Congratulations to Yale A, who cleared the field, and to MIT A, Columbia, and Harvard who tied for second. Stats can be found here:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/
Feel free to E-mail me any corrections.
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- Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SUBMIT @ Brown, 1/25/14
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6082
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 6:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Fall Tournament at Brown, 10/5/13
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7605
Re: Michigan Fall Tournament at Brown, 10/5/13
Congraulations to the Penn A team, which cleared the field. Harvard A and Yale A tied for second place.
Stats are also up:
Prelims:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/
Combined:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/
Stats are also up:
Prelims:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/
Combined:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 7:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror at Yale (3/30/13)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8592
Re: MUT Mirror at Yale (3/30/13)
Unfortunately, this tournament falls during our spring break, so Brown will not be able to attend.
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT at Harvard (3/9/13)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2674
Re: WIT at Harvard (3/9/13)
Brown is interested in attending.
- Tue Feb 26, 2013 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21623
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 4:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21623
Re: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
Found the divisions button. Stats changed to reflect final placement.
- Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21623
Re: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
Sorry about the names of Dartmouth players; the errors have been corrected. I only got "Orth" right because I asked someone (the rth was a single, continuous letter). I don't know if it's possible to do divisions on SQBS for Mac (I've never seen that option and did look under settings). No...
- Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21623
Re: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
Congratulations to Penn, who defeated Yale A in the final to take first place. Dartmouth A and Yale B were the top two undergraduate teams and Yale B and Yale C were the top two teams with DII eligibility.
STATS
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- Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21623
Re: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
There now seem to be 15 teams registered...
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 4:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror at Yale (3/30/13)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8592
Re: MUT Mirror at Yale (3/30/13)
Brown is interested in attending this tournament.
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21623
Re: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
Field updates will be posted here as teams register.
School, Teams, Buzzers, Moderators
Penn, 1, 1, 0
Columbia, 2, 2, 0
RPI, 1, 1, 0
MIT, 2, 1, 0
Rutgers, 1, 1, 0
Wellesley, 1, 0, 0
NYU, 1, 1, 1
Yale, 3, 2, 0
Stony Brook, 1, 1, 0
Dartmouth, 3, 1, 0
School, Teams, Buzzers, Moderators
Penn, 1, 1, 0
Columbia, 2, 2, 0
RPI, 1, 1, 0
MIT, 2, 1, 0
Rutgers, 1, 1, 0
Wellesley, 1, 0, 0
NYU, 1, 1, 1
Yale, 3, 2, 0
Stony Brook, 1, 1, 0
Dartmouth, 3, 1, 0
- Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21623
ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
Brown University is hosting the 2013 ACF Regionals for the Northeast region on February 23. Games will be played in Wilson (not J. Walter Wilson). Registration will be 8:30-9:00 in Wilson 102. Registration : As per new ACF policy, all registration must be done here . After you register with ACF, ple...
- Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QUARK @ Brown (12/1/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4982
Re: QUARK @ Brown (12/1/12)
Matt (Yale Up) cleared the field. STATS: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1200/stats/all_games/ EDIT: For some reason some of the columns on the individual detail page are shifted over by one (which I've heard of happening to other users of SQBS for Mac). Advice on fixing the issue would be ...
- Sun Oct 28, 2012 10:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Northeast @ Harvard (11/03/12)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23701
Re: ACF Fall Northeast @ Harvard (11/03/12)
I E-mailed Guy a week ago, asking about the procedure for paying for things, where I should have the physical invoice sent, etc. but he hasn't gotten back to me and hasn't been in practice all week. Sorry about the delay in registration (I've just requested it sent my mailbox and will track down peo...
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 12:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Northeast @ Harvard (11/03/12)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 23701
Re: ACF Fall Northeast @ Harvard (11/03/12)
I've tried twice to send an E-mail to the E-mail address specified in the first post, but have twice received an error message. The message I attempted to send is the following: Brown will be sending one team to the Harvard Mirror of ACF Fall. We have just submitted our packet and will be registerin...
- Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance: MIT mirror (10/20)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10545
Re: Penn-ance: MIT mirror (10/20)
Brown will be sending a team. Possibly two.
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:14 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Quiz bowl Topics
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10116
Re: Quiz bowl Topics
The subject areas that frequently come up at the High School level are the following: Literature (mainly American, British, European, and World) History (mainly American, British, European, World, and Ancient) Science (mainly Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Non-computational Math, Earth Science, and As...
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 3 Day Ridgewood Summer Invitational: July 6-8, Ridgewood, NJ
- Replies: 168
- Views: 82361
Re: 3 Day Ridgewood Summer Invitational: July 6-8, Ridgewood, NJ
I'm afraid that this tournament falls squarely in the middle of my trip to London, so I will be unable to attend. Brown and/or GDS may field teams, but I know nothing about any plans beyond Adam Horowitz's interest and that a group of RM people possibly including Samantha are coming.
