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...why aren't there more math theory questions? See, now that's what I want to hear! I have a feeling you're going to be enjoying college quizbowl math, my mellow. MaS I have enjoyed college-level quizbowl math. Unfortunately, in Illinois, it would be unacceptable because it would go dead in every ...

Send me a copy as well. As a player familiar with computational math, I would be interested to see how well students these days do computation math, and whether it is really math theory or simple number-crunching (which is not real math). On a side note, why aren't there more math theory questions? ...

I would have gotten PAGE 13!!!, but someone beat me. :twisted: But seriously, I think the scholarships to ACE camp would be a good idea. As a testimonial, I will say that when I first went to ACE camp in my sophomore year, I took the Literature major because no one else on WN was a good lit player. ...

I've tinkered with the mACF to make it suitable for Illinois format. This supports 5-point tossups (blurt rule), 3-, 4-, and 5-part bonuses, bouncebacks, and a tiebreaker tossup+bonus. The file should be attached.

Now, I'm familiar with the (insert adjective) quizbowl format in Illinois, and almost universally, every tournament has five rounds in the morning followed by single-elimination in the afternoon. I see a couple problems with trying to change this in Illinois. 1. Teams are used to that system of tour...

From EFT:

Wrong answer: Star Trek
Right answer: Salman Rushdie

A gem I had from New Trier Solo's finals last year:

Wrong: My Grandfather's Son (by Clarence Thomas)
Right: Black Boy (by Richard Wright)

What makes this especially bad was that it came after the clues "hanged a kitten" and "joined the Communist party"

Reading through Chip's summaries, I found yet another Beall steal: From Nationals (Cooper v. St. Mark's at Dallas): "Hawaii as the only state name that, when spelled officially, includes a diacritical mark" From Jeopardy! a few months earlier (February 11, 2008): "It's the only state ...

Final places
1. Illinois 186
2. Florida 185
3. South Carolina 165
4. Kentucky 147
5. Tennessee 110
6. California 75

On the final team bonus (I'll describe it later), Illinois scored just 9, but that was just enough to hold off Florida, who got 21.

Full commentary coming soon.

I will be following in Paul's footsteps at Vanderbilt.

From IHSA State
"Bonus: Name these 16th century French poets..."

...

Teammate 1: "I think 1 is Virgil"
Me: "FRENCH poets"

5 seconds later

Teammate 2: "Isn't number 3 Petrarch?"

Wheaton North has commencement the Saturday afternoon of HSNCT.

I don't think we're going to go there again. We might do PACE.

--Greg from WN

Modestly Sized Wall of Ha wrote:Well, there is also the triangular prism, which has 5 faces. That question was just wack.

The question wanted one BESIDES the triangular prism.

That question should NEVER have made it to a well-edited set.

Just pulled out the full results by the way...

1. Wheaton North
2. Loyola
3. Wheaton Warrenville South
4. Byron
5. Maine South
6. Quincy
7. Sterling
8. Rockford (Boylan)

I wish to add my two cents. And while I do not intend at all to demean Mr. Dentino (since he is a logistical genius at running the Kaneland tournament so well), I just compiled a few suggestions for improving the question quality at the tournaments in future years, so that a well-run tournament migh...

From IHSA regionals '07...

Moderator: "...name this painting by John Constable" (BUZZ)
Teammate: "Gainsborough!"

From Lincoln-Way East:

1. Wheaton North A
2. Naperville North
3. Wheaton Warrenville South
4. Lincoln-Way East

Also made it to playoffs: Bradley-Bourbonnais, Fremd, Naperville Central, and Wheaton North B

I and the rest of our starters are going to SEMO.

--Greg from WN

Gees, Jonathan, I didn't think you'd be the one to start this thread.

I do agree that next year will be very interesting. I can't wait until July to hear the preprognostications.

<---Greg from WN

Results so far:

The following teams have punched their tickets to Peoria.

Joliet
Carbondale
Libertyville
Auburn
Wheaton North
New Trier

Congratulations to all the winners so far!

EDIT: Hinsdale Central is also in now.

Well now that regionals are done, it's time for the: SECTIONAL PREDICTION CONTEST All you have to do is pick the winners of each of the eight sectionals on Saturday. Also, include the total number of points you think will be scored by ALL winning teams at sectionals. This is a tiebreaker if we have ...

Point taken, even though the first clues were abnormally hard.

Well I guess professional bowlers now join pasta shapes and flame tests as bonuses no team wants to get in a close match. :grin: I guess I was spoiled a bit since this is the first tournament this year whose questions were not written by Aegis. The questions, for being what they were (short, simple,...

Sorry to be off topic, but I'd like to introduce myself here. I'm Greg from WN, and this is my first post after about a year of lurking. I'm looking forward to New Trier this Saturday. I can't wait!