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OP_Huskies

I think it is the Downers North coach ... at least she did question/moderator control as of 2 or 3 years ago. However, her name escapes me now.

OP_Huskies

On the subject of schools, anyone know if any new teams will be joining our legion of 500 this year? Have we made any inroads into the vast wasteland know as Chicago (Latin & St. Ignatius excluded of course)? Something else I'll throw out to my more experienced brethren... For the last two year...

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Though, we are only two-three years removed from Joliet being one of the eight best teams in the state, and no, I am not letting that drop, and no I am not getting over it. ... I personally am angrier about the Downers South/Hinsdale Central combo from state 06 and 07. To not only beat both teams i...

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Hey ... I know this is a bit off-topic but I was wondering if anybody knew where GG was headed to college. He sat in on my math class at UChi, and I was wondering if anybody knows which school he decided on. Congrats to team Illinois! On to real quiz bowl. Can't say much about anywhere else, but I d...

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Football coaches will never run good quizbowl. They don't know anything about the activity, and they don't want to. To the extent that they understand it's something involving academics and knowledge, they hate you for being "nerds," and want you to do things more like football (ultimatel...

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How many more negs does Auburn have than Greg? Ouch, John. That hurts. Hey ... Negs don't matter if you get more TU's than the other guys. Besides, my neg record is as bad as anybody's. I have more stupid negs in crunch situations than anybody else I've ever played against. Trust me. Really stupid ...

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1). Auburn 2). Loyola 3). WN 4). Stevenson Other issues: What is the combined difference between Auburn/WN and Sandburg/HF in the four games where the members of the first group play members of the second group? Vegas line is 1200. How many more negs does Auburn have than Greg? How long will Brad's ...

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This is also why the WSC will rarely, if ever, produce a state title contender henceforth: the coaches care more about an extra half hour of primetime TV than good question quality. <\rant> ... And I wouldn't stick my nose up at any team with a 24-1 record ...... if OPRF wins this sectional, they a...

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West Suburban Conference. In fact, we switched from a decently good, almost pyramidal question provider after my sophomore year. The coaches said that the old questions were "too long" and they were tired of getting back so late. Which makes it a rather dubious distinction for Avery that w...

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Loyola regional looks decent ... unfortunately, Loyola/Fenwick are two of the 4 best teams in the sectional, and one will have to go down.

Overall, the North/West suburb sectional is not what it was last year ...

JB

OP_Huskies

One of the biggest: what do you say to the team that strictly plays within their conference and then demands high seeding because they are 10-0. If that team only plays in their conference and goes 10-0, they rack up points for winning conference. Other teams are racking up points for 3, 4, or 5 to...

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Obviously, given the fact that IHSA and Masonics have their own ideas about how things are done there is little we can do to change their policies on seeding, state tourneys, etc. However, I have heard the idea floated out of some sort of "IHSSBCA state tourney." I think there are upsides ...

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OPRF and Lake Forest above Loyola? Is there something I'm missing? As far as I know, OPRF has only lost one match this year, to Fenwick at the IHSSBCA kickoff Of course, their other matches have been: 10-0 in WSC competition (a conference we spent the last two years pummelling) victory at Fenton tu...

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Congratulations to Daniel Wright.

More importantly, congrats to River Forest Roosevelt, my Alma Mater. With any luck, they will all goto OPRF and the team will be good again in a couple of years.

JB

OP_Huskies

yeah, I figured you were quoting somebody.

thanks for the info! I really appreciate it.

JB

OP_Huskies

a) Coach Reinstein -- please tell me your sig is sarcastic =) b) does anyone know when all-state selections are released? c) Congratulations to all the state participants, and especially New Trier. And well done to all the teams in pool A. I was keeping track of scores at home and nearly fell out of...

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Coaches get together and examine record, stregnth of schedule, PPG, etc to evaluate the best 32 teams in the state. Any coach whose team wishes to be considered must be present at the meeting. At the actual state tournament, the teams are grouped into 4 groups of 8: group 1: seeds 1,8,9,16,17,24,25...

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The problem: Given my experience with how coaches cast ballots, I'm not sure this would solve anything either! I worry, equally, that too many Chicago area coaches do not give proper respect to downstate teams, andin just as much, there are downstate coaches that would vote a slate of weaker local ...

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In all fairness to the IHSA, they have never considered the state tournament as one that crowns the best team in the state--though that often is the case, even given the fact that competitive teams dominate Regions 2 and 3 and have to fight their way to the championship. If the IHSA state champions...

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class AA is pretty much as I would have called it, with the exception of Hinsdale Central. They weren't even one of the top teams in our conference. In fact, they lost in the first round of our conference playoffs, to Leyden (who bowed out in the first round of regionals). Looks like Hinsdale Centra...

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One of our team members is on the school newspaper, and last year after sectionals (?) he convinced his editor to do a feature on our team. The end result was "20 Questions with Scholastic Bowl," a half-interview, half quiz-session that we hoped would bring an enhanced awareness of our tea...

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I also about lost it when a guy came in, stood next to our team and took like 17 flash pictures, then came back for more ten minutes later. Granted it is the Mason's meet and thus they can do what they want with it (in addition to the match being pretty much decided by then), but I would have expec...

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Thanks for posting the poll, Jax.

Anyone know what the voting breakdown (like they showed in the preseason poll) looked like?

And I imagine by the time people get this, most will be back from Masonics. How did it go?

JB

OP_Huskies

Just a reminder: NAQT State Qualifier will be held at Loyola on March 24 (see listing under Regular Tournaments). If you would like to play, bug your coaches! The field so far: Carbondale Loyola Maine Southn Naperville Central New Trier St. Ignatius Stevenson Wheaton North Bah ... I'd love to go bu...