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 NAC
- Replies: 189
- Views: 70953
Re: 2012 NAC
Now that NAC is over and the set is presumably clear for discussion, would anyone care to brighten my day by posting some egregiously terrible questions. The kind that make you cringe when you hear them, like audio tossups on blenders or "name the four presidents not buried in the US" and ...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 3 Day Ridgewood Summer Invitational: July 6-8, Ridgewood, NJ
- Replies: 168
- Views: 82361
Re: 3 Day Ridgewood Summer Invitational: July 6-8, Ridgewood, NJ
All this sounds excellent, but I might be busy (that's 4th of July weekend so I might be in London). I attended the Maggie Walker mirror of the superb ATTACK set, so I'd be interested in there being an alternate set for Saturday. Put me down as being interested pending confirmation on the date. I do...
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:47 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2012 "going to hell" protest resolution
- Replies: 29
- Views: 18056
Re: PACE NSC 2012 "going to hell" protest resolution
Do the people in Avici actually get burned? The walls are enormous and the fire seems to cover only the walls, while the people are tortured in the interior of the space deep within them. Similarly, the fire-breathing monsters patrol the walls and would probably be pretty far away from the interior....
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
- Replies: 62
- Views: 31083
Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
I seem to have disappeared from the interested persons list and am not listed on the registered teams area. If at all possible I'd like to play this set as a member of a team that desperately needs someone to sit quietly at a buzzer for the entirety of the tournament.
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 10:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 NSC: June 9-10 at Washington University in St. Louis
- Replies: 106
- Views: 176328
Re: 2012 NSC: June 9-10 at Washington University in St. Louis
This has probably been answered somewhere but I have been unable to find that answer on these forums or the PACE NSC website thus far: what building(s) is/are being used for this tournament (ie. where do I show up at 7:30 on Saturday)?
- Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:11 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How to Explain Pyramidality
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4165
Re: How to Explain Pyramidality
This google doc is one of a few quizbowl resources that have appeared on my google account. It compares a couple of questions on George Washington and explains pyramidally. I find it to be a bit aggressive in its bashing of the questions that its intended audience is likely fond of, and I believe i...
- Mon May 21, 2012 1:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
For anyone interested, the 40 tossup trash round played during lunch is attached here.
- Sat May 19, 2012 5:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
Thomas Jefferson A defeated Montgomery Blair in the second game of an advantaged final, winning first place! Team Aidan Mehigan came in 3rd. I'd like to give a special thank you to all the staffers that helped make this event run smoothly. Also, STAAAAATS.
- Fri May 18, 2012 4:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
I just sent out an E-mail to all registered teams. The message is show up at the HIGH SCHOOL and, if you can bring extra players for the scab team, please do. As far as a schedule goes, we're going to run a full round robin. If we get through that very quickly, we will add another three rounds the s...
- Fri May 18, 2012 12:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
I just got Paul's E-mail. This is indeed unfortunate. Unless Will still wants to play, we'll probably field a scab/house team (which Will could conceivably join if he wants to play) to round out our 12 teams. If teams can bring extra players, we can probably provide them with a fun day. Is the gener...
- Tue May 15, 2012 9:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
Due to unforeseen circumstances preventing Jacob Wasserman from playing, Saint Anselm's Abbey has officially withdrawn its team for this Saturday's event. On a totally unrelated note, a mysterious and unaffiliated Team Aidan Mehigan has registered. I have received word from Paul of Oakland Mills tha...
- Fri May 11, 2012 8:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
Point taken, we will come up with a schedule that maximizes the number of games played. I'm inclined to go with Harry's idea, if only because it circumvents the issue of having to create two fair, even brackets in this field. Of course, that plan relies on the assumption that we will get twelve team...
- Fri May 11, 2012 1:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
Ideally this tournament would have equal parts world-class staffers and world-class teams, allowing for moderator/scorekeeper pairings that ensure that everything goes very smoothly (as I’m sure you've experienced, reading for too many games without respite can do terrible things to your throat). Wh...
- Thu May 10, 2012 11:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
We'd love to have you guys help staff this! I'll put TJ down for 3, 2, 1 (unless they'd like to give us free money...). Given the small number of teams (I expect the final field size to be around 10) and the large number of very experienced moderators we have staffing, I'd say we're on the right pat...
- Thu May 10, 2012 10:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
It is with mixed happiness that I celebrate the registration of three more teams and scrap plans to have Whitman, Caesar Rodney, Blair, and Saint Anselm's play an epic triple round robin (ie. each team would play a best of three series against every other team). As the tournament draws closer, I nee...
- Thu May 10, 2012 9:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maggie Walker's Mirror of ATTACK (5/12/12)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8440
Re: Maggie Walker's Mirror of ATTACK (5/12/12)
That's good news because NHBB doesn't seem to be planning on returning our buzzer in the next few days, so GDS will only be bringing one set.
