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by dtaylor4
Wed Jan 30, 2019 5:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
Replies: 16
Views: 7198

Re: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)

Just for my own curiosity (and apologies if this is posted elsewhere on here, the ACF website, etc.) --- but is there a policy on spoiler (or otherwise ineligible) teams joining a field, when such a tournament is a national qualifier? I would imagine the TD in this case got the OK from ACF to allow...
by dtaylor4
Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:56 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
Replies: 16
Views: 7198

Re: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)

First of all, an important fact here is that the teams involved are New College and UF B, not UCF. Also, the TD might have made a mistake, but I think it is unfair to say that he “shouldn’t be running a meaningful tournament for awhile.” If ACF had a clear guideline for situations like this one, at...
by dtaylor4
Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:34 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
Replies: 16
Views: 7198

Re: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)

It wasn't my decision, I have no idea what was actually happening, but it looks like the TD 1) Didn't have record carryover and then 2) used pre-lim record as a tiebreaker for the 3 day tie Or at least, that's my guess. If prelim records carried, then UG should have had an advantages final between ...
by dtaylor4
Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:30 am
Forum: Middle school area archives
Topic: Jr. Wildcat X at Northwestern (3/9/2019)
Replies: 4
Views: 6295

Re: Jr. Wildcat X at Northwestern (3/9/2019)

Can an updated field be posted, and is there a chance of expansion?
by dtaylor4
Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:10 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
Replies: 16
Views: 7198

Re: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)

Looking at the stats posted to the TDB, I cannot make heads or tails of the playoff format, and it looks like some teams played 4 playoff games and others only 2. Can anyone enlighten me?
by dtaylor4
Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:45 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois 18-19
Replies: 33
Views: 22101

Re: Illinois 18-19

Now that the season has started to get into full swing, what are everybody's thoughts on the season so far? I am particularly looking forward to South Central Scobol Solo and was wondering if some of the more distant teams from last year (Uni Lab, Winnebago etc.) were making the trip down to Macoup...
by dtaylor4
Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:46 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Player tossup etiquette
Replies: 23
Views: 16363

Re: Player tossup etiquette

Waiting until you're prompted by the moderator and then deferring on a bonus in order to burn slightly more than the maximum amount of time, however, is also scummy angle-shooting and should be even more discouraged than it already is. IMO, deferring after being prompted by the moderator should be ...
by dtaylor4
Fri May 11, 2018 5:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Open - 8/11/18
Replies: 92
Views: 37305

Re: Illinois Side Event Open - 8/11/18

Outside of the potential Americanized hybrid, will there be entry fees? I'm working on getting a gang of high schoolers together.
by dtaylor4
Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:36 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

I will note - hearing "zero-one law" and buzzing with Kolmogorov is a significantly different quizbowl experience than hearing "Kolomgorov" + a description of tail probabilities and thinking that "zero and one" might be the answer. I noticed that there was very little ...
by dtaylor4
Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:12 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

If we are allowed to talk about specific questions, then I would agree that the "sword fight" one was strange. I believe I answered "brawl" or something to that effect, and was slightly surprised that I wasn't at least prompted. The only other one that I found strange was the qu...
by dtaylor4
Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

What did throw me into a rage however was a lit answerline, which I am unsure if its clear so I won't reveal it, which I felt was overly strict. This ended up not mattering in the room I was in but I think it easily could have caused issues. Was it the "sword fight" answerline? I think it...
by dtaylor4
Tue Mar 06, 2018 10:56 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

I don't have a major problem with it. I just feel kind of sorry for teams like Rock Island who are losing 810-10. I understand that there's an obvious dichotomy, but I also could understand why people would perhaps be upset by it. You do make a good point however, and I don't have any major issues ...
by dtaylor4
Sun Feb 25, 2018 4:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Working on Illinois question sets
Replies: 11
Views: 7771

Re: Working on Illinois question sets

I’ll add my 2c and endorse this. This is the first year in over a decade that I did zero writing, and it was due to burnout. I might do some freelancing next year.

