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- Fri Nov 10, 2017 7:47 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: A, B, C teams
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7383
Re: A, B, C teams
Minnesota A did beat Minnesota B at acf fall tho...
- Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:38 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2016-2017
- Replies: 101
- Views: 50892
Re: HSQBRank 2016-2017
I don't know if this is asking too much but can I see the stat adjustments for the sets this season? I am extremely curious about this.
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Math Monstrosity (Preliminary Announcement)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12388
Re: Math Monstrosity (Preliminary Announcement)
This sounds awesome. I can't even imagine how much work it was to write twelve packets of math.
- Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA 2017
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14717
Re: IHSA 2017
Guys I think the real question on everyones mind is how was the math? was it good? Were there any obscure mathematicians beginning with the letter B?
- Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 54659
Re: Illinois '16-'17
So their will be 8 teams at IHSA state including Stevenson, IMSA, Auburn, OPRF, Uni Lab, Sandburg, Carbondale and Dunlap, assuming Auburn wins their sectional for the umpteenth time. Of these teams 3 were in the top 8 at NAQT state of the 5 that attended. To my knowledge all of these teams participa...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 54659
Re: Illinois '16-'17
A lot of the math questions seemed to be written by someone who doesn't really like math. Directional line segment?!?!? this might be the most boring math answer lines I have ever seen. They were writing a questions on vectors and this is the hard part they came up with. Also the cult of pythagoras ...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA 2017
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14717
Re: IHSA 2017
not good. The fractal tossup made me very sad.
- Tue Feb 21, 2017 6:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 54659
Re: Illinois '16-'17
So IHSSBCA all sectional selections are up and congratulations to all those who were awarded the honor
http://www.ihssbca.org/awards/all-secti ... elections/
I am a bit confused about how Matthew ranked below me and not in the top six....
http://www.ihssbca.org/awards/all-secti ... elections/
I am a bit confused about how Matthew ranked below me and not in the top six....
- Sat Feb 18, 2017 9:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Masonics 2017
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3633
Re: Masonics 2017
Barrington narrowly beat fremd in site 23 questions were very good with most math being non computational and there only being one of each agriculture (which was kind of history) and industrial arts.
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 9:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA 2017
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14717
Re: IHSA 2017
1 Lincolnshire (Stevenson) 2 Barrington 3 Palatine (Fremd) 4 Mundelein (Carmel) 5 Wilmette (Loyola Academy) 6 Lake Forest (H.S.) 7 Palatine (H.S.) 8 Arlington Heights (St. Viator) seeds in our sectional... it sucks that only 1 team can make it to state because at least 4 of the top 8 teams are here,...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 4:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Midseason Poll
- Replies: 64
- Views: 40020
Re: Midseason Poll
I liked the poll and it inspired me to look at some stats. I looked at all NAQT sets and 4 housewrites among teams ranked in the poll or who are returning 'good' players who powered from a previous nationals team. Check it. If anyone knows that there are more stats hit me up. https://docs.google.com...
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 8:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: TEXAS - LONE STAR REPUBLIC 2016-2017
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6414
Re: TEXAS - LONE STAR REPUBLIC 2016-2017
Hey person from out of state here, I was thinking about going to Texas Invitational and I noticed that one of the sets being played is Delta Burke. In past this tournament has been run on college regular difficulty sets, right? I have also read Delta Burke from past years and although I do think it ...
- Sun Nov 06, 2016 12:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 54659
Re: Illinois '16-'17
Guys I think stevenson might be good this year...
I wish I went to acf fall but I am looking forward to kickoff.
I wish I went to acf fall but I am looking forward to kickoff.
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 10:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Scobol Solo 2016
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5282
Re: Scobol Solo 2016
This was a fun tournament. Winning was nice too. Congratulations to all those who joined me in the final and many thanks to all those who made this possible. 

- Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 54659
Re: Illinois '16-'17
Who is hyped for solo? It's gonna be good!
