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Charley Pride

A lot of the time there's a note in the answer line to accept the alternate answer up until the point in the question that it becomes incorrect. If the alternate answer is given after that point it's considered wrong unless there's also a note to prompt after the point. Well this is obvious. But wh...

Charley Pride

I was wondering about what is the accepted procedure for accepting alternate answers that are ruled out within the question. For example, in a tossup about the Battle of Antietam that mentions "this battle's namesake creek", should Sharpsburg be accepted? In a perhaps more difficult situat...

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Jane Fairfax wrote:
jonah wrote:interstate highway system (driver's ed) .
That was pretty clever.

I love you, Jonah, because doing things like this results in things like the number of acceptable history tossups going from 0 to 1.

Charley Pride

Utahraptor wrote:Who the bobcats is Guon freaking Yin.

I approve of your new avatar, Lloyd.

ITT Gwan Yin becomes part of the quizbowl myth cannon...

EDIT: Fixing some things.

Charley Pride

Utahraptor wrote:
Charley Pride wrote: ITT we learn you're not supposed to stop playing the game, even if the match is effectively over.

Charley Pride wrote:Questions today were markedly better.
Who the bobcats is Guon freaking Yin.

Are you quoting me because you agree?

Charley Pride

The set was written to be played in the 15/10/-5 format we used earlier today, and has powers with power marks included in each tossup. I certainly wouldn't mind if you chose not to use either powers or negs, though. I had already decided that I would use whatever format you used, in order that we ...

Charley Pride

New Trier (747 points) advances to the IHSA State Tournament. Loyola Academy (737 points), and OPRF (713 points) also were 2-0. ITT 2 blurts could determine who goes to the state championship. I"m proud to say I got called on the blurt rule today too! :cool: ITT we learn you're not supposed to...

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Unless I misheard something, Gov won the final. CR and Whitman were 5th and 6th, respectively, no information about 3rd and 4th although it was presumably Hunter and TJ in an indeterminate order. Congrats to Gov and St. Anselm's and kudos to GDS. The set was mostly good, although there were a few a...

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Captain Sinico wrote:Huzzah!

MaS

You should be jealous/upset. He's even thinking about taking down his Shrine to Sorice.

Charley Pride

Dayo Dankole wrote:Stupid things.

I'm going to go ahead and say you're dumb, because this is so idiotic that it's fair for me to maintain the assumption that this is a joke account. I trust this assumption absolves me of any retribution for violating HSQB's ad hominem rules.

EDIT: Typolimination.

Charley Pride

Dude, even Henry Gorman, who was one of the best myth players in his time, didn't know Guan Yin, even if I gave him extra time to think about it. Guan Yin was used as an answer three times in history, according a search of the packet archive. Once in Tlazolteotl Chows Down (hard college myth singles...

Charley Pride

Questions today were markedly better, unless my opinion of regionals is swayed by me exhaustion/frustration thanks to being at school until 9:30 on a school night. Still, they were good by no means. A new frustration I have with bad answer choices is that they replace something useful, important, an...

Charley Pride

ITT Zahed pretended to like the blurt rule so he could prevent the invention/enforcement of a worse rule.

Charley Pride

Just to let you guys know, I became victim to the blurt rule today... on a bonus . And Coach Greene didn't complain about that? She has a (very good) policy of not protesting when you are - or soon will be - up 400 points. No, you don't understand. The score was very close at the time (and put Care...

Charley Pride

I can certainly come out with Loyola Or, you know, take us since we probably won't have a bus. Also, Zahed please do a better format (I.e. include negs if you're including powers and have a real acf advantaged final if needed) and letting Dan play this would be cool too. Yeah, I do believe the set ...

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KHAAAAN please wrote:Trashtastrothree

I hate you, I think.

Charley Pride

And thus my brother's mancrush on Shantanu continues to blossom.

Charley Pride

I'm thinking May 1 for this event, as May 22 is the date of Auburn's prom. I'll have 13 packets if this event happens, so a 12-team field would probably be the minimum for us to run this tournament. This way we can at least run a full round-robin with two packets for an advantaged final, should the ...

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I saw in another thread that there could be some potential interest if someone were to host a mirror of the Ben Cooper Memorial Tournament . Well, Auburn needs money, and Illinois needs good tournaments before nationals, so here I am, looking to see if we can get a solid field of teams. A few things...

Charley Pride

And it's confirmed: we'll be mirroring GSAC! Thanks, Sarah and everyone at Maggie Walker! Awesome news. Now hold another tournament mirroring Ben Cooper. Go Brad Go. I'm gonna try to convince Coach Greene to have Auburn host a Ben Cooper mirror. We'd do it to make money, however, so it wouldn't be ...

Charley Pride

For the specific packet Zahed used in his analysis, my varsity team could convert at least 15 of those questions in practice. My JV team could probably snag 12, 13 tops. Translate: Zahed 's right, it is a fallacy, and he presents an excellent example. I never thought HSAPQ was hard; I just don't th...

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Be prepared for people to argue back to you that the fact they are a private school basically makes them the equivalent to being a large, well funded public school. I know a bit about their school, and while their student body is notably wealthy, the school hasn't been rolling in money of late. EDI...

Charley Pride

Is it just me, or does that set seem to have particularly easy answer lines? I mean, I usually don't have 100% conversion on HSAPQ sets, and that one seemed far from the bounds of the HS canon. Let me first note that I don't have any problem with the difficulty of HSAPQ's questions, but it needs to...

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adeveau wrote:
Charley Pride wrote:*awkwaaaard*
I'm bitter, of course, but interrobangs are objectively ridiculous.

Of course.

