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I guess the best option would be to write the state series. My middle school did not have Scholastic Bowl, but I would imagine that it is similar to the high school scene in the fact that many coaches only care about winning state. Therefore, writing the state series would cause coaches to want to p...

Oh noes! Prospect is canceling their participation in tomorrow's MSL frosh/soph tournament due to a transportation 'scheduling error'! Dave Garb, your school is in their district, are you having the same issues??? This could really mess things up if half the conference is a no-show tomorrow! :aaa: ...

Our conference uses Avery Questions and I cannot tell you how horrible they are. They are not pyramidal in the sense that the first clue is often the easiest clue. All literature seems to be pop lit, meaning you will hear more questions on Harry Potter than you will on the works of Tolstoy or Dicken...

But aren't regionals and sectionals the IHSA, while the student board will be a component of the IHSSBCA? If you bothered to read, you would notice that we are talking about the new IHSA board. This sounds like a good development, though the restrictions of members (geographic, age, white people) s...

Question regarding IHSA rules... When I look over my copy of the IHSA rules, it seems that a player giving the "wait" gesture to teammates is not illegally communicating. That didn't occur to me that it could be used as part of game strategy until one of our games at Loyola Saturday. Duri...

Therefore, when I call a team a "bad team", I am not saying that you are a dumb bunch of people, you are a bad program, and everybody from Richmond is inadequate. What I am saying is that, at this moment, you have not done the work to be considered anything other than a bad team in the co...

Hey, all! A few things to post on here, then I will hang up and listen to your comments ;) 1) First and foremost, as the coach of a team that is just starting to come out of our "conference-only" schedule again and make appearances at tournaments, I would like to restate that Brad, Kristi...

These are going to sound repeteitive after Garb's comments, but I need to make a few notes: 1. This tournament basically confirmed what I already knew. Rockford Auburn and Loyola were vastly superior to us, proving that the big four are not going to be caught by us (or probably anyone else) anytime ...

David McCullough is really good. I'm not just saying that because he graduated from my school. Otherwise, that massive 3 part Shelby Foote Civil War series is pretty good. I can't say I've actually made it through all of the books, but I read about half of the first one, and it was very helpful. Da...

First giving results from our team: We brought four A teamers and our B team captain. Each of our A teamers went 4-3, while our B teamer went 3-4. The frustrating part was that we had three people that were 4-2 going into the last round (David and I included). These three people all lost, but by a c...

Since this thread has developed into the Solo prediction thread, I might as well give mine. My prediction of who will be in the finals is probably guaranteed to be wrong as I have only looked at my schedule. However: Locks: Siva, Michael Jiang, Ben Cohen, Joe Ahmad, Tony Cao Other finalists: Jack Gl...

JackGlerum wrote:

BG MSL Champs wrote:THERE IS NO POINT IN TAKING MONEY TO REWARD THE ELITE. WE MUST HELP THE GOOD DEVELOP TO BECOME ELITE.

OBAMA

No, Obama does not want the good developing to become elite. He wants to change the rules so the good can become elite without working.

I've been thinking about segregation between serious and casual, and all I can think of is - What happens to a kid who plays on a historically casual team who has the interest and abilities to lead a serious team, but is unaware that such opportunities exist? If we allow the serious vs. casual deba...

The statistics from this tournament will make your eyes bleed when they're Highlights from the stats: *The average points per game in the prelims for all teams was under 120. Playoff teams only: 160 points per game. Non playoff teams - 96 points per game. *The top seed by points, Moline, put up 940...

Also, Nick, you like my new avatar? I love it. What's next, Barack in front of the Confederate flag? Going back to quizbowl, Garb is unfortunately correct. Teams in Illinois just do not care about good quizbowl. Right now, an Illinois style tournament will enjoy greater success than a non-Illinois ...

Thoughts on Ultima (with help from Garb, who typed more of this than nick): 1. First, it needs to be said that the tournament was excellently run. The moderators were very knowledgable and the food was excellent. We were honored to be invited and if we are ever invited back again, we will definitely...

At this point, this has the potential to be what saves men's tennis from relative obscurity. You have two great players who can stomp the rest of the field, and now Nadal's proven that he can beat Federer on grass. All we need is a Federer victory over Nadal on clay. I doubt it will touch the level...

5) Whatever happened to the team time trial anyway? I like the lack of a prologue, but no TTT? Bets about how long Evans is going to keep the yellow before Schleck gets him? Unfortunately, Schleck is never going to get the yellow jersey. Cadel Evans is way too fast for this to happen and he is the ...

Get a newspaper guy on your side. Seriously, imagine the story from a pure "newsiness" view point: Students want more academic questions; state organization rejects them. You just have to think of ways to work around the quagmire you're in. As for high expenses, my public, non-rich area h...

Zahed:

You forgot to mention living on a farm for a week to learn "industrial arts".

This is technically not a neg,but it is still bad. This was given by a benchwarmer on my old frosh/soph team.

Correct Answer: Hors d'oeuvres
Given Answer: (Whores-Dee-Oov-rays) Phonetic Pronounciation

This was surprisingly ruled correct

The one thing I took away from ACE (in terms of this thread) was that Carbondale isn't good. They are really, really good. If this is referring to me, this is not what I meant on my post. Carbondale is an elite team and they proved that at ACE. Paul is one of, if not the best, science player in the...

So how did Illinois folks perform at SEMO? Any firsthand accounts? In general, I think that Illinois performed very well. Carbondale showed tremendous depth with Paul winning the Science Tournament and consistently performing well in nightly tournaments. They also had Jerry in the top consistently ...

As one of his Buffalo Grove teammates, I find it hard to believe that there are 20 players in state better than Danny Bulmash. No player made as big of a difference for their team as he did for our team. Without him, we lost to McHenry, Conant, and Elk Grove and our overall record was 4-4 (counting ...

she answered every brit lit question within the first sentence. once after one word... Is this really possible? If this did really occur in a match, could you tell me the word it was? Also, does Illinois announce category before reading the tossup? If so, maybe the answer space was sufficiently lim...

Since the result of the Zion Benton Sectional are not posted on the IHSA website, I will put it here. Stevenson won the sectional with a perfect record of 3-0. The incredible Buffalo Grove Bison finished with a 2-1 record, only losing to Stevenson by 70 (we won toss-ups 11-10). Lake Zurich finished ...

My Picks to win Sectionals:
Stevenson
Loyola
Wheaton North
Auburn
Carbondale
Lincoln-Way East
Hinsdale South
Bloomington

I have a question about a situation that arose earlier this year at the Wheaton North tournament. My team, Buffalo Grove was 3-1 (without our star Danny Bulmash) and needed to beat our bracket's other 3-1 team Conant to advance on to the next round. The game was tight throughout and when regulation ...