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Yeah, OPRF & Fenwick used to be in the Marist sectional. In fact, as recently as my sophomore we were in there. Then we have the two best seasons in OPRF history. And what happens? We get put into the sectional of death? Conspiracy to keep OPRF down? Of course not, but you can see why I'm peeved...

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Coach Egan, The Limerick Q was awesome! It was one of those where I was kind of listening to the words but most of me was like "what is up w/ Mr. Riley's inflection here?!" Then I hear something about a county in Ireland and I'm like "oh *buzz* Limerick." That was quite clever. C...

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what meeting did you guys sit in on for IHSSBCA???

GAHHHH I need to make this post longer.

JB

OP_Huskies

And Auburn. I repeat: bloodbath.

OP_Huskies

Jax --

My coach told us that at Fenwick they will be grouping the six top teams (I'm assuming WN, NT, Libertyville, Fenwick, St. Iggy, & OPRF). Which gives an entirely new meaning to the name "bloodbath"

Fenwick will be a hell of a ride.

JB

OP_Huskies

Matt Bardoe wrote:Ottawa Marquette: 11.5 and 12.5 (I don't know

11 wins, 12 losses, and a tie perhaps?

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Regarding the alternative introduction methods Since my junior year, our team has been using creative introduction methods ... baseball positions, pirates, etc. And we do this regardless of who we play ... whether it was against a B-team or right before NT walloped us last year at the kickoff. We do...

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mlaird wrote:Another thing that people seem to like doing nowadays is introducing their teams by whoever can buzz the fastest or in alphabetical order by brand of jeans, etc. Come on. Just do it from the left or right.

Just out of curiosity, what prompted that topic shift?

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does anyone know the set-up for the Fenwick tourney? Last year it was Octangular-ish, but 21 feels like too many teams for that.

JB

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The fact that one of either Maine South or New Trier isn't going to Peoria already sees the state finals losing credibility. Make that five of either Maine South, Maine East, New Trier, Fenwick, OPRF, and St. Ignatius. What kills me is that at least two of those teams won't even make it to SECTIONA...

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Apparently St. Ignatius is now in Sub-Sectional A (i.e. the one with OPRF, Fenwick, etc.) of the New Trier sectional. Well, looks like that's settled...not only does sub-sectional A have 15 (!) teams in it, but the NT sectional is as strong as it was last year, Marist is as weak as it was last year...

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I kind of like this idea. Even if we could get about 20 or 25 kids from across the state together for 4 or 5 teams, that would still be fun. I kinda like the idea of a "state all-star game" or "state all-star tourney." Mebbe the top 4 or 5 or 6 specialists in each area, all jumbl...

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I like your idea of the "law of cosines." I guess I misinterpreted your proposal a bit ... I thought you wanted more "math history" than math theory. I also now better understand your concerns about math computation--on second thought most math comp is pretty inaccessible ... I'v...

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Regarding Brad's post: I will begin by admitting that I am biased towards computational math, a fact with which anyone who knows me will attest. Here is my deal with scholastic bowl: it tests knowledge of topics accessible via a standard (if advanced) high school curriculum. I am not naive enough to...

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Yup ... looks like the NT sectional is far & away the hardest with Marist & Bradley as the easiest, but putting St. Ignatius in Marist will at least make it more difficult. NT is too close to all .. just as last year four different teams would have won the MS sectional if it ws played four d...

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Jax --

OP will not be there--we tried to get a team together, but 4 of our top 6 members are busy (come to think of it, I might have a conflict that day, also). Our next meet will be Fenwick on 2/10, which will also be our 3rd meet.

JB

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Any possibility that some teams will get moved from NT (as in, Maine S last year) to the Marist? Fenwick & OP are usually in the Marist ... dunno if they had any plans to change it back in interest of *ahem* fairness. Obviously that would still leave NT overly good, but would make it less so tha...

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I really like Mr. Riley's idea, but have a few suggestions. For A and C tournaments, there should be some type of qualifying factor. That is, the A tournaments, the TD should have some idea of who the "best teams" are ... obviously some teams are always very strong, and then otherwise he c...

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eh ... dunno if it makes a difference, but Oak Park/River Forest's graduation is on June 10 ... and since 5 of our top 6 players are on track to be valedictorians and will speak, there's probably no way we can make the 10th.

JB

OP_Huskies

sorry, jsut had another good idea for making sectionals fairer. Cut to six sectionals, but have 2 "wildcard" bids into state ... that is, the two second place team (or 2nd and third place team if they happen to be in the same regional) with the two highest point totals. Throughout sectiona...

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So, my opinions on recent debate: As to the A-team, B-team issue. My personal opinion is that a team's A-team is the five players, when played in conjunction, which give that team the best chance at victory, should constitute an A-team. If a team's two best players are both math specialists, then I ...

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no dice for OP in Kaneland ... grrrrr

JB

OP_Huskies

note to everyone who took my last post seriously, i was completely and utterly unserious.

jb

OP_Huskies

Well, while we're here, my friends and I are planning a "tournament" filled with questions like:

TU 3: Literature.

The derivative of x squared plus 5 x is 2 x plus 5. Who wrote "War and Piece?"

(Leo) Tolstoy (prompt on 2 x plus 5)

OP_Huskies

Why thank you If it were up to me, we'd be at a tourney every weekend. However, because other teammates are committed to other activities some weekends, and because of the hassles of getting funding, we usually only get to go to one a month. Still, I wish we could go to more. Saturday tourneys are m...

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Hi All --

This is John from OPRF.

To Carlo, Nick, Coach Reinstein, and everyone who was at the NT tourney, thanks for a great tourney!

JB

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