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ProfessorIanDuncan

Ok. So i was gonna post the top five playoffs seeds for varsity in DC if anyone cares, because that is probably more fitting to go under 2013 NAC than yelling at John about the Baltimore-DC circuit and Its Academic. 1. Hastings 2. Ardsley 3. Irvington 4. Horace Greeley 5. Booker T. Washington The to...

ProfessorIanDuncan

Is the Briarcliff Middle School that came to this from Briarcliff, NY? Like in Westchester?

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It's not well run because there's less teams, it's because those teams play 6 prelim games over the space of 2 days which (barring hotel fire drills, which happened last year to us) is pretty easy to manage.

ProfessorIanDuncan

I'm interested to hear how Sameer's attempt to transport his NHBB hardware went.

He curled himself up in the bowl trophy while clutching the other one and had someone mail it back to California

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Saturday in our OAC regional we knocked a local public school out twice (by overwhelming margins, no less) to eliminate them from states contention. Their coach, right in front of us in the hall-way after the game, exclaimed "this is what happens when we have to play private schools". Goo...

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thank you. and yes the berlin school removes all ambiguity from the third part as i had suspected.

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I was preparing to leave mortified at how awful the trash was, but I enjoyed the trash esp. the pokemon biology bonus. A number of them had very good easy medium hard structures. Also can i see the trash bonus from round 1, on serial/cereal or whatever? EDIT: Woops misinterpreted that. The R.E.M For...

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what is the discrepancy in the Gestalt bonus? because i think there might be vagueness in the part where it asks about the city where it was developed. A bunch of the psychologists who founded it worked together in frankfurt as well as berlin so i'm not sure if its vague or not.

ProfessorIanDuncan

NY States cannot be hosted by Irvington. Apologies to anyone who wanted to do this.

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If I end up going to NJ States and that ends up being the venue, could I do this just to see how I'd compare?

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Honestly, it's just Hunter A. It really is up to them if they want to go to NASAT.

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I did not know that.

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I'm pretty sure we have like no money to host a tournament. I can double check this week.

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Fair enough. Maybe that's just my opinion because the de Broglie equation is legitimately the only formula i seem to know.

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If I remember correctly there was a velocity and a mass tossup. In the velocity de Broglie was mentioned towards the end of the question. In mass, it was mentioned in the first line. How do you justify that? Also, isn't that also a repeat question?

ProfessorIanDuncan

Best way to improve. No doubt.

ProfessorIanDuncan

I would suggest first by looking at the Date Claims for tournaments here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=13166 and seeing if maybe you could attend some of these tournaments. There are a couple of leagues that run on Questions Unlimited up in Westchester but as Matt said you s...

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Irvington is definitely thinking of attending but because this tournament is 3 hours away form us I am hesitant to register because I anticipate transportation issues. But I suppose we'll register one team for now. Also what time does this tournament start?

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I believe it was 8 like the prelims. I know that in two of the three rooms it didn't happen for sure. It may have happened in the third room but for hte most part playoffs tend to be more even than prelims.

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In my case, I tend to sign up for quizbowl tournaments with a range of possible teams, which allows some sort of flexibility. WIth NHBB however, the online registration gives off the vibe that the number of teams needs to be definite and as such the rosters are really only decided a week or 2 weeks ...

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if you need people to help this run ill join. i know its a bit late but if it helps...

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So I'm going to start a midseason "analysis" of what going on in terms of New York quizbowl. Hunter A is taking the "avoid competitions we could win really easily". I respect that. They're still better than any team in the state. No doubt. They are in a class of their own. Kellen...

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Absolutely no doubt in my mind that High Tech and St. Joe's are the top two team in the State. 3rd and 4th are High Tech w/ Rohan and Adithya and Ridgewood. Livingston put up some amazing bonus numbers at Scarsdale and Millburn seems to put up similarly impress bonus conversion. However, they seem t...

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Obviously, I would like to play too, but someone has to host so I'll bring up the idea at practice.

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BHSAT is officially on for March 2. We'd love to see you all there its the same date as bloomfield just in case anyone hasnt noticed. the attendance is probably going to be down a bit from NJ teams. EDIT: This is also the same date as the biggest Westchester :chip: tournament. I know you people fro...

