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U of I ABT written questions >>>> NAQT IS sets

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I wouldn't really expect anyone out of Illinois or the SEMO ACE camp to know much about them, but Carbondale from Illinois put up a pretty decent showing at PACE (low 20-something-th place, I think), especially for a first-time team that's returning literally everybody. On paper (statistically), the...

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Sweet action. We at Auburn will try our darnedest to make it down there. What decent (by which I mean appropriate for strong high school teams; I assume that all will have excellent questions) tournaments does UChicago hold?

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jrbarry wrote:Highest camp test score at MIlligan was 59. Highest at SEMO was 47. (Both are out of a total of 70 questions.) 19 campers at Milligan scored higher than 47 on that test.

Way to take the air out of Illinois' collective balloon.

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ImmaculateDeception wrote:Ancien régiem

Yo man, if you break out the French, you gotsta do it right. Otherwise it looks all...Eastern European (help me out Guy).

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I'm starting to feel like we're all trying to decipher the vague, obscure murmurings of a deranged oracle.

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How much of these threads ever are comparisons?

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Aub-ZH wrote:GIVE ME DEATH!

Be careful what you wish for.

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Mr. Egan, I remember you saying that the rep from my district was the deciding vote against changing the bonus format. Would you mind providing me with her contact info? My e-mail address is my posting name here on a Gmail account.

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IHSA is not forcing you to deal with bad questions. Is this a nonsensical "if you don't like it, quit" statement or something more coded? My interpretation (well, really, my opinion carefully projected onto Mr. Reinstein) is that the IHSA does not force you to choose one-liner tournaments...

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Change is slowly happening. I don't know about computational math ever disappearing, but the Kickoff tournament run by the coaches' association (NOT the IHSA) will be run in mACF bonus format as somewhat of an experiment to test the southern portion of the state. The teams that seek to go beyond IHS...

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Have fun not being able to get Religion, Mythology, Philosophy, or Social Sciences like anthropology and economics. Note that Zahed emphasized the "Illinois". The math distribution cripples those categories you mentioned. Religion and mythology get shoved into World Literature, and the &q...

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Do you still need a science editor?

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dtaylor4 wrote:Why not a delayed mirror of the Harvard tournament?

It looks like the Harvard tournament is 20/20 format, judging from their thread on this board.

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Does anyone know what regular season PACE-format (not just PACE-affiliated) tournaments are running this year? Auburn and a perhaps a couple other Illinois teams would be interested in at least pursuing the possibility.

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I'd just like to point out that an undefeated season, even just within the state, depends on too many unpredictable factors to realistically think about it now. If the situation were different (like, if an NFL team played in a middle school league) then we could be having this discussion with no cav...

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So how did Illinois folks perform at SEMO? Any firsthand accounts?

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It's a good thing that the PAC didn't score Mike on his ability to write with proper grammar. ;) Mike and John pretty much said what I think about the pre-season rankings, but that just reminds me that the pre-season rankings very, very rarely accurately reflect the best teams (or best-performing te...

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Panasonic has its merits, and I would hate to see it disappear. I would never, in a million years, make the claim that our (Team Illinois) victory means much in the realm of actual quiz bowl, but the Panasonic tournament can provide other benefits that regular quiz bowl cannot as a largely insular, ...

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The little I know about Quint from hearing about him and playing against him at PACE leads me to believe that that statement is at least a little bit facetious.

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My favorite mnemonic for remembering geologic periods (edited from ACE camp).

Can Ollie See Down My Pants Pocket? Tom Jones Can. Tom's Queer
Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Permian Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Tertiary Quaternary

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Way to go, West! Let's hope that middle school success in Rockford continues to lead to high school success. :)

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manary wrote:I buzzed "Seto Kaiba" on a five word description from the abridged series.

Hey, the abridged series is hilarious. There should be no shame.

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...time was a mitigating factor... Correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Price, but it doesn't sound like you meant that the game was timed in the normal way but rather that they were going to stop play at a certain clock time regardless of the match--perhaps because of lateness issues. That doesn't make it...

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How many more negs does Auburn have than Greg? Ouch, John. That hurts. But seriously, thanks for the kind words, everyone. We've been waiting for this moment a long time, and we are indebted to all of the dedicated people who work so hard to make something worthwhile out of the morass that is Illin...

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Here's something I've always wondered: has anyone ever gotten a music question about a work based on information about chord changes and movements and all that technical stuff? Or to rephrase that, have any of you ever?

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We've never even seen a PACE format set, but we are planning to go to nationals this year. Are we eligible to buy a set from you even though we didn't attend your tournament?

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Oh, okay. Where did I get that idea from then?

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NAQT is writing the questions. Every year, they write a set for use in state-championship level tournaments. As I understand, the difficulty should be somewhere between regular IS sets and nationals.

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Yeah, but I don't think the upstate schools will be willing to give up a chance at some money.

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We left early, so can anyone tell me the results of the Wheaton North fresh-soph tournament?

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Nostradamus for Jules Verne I suppose that technically, given the information in the question up to that point (basically that he was a French novelist and predicted all sorts of technology in his works), the answer is slightly (just slightly) less of a brain fart. It still is funny, though. Another...

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Is the answer Squib?

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Yeah, I remember those worksheets. We tried to go for something similar at the Auburn Knights' Challenge (our f/s tourney). I was busier writing the regular questions, so I didn't see too much of the worksheets, but I'm pretty sure we did the same thing. I remember being kind of dismayed when I was ...

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I honestly could not recognize Sorice sans flowing locks until I heard his trademark subcontrabass voice.

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Is it stealing if I take it from myself?

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I've heard the term mashup, but only in reference to the pop-culture usage, not programming. The only times before the Solo that I had heard mashup, the word was used in reference to a video (like the anti-Hillary ad adapted from the classic Apple '1984' ad) that was created from other sources of vi...

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2. Siva Sundarum, Auburn

Sundaram*

Thank you, Mr. Reinstein, for another successful execution of one of the most fun tournaments of the year. I still can barely imagine how you write all those questions (I figured at least 500 per year) by yourself.

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Have you been able to compile the stats from the tournament yet?

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I wouldn't mind doing that, actually.

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I'm fairly sure we at Auburn are going.

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Auburn High School in Rockford, Illinois (extremely close to the Wisconsin border) runs a fresh-soph tournament every January with pyramidal questions, which helps prepare young players for the type of questions used for the major/legit national competitions. Rock Valley College, also in Rockford, i...

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Who exactly is Verity? I feel like I've heard his name before and that he's on the Loyola team, but I don't know his first name or who he is.

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