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Today.

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Oh, sorry. That was a type. I meant December 26.

EDIT: Er... let's still have it at December 24th at 4:00CST.

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Well, it's only two weeks, and the last time I did this was 5 days ago which I think is reasonable. Right now, I'm trying to finish up my college applications while balancing it out with time with the family which I think is a reasonable excuse given that it's Christmas and most of my applications a...

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Yeah, I've been doing college apps and stuff with the famiglia lately so let's shoot for say... 4:00CST on January 26th?

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A good thing about starting a completely new quizbowl circuit in an area is that you can start off with the best questions. You avoid having to try to convince coaches to go to your non-QG tournament and avoid having to compete with QG in that area. I think the best way to promote quizbowl within an...

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Hey, new idea: We have pre-made teams scrimmage each other and we do it like a normal game. For instance, Tanay, Ankit, Nikhil, and Phil want to play a game as a team against a team composed of William, Joe, Ryan, and Tristan. I can read for them, and they can scrimmage as if it were a real match. N...

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the Confucian concept usually transliterated as "ren" in Pinyin is also written as "jen" in W-G (a fine example of why W-G sucks, because it's pronounced "ren" in both cases) Well, the Chinese r kind of sounds like a j, so that isn't even one of W-G's most egregious fa...

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I will be doing this at 4:00CST on Saturday tentatively. Feel free to set up your own little matches independent of me though. I know there's been some demand.

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The problem of single elimination is that one of the two songs I would have voted for for one and two had to go. Tournament should have split into 8 round robins of 8 and then re-seeded after the prelims into a superplayoff. There could have been issues with seeding though. Best choice would have o...

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I started off with EFT. Jon used Cardinal Classic. I'm not sure what happened in between.

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Come one, come all?

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Here you are: http://me.tokbox.com/conf/bmu5qv2ij2k5iqwg. I'll start at 8:00CST plus/minus facebook.

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Computer and internet as far as I know.

Also, I'll be reading (oh God) at 8:00 CST for those interested in trying this out.

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I suppose this would work for skype too. We all stopped our webcams as to not be distracting so yeah the video advantage wasn't used.

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You, sir, are a quizbowl saint.

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So yesterday on a whim, I decided to try a new idea for quizbowl scrimmages. I got some people (I think it was Dallin, Nikhil, Tanay, Douglas, and Benji), and I used tokbox (an online video conference client) and my handy headset to read questions to them. Everyone except me muted themselves to elim...

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I think bouncebacks are good for normal tournaments provided you have skilled enough moderators. I like them because they to reward the more knowledgeable team. However, this does eliminate a lot of the gamesmanship quizbowl sometimes needs (like that killer instinct to buzz on a tossup when you kno...

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I have a running calendar of events happening in the Southeast which might be of some use.

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What set would our friends in Alabama like to hear provided we hosted another tournament in Pensacola? I'm presuming you don't want another NAQT set (seeing as you have so many being read in your state already) so Pensacola was thinking of using Prison Bowl or an HSAPQ set. Originally, we were plann...

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It'll probably be the closest a national tournament will ever be to our fair state). PACE NSC 2005 was IN your "fair" state! Oh, how could I forget. Well, it hasn't been around here for a while. (Also, Orlando is much further away from some of us than Atlanta). Orlando is far away for a l...

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:
Arsonists Get All the Girls wrote: It'll probably be the closest a national tournament will ever be to our fair state).
PACE NSC 2005 was IN your "fair" state!

Oh, how could I forget. Well, it hasn't been around here for a while. (Also, Orlando is much further away from some of us than Atlanta).

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Just making sure, but this will have 10 packets plus 2 finals packets (with the last finals packets being a little harder than the rest), correct?

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This applies mainly to Florida and Alabama people, but... Pensacola is thinking of running a tournament in the fall, and we were wondering which set you would like to see used. We're thinking of mirroring GSAC or Prison Bowl, but we're also willing to just do a normal IS-A, IS, or HSAPQ set. Thoughts?

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We should probably start the mid-season poll after this week since it seems there won't be many big tournaments on the 18th and definitely none on the 25th.

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The tournament at UF was really fun. Maclay, Rickards, and Ransom Everglades were all really good teams. For the varsity division, the final match was between Pensacola A and Ransom Everglades A with Ransom Everglades coming out on top after a very fun match. The semifinalists were Maclay A and Rick...

