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- Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: A very serious request
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26379
- Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: A very serious request
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26379
Reviewing my gmail indicates that Bryce Avery was responsible for the 2005 National Science Bowl questions, which featured a disarmingly large proportion of questions repeated verbatim from previous National Science Bowl competitions. To be honest, Jefferson owes him its 2005 NSB championship, becau...
- Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic Results
- Replies: 149
- Views: 54884
Have you tried asking your parents to go? I don't know if FL has rules that prohibit it, but I've seen parents go instead of sponsors plenty of times...the key seems to be having a responsible adult, not whether that adult is paid by the school. In fact, my coach in high school only went to the Sat...
- Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: technology tournament
- Replies: 47
- Views: 19989
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 5:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT invitations
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15880
- Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT invitations
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15880
- Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2006 Announcement and Call for Hosts
- Replies: 11
- Views: 11506
- Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational math...Illinois and elsewhere
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24726
Not necessarily. Most people who can do computational science i.e. physics/chemistry can do comp math pretty quickly. People who do mental computations regularly are certainly quicker, but in my experience you do less and less mental/manual arithmetic as you progress in your knowledge of math and s...
- Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:39 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational math...Illinois and elsewhere
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24726
Along the point Mr. Lee was making, Quiz Bowl is actually quite different from academia. Parroting one- or two-word answers will get you nowhere in academia, though it will get you everywhere in Quiz Bowl. If somebody is an expert in a subject in an academic sense, then they have added to the body ...
- Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational math...Illinois and elsewhere
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24726
TJ's house written tournaments have 1/1 or fewer computation tossups/bonuses per round, and even this is more a matter of tradition, of fulfilling teams' expectations, etc. Of all subjects in quiz bowl, computational math is the one that exhibits the least correlation of legitimate subject knowledge...
- Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Do you like Grammar?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17365
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Right answers that are counted wrong...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13604
- Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic
- Replies: 96
- Views: 53827
The thing about Panasonic is that it really doesn't want to be quiz bowl. The questions are modeled on typical high school exams, not quiz bowl of any type. While they want to run a haphazardly buzz-based high school knowledge competition, they have the best question writers out there. If they want ...
- Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:46 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic
- Replies: 96
- Views: 53827
On a related note, kind of: Is Panasonic even quiz bowl? Panasonic qualifies as weird quiz bowl, I'd say, but it's only because of the buzzer. It would be wonderful if some of the money panasonic donates to have teams stay at an overpriced hotel and go play around in overpriced, overrated theme par...
- Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic
- Replies: 96
- Views: 53827
- Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic
- Replies: 96
- Views: 53827
I believe they asked for Saroyan's. Although I have no right to complain, it was a shame to have won on so many technicalities. The questions that round were simply too easy to distinguish teams on the basis of knowledge. Oddly enough, there were more buzzer races in the 15 pt round than in both oth...
- Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC Chicago
- Replies: 71
- Views: 42602
- Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2005 results
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19882
I'll echo everybody's praise of the PACE staff. Though I wasn't there for prelims, I found it perhaps the most smoothly run national tournament I've ever participated in. The questions (though perhaps a little bit easier than last year) were top notch, and made for some great games. I'm glad PACE NS...
- Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Decency Requirement in Quizbowl Questions
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12005
It kind of depends how puritanical a school system you are dealing with. I certainly don't think quiz bowl questions need to be a reflection of whatever societal norms are in effect, but if it means a loss of participation or funding it's just foolish to include potentially inflammatory content. I d...
- Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The format/rebound debate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8652
If NAQT is a timed format, then the timing should be taken seriously. Is it unfair if a point guard handles the ball more slowly in the final seconds of a basketball game if his team is leading? Intentionally sabotaging one's scoring capability to avoid the chance of a reversal is a common tactic in...
- Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT HSNCT field discussion
- Replies: 154
- Views: 87779
It seems to me that when it comes to tossups, TJ A has mercureal players and solid ones. The mercureal ones have a tendency to compete with their own team and buzz far sooner than they actually know the answer, but when they're confident this results in powers. On the rare occasions they're unconfi...
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT HSNCT field discussion
- Replies: 154
- Views: 87779
Re: Staff Team
By the way, about the final match: TJ at one point was down by more than 200 points (they actually had -5). Does anyone think that they were simply "goofing around" since Lakeside had to win two matches to beat them? I can assure you we were not goofing. We actually have quite an affinity...
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Thomas Jefferson wins third straight HSNCT
- Replies: 65
- Views: 36609
...It is frustrating to me as an observer of this type of competition... I completely understand your preferences regarding pacing and bouncebacks, but to others they may be just the points that make NAQT stand out above PACE. Personally, I enjoy the academic content of PACE questions, but greatly ...
- Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Thomas Jefferson wins third straight HSNCT
- Replies: 65
- Views: 36609
I think the blowouts have a lot to do with rhythm. It's a lot easier to keep powering and keep 30ing when you've gotten several in a row, and probably much more difficult to get back in the game if you are substantially behind early on. The most important predictors of our scores this weekend were o...
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT HSNCT field discussion
- Replies: 154
- Views: 87779
- Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why go to Nationals?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4989
What I'm trying to say is, it really depends who you want to impress -- if anyone. Sorry for the late response to this one. You probably know that I don't much care about impressing anybody, or else I would devote time to much more high profile competitions. My claim is that the teams really there ...
- Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why go to Nationals?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4989
It is clear that a national quiz bowl champion cannot be well defined if there are so many tournaments, but I know I for one don't care about whatever prestige the hard and fast title of national champion might bring. I care about competing in, and hopefully winning, the tournaments I judge to have ...
- Tue May 24, 2005 6:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT HSNCT field discussion
- Replies: 154
- Views: 87779
Having competed against Mission San Jose's science bowl team (which is roughly equivalent to its qb team, I think) I definitely think they at least have the skills to make it very deep into the naqt playoffs. Though I don't know so much about their non-science knowledge base, I think they might be d...
- Mon May 23, 2005 10:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: VA/MD/DC Summer Singles
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8430
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 5:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Florida CAC Results
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6901
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:13 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Florida CAC Results
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6901
You can't approach Panasonic as quiz bowl for the same reason you can't approach science bowl as quiz bowl: the rules and format make no sense, and the directors have no reason to change. If you approach it as a vaguely related sort of half-knowledge half-formalism game, then it can in fact be rewar...
- Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New York Times article
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7453
But there was a string of a few years where TJ didn't win a game on It's Academic . It was my impression that this was mostly due to focusing too much on knowledge and not enough on strategy. In more recent years, I think the faculty sponsor has been more involved, and I believe the team has had a ...
- Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 355396
- Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Highest scores
- Replies: 73
- Views: 44540
To somerandomguy: The format was NAQT timed. 24 tossups with powers can make a big difference verus 20 without. Our prelim ppg was 570. Other stats at http://www.student.virginia.edu/~quizbowl/naqtstates05stats_standings.html To PRStoetzer: Our starting A team has not last a match this year. However...
- Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic
- Replies: 96
- Views: 53827
This year's Team Virginia consists of: Sam Lederer Dan Wright Will Sullivan Jacob Oppenheim Alexandra Levy Ajay Suresh All from TJ with the exception of Ajay, from Princess Anne. I'm excited about the competition and all, but what's really got me going is trying to guess the campy theme of the compe...
- Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:30 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Nationals aftermath/discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 67662
- Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE Information
- Replies: 75
- Views: 48978
- Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT Question
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2314
- Thu Mar 17, 2005 10:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational Math Crisis!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 50302
- Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational Math Crisis!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 50302
The fact that mathematical computation is naturally ambiguous is a powerful argument for the removal of calculation questions from all distributions. While smug, condescending answers should be discouraged, I don't think an argument could be made for rejecting an answer based solely on that. And sty...
- Thu Mar 17, 2005 8:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational Math Crisis!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 50302
Obviously, virtually impossible is hard to define. The trig functions of an angle of any integer number of degrees can all be found using the appropriate formulas. In a world of moderators who know math, I think there is no reason for simplified answers to be required. Obviously, if writers require ...
- Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Any thoughts on the DC area?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 41870
- Tue Mar 08, 2005 12:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Any thoughts on the DC area?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 41870
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: gonzaga tournament?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4639
I would not call the questions sub par. Not all of them were meant to be pyramidal, I think, and the answer selection was refreshingly non formulaic, with generally difficult questions. This answer selection, while novel, did produce a number of upsets. TJ B beat TJ A (both with non-standard rosters...
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: a modest proposal...for playoff formats
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3841
The first format is roughly feasible, only with the stipulation that undefeated or highly ranked teams don't play the first round. Otherwise the structure goes to hell. The second format is, I think, excessive. It would take forever, and would result in tremendous numbers of overkill matches that do...
- Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is Gov doing a spring tournament?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6835
- Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: National Ocean Sciences Bowl North Carolina Regional
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3029
- Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Team PP20TUH vs. MPP20TUH
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7311
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Duke Academic Festival 2005
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14538
They did indeed. Does anyone know why? Spotswood A was slotted into the same division as TJ A. Spostwood B was in the same division as TJB and Raleigh Charter A. They probably figured that TJ A was unbeatable and instead of going for a safer #2 slot in the division decided to take a chance and go f...
- Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Open results
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5035