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Strange, I swear I saw Auburn's name on that list. Odd.

Anyways, good luck to everyone who is going to Masonic Regionals tomorrow.

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I doubt you take AP US History as a freshman, but that's a good source for one (the back of my book lists their entire cabinets and such).

Also, is Auburn attending Masonic? I saw you were signed up for Culver's tournament, which is the same day as Masonic State.

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I concur! Homewood-Flossmoor is good.

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Is anyone brave enough to venture to the realm of Sectional Prognostication? I'm certainly not, but I bet somone is!

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I remember last year at Nationals in the last 2 or 3 rounds we had to wait like 20 minutes between each match for the schedules to be posted.

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Why, thank you Coach Esgar. In non-state series news, did anyone watch the Teen Tournament this week? Kenny Schlax of Deerfield was on (Thursday, I think), and did quite well. He was actually leading going into the final round. It's nice to see Illinois represented so well. I wonder if anyone will t...

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I do find it kind of interesting that we've never played Loyola in Illinois format. There was a near miss at Richards, where if we had won at the semis we would have played them for the championship. I'm not sure if there were any other "close calls".

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Only the top half of the All Sectional players are eligible for All State voting per the rules, Siva.

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According to my source, here are the seeds and All-Sectional players for the Maine South subsectional: 1. Maine East 2. New Trier 3. Loyola 4. Deerfield 5. Lake Forest 6. Maine South 7. Notre Dame 8. Von Steuben *Matt McKenna, Loyola *Erin Li, Maine East *Greg Peterson, Maine South Alex Zhukhovitski...

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Congratulations to everyone who made Team Illinois!

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Good luck to all those trying out for Team Illinois tomorrow!

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That's one of the toughest fields I've seen all year. DCC and any one other team would make a pretty impressive field. Seriously: The Ultima and Fenwick bloodbath are two of the most granite looking fields in our state this year....though this one is pretty darn good. I guess I discount Ultima from...

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That's one of the toughest fields I've seen all year.

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When you say open to students as well, what do you mean? Like, do they help make decisions and the like? If so, that's pretty nifty.

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Dr. Chuck, how does North Carolina get around the problems Mr. Egan mentioned? I'm just curious.

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1. Playing players who are nominally varsity players at the frosh-soph level. A number of coaches claim this to be questionably ethical doing. For the record: I read for the entire playoffs at Wheaton North. Had anyone of New Trier's kids ever seen Casablanca, Wheaton North would not have seen the ...

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If it's possible for any Illinois teams to find the resources, I think they should go to WUHSAC. It was great, one of the best I've been at all year. Lots of a great competition, and great questions.

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Dunbar cannot be stopped. Except by Dunbar. Unfortunately, the playoff scoresheets got thrown away, so the scores are from memory. If anyone can send me their playoff scores at pinyan at gmail dot com, I can incorporate them in the website when it goes up in a few days. Your score for the Madisonvi...

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Stats can be represented accordingly for the anal-retentive statisticians, perhaps with an X for cause 1, checkmark for cause 2, and dash for cause three. Actually, I use the "X", red "X", scrathed through the paper "X", and for a player who rings in on a rebound befor...

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10 5 point tossups. Usually relatively short, easy tossups. 10 tossups with 20 point bonuses, bounceback. 20 item, 100 point worksheet. 2 minutes. 10 15 point semi-pyramidal tossups. Is the worksheet all related questions (like, All starting with the letter "A" or all Literature questions...

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Just curious, does Virginia have the same format as Illinois, or is more of an NAQT style?

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I've recently become rather intereseted in the formats in other states. I've heard a lot of comments about ASCA (of all of them, that and OAC interest me the most), so can any one tell me how it works? Like, what each match consists of in the ASCA format. Thanks!

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The only nit picky thing I remember about it was there were two tossups on Canterbury Tales. I thought there only should have been one, at most, since it was the same tournament. But again, that's probably really nit picky.

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Tegan wrote:Does anyone know who all will be at Bloodbath III at Fenwick? What is the date? I seem to recall that Wheaton North will be there (or at least was strongly planning to be there). I know Loyola will not be there.

I think it's February 11th.

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One thing I don't understand is when people count guesses after the question as "misses". It's considered good strategy for someone to throw out a guess way after the question is over, because there is no penalty (at least at everything played in Illinois excluding Ultima). So, why then &q...

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Someone else will have a more complete list but, From Fremd Varsity 1. Wheaton North A 2. Fremd A 3. Loyola 4. St. Ignatius Although not a slight to anyone, the Current events questions proved to be the hardest questions in my observation/experience as of last year's questions (snowed out tournamen...