These tournaments need more writers willing to contribute.
by dtaylor4
Tue Feb 20, 2018 12:16 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Masonics 2018
Replies: 15
Views: 7416

Re: Masonics 2018

Is it just me, or does the 2A field look more stacked than the 3A field? While Southwestern and Latin are both very good teams, which I think are T-2 as far as 2A goes, and I truly think that Uni is the best team in the state when playing 5v5, 3A still blows 2A out of the water. Auburn, Fremd, Stev...
by dtaylor4
Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Masonics 2018
Replies: 15
Views: 7416

Re: Masonics 2018

Is it just me, or does the 2A field look more stacked than the 3A field?
by dtaylor4
Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Top 4 from the Barron Robinson Memorial 1) Mahomet-Seymour A (9-0) 2) Urbana Uni Lab A (8-1), lost to MS in one-game final 3) Williamsville A (8-1), lost to MS in playoff RR 4) Glenwood A (7-2), lost to Urbana Uni Lab A in playoff RR and Williamsville A in 3rd place playoff This is fake news :grin:...
by dtaylor4
Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Top 4 from the Barron Robinson Memorial

1) Urbana Uni Lab A (9-0)
2) Mahomet-Seymour A (8-1), lost to Uni in one-game final
3) Williamsville A (8-1), lost to MS in playoff RR
4) Glenwood A (7-2), lost to Urbana Uni Lab A in playoff RR and Williamsville A in 3rd place playoff
by dtaylor4
Sat Jan 13, 2018 11:55 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Top 4 from the PBI (DEFT):

1) Urbana Uni Lab A
2) Glenwood A
3) Southwestern A
4) Carbondale A
by dtaylor4
Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:43 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Here are the stats/results from the South Central Solo for those interested. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4817/ Brief explanation for how the top 6 worked out - prelim records did not carry over, everyone started with a clean slate. Mark went 4-1, Jonathan and Reed went 3-2, Jacob and D...
by dtaylor4
Sun Dec 10, 2017 10:27 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Brief results from today's South Central Solo at Southwestern, using the NT Solo set: 1) Mark Thomas-Patterson, O'Fallon Hopefully O'Fallon comes up to NAQT state. Mark got 70 PPG last time he came, no doubt he's improved over the two years since then. Also, *Thompson-Patterson Fixed. I went off th...
by dtaylor4
Sat Dec 09, 2017 9:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Brief results from today's South Central Solo at Southwestern, using the NT Solo set:

1) Mark Thompson-Patterson, O'Fallon
2) Jonathan Lau, Urbana Uni Lab
3) Reed Philips, Urbana Uni Lab
4) Jacob Simmons, Southwestern
5) Dylan Bowman, Urbana Uni Lab
6) Lana Tutterow, Southwestern
by dtaylor4
Tue Dec 05, 2017 7:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Glad to see some teams down here getting some love. I think Williamsville is the team to beat in Class A, and I fully expect them to be in contention for titles in both Masonic and IHSA (again). Athens has the potential to spike an upset, but it'll take the right packet for the Warriors to steal eno...
by dtaylor4
Fri Oct 27, 2017 10:54 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Bracketing question
Replies: 7
Views: 5762

Re: Bracketing question

I agree with Donald on championship tier = 12 teams, with parallel pools up top to feed into a final match. To determine all your prelim-into-playoff seeds -- both the "which 5 pool runners up get the wild cards?" and the "how do I seed the 12 teams into the two parallel pools,"...
by dtaylor4
Fri Oct 27, 2017 9:28 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Bracketing question
Replies: 7
Views: 5762

Re: Bracketing question

7 pools of 6 prelims
7 pool winners plus top 5 runners-up based on record, then PPB. Snake-seed by record/PPB into 2 pools of 6, RR within each pool, then winners play off for the title, runners-up play for 3rd/4th
For the other 30 teams, seed by record/PPB, and do 5 consolation brackets of 6.
by dtaylor4
Wed Oct 25, 2017 2:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments
Replies: 35
Views: 14653

