Arsonists Get All the Girls wrote:If you need any freelance writing, I can help out.
Halakis wrote:Arsonists Get All the Girls wrote:If you need any freelance writing, I can help out.
We're always looking for writers, but more importantly, if anyone has connections to junior highs or JV tournaments in your area and you want to see QG or QU gone, we will be more than happy to supply.
Jeremy Gibbs-Marangoni Effect wrote:Would you consider writing for official state tournaments?
I assume you could be asking about Missouri, in which case I will say "Totally, dude. MO has given me great things like Hannibal, MO and the Greatest Show on Turf and I will be happy to pay them back.
majadirks wrote:Will you have a website? I'm trying to get schools to host middle school meets in the Seattle area, and being able to link to your company as a question source would make things easier.
Gerd Bockmann wrote:If I were to convince some people to help me run a state-level tournament for JV High School teams in Kentucky, would you all be willing to write for us? Right now the only JV events in the state are quick recall events, most of which are even worse than normal quick recall.
Kwang the Ninja wrote:On a scale of 1-10, how interested would you guys be in writing/collaborating on a national championship set(for next year)?
Dan-Don wrote:MS-01 will eventually consist of 10 packets of 16/16 each. 4/4 Lit (includes myth); 4/4 science (includes non-comp math); 4/4 social studies; 2/2 fine arts; 2/2 trash. The sample set, regrettably, includes comp math.
Matt Weiner wrote:Dan-Don wrote:MS-01 will eventually consist of 10 packets of 16/16 each. 4/4 Lit (includes myth); 4/4 science (includes non-comp math); 4/4 social studies; 2/2 fine arts; 2/2 trash. The sample set, regrettably, includes comp math.
I have some questions about this:
*Is your tournament really one eighth trash or is there something mistyped by you and/or misunderstood by me here?
*What's in the mystery "social studies" distribution? Are all the traditional quizbowl categories missing from the posted breakdown included there, and in what ratio if so?
*What is the literature/myth ratio within the 4/4? How many middle-school-appropriate literature questions do you plan to include in each round?
*Are these arithmetic questions bonuses only or both tossups and bonuses?
Dan-Don wrote:- 1/1 World Lit
Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Dan-Don wrote:- 1/1 World Lit
How is this possible for a middle school audience?
Cheynem wrote:You can't put that 1/1 trash to any better uses? Not even a 2/2 "Other" Social Studies?
Dan-Don wrote:-1/1 World
Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Dan-Don wrote:- 1/1 World Lit
How is this possible for a middle school audience?
Ice Warrior wrote:Dan-Don wrote:-1/1 World
I hope you're planning to write european literature into this subdistro!
Dan-Don wrote:Ice Warrior wrote:Dan-Don wrote:-1/1 World
I hope you're planning to write european literature into this subdistro!
Yes. In this case, World includes European.
Dan-Don wrote: ...Leyden's middle school tournament on April 8th.
Moving Day wrote:Dan-Don wrote: ...Leyden's middle school tournament on April 8th.
Is this tournament solely for Leyden's feeder schools? Or can any school apply for entry? [asks the coach whose MS team's scheduled number of tournaments went from 5 to 2, through no choice of their own]
Moving Day wrote:Dan-Don wrote: ...Leyden's middle school tournament on April 8th.
Is this tournament solely for Leyden's feeder schools? Or can any school apply for entry? [asks the coach whose MS team's scheduled number of tournaments went from 5 to 2, through no choice of their own]
Stephen Colbert wrote:Moving Day wrote:Dan-Don wrote: ...Leyden's middle school tournament on April 8th.
Is this tournament solely for Leyden's feeder schools? Or can any school apply for entry? [asks the coach whose MS team's scheduled number of tournaments went from 5 to 2, through no choice of their own]
Dear suburban Illinois high schools,
Please stop hosting super-secret middle school tournaments exclusively for your feeder schools and oftentimes out-of-season (for IESA scholastic bowl). While it's certainly within your rights, you would attract much bigger and more competitive fields by opening up your tournaments to the rest of Illinois. Plus, with the downfall of Northwestern's Junior Wildcat, there are very few good tournaments for suburban middle school teams to attend.
Dan-Don wrote:Well obviously I can't speak for NU's program yet, but if I get permission my intention is to resurrect Jr. Wildcat with MS-01.
Go on...Stephen Colbert wrote:I'll also be at NU in the fall
jonah wrote:Go on...Stephen Colbert wrote:I'll also be at NU in the fall
KHAAAAN please wrote:As it's looking like right now, we might be turning that 1/1 World Lit category into a 1/1 World Lit and Myth and adding a 1/1 Religion category. To my knowledge, this is pretty uncharted territory, and unlike high school, I've seen very few "fraud" buzzes that I've come to expect from high school teams. There isn't a real codified canon for this stuff and, admittedly, it'll be an experiment as we go along.
KHAAAAN please wrote:Actually, in the middle school tournament I moderated, I noticed a pretty large representation of foreign students, some of whom I assume would be practicing Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, etc. While I don't think I could be asking about too much in-depth stuff, basic canon from those religions would definitely be fair game.
KHAAAAN please wrote:Actually, in the middle school tournament I moderated, I noticed a pretty large representation of foreign students, some of whom I assume would be practicing Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, etc. While I don't think I could be asking about too much in-depth stuff, basic canon from those religions would definitely be fair game.
dtaylor4 wrote:KHAAAAN please wrote:Actually, in the middle school tournament I moderated, I noticed a pretty large representation of foreign students, some of whom I assume would be practicing Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Sikhs, etc. While I don't think I could be asking about too much in-depth stuff, basic canon from those religions would definitely be fair game.
You're extrapolating a single sample to a larger population about which you have little to no information. Try again.
KHAAAAN please wrote: I know my $16000/year private school had this stuff covered in junior high.
Dan-Don wrote:If he myth canon is as large as Donald says, then we could think about 1/1 myth and 1/1 world lit/relgion. Still thinking about what to do with the trash. We'll hopefully have a distro by the fall that is accepted by most.
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