ProfessorIanDuncan · Re: Prison Bowl VI @ Hunter College High School, NYC (4/6/13) make that 4

make that 4

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Optimally, the power/neg ratio is infinity.

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Attention! We have just received permission to use CATT instead of HSAPQ T32 (which I am to understand several NY/NJ teams have seen at Newtown). So please take a second look at this tournament and bring your full teams!

this is an unexpected twist. consider Irvington intrigued.

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Now that I think about it again, if there is a 3-0 team in the playoffs it should be total points because the team that advances should be the team that would be most competitive against the best competition. If there is a 0-3 team then beating a team that is not doing as well by a big margin doesn'...

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I know this sounds ridiculous, but I think that in case A points per game should be used as a tiebreaker and in cases B and C points per game should be used BUT the result against the team that won/lost all their games should be disregarded because the margin of defeat/victory against that team shou...

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Irvington will register 1-3 teams for this. I can also give you a mailing list of all the teams in our league in Westchester, but they mostly play

so i don't how useful it will be.

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Could you put another Irvington team in? I'm feeling optimistic. Also we might have a moderator and there's like a 1% chance we'll have 2 moderators.

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Irvington B will not be coming, hope you all have fun. This looks like its going to be one of the bests tournaments in the region this year.

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It's worth thinking about how much we want the western part of the Connecticut circuit to be integrated with New York/New Jersey. I think this is an excellent point. I think this is especially true for the upcoming Newtown tournament. I anticipated that the amount of interested teams would be much ...

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Irvington will most definitely be attending with at least 2 teams and 2 buzzer systems.

Don't forget to plug this on Saturday.

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Irvington may send a B team (interest is hereby expressed). The A team will be at the History Bowl in Westchester.

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I would like to confirm that Irvington is bringing one team. Can you provide a running waitlist also? For some reason people on my team actually wanted to go to this so I may want to put a second team of the waitlist, but if the waitlist is too long i won't bother.

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In my opinion tryouts don't really work unless you have over 20 truly committed players. A player who is unskilled but willing to improve is way better than a player who is skilled but unwilling to improve. At the beginning of the year a coach would be more likely to cut the former player and keep t...

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I guess I'll play. I want to be on team Socrates. That guy is awesome. (The soccer player not the philosopher) Also if you are open to team name suggestions, the Mellberg Moustaches and Higuita Handlebars.

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Since this legitimate competition has to run on Friday night, and it has to use the same time and the same staffer corps as the Trash "Bees," you should probably just cancel the Trash Bees outright and run the legitimate event instead. When David was announcing this at a tournament that h...

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Irvington expresses interest. We have had some transportation issues and hopefully they will be mended.

EDIT: Just put us down for one team for now. We'll probably bring 2 buzzer systems.

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My name is spelled wrong in the stats as is my teammate's. I mean it's not really a big deal but if my handwriting was so atrocious on the roster sheet, it does represent a bigger problem.

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"The Girl from Ipanema" is an incredibly important bossa work that I don't ever recall seeing in a tossup. At NAC this year there was an audio clip of "The Girl from Ipanema" asking for the type of music or the language being sung in "this 1960's hit" ( I know that's s...

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I'm disappointed for having a need to explain these team names.

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Irvington will definitely be bringing one team, but no moderators or buzzer systems.

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The Northmont team featured one varsity player- she is our second best player. The other three were JV players auditioning for varsity spots. Our best player and our other varsity players were not there. I was only thinking of it in a NY/NJ regional sense but yeah Northmont was about at a B team le...

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Irvington plans on sending one or two teams with two buzzer systems.

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From some of the discussion, I see that a bunch of teams were not at full strength. What letters should I be using for each of these teams in my rankings? Unless you plan on using A- and B+, pretty much all of the teams seemed close enough to full strength and not severely depleted. The sole except...

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I was about to write a whole thing but Sam pretty much summed it up. I'm also super excited you're on the forums Max and I will always be willing to help you transition to pyramidal. On another note I don't think I ever remember you in a green shirt. EDIT: [shameless plug]The first MACC is the same ...

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First, there's no reason to start a new thread for this. Just add it to the New Jersey Discussion. That sounds like a fine idea. --Mgmt. Secondly, my team probably came the closest to beating St. Joe's so they definitely were beatable as was everyone else. Because it was an A set, it shouldn't be re...

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