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- Wed Jul 27, 2016 2:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 68103
Re: Illinois '16-'17
Ali Saeed wins Player of the Year
- Sat Jun 25, 2016 12:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament Global Announcement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10521
Re: 2016 Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament Global Announcem
Are NASAT tryouts still happening?Gautam wrote:Hey, just a friendly reminder that some folks would like to use this set for one last NASAT tryout, so this isn't technically cleared yet.
It should be clear after June 1.
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 12:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC 2016 Set Discussion
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15522
Re: NSC 2016 Set Discussion
If I recall that tossup starts out by saying it is an "unnamed military campaign," which makes it clear (at least to me) that it's a campaign in a larger conflict. It says "theater of a larger war" before the powermark too. I guess you could say "Caribbean theater" of ...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 4:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC 2016 Set Discussion
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15522
Re: NSC 2016 Set Discussion
I know that round 8 got thrown out, but was the Cuban theatre of the Spanish-American War tossup that great of an idea? Could you have at least included a disclaimer of "theatre and war required" or something like that?
- Sat May 21, 2016 10:38 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8758
Re: Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
Hinsdale Central may mirror this set in the near future, so we are waiting for them.
- Tue May 10, 2016 8:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going to College Next Year (2015-2016)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 20874
Re: Where Are You Going to College Next Year (2015-2016)
I got off the waitlist, so I'm now going to Pomona College in the fall. I hope to play/staff with the Claremont Colleges team. Is anyone else going to Claremont next year?
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 NHBB Nats: Factual Errors
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2212
Re: Factual Errors
In Round 5 of the US History Bee, the James Madison tossup mentions that "Paul Jennings purchased his freedom from this man". Daniel Webster was the one who bought Jennings' freedom (and Jennings worked for Webster to pay him off), so this clue doesn't really make any sense (I buzzed at th...
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 44218
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
?Xochicuicatl Cuecuechtli wrote:Can a private forum be created for discussion of question content?
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 6:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going to College Next Year (2015-2016)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 20874
Re: Where Are You Going to College Next Year (2015-2016)
I'm going to Vandy and also hope to play/staff.
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 Maryland Fall: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 384
Re: 2015 Maryland Fall: Specific Question Discussion
I buzzed on the Dada question at the Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale clue and said surrealism, and was negged. Wasn't Ernst also part of the surrealist movement?
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015-2016 CALI Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1139
Re: 2015-2016 CALI Specific Question Discussion
Could i see the Durer tossup in round 13? I reflex buzzed with Manet as soon as the question mentioned Maximilian. 16. This artist, who depicted Maximilian I holding a pomegranate, sketched a pair of Praying Hands on blue colored paper. A skull rests on a window ledge and a lion lies on the ground ...
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015-2016 CALI Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1139
Re: 2015-2016 CALI Specific Question Discussion
Could i see the Durer tossup in round 13? I reflex buzzed with Manet as soon as the question mentioned Maximilian.
- Sun Jan 10, 2016 4:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MRI-4 (LIMIT mirror) New Kent High School, 1/9/16
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4178
Re: MRI-4 (LIMIT mirror) New Kent High School, 1/9/16
I hope everyone enjoyed the set. If you'd like to give feedback or have any questions, please send a request to join the private discussion forum from the User Control Panel. Thanks!
- Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Massachusetts NASAT Team
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3589
Re: Massachusetts NASAT Team
Any word on the format of the tryout and the set that it will use?
- Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8758
Re: Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
If you would like to provide some feedback on the set, please join LIMIT's private discussion forum. To enter, go to User Control Panel, click on Usergroups, click on "2015 LIMIT Discussion" and hit "Join Group."
- Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Science Bowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5215
Re: Science Bowl
Science bowl does a much better job than quiz bowl of testing for actual intelligence (aside from guesses on the multiple choice questions); that being said, the format of the questions in Science Bowl is pretty horrible.
- Wed Nov 18, 2015 3:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT X at Harvard (11/14/15)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13087
Re: HFT X at Harvard (11/14/15)
My teammates and I really enjoyed the set. This year's logistixs were also great; I think the tournament wrapped up an hour ahead of schedule? Creds to the Harvard team for putting out the best HFT yet.
