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by Charley Pride
Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
Replies: 33
Views: 10462

Re: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012

May 14th?! Does this date hold some special significance I'm not aware of? No, just who the hell is out of school by May 14th? Right. It seems like you'd be starting "work" as finals rolled around. The lack of any meaningful details about the work itself makes this sound like one of those...
by Charley Pride
Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
Replies: 33
Views: 10462

Re: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012

Does the startup at least have a cool name? I propose "Questionable BrAvery".*

*If you use this, you pay me.
by Charley Pride
Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:08 pm
Forum: Middle school area archives
Topic: Barrington Invitational Tournament VIII (CMST II)
Replies: 33
Views: 10975

Re: Barrington Invitational Tournament VIII (CMST II)

Donald Taylor, on Facebook wrote:Barrington Station won over Daniel Wright for the A title. Prairie A over Station B for 3rd.

Station C over Daniel Wright B for the B title. Twin Groves B over Rockford Washington B for 3rd (read by me).

Gosh darn I am a good Deputy TD.
EDIT: Naughty words by Donald are naughty.
by Charley Pride
Wed Mar 09, 2011 8:12 pm
Forum: Middle school area archives
Topic: Barrington Invitational Tournament VIII (CMST II)
Replies: 33
Views: 10975

Re: Barrington Invitational Tournament VIII (CMST II)

Moving Day wrote:On another note, I see a "Usman Haseeb" on the roster of Rockford Washington B....
Anyone know if this kid comes from a quizbowl-playing family, by chance?
:wink:
I think I know him from somewhere...

Easily the best Haseeb middle school quizbowler ever. Also the only one thus far.
by Charley Pride
Sat Nov 13, 2010 12:11 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '10 - '11
Replies: 296
Views: 78501

Re: Illinois '10 - '11

Hey why the heck are there no stats?
by Charley Pride
Thu Aug 05, 2010 7:18 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '10 - '11
Replies: 296
Views: 78501

Re: Illinois '10 - '11

I haven't really read this thread since talk of tournaments began...Why doesn't someone mirror a college set for a high school tournament? The number of available tournaments is pretty big this way.
by Charley Pride
Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:55 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '10 - '11
Replies: 296
Views: 78501

Re: Illinois '10 - '11

We profess not to care about our crappy state series, yet we still discuss its results as if it's worth jack. Everyone needs to accept the fact that the results of IHSA (and even Masonic) State DO MATTER, even to teams that play good quizbowl. When administrations see state hardware, they support p...
by Charley Pride
Tue Jul 27, 2010 12:22 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '10 - '11
Replies: 296
Views: 78501

Re: Illinois '10 - '11

I'm appalled that anyone at all is discussing IHSA state at all in this thread. This is precisely why our state is mocked. We profess not to care about our crappy state series, yet we still discuss its results as if it's worth jack. State rankings should henceforth only ever be in terms of performan...
by Charley Pride
Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
Replies: 275
Views: 116078

Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial

jonah wrote:staaaaaaaaaaaats
Why doesn't the Chris Ray team have 10 matches played?
by Charley Pride
Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
Replies: 275
Views: 116078

Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial

I had a lot of fun playing this in our hotel room, and probably would have had more fun playing the final set on Sunday. Thanks, Lloyd/Abid/Shantanu, for writing a solid tournament. Now I know I need to step up my productivity so that high school juniors aren't contributing more than I am. They wer...
by Charley Pride
Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
Replies: 275
Views: 116078

Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial

EDIT: I just want to mention, just for everyone's benefit, that my name isn't actually pronounce "Ah-beed". It's "Ah-bid". Abid is the namesake of one of Hyderabad's big shopping district . I <3 Abids. Abid, we went there several times during our trip. That, however, I've always...
by Charley Pride
Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:42 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois and the National Quiz Bowl Scene
Replies: 47
Views: 8807

Re: Illinois and the National Quiz Bowl Scene

If I'm right, I think that the Culver Midwest Championship happened after Illinois NAQT States, and only one team (Loyola) made it out. Almost all of the teams that went this year have committed to attending next year, so if you're concerned about your team "giving up" after March, I enco...
by Charley Pride
Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:38 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois and the National Quiz Bowl Scene
Replies: 47
Views: 8807

