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Just wondering... but if the rules under which a high school team played a college team did not conform to the definition of Scholastic Bowl (such as 5-on-5, or question distribution not being 20% math), would that still be an issue? Is the singles Scholastic Bowl event governed as an activity under...

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Reinstein and Egan (the "other" Dave and Tom :wink: ) know better about what causes things to change within IHSA or IHSSBCA (if I got that acronym correct). But one thing is for sure: institutional change does not occur easily if only one person or one stakeholder class calls for change. S...

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How about bicycle races on ice?

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But where does the skeet shooting part come in? :)

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But every single Illinois thread always contains whining about the format, with a split of 60% posts of discussion/30% hating the format/10% Egan being Egan, but a surprisingly small amount of attempts to change this. Egan or Reinstein or Riley make posts about going to the state board and having t...

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Having a PACE-affiliated tournament is not a big problem, but I would see if there is anyone in the "question mirroring" thread regarding a PACE-formatted set that one could sneak in that way. I think we are trying to organize ourselves to see who we could have in charge of various mirrors...

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If you have not filled out the survey, or would like to fill out the survey as a volunteer or participant, please send me an email so I can send you access to the survey. I just want to be sure we have as many people who have filled out the survey as possible.

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ImmaculateDeception wrote:... Soccer?

That's fair, but you're running towards a goalie... presumably... unless it's an empty net situation.

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Just letting everyone one... due to a lot of work that just landed on my desk/laptop and not enough time for me to really devote to getting Bootcamp off the ground this year, I'm cancelling this year's Bootcamp. Hopefully I can devote a bit more time next year to actually plan this event. :) I hope ...

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everyday847 wrote:Announcing the HI side tournament of your dreams: thumb war singles.

Because thumb war doubles would be difficult to pull off???

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After 4 hours of cycling, the only important thing to watch is the last 200 meters in stage 1.

I guess I'm hoping Hincapie is still riding... but who knows. Volker is going to get a lot of attention.

I admit this is the only sport where you run away from everyone to attack them...

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I'm guessing 20 is the standard because that's the standard ACF number of tossups. Does Hentzel and most of the NAQT readers kill every packet of 26/26 at HSNCT? Personally I would like the championship playoffs and meaningful games leading up to championship to have more questions in the packet (30...

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is proud to announce thirteen new members and two interim members. Mike Bentley: University of Maryland graduate Rob Carson: University of Minnesota Dan Goff: J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College (eventually VCU) Kyle Haddad-Fonda: Harvard Univer...

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Charile, Wow... your last post really made me think about a lot of assumptions when it comes to the creation of the IS and IS-A packets compared to the "national set" of questions. I will agree that the set of IS questions should reach out in difficulty (or rather ease here) to a broader s...

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leftsaidfred wrote:
Deesy Does It wrote:Ugh, why does NAQT ask about the puppy bowl?
This question coming to a NAC set near you.

If we posted the text, it will definitely be part of some NAC set, won't it?

To answer Charlie's question: no one can resist the sight of playful puppies. (I suppose.)

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So, a good moderator can be summarized in the following quotes: "Be quick, but don't hurry." - John Wooden "Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Know how quiz bowl works, have some understanding of basic rule...

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Right now we don't have as many people responding to the current survey compared to previous years. I need to send another all-call for respondents, and I may also open up the survey to all participants. The n's are disappointing right now, and we really need the feedback for the purposes of our tou...

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I only have concerns for the national event unless otherwise mentioned. I have no clue how this affects the state championships, but I'll admit economic times are tough.

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Mostly the survey is for internal purposes, but since I have data from the previous two years, I am inclined to making it public for comparison. The survey remains open until mid-July.

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"They were traumatized, but we wanted them to be traumatized," ... "That's how they get the message."

I'm like... there are much, MUCH better ways to deliver the message. Geez... get an encased crushed car like other advocacy groups like MADD do.

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Since I didnt' get a chance on the laxative thread: it's in AHAN... ease up. There was also a recent commercial (I think it was cars.com) that jokingly had the husband of a prospective car buyer having to run to the bathroom because the lady wanted to drug the car salesman with brownies injected wit...

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I am sorry I missed out on this discussion.

The only thing I can add at this point: Maggie had not emailed me when I had offered the opportunity weeks ago. But I believe she was warned regarding her response to Matt's post (that I had issue with).

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I know when I tell people on Saturday that everyone in the quarterfinals gets a plaque, not everyone remembers. Sunday is a crazy day.

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In total we had 6-7 question writers in addition to Jessie, John, and me. Most of the writers tended to do more work on the middle school level rather than the high school level, so there was a lot more discussion on those lines though most of our examples were more appropriate for high school level...

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Deesy Does It wrote:That sounds like a horrible idea.

Well, yes it would be a horrible idea. But I wouldn't be surprised if it has happened before. :)

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Anyone ever tried a post-SAT quiz bowl "party"? Like run a mini-tournament at 5pm for SAT "detox" purposes? Or are brains way too fried for that?

To show my ignorance: when does the SAT generally end on test day by the way?

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Four words " First and last name required ." Uhm... Dr Chuck? That's five words. :grin: D'oh! It's like the hopefully required "spelling category" on Jeopardy! where contestants HAD to ask their question and spell the key word. If they didn't put their response in the form of a ...

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Four words " First and last name required ." before the question would completely preclude this. High School Celebrity Shoot biography tournament makes this completely clear including "Name and regnal number please" if we have twelve different kings named Louis. Is there a reason...

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SwissBoy wrote:Wasn't the final of PACE videotaped?

Someone did videotape it from TJ I think.

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Back on topic. I am going to use a Dreaded Sports Analogy to my impression of what PAC is: Analogy of what it should be: HSNCT/PACE = Champion's League PAC = World Cup I prefer golf analogies where the majors are the HSNCT and PACE. PAC would be something like the Ryder Cup (or similar). QU NAC ......

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We also have expectations for a national tournament to have a set number of games larger than 3 Actually, most teams only play 2 games. By my count: 2 Games: 18 teams (0-2 [13] or 1-1 with the win first [5]) 3 Games: 7 teams (3-0 [1], 2-1 losing in the finals [2], 1-2 winning in the quarterfinal[4]...

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Derailment: Hasbro makes the games.

Continue on...

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I'm sorry... the correct answer to "Why is the sky blue" is "because God is a Duke fan." I'm still waiting for the reports from the NAC observers. Fixed Well, it's no secret I am a Duke alum and fan, so I didn't make that original response (Carolina fan) without some measure of ...

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I'm sorry... the correct answer to "Why is the sky blue" is "because God is a Carolina fan."

I'm still waiting for the reports from the NAC observers.

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Constructive criticism should be done in private. Praise in public. ... Absolutely. Treat people like the human beings they are. Give them the respect they deserve as human beings. Look back at my posts that have been critical. I think you'll find that in most cases I've been critical about things ...

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As an aside, and maybe I should keep my mouth shut to avoid opening up a can of worms, I don't understand the argument that "it's not quizbowl". I waver on this ...... to some most folks here .... quizbowl requires the following: 1. two teams head-to-head; not three or six, or some other ...

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:chip: says ... To insist all questions be pyramidal is narrow-minded and fatuous. ... Questions starting with "Why" make great tossups. :w-hat: :w-hat: :w-hat: Why did the chicken cross the road? should enter the pantheon of great tossups. I think now that we have enough people who have r...

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The game format is significantly different enough that they way they do math questions, it's not a big problem the way it is done. I grant I have not been to the most recent tournaments to know whether there have been any differences. However, I doubt I would see any change unless there is a signifi...

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This is one of those times when Cary Academy and the High School should have a team...

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The 2008 PACE NSC survey will be delivered to the team contacts by noon ET today and will close around July 15. If anyone who is a participant wants to complete the survey, please let me know by email (pace-nsc org email or Yahoo email: they're the same thing essentially). This includes all voluntee...

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High scorer in the first game from each region gets All-American. That simple. This isn't completely accurate. Maryland put up 510 points in round 1 and was in our region. There is no way Dan put up more points than Daichi that round. They have three AA judges, one looks at points, one looks at lea...

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Is there still a seniors tournament on Jeopardy?

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lasercats wrote: Agreed, but what do I know? I wouldn't know good quizbowl if it roundhouse kicked me to the face!

You'd know it if it slapped you like the Cold Trout of Facts (TM)...

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Tegan wrote:You even learn first hand that Matt W, one-on-one, is a giant pussy cat in panther skin robes.

Now that visual makes my brain hurt. No offense, Matt.

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Unless things have changed, the format for Panasonic does allow more time to solve calculation problems or other application-type questions that standard buzzer-centered competitions do not. Now, the math has to be simple enough to do with well within 60 seconds, and they can't have you prove a theo...

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I hope appropriate permissions were secured.

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I think that Charter's across the board performance at NAQT, PACE, and NAC shows that teams that play quality quiz bowl can adjust to the inferior formats with enough practice in that format. However, I would be interested in seeing where a team like James Island placed considering they probably wou...

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But what about Beta Club?

Yea!

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Hey, I have a "stump the experts" question: Name a team that is not, in a million years, better than Charter at actual quizbowl. ... among those playing at QU NAC, that is. :wink: But seriously for Charter, while I wish they could have walked away with a trophy, to finish runner-up at NAQ...

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Just letting people know, if a 2008-09 thread pops up, I'll ask that the mods lock down the 2007-08 thread, and eventually we'll move all the 2007-08 threads to archive. However, I'll also ask that all remaining threads in 2007-08 be locked after Friday and new 2008-09 threads be generated by then. ...

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