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The way A-sets are written, the only way I could see it taking more than 25 minutes to run a round is if the moderators hold conversations between questions. Obviously that is a risk, but if you tell your moderators to not do it, and then tell them to cut it out if they are doing it, that should ke...

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Next time you host a tournament, you should probably try to cap the teams at a number of teams which produces an optimal tournament. All the solutions here aren't going to be the best because you're limited by packets. Figure out how many teams your packets can support and keep to that cap. That bei...

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Brock

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Are there any easy tournaments that can be mirrored in the spring? I'm thinking of just hosting on an A-set, but I wanted to know if there were any other possibilities. Most of our field probably wouldn't fare too well on any questions harder than an A-set looking back on our tournament from fall (s...

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I think you should for the top 3 teams. It's a nice gesture.

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I've actually given up on math comp. Ho hum.

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What a ringing endorsement. O Charles, there was a time when the Illinoisans were famous among the other Americans only for their deep dish pizza and their political scandals; but now, if I am not mistaken, they are equally famous for their wisdom, especially at Chicago, which is the native city of...

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I actually quite enjoy the influx of IMSA students. They bring some fresh new opinions, and now I don't have to be the only one fighting the battle for math.

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Thanks guys, I've updated the calendar with more NAQT events except for the tentative ones and the state championship ones.

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List of wrestling-based comic books wrote:Here is a calendar with mostly Georgia events, including elementary and middle school ones.

Thanks!

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I think it would be beneficial to have one of these here so we can keep track of what tournaments are in the area so we can find tournaments to attend. January 1 : January 8 : 21st Annual Hornet Invitational (IS-100), Savannah Country Day School, Savannah, Georgia January 15 : Classic City Classic (...

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Matt Weiner wrote:We would like to collect all bids by October 31 and make an announcement shortly afterwards.

Not to sound too impatient, but has this happened yet?

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So Pensacola is thinking of hosting another tournament in February, and we were wondering if any of our friends from Alabama would likely come.

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Time Transfixed is what, Magritte's fourth most famous work? WRONG. What are you, Andy Watkins learning chemistry differently? Try "first " or "second" most famous works and we'd be talking. Just from talking to various people (not necessarily quizbowlers) and reading articles a...

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I think these are awesome. I approve.

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Dominator wrote:
Arsonists Get All the Girls wrote:Hey Coach Reinstein, I may have recruited one of my parent's friends's daughter to quizbowl for you. She'll be class of 2017. Watch out.
Is she interested in math and science? ;)

Haha, she is. I don't know if she'll apply to IMSA though.

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Hey Coach Reinstein, I may have recruited one of my parent's friends's daughter to quizbowl for you. She'll be class of 2017. Watch out.

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Field (16+) Chatham Glenwood (IL) Ransom Everglades (FL) (2) Parkway Central (2) Parkway West (2) Springfield High School (IL) Lafayette (1+) DeSmet (2) Rock Bridge (2) Francis Howell Central (2) Northmont (OH) Savannah Interested Jefferson City HS Clayton Eureka Villa Duchesne Oakville Wow, that's...

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Oh my, Dan-Don has a good point. I think you are overlooking social science a lot. It would probably be best to shift one math down for one social science up. Also, you should totally eliminate trash and never use it again. The social science needs some more brawn.

EDIT: if possible, that is.

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I think that science may be overrepresented in this distribution some, but I think that the sciences overall are a little underrepresented in quizbowl. In my opinion, a lot of the other parts of the distribution tend to be more closely related. I'd say that most of the social science distribution is...

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SirT wrote:Are you people seriously suggesting that Mathematics is not science? Did you hit your head falling down that rabbit hole?

The point.

Your head.

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3/3 math is a bit excessive in my opinion, but people are right in that math isn't very connected to other fields in science like biology and chemistry (at least at the high school level). In fact, I believe the sciences are more distinct from each other at the high school level than other subjects ...

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There's way more overlap between math and all areas of science that you realize, first of all. Even fields of mathematics that you wouldn't ordinary think had some kind of application (like group theory or topology) are regularly used in physics, chemistry, and even biology. The things studied in m...

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Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote:What are people's opinions on asking grammar questions at the high school level?

Hard if not impossible to write both meaningfully and pyrimidally.

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Zero to literary criticism. Say what you want about the importance of certain papers dealing with literary criticism, but there's no reason it should be tossed up on the high school level. For one, not that many schools require people to read literary criticism even at the AP/IB level (and even if s...

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