- Wed May 09, 2012 7:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
We would prefer that you register a BCC team and compete in some fashion (we'd like more teams), but I understand if you feel that you are unable to play as a one man team in a field like this (though you put up nice stats doing it last weekend). While it is preferable that there is no mixing of tea...
- Sat May 05, 2012 2:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maggie Walker's Mirror of ATTACK (5/12/12)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8440
Re: Maggie Walker's Mirror of ATTACK (5/12/12)
GDS lost to Blake, so we'll be sending two teams with 2-3 buzzer systems. A registration E-mail will be coming momentarily.
- Fri May 04, 2012 7:47 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Mid-Atlantic Quiz Bowl League
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8135
Re: Mid-Atlantic Quiz Bowl League
I'm not very involved with it, but I know that GDS does have a middle school quizbowl program (tended and trained by my high school teammates) that would probably be interested in playing some tournaments. I'm not sure what to make of the idea of a league that one has to pay to get into. I think you...
- Fri May 04, 2012 7:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
We'll definitely announce it this weekend at Maryland and see if we can't convince St. Anselm's, Whitman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gonzaga, and others to come. That said, we'd really like to expand the field as soon as possible, so teams that are interested, if you'd please officially register, you'd go a...
- Fri May 04, 2012 6:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
We always love experienced staffers, so if your friend is available and would like to come, we'd be honored. In other news, we've decided to run an optional 50 tossup trash round during lunch for interested teams. The writers are all high school students and will hopefully have a good idea of what h...
- Fri May 04, 2012 4:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maggie Walker's Mirror of ATTACK (5/12/12)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8440
Re: Maggie Walker's Mirror of ATTACK (5/12/12)
GDS will be sending 1-2 teams but won't know that number until after our It's Academic taping tomorrow. Sorry we couldn't register earlier.
- Thu May 03, 2012 1:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
We love staffers! Shoot me an E-mail when you know if you'll be around, it'd be great to have you. As far as the field goes, no, there have been no updates (I will update as registrations come in). I'm convinced the tournament will still run, although I'm not predicting a huge field, given the diffi...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:30 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
Then we'd love to have them at Ben Cooper. I just wanted to make sure that this wasn't a new team, excited by pyramidal quizbowl and eager to play tournaments, that might show up and come to the realization that Aphra Behn, Kobo Abe, and Halldor Laxness are all things, causing a miserable day and an...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
I was afraid it was actually a middle school... While I certainly wouldn't prevent a middle school team from competing at this tournament, I would reiterate that this tournament is being played on college level questions and is thus less accessible to less experienced players than most high school s...
- Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
You have plenty of time to register for Ben Cooper. The final deadline will probably be sometime during the week leading up to tournament, but we'd love to have you registered before that. I apologize if I'm confusing myself over the very obvious, but your signature doesn't make it clear to me the n...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
Re: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament
The field will go here and be updated as more teams register: Registered: (12) School (# teams, # buzzers, # moderators) Aidan Mehigan (1, 0, 0) Blair (1, 1, 0) Caesar Rodney (1, 1, 1) Gonzaga (1, 0 ,0) Richard Montgomery (1, 2, 1) Thomas Jefferson (3, 2, 1) Walter Johnson (1, 2, 0) Whitman (2, 2, 0...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
- Replies: 55
- Views: 30939
2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19
The GDS Quizbowl Team is pleased to announce the 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament will be held on May 19, 2012 at Georgetown Day School, 4200 Davenport, Washington, DC. Please note that this is our HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS as we have a separate location for our middle school and would hate for teams to...
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/MD/VA/DE Date Claim '11-'12
- Replies: 96
- Views: 39712
Re: DC/MD/VA/DE Date Claim '11-'12
GDS is planning on hosting the 2012 Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament on May 19, 2012, using NAQT's DII SCT set. I will post a tournament announcement momentarily. We will use 20/20 rounds, untimed, without computational math (I don't remember if there is comp math in the SCT set, but if there is, it w...
- Sat Apr 07, 2012 10:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
- Replies: 62
- Views: 31083
Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12
I like myth and this sounds fun. I'd love to play this set.
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT MD & DC State Championship @ Oakland Mills HS, 3/24/12
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7585
Re: NAQT MD & DC State Championship @ Oakland Mills HS, 3/24/12
Should I take the fact that computation tossups are being cut to mean that computational bonuses are being read?
- Sun Mar 18, 2012 4:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: An NHBB Site for All Regions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5443
Re: An NHBB Site for All Regions
Unless I'm misunderstanding the way ranking work in a single elimination bracket, I think those placements are off. The results for the five teams mentioned: Whitman A lost in the first round to GDS A. Saint Anselm's beat the sixth team (Whitman B?) in the first round. RM and Blair had byes. RM defe...