Re: Illinois and the National Quiz Bowl Scene

a whole lot of stuff Quite frankly, while all of the teams you mentioned are very good, none of them are as good as they would need to be for it to be much different than playing local teams. I really hope those teams understand that I'm not trying to deprecate them when I say that, for a top Illin...
by Charley Pride
Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:03 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois and the National Quiz Bowl Scene
Replies: 47
Views: 8807

Re: Illinois and the National Quiz Bowl Scene

Perhaps it's silly for me to say this, as by no means an elite player from a newly and perhaps barely elite high school team, but getting better at quizbowl is a fairly simple process. Obviously you need to do specific category or topic-based studying, but so much improvement comes from playing on a...
by Charley Pride
Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:03 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: lengthy grail digression from PACE thread
Replies: 21
Views: 6036

Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information

Grail I believe we pulled off a grail against St. Viator at the 2009 Loyburn. Granted, it was just an invitational on an HSAPQ set, but can this be verified? EDIT: It did. The questions were HSAPQ on the defunct PACE format. Notable? I don't know... http://www.ihssbca.org/statistics/2009_Loyburn/lo...
by Charley Pride
Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:28 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
Replies: 287
Views: 133831

Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information

The one critique I'll make of this set is that the third parts could use some ironing out. To get 30, you'd have to know the basic plot of Disgrace or the title of the other Spinoza work, other times you'd have to know the plot of Too Late the Phalarope (which keeps coming up, inexplicably) or The ...
by Charley Pride
Mon May 31, 2010 11:49 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
Replies: 194
Views: 51159

Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread

I guess that's the point of "current events" but there should be some distinction between engaging, relevant topics and stuff about random politicians who did some sort of important thing once. :w-hat:? This is a national-level tournament and the current events matched these standards. Yo...
by Charley Pride
Sun May 30, 2010 9:52 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
Replies: 194
Views: 51159

Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread

One packet tossed up Fredrick Barbarossa and mentioned his drowning, then the finals packet had a tossup on drowning with Fredrick Barbarossa as a POWER CLUE. The fact that the last three tossups at the HSNCT final weren't read was a tragedy; a bad repeat like this being thrown in would have been si...
by Charley Pride
Sun May 30, 2010 7:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
Replies: 194
Views: 51159

Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread

Why tossup whale songs when you can tossup whales?

Why tossup "governors of Vermont" when you can tossup Vermont?

Why tossup microphones when you can tossup, well, anything?
by Charley Pride
Sat May 29, 2010 10:12 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 NAQT HSNCT
Replies: 2
Views: 2025

Re: 2010 NAQT HSNCT

If I knew you were liveblogging, I would have done interesting things so you could write about them. Sorry, Christian Carter.
by Charley Pride
Fri May 28, 2010 5:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2010 HSNCT Fiesta!
Replies: 31
Views: 7184

Re: 2010 HSNCT Fiesta!

Arsonists Get All the Girls wrote:play twister
</Shibaricon joke>
by Charley Pride
Fri May 28, 2010 5:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAC schedule/discussion 2010
Replies: 68
Views: 13570

Re: NAC schedule/discussion 2010

Moving Day wrote:In the MS levels, I'm interested
I stopped reading here.
by Charley Pride
Fri May 28, 2010 1:22 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: three seconds? five seconds? no seconds?
Replies: 27
Views: 6904

Re: three seconds? five seconds? no seconds?

The thing about a longer time is that it does tend to reward knowledge and forgive a lack of instantaneous knowledge. I prefer this. Think of a player who recognizes something in the first line, but doesn't come up with the answer right away. In the 4 seconds it takes for him to remember, more clues...
by Charley Pride
Thu May 27, 2010 10:43 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: three seconds? five seconds? no seconds?
Replies: 27
Views: 6904

Re: three seconds? five seconds? no seconds?

I'm definitely a fan of the 5-second-rule, if only because it lets me watch my brother snap his fingers and curse under his breath a little more.
by Charley Pride
Wed May 26, 2010 6:07 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Congratulations to State College - #1 Pre-Nats!
Replies: 45
Views: 19241

Re: Congratulations to State College - #1 Pre-Nats!

