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- Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2007 Post-Nationals Poll Discussion - Results are in!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 32758
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational math in high school quizbowl
- Replies: 73
- Views: 81851
What about noncomputational math!? There often seems to be way too little emphasis on math theory and history; when there is any, it's often screwy and just frustrates real math players. An only slightly paraphrased example: What do you call a plane which is divided into two open intervals by a line...
- Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2007 Post-Nationals Poll Discussion - Results are in!
- Replies: 83
- Views: 32758
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QBML: wouldn't it be nice?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20870
- Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '07-'08
- Replies: 1091
- Views: 245722
- Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: I am tired of awesome people dying
- Replies: 136
- Views: 19511
- Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QBML: wouldn't it be nice?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20870
Unfortunately, NAQT already beat you to creating an XML format for quizbowl questions. If you're interested enough to see for yourself, download the zip file on this page...
BUT I bet they don't use LaTeX.
BUT I bet they don't use LaTeX.
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic Results
- Replies: 149
- Views: 54429
- Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic Results
- Replies: 149
- Views: 54429
- Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic Results
- Replies: 149
- Views: 54429
Also, Oklahoma won their room (over California) on the last question, both scoring over 320 points, though only three teams were in that room. As to the IL/DC/ME/NM room, DC buzzed in a lot, but negged about as much. The other two teams were rather quiet. The match is still going on, but after the 5...
- Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Make Legitimate Quizbowl (More) Exciting
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20135
Sir Vinokurov, I agree with you. My entire question was how we could make quizbowl more appealing (perhaps appealing is more the idea than exciting ) -- for outsiders as well as insiders -- without compromising its legitimacy. I agree that the primary goal isn't to make quizbowl appealing; the goal ...
- Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:46 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Make Legitimate Quizbowl (More) Exciting
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20135
- Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '07-'08
- Replies: 1091
- Views: 245722
I think Richard Montgomery is going to win the IHSA State Championship. Seriously, though, a lot of great players will be graduating this year, but there are quite a few excellent juniors in Illinois this year who will be even better next year. Besides that, there are always a few surprises... As fa...
- Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Make Legitimate Quizbowl (More) Exciting
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20135
How to Make Legitimate Quizbowl (More) Exciting
OK, guys. I've been reading Chris's thread, The Thread for People who Like NAC . In it, he asks why people like NAC; one response which kept coming up was that NAC is more "exciting" than NAQT for laypeople, because the audience knows some of the answers, because Chip plays up the teams, a...
- Sun May 27, 2007 10:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Sat May 26, 2007 11:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: Maggie Walker wins 2007 HSNCT!
- Replies: 138
- Views: 51923
Helpful condensed summary for those playing along at home. In no particular order, and based only on the information above. (Not official -- ETC.) Supposedly 61 teams have advanced to Sunday rounds based on preliminary win-loss. Teams will be seeded but placed in a double-elimination bracket. 9-1: M...
- Sat May 26, 2007 9:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: Maggie Walker wins 2007 HSNCT!
- Replies: 138
- Views: 51923
I can add: New Trier 8-2 (we ended with the 2 card) State College A 9-1 (they ended up with the 1 card) New Trier beat Novi A, James Island Charter, and Minnetonka A, then lost to Wilmington Charter A by five points. We then beat East Lansing A, Garfield Heights, Livingston, Eden Prairie A, and Rich...
- Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2007 Pre-Nationals National Poll Results
- Replies: 66
- Views: 27063
yadda yadda New Trier yadda Bloomington This has no bearing on Bloomington vs New Trier, and I was simply pleased to see that we were on the top 25 at all, which I didn't necessarily expect. However, I think it definitely bears mentioning that New Trier won Illinois's NAQT State Qualifier pretty co...
- Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2007 Pre-Nationals National Poll Results
- Replies: 66
- Views: 27063
- Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
From http://www.aegisquestions.com/press-eo.html : Aegis announces first step towards Quiz Bowl peace and unity Question writers will offer 2007-8 questions in Esperanto CHICAGO, Ill., April 1, 2007 - In an unprecedented move, Aegis Questions, Inc. has become the first question provider to promote g...
- Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
We have at least two major State Series (Masonic and IHSA) in Illinois already, and a third State Qualifier tournament (NAQT). I do not think we need another. Also, while I do prefer NAQT to Illinois format, I do not think that changing our format is a high priority by any means. Change the question...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
I agree the questions were a big improvement. There were a few really bizarre and bad questions that really stuck out, though. I know that they were the minority, but inconsistent packets can be just as bad as consistently bad packets. (What do you call a half-plane with an open boundary? Answer: Op...
- Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:29 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Regarding the fact that the bonuses sounded like four unrelated tossups: Matt Laird and I discussed this, and he had a really good theory about this. If you look at Great Auk's sample KMO questions , you'll notice that they all sound like the tossups we heard at Masonics. You'll also notice that the...
- Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
I definitely agree with Matt on this one. Sucks to not make it to State because there were three other teams in your sectional that also fully deserved to go. Also, today's UIUC Solo Results (from Donald's tournament thread): 1st: Hunter Fast (Bloomington, Best Junior) 2nd: Nick Matchen (New Trier) ...
- Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
The problem is that it seems doubtful that the level of official support available to normal quizbowl teams would be available to teams at such a tournament so, given that the support level is already too low in many places, it doesn't seem like such an event would succeed. Yeah, I would tend to ag...
- Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
To expand (hah! math!) upon Nick's reference: Before the actual competitions at the PAC begin, there is one night when the players can scrimmage. Last year, there were three rooms with six teams set up in each room; between each round, everyone gets up and sits somewhere random, and plays one round ...
- Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Justin: There is a way of calculating square roots by hand, and it's only a little slower than long division if you're really familiar with it. I am not. Indeed, as you point out, sqrt(e) is a lot more reasonable than the Kaneland physics questions I experienced, where I had to approximate answers t...
- Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Taft: Ruby on Rails-powered web-based tournament software
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4611
- Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
I have already emailed this to all the coaches who came to the tournament, but it bears repeating on this forum: All eight rounds used at New Trier's Varsity tournament on the 16th are now available for your perusal and download at http://www.aegisquestions.com . If you have any comments, please pos...
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Re: More on the questions from kickoffs.
I really liked the fact that almost every tossup was gettable. And that was really the point. While some players have complained that the tossups were too easy, others have complained that they were absolutely too difficult. In fact, we just got an email that many central Illinois coaches were fed ...
- Sun Nov 19, 2006 1:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Nick, Matt Laird, and myself moderated at the Wheaton North Kickoff, and noticed many of these problems ourselves. I have several comments to offer on the matter. Siva, we did indeed try to make the questions easy by the end, because there are some teams that only play in their conference and Kickof...
- Sat Nov 11, 2006 10:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Welcome to the New Trier Scobol Solo Prognostication Results! 1. Will any school put multiple students in the final? ...My opinion - just New Trier. Maine South AND Auburn. Surprising. 3. What, if any, underclassmen will make the finals? Well, Greg's an obvious choice to guess before the tourney. I'...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Embarrassing Answers/powers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7627
Re: Embarrassing Answers/powers
This group was founded by Carmen Electra [buzz] Actually that's literally the only thing I know about the Pussycat Dolls. :neutral: Also, don't forget last year's question at NAQT Nationals about Snakes on a Plane. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who demonstrated way too much knowledge about that...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 2:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Sweeping category awards is really tough. Remember last year, everyone was thinking Colleen could sweep lit. She knows her lit, but she only got one Lit category ribbon. I think math is especially tough to sweep. Unlike previous years, there isn't anybody from out of state, as far as I know. I predi...
- Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QBStatGen Program
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4143
Very nice. I was actually planning to write a stats program myself much like this one, once I had more free time later this year. You have saved me a lot of work. :grin: (To spare the rest of the forum users from the craziness that is web programming, I am going to send you a very technical comment ...
- Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
There weren't that many Bible questions, actually. I'll double-check this (I didn't produce this set myself, so I can't say for sure) but I think a couple rounds wound-up with two Bible-based questions, a tossup and a bonus, which is maybe too much for every round, but not every round was like that...
- Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Yeah, so I went to the IHSSBCA website, and decided to come here to see whether someone could explain what Moderator Certification to include test and match components this year means, and while they're at it, why Only five players will be on Team Illinois this year (change in PAC rules?) and also w...
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 12:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Scholastic Bowl bot
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17676
Yeah, as Alejandro has mentioned, the current documentation is always available at http://www.aegisquestions.com/triviabot. The bullet points at the top are a good introduction, and you probably don't need to read further.
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Scholastic Bowl bot
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17676
More detail about downloading IRC clients: If you have Windows, I suggest X-Chat. Don't use the official Windows download, that costs money. A legal, free Windows build can be downloaded as an MSI installer , or if the MSI doesn't work (i.e. you have an unpatched version of Windows 95 or 98) then us...
- Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
It also says something about the state's sectional distributions that the Class AA teams at State last year had played: (pulls out booklet from State) 92, 68, 16 (!), 60, 62, 87, 83, and 90 matches during their seasons, respectively. But now, Coach Egan, you don't think people have solved this ranki...
- Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Okay, so fantasy quiz bowl isn't the best idea. But do we want some sort of cumulative individual and team scoring database for Illinois? I mean, something that keeps track of tossups gotten, tossups heard, etc. for each person and team. We could contact each TD and ask them if they would keep the s...
- Sat Jul 15, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois 06-07
- Replies: 802
- Views: 292209
Oh, Brad. However, if enough people are interested, and no demi-god of scobol shoots down the idea for some other reason, I've offered to get a website and infrastructure running. I'm not worried about being insane. (Keep in mind that I know nothing about sports, so you'd have to keep a close eye on...