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Byko

The rest of the Missouri team just kind of fell apart once I made it very clear to my coach (also Missouri's Panasonic coach for decades) that I was under no circumstances going because he hadn't really gotten in contact with anyone about being on the team and whatnot. When I spoke to Mr. Allen at ...

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Practice games were fun since teams were mixed up, and my team featuring Dave Bykowski, Eric Huff, and the coach from team Louisiana whose name slips my mind won the coaches' challenge and were rewarded with ipod player stereos... I had a good time. Now comes sitting through 80 minutes of ugh tomor...

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Granted, the Great Middle School Pyramidal Experiment returned... interesting results. Great Middle School Pyramidal Experiment?? (especially interesting since Tom and I just spent today presenting to a group of mainly middle school writers for Kentucky about pyramidal questions) See this thread. P...

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Okay folks, here's the actual distribution (all numbers are out of 65 questions): Math: 12 Science: 12 Social Studies: 12 English: 12 Multi-Subject: 4 Music: 3 Art: 3 Humanities: 3 Foreign Language: 3 Technology: 1 Except for the Multi-Subject and Technology, which are only in the 15-point round, ev...

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Damn, and I still have my six years of eligibility! Like I was ever going to go back to college anyways, though.

Seriously, though, if this is real, perhaps CBI should consider updating its website to reflect this. Maybe they should make it impossible for people to put in more orders or something.

Byko

jbarnes112358 wrote:So Is it Brookwood's plaque?

No--I have Brookwood's plaque, which I'll be giving to Eric Huff when I see him down at Panasonic this coming weekend. So Rick, it's coming!

Byko

pasedpawn wrote:Auburn A (Rockford IL) somehow has 8 games recorded on saturday NSC, and one of them as far as I know (Robinson) never existed.

One result was entered for the wrong Auburn. Thanks for catching it, and my apologies for the error.

Byko

Bentley Like Beckham wrote:This is clearly the best picture in the set:

http://flickr.com/photos/sabine01/25431 ... 381279948/

Um, yeah, Jessie and I agree that you look like you're praying in that one.

Byko

leftsaidfred wrote:Official answers:
Predict the consolation bracket champion (ten points)

Detroit Catholic Central

Predict the consolation bracket runner-up (five points)

Dorman B

leftsaidfred's live blog wrote:Dorman B wins by some points more than DCC

C'mon Fred, you can only pick one.

Byko

Let me ask a follow-up question related to some of what Henry just said: In some past years, PACE has set the questions up so that the preliminary rounds are easiest, the playoff rounds are uniformly/universally more difficult, and the championship semifinals and finals are uniformly/universally sti...

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The championship playoff results will also be reported live at http://www.taftqb.com/t/pacensc08playoffs/.

Byko

So the 14-17 spots in the consolation bracket are now set. The above has been edited.

Byko

Playoff brackets are almost set. One tiebreaker is going on right now among Detroit Catholic Central, Brookwood, and State College B for the last playoff spot: Guitar Hero Division: 1. Dorman A 2. Charter A 3. MLK Magnet 4. Chattahoochee A 5. State College A 6. Brookwood Rock Band Division: 1. Walt ...

Byko

Round 5 started around 2:30. Tyson Division ran about 30 minutes later than the others, but I think they'll catch up.

Byko

Charlie Dees in R3 vs. TJ B posts 2 powers + 21 tossups = 250.

Byko

Apparently Fred is bleeding in the other stat room. First aid, courtesy of Evan, is en route.

Byko

Daichi Ueda of Walter Johnson has set a new individual scoring record, going 3/19 for 250 points. His teammates combined to go 0/3 for 30.

Byko

First score of the tournament is in!

Dorman 530
Hunter 235

Byko

Apologies if this was discussed before, but were there small school playoff games this year? I remember that, before, teams that went 4-6 but were in the small school class had a chance to make a run through those playoffs and were joined by those that dropped down from the open playoffs. Apparentl...

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the FINISH THE LIMERICK bonus: "There once was a lady, Eileen, / Who lived on distilled kerosene. / But she started absorbin' / A new hydrocarbon / And since then she's never ..." Ah, you saw that too. Sure, it's cute, but it shouldn't be a question, especially at a tournament that emphas...

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On another note, Dave, my kids will have the check for registration and are bringing it with them. The apes in our accounting department couldn't stop throwing feces at each other long enough to actually put it in the mail. They did at least send us a purchase order, though, so we knew all was not ...

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ILoveReeses wrote:It's too bad we have jobs... Dave and I probably could have done an online chat discussion of why the brackets were shaped the way they were, the placement of the pods, and the overall Road to the Final Four.

Keep an eye out next year for the 2008-09 edition of QB Bracketology. Seriously.

