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troyharris

I think Hallsville is more than just a VSS contender. They are a legit choice to possibly win it all. A superstar and experience go a long way at Nationals.

troyharris

No worries! Our nationals preference was to go to SSNCT where we really fit best, but the conflict with History Bowl forced us to make a tough call. With many of our players qualifying for both team and individual events, we went with History Bowl PACE falls on graduation day, so we are going to bri...

troyharris

Quick correction. AMSA is not the only team going to PACE. Plymouth is also going.

troyharris

Note also that unfortunately this year NHBAB and SSNCT coincide, and so I would expect that some teams that may normally be at SSNCT may not be there this year. We are one of them, and are really bummed to be missing SSNCT this year. It is such a great event.

troyharris

I would assume that will be the way we will arrange it, yes.

troyharris

Plymouth will also have one team as "newbies".

troyharris · Re: FACTS @ MIT (March 10, 2018) Do you have a field update?

Do you have a field update?

troyharris

Are teams from outside of MA eligible?

troyharris

Both my sons, Sean and Rhys, did camps. It definitely made them stronger players. The coolest thing about camp from the perspective of a parent is that it doesn't just help with quiz bowl, but it helps with all academics. It helped drive them both to study subject areas that either aren't offered in...

troyharris

You are correct. They are on the same weekend this year.

troyharris

I'm not sure how many teams are affected by this, but National History Bowl is the weekend of the 21st and SSNCT is the weekend of the 28th.

troyharris

Ah, it's under Vermont PHAT. Sorry, never mind.

troyharris

I don't see the PHAT in Essex, Vermont, held on December 2.

troyharris

Assuming that one tournament you are talking about was HFT?

troyharris

Big thank you to Gabe for taking this on and compiling the results.

troyharris

One note-had I been submitting today as opposed to last week, Hunter would have been in my top five after seeing what they did yesterday at KPAQT.

troyharris

Michael is correct-Karsten was ahead of Rhys in prelims. Rhys pulled ahead in combined in the afternoon.

troyharris

Thanks for doing this. Being that this is a New England thread, it would be hard to talk about New England powers without including New Hampshire at this point. Hanover has been fantastic in their past 3 events, showing strongly at Harvard and then making the finals at both PHAT and PAWT. They are v...

troyharris

Russell Elementary (Rumney, NH) would like to add one team.

troyharris

Is this the current field or is there an update?

troyharris

From my experience having two children go through high school playing and another middle-schooler who also is interested in playing, beyond the competition aspect of the game, I see the purpose as being a spur of intellectual curiosity. I have seen it in both my sons where they have found quiz bowl ...

troyharris

We went to a local thrift store. Books were a buck for hard cover titles from Hossuni, Faulkner, Shakespeare, etc. Cheap and the money,what little it was, stayed in the community. Also, check the school or local library to see if they are rotating out older books.

troyharris

Hanover High School, NH 2/4/2
Lexington High School, MA 3/0/0
Newfound Regional High, NH 1/?/?
Plymouth Regional High, NH 4/1/7
AMSA, MA 3/2/1
PCA, NH 2/1/1
Phillips Academy, MA 1/3/?
16/11/11

HSNCT is top 15% of the field, we are still waiting on the PACE response

troyharris

Field update:
Hanover High School, NH 1/4/1
Lexington High School, MA 3/0/0
Newfound Regional High, NH 1/?/?
Plymouth Regional High, NH 4/1/7
AMSA, MA 3/2/1
PCA, NH 1/?/?

troyharris

Field update:
Plymouth Regional 3/?/?
Hanover H.S. 1/?/1
Newfound Regional H.S. 1/?/?

troyharris

Current field:Team/number/buzzers/staffers

Plymouth Regional 3/1/TBD

troyharris

Quick note that the Plymouth Regional Inaugural Tournament is indeed on for September 30, but we are not using Maryland Fall nor WHAQ II, as Jacob informed us that Lexington may be mirroring that set later in the year. We are going to use IS167A. Tournament details are in the tournament forum.

troyharris

Plymouth Regional High School is excited to announce it's inaugural academic tournament on September 30, 2017 at Plymouth Regional High School, 86 Old Ward Bridge Road, Plymouth, NH 03264. We will be using question set IS 167A, not the housewrite as initially posted. We are setting an initial cap at...

troyharris

Hello,
Coach Fogarty would like to accept Plymouth Regional High School's invitation to this tournament. Plymouth (NH) will have one team, one set of buzzers.

Troy Harris
Plymouth, NH

troyharris

It works now.

troyharris

Anybody know what's up (or down) with Protobowl over the past few days?

troyharris

Right, that makes sense. Thanks.

troyharris

Fred,
Did you happen to analyze the adjustment on the NASAT for 2017?

troyharris

Are there any other high school teams playing?

troyharris

New Hampshire has hosted 2 NHBB annually for several years now-Hanover H.S. and ConVal High School have been the host schools.

troyharris

*the question to ask here is “where is a player in this field most likely to have learned this information?" "A CO packet" is probably a bad answer to this. A followup question is, "If it’s very unlikely to produce buzzes, is there any reason to put it in the question?" &quo...

troyharris

Email sent with a few questions.

troyharris

Plymouth Regional High School in New Hampshire would tentatively like to claim the date of September 30, 2017. We will be mirroring the newly-created University of Maryland house write set, a regular-difficulty high school set, following standard NAQT rules. We are setting a cap at 24 and would love...

troyharris

Plymouth Regional (NH) will likely bring 2 teams and a buzzer and staffer.

troyharris

It looks like at NAQT that MATCH at AMSA isn't giving individual stats nor PPB, but the results on HSQB do (or did).

troyharris

I will probably be able to do it, but I'm not sure when your deadline will be. On another note, I'm still waiting to hear if Rumney, NH is going to send a team to your MS tournament. They have kids on the sign-up, but sports are creating conflict.

troyharris

Aren't the scrimmages on Friday night?

troyharris

I have to give a plug to our kids here in Plymouth. Last year they finished 17th at SSNCT and were a buzzer-beater loss to Good Hope away from the quarter finals, and they had the bad fortunate of facing Lehigh Valley twice. This year's team has played very well when the A team is together, which ha...

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Casey,
I just wanted to denote that Plymouth is a small school.

Troy Harris

troyharris

Arcadia was definitely one of the teams not in the previous poll that stood out when I was looking at that region. The toughest thing that I found was trying to limit such an incredibly broad geographic area (U.S. and Canada) to 25, when so many of the p/b statistics are so incredibly similar across...

troyharris

but if they never qualified for nationals, are you likely to be mentioning them on your national poll ballot?

True enough, and I figure as such that it would be impossibly time-consuming to try to put a designation for every school without having a need to do it.

troyharris

Other than the previously mentioned comment about looking at previous SSNCT reports, and even that is not always accurate because schools' statuses change from year to year.

troyharris

With the question of small school polls, even when playing in tournaments we don't ever really know who is small-school and who is not, so it is often hard to determine who is fighting for the same small school standing spots in any given tournament. Without knowing the exact numbers of a school's e...

troyharris

Peter,
Southside's huge performance at Harvard was a big factor in my polling as well. That was an incredible field and winning that tournament was a huge accomplishment.

Troy Harris
Plymouth Regional High School
Plymouth, NH

troyharris

And since this is a New England/Northeast thread page, there are many very strong teams in Vermont as well. Essex A is really tough, Middlebury A was phenomenal at nationals last year (SSNCT), and Burlington, CVU, Mt. Mansfield and S. Burlington all were very strong at PHAT with very good PPB ratings.

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