Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:09 pm
Will this be liveblogged via the liveblog channel used for NSC and HSNCT. If so please give the link so I can see the answers of this glorious tournament.
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Be careful. Chip does have a rule on this point:jonah wrote:I am going with two other people who I won't identify here; they can out themselves if they like. I will be recording the matches we watch and probably liveblogging.
Yes, I'll be using Cover It Live, and will post the link here when I start.Bakery, State, and Utopia wrote:Will this be liveblogged via the liveblog channel used for NSC and HSNCT. If so please give the link so I can see the answers of this glorious tournament.
Well, we're not participants, so if he sticks to the letter of the rules we're fine. Of course, that's not necessarily likely. Fortunately, my recording equipment is quite surreptitious.Ben Dillon wrote:Be careful. Chip does have a rule on this point:jonah wrote:I am going with two other people who I won't identify here; they can out themselves if they like. I will be recording the matches we watch and probably liveblogging.
"7. Participants are not permitted to record the audio or video of any match without the prior consent of the Executive Director, who reserves the right to assess a $10 per match fee for such privilege. Violation of this rule may result in match forfeiture."
Now this refers to teams in the match, which may not describe you. I'm not sure how Chip would react if other spectators broke the rule. But given that a hotel is private property, not public property, there's potential for nastiness.
I'll be attending as an observer. I plan on posting some notes when the tournament is over.soaringeagle22 wrote:Anyway, the last stage of this thing starts tomorrow in Chicago. Is there anybody here even going? For that matter, does anyone here have any idea who might take home the "national" "championship" "prize"?
Wow I checked your live blog. In the Plano A- Cedar Crest match almost every Question was from a match I played in New Orleans, great job chipjonah wrote:I am going with two other people who I won't identify here; they can out themselves if they like. I will be recording the matches we watch and probably liveblogging.soaringeagle22 wrote:Anyway, the last stage of this thing starts tomorrow in Chicago. Is there anybody here even going? For that matter, does anyone here have any idea who might take home the "national" "championship" "prize"?
Yes, this was suspected, but it has now been officially confirmed by Chip himself to me. I brought up question security to him, and he acted like it was largely unimportant.Jarvick wrote:Apparently Chip reuses questions at each stage, since the entire Cedar Crest match from the Chicago round on Jonah's liveblog is ripped from a match I played against Vidor in the New Orleans round.
They were 1-2 at the end of the first day, for what that's worth.Woody Paige wrote:I want to see the results of the Schaumburg matches to see how an above-average MSL squad stacks up against other teams with "national title" aspirations. Frankly, if Schaumburg did really well, it kind of exposes the NAC as not being a high-level event.
....Chip wrote: Next Year’s Champs?
Watch out for two Westchester, NY schools next year, with their best players returning: Horace Greeley, and Byram Hills. Will West Virginia win its first title in 2010? Maybe – the Parkersburg brain trust will be intact.
I presume we're talking about the George Muller Foundation because the Maurice Muller Foundation makes no sense. Not that the George Muller Foundation makes sense as a donor...scquizbowl wrote:$2,000 Muller Foundation check ... . For winning, John Cooper's team members are receiving letterman jackets, from something called the John and Adaline Simon Trust.
Thank you, but I think you are mistaken about our (John Cooper's) finish in the Texas state championship played with NAQT questions. The results and stats are online at www.texasquizbowl.org . We finished 3rd, behind Bellaire and Kincaid - not exactly early in the playoffs. Bellaire was a better team that day; we didn't play Kincaid all year AFAIK so I can't really say.scquizbowl wrote:On the Questions Unlimited website, Chip has in big letters, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MEET AMERICA'S NUMBER 1 ACADEMIC TEAM.
Congratulations to John Cooper, who won it in Chicago, despite losing early in the playoffs in their own TQBA state championship. They made the tournament by winning the winter QuizNet competition.
Chip has pictures of all the players, dressed up.
However, he didn't do his full writeup about the tournament.
http://www.qunlimited.com/
Just to help you out, they ended up 1-5, ranked 88 out of 119 on Chip's page: http://www.qunlimited.com/rank09.htmWoody Paige wrote:Look again in a few days. He's sometimes tardy with his write-ups, I've found. I want to see the results of the Schaumburg matches to see how an above-average MSL squad stacks up against other teams with "national title" aspirations. Frankly, if Schaumburg did really well, it kind of exposes the NAC as not being a high-level event.