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From Fremd yesterday:

"Australia's Kangaroo, Canada's Maple, the United States' Eagle *BUZZ*

Me: National Animals!
Right Answer: Gold

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Maybe it doesn't affect me as much, since last year we hosted our regional and the drive to the Sectional wasn't too bad, but so far it seems as if the sub-sectional has made things worse. I mean, technically we'd have to play the top teams in the sectional at some point to make it state, of course,...

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I swear, our sub-sectional alone might be tougher than any other whole sectional.

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Why oh why? Our sectional was hard enough without Fenwick in it.

Also, where is Maine East? One would assume they'd be in the Maine South sectional, but they aren't there, nor anywhere else.

So, what's the "bloodbath" sectional this year?

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At a tournament last weekend, the team we played in the quarterfinals was all female. Well, there was one guy, but he didn't start, and he wasn't there the other time we played the team.

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From Wheaton North:

My answer: World War I
Correct answer: Brett Ashley

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From Wheaton North:

This should go under the "Improbable/stupid but correct buzzes" category.

This Italian *buzz*

Cabot.

The category had been announced as Explorers, by the way.

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Results from Wheaton North: 1. Fenwick A 2. Wheaton North A 3. New Trier 4. Maine South A The questions got a lot harder after the quarterfinals. We scored about 270 in the quarterfinals, and in the next two we scored 62 and 97 (including a win with the 97 score). We had an awesome, tight match with...

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Really, I was just trying to jumpstart a little conversation. Us Illinoisans wouldn't be notorious without it!

So, uh...are the sectionals being adjusted at all this year (are they ever?)?

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In attempt to jumpstart a little conversation... What is the speculation for Team Illinois? I'll throw a couple names out there that will try out/make it: Kerr, Powers, Fischer, Beata... Other names I can think of include Dylan Troxel, Gauthier, Justin Stoncius, McKenna/Kragh, perhaps someone from B...

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That's Wash U's NAQT tournament, right?

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So, at essentially the halfway point of the season, what does everyone think the top 5 or 10 are? In alphabetical order, these are my top 6: Bloomington Loyola Maine East Palatine Fremd Rockford Auburn Wheaton North I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. I didn't want to rank them; there are too many good...

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Results: 1. Bloomington 2. Rockford Auburn 3. Wheaton North A 4. Loyola Individuals: 1. Brad, Winnebago 2. Greg, Wheaton North 3. Justin, Carbondale 4. Matt, Loyola 5. Kristina, Bloomington 5. Brooks, Fenwick Thank you to all the teams who participated, and to all the moderators (especially Mike Sor...

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Results: 1. Bloomington 2. Rockford Auburn 3. Wheaton North A 4. Loyola Individuals: 1. Brad, Winnebago 2. Greg, Wheaton North 3. Justin, Carbondale 4. Matt, Loyola 5. Tyler, Rockford Auburn 6. Kristina, Bloomington 6. Brooks, Fenwick Thanks to everyone who came out to play, and all the moderators a...

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A lot of tournaments around here have coaches read, but I've always liked it when Mr. Egan reads for us.

Also, all the guys (espcially Sudheer and Sorice) at UIUC are really good.

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We played a very close match against a very good Deerfield team today. Going into the last tossup we were down 345-338, and then got the tossup and swept the bonus. Deerfield is a very good team, with a class act too. It's more fun to play against teams like that. The moral of the story: Deerfield i...

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Registration is closed. Final field:

Auburn (1)
Bloomington (1)
Carbondale (1)
Cary-Grove (1)
Evanston (1)
Fenwick (3)
IMSA (1)
Leyden (1)
Loyola (1)
Marian Central Catholic (2)
McHenry(1)
Palatine (1)
Waukegan (2)
Wheaton North (2)
Winnebago (1)

See you on saturday!

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Yes, threads go to the archive when no one posts there.

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David Riley wrote:Hmmm..for a moment there, I wondered if that were really Mr. Reinstein's post.

I'm wondering the exact same thing.

And for the record, it's not me, Matt. I have a class at 7:41 am.

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Nevermind.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Illinois programming.

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See here:

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1990

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So, to kickstart a little discussion here: Who would you all put as your top 5 or 10 players in the state this year? Not in any real order...Tyler, Brad, Colleen, Kristina W. (Bloomington), Justin S. (Carbondale), Greg G. (Wheaton North), Alex B. (Fremd). I'm sure I'm missing some people, especially...

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From Richards:

"This minister's daughter--"
Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Founded by a Swiss man after an 1859 battle--"
Red Cross

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Results from Richards Varsity: (A Teams) 1 - Fremd 2 - Loyola 3 - Fenwick 4 - New Trier Fun tournament. The all tossup round was very fun. I liked it a lot. In the semifinals, were beating Fremd 201-179 with one tossup left. And they swept it entirely. The odd thing was, I hadn't been looking at th...

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