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
- Replies: 78
- Views: 46615
Re: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
It was 100% fair in determining the top team and probably the top 16 but most teams don't come to the tournament thinking they are in that group this also affects things like small school and JV placement. If it were these are the top 10 teams and these are the rest then no issue would exist. I gues...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
- Replies: 78
- Views: 46615
Re: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
I am not assuming the worst about the seeding committee. I simply think their job is impossible in the current system to differentiate the teams near the cut offs at 24, 48, and 72. I'd say 4 on each side so thats 24 teams or about a quarter of the field that either unfairly benefitted or was unfair...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
- Replies: 78
- Views: 46615
Re: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
Both those results are from the fall and on the notion that trophies are awarded for wins we went 6-1 in the prelims. We beat TJ A. This was a surprise to all of us and maybe not inherently replicable but over the year we had beaten many Illinois teams in the top tier like Auburn and Stevenson. Your...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
- Replies: 78
- Views: 46615
Re: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
I understand that PACE places a lot of importance on getting seeding right but I would like to say It's basically impossible especially with international teams. How did 4 teams in the top 28 end up in the same prelim bracket? If sorted by ppb that 28 becomes 18. This seems like a significant error.
- Sun Jun 05, 2016 10:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
- Replies: 78
- Views: 46615
Re: 2016 PACE NSC: June 4-5, Chicago
Sorry for the long post... So I am going to start this by saying that in a broad sense I had a very good time at this tournament, playing good questions and hanging out with people all across the country and the world. However, once again my team won their tier and got to look up at the teams in the...
- Wed May 25, 2016 11:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Help with HSQBRank! (incl. HS teams at college tourneys)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 28489
Re: Help with HSQBRank! (incl. HS teams at college tourneys)
Lake County is actually just Barrington High School without our coach. Not sure whether or not you already knew that.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 8:28 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: QBBuzzer: A Free Online Buzzer System
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3506
Re: QBBuzzer: A Free Online Buzzer System
Thank you for doing this. This is really cool!
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:43 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Nonfiction Books in the Distribution
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3267
Nonfiction Books in the Distribution
So this question might have an obvious answer, but where do books like "The Columbian Exchange" by Alfred Crosby or books like "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" fit in the distribution. I am just wondering because I just finished reading the latter and thought both due to the mater...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 2:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '15 - '16
- Replies: 64
- Views: 32010
Re: Illinois '15 - '16
What are people's hopes/predictions for the Illinois quizbowl circuit this coming year? Predictions: Hinsdale Central wins state People at Barrington including me promise Matthew that they will study and then don't. IHSA asks about an obscure trig functions IHSA teaches about Buddhism desiring no c...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 11:51 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 PACE NSC: June 6-7, Washington, DC
- Replies: 75
- Views: 60174
Re: 2015 PACE NSC: June 6-7, Washington, DC
yes that may be true but that poses inherent issues for example many teams including us studied a lot right before the tournament and changed significantly. If you go based of of Fred Morlan's rankings TJ should have been tier II or III but was in the top 16. the other thing was that after losing 4 ...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 1:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 PACE NSC: June 6-7, Washington, DC
- Replies: 75
- Views: 60174
Re: 2015 PACE NSC: June 6-7, Washington, DC
What method did PACE use to seed the teams and create the twelve prelim pools? Seriously though because I fell kind of weird about winning 11 games in a row and coming 49th. Because the people in my pool that beat us 3 were in the top 26, and one we lost to on the last tossup. And yes I want some p...
- Thu May 28, 2015 1:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank All-World Teams
- Replies: 38
- Views: 30396
Re: HSQBRank All-World Teams
It was only sort of sass. He is an absolutely amazing player.
- Thu May 28, 2015 8:13 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank All-World Teams
- Replies: 38
- Views: 30396
Re: HSQBRank All-World Teams
So congrats to Eric Xu from Western Albemarle for being Fred's favorite highschooler. 
