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mithokie

That makes a lot of sense, as George Washington HS played at our tournament on 127A and the WV tournament on 129A. I don't think the difference came from a few more weeks of studying. http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=5098 : 8.3 15PG http://naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?...

mithokie

The tournament concluded playoffs with a circle of death for 1st place, with 3 teams, George Washington, Honaker A, and Cave Spring A finishing the playoff group with a 4-1 record. Teams were seeded by playoff ppg (including the carryover games against teams from prelims in the same playoff bracket)...

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At the conclusion of prelims it appears that James Cole from Cave Spring has set the all-time NAQT record for PPG on an IS-A set or higher with 181.0 ppg. Cave Spring A and Honaker A are the last two undefeated teams. Prelim stats can be found at : http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1549/stats...

mithokie

Staff meeting at the BHS library at 8:45 AM. Lunch will be provided after round 5 (and possible tie-breaks) for volunteer staffers.

mithokie

Considering this more carefully, since there are only 12 packets in an A-set, we will carry records over from morning play into afternoon play. Teams will only play the 3 teams in their afternoon bracket that they have not yet played. This will allow us to reserve a packet for morning tie-breaks, 2 ...

mithokie

Our field is closed. With the staff we have available, we will enter 3 house teams to bring the field to a nice even number of 12. We will run 2 prelim groups of 6, sending the top 3 from each group into a championship pool with the bottom 3 into a consolation pool. We will play a full round robin i...

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The final score for the 5th place match was 275-250 Blacksburg

mithokie

We're a week and a half from the big day. Teams can still register through next Wednesday. We currently have the staff to support a field larger than 12, so we would love to have some more teams register. We look forward to seeing you on October 19 in Blacksburg.

mithokie

Does anyone know the exact amount of time you have to answer a question? For tournaments using ACF rules, it's 5 seconds. If they're using timed NAQT rules, it's 2 seconds. If the question is "Name 2013's number one men's slalom skier" would the time start when I say "Is the answer&q...

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hsapq.com/samples as a free question archive for HSAPQ questions

quinterest.org - searchable database of quizbowl questions

mithokie

In Virginia, the top small schools are undoubtedly George Mason HS and Honaker HS. I believe that George Mason graduated some strong players from last year's team. Honaker has Jacob back which will make them extremely competitive. Honaker has not ever attended a national tournament. If they were to ...

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We are one week away from the deadline for the early registration discount for the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational II. Please send registrations in by either 1. e-mailing me with your number of teams and what discounts you are claiming. 2. e-mailing me a copy of the filled out registration for...

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We have officially been certified gold by PACE and will therefore qualify the top 20% of the field into next spring's PACE NSC as well as the top 15% into the HSNCT. Interest is beginning to increase with schools from 3 states expressing interest. Don't miss out on this early opportunity to qualify ...

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It must be FKT and not LIST IV, since LIST IV is not supposed to be available until January according to the initial post??? The set will be available for mirrors beginning on January 4, 2014, and we're open to any mirrors after that for the duration of the school year (and into summer, if there is ...

mithokie

Blacksburg HS is hosting the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational II on Saturday 10/19/13. Blacksburg is a close drive, particularly for teams in Southeast West Virginia. The tournament will be held on NAQT question set IS-127A. More info can be found at http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f...

mithokie

Blacksburg HS is hosting the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational II on Saturday 10/19/13. Blacksburg is a close drive, particularly for teams in Northeast Tennessee. The tournament will be held on NAQT question set IS-127A. More info can be found at http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&a...

mithokie

Blacksburg HS is hosting the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational II on Saturday 10/19/13. Blacksburg is a close drive, particularly for teams in Northwest North Carolina. The tournament will be held on NAQT question set IS-127A. More info can be found at http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?...

mithokie

We sent out e-mail invitations today. Additionally, we are seeking affiliation with PACE and will let everyone know what level of certification we are awarded as soon as we have been told. Our tournament will represent an early opportunity to qualify for both the 2014 HSNCT and 2014 NSC.

mithokie

Would you consider an option to print out tossup and bonus results all together as the result of one search? I was thinking along the lines of 3 options

1. tossup results only
2. bonus results only
3. both tossup and bonus results.

mithokie

Tossup #9 from packet 7

The Japan art toss-up appears to have an error, but it might be a translation that I could not found. The English title I could find for Hiroshige work mentioned in the lead-in was Great Bridge, Sudden Shower at Atake, instead of Great Bridge, Sudden Storm.

mithokie

This tournament is not being marketed as a novice tournament. Any and all players are welcome to attend and compete. Note that all three of the regular IS sets available this fall have already been claimed in Virginia (the two VCU tournaments and Cavalier Classic). as has the only HSAPQ set for the ...

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BHAI II at Blacksburg HS will be run on IS-127A. We would love to see a healthy field there.

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Blacksburg High School in Blacksburg, VA will host the second annual Blacksburg High Academic Invitational on Saturday October 19, 2013. The tournament will be hosted on NAQT's IS-127A and will represent an early opportunity for teams to qualify for HSNCT. We will also seek affiliation with PACE's N...

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Would it be possible to add sets to the date claim calendar. It is important for planning purposes to know what sets are being played where, and regular difficulty sets seem to be getting taken very quickly for the fall (especially in Virginia). From naqt.com, I see 1. VCU Fall IS-128 2. New Kent No...

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I enjoyed the set even though we didn't win any. The VT field was a tough one. A few comments on particular questions Round 2 Limits Toss-up squeeze theorem/pinching theorem (I don't remember what name was used) inside of power is probably too generous of a power since that is a pretty well-known th...

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I thought that maybe the rational function prompt was placed there for the synthetic division clue. The prompt doesn't apply elsewhere, but maybe it's a prompt for generosity's sake???

mithokie

I would choose the most unique word in the title, like Solitude and use the Quizbowldb advanced search tool to enter category:"Literature" condition:"all" solitude . The first 15 hits were One Hundred Years of Solitude as the answer line. There were approximately 20 other hits (m...

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I took the opportunity to play Blue Rondo a la Turk and Take Five for my team on the way home yesterday. 3/3 Jazz in a 25 packet tournament is about what I expected based on the published distribution. I enjoyed the questions in general and will echo the sentiments of those praising the number of un...

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http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wdbj7-roanoke ... 0805.story

Video coverage from local Roanoke news station related to Cave Spring's upcoming trip to HSNCT.

mithokie

Where do you envision the UVA/VCU collaboration being played, Charlottesville or somewhere closer to Richmond?

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Freeman (VA) and Douglas Freeman(VA) are the same school also.

mithokie

Blacksburg High School would like to claim October 19 for the Blacksburg High Academic Invitational II (BHAI II). We will likely run a vendor set.

mithokie

If you look at the rows, the scores are fine. If you look at the grid in columns it looks like the scores are inverted.

mithokie

I was wondering if anyone has written a script for pulling game scores from an SQBS file. As a hobby, I have created a rating system (not that we need another one :grin: ) using the scores listed in Ian Drayer's rating files and I would like to be able to add new data to the file quickly. I figured ...

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Does PACE publish their packet distributions and sub-distributions? The last I could find was a discussion made about changes for the 2010 distribution. Is 4/4 for each of the big 3, 3/3 for RMP and Fine Arts with 1/1 for Geog/Cur.Events/Pop Culture and 1/1 for Social Science still the current distr...

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Just out of curiosity, how do you get total points to not be multiples of 5. Is there a difference in format from traditional 20/20 quizbowl used at the TACA championship?

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I'm certainly interested in playing, especially if there is a Virginia Tech mirror. I understand what ACF Fall difficulty looks like. Out of curiosity, will you be using the ACF distribution, or will it be modified in any way?

mithokie

http://www.hsapq.com/samples is another good resource for practice questions. Best of luck with everything.

mithokie

There are a couple of tournaments that are upcoming in the Richmond, VA area if you are willing to travel about 2 1/2 hours. VCU is hosting on 4/20 and Maggie Walker is hosting in May.

mithokie

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1440/

is the closest to you that I could find on the tournament database. Admittedly a 5 hr drive for a Friday tournament is not very close. I hope something turns up soon.

mithokie

Alexander probably had a 4 - 3 - 1 stat line instead of a 4 - 13 - 1 in that game.

mithokie

I think PACE needs to declare this "Diamond Certified", 45% of the field is in the Morlan top 100 and 20% in the top 17. This is one to watch this weekend to help sort out the strongest teams in the Mid-Atlantic. We're looking forward to the challenge.

mithokie

I've had a similar problem for some users. My best guess was that they may have still been in their probationary period, where their posts must be approved. I don't really know if this is the case or not.

mithokie

Yes, of course I will try. I am not attempting to make a mistake on purpose. If the host of a tournament enters this information themselves, then they will be able to make sure the information is entered correctly. I will always transfer ownership to the user who originally announced the tournament ...

mithokie

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1346/

I created a database entry, but put in the wrong contact e-mail. I transferred the entry ownership to Ben, so you should probably update the e-mail.

mithokie

Could a mechanism be added to change ownership of a database entry? I have volunteered to help enter tournament info into the database that is missing, but the actual tournament directors may want to take ownership of those entries at a date in the future, particularly if they want to post stats in ...

mithokie

I would also be willing.

mithokie

Do you know which set you will be using?

mithokie

What time is check-in for the NHBB? The website "Friday" appears to be out of date since 4.27 is not a Friday. The history bowl web site mentions that the friday web page should have been updated in January. I am working on trying to make arrangements for a team to come to NHBB, but I need...

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On page 10 of 11 the document states that MW and TJ should be "considered" for placement in 6A for Scholastic Bowl. I don't know when a final determination will be made.

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