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- Wed Jan 18, 2017 1:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Neg Control
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8962
Re: Neg Control
The easiest kinds of negs to cut down are those that you make outside of your category, assuming that you play on a team where multiple people cover different things. Prioritize not locking your teammates out on things that they know, and you can focus on nailing tossups in your category and not loc...
- Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 67339
Re: Illinois '16-'17
illinois wins a national championship
- Wed Jun 01, 2016 3:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 77144
Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion
Could I please see the tossup on Nevermind?
- Mon May 30, 2016 10:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 77144
Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion
The inertia question happened to be in one of the packets that I was helping to edit. I'm not especially up on my physics, so I didn't attempt to make any definitive determination about the question as a whole, but I did spend some time reading about the first sentence. Here is that sentence: "...
- Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:32 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Sponsorship for NAQT?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6669
Re: Sponsorship for NAQT?
At least one team has used a GoFundMe to solicit donations for nationals. Running a quizbowl tournament is also a pretty popular option, but it's getting late in the year and I don't think there are many schools with quizbowl clubs in Canada. You could try this if you're sure you can get a profitabl...
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 2:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA 2016
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14331
Re: IHSA 2016
The Picasso question referred to Picasso as a "compatriot" of Braque, which made me wait until giveaway because I thought it had to be a French painter.Dominator wrote:Is there any way you could clarify what you meant by "weird"?Joker wrote:Some weird bonuses
Some weird phrasing...
- Fri Jan 08, 2016 5:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8427
Re: Best Albums of 2015
Carrie and Lowell
- Mon Jan 04, 2016 7:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8427
Re: Best Albums of 2015
Summertime '06
In Colour
abstain
Carrie and Lowell
In Colour
abstain
Carrie and Lowell
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 10:30 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015-2016 BISB Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2164
Re: 2015-2016 BISB Specific Question Discussion
I also negged the tossup on the Russia-Ukraine conflict with "Ukrainian Civil War". It seems to me that this should be at least promptable, if not outright acceptable.
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:29 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015-2016 BISB Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2164
Re: 2015-2016 BISB Specific Question Discussion
For the "distance formula" tossup, could you give rationale for not having "Pythagorean theorem" be at least promptable? A teammate that I wasn't playing with told me that he negged early with the latter, and it seems "close enough" to me.
- Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hinsdale Central Quizbowl presents: TEAMS [September 5th]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8751
Re: Hinsdale Central Quizbowl presents: TEAMS [September 5th
Congratulations to Hinsdale Central A for taking first place. DCC A took second and Stevenson took third in a circle-of-death that occurred after the conclusion of the round-robin. Thanks to Brad Fischer, Brad Savage, Mike Laudermith, Jennie Yang, and Baasit Jamal for moderating; Peter Ren, Rohith B...
- Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hinsdale Central Quizbowl presents: TEAMS [September 5th]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8751
- Tue Sep 01, 2015 1:44 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Electronic Scorekeeping
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3830
Electronic Scorekeeping
Lately, I've been scorekeeping my school's practices with a basic spreadsheet that I keep on Google Docs. It automatically totals the number of 15's, 10's and negs while also keeping track of running score, PPG and PPB. It seems to me that spreadsheets like these could be used to scorekeep at a tour...
- Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:22 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NASAT: June 13-14 @ Ohio State
- Replies: 37
- Views: 46289
Re: 2015 NASAT: June 13-14 @ Ohio State
Is there any way to follow this live?
- Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cheating in High School Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5985
Re: Cheating in High School Quiz Bowl
I'm saying this because of how easy it can be for players to cheat off of paper packets, so moderators also have a responsibility of being wary of the position of the packet at all times. To prevent this, moderators can hold something behind the packet (like a folder) to hide the back of the packet...
- Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ATROPHY VI @ Northern Illinois University (4/25/15)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5808
Re: ATROPHY VI @ Northern Illinois University (4/25/15)
Can we have a field update for this?
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank All-World Teams
- Replies: 38
- Views: 32675
Re: HSQBRank All-World Teams
Brad should be on your list, his performance at Loyburn (not on NAQT), which was 107.5 ppg on GSAC, convinced me. Hey, a lot of quizbowlers (including James and I) could put up >100 ppg in a standard div. field, especially without experienced teammates competing for points. In any case, the only Hi...
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 3:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Good philosophy reads
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6264
Re: Good philosophy reads
For more history of philosophy type books, I enjoyed Anthony Kenny's four volume set (ancient, medieval, early modern and modern). I second this. I'm reading this right now, and I find it a lot less dry than Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The author has collated all four volumes into a si...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 2:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2014-15
- Replies: 211
- Views: 131313
Re: HSQBRank 2014-15
It seems to me that Harmony should be #23 on the rankings, not a second #13.
