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Due to significant interest from Illinois teams for a regional mirror, Groger Ranks is pleased to announce that we are running an online mirror of the BLAST set on April 18, 2020 for Illinois teams! This is an HS Regs+ set, so it should be good prep for teams planning to nationals or who just want t...

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Instead of hosting an overflow mirror, we will expand the field for this tournament to 24 teams. We are taking measures to ensure that this tournament runs smoothly, and so will be splitting this across servers. We will explain more to registered teams as the tournament gets closer. In the meantime,...

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The field has been expanded to 16 teams and a waitlist has opened. If 8 or more teams sign up on the waitlist, we will try to arrange a second online mirror of BLAST on a day that works for all the teams

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Groger Ranks is pleased to announce that we are running our online mirror of the BLAST set on April 11, 2020! This is an HS Regs+ set, so it should be good prep for teams planning to nationals or who just want to have fun playing on a harder difficulty set. More information about the set can be foun...

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It will be a closed high school mirror

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The forums announcement will be posted sometime this weekend, but Groger Ranks plans on hosting an online mirror of BLAST on April 11.

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New rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2020/02/27/febr ... -rankings/

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Interview Thursdays is back! In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Shawn from Groger Ranks interviews Abhinav Karthikeyan, Justin Posner, Derek Chu, Kyle Liao, and Danesh Sivakumar from Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland. We discuss rebounding from the graduation of seniors, the...

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New rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2020/02/14/febr ... -rankings/

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Results are up on the Groger Ranks website: https://grogerranks.com/2020/01/12/2019 ... l-results/
Thanks to everyone for your support!

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Today is the last day of voting so get your ballots in ASAP

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Like last year, we have compiled a spreadsheet by the best ppb and powers per game for each set to aid voters in the midseason polls (with comments added to note incomplete rosters): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... i5DA6I6zg/

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Many players would agree that pure mathematical rankings can’t tell the full story about any given team's strengths and weaknesses. Each team has a unique story and personal character which cannot be gleaned off of a mere look at a stats page. This is why we believe player-submitted polls are crucia...

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The Midseason Rankings are up! Here are the overall rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/12/25/overall-midseason-rankings-top-250/ Here are the NAQT-Only rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/12/25/naqt-only-midseason-rankings/ Here are the mACF-Only rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/12/25/m...

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The Illinois midseason poll is live: https://forms.gle/9vZo6bYhBRWJgCZZ6

All you need to do is rank your top 10 teams in Illinois and give justification for your picks. Happy voting!

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In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Shawn from Groger Ranks interviews Matthew Siff, Nathaniel Rosenberg, Arthur Delot-Vilain, and Alex Moon from Georgetown Day School in Washington DC. We discuss their aggressive buzzing strategy, the status of the very competitive DC circuit, their tournament ...

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In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Arjun, Dylan, and Katherine from Groger Ranks interview Arul Belhe, Brian Lin, Bryanna Shao, Cece Shao, and Ben Weiner from Wayzata High School in Plymouth, MN. We discuss their travel plans, their attendance at college-level tournaments, and their strategy to...

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New rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/11/28/nove ... -rankings/

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In this episode of Interview Thursdays, Dylan and Katherine from Groger Ranks talk to Karsten Rynearson, Vincent Fan, and Irura Nyiha of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Find out about how an already strong program has been performing with the transfer of top-tier generalist Karsten as we...

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Groger Ranks is pleased to launch our latest project. As a complement to our normal rankings and the analysis articles we collect from members of the high school quizbowl community, we are launching Interview Thursdays! On Thursdays, we will publish short interviews with high school teams about thei...

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New rankings are up! https://grogerranks.com/2019/11/13/nove ... -rankings/

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The long-awaited Steven Liu article explaining the methodology for calculating ranks is out! https://grogerranks.com/2019/11/12/the- ... ger-ranks/

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I'd like to see the Ives tossup in BLAST so I can compare their texts (from what I recall this set's Ives tossup was mostly score clues). William Schuman transcribed a work by this composer that includes the setting of a patriotic song in a minor-key polonaise. This composer depicted celebrations s...

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The private forum for BLAST has been created, so if you have any feedback or questions please join!

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The private forum for BLAST has been created, so if you have any feedback or questions please join!

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The private forum for BLAST has been created, so if you have any feedback or questions please join!

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The writers for the 2019 Berus-Lie Academic Spring Tournament were Anishka Bandara, Anson Berns, Dylan Bowman, Katherine Lei, Michael Li, Steven Liu, Keaton Martin, Leela Mehta-Harwitz, Arjun Nageswaran, Mazin Omer, Hari Parameswaran, Darren Petrosino, Govind Prabhakar, Matthew Shu, Cole Snedeker, E...