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 ACF Fall general discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 24938
Re: 2015 ACF Fall general discussion
I was negged first line on the jazz piano tossup for buzzing with "double bass" on the clue "this instrument opens So What". I believe notes from the double bass open the song rather than notes from the piano.
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- Sat Oct 10, 2015 10:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/10/2015
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4615
Re: Earlybird at Illinois - Urbana, IL - 10/10/2015
Hinsdale with a godly 31 PPB against Auburn
- Tue Sep 15, 2015 10:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8758
Re: Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
Hey folks, please keep those mirror registrations coming in! The set is coming along nicely, as we are in the final stages of production. We hope to register mirrors in as many circuits around the country as possible, so if your region does not have a LIMIT mirror site and you plan on hosting a tour...
- Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hinsdale Central Quizbowl presents: TEAMS [September 5th]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8761
Re: Hinsdale Central Quizbowl presents: TEAMS [September 5th
Congrat to Hinsdale Central for winning the Hinsdale Central Invitational!!!
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Central MA Fall Tournament III (Oct 31st, 2015)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7055
Re: Central MA Fall Tournament III (Oct 31st, 2015)
Lexington would like to bring four readers, one buzzer, and two teams
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 7:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2015-16
- Replies: 76
- Views: 78197
Re: HSQBRank 2015-16
Yeah but I thought I heard something about her changing schools. Also need help with http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2536/stats/combined/teamdetail/#t18 Adding help requests with: Alpharetta: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2568/stats/complete_results/teamdetail/#t0 AMSA: http://hsquizbow...
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Potential Northeast HS Mirror of ACF Fall
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9835
Re: Potential Northeast HS Mirror of ACF Fall
I would say the difficulty is between HFT and HSNCT. As a comparison, last year's HFT stat adjustment was +2.24 while the ACF Fall adjustment was +3.11 .
- Fri Aug 21, 2015 12:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Potential Northeast HS Mirror of ACF Fall
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9835
Re: Potential Northeast HS Mirror of ACF Fall
Lexington would bring 1, potentially 2 teams
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 10:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Potential Northeast HS Mirror of ACF Fall
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9835
Re: Potential Northeast HS Mirror of ACF Fall
Around how many teams would be the minimum to make a high school division feasible?
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
But why are you required to write packets for ACF, if they exclude you from their target audience?heterodyne wrote:Right. And they are paying for your packets! See, it's great how this packet sub thing works, isn't it?
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
Yes, because we are paying for those packets.
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
B) What IS ridiculous is that ACF expects high schoolers who are barred from college tournaments to write questions for them anyways. The two possible ways for making this feasible are either taking away the writing submission requirement or allowing the questions submitted by high schoolers to onl...
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
B) What IS ridiculous is that ACF expects high schoolers who are barred from college tournaments to write questions for them anyways. The two possible ways for making this feasible are either taking away the writing submission requirement or allowing the questions submitted by high schoolers to onl...
- Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
This thread makes no sense to me. I would understand if the general idea of thread was "ACF Fall is too expensive, if it remains at this price we wont play". But that's not what I'm getting as the general vibe here. This thread (or at least that part of the thread) seems to just be about ...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
It's completely reasonable for ACF to not want high schoolers at their official tournaments! This ties into quizbowl's professionalism problem. ACF is designed for teams representing colleges to compete and that is muddled when high schoolers can come play. Given that, why would they redesign their...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
I fail to see how "you don't get any special treatment" is "unfair." Yup getting barred from college tournaments while paying 50% more than you would pay for any high school tournament AND be expected to produce questions for an organization that has already barred you is totall...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 5:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
I'm fully aware of his point. You're missing mine, which is that the writing requirements aren't onerous for the very small minority of HS teams that meet them. Illinois has run a HS mirror of ACF fall for several years on essentially these rules and it has never failed to fill. Yeah sure they aren...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall for high schoolers
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25030
Re: ACF Fall for high schoolers
Alston I think you're missing the pointheterodyne wrote:If you've played enough to meet ACFs packet submission requirement then I think you can handle a half packet of fall level questions.