Re: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments

My only possible addendum worth discussing is to bring up the practice (which is infinitely more widespread through much of the high school circuit) of finding out that some team dropped an hour before the tournament and then making a call for extra players who are at the tournament to come togethe...
by dtaylor4
Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:37 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SQBS Help Thread
Replies: 48
Views: 56414

Re: SQBS Help Thread

Okay thanks! Are there any tricks with the round/games, too? I assume no overlap on that. To ensure no overlap, I would have one person stick with the traditional numbering of games (starting at 0), and the other start at a higher number, i.e. 400, so that each game still has its' own individual ID...
by dtaylor4
Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:09 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Board Game Recommendations
Replies: 23
Views: 1848

Re: Board Game Recommendations

Some aren't exactly board games, but I do have a few suggestions: Roll For It. I got to beta test it at a local LGS a few years ago, and I find it a lot more fun than Yahtzee. Fluxx. Simple game to learn, and the endless expansions can be meshed however you want. Love Letter. Simple premise, and des...
by dtaylor4
Thu Oct 12, 2017 2:09 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

the return of AHAN wrote:With all due respect, I don't know that Ultima has the capacity to handle the other suburban schools that attended Fremd, which attracted an even larger field.
This is going to be especially hard given that ACF Regionals is on this same weekend.
by dtaylor4
Thu Oct 12, 2017 11:24 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Mr. Palmer told me last year that he was no longer going to run it. It's a massive undertaking, and I got the impression he felt 25 consecutive years was a pretty good run for a tournament (which it absolutely is). Of course, this opens things up to anyone else who was interested in running a tourn...
by dtaylor4
Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:46 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: SQBS Help Thread
Replies: 48
Views: 56414

Re: SQBS Help Thread

I'm attempting to use SQBS on a Mac and it won't let generate reports for only certain rounds. The system generates a report that includes different numbers of games for each team. I have selected the option to only include certain rounds, but the program seems to ignore it. Any workarounds? This i...
by dtaylor4
Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:00 am
Forum: Middle school area archives
Topic: New AMSQG announcement
Replies: 15
Views: 12790

Re: New AMSQG announcement

You and Alex are very correct in your statements. What I was alluding to is that this set could be used in areas like Cali, Texas, Illinois, and Connecticut, where there are multiple teams that could play this set and put up great numbers. Furthermore, it could be used in the many "nationals p...
by dtaylor4
Fri Aug 18, 2017 9:45 am
Forum: Middle school area archives
Topic: New AMSQG announcement
Replies: 15
Views: 12790

Re: New AMSQG announcement

...one of the main problems with middle school quizbowl was that the amount of answerlines that were tossed up were way too narrow. ... I think one of the things that Coach Dennis was trying to emphasize was that this statement is statistically *not* true for the vast majority of middle school team...
by dtaylor4
Thu Jul 13, 2017 1:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

May eventually get a separate tournament thread, but just as an FYI:

The 2018 Barron Robinson Memorial will take place on January 20, at St. Teresa High School in Decatur. It will not be at Springfield High.
by dtaylor4
Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:55 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Would You Recommend Working for NAQT? Revisited
Replies: 41
Views: 31661

Re: Would You Recommend Working for NAQT? Revisited

My question is "what can we do to make that not the response?" Go into areas that don't have pyramidal MS quizbowl right now. Work to change IESA's question source (I know, this could be a decades-long project, but see if you can get into local leagues and such at first). Go into Northern...
by dtaylor4
Thu Jun 15, 2017 10:48 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92685

Re: Illinois '17-'18

Down here, Piasa returns most of its' starters. Glenwood loses practically everyone. Springfield's top 2 scorers from NAQT State were freshmen, and they have another good crop of potential talent coming in. I don't think they'll get there this year, but in '19 and '20, they might shock some people. ...
by dtaylor4
Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:28 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Documenting plagiarism
Replies: 20
Views: 11183

