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Stuyvesant is going to the HSNCT according to the latest field update.

2005 NAQT HSNCT Playoffs Fifth Round - Winners' Bracket "Thomas Jefferson A 885, Walton 95" Wait, is this a typo from the NAQT archives? Please tell me its a typo. How a team can put up that kind of a number against an opponent that ended up being tied for 8th in the HSNCT is totally beyon...

After looking over the results from the Midwest Championship, Kurtis seems to be the likely leading candidate for the top individual performance honors at the NAQT HSNCT, if only for the fact that he accounts for nearly all of the tossup conversion of a potential top 10 team.

So, is this the largest quiz bowl tournament ever in recorded history or what? I think I remember reading here somewhere that Brookwood tournaments in the past drew 200+ teams, but I might be just imagining that.

-One of those Michigan teams will not make playoffs. Stranger things have happened and I would assume Novi and GPN are good enough to make it, but four teams in the top 10 grossly overstates that region, particularly when considering that the sole team that travels hasn't won everything by a propor...

Another way to help if there are enough sets and open weekends to go around but not enough tournaments would be for some of the teams who don't usually host tournaments throughout the year to start doing so. These things could be happening already and they just aren't advertised here, but teams lik...

Yeah, I agree with you about Michigan teams not traveling a lot. That's why I'm relaying you my opinions(although biased) because most other people don't know much about the Michigan circuit besides DCC. DCC is a perennial top performer but this year, the other 3 teams(EL, Novi and GPN) are just as ...

It'd also be pretty cool if more people in Michigan running tournaments did a better job of keeping specific stats and posting them to this board, but I guess you can't have everything. Hey, no need to put down the Michigan tournament staff who I think do a phenominal job of running tournaments and...

Haha, I would gladly take that bet Douglas, even if it was for a 100 point margin. No team in this tournament could hand GPN half the kind of a defeat you claim Wilmington is capable of, including TJ and Dorman. I don't blame you for that comment though because besides DCC, no team in Michigan trave...

After pouring over the results for the recent NAQT invitations and state tournaments held in various states, here are my picks for the top 10 teams and top 5 individual players in the 2008 NAQT HSNCT. TOP 10 TEAMS(in order): 1.) Thomas Jefferson(VA) 2.) Walt Whitman(MD) 3.) Dorman(SC) 4.) Eden Prair...

Does anybody have the results to the MSU March Madness tournament this weekend?

Oops, I meant DCC in my first sentence when I typed DCD.

GPN should be solid if they travel a little more, but EL and DCC should have the field covered all year. I see Troy, DCD, GPN in that second tier. after that I would say Churchill, Novi, Kent City, White Cloud, and Hartland have potential. I also thin West Bloomfield may be decent. After that there...

[quote=DumbJacques]Grosse Point North: Stop throwing this team's name around. I'm looking at you, multiple-accounting killbill person. Novi: Ditto. This team returns a total of like 8 powers from 2 NAQT squads, neither of which made playoffs. Failing to put up, I believe, naturally leads to. . .[/qu...

As always, teams from the DC/NE area refuse to acknowledge that good teams exist outside of the East Coast. It's ludicrous that no one suggested that East Lansing should be in the top 10 considering that Kurtis is just as good of a maverick player as Dallas or Charlie. DCC should be awesome as they ...

Here's my well-researched prediction. 1. MLK Magnet 2. *insert arbitrary team from Michigan* 3. *insert arbitrary team from Michigan* 4. *insert arbitrary team from Michigan* 5. *insert arbitrary team from Michigan* 6. one of 200 Minnesota teams sure to attend 7. Three 6 Mafia 8. Chuck Norris 9. Nau...

I noticed that the difficulty of the NAQT HSNCT question sets seem to have been dropping over the last couple of year or that the question distribution has shifted at the very least. My basis for this belief was our team's experience when we were playing exhibition matches the night before this year...

Brindlee Mountain A deserves to be in the top 10 in my opinion. At PACE, my team(Novi) won against New Trier, almost beat Gonzaga, lost to Maggie Walker really badly, and then proceeded to get completely annihilated by Brindlee Mountain A(by like 400 points). Maybe the questions in the round which w...

I'm a graduated Novi player and I believe we had 6 active senior quiz bowl players this year who will no longer be there obviously next year. However, the underclassmen on our team are much better players than our graduating senior class in my opinion and we have a solid core of 3 players returning ...

More specifically, I'm concerned about the Duke University QB team since I'm going to be a freshman at Duke this year. Now, I'm not totally sure if I want to do QB in college but it would be nice to know how engaged in the activity Duke is, the current roster, schedule of events, etc. Their home pag...

Out of curiosity, do schools in the South like Duke, Vanderbilt, UNC, etc. have active and competitive quizbowl teams? The reason I ask is I have yet to find up to date home pages for any of these schools like the ones that Harvard, Stanford, and Chicago have for instance. Also, I see that none of t...

I'm pretty sure DCD graduates both of their top two seniors this year so next year will most likely be a rebuilding year for them. Troy graduates their entire A team including Kareem so it's up in the air whether they will even compete next year because they don't seem to have a Quiz Bowl infastruct...

DCC should be weaker next year because they lose basically their entire A team albeit 1 player. However, they do have a knack of getting progressively better as the year moves along so they can't be counted out. Based on this year's NAQT stats, East Lansing also appears to lose basically every membe...

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I personally think that the Berenson division is a lot stronger than the Yost Division. There are absolutely no B teams at all in this division(obviously some schools have beastly B teams like TJ but still) and having to upset Maggie Walker A, New Trier, and Gonzaga is an extremely daunting task for...

What preliminary record is needed for a team to make the championship playoffs on Sunday? Also, are teams randomly assigned to play each other on Saturday or is there some sort of seeding involved that takes into account performance throughout the year?

Out of curiosity, is this the biggest quiz bowl tournament in the history of quiz bowl? It's going to be interesting to see if 10 preliminary rounds are going to be enough to seed all the qualifying teams out of the initial pool of 160 appropriately for the playoffs on Sunday. Also, is the Eden Prai...

It is up to 152 teams now.

http://www.naqt.com/

http://www.naqt.com/hsnct/2007/field.html

Do you guys think teams will have to play more than 10 prelim matches on Saturday now or perhaps even have a few matches on Friday to keep the logistics straight?

Any official results yet?

So what are all your predictions regarding the state/national performances of Quiz Bowl teams in the good ol' Wolverine state?