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 11:23 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Good Teams Playing A Sets
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13321
Re: Good Teams Playing A Sets
it's not a great idea to inundate the field with really great players who play on teams that power 70% of the questions I agree, but I don't think this is a matter of much concern. The highest value of powers/TUH over the course of a whole tournament on an NAQT high school set that we're sure of* w...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 12:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Good Teams Playing A Sets
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13321
Re: Good Teams Playing A Sets
I feel that a lot of good can be achieved by tournament directors. If they place restrictions that stop players of certain caliber nationally (perhaps around 25 ppg or 1 power a game at nationals) or teams of certain caliber (finished 7-3 at HSNCT or top bracket PACE) from entering their A set tour...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Good Teams Playing A Sets
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13321
Re: Good Teams Playing A Sets
I guess hosting a housewrite could be an option, but for us anyways we are already hosting two tournaments this year, one for our housewrite in the winter and probably an IS set im the spring. There will be plenty of strong teams, I'm sure, attending the MIT fall tournament to keep the games interes...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 1:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Good Teams Playing A Sets
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13321
Re: Good Teams Playing A Sets
A few weeks back I got the chance to attend Texas Quiz Bowl Camp where one of my questions was under what circumstances a good team nationally should consider playing an A set. After a discussion, I've come to a belief that there is no reason why a team capable of going 7-3 or better at HSNCT shoul...
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qubowl?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5191
Re: Qubowl?
Interestingly enough they follow the IHSBBCA and various other pyramidal quiz bowl organizations on their twitter page
- Wed Aug 12, 2015 1:23 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qubowl?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5191
Qubowl?
Does anyone happen to know what qubowl.com is and/or if it is legitimate? It came up as an ad on google. It claims to help you get better.... Who are the "champions" who wrote the questions for this site?
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NAQT survey results
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2172
Re: 2015 NAQT survey results
Shoutout to the person or people who put there should be 20 comp math tossups per round
- Sat Jun 27, 2015 4:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10257
Re: 2014-15 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
Was IS-146 supposed to be harder than regular difficulty? Caspar David Friedrich and Masaccio are pretty damn hard for an IS set
- Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY / NJ Date Claims, 2015-16
- Replies: 65
- Views: 37536
Re: NY / NJ Date Claims, 2015-16
Lexington will be hosting our housewrite On December 5th. Although this is an SAT date, we strongly encourage all teams in the region to come if possible.
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 Natl. Quiz Bowl Awards: Congratulations to the Winners!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 25702
Re: 2015 National Quiz Bowl Awards: Voting Open
Did the nominating committee take NHBB performance into account? It's called a National Quiz Bowl Award...still though, congratulations on your JV championship at NHBB, maybe you'll get nominated and have the opportunity to pursue further awards in the coming years. Also, just a suggestion, but per...
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 6:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) 2015-16
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25475
Re: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) 2015-16
Due to conflicts with other tournaments, LIMIT will now be held on December 5th instead of December 19th.
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '15 - '16
- Replies: 64
- Views: 47401
Re: Illinois '15 - '16
Auburn returns the far and away best player in the state. Depending on his improvement, Auburn could be the best in the state by the end of the year. This is true, however keep in mind that God and co. beat Auburn at hsnct when it had both Cole t and Evan Panda. Given that all four of Hinsdale's me...
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 6:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '15 - '16
- Replies: 64
- Views: 47401
Re: Illinois '15 - '16
I think Hinsdale Central will be the best team in the state, but don't count out Auburn, IMSA, and Naperville North to contend for tournament titles and high placements. Barrington, Stevenson, and a few others could break into that tier as well with explosive summer improvement. Based on how commit...
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 11:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8758
Lexington's LIMIT seeking mirrors for 2015-2016 season!
Hello everyone! The Lexington (MA) High School quizbowl team is excited to announce that Lexington's Inaugural Minuteman Invitational Tournament (LIMIT) will be available for mirrors in the 2015-2016 competition season, with the set being available for use from October 19, 2015 to May 21, 2016 (the ...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 Natl. Quiz Bowl Awards: Congratulations to the Winners!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 25702
Re: 2015 National Quiz Bowl Awards: Voting Open
I don't think being snubbed of a potential $100 is "minor"Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote:Nothing quite as sad as griping about minor slights in a public forum.