accessible, pyramidal questions!
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18413
Re: Beyond the canon...
I actually only know more about the author Ring Lardner than any other author. Granted, this is a pretty small sample size, but I hope to see at least 1/1 Lardner in tournaments from here on out.
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/5/2012
Folks, this tournament is still happening. Better to register early and often, although I guess teams who are waiting to see if they're in the It's Academic semifinals will hold off on registering. But if that doesn't apply to you, register!
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 49441
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
I know plenty of people don't have the expectation of non-repeats; while there was a little grousing when "Egypt" showed up as an answerline three times, no one really was all that bothered by it, and one of my teammates negged a question with something that had already come up as a tossup...
- Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin Invitation Tournament (12/3/11) at Maryland
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11174
Re: Terrapin Invitation Tournament (12/3/11) at Maryland
Yeah, this is still happening, I think, but not on May 5.
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl sports analogies
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11594
Re: Quizbowl sports analogies
I thought about making some hilariously self-indulgent post about how my teammates and I are all famous NBA players whose skills far outclass our own, but then I realized I'm not 11.
EDIT: JUST KIDDING I AM PRO-FLAMEOUT JOE FORTE!
EDIT: JUST KIDDING I AM PRO-FLAMEOUT JOE FORTE!
- Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT: Difficulty
- Replies: 146
- Views: 34387
Re: Difficulty
Ad Hominem Posts drive like this, but posts without personal attacks drive like THIS!Fred wrote:Stop with the whole "AN AD HOMINEM POST GOES LIKE THIS HURR DURR HURR DURR", "NO IT GOES LIKE THIS HURF DURF HURF DURF" thing.
- Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT: Difficulty
- Replies: 146
- Views: 34387
Re: Difficulty
I'm not sure where the idea that DI SCT is TOO HARD is coming from. I played DII SCT [and ICT] last year, had fun, enjoyed myself, put up good but by no means earth-shattering numbers, and played DI this year and did the exact same thing. My team went 0-10. 0-10! I still enjoyed myself, did not find...
- Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Forum Rules and Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4491
Re: Forum Rules and Tournament Discussion
Look, I think the point here is that the rules really aren't supposed to be constantly questioned. I don't agree with all of them either, but there was a thread where we were supposedly to discuss the rules and administration, and this isn't that thread. This isn't our forums; we deal with the rules...
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl Trash IV (Jan. 29th)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10976
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl Trash IV (Jan. 29th)
If the Twitter feed did not appropriately express my feelings on this tournament, it was not good. It was very bad. It made Penn Bowl proper seem fine.
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl (Jan 28th, 2012)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 27841
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl (Jan 28th, 2012)
Not to pile on or anything, but there were some significant problems with this tournament, some of which are a little different from the perspective of a less-than-elite team. I'll probably edit them in once I get some fucking sleep.
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 6:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BARGE General Discussion
- Replies: 72
- Views: 25579
Re: BARGE General Discussion
I'm glad to see Maryland B continues to be used as a measuring stick for tournament difficulty. We'll continue to do our best to be the exact middle between good and bad.
- Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SWAGFEST at Richard Montgomery 2/25/12
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18851
Re: SWAGFEST at Richard Montgomery 2/25/12
I really hope that this isn't the announcement that you sent out in emails to local clubs, because many coaches, especially ones that are less familiar with pyramidal QB or tournaments such as these, are going to have a very hard time taking you seriously when they read this. I'd suggest changing t...
- Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/5/2012
This tournament has now been platinum certified by PACE.
- Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Power marking
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4397
Re: Power marking
In 95% of cases, and in 99.9% of cases in high school quizbowl, a question with a power in the last line would be too hard. I'm not arguing against that at all, I'm just saying that even if one wanted to write a tossup about a subject that was too hard, they should move clues before the FTP so that...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/5/2012
This tournament has been moved to 5/5. Sorry, St. Anselm's! [Also Thursdays.]
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 2:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/MD/VA/DE Date Claim '11-'12
- Replies: 96
- Views: 40874
Re: DC/MD/VA/DE Date Claim '11-'12
Whoops, apparently that's been claimed. We're moving this to May 5th. Yes, we're aware this is before AP Tests. We're sorry.
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 27423
Maryland Spring Tournament, 5/6/2012
This is an announcement for The University of Maryland's Spring Classic High School Tournament 2012 at the University of Maryland, College Park. We are holding it on Sunday, May 6th, 2012. The tournament will be housewritten, with 20/20 rounds and a modified ACF distribution to be posted soon [one c...
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 1:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/MD/VA/DE Date Claim '11-'12
- Replies: 96
- Views: 40874
Re: DC/MD/VA/DE Date Claim '11-'12
Maryland would like to claim April 14 for its Spring Housewrite.
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2011 Discussion
- Replies: 105
- Views: 21724
Re: ACF Fall 2011 Discussion
Also, what was up with the enthalpy tossup having a bunch of clues that mostly specifically referred to lattice energy? If I recall correctly, there was no alternate answer or prompts in the answer line. Were there any sites that had problems with this? If I remember correctly, a player on Dorman n...
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2011 Discussion
- Replies: 105
- Views: 21724
Re: ACF Fall 2011 Discussion
I mostly enjoyed this tournament. However, the tiebreaking packet not being evenly distributed is a pretty not good thing. Playing a team that is superior on science on a half packet tiebreaker with 3 science tossups out of ten puts a team at a serious disadvantage. There were also some repeats in s...
- Sun Nov 06, 2011 2:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall and numbers of packets
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10892
Re: ACF Fall and numbers of packets
I mean, this tournament seemed pretty determined to make me dislike it, but I'll admit it wasn't bad at all. It was still fairly enjoyable [except for a few things that I will address when a forum gets set up] and, yeah, there was some issues, but acting like "HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME WRITE A PACKE...