The thing about polls is that they're completely opinion-based and not at all evidence of anything...Arguing about them is pointless and silly. It's okay to be offended or annoyed if you feel slighted, but show that anger in a match. Quibbling about it here will just make you look dumb if you're rea...
by Charley Pride
Sun May 02, 2010 10:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '09-'10
Replies: 568
Views: 141654

Re: Illinois '09-'10

HSNCT: Auburn A: 3-7 Auburn B: 5-5 Carbondale: 4-6 Chatham Glenwood: 4-6 Chicago Latin: 5-5 Loyola:10-0, tourney champs New Trier: 3-7 OPRF: 4-6 Riverside Brookfield: 5-5 Stevenson:3-7 St. Ignatius: 0-10 Saint Viator: 8-2, 3 playoff wins Wheaton Warrenville South: 6-4, 1 playoff win New Berlin (ass...
by Charley Pride
Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
Replies: 217
Views: 87747

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)

Bruce told me I'm playing this with Andy Watkins and Guy Tabachnik, in addition to the aforementioned Filip Milovanovich.
by Charley Pride
Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:35 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10
Replies: 78
Views: 19104

Re: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10

Wow, look at that field wide bonus conversion. Can someone speak to the degree of difficulty difference between the original set and the one played today? PM me if this is confidential. Difficulty is hard for me to quantify, but an average of about 3/3-5/5 was changed per round, iirc. I'm not sure ...
by Charley Pride
Sun Apr 25, 2010 1:24 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10
Replies: 78
Views: 19104

Re: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10

Wow, look at that field wide bonus conversion. Can someone speak to the degree of difficulty difference between the original set and the one played today? PM me if this is confidential. Heartiest congratulations to Stevenson for winning this one...it's a little sad for me to realize that this was a...
by Charley Pride
Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:58 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10
Replies: 78
Views: 19104

Re: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10

Your Cup of Robust Tea wrote:I'll get this thing, Brad.

http://www.jimmyjohns.com/menu/nutrition.aspx?id=1213
Also, what if we play art Abid against the field?
by Charley Pride
Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:51 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10
Replies: 78
Views: 19104

Re: ATROPHY at NIU: 4/24/10

Me, too.
by Charley Pride
Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:06 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Where Are You Going To College Next Year
Replies: 57
Views: 19841

Re: Where Are You Going To College Next Year

Probaby UChicago, barrring an incredible experience at Northwestern tomorrow or waitlist acceptances from Brown or UPenn.

Everyone in the world seems to be going to UPenn.
by Charley Pride
Mon Apr 12, 2010 12:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
Replies: 217
Views: 87747

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)

Assuming I won't go home immediately after preliminary matches on Saturday, I'll play this with the inestimable Filip Milovanovic and possibly Lloyd and Abid.

EDIT: Spelling, LloyBid
by Charley Pride
Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:28 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PROBING FOR INTEREST: Late Season Tourney @ Rockford Auburn
Replies: 19
Views: 2756

Re: PROBING FOR INTEREST: Late Season Tourney @ Rockford Auburn

Yeah, I'm fairly certain this isn't going to happen. We haven't received administrative response yet, and based when I asked an assistant principal about it today, we wouldn't have approval anyway. I'm really sorry. Even if it may still be possible, I'm officially saying that someone else can mirror...
by Charley Pride
Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
Replies: 275
Views: 116078

Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial

Something of a time/date for this thing should be decided. Who's in charge of that?
by Charley Pride
Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:45 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Why is Illinois bad?
Replies: 126
Views: 24526

Re: Why is Illinois bad?

Here is my problem, I am in the process of trying to get 16 Central Illinois teams together to form a League for the fall. My proposal is to use pyramidal questions, no "junk" (vocational, drivers ed, pop culture, home ec. ect) and even move to a three part bonus system with individual re...
by Charley Pride
Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:03 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fond Farewell II
Replies: 12
Views: 3612

Re: Fond Farewell II

Jane Fairfax wrote:Don't sell your own guys short Mr. Riley.
by Charley Pride
Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fond Farewell II
Replies: 12
Views: 3612

Re: Fond Farewell II

He was never particularly dominant, nor did he ever put up huge numbers, but I think Jordan Hoffmann of Auburn deserves to be mentioned. A lack of aggressiveness may have hindered him from showing his deep, deep knowledge in science at times, but he brought crucial knowledge to the team, and primar...
by Charley Pride
Mon Mar 22, 2010 1:01 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA Finals
Replies: 72
Views: 9636

Re: IHSA Finals

"They have to be able to think fast and can't be afraid to press the buzzer and be wrong," [Stevenson coach Bruce] Fitzgerald said. "It's a lot like being a relief pitcher in baseball - if they get a hit off you, you have to be able to shrug it off and throw that next pitch." it...
by Charley Pride
Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA Finals
Replies: 72
Views: 9636

Re: IHSA Finals

I agree. Congratulations to all teams who made their way to Peoria. Also, thank you for the awesome show of sportsmanship; the four teams we played (Hinsdale South, Auburn, Bradley-Bourbonnais, and Carbondale) were incredibly gracious. For all the problems with IHSA State series, it did a pretty go...
by Charley Pride
Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: February Poll
Replies: 108
Views: 19845

Re: February Poll

I just wanted to thank everyone for the recent outpouring of support this past week. I now see the community aspect of quiz bowl, and it's pretty awesome. Just to be clear, I hold no ill feelings about anything said on the forums (it appears all of us were guilty of judging too quickly). I would ca...
by Charley Pride
Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:09 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: February Poll
Replies: 108
Views: 19845

Re: February Poll

Edward Elric wrote:There's a kid from IMSA named Bayo Bankole, so its either him under the name Matt from LPHS or some random kid from LPHS posting ITT.
Change his name to Michael Petrovich, because he's a supersleuth.
by Charley Pride
Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion
Replies: 67
Views: 10150

Re: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion

JackGlerum wrote:I will come back from Ron McGraw's worst nightmare and wear a du-rag and sunglasses, burning down the Peoria Civic Center so that nobody can win.
Dude, if I said that, I'd be in jail.
by Charley Pride
Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion
Replies: 67
Views: 10150

Re: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion

Am I missing something? Why is Stevenson suddenly a favorite over Auburn? What's their season head-to-head record? Head to head results, this year: HFT: Auburn- 480 Stevenson- 240 NTV: Auburn- 350 Stevenson (without Zach) - 235 Loyburn: Auburn- 460 Stevenson- 340, Auburn- 535 Stevenson- 200 Huskie ...
by Charley Pride
Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:42 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: February Poll
Replies: 108
Views: 19845

Re: February Poll

styxman wrote:If you're able, we'd love to have your team attend our pre-nationals tournament on April 24th. If you're interested, let me know and I'll send you further information.
Same for the Ben Cooper mirror that still lacks a name.
by Charley Pride
Sun Mar 14, 2010 10:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: February Poll
Replies: 108
Views: 19845

Re: February Poll

Having glanced at the stats from all the Dunbar mirrors, it looks like IMSA's bonus conversion was around that of teams who should be sneaking into the playoffs at HSNCT. From the sadly small sample size of real tournaments I have to work with right now, it seems like they can acquit themselves wel...
by Charley Pride
Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion
Replies: 67
Views: 10150

Re: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion

So...if I don't wind up working any of the rooms on Friday, which match up in pool play would be the best one for me to see from a fan's standpoint, and also from the standpoint of a coach who wants to take observations back to his team to mull over for next year? As always, I wish all the particip...
by Charley Pride
Sun Mar 14, 2010 4:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion
Replies: 67
Views: 10150

Re: IHSA Sectionals results and discussion

Additional prediction: Minutes after final round, Charley Pride makes at least 4 posts about how bad the questions in the final round were ("How the bobcats do you tossup _______?") This would be amusing if it came from someone relevant. And for what it's worth, Nolan's the Secretary of B...
by Charley Pride
Sun Mar 14, 2010 3:58 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: February Poll
Replies: 108
Views: 19845

Re: February Poll

But for 3 parts of a 5 part bonus (or aggregation thereof), Loyola would be going downstate, instead of New Trier. Would you call New Trier overrated, too? :roll: New Trier wasn't #4 on the list that was made, Loyola was. Loyola was overrated as #4, New Trier was not overrated as not ranked. Not tr...