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maintaining High Levels of Mental Stamina?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9061
Re: Maintaining High Levels of Mental Stamina?
Also, drinking water a week before maximizes hydration during the tournament when you cannot afford time going to the bathroom. Therefore, you make up the water that you won't drink on the tourney day the week before. This is still the worst advice on this topic I've seen. Biologically speaking, th...
- Tue Jul 01, 2014 8:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Science Olympiad/Quizbowl
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3806
Re: Science Olympiad/Quizbowl
How you prepare will depend on the material on your school's tryout exam. If you don't know any specifics about the exam, just go through some of your old science textbooks and read through them to gain more knowledge of the basics. However, a good resource for all things Scioly is the Scioly Wiki ....
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 1:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Preparing for NAC format
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5225
Re: Preparing for NAC format
Before this blows over, I'd like to clear up any confusion regarding this (and other) threads. First of all, "tofutoaster" is an actual member of our team. He's competed in a History Bowl tournament and also attended HSNCT as a member of our B team. However, he prefers to go by Tony , whic...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 8:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 75610
Re: 2014 HSNCT discussion
Could I please see the tossup on random number generation?
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 8:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '14-'15
- Replies: 91
- Views: 41247
Illinois '14-'15
Now that both national championships are over, what are everyone's thoughts/predictions/whatever for the Illinois circuit next year?
- Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl 2014
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8557
Re: Illinois Masonic Academic Bowl 2014
Fenwick sectional results:
1. Latin
2. OPRF
3. Hinsdale Central
4. UChicago Lab
1. Latin
2. OPRF
3. Hinsdale Central
4. UChicago Lab
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Special HSQB Rank Request
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2009
Re: Special HSQB Rank Request
What does this mean? Paper letters? And what does close mean? I believe that he will be mailing out letters to schools in the top 100, so he needs official contacts to make sure that they're going to that school. "Close" would be someone who is connected to that school's QB program, I sup...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 10:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '13-'14
- Replies: 143
- Views: 77924
Re: Illinois '13-'14
Well, this is rather embarrassing.ankmaster wrote:Can someone explain the whole IHSA situation for this year?
User was permanently banned for repeated posting with no signature, posts impersonating a teammate, and posts from a secondary account to evade a tempban --Mgmt.
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 5:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSSBCA Novice Tournament @ Fenton HS (10/19/13)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7694
Re: IHSSBCA Novice Tournament @ Fenton HS (10/19/13)
What time is the tournament expected to end and how many games can each team expect to play?
- Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: A lack of classic film in high school quizbowl.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5766
Re: A lack of classic film in high school quizbowl.
I feel similarly about rock music in quizbowl. There are plenty of really obscure classical composers that come up in highschool quizbowl, yet no rock music questions get more obscure than Led Zepplin, or the Beatles Rock music belongs more in a trash set than in a real competition. Answering a que...
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '13-'14
- Replies: 143
- Views: 77924
Re: Illinois '13-'14
As for my own team, the only reason we did make it into the first bracket was luck. If we hadn't beat St. Viator by 15 points, they would have made the top bracket due to Fenton leaving early. With no offense to any members of the St. Viator team, I feel like that game was not attributable to our l...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:24 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Improving bonus conversion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3586
Re: Improving bonus conversion
i guess the central question is "do you think your bonus conversion is hurt by just not knowing things or by not being very effective as a team on bonuses?" I think it was more of a knowledge thing. I recall a couple of times where we let the tossup go dead after the other team negged, in...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 12:34 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Improving bonus conversion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3586
Improving bonus conversion
Hi, My team had its second foray into serious quizbowl a couple of weeks ago, and we didn't do too badly. However, I noticed that our p/b was quite a bit lower than those of the top teams that were present. While we hovered around 17.5 p/b, most teams in the top bracket had p/b's of 21, with one at ...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19116
Re: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
I believe that the player "Sayushan", with a ppg of -5, is actually me. I guess my name could sound like that if I mumbled.
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Handle Freebies
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11516
Re: How to Handle Freebies
Ankush, To echo what has been already said, being part of a good team is better than being a good individual (esp. if your individual ranking is due to padding stats). While I understand that it is tempting to buzz in early or to be competitive after the other team has negged, your teammates and co...
- Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19116
Re: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
What time can we expect the stats to be posted? When do you expect stats and results to be up? Hey mods: can we do something to cut down on these "it's been three hours since the tournament finished, WHERE ARE OUR STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATS" posts? Also, protip: maybe y...
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 10:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19116
Re: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
What time can we expect the stats to be posted?
- Tue Sep 24, 2013 5:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19116
Re: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL (10/5/13)
Hinsdale Central is interested in attending with 1 team, although we will be competing with an unofficial name. We may have a staffer on hand. I've emailed the email address above for information.