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If you want to see a specific question or ask for any clarification, this is the thread to do so! Try to add context when asking to see a question so that it might be helpful for others (instead of just asking to see Tossup X maybe say like can I see Tossup X because Clue Y also applies to Z).

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We get to launch this new thread as the new season begins to unfold! We have a couple disclaimers right at the beginning, but don't let that stop you from checking out our new rankings at https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/17/october-16-2019-rankings/ Steven Liu will explain some of the more confusing ...

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Shahar from Westview wrote a nice write-up of the tournament, which can be found here: https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/14/powe ... i-writeup/

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Some people in the Illinois QB Discord have written a summary of the recent Earlybird tournament: https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/09/earlybird-writeup/

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Dean Ah Now from Millburn and Pedro Juan Orduz have written a recap of the tournament: https://grogerranks.com/2019/10/02/phsat-xxvii-writeup/

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The mirror happened today. Congratulations to Uni Lab from Illinois for winning in the first game of an advantaged final 505-100 against fellow Illinoisans Nonvit! Full statistics can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5861/ Thank you to everyone who came to staff and play today! W...

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We are increasing the field size to 12

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A common question to the post centered on what constituted “school affiliation”. I have edited the post to clarify that school affiliation means playing only with people who attend the same school, not that teams are required to play under their school name.

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Groger Ranks is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an online discord mirror of Prison Bowl XII for high school teams. This is last year ’s iteration of Prison Bowl and so teams that play this can still play the upcoming Prison Bowl XIII later in the spring! Prison Bowl is an hs regs+ set an...

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James Stevenson from GPS isn't mentioned on the Groger Ranks post at all, but I'd like to congratulate him for being the well-deserved unanimous first place among the RMPSS ballots. We addressed this in the website link, but due to a lack of responses we did not do awards for geo/ce/other and RMPSS...

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Here are the winners for your 2018-19 National Groger Ranks Awards! National “A” Team Hari Parameswaran - Captain & Player of the Year (Beavercreek High School, Beavercreek, Ohio) William Golden (James E. Taylor High School, Katy, Texas) Ethan Strombeck (Rockford Auburn High School, Rockford, Il...

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There is only one day left to vote so get your ballots (and/or shilling) done quickly! We will accept ballots up to one minute before midnight central time on the 30th. We will hopefully get the final results and complete ballots posted here some time next week and announce award winners!

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Some notes. Traditionally, Player Polls (like the college one and the hs Player Poll run last year) have people making "for your consideration" posts. We would encourage healthy discussion about it here (as long as it doesn't devolve into destructive criticism of others like the National Q...

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Hello, everyone. As you may know for the last year, Groger Ranks has been working on rankings of teams in particular. However, there is no objective way to rank individuals statistically. As such, we are pleased to announce the 2018-19 Player Poll, which was run last year by Groger Ranks member Anso...

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As the season ends, here is our final dump of Post-Nationals rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2019/06/11/2019-post-nationals-overall-rankings/ https://grogerranks.com/2019/06/11/2019-post-nationals-macf-only-rankings/ https://grogerranks.com/2019/06/11/2019-post-nationals-naqt-only-rankings/ https:...

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Pre-NSC Ranks are up!
https://grogerranks.com/2019/06/05/fina ... -rankings/

In regards to our post-HSNCT debrief, the podcast is still being edited - we will release it in the next couple of days

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For Illinois at least, last year at IMSANITY and this year at Midwest Championship both used NSC format I think

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Congratulations to all at HSNCT! While we work on entering in HSNCT stats and our Post-HSNCT write-up, here is an interesting spreadsheet we compiled comparing the t-12 and up teams to how Groger Ranks predicted they'd end up: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OCarzp25Xoi5is41gVbzK5ERMlTv5KJ16...

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The podcast is up on our website: https://grogerranks.com/2019/05/23/2018 ... l-podcast/

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The Pre-HSNCT Ranks took less time than expected, so they are now uploaded here: https://grogerranks.com/2019/05/22/final-2019-pre-hsnct-overall-rankings/ Editing the podcast is taking a little bit more time than expected, so that might be up closer to Thursday. We will have it out before HSNCT, tho...

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Quick Timeline for Future Content: Tuesday/Wednesday - Upload Pre-Nationals Poll Podcast Wednesday - Pre-HSNCT Ranks May 27/28 - Post-HSNCT Debrief & Analysis Sometime the week before PACE NSC - Pre-NSC Ranks June 10/11- Post-NSC Debrief & Analysis June 10/11 - Release 2019 Player Poll There...

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Our final overall rankings ahead of nationals are now released: https://grogerranks.com/2019/05/21/fina ... -rankings/
Thank you so much everyone for your support for the rankings this year!

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Results are up (albeit sans the podcast this time) on our website: https://grogerranks.com/2019/05/19/2018 ... l-results/

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