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by nadph
Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10
Replies: 25
Views: 6556

Re: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10

A team or two from Bellarmine might be able to attend this. Very uncertain, though.
by nadph
Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:32 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northern California Date Claim 2010-2011
Replies: 17
Views: 3478

Re: Northern California Date Claim 2010-2011

We have been informed that Cardinal Junior Classic is being hosted this Sunday, the 7th.

EDIT: make this clearer
by nadph
Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:00 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: On-going season rankings
Replies: 391
Views: 124607

Re: On-going season rankings

Quad States (HSAPQ 15) – 1. Seven Lakes A (#8), 1. Cistercian A (#24), 3. St. Mark’s A (#32), 4. Seven Lakes B, 5. Cistercian B (#48) I’m not certain if Seven Lakes A was missing any players or not. Unless I'm misremembering, I believe that Seven Lakes A is missing Jonathan Xu, who put up ~55 ppg a...
by nadph
Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:08 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Texas 2010 - 2011
Replies: 125
Views: 44098

Re: Texas 2010 - 2011

With Aaron gone, who exactly is LASA B returning? I was under the impression that some fraction of them were seniors last year. Yet more evidence for Cistercian's potential this year: It was co-champion (with Seven Lakes) of the TQBA Quad States Challenged, played on HSAPQ questions in Plano on Octo...
by nadph
Sat Oct 16, 2010 9:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: On-going season rankings
Replies: 391
Views: 124607

Re: On-going season rankings

Anyone who uses the stats from today's tournament at Berkeley on IS-96 should be aware that Bellarmine was missing Tanay from its A team, and MSJ, due to the PSAT, was missing essentially all of its juniors and sophomores for (I think) rounds 1 through 5 (thus, their A team consisted of Jeffrey, ano...
by nadph
Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:29 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: On-going season rankings
Replies: 391
Views: 124607

Re: On-going season rankings

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the FKT? I just did a global search and looked in the announcements section and couldn't find any tournament or set with a corresponding acronym.
by nadph
Mon Oct 11, 2010 2:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Texas 2010 - 2011
Replies: 125
Views: 44098

Re: Texas 2010 - 2011

On a more serious note, I was looking at :chip: 's website (the things I do in my spare time) and noticed that St. Mark's is hosting a QU tourney, which to me normally indicates the team in question primarily plays on :chip: . Is this the case for St. Mark's (if it is the same St. Mark's)? Announcem...
by nadph
Sat Oct 09, 2010 9:18 pm
Forum: New Collegiate Teams
Topic: New Team at LSU
Replies: 49
Views: 22286

Re: New Team at LSU

nadesai.bcp (at gmail dot com)
by nadph
Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT @ UIUC on 10/02/10
Replies: 91
Views: 27508

Re: EFT at UIUC (10/2/10)

Ben Cole wrote:
dtaylor4 wrote:Post-lunch rounds are starting in 10. Stats are up through 5.
Where?

I think it's this link, which was on the previous page.

EDIT: signature disappeared
by nadph
Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall West: Caltech (11/6/10)
Replies: 35
Views: 10113

Re: ACF Fall West: Caltech (11/6/10)

There is a possibility that Bellarmine may be able to come to this. Extremely tentative, but we'll keep you posted.
by nadph
Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:33 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Ohio '10 - '11
Replies: 62
Views: 13394

Re: Ohio '10 - '11

Not sure if you know this already, but there's usually a bot reading questions on slashnet in #scobowl, although you'd be practicing against pretty much whoever was on at the time (so it's not region-specific). #scrimmage (with human readers, but more subject to the vagaries of schedule) exists as w...
by nadph
Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:57 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: On-going season rankings
Replies: 391
Views: 124607

Re: Preseason (AHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA) Top 25

William from Alpharetta is the top returning individual scorer, Nikhil second and Kevin from Stevenson third. For the sake of transparency, it should be noted that William and Kevin (and Andrew, Benji, KK, and Tommy, who round out what should be the top 6 returning players from NSC) were on competi...
by nadph
Fri Sep 24, 2010 1:07 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Torrey Pines Open Tournament (2/5/2011)
Replies: 26
Views: 14838

Re: Torrey Pines Open Tournament (2/5/2011)

I'm sorry, but accommodating a single player having a conflict is not at all a good reason to ask for an entire tournament to change its date. I think it was implied that "other people want this too" - if NorCal is anything to go by, there is likely significant overlap between Science Oly...
by nadph
Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:28 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Torrey Pines Open Tournament (2/5/2011)
Replies: 26
Views: 14838

Re: Torrey Pines Open Tournament (2/5/2011)

I'm sorry, but accommodating a single player having a conflict is not at all a good reason to ask for an entire tournament to change its date. I think it was implied that "other people want this too" - if NorCal is anything to go by, there is likely significant overlap between Science Oly...
by nadph
Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Northwestern University "Wake Up Call" (10/16/2010)
Replies: 100
Views: 122932

Re: Northwestern University "Wake Up Call" (10/16/2010)

Science and Arts Academy would like to bring a team. (They don't have an official team or coach, which explains me posting this on their behalf.) Freakin' excellent! I'm an SAA alum... For the life of me, I can't think of who SAA is. Or is this one of those stealth (read: no coach) teams? From upth...
by nadph
Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:41 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Quizbowl in Oregon
Replies: 31
Views: 10839

Re: Quizbowl in Oregon

If they only have the budget to make it down to one California tournament, I think their best bet would be this year's WCI, which they could probably fly down to.

(edit: fix link)
by nadph
Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SoCal 2010-2011
Replies: 33
Views: 6371

Re: SoCal 2010-2011

Who's still at La Jolla? I know they lost Ben Gammage (sorry if his name isn't right), who seemed to be their best player, but do they lose anyone else? Random conversations with assorted members of the La Jolla team have given me the impression that they return everyone besides Ben. They had fairl...
by nadph
Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:30 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: WANTED: Trash Consultant for Harvard International
Replies: 18
Views: 2464

Re: WANTED: Trash Consultant for Harvard International

http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/archive/HI2010, append .zip to end for ZIP file.

For future reference, http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/ has nearly all recent college tournaments that are cleared for discussion.
by nadph
Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: West Coast Invitational 2011
Replies: 15
Views: 5544

Re: West Coast Invitational 2011

Will this tournament aim to bring teams mainly from California, or will teams from other states be encouraged to attend too? I know Brophy (from Arizona) was heralded as a rising program, so they might be interested in coming here. Teams from other western states (Frenchtown from Montana comes to mi...
by nadph
Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:22 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NASAT Tryouts California 2011
Replies: 14
Views: 3273

Re: NASAT Tryouts California 2011

Online sounds like a very feasible option. However, with so many people in just one room, it seems inevitable that one may not get to display a full range of their knowledge. This is perhaps unavoidable, but I propose a solution similar to MSJ's tryouts last year. Have several rooms consisting of a...
by nadph
Sun Jul 11, 2010 6:07 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: First-Time Tournament Help
Replies: 109
Views: 20957

Re: First-Time Tournament Help

I will note that at least a few schools in both Vermont and New Hampshire are familiar with the ACF format, since both states sent a team to NASAT. Ok, having read the rules a little more in detail now, I think I understand. Let me throw out an example to make sure I'm fully getting it. We have Team...
by nadph
Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:49 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ANGST (Andy's Non-Guerrilla Summer Tournament)
Replies: 175
Views: 53134

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ANGST (Andy's Non-Guerrilla Summer Tournament)

I guess I'll just post this here: for comments about BELFAST, email me at the address off to the right or Tanay Kothari at hisfirstname dot hislastname at THEEMAILSITEGOOGLERUNS dot com.
by nadph
Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Basque 2010
Replies: 6
Views: 1649

Re: Basque 2010

Can people post in this thread expressing tentative interest? A group of people from Bellarmine would be interested in attending, but we haven't fully worked out details (people going/side tournament choice) yet. When we do (which is hopefully soon), we will send you an email.
by nadph
Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:30 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSNCT conversion stats discussion
Replies: 91
Views: 15691

Re: 2010 HSNCT conversion stats discussion

Jasper Johns What tossup was this? the sewers of Paris This involved Les Miserables , if I recall correctly. I negged it with "Intestine of the Leviathan," which I think was the name of the section in the novel that describes it - should it have been promptable? EDIT: I meant to say this ...
by nadph
Mon Jul 05, 2010 1:35 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSNCT conversion stats discussion
Replies: 91
Views: 15691

