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by ihavenoidea
Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

RB is going two teams I believe.

Looking forward to playing on a good set and a good field
by ihavenoidea
Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:03 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

I'm sorry, I thought everyone had access to the tournament results 1. TP A 2. TP B 3. La Jolla A 4. Scripps A There were a total of 7 teams in attendance. From what I saw, La Jolla A should have gotten the 2nd seed. They managed to beat TP A in the playoffs, but due to TP A having a superior prelim ...
by ihavenoidea
Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:00 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

The thing is though, cost is a major issue for teams in SoCal. Due to the lack of density, cost is proportionally higher if we wish to play high caliber teams. Cost of tickets + hotel....sigh. I actually do think playing at college tournaments would be a great idea. Ill ask some people in the colleg...
by ihavenoidea
Tue Dec 18, 2007 11:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

My team is rather reluctant to do two out of state tournaments. We seem to feel that expenses outweigh the benefits. I do want to go though... I wonder if PACE will let us play with a hybrid team? =D Edison has been rather close with La Jolla every match they've played. They lost to La Jolla at UCI,...
by ihavenoidea
Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:04 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

MC, you know theres a tournament at Rancho Bernardo on the 12th? All other San Diego teams as well, this is very close to home compared to the usual tournaments. I do hope that MC and Westview can come. For those in the LA area, a 1 1/2 hour drive isn't bad. Its fun to hang out with your friends in ...
by ihavenoidea
Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: TTGT 11 Discussion
Replies: 87
Views: 28766

Could you please send a copy to [email protected]? I would like to see how my high school team would do on this harry potter packet
by ihavenoidea
Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:39 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Trojan Wars V @ USC Dec. 8th
Replies: 4
Views: 2434

Field update?
by ihavenoidea
Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:26 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

Just gauging field for next week's USC, who's going??

Rancho Bernardo will probably be sending 2-3 teams
by ihavenoidea
Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:09 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: CBCT 2007 at UCI on 11/10/2007
Replies: 15
Views: 4949

I wanna say thanks to the staff at UCI. Besides the no shows, it was a very smoothly run tournament. Our team could not believe how quickly the tournament was over with. Moderators were good too (though for some reason i could not score at all with one moderator, nothing on him of course) It was ver...
by ihavenoidea
Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:03 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

UCI was a blast

Arcadia...those games against you were pretty awesome! Both, but especially the second showed off both our prowess. Ntan, you had some amazing powers
by ihavenoidea
Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:40 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

It's the Arcadia tournament
Surprisingly we're not missing people due to band. Apparently no bandos are on quizbowl! =)

Your band is 3 times the size of ours so maybe thats why you lose ppl to band tournaments

EDIT: you're still coming right ntan? aren't you the captain?
by ihavenoidea
Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:04 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

with, samo not attending, and half our regular team a missing, and la jolla/torrey not as strong as they usually are,i actually will not be too surprised if rb qualifies 3 for nationals (assuming a 23-24 team field) good luck rb, hope you guys will do well :grin: La Jolla A did reach top 8 at TWAIN...
by ihavenoidea
Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:25 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

Thanks mcal!
by ihavenoidea
Tue Nov 06, 2007 11:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

Hmmm...Ok

Man LA teams are so lucky, they never need to drive 2 hr + for a tournament...

EDIT: does anyone know who the other dropped team is?
by ihavenoidea
Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:43 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

Rancho Bernardo is planning an NAQT tournament sometime in January i believe. House written tournaments would be awesome, but with the amount of participation, not logistically as possible as playing mirrors from other hs tournaments. Dwight, are schools on the east willing to give packets for mirro...
by ihavenoidea
Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:52 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Which buzzer has the most pleasant sound?
Replies: 24
Views: 7180

I'd like to know which ones those are please
by ihavenoidea
Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Which buzzer has the most pleasant sound?
Replies: 24
Views: 7180

It has a quack? Wow, i would think that to be pretty annoying, no offense to you.

Perhaps your buzzer has other advantages though.
by ihavenoidea
Sat Nov 03, 2007 8:29 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Which buzzer has the most pleasant sound?
Replies: 24
Views: 7180

Which buzzer has the most pleasant sound?

The question is stated in the title. Which buzzer do you enjoy playing on because of its tone?
by ihavenoidea
Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:54 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Deciding Teams: Practice, Tournament Performance, or Other?
Replies: 28
Views: 10233

We decide our NAQT teams based on areas individuals are strong in. We try to make it so that we cover as much of the quizbowl canon as possible. Tournament experience weighs in a lot as well. Usually this coincides with performance in practice, but when it doesn't, experience is more valuable than p...
by ihavenoidea
Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:00 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

Ntan, apparently Troy's coming to CBCT? How well do you think they'll do?

