naqt.com wrote:NAQT is pleased to announce that its second annual Middle School National Championship Tournament (MSNCT) will be held at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel on the weekend of April 20-22, 2012. This is the same hotel that hosted the 2011 championship.
The field for the tournament is limited to 72 teams.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
Wildcard applications for this tournament are now open. To apply, please send a summary of your team's accomplishments this year to msnct [at] naqt.com.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
I wonder if, by any chance, half the field is sharing a bus to this thing...
Jeff Price
Barrington High School Coach (2021 & 2023 HSNCT Champions, 2023 PACE Champions, 2023 Illinois Masonic Bowl Class 3A State Champions)
Barrington Station Middle School Coach (2013 MSNCT Champions, 2013 & 2017 Illinois Class AA State Champions)
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naqt.com wrote:The 64-team field for the 2012 Middle School National Championship Tournament is now roughly 85% full. NAQT encourages teams that are interested in attending to register or submit their wildcard applications as soon as possible.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
NAQT is pleased to announce that the field for the 2012 MSNCT has been expanded to 72 teams.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
I'll be tweeting Barrington Station's scores under the handle BarringtonQuizbowl this weekend...
Jeff Price
Barrington High School Coach (2021 & 2023 HSNCT Champions, 2023 PACE Champions, 2023 Illinois Masonic Bowl Class 3A State Champions)
Barrington Station Middle School Coach (2013 MSNCT Champions, 2013 & 2017 Illinois Class AA State Champions)
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Might I suggest that everyone use the hashtag #msnct. And yes, tweeting is not merely fine but encouraged (by me, at least, not necessarily NAQT officially) as long as there is no question content included.
Jonah Greenthal
National Academic Quiz Tournaments
I'm a tweeting party of 1 at #msnct and @StationQuizbowl.
Jeff Price
Barrington High School Coach (2021 & 2023 HSNCT Champions, 2023 PACE Champions, 2023 Illinois Masonic Bowl Class 3A State Champions)
Barrington Station Middle School Coach (2013 MSNCT Champions, 2013 & 2017 Illinois Class AA State Champions)
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Cassian wrote:Is anyone posting updates / results anywhere? I'd love to know how Kealing is doing on day 1!
From #msnct tweets...
Barrington Station A started 5-0, Station B was 3-0, and Station C was 1-2. A few other scattered results have been tweeted but no more than 2 scores for any other team.
Andrew Ibendahl
Nashville (IL) '04
DePauw '08
Former Coach, Mountain Lakes (NJ)
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
Is Kealing's score of 925 an all-time record for an NAQT game at any level?
Mr. Andrew Chrzanowski
Caesar Rodney High School
Camden, Delaware
CRHS '97-'01
University of Delaware '01-'05
CRHS quizbowl coach '06-'12 http://crquizbowl.edublogs.org
And while we're talking about possible records:
30 PPB on 19 bonuses
29.71 PPB in a match without hitting 30 PPB
656 PP20TH for the entire prelims
DavidReinstein
Head Writer and Editor for Scobol Solo, Masonics, and IESA; TD for Scobol Solo and Reinstein Varsity; IHSSBCA Board Member; IHSSBCA Chair (2004-2014); PACE President (2016-2018)
The top four teams in each bracket advanced to the playoffs. I know that the three tiebreakers for playoffs were all 4-4 teams:
Westmont Hilltop A (advantage), St. Mary's Visitation, and Westminster B for one spot
Holy Family A (advantage), Wayzata Central, and Challenger Ardenwood for one spot
Nativity of Mary vs. Altoona for one spot
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Michael Falk
Played for Iowa State University, 2001-2004
Coaching for St. Mary's Visitation (Elm Grove, WI), grades 6-8, 2010-present
I know it's early, but man, maybe we should start seriously looking at this team as being able to make some true waves at HSNCT, which they are attending. Scary good.
Mr. Andrew Chrzanowski
Caesar Rodney High School
Camden, Delaware
CRHS '97-'01
University of Delaware '01-'05
CRHS quizbowl coach '06-'12 http://crquizbowl.edublogs.org
(Teams reading this: the first playoff round begins at 9 am tomorrow; please pick up your cards at the Information Desk no later than 8:50 am)
1) Kealing A vs. 32) Nativity of Mary
16) Paintsville vs. 17) Mount Nittany
8) Longfellow B vs. 25) Longfellow C
9) Newark Charter vs. 24) Edmonson County
4) Kealing B vs. 29) Gadsden
13) Maclay vs. 20) Monrovia
5) Independence A vs. 28) Saint Ambrose
12) Kealing C vs. 21) Holy Family B
3) Westminster A vs. 30) Challenger Ardenwood
14) Huntsville vs. 19) Barrington Station B
6) Creekland A vs. 27) Bate
11) Challenger Sunnyvale vs. 22) Hawken B
7) Barrington Station A vs. 26) All Saints Catholic
10) Barrington Prairie vs. 23) TH Rogers A
15) Savannah Country Day vs. 18) Ben Franklin
2) Longfellow A vs. 31) St. Mary's Visitation
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
Any updates this morning? Is anyone there going to be providing coverage as we get through the playoffs? I'm following the Barrington Twitter feed and a couple of others with the #msnct hashtag, but that's all at this point.
