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babe wake up new arkansas quizbowl poll dropped!

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use quizolytics! best way to use quizolytics? (never even heard of it) User was reminded to add a signature --- the mgmt Basically just find the most common words that are actually relevant to the subject (sometimes the AI picks up random words, ignore those) and Google them to research them. It's ...

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Not even to pointlessly glaze an Alabama team, but Hoover A will be really, really good in the next two years. T21 at HSNCT this year, they retain 3/4 of their A-team, and powerhouse Krish Nathan is only a sophomore. alabama teams are cool also i think seven lakes, bella vista, and padraig finan (i ...

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Shocked that Washington Connections, Classen and HSMSE are nowhere to be found. I also think Hunter and TJ are capable of reloading at least to the point that the A team makes it t33 or higher. An already strong Chapel Hill team inheriting a really good group of middle schoolers from Smith and ...

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Y'know what, way too early isn't early enough, so I'm going to give my top 5 in 3A as well. 1. Haas Hall Bentonville - I'm going to continue to rank them #1 in their classification until they give me reason not to. That finals game really could have gone either way, as them and Haas Hall ...

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I bought an Aloy jersey (big bro, ofc) for the occasion. Also lest we forget, other events are worth mentioning here

although Liam Doyle does frighten me slightly, him pitching to Wehiwa Aloy will be must see TV

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All of y’all in Arkansas should come over to play Tennessee at some point this next season. White Station (in Memphis) should have two NAQT tournaments this next year We'll probably look into this as Hazen is only around an hour and a half/two hours away from Memphis and we need as much pyramidal e ...

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TJ is romping every tournament run on this format I would think

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Well the class-specific power rankings are here. I suppose I'll throw my two cents in for 2A: 1. Hazen. I don't think it's biased at all this time. We return all of our scoring from last year's 2A champion team including myself who led the state in scoring through the AGQBA season. Combine that with ...

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Arkansas' regional and state tournaments were played on LIQBA questions this year, and I can say confidently they're the best questions I've played on in my career. Joe's team put together great content that had a good blend of common content every dedicated quizbowler should know to more creative ...

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After some technical hijinks (read: me not knowing NAQT questions couldn't be used for interscholastic scrimmages after the fact, my bad guys), we are BACK with the planned duos scrimmage tournament thing. As this is just an informal event to kill some time, we will be using a cleared Novice set ...

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Tracey Hickman of Murray State (OK) has informed us of Oklahoma's QB camp being open to Arkansans and following principles we have advocated for in this forum (read: they play normal good quizbowl). They will also have some of the best coaches from around the country giving presentations on common ...

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Hey ya'll. Since there has been a lot of discussion about wanting to play more Pyramidal Quizbowl in Arkansas, I just wanted to stop by and promote Oklahoma Quizbowl Camp, which will take place in Tishomingo, OK July 20-24 this year. All Classes are taught by high level current and former ...

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I'm definitely not an expert on the subject as I have never attended an NAQT national championship or met any of the NAQT members, but from my brief communications a few of them, they do not come across as shadowy corporate figures trying to keep the enlightened quizbowl revolutionaries down, but a ...

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I'm definitely not in college but I think my QB discovery story is at least somewhat humorous. So, it's the fall of 2017 and I'm in my Gifted and Talented class practicing for an upcoming chess tournament, and I had spent the entire period getting royally cooked by my grandmaster classmates (we were ...

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So many people, so little time. I'm going to break up my shoutout into 3 parts: My fellow Indiana QBers, members of MSQBD, and other HSqbers that deserve it. INQB Another absolutely incredible season for me and my fellow hoosiers, the most tournaments in a season for us ever (I think). Shoutout to ...

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One of my goals for next year is to spread awareness of our tournaments to more schools in Missouri and to our friends out of state, especially for tournaments near our borders with Illinois, Arkansas and Kansas. MOQBA influence in Arkansas can only do good. With some leadership changes happening ...

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all the north carolinians are friends apparently (they're also very good at qb, particularly ahadi)

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"My teammates and I have made lifelong connections and friendships and I'm so glad I joined this program" - Kenna White, Batesville "Quizbowl has led me to meet some of the most incredible people in my life who I never would have otherwise" - Justin Han, Fort Smith Southside "It also taught me that ...

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Didn't play nationals so I really don't have many shoutouts in that vein (hopefully next year!) but my Arkansas-specific shoutouts go to all my fellow allstar finalists and Joe Feldman for writing what were easily the best questions AGQBA has had in years, and my only message is that, to my ...

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Playoffs have the potential to be absolutely insane with no undefeated teams remaining and some unexpected teams atop the standings. Who had Park Tudor finishing prelims a game better than TJ A and Livingston A? As of before the playoffs, here are my top 7. Bracketing and the sheer amount of great ...

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Nominations from 2025 HSNCT (only including playoff games because otherwise this would be way too long) - Round 28, Wade Hampton 335-325 Strake A. Wade had been phenomenal in close games to this point, with <100 point wins over Edison Academy, Livingston A (420-415 - definitely belongs somewhere in ...

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I have thoughts on this from a personal point of view. Indiana's middle school circuit is basically non-existent and being able to play at all the high school tournaments was very good for us. It allowed us to learn the 'canon' for the higher levels and the harder questions especially helped at the ...

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Coming back to this thread to give my personal way-too-early top 10 for 2025-26. Please note I have never played against any of these people or teams so my knowledge is flawed, also there is a ton of variance at the top in these national tournaments. The top 2 Lexington - 13-3, t-5 with 22.06 PPB ...

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Now that HSNCT is over, I have launched the 2025 Arkansas postseason poll to rank teams and players based on their 2024-25 season.