Re: Documenting plagiarism

I'll echo Cheyne's comment re: cookie-cutter bonuses. I also have been accused of plagiarizing from my own work with a time differential of several years by a coach of a team that does not do much outside leagues and state tournaments.
by dtaylor4
Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:23 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
Replies: 74
Views: 77799

Re: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History

Sit Room Guy wrote:Does it count as an upset if it's on substandard questions? If so, Dunlap v. Stevenson at IHSA State this year.
Doesn't count if the packet itself won.
by dtaylor4
Thu Apr 13, 2017 12:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Should I suffer through the med lab student bowl next week
Replies: 10
Views: 1165

Re: Should I suffer through the med lab student bowl next we

Big Y wrote:It's probably classier than Sputum Bowl, just like Scrub Bowl.
Not sure whether to be proud or ashamed of my hometown.
by dtaylor4
Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:04 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PSA to independent set writers
Replies: 8
Views: 4853

Re: PSA to independent set writers

Two rumors I heard recently from reliable sources: 1) Several middle school matches and a middle school Saturday tournament were recently cancelled because they ordered questions from Avery and found out too late that there were too many repeats in the questions to play the matches. 2) His question...
by dtaylor4
Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: What keeps you doing quizbowl?
Replies: 25
Views: 15256

Re: What keeps you doing quizbowl?

Like most in this activity, it was an outlet for precociousness that did not exist elsewhere. From the first time I attended a practice and realized how many answers I knew, I was hooked. I was very fortunate in that I had great coaches in middle and high school. When things hit the fan in the class...
by dtaylor4
Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: extremely good pet pictures
Replies: 24
Views: 1886

Re: extremely good pet pictures

Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:Image
Post pics of Seth or GTFO
by dtaylor4
Thu Mar 09, 2017 12:09 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '16-'17
Replies: 145
Views: 66034

Re: Illinois '16-'17

I also saw a pretty good team (Glenwood) only put up 130 against patsies. The weird answers/clues stuck out to me more from that packet than anything.
by dtaylor4
Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '16-'17
Replies: 145
Views: 66034

Re: Illinois '16-'17

Read all three rounds at the Glenwood sectional. IMO the second packet was the land mine this year, we should clearly start taking bets on which round is the land mine next year.

Honestly glad I'm not reading sectionals or state.
by dtaylor4
Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Masonics 2017
Replies: 8
Views: 4438

Re: Masonics 2017

I'll echo David's call for specific issues. I will be moderating at State, so if in-person feedback is your preference, come find me.
by dtaylor4
Tue Feb 07, 2017 12:19 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
Replies: 74
Views: 77799

Re: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History

If there's some category for two unbelievable upsets by one team, at 2009 ACF Nats, Chicago B (David Seal, Nolan Esser, Nick Polk and Paul Gauthier) beat both Brown and Andrew's Stanford teams in the prelims. However, they managed to lose enough other games (e.g., to high school senior Ike Jose pla...
by dtaylor4
Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '16-'17
Replies: 145
Views: 66034

Re: Illinois '16-'17

As far as downstate IHSA 2A Sectionals go... At Macomb, I feel the top four are Glenwood, Macomb, Springfield High, and Rochester. Macomb is strong, but with the IHSA style, I feel Glenwood has the edge. At Mahomet-Seymour, Urbana Uni Lab, M-S, Normal U High, maybe Mattoon. I think this is Uni Lab'...
by dtaylor4
Sat Nov 19, 2016 10:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '16-'17
Replies: 145
Views: 66034

Re: Illinois '16-'17

Kickoff at Springfield: Glenwood went 10-0 to win, beating Normal U-High 475-105 in the final. Macomb took 3rd over Mahomet-Seymour. If Glenwood can keep a consistent lineup week in and week out, they could pull upsets come spring. Also, watch out for Springfield over the next 2-3 years. Their fresh...