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pblessman

The very exciting addition of the 2010 All-Star Tournament pushes the question of All-State/All-Star selection processes to the forefront of my mind. I saw how this was done in Illinois when I coached there, but Wisconsin and Indiana (the other two states I coached in) did not have All-State/All-Sta...

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This looks like a great tournament! I'll get together with Ben Dillon to get the ball rolling on the Indiana All-State selection process (something we maybe should be doing anyway!). This tournament surely can't move forward without representation from the quizbowl powerhouse state of Indiana!

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I am cancelling the tournament due to lack of interest.

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Hmmmm... I have gotten three offers to read, but still only one school interested, meaning the field is still half full. Any others out there thinking about this?

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Head-to-head results are finally posted at: http://pblessman.googlepages.com/2009_Spring_Goldfish_Head_to_head_re.xls . So sorry about the delay! Summary of final standings also below: Team Record (W-L) 1 DCDS 46-0 2 New Trier 45-1 3 DCC A 44-2 4 R.-Auburn IL 43-3 5 Walton 42-4 6 James Monroe 40-6 7...

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I'm le tired and my Excel macro skills decline rapidly under these conditions... I think I can get this done tomorrow, but for now I have enough info to declare DCDS the overall Head-to-head winner as well! Congratulations! As Coach Reinstein already pointed out, New Trier was their closest match, w...

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I agree with BJ on the oddness of having two difficult TUs to start... We were a bit rattled and then missed a relatively easy Hemingway novel question on TU3 just because getting things wrong felt right at that point (my interpretation). After that we settled down quite a bit.

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Excel Spreadsheet with all buzzpoints etc. is now posted at: http://pblessman.googlepages.com/RESULTS.xls. The teams are sorted left to right according to Goldfish score.

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I found a major error in one of the first 24 questions that affected our team, but we feel shouldn't be penalized (we negged) as the question had a piece of false information. DCDS buzzed in with "Oslo" on the hint that Al Gore won his Nobel Prize in this city. The question was looking fo...

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Congratulations to the 2009 Pre-Nationals Goldfish Goldfish Champions: Detroit Country Day School! DCDS just destroyed their opposing Goldfish, putting up 700 points! Below are all the results I have received. If you did the Goldfish but have NOT sent in your scores (or think you did) but you are no...

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Well... I''m an optimist, so I will announce that the field is half-full!

Here's a field update:

Brindlee Mountain A
Brindlee Mountain B
Culver A
Culver B

We have four slots still open. Please let me know if you are interested!

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Yeah, the best thing to do would be to either cut costs somewhere(You could probably cobble together enough laptops for a paperless tournament), run all packets on a two-day basis(8 rounds Friday, 8 rounds Saturday) or call this off and donate the rooms and readers for a worthy quizbowl-related cau...

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$40 for just 5 games is still pretty exorbitant, dude. NAQT gets $163.00 of the money for providing the questions ($35 flat fee + 8*$16), and I need to make around a 1000 copies so every team can get a full set of questions (16 packets each, which cost $35 when purchased online). I also have to fac...

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I'm going to stick with the 4 PM start time. If people are worried about going too late, I'd rather cut a couple of rounds and finish at 6:30 PM or 7:00 PM (two four team RR, rebracket top two and bottom two for a total of five matches). If we do this, I will reduce the fee by $10 to $80 {-$40 if yo...

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I figured being done by 8:30 PM addressed the fatigue issue, but maybe I misunderestimated the stamina of high schoolers. Would this be a different proposition for DCDS )and others) if we:

A. Started earlier?
B. Played fewer matches?
C. All of the above?

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You do realize that NAQT is not the only group capable of producing a bajillion questions, right? Darn... That wasn't my main point, although I do think it's significant. I was trying to use number of sets produced to emphasize the idea of momentum. High School Quizbowl is an INCREDIBLY difficult s...

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Hmmm... not to get overly anxious, but I kind of expected a more substantial response by now... I know it's only been up two days, but I haven't had anybody express interest yet (either by e-mail or on the board). I had thought having the opportunity to play real matches on pristine questions the ni...

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I seriously wonder whether in 8 or so years, NAQT will be viewed as this board currently sees CBI and the like. If we really want to look 8 years into the future, I think a very different picture will emerge. Looking BACK eight years will make clear where the trendline is going. In 2001, NAQT HSNCT...

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Tower Monarch wrote:So many questions provided horrible clues that I don't think I demonstrated any knowledge today, despite getting around 8 TU per game.

Was one of the answers you got "Hyperbole"?

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I only have Culver A and Culver B so far!

So six slots are still open, but my gut tells me there is going to be considerable interest in this- I am anticipating many teams to start e-mailing and posting over the next few days.

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BGSO wrote:What set will this be using?

The tournament will use the NAQT Division II SCT questions. I would say these are intermediate in difficulty between IS and HSNCT level.

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The Fourth Annual Midwest Championship has been moved to Friday, May 29, 2009 (the day before the Preliminary Rounds of the NAQT National Championship). The Midwest Championship will be held at the Sheraton Suites, Elk Grove Village, approximately 9 miles from the NAQT tournament site. This is the h...

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The Tournament has been cancelled for this Saturday, May 9. I am exploring other options between now and N AQT Nationals.

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I've had a few stragglers who didn't get me their scores until this week. I will run the analysis this weekend. It doesn't take me days of actual work, but it does take me several hours as this is a self-written and pretty finicky Excel macro deal-e-o which needs to be customized every time I do thi...

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2010 Midwest Championship on May 15, 2010 at Culver Academies (IN) Culver Academies will host the Fifth Annual Midwest Championship on Saturday, May 15, 2010. For the first time the event will be held on the Saturday AFTER APs, rather than the Saturday in the middle of APs, so we are hopeful we will...