Arkansas Postseason Poll

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As the season has wrapped up and teams are likely to start scheduling their tournaments in a month or two, I would like to put out that I am open to write for tournaments/sets anyone is working on. I can do anywhere from novice to regs+ (nationals difficulty would be a stretch, but I'm open to try ...

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Congrats Livingston A on winning HSNCT. Northview is insane and the fact that they all come back is harrowing for anyone in Georgia and in the country to face. The youth movement in QB is real with Lexington, Northview, Park Tudor, Stevenson A, and Livingston D (wild that they made t8 as a D team ...

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shameless plug for another Georgia team, the Northview High School Titans... Two freshmen starters just won MSNCT, and two sophomores finished on the second place team the year before. Not a bad showing last weekend on IS-232A: https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/standings.jsp?tournament_id=15966 ...

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Vainglorious yet Victorious wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 12:33 pm
Somewhere in the Stratosphere wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 8:03 am
Vainglorious yet Victorious wrote: ↑Tue Mar 11, 2025 9:09 pm And figured I'd also mention it, a 4th grader has played HSNCT.
And got 2 tossups!!
some guy, at the time he was 11 years old, had played more pyramidal HS tournaments than I have

And, funnily enough, never played quizbowl again as far as I can see.
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got 'em

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Playoffs have the potential to be absolutely insane with no undefeated teams remaining and some unexpected teams atop the standings. Who had Park Tudor finishing prelims a game better than TJ A and Livingston A? As of before the playoffs, here are my top 7. Bracketing and the sheer amount of great ...

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So, Saturday prelims are done. Lexington, by virtue of a huge comeback over Strake A in round 7, and Adlai Stevenson A are the two remaining unbeatens (and they'll clash in round 16 - should be a great match!). Strake A will take on Lambert A in tomorrow's opening games as well; tomorrow's games ...

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ChrisFromGCity wrote: ↑Sat May 24, 2025 11:36 am That explains it then lol. Would be playing Varsity but I had a schedule conflict.

I want to emphasize that the varsity questions definitely aren't good, but they are, how did you say it, palatable.

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I know I said I wouldn't crash the forum with random posts about literally every game that involved a good team but I really hope this Strake A/Johns Creek A game is one of the podcasts when they come out, this game was insane

and we're also getting lexington livingston next round

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Good luck to all Arkansas teams playing the New Orleans phase of Chip Bowl this weekend. (Little Rock Central and Russellville I know are on our schedule for JV) Hopefully we can all get out of Chip's grasp soon, but maybe the questions will be a little better this year? I played the virtual one ...

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First of all, best of luck to everyone at nats but here are a few teams who could win nats Livingston Lexington Strake (p good I think t-5 and also Justin asked so...) Fremd DCC Mexico (the glorious Andrew pookster) Yukon (Victoria Svoboda tipped me off abt them) TJ (bc y not) Caddo Magnet Now my ...

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So, with HSNCT being tomorrow, who do y'all think is coming home Sunday with first place? This year's tournament should be pretty crazy with no truly dominant force (cough cough Barrington) standing above the rest of the field. Personally, I could see quite a few teams winning it this year, but ...

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Good luck to all Arkansas teams playing the New Orleans phase of Chip Bowl this weekend. (Little Rock Central and Russellville I know are on our schedule for JV) Hopefully we can all get out of Chip's grasp soon, but maybe the questions will be a little better this year? I played the virtual one ...

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Figure out how good you want to be and set your expectations based on that. If you decide it would be cool to try to become a contender nationally, use podcasts as a reference to figure out how good the best teams are and where they're actually buzzing. Also in general study up, spend more time on ...

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Thanks to all of you for all the advice given to me through this season. The tips y'all guys gave me ended up in me leading Arkansas in scoring through the AGQBA season and winning the 2A state championship. From the sparse carding (I really can't stand flashcarding, if that holds me back from being ...

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With so many insane teams attending HSNCT Saturday, don't be surprised if there are more entries into this list soon

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Out of curiosity, what is it about single-elim playoffs that makes them an example of "bad quizbowl?" I wasn't aware that the elimination structure of a tournament was part of the problem with an event/circuit, I just thought it was the questions being overly focused on trash or just plain ...

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FZ please

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NickOfTime wrote: ↑Sun May 18, 2025 11:54 am it's hard to beat the prestige of being on TV.

Can concur. Playing on TV for the 2A championship was, to this point, the highlight of my career.

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coming back to this to add that writing questions helped me more than literally anything else

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Out of curiosity, what is it about single-elim playoffs that makes them an example of "bad quizbowl?" I wasn't aware that the elimination structure of a tournament was part of the problem with an event/circuit, I just thought it was the questions being overly focused on trash or just plain ...

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The Arkansas board at least allows electronic material to be used in challenges now, so the reference book crates are no longer a staple of the best teams at Arkansas invitationals. I can confirm that hosts usually write their own questions (with the help of their teams) and most tournaments ...

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Soooo all stars! I had lots of fun even if i got eliminated a little earlier than i wanted. I got eliminated in the quarterfinals in a tiebreaker v Jackson McGinnis and we just so happened to get a sports question 💔 But I still had lots of fun meeting all of you guys!! It was my first time meeting a ...

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Hello Everyone! I have a question about this upcoming season... My school has a class at our HS and we are thinking about re-orienting our class to be less focused on just playing questions, and focus more on carding. We unfortunately have a predicament, our school system has blocked QBReader ...

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since it would've taken too long to write as a forum post, and if I saved it as draft on here I know I would've forgotten to finish it, I have linked my all-star shills to my signature.

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