Byko

The preliminary round robin groups have now been finalized and follow thus: Cain Division: Centennial A Chattahoochee B Collegiate MLK Magnet Northmont Stuyvesant Thomas Jefferson A Wheaton North Grierson Division: Brindlee Mountain B Cave Spring Dorman A Hunter North Allegheny A Rappahannock County...

Byko

The DC phase of NAC is coming up this weekend. Time for my questions on who some of these teams are: 1. Middletown - I presume they're from New York? 2. Greensboro - Is this Greensboro Day from North Carolina? 3. Lincoln Prep - Are they from Kansas City, Missouri? 4. Lincolnton - Are they from North...

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However, when my team lost to Harrison in the DC semifinals last year, we almost choked when Harrison earned a perfect score on a bonus round of "Ferrets"! (No disrespect to Harrison ... they were a great team!) Ferrets? Wow--I missed out on the good stuff by not being there for the playo...

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I forget - did you ever post those? Just a few particularly memorable moments, such as my vote for worst question of 2008: "According to Wikipedia, what was the purpose of the Spanish Armada?" I still have my pages of notes, though. If you want, I can have them on hand at PACE this weekend.

Byko

They need to bone up on household (and other) appliance sounds to be a true lock Well, last year, I took notes of dozens of rounds (I did it for the good of the community--Mike Z. can chime in with his response from last year to that if he wishes), and there wasn't a single question about sounds fr...

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From this region, only Hunter and Stuyvesant will be attending PACE NSC according to some other thread. Although from what I've heard, this will be a watered down version of Stuyvesant like at HSNCT because Doug and Nina (?) will be missing. Here is the Stuyvesant roster we have on record for this ...

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This appears to be the official obit from the Washington Post.

One question (from near the bottom of page 1): It's Academic in prisons?????

Byko

the tournament was more organized and efficiently run than any of the NAQT tournaments we attended this year, in addition to having better questions overall than the NAQT tournaments - heavy on literature, history, and the arts but light on sports and current events. I'm interested in hearing more ...

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catsasslippers wrote:Stuy was 3/4ths Stuy B plus Aidan. I'd say that should be considered Stuy B.

Thanks for the info. I've made the change, though I'm not sure the server will ever recalculate the ratings, which would really be a shame.

Byko

A reliable DC area media blog, dcrtv.com, is reporting that Sophie Altman, the executive producer of It's Academic , passed away at the age of 95. I figured this deserved something more than being tossed at the end of an "I'm tired of awesome people dying" thread. Say what you will about I...

Byko

You can reach me at dbykowski AT aiquizbowl DOT com. I have tentative prelim brackets right now--I'd like to get some updated recalculations based on playoff data, but failing that, I think we're just about ready to go on those. I'll give it one more day, so I'd say sometime late Wednesday, they'll ...

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It seems that approximately the bottom 1/4 of the schools are now missing. Is this intentional? No. The last time the web server actually got as far as making it through a recalculation without losing connection to the database server was about two days ago, and it lost connection about 3/4 of the ...

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The only activity I've EVER heard of in Maine has been some random school occasionally going to Panasonic. As for New Hampshire, getting many of those teams to go to Vermont is quite an undertaking, and there is just a little bit of activity in the state--I'm still learning about what's going on the...

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mknupp wrote:Will you be adding the NAQT HSNCT small school playoffs to the standings?

Yes...once NAQT posts the scores.

Byko

In addition to all that Charlie mentioned above, I think it improves the prestige of your program, provided that it is pulled off with a certain level of professionalism. In other words, if you are going to do it, you have to commit to doing it, and not slack off at some point on the details. If yo...

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At this point, no individual game receives any more weight than any other game. I've gotten the impression that most people prefer it that way, though I have had a couple people say playoff games should matter more. So I'm interested in the thought. But no, that wasn't an aspect of it. One thing wor...

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One more thing: it's inexcusable to mention Erwin Rommel in the first clue of a Capporetto tossup, especially in the finals. I don't think they make any distinction in the content of rounds between early rounds, playoffs, and finals. I know PACE, however, has done that in the past--to what extent t...

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metsfan001 wrote:What the hell are these bonuses doing in the playoffs and finals, let alone merely even existing?

I'll bet $82 that I can tell you who writes most of these list-style bonuses.

(Those of you who are old school probably know exactly what I'm saying.)

Byko

Hmm, looking at results from KMO (pretty much the only thing that I know exists in Colorado), I see Fruita won state and Grand Junction didn't even play. If I were a betting man, I would guess that the GJ coach just moved 10 miles down the road and started another solid team and continued the tradi...

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Colorado As long as team-composition questions are being asked: does anyