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vcuEvan

All these brackets are stacked...

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I definately want to play this and I need a teammate.

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cornfused wrote:Evan, would you like to play with me, Carlo Angiuli (New Trier '07, Indiana '11, science and music) and either Meryl Federman or Bryce Durgin?

Sure. My email address is iambusyeating AT aol DOT com. Just email about packets or anything.

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Hey I want to go to this if I can find a team that will have me. I'm willing to write anything but science for a packet.

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ILoveReeses wrote:conversely, if you are a staff member and have not reserved a hotel room, please let Dave know. If you do not, PACE will not pay for your rooms.

And what's a good way to reach Mr. Bykowski?

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Yes, there is speed (but is that not what buzzer races are about?), but there is also a requirement that you know how to solve the problem. Generally the point of good quizbowl is to avoid buzzer races, not cause them. In a good pyramidal Math Calc question, doing the math faster would most likely ...

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hwhite wrote:Yes, there is speed (but is that not what buzzer races are about?), but there is also a requirement that you know how to solve the problem.

Generally the point of good quizbowl is to avoid buzzer races, not cause them.

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TJ is the undisputed champion of NAQT and Charter is the undisputed runner up. They both deserved this because they won on the questions that were there. If Dorman deserved to be in the top 4 at NAQT, they wouldn't have lost twice in a double elimination playoff. That said, I fully expect Dorman and...

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Two points: 1. I'm not sure the argument about variable bonuses. If you agree that a tossup can be worth variable points, giving powers for deeper knowledge, why the objections to 5-10-15 or 30-20-10? 2. Is computational math less valid than Harry Potter and Starcraft? I don't object to any of them...

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Also, may ask what's wrong with 5-10-15 bonuses? Every time I've seen them the point value correlates with the difficulty of the question. Would it be better to assign equal point values to questions that required various levels of knowledge? 5-10-15 basically assign 15 points instead of 20 to the ...

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NMBlumberjax wrote:where can i look at a past set

Here:
http://naqt.com/samples/t1163packet_1.pdf

Also letting people discuss the tournament would be nice. There are probably better threads to begin developing your opinions about various formats.

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NMBlumberjax wrote:What subject were most of the questions because if everybody thinks that this tourney was terrible then NMB would have to do the unthinkable

turn to

This tournament could have a 15/15 board game distribution and be better than Chip...

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TJ over Charter in the second game of a TJ advantaged finals.

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Congrats to TJ for the well deserved win against the most competitive field the HSNCT has seen perhaps ever.

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Well according to Evan Silberman Charter won the first game by 50.

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Me earlier wrote:I said at the beginning of the year that TJ would win NAQT and Whitman would win PACE so I guess I'll stick to that.

The prophecy is unfolding according to the words of the great one.

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Well if the scoreboard is right Dorman lost to East Lansing. It appears Whitman remains undefeated.

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Looks like Maggie Walker lost to East Lansing by 35 and Dorman B lost to MLK by 15, Whitman beats TJ by 75. Interesting goings on in Chicago.

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TheCzarMan wrote:What are the current standings? (Assuming matches have started)

In my past experiences they generally don't post anything until the end of the day and the only way to know what's going on is to ask around. Could be different this time though.

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cornfused wrote:Dorman B is THAT GOOD? Holy crap.

Probably.

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I think comparing teams over any period of time is nearly impossible. The overall level of play improves enough on average from one year to the next that making comparisons is really difficult. Still I'd rate TJ 05 as the best highschool team ever in terms of total domination of their opponents and ...

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I think having an occasional freshmen practice is ok, but generally one room is good enough. The people who leave because they're getting owned you probably don't want anyways. My freshman year I spent getting walloped by a dominant team, and the effect it really had was making quizbowl seem a lot e...

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half-baked idea :party: I love you, too, Matt! :party: But seriously... why is it that it seems that 32.56% of the time discussions have to go uncivilized on this board? I love quizbowl, I love promoting quizbowl as a high school activity, and I love promoting QUALITY quizbowl wherever and whenever...

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MLWGS-Gir wrote:
STPickrell wrote:If there is a Team Virginia, it will be sent without my knowledge.
Unless TJ's doing it, there probably won't be... I know our A Team last year couldn't go because of funding issues...I'm pretty sure it was the same for TJ and this may have continued to be a problem...

It was more than that.

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If I go, which I should, I'd definately want to play this.

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Ryan Westbrook wrote:Yeah, "grapesmoker," thanks for the tip.

Grapesmoker. I mean, who is this person? It's like Grape Nuts. No Grapes. No Nuts. I mean, come on!

Grape Nuts have never thrown a notebook at me...

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GO EAST COAST!

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This is certainly the most wide open the high school field has been since 2003 or so. Should be most interesting. I said at the beginning of the year that TJ would win NAQT and Whitman would win PACE so I guess I'll stick to that. I do think Whitman or Dorman could certainly win both of these and Ch...

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You can also search for text within documents within certain folders, if you have a large archive of .docs and .rtfs. In older versions of Windows, you need to go to Advanced Search Options, but in Vista it automatically searches text within documents. I suggest downloading Google Desktop Search . ...

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The Evan J Adams Institute of Glacial Studies and Cowboy Legends has scored a perfect 2000 for the first time in KMO history.

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Maryland
Brown
Chicago

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In case anyone's wondering, Maggie Walker A defeated TJ A in the one game finals.

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rchschem wrote:Make your guess as to which Wild West figures will appear in this spring's KMO.

Winner becomes the honorary sponsor of the Tombstone High School Quiz Bowl team.

Fixed.

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At ICT one guy on the Williams team said something about it being college bowl. I said "this isn't college bowl" and he replied "we call everything college bowl." I guess people tend to name it after the version they are most familiar with.

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The bonuses on the ISS and NASA priorities were part of "Science Current Events," and I wrote them. I recognize they were imperfect, but ran into the same problem as the regular science distribution: No one else was writing anything. I thought "Canada Hand" might be gettable bec...

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*Name five things that will be the answers to trash, general knowledge, or current events tossups in DI (1 point each, up to 5 points total, 5 point bonus for getting a perfect score here). Note: only questions from packets read at the actual tournament count, I'm not going to buy a set of the pack...

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I think Mike's post is more about trying to make more games competitive than insulting anyone. The thing is a lot of the people on these teams don't get that many chances to play, and when they do, winning is probably pretty important to them. I know it would be for me.

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And to top it off, a tossup on wrestling. WRESTLING, for crying out loud! Its like getting kicked in the nuts when you have a hernia. I wasn't at WoQ so I have yet to hear the set... but I can guarantee if the tossup was on the Royal Rumble, I would've powered the living crap out of it. Yes, the ex...

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who knew?

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Deesy Does It wrote:Well, here's a novel idea. National Academic Quiz Tournaments. Why do they insist on using that word if they are going to ask more than, like 5% non-academic trash?

Closer to 15% in my experience.

vcuEvan

MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS KING OF QUIZBOWL. LOOK UPON MY POWERS AND DESPAIR.

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Matthew D wrote:... it is concerning questions about shipping

Or the lack thereof I would imagine.

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Why is Cornell on the DII waitlist and main list... or is the second one a B team?

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Iambusyeating

(Evan from VCU)

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I'm fairly sure VCU will be coming... although Andrew won't be there so we'll likely suck.

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I believe it was The Black Cat.

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The first couple of rounds were chestnut-rich, as is fitting for the holiday season. That Gray poem title bonus was mean, but other than that I had no complaints. Eric The Gray bonus seemed fine to me. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is easy enough. I heard Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat ...

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High School Results (unofficial) 1. 1745 Bergen County Academies (NJ) 2. 1743 Maggie Walker Governor's School (Richmond, VA) 11. 1659 Collegiate School (Richmond, VA) Junior High Division 1. 1733 Maggie Walker Governor's School (9th grade) That's all I got over the phone. Full results posted by tom...

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We do it because it is cheap, requires no travel, and can often be a way to recruit students into our club. I think these reasons are all legitimate, as much as I disliked KMO. However I never understood why Maggie Walker did it in the fall, because we invariably were forced to do it during the wee...

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