2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Last spring, sixty-six teams from across the US competed in the first Goldfish Championship. This year, we will run this type of tournament twice, once as a pre-season warm-up on October 15, and once on April 29 as a pre-Nationals warm-up. In the Goldfish Championships, your team can compete on NAQT questions against teams from all across the nation (and the maybe even the world) without having to leave your school.
All participating teams will be e-mailed a specially written NAQT packet with 30 TU and 24 PLEASE MAKE FUN OF ME BECAUSE I SPEAK NEITHER LATIN NOR ENGLISH, and on October 15 each team will get out their buzzer system and play a match against their favorite goldfish (i.e. NO opponent), moderated by the team coach (hence the tournament name!). The coach records the TU and Bonus scores for each question as well as on which word the team buzzed in and submits this info in Excel format.
The data will be analyzed to come up with two groups of results: The first list will show how many points each team scored against their goldfish on 24 TU/Bon, while the second group of data will show head-to-head scores for all possible permutations of teams. This means that if a hundred teams compete in this tournament, you will be able to see how you stack up against ninety-nine other teams!
The entry fee per team is $10; each school can enter as many teams as they like. The entry fee must be submitted by October 8 via PayPal to Phil Blessman at pblessman [at] yahoo [dot] com, or by snail-mail, payable to "Culver Academies" to Culver Quizbowl, c/o Phil Blessman, 1300 Academy Road, Culver, IN 46511. Please also feel free to write Phil at the same e-mail address if you have any questions! We hope you can all make it!
All participating teams will be e-mailed a specially written NAQT packet with 30 TU and 24 PLEASE MAKE FUN OF ME BECAUSE I SPEAK NEITHER LATIN NOR ENGLISH, and on October 15 each team will get out their buzzer system and play a match against their favorite goldfish (i.e. NO opponent), moderated by the team coach (hence the tournament name!). The coach records the TU and Bonus scores for each question as well as on which word the team buzzed in and submits this info in Excel format.
The data will be analyzed to come up with two groups of results: The first list will show how many points each team scored against their goldfish on 24 TU/Bon, while the second group of data will show head-to-head scores for all possible permutations of teams. This means that if a hundred teams compete in this tournament, you will be able to see how you stack up against ninety-nine other teams!
The entry fee per team is $10; each school can enter as many teams as they like. The entry fee must be submitted by October 8 via PayPal to Phil Blessman at pblessman [at] yahoo [dot] com, or by snail-mail, payable to "Culver Academies" to Culver Quizbowl, c/o Phil Blessman, 1300 Academy Road, Culver, IN 46511. Please also feel free to write Phil at the same e-mail address if you have any questions! We hope you can all make it!
Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Phil put DAR High down for 3 teams... we can see how we are going to do..
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
If October 15 is not a very workable date for my team, would it be possible for us to still participate, but perhaps play the packet on a day earlier? My coach sounds interested in this, but many members of my team aren't available on Wednesdays due to work/classes/sports.
Chuhern Hwang
James Monroe High School Class of 2009
University of Virginia Class of 2013
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Caesar Rodney would love to sign up 1 team. You'll be getting the PayPal payment in a short time.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
We will be in the middle of fall break on the 15th. Would it be possible to take the Goldfish a week early?
Lee Henry
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Same with us
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Uh... Goldfish... Need to take it early... That cool?
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Hmmm... A week early is difficult (if not impossible...). Last time I allowed teams to do it the day before, if they had a conflict. Please e-mail me at pblessman [at] yahoo to make specific arrangements for your team.
Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
The defending national champions, Bergen County Academies, would like to register three to five teams.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
If I remember from last year, Bergen already has one team on credit sort of (we paid for three teams but only two competed). Is this correct?
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
So... would it be alright for James Monroe to do this a day early? I'm not sure if my coach has signed up for this yet, if not we should be registering within the next two days.
And also, is there a field update for this?
And also, is there a field update for this?
Chuhern Hwang
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
We also would need to do it a day early.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Whitman wants to participate (one team). We would need to do it on Tuesday, the 14th.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
When are the questions and entry list for this going to be sent out?
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
This is besides the point, but welcome to the boards Mr. Mahaffey. It is a pleasure to see another Horry County School team intrested in playing on the quizbowl circuit
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Thanks, Zach. We're looking forward to hosting your team next week.
