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closesesame · Re: RM Fall Tournament (9/20/08) Ray = rmgeokid Raj = RM A's Bengali kid

Ray = rmgeokid
Raj = RM A's Bengali kid

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I am well aware that Keith has put himself into retirement, but surely Raj or one of the other guys has all the stats...

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Gonzagapuma1 wrote:
jbarnes112358 wrote:When will stats and complete results be posted?

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So it seems our literature guy will not be coming Sunday...because it's Sunday.

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Last year, TJ "practiced" for two or three days a week from 4-6 after school, but we would routinely quit after 45 minutes or so and go play basketball instead. In fact, for the one or two months before the national tournaments, we pretty much completely stopped practicing and balled all ...

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Again, please register at the website listed above. Simple posts on the message board or e-mails to Harry will not be counted as registration. Thanks.

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Who should we write the check to?

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To register, please fill out the form on our website at the following URL:

http://activities.tjhsst.edu/itsacademic/tjiatreg.php

Apologies for the confusion!

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I've been working on a ranking system for teams that would operate along the lines of Google's PageRank/something stochastic that involves eigenvectors. Basically, as the number of games played tend towards infinity, whichever team would be the most likely to win would get the number 1 spot, and so ...

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Single-elimination playoffs with such a good field are usually the quickest way to ensure that every good team is eliminated from the tournament before the finals.

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I sent you an e-mail about this, Keith, but TJ will only be bringing two teams this weekend. Sorry.

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We're interested, Mehdi, but we have yet to determine the number of teams.

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We will indeed be getting through all 24 questions for the most part, as everyone's favorite Ada-bada-vada Malayali is rockin' the house at Vandy.

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So, I hear hot French girls love guys who drink from wells of absinthe...

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You know you guys want to come to this. Seriously, be there or be an equilateral, equiangular quadrilateral. Register today and you'll receive two sets of Blow Pens, a $19.95 value, FREE! Not really, but you will get amazing quizbowl fun.

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Sarah, we weren't just missing Harry, we were also missing Josh Hahm, our literature go-to guy. That being said, I think this year is going to be awesome.

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I'm with Guy - TJ would like in on this, too. The funny thing is that no planning is usually required for all of our teams to play each other; in the past we've just ended up playing at all the same tournaments for the most part.

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TJ would tentatively like to sign up one team for this. We have no idea what day we want to come yet, though, because we probably can't make both days. More details to follow, I guess.

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I'd be up for this.

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I find it hilarious that on a thread dedicated to proper pronunciation of names, my last name was truncated to Tallapretc. Not that I don't think that's clever...

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When might we see results?

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Tallapretc.

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I will say that for "magnets" like TJ for example, since we draw from so many different neighborhoods, the median income of the school demographics is considerably different from the demographics of the neighborhood. Median family income in 22312 is probably $60000 or so, whereas TJ's medi...

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Some time in January will be TJ's annual in-house tournament. I need to check with TD Harry White to get the exact date.

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TJ will probably be good, especially if they can find someone who knows literature. We have for next year Josh Hahm, esteemed captain of the C team that led a blowout at DACQ Weekend of Quizbowl on the Saturday (with non-NAQT questions), as our literature go-to guy. He knows quite a bit about lit (...

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So a few updates to my previous post, and some clarifications on AlphaQuizBowler's post. I believe all of Dorman A (as it appeared at NAQT, not at PACE with Freddy) were seniors, and they are graduating. That being said they have an excellent B team of juniors who will be A next year, I believe. I w...

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so here's what I say: The following two teams already have more or less a team in shape: Dorman and Charter. Therefore, they will be good. The following teams are putting together teams and will probably be just as good as the two aforementioned teams as soon as they get their act together on who is...

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So, I liked most of the tossups at PACE, especially the science. My main pet peeves were with some of the history tossups, such as the now-infamous "son of Godwin" one. In any case, Grover's Algorithm came up at Gaddis, so hearing it again made me smile.

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My intent in the "one-man army" comment was that no one really knows what the teams for most schools next year are going to be aside from the few players who were at nationals this year and are recognized by most of the quizbowl community. There is no doubt that there are plenty of good pl...

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Obviously when the sets are released, we can discuss more about this question, but I believe there was universal cringing in Enterprise 80 when the Harold Godwinson tossup with early clue "son of Godwin" was read. That was interesting...

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You are probably right about the others, but very few ppl who have seen and played against Dorman B view them as a one man team. I don't know if dorman ever had a one man team. The dorman factory run by eric huff spits out good balanced teams every year. Todd is good at lit. Freddy is good at scien...

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So Evan Adams, I predict that in 2 years, Sarah Angelo and Greg Tito will be bestial.

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Yo Phil. Daniel Brezina is a junior on Whitman A. You haven't assimilated that by now?! The role you played in being the god of all things history is something that we are going to aim to subdivide next year, theoretically such that I could cover ancient history, Harry could cover all those pesky mo...

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As for next year, TJ's A team will include me and likely someone you might have played at some point this year, Josh Hahm. He was on A team a couple of times this year as a stand-in, including at GDS's NAQT tournament which we won. He was our lit person there (Mohit was on B to qualify it). In addit...

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I am a junior. Also, the final was Whitman over TJ, 440-390 in overtime after being tied at 360.

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One of the tightest games I have EVER played in my life. Congrats to our good friends from Whitman, who take home a well-deserved championship by winning PACE, and thanks guys for that awesome 360-360 game that kept me dangerously close to dying of ventricular fibrillation :grin: I can't wait until ...

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Just a quick question to the esteemed members of the Wilmington Charter team:

Guys, why do you go to NAC? Why?

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Thomas Jefferson Invitational Academic Tournament, or, if you prefer,

T.J. (Houshmandzadeh) Is a Touchdown

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Clearly this is due to American public schools concentrating on math classes instead of on humanities classes. False. The problem with American education today is that too many people are ending up majoring in art history or international relations, and not enough in math, science, or engineering. ...

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I see what you all are saying, and I thank you, Matt, for giving a clarification of the overall argument. I definitely think NAQT has some things that need to be fixed. I groan when trash about some football team or some bad movie comes up. I also groan when math computation comes up. For what it's ...

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I'm going to sound like someone's mother in saying: You win some and you lose some. Sometimes you have a good day and sometimes you have a bad day. Believe me, TJ has had its own share of disappointing losses, especially at tournaments like NAQT VA state where we were "supposed" to do well...

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As a member of the TJ team, I would like to state my views on all of this. I think we can all agree that NAQT has too much math computation and trash. I hate it, everyone hates it (except someone who only knows how to do those 2 things, I suppose). Even math virtuosos like Palmer Mebane hate it. Mat...

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I don't think the permissions for this spreadsheet are as you planned. I cannot access the scores.

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Zach Foster from NMB: Why are your juniors going to college already?

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ZOMG UVA's Academic Club finally posts something concerning a tournament on hsqb forums?! Pigs can fly!

Ok, ok, that's quite a bit of an exaggeration, but I welcome the fact that Will Butler has stepped up to duly notify teams instead of avoiding the boards like the plague...

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I've got to say that playing ridiculously hard quizbowl questions at 1 AM has long been a fantasy of mine. This weekend, my fantasy finally became a reality! Seriously, though, it was a really welcome break from stock clues and the same old questions again and again, with stuff that no one is suppos...

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I would like to play.

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Dr. Chuck can be a field umpire, and signal by way of a rectangular gesture the need for a TV referral. I am notorious for running people out...

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There also is a nice quad area for football, frisbee, cricket, hide-and-seek, and pillow fights.

Dr. Emil Thomas Chuck has predicted the coming wave of Indians...

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Are these dates fixed in stone already? I believe that Saturday in November is the same weekend as WMHSMUN/VAMUN, two college-hosted Model UN conferences that a lot of people on TJ's It's Ac team go to (myself included, and also one more at least from next year's tentative A team).

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