Mcalmvp, hows the motivating going for mt carmel?
by ihavenoidea
Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fires in SoCal
Replies: 9
Views: 2979

The tally right now (highly conservative mind you), is 283 houses completely destroyed

This number will definitely increase.

EDIT: 480 houses =(

Not to be insensitive, but anyone know if UCI is ok? I hope we still will have CBCT
by ihavenoidea
Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:26 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fires in SoCal
Replies: 9
Views: 2979

Everyone's fine on the RB team. Don't know about their houses though...
by ihavenoidea
Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:22 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Starting a Quiz Bowl team at a high school...
Replies: 4
Views: 2268

I do sincerely hope you can motivate your school to do quizbowl!

Just so you have some dates: UCI Nov 10th and USC Dec 8th. The tournament at USC will be using A sets, which are easier questions compared to the regular IS sets
by ihavenoidea
Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:45 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

I agree with Dwight's rankings

Where is San Dieguito? lol
by ihavenoidea
Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:07 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

I would say TWAIN reflects the strengths in SoCal pretty well, except for Torrey Pines B. Therefore, my rankings are thus

1. Santa Monica A (by far)
2. Rancho Bernardo B
3. Arcadia A
4. Rancho Bernardo A
5. Torrey Pines B


Hmm does anyone know where san dieguito is?
by ihavenoidea
Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TWAIN VIII (10/7/07) at UCLA
Replies: 23
Views: 8420

3. The first Sa Mo A/RB B game had a total of 9 powers in 20 questions. The second one had 13. In total the six 1-4 playoff games averaged 9.17 powers per game. I think that's as ridiculous a stat as I've ever seen in SoCal. That said, had RB A and B designated team A and B differently, there may h...
by ihavenoidea
Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:21 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

AL = academic league It is basically like NAQT, with tossups and bonuses and such, but the questions usually consist exclusively of give aways, thus it is more of a speed game than a knowledge game. Bonuses are also given all at once, with 20 seconds to work on all of them. No powers...sigh =( A sam...
by ihavenoidea
Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

Oh our AL coach's wife (who used to be our varsity coach) is now coaching AL at westview perhaps i can ask our coach to motivate westview as well. As far as the players are concerned, NAQT and AL run separately. Practices for NAQT are often held at a separate time and most of the time at someone's h...
by ihavenoidea
Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:54 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

Wow i didnt realize Mt Carmel posted on this board! hurray for inland division! It would be great if Westview or Mt Carmel started an naqt group. I think NCAL would benefit a lot from that. Perhaps you guys could think about going to UCI or USC? Based on the performance from TWAIN, it appears Santa ...
by ihavenoidea
Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:56 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TWAIN VIII (10/7/07) at UCLA
Replies: 23
Views: 8420

Oh wow i was not aware of the situation with Arcadia...This might complicate things a little.

Man..we should have ranked just based on ppg or something....
by ihavenoidea
Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:46 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TWAIN VIII (10/7/07) at UCLA
Replies: 23
Views: 8420

Oh no dwight, see its like this: So after reseeding the alpha bracket consisted of the following ranking 1. SaMo A 2. Arcadia A 3. RB B 4. RB A 5. TP B 6. TP A 7. Edison A 8. La Jolla A But the play off games only consisted of playing between 1 - 4 and 5 - 8. This meant that even though TP B only lo...
by ihavenoidea
Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:43 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TWAIN VIII (10/7/07) at UCLA
Replies: 23
Views: 8420

Thank to all of UCLA's students for making this tournament a good one, though the weird bracketting which ended up costing RB a qual spot was annoying.
by ihavenoidea
Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:07 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

I think one surprise team in the SoCal region could be La Jolla.
They did well at the tournament Arcadia Hosted, and they were not bad at all at UCI's CBCT. I don't know how many players they graduated, but they are bringing three teams to UCLA's TWAIN this weekend.
by ihavenoidea
Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:46 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TWAIN VIII (10/7/07) at UCLA
Replies: 23
Views: 8420

For the few that do check this board, who so far has signed up to attend?
by ihavenoidea
Wed Sep 05, 2007 12:10 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California 2007-08
Replies: 176
Views: 45866

It really is a shame that SoCal quizbowl only has a few enthusiasts. I wonder if any Bay area teams are willing to compete in the lower areas? Any teams close to Las Vegas maybe? Perhaps if we allowed people to join quizbowl from Mexico... =D Troy is a powerhouse at SciOly. Quizbowl at Rancho Bernar...