Brett Mahaffey
Academic Team Coach
St. James High School - Murrells Inlet, SC
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Field Update:
The final (?) field stands at 59 teams. Please let me know IMMEDIATELY if you'd like to adjust your number of teams up or down. Thanks!
School State #of teams
School State Teams
Adair County KY 1
Auburn (Riner) VA 2
Barrington IL 1
Bergen County NJ 3
Bromfield MA 1
Buffalo Grove IL 1
Caesar Rodney DE 1
Champlain Valley Union VT 3
Chatham NJ 1
Culver Academies IN 4
DAR TN 3
Dolgeville NY 3
Eastside (Covington) GA 2
Essex VT 1
Governor School VA 1
Hamilton Southeastern IN 1
Harrison IN 4
James Monroe VA 2
JFK Memorial (Iselin) NJ 1
Kellenberg NY 4
Loyola IL 2
MAST NJ 5
Minneapolis South MN 1
NCHS IN 1
New Trier IL 1
North White IN 2
Quincy IL 1
Rockford Auburn IL 1
St. James (Murrells Inlet) SC 1
Tippecanoe OH 1
Verona NJ 1
Walt Whitman MD 1
Wheaton North IL 1
The final (?) field stands at 59 teams. Please let me know IMMEDIATELY if you'd like to adjust your number of teams up or down. Thanks!
School State #of teams
School State Teams
Adair County KY 1
Auburn (Riner) VA 2
Barrington IL 1
Bergen County NJ 3
Bromfield MA 1
Buffalo Grove IL 1
Caesar Rodney DE 1
Champlain Valley Union VT 3
Chatham NJ 1
Culver Academies IN 4
DAR TN 3
Dolgeville NY 3
Eastside (Covington) GA 2
Essex VT 1
Governor School VA 1
Hamilton Southeastern IN 1
Harrison IN 4
James Monroe VA 2
JFK Memorial (Iselin) NJ 1
Kellenberg NY 4
Loyola IL 2
MAST NJ 5
Minneapolis South MN 1
NCHS IN 1
New Trier IL 1
North White IN 2
Quincy IL 1
Rockford Auburn IL 1
St. James (Murrells Inlet) SC 1
Tippecanoe OH 1
Verona NJ 1
Walt Whitman MD 1
Wheaton North IL 1
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Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Phil,
DAR is in Alabama not Tennessee
DAR is in Alabama not Tennessee
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Phil, we're not in your list...I'm assuming this means we can't do it Tuesday?
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Sorry to both previous posters! I've changed it to AL and added in Loyola. Competing on Tuesday is fine.
Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Is "Montgomery County MD" the team from Richard Montgomery, Montgomery Blair, or some other Montgomery County high school?
Ian Eppler from Brown University
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
What day are you planning on sending out the sets (Monday)?
Matt Dennis
Coach DAR Quizbowl Team
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Montgomery County was actually Walt Whitman again... long story... my mistake.
Questions will go out tomorrow (Tuesday) in the AM.
Questions will go out tomorrow (Tuesday) in the AM.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Thanks for putting this together, Phil.
Brett Mahaffey
Academic Team Coach
St. James High School - Murrells Inlet, SC
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St. James High School - Murrells Inlet, SC
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
You're welcome, Brett!
I've e-mailed out the packets. If you haven't received your packet, inctructions, and scoresheet, please let me know ASAP, in case your server or my server ate it (or you were left off the mailing list by my mistake).
I've e-mailed out the packets. If you haven't received your packet, inctructions, and scoresheet, please let me know ASAP, in case your server or my server ate it (or you were left off the mailing list by my mistake).
Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Thanks Phil, even though we didn't do that well or at least I don't think that we did... it was fun and a different way of doing practice for today
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Mr. Blessman,
James Monroe has not received its Goldfish packet.
James Monroe has not received its Goldfish packet.
Chuhern Hwang
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Well then one of us will feel better when we see the other's scores!Matthew D wrote:Thanks Phil, even though we didn't do that well or at least I don't think that we did... it was fun and a different way of doing practice for today
My guess is it's you, as my team today consisted of one sophomore, and a few freshmen. No juniors. No seniors. They beat their stuffed lizard, at least!
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Trust me I know your pain.. I have seniors and juniors that have NEVER played before this year and my team last year only had sophomores and freshman with an 8th grader some of the time
Matt Dennis
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Bergen County Academies never got our packet; we had practice and our team prepared to play, and I called and emailed you (although the email may not have gotten through). Please reply to my email address ( gabjoh [the at symbol] bergen.org ) The only real possible solution is for us to do it next Tuesday.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Is the set clear for discussion? I've got one pretty hillarious neg for the bad negs post, but I don't want to discuss it too early if there are other teams that have yet to play the set.
Thanks,
Thanks,
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
I've got a couple of insanely funny negs from this one too.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Unless there's some kind of special dispensation from NAQT, I think that it will only be cleared after HSNCT.Is the set clear for discussion? I've got one pretty hillarious neg for the bad negs post, but I don't want to discuss it too early if there are other teams that have yet to play the set.
Thanks,
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Does that hold true for all NAQT tournaments? I didn't know that. Why would dicussing IS sets affect the HSNCT?Anti-Climacus wrote:Unless there's some kind of special dispensation from NAQT, I think that it will only be cleared after HSNCT.Is the set clear for discussion? I've got one pretty hillarious neg for the bad negs post, but I don't want to discuss it too early if there are other teams that have yet to play the set.
Thanks,
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
It doesn't affect HSNCT... it affects other tournaments run later in the year on the same question set. I'd imagine that this wouldn't apply to the Goldfish set, but given that some teams (see Bergen above) didn't get their packet, you probably should hold off.JackGlerum wrote:Does that hold true for all NAQT tournaments? I didn't know that. Why would dicussing IS sets affect the HSNCT?Anti-Climacus wrote:Unless there's some kind of special dispensation from NAQT, I think that it will only be cleared after HSNCT.Is the set clear for discussion? I've got one pretty hillarious neg for the bad negs post, but I don't want to discuss it too early if there are other teams that have yet to play the set.
Thanks,
Bryce Durgin
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Was the Goldfish packet IS or A-level?
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
NAQT, like most question providers, uses their product at multiple sites across a broad length of time (usually from whenever it is made available until the end of the school year), so it would be considered inappropriate to publicly discuss those questions until the end of the NAQT year, which is the HSNCT because teams would be able to cheat.Does that hold true for all NAQT tournaments? I didn't know that. Why would dicussing IS sets affect the HSNCT?
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Right, I know that many tournaments on many dates use various NAQT sets, both IS and A, but given that Goldfish has
, I wasn't sure why we wouldn't be able to discuss the Goldfish questions (sans the Bergen issue).pblessman wrote:a specially written NAQT packet with 30 TU and 24 PLEASE MAKE FUN OF ME BECAUSE I SPEAK NEITHER LATIN NOR ENGLISH
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Some of the questions seemed like IS, but some of the questions seemed like IS+++++
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
I thought I saw A-level on them, but I've also heard that A-level sets are better than they used to be.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
When will we see results?
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Give them some time, they have over 1600 games to run through, I think...
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Relax, just asking if there is a general date set for the release of the results.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
It was just a joke.
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Alrighty... I could post preliminary goldfish results for the goldfish (I've got 51 goldfish scores tallied right now), but I won't at this time (explanation below)... I mean preliminary for two reasons:
1. There might be a scoresheet that I have missed... please check the list below to see whether your school is listed as having turned in scores.
2. Bergen County, at the very minimum, did not receive their packet, and I will try again to get it to them. As they were the head-to-head champs last year, I would feel REALLY bad if they didn't get to compete, so I will extend the deadline for completing this until Tuesday night. If there is anybody else out there who would like to jump on the turn-it-in-late bandwagon (say people on Fall break... Brindlee Mountain, e.g.), please let me know ASAP.
So, I could post scores, but I don't want to affect the way the remaining schools play by letting them know how everybody did... seems to make sense. If Brindlee Mountain and Bergen County know what score they have to beat they might be more or less aggressive.