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I sent the packet as soon as I got it from NAQT. You can play the packet any time before tomorrow (Friday) evening without special dispensation from me, as tomorrow is the due date for the scoresheet. If you have some particular reason why you absolutely cannot get it done this week, please let me k...

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Class of '10? Excellent... Next year? May 15 is the date...

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You have to read associated bonuses in order to make sure that I am comparing apples with apples, i.e. every team who wins question #9 gets bonus #9, otherwise the head-to-head comparisons don't make sense as it would be unclear which bonus to assign to a won TU.

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Updated Field: 61 teams from 14 states and DC. School State Teams Brindlee Mountain AL 2 DAR AL 2 Hoover AL 1 LISA Academy AR 1 St. Anselm's Abbey School DC 1 Caesar Rodney DE 1 Alpharetta GA 1 Eastside GA 1 Walton GA 1 Buffalo Grove IL 1 New Trier IL 2 Rockford-Auburn IL 2 Culver Academies IN 2 Har...

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Still hoping for an eighth team... DCDS? Walnut Hills? Anybody out there?

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pretzeldude92 wrote:Whitman is in Maryland, for what it's worth.

I knew that! I think...

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Added 2xDAR, James Monroe, and St. John's Jesuit. New 52-team field above. Still time to register!

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I just sent out a test e-mail with instructions, rules, and a scoresheet. Questions will go out tomorrow, I hope. Iif you didn't receive the e-mail and think you should have, please let me know ASAP at pblessman [at] yahoo [dot] com. If you still want to sign up, please send me an e-mail right away!

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Alrighty, we're up to at least 53 teams from 15 states and state-like entities, I believe. I do not have an e-mail for DCDS or James Monroe, so if you could send me that, I would appreciate it. If anybody still wants to register... chip-chop-chip! I can probably still squeeze you in if I hear from y...

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Current Field- Small but strong field of seven Teams: Carbondale, IL (Illinois AA State Champions) Culver, IN x2 (Indiana State Champions) St. Joes, IN (Indiana State Runners-up) DCC, MI x2 (Michigan State Runners-up and Third-place finishers) Northmont, OH (Ohio NAQT State Championship this Saturda...

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The competition is just a few days away, so I am going to give a field update as well as invite any other teams who want to compete to please e-mail me ASAP at pblessman [at] yahoo [dot] com. Thanks! Current field stands at 25 teams: Northmont, OH Hoover, AL Rockford-Auburn, IL x2 Caesar Rodney, DE ...

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Sorry about the slow response to the above questions:

1. "On or about" means that you can do it on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday (or maybe even Friday if you ask nicely...). I normally start running results Friday night.
2. Ties are resolved by splitting points.

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Last spring, sixty-six teams from across the US competed in the First Pre-Nationals Goldfish Championship, and this year's pre-nationals edition will launch on April 29. In the Goldfish Championship, your team can compete on NAQT questions against teams from all across the nation (and the maybe even...

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Culver Academies will host the Fourth Annual Midwest Championship on Saturday, May 9, 2009. Culver is located in North Central Indiana, about fifty miles South of South Bend, and about 100 miles Southeast of Chicago. This tournament is meant as a warm-up for Nationals-bound teams and an opportunity ...

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---DELETED--- Does not apply anymore... Indiana NAQT will run this Saturday.

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Just thought I'd say "Hi!" I haven't been on this forum yet... and my goodness, this is more traffic than I would expect on the Indiana page in a year or so... based on the results up to this point, I'd say Adams, Penn, St. Joe's, and Culver are pretty evenly matched, and Harrison is a bit...

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Still looking for readers... Everybody's guaranteed 10 matches, so this would be at least $50 plus lunch. Any takers?

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We've lost Harrison with three schools, so we're down to 16 Varsity and 10 F/S. We're still accepting registrations, and we are also looking semi-desperately for moderators... as mentioned before, we do pay readers $5 per game read and we also provide meals (and housing if necessary). E-mail me at b...

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Yes, I've modified the list of schools attending. We're now at 18 V and 11 F/S.

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We are always in need of moderators, so if anybody wants to make the trip to Culver, Indiana for the tourney, please let me know! We always provide meals and have also put up people overnight in our motel if you are driving long-distance, plus we give our moderators a small stipend to compensate the...

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I've posted another field update above- we're up to 29 teams in total with still almost three weeks until the registration deadline... I hate to get my hopes up, but I think there is a good chance we'll break the record for most teams at an Indiana tournament (not the most exciting category to break...

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Wow... I'm just slow, I guess... and I have another question! Why was Maine South declared the winner of the Consolation Bracket? Wheaton Warrenville South looks like the team that should have won the Consolation bracket based on the previous statement about why Auburn beat Loyola A out in the stand...

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Cornfused- Thanks for the explanation. After you explained it again, I now remember the set-up. I thought it was well done, actually, so "wonderfully complex" was meant as a compliment (and I have to disagree with you- compared to 99.9% of all QB tournaments, this system is incredibly comp...

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Congratulations on a well-run tournament, as several people here have commented on the quality of this event! We went last year and we hope it will continue. If New Trier doesn't have the people to do it, hopefully the burden can be shared with some of the other IL powerhouses. I did have one questi...

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Field update:

Varsity- 16 Teams
Crete Monee (IL) x2
Culver
DCC (MI) x2
Kalamazoo Christian (MI)
North White x2
Novi (MI) x2
Penn
Pioneer x2
Royal Oak (MI)
St. Joe's x2

Frosh/Soph- 11 Teams
Crete Monee (IL) x2
Culver
DCC (MI)
Kalamazoo Christian (MI)
North White
Novi (MI) x4
Pioneer

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