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BobGHHS

That Chris Ray guy is overrated, he just always happens to be in the right place at the right time.

BobGHHS

Yes, we can compliment each's others 10 ppg by contributing two bonus parts each, so that the final score is only Bob/Steven 40 - Matt Weiner 565

BobGHHS

I'm going to be there staffing, so I would definately be up for this. If anyone is interested in teaming up, I'm pretty strong in history and also fairly competant in geography and art. Also, I'm ass-tastic in science and only slightly better in Lit. Since I suck almost as bad as Steven, I'm defini...

BobGHHS

I was not going to post in this thread, but I decided that as a hs coach whose players look up to Chris Ray for what he has done for the game over the past 2+ years, I should post in his defense. I have to say I only have met Chris in person one time, as his teammate at the 2008 MLK (for which he re...

BobGHHS

And to top it off, a tossup on wrestling. WRESTLING, for crying out loud! Its like getting kicked in the nuts when you have a hernia. I wasn't at WoQ so I have yet to hear the set... but I can guarantee if the tossup was on the Royal Rumble, I would've powered the living crap out of it. Yes, the ex...

BobGHHS

Matt Bruce actually sent me a 32-team excel file two years ago that does all the pairings for you that I use for Ohio NAQT States. The only thing I had to make up were the cards, which was the easy part. You punch in the room numbers you will be using and it does the rest of the work, even giving yo...

BobGHHS

Well as I said, at least our varsity team will be there... I recommend this tournament to all interested... even though it will be in its first year, it has a great location (CWRU), great questions and the tournament director is competent and experienced, so much so that he pulled off some ridiculou...

BobGHHS

We should be there, I just have to double-check with them at practice today that Joe's dad can chaperone again, since I won't be able to.

BobGHHS

I believe Dan wants to play, but I will let him answer that for himself.

BobGHHS

Actually, Mr. Kilner, it was the promise of two-hundred dollars from my school for participating in something that ended up being a try-out for the school team that represented K at College Bowl. A good reason... easy cash. I really don't see why I should ever have to explain myself to anyone about...

BobGHHS

Joel Knight, you personally told me at HSNCT '06 that you wouldn't be playing in college because "qb was just something to do in high school..." Did the allure of playing in college (or the male need for competition) lead you to expand the horizons of KCQB?

BobGHHS

I'm going to echo what Ben said except we play a ton of tournaments, mostly local... with the exception of DCC and Russell, we haven't seen any other powerhouse teams yet this year outside of Ohio. The team will be at WoQ though, so it should be a good gauge of how far along we are and how we might ...

BobGHHS

Field Update (as of 4/17/08) - 31/32 teams registered, I have room for 1 more...email me to reserve your spot. Field: Garfield Heights (2) Northmont Solon (2) Copley (3) Cloverleaf (3) Tippecanoe Fisher Catholic St. John's Jesuit (2) Madison (2) St. Edward North Olmsted Kenston (2) Firestone Stow-Mu...

BobGHHS

Since I have finally gotten the Praxis III over with, I can finally devote time to putting this all together. Garfield Heights High School will host the Ohio NAQT State Tournament on April 19, 2008. We will use 2 rounds of 10-minute timed halves and tournament format will be decided at a later date,...

BobGHHS

Dave,
I know I sent you some recent results, but did you receive the Solon results from last Saturday and Sunday?

BobGHHS

1st - DCC A
2nd - Garfield Hts. A
3rd - Russell
4th - Hawken A
5th - Defiance A
6th - Copley A

BobGHHS

Brief Results: Besides the question difficulty dropping way off the table in the later rounds... I thought today went well, especially considering some of the readers were horribly slow. Final Results of the Top Bracket: 1. DCC A 2. Garfield Heights A Not sure who came in 3rd-6th right now, but will...

BobGHHS

Oh, one thing I wanted to add and get some feedback on, since this is the first NAQT tournament I've read at this year: Is it just me, or over the last year or two, have the power marks in NAQT matches grown to last increasingly long into the question, or am I just imagining it? I mean, I know I can...

BobGHHS

I don't have full results of each bracket, but in the top bracket, the results were... 1. DCC A 2. Garfield Heights 3. Russell (KY) 4. Firestone 5. Defiance A 6. Culver A Dan was the top scorer with 101 ppg, Sam Milner from Hawken was 2nd. I don't have to make a lot of comments, but I will say this ...

BobGHHS

Dr. Chuck,
I was under the impression Joe went through you to get our 1/12 tournament (40 teams) PACE-affiliated.

If so, the results were:

1. Copley High School
2. Hawken School
3. Garfield Heights High School
4. Ottawa Hills High School

BobGHHS

From what I hear through the grapevine and from the man himself, Solon is trying to secure the question set to run Buzzerpalooza on April 5 (the weekend before CWRU Great Lakes). More information to come once it is released.

BobGHHS

For those of you that don't know Steven, I just want to vouch for him and say that he will do a spectacular job running this tournament. He has the help of numerous local tournament directors such as myself, Greg Bossick, Brian Saxton, Justin Sharp and Mike Bindis and as a player, his teams were hig...

BobGHHS

Ohio feedback: We have yet to figure out if the state is down as a whole this year, or if there is just a ton of parity... but if you're looking at the best teams... 1. Walnut Hills 2. Garfield Heights 3. Columbus Academy 4. Ottawa Hills 5. Fisher Catholic (We dropped from most polls b/c we aren't i...