Jason Flowers
Quiz Bowl Coach
The Liberal Arts and Science Academy
Austin, TX
Barrington Station A
Kealing A
Kealing B
Longfellow A
Longfellow B
Westminster A
The first round after lunch will be the last with three active game rooms; once we reduce to two rooms I suspect we will have enough surplus staff to designate livebloggers.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
The first game of the finals has just concluded: Longfellow A 460, Kealing A 455.
Westminster A defeated Longfellow B in the third-place game.
Second game of the overall final is starting now.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
Congratulations to Kealing A, which won the second MSNCT title by defeating Longfellow A 550-300 in the second game of an advantaged final.
Stats to follow soon on naqt.com.
Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
Congratulations to Kealing and Longfellow and to all the teams, and thanks to those of you who kept all of us back home informed about the goings-on up in Chicago.
Jason Flowers
Quiz Bowl Coach
The Liberal Arts and Science Academy
Austin, TX
A special thank you to the entire staff of the MSNCT and to NAQT for staging this event. It's truly the highlight of the Station Campus teams' year! I hope even more teams get involved next year!
Jeff Price
Barrington High School Coach (2021 & 2023 HSNCT Champions, 2023 PACE Champions, 2023 Illinois Masonic Bowl Class 3A State Champions)
Barrington Station Middle School Coach (2013 MSNCT Champions, 2013 & 2017 Illinois Class AA State Champions)
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What struck me at this tournament was how uniformly good the moderators were. Every single one we had was understandable and got through an acceptable number of questions per round. Difficulty seemed a little tougher than last year's MSNCT set but the players seemed to take it in stride.
Congratulations to Kealing, but also to Longfellow, Westminster, and Station for making it to the final six.
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Michael Falk
Played for Iowa State University, 2001-2004
Coaching for St. Mary's Visitation (Elm Grove, WI), grades 6-8, 2010-present
MichaelFalk wrote: Difficulty seemed a little tougher than last year's MSNCT set but the players seemed to take it in stride.
As a moderator, I agree on both points. I think a small proportion of questions were legitimately too hard for this level, but I think many of the questions which were harder than last year's set were converted well.
Dr. Noah Prince
Normal Community High School (2002)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2004, 2007, 2008)
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy - Scholastic Bowl coach (2009-2014), assistant coach (2014-2015), well wisher (2015-2016)
guy in San Diego (2016-present)
President of Qblitz (2018-present)
Charlie Dees, North Kansas City HS '08
"I won't say more because I know some of you parse everything I say." - Jeremy Gibbs
"At one TJ tournament the neg prize was the Hampshire College ultimate frisbee team (nude) calender featuring one Evan Silberman. In retrospect that could have been a disaster." - Harry White
Fred Morlan
University of Kentucky CoP, 2017
International Quiz Bowl Tournaments, CEO, co-owner
former PACE member, president, etc.
former hsqbrank manager, former NAQT writer & subject editor, former hsqb Administrator/Chief Administrator
MichaelFalk wrote:I think it was a lot closer in difficulty to an MS set than to an A set.
What Michael said. And stats bear that out. Just look at Kealing A's performance on A sets this year, vs. MSNCT. Also, look at Station A's bonus conversion on MS-02 (25.96), MS-03 (25.05), and then, at least for the prelims our conversion on MSNCT-12 (23.48). I'd say these stats show that MSNCT was a tad more difficult than the MS sets, but easier than the A sets. So, kudos to NAQT for hitting their target!
Jeff Price
Barrington High School Coach (2021 & 2023 HSNCT Champions, 2023 PACE Champions, 2023 Illinois Masonic Bowl Class 3A State Champions)
Barrington Station Middle School Coach (2013 MSNCT Champions, 2013 & 2017 Illinois Class AA State Champions)
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Jeff Hoppes
President, Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance
former HSQB Chief Admin (2012-13)
VP for Communication and history subject editor, NAQT
Editor emeritus, ACF
"I wish to make some kind of joke about Jeff's love of birds, but I always fear he'll turn them on me Hitchcock-style." -Fred
Can I just step in for a moment to remark that in the first Kealing-Longfellow game, 21 tossups were powered, and one of the three remaining was negged?
Joe Nutter
PACE Emeritus
Michigan State University '14
Walnut Hills High School '11