That being said, here are the teams I have scoresheets for thus far:
Adair County
Auburn (VA) A
Auburn (VA) B
Barrington F/S
Bromfield School
Buffalo Grove
Caesar Rodney
Champlain Valley A
Champlain Valley B
Champlain Valley C
Chatham A
Chatham B
Chatham C
Chatham D
Culver A
Culver B
Culver C
Culver D
Culver E
DAR A
DAR B
Dolgeville A
Dolgeville B
Eastside A
Eastside B
Essex
Fishers
Harrison A
Harrison B
Harrison C
Harrison D
James Monroe A
James Monroe B
JFK
Kellenberg A
Kellenberg B
Kellenberg C
Kellenberg D
Loyola
MAST A
MAST B
MAST C
MAST D
NCHS
New Trier
North White A
North White B
Rockford Auburn
St. James
Walt Whitman
Wheaton North
If you're not on this list, but think you submitted your score, please double check and get back to me ASAP.
Thanks!
Phil Blessman
1. There might be a scoresheet that I have missed... please check the list below to see whether your school is listed as having turned in scores.
2. Bergen County, at the very minimum, did not receive their packet, and I will try again to get it to them. As they were the head-to-head champs last year, I would feel REALLY bad if they didn't get to compete, so I will extend the deadline for completing this until Tuesday night. If there is anybody else out there who would like to jump on the turn-it-in-late bandwagon (say people on Fall break... Brindlee Mountain, e.g.), please let me know ASAP.
So, I could post scores, but I don't want to affect the way the remaining schools play by letting them know how everybody did... seems to make sense. If Brindlee Mountain and Bergen County know what score they have to beat they might be more or less aggressive.
That being said, here are the teams I have scoresheets for thus far:
Adair County
Auburn (VA) A
Auburn (VA) B
Barrington F/S
Bromfield School
Buffalo Grove
Caesar Rodney
Champlain Valley A
Champlain Valley B
Champlain Valley C
Chatham A
Chatham B
Chatham C
Chatham D
Culver A
Culver B
Culver C
Culver D
Culver E
DAR A
DAR B
Dolgeville A
Dolgeville B
Eastside A
Eastside B
Essex
Fishers
Harrison A
Harrison B
Harrison C
Harrison D
James Monroe A
James Monroe B
JFK
Kellenberg A
Kellenberg B
Kellenberg C
Kellenberg D
Loyola
MAST A
MAST B
MAST C
MAST D
NCHS
New Trier
North White A
North White B
Rockford Auburn
St. James
Walt Whitman
Wheaton North
If you're not on this list, but think you submitted your score, please double check and get back to me ASAP.
Thanks!
Phil Blessman
Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Oh, a couple more things:
1. For obvious reasons, please hold off on discussing questions until AFTER Tuesday's modified deadline.
2. I should have goldfish results back to you rather quickly after Tuesday (say on Wednesday) and then head-to-head results should be not to long after that, maybe Thursday or Friday night. Last time it only took me a couple days to post results, but we've had a few hiccups this time...
1. For obvious reasons, please hold off on discussing questions until AFTER Tuesday's modified deadline.
2. I should have goldfish results back to you rather quickly after Tuesday (say on Wednesday) and then head-to-head results should be not to long after that, maybe Thursday or Friday night. Last time it only took me a couple days to post results, but we've had a few hiccups this time...
Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Brindlee Mountain will compete with 2 teams. Please send the packets to: [email protected].
I appreciate it.
-Lee
I appreciate it.
-Lee
Lee Henry
AP Lit and APUSH Teacher
Quiz Bowl Coach
West Point High School
President-Elect/Past President- Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA)
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Quiz Bowl Coach
West Point High School
President-Elect/Past President- Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA)
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Maggie Walker sent in their data last Wed. Please check to see if you have it. If not I can resend it tomorrow.
John Barnes
Maggie Walker Governor's School
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Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Are you going to be able to send me the packet tonight? We need to do it tomorrow.
Thanks,
Lee
Thanks,
Lee
Lee Henry
AP Lit and APUSH Teacher
Quiz Bowl Coach
West Point High School
President-Elect/Past President- Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA)
AP Lit and APUSH Teacher
Quiz Bowl Coach
West Point High School
President-Elect/Past President- Alabama Scholastic Competition Association (ASCA)
Re: 2008 Pre-Season Goldfish Championship: 10/15/2008
Waiting on scoresheets for Maggie Walker and Bergen County...
Phil Blessman- Culver Academies Head Quizbowl Coach