BobGHHS

Andy, Don't take what Dan said personally... The Lowellville thing was a post they put on the Ohio board that basically said "Lowellville is sweet... discuss" and ended up being just us bashing them ridiculously. Joe Wells is the ghetto-fied funksta on our team... he is our #2 guy, so if he can't ev...

BobGHHS

Chris, I told you GH will be coming, but you were waiting to send me an invoice based on what you do for the NAQT set... I'm just saying so because you haven't listed us on the field list.

BobGHHS

If Great Lakes does indeed use Matt's set, like it is looking like they might... what set is Solon using for their PACE tournament?

BobGHHS

Like I told you Steven, stage a coup, and the quizbowl cabal here in NE Ohio (myself, Bossick, Sharp, Bindis, Saxton, etc) will help you run Great Lakes, even if we have to go to NAQT for the question set in the event the team doesn't write their own or mirror another tournament.

BobGHHS

Hey Dave,
On the page for our team, it shows us at 27-5, but it doesn't show that on the page for Ohio... whats up with that?

BobGHHS

I think you guys at Walnut Hills and we at GH are pretty much tied for 1st, since we have no common opponents really and don't see each other at all... After that, my rankings would look something like: 3. Fisher Catholic 4. Ottawa Hills 5. Copley 6. Defiance 7. Hawken 8. St. Charles 9. Miami Valley...

BobGHHS

Chris Ray, you da man... I was actually going to shoot you an email about this when I got home this evening, but I came across this thread first. Since I'd be willing to bet our team brings 3 guys and 1 girl... we'd probably be looking for someone to take Liz in or split a room with. Once I know for...

BobGHHS

Oh no, I don't feel that way... I appreciate the feedback, because not only is it sort of a trap question for the kids, its also a difficult decision to render on acceptability... and if it is accepted in one room and not in another and that one point means the difference in seeding or winning a bra...

BobGHHS

Yeah, I wrote the question though... and didn't even think about it when I did... although Ohio worksheet rounds tend to do alot of similar terms with "DO NOT ACCEPT _____" for whatever the other term may be. In hindsight, I should have probably accepted it at that point, but again, it didn't end up...

BobGHHS

This is inaccurate... the answer given was Entymology, with a "y" in there... which is why i didn't give them credit... I may have been being picky, but after pronouncing it, I was looking for a distinction from Etymology, which obviously is not the same thing. After thinking about it, I probably sh...

BobGHHS

Ohio's team does not get picked until after the state tournament on May 3. Last year, Garfield Heights won, but chose to take only our three main players and three of the other best players in the state. We're the only team in the state that would take other players though, so if we don't win states...

BobGHHS

Stupid "Woman." I WANT TO ADVANCE PAST THE FIRST TIER!

Yeah, Woman kicks my ass on hard... and if you rearrange those words, that could make for quite an interesting statement.

BobGHHS

Chris, will you be playing at ABD as well?

BobGHHS

I too would like to see the packets: TheAmazingBobbo <at> aol <dot> com.

BobGHHS

I generally will write down what my team misses at tournaments, but because I have a unique situation in regards to coaching, we really don't hit the stuff at practice -- I usually tear out the pages, give them to Dan and hope that he looks through them and learns the stuff they missed... when I had...

BobGHHS

Pardon me for being sarcastic, but you're holding your tournament on a Monday?

EDIT: I just noticed that the title date and date listed are different...

BobGHHS

Joe will tell you, Tipp is definitely in re-build mode... The teams to watch in Ohio this year are: The Real Deal Garfield Heights Walnut Hills Fisher Catholic Copley Wouldn't Be a Surprise to See Them Win It All Miami Valley Columbus Academy Firestone Gilmour Academy North Olmsted I know there are ...

BobGHHS

Craig, Joe said he registered last night with you, so is the total going to be 5, or did you pick up any more this past week?

BobGHHS

As Joe said, we're bringing two teams... DCC guys, will you be there? I know you had planned on coming, but with the info going out so late, I didn't know if you had filled your schedule with another tournament or not... I know Copley will not be there, at least from what Joulia told Joe, so it coul...

BobGHHS

Is Barker the one I should email to register a team?

BobGHHS

Any Ohio teams would be out, February 23 is the Copley Invitational, the biggest tournament in Ohio... and the last 4 state champs have won this tournament, so I doubt anyone wants to miss (even though I hate OAC)

BobGHHS

Wayne State?

BobGHHS

They're kind of a mystery team because even though they return Doug, and load up their A team from their not-so-terrible B team from last year, who knows how they will gel. I would expect an above-average team, but only Joe knows whether they will compete on a larger stage and be successful.

BobGHHS

I'm pretty sure near the middle of last year I got a mailing from them saying everything was on sale, they were closing shop. I could be mistaken, but I'm almost sure it was Champions Quiz Prep.

BobGHHS

If we can still get in there, I think the group might be closed down to new members, since its not used anymore...

Basically, it was the same situation for the Ohio contract a few years back.

BobGHHS

This is not to knock the Ohio team the were a good, and it all did turn out ok in the end, but I think there needs to be some penalty for just the sort of thing that happened and not for the team that was rooked. You're right, and that was the point I was trying to make... whether the rule is a bad...

BobGHHS

I really don't think that it would've helped Ohio to have California answer that question, but that's just speculation. No, I'm saying it helped us more that you got the replacement question right. If they would have gotten that question, they would have been up by 17 going into the last round inst...

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