Re: 2010 HSNCT conversion stats discussion

Could you post the text of the Robert Lowell tossup? If I recall, it namedropped a fairly famous poem while still in power (it might've been "Skunk Hour"). What were its conversion stats?
by nadph
Sat Jul 03, 2010 9:55 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSNCT conversion stats discussion
Replies: 91
Views: 15691

Re: 2010 HSNCT conversion stats discussion

Isaacbh wrote:What was the tossup on "Saturday night" on? Was it a common link based on pop-culture or what?
I think it was mixed impure; there was a clue about Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, if I recall correctly.
by nadph
Fri Jul 02, 2010 2:56 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
Replies: 287
Views: 133830

Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information

Yeah, Nikhil's split needs to be corrected. I don't know that any changes will be made regarding the All Star game lines; since the players were on All Star teams rather than actual teams, I don't think those will (or should) be folded in with their stats from the rest of the tourney. Yeah, I guess...
by nadph
Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2009-10 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 12952

Re: 2009-10 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion

NoWayItsTanay wrote:I don't remember if this was in an IS-set or HSNCT, but would it be possible to see the conversion stats for The Garden Party?
There was definitely a tossup on it at the HSNCT. There might have been a question on it in an IS set, but that would have been crazy.
by nadph
Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Land of Lincoln Throwdown Announcement
Replies: 123
Views: 24779

Re: Land of Lincoln Throwdown Announcement

The 1st posts still reference BELFAST, which apparently isn't going to be ready, unless I missed something or you know something I don't. Yeah, you did. Tanay picked up a few extra writers. Good to hear. Do you want me to help out with the trash tournament or do you have enough staff already? Well ...
by nadph
Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:54 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Quizbowl for Charity
Replies: 35
Views: 8035

Re: Quizbowl for Charity

On that note, I'm interested in writing for this/Fall Novice if there is a need for more writers.
by nadph
Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:33 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NorCal 09-10
Replies: 11
Views: 2256

Re: NorCal 09-10

So, plans/suggestions for next year? Here are some random ones I had: CJC should move to an IS set. Somebody should host a housewrite (preferably two, or three, or more). More people should go to SoCal for tournaments. SoCal people should come up here for tournaments. People should go to ACF events ...
by nadph
Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:25 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSAPQ NASAT Discussion!
Replies: 57
Views: 27124

Re: 2010 HSAPQ NASAT Discussion!

What happened to Stephen, from California? Stephen dominated tryouts at WCI, but NASAT conflicted with his last week of school ever. He said he didn't want to miss that, so it ended up being Phil, Ankit, Sharad, Ben, and me. As an aside, one of the problems with Team California this year was that p...
by nadph
Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAC LIVEBLOG
Replies: 9
Views: 1813

Re: NAC LIVEBLOG

2. After the qualifying rounds, all teams with records of 6-0, 5-1, and 4-2 will advance and be paired into a single-elimination playoffs by virtue of record and points. Ties for record shall be broken using the total points scored in the qualifying rounds. Ties for total points shall be broken usi...
by nadph
Sat May 01, 2010 10:34 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: High school stuff split from ACF-sponsored novice thread
Replies: 6
Views: 2500

High school stuff split from ACF-sponsored novice thread

Would high schoolers be able to play this set, and if so, what kind of restrictions would be implemented (such as no participation in a previous ACF event, which would bar highly experienced teams such as SC/LASA)?

EDIT: I'm an idiot.
by nadph
Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:21 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Prison Bowl III discussion
Replies: 22
Views: 3934

Re: Prison Bowl III discussion

Is it standard practice to use Leon Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) as a giveaway for Michel Foucault? I haven't seen it done before...
by nadph
Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Access to SCT discussion forum
Replies: 42
Views: 9859

Re: Access to SCT discussion forum

nadph = Nikhil Desai, played the DII set at the West Coast Invitational.
by nadph
Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: West Coast Invitational: March 27-28
Replies: 34
Views: 5942

Re: West Coast Invitational: March 27-28

Are there currently any (protected) discussion forums for these two sets? Could someone post the links here?
NoWayItsTanay wrote:
Swank diet wrote:not-full-strength La Jolla A
This applies to Bellarmine as well.
Note that this means "Bellarmine was missing its highest scorer and captain."