Charley Pride

*awkwaaaard*

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Check out the result of the Sterling regional. Keith comes in with its first quizbowl team ever and advances to sectionals. Through my cousin, who is on the team, Abid and I (I think) were able to influence Keith towards good quizbowl, and their first tournament in team history was either Loyburn or...

Charley Pride

bt_green_warbler wrote:data

This is wonderful. Thanks, Jeff. Obviously, nothing is ever always converted, and I hope people understand I was exaggerating with "100%", albeit only slightly.

Charley Pride

The Mauritius Command wrote:a computational question about sunscreen SPF.

[interrobangx3]

Charley Pride

So out of 20 tossups, 8 were deemed ungettable by the majority of IHSA teams, and I was being pretty generous, in my opinion, as far as declaring things dead. Furthermore, much of what I declared dead was more because people wouldn't know them than because they were actually hard. What can we conclu...

Charley Pride

To prove that the arguments claiming that HSAPQ is inaccessible to the regular quizbowl player, I'll do a very simple analysis of a real HSAPQ answer space. The answers I list are lifted from packet 1 of HSAPQ's ACF-1 set. It's available on their site. This analysis pertains specifically to varsity ...

Charley Pride

How is that a spelling bonus part? "Please spell "Mongols?!" as spoken in a tone of surprise and bewilderment. You have ten seconds." Something about it being a combination of the question mark and exclamation point. Also, the morons included "hyphen" and "dash&qu...

Charley Pride

Interrobang made a comeback, by the way, as a spelling bonus part.

Charley Pride

This was definitely the best written state series I've been to. Really? It was horrendous, and I've been playing in the state series for three years now. I'll be honest: I may not fully recall how the questions were in the past. So, yes, you may be right in that these are the best state series ques...

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On another note, I didn't see any of IHSA's pet categories. No drivers' ed, and the the consumer science was just science with a home-ec twist. There was a pretty stupid bonus on roof styles, though. I wasn't playing at the time, though.

Charley Pride

HOW THE HELL DO YOU TOSSUP MARGARET CHASE SMITH? Well, they have to think about conversion. I'm sure IHSA wants to make questions accessible to all levels, by asking questions about more recent people like Smith, as opposed to ancient politicians, such as George Washington. I hope you're joking. On...

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Jacopo Robusti wrote:Robert: You can't discuss answer lines, I think.

I'm told you can.

HOW THE HELL DO YOU TOSSUP MARGARET CHASE SMITH?

HOW THE HELL DO YOU WRITE QUESTIONS THIS BAD? THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORSE THAN LAST YEAR.

Charley Pride

Yeah, we won our regional, and yeah, we sub a lot. We wrapped up at 9:15, and I left school at 9:30, arriving home around 9:45. Dan-Don, matches couldn't be slower. 30/30 is just so so so so long... It was so bad, I gave up on liveblogging, because it stopped being funny. The best moment was Abid g...

Charley Pride

Yeah, we won our regional, and yeah, we sub a lot. We wrapped up at 9:15, and I left school at 9:30, arriving home around 9:45. Dan-Don, matches couldn't be slower. 30/30 is just so so so so long... It was so bad, I gave up on liveblogging, because it stopped being funny. The best moment was Abid go...

Charley Pride

This tournament is geared as a tuneup for nationals; as such, the field is currently restricted to teams that have qualified for either NAQT HSNCT or PACE NSC Why the bias against NAC qualified teams? After all, this is a warmup for nationals. :chip: warmup was yesterday. How'd you guys do? Read my...

Charley Pride

After all,

needs to see Illinois teams in the best condition possible.

Charley Pride

Beussink v. Woodland wrote:This tournament is geared as a tuneup for nationals; as such, the field is currently restricted to teams that have qualified for either NAQT HSNCT or PACE NSC

Why the bias against NAC qualified teams? After all, this is a warmup for nationals.

Charley Pride

I guess I'm not most qualified to speak on these questions, mainly because my brother and teammate are running it (I'll also be involved), but I've seen some of the questions, and I can assure you they'll be pretty good. I'll help make sure the set meets all standards of quality.

Charley Pride

As has already been said, I commend Mr. Laudermith on running this tournament so well. I also hope the half-round he moderated between Dan and I wasn't too wild. The drama that was our bracket is worthy of an Oscar. It was identical to the drama in another bracket. Plagiarism doesn't win. Even I kn...

Charley Pride

Top bracket is missing a match for every team.

Charley Pride

I'd like to extend my hearty, hearty congratulations to Mr. Laudermith for running an incredibly efficient tournament. We had ten rounds, plus two tiebreaker matches, plus a lunch period, and we were all done by 3:45 (9:00) start or so). The tournament was decided by 3:30. Take that, IHSA stalwarts....

Charley Pride

Man, almost as many people voted in this poll that voted in the entire national poll last month. What the heck. No, that's not a lot of voters, i'm saying i wish more voted in the larger ones. Vote on, Illinois. It's just that fact that more Illinois people know about more Illinois schools. I don't...

Charley Pride

I support relevant trash, just as I support relevant current events. That is, trash that is pertinent to "the times" (award-winning films, important sports figures, etc.). For current events, I think the qualifier is stuff that had a good chance of being considered history 20, 30, 40, 50 y...

Charley Pride

No offense, but...where's all the IMSA love coming from?

Charley Pride

Zahed pointed out to me last night that Abid is a growing RMP, social science, and music powerhouse, in addition to his visarts prowess. So Abid has a lot of nice niches that he could fill for Team Illinois. Abid is terrible at RM... I would say "God-awful", but that reference might be lo...

Charley Pride

Why can't the points be shared? This is an unofficial poll. This is my opinion. I think it makes things more interesting. This sounds waaaay too much like the IHSA policy of having 3, 4, and 5 part bonuses. I'm just suggesting that the rules governing an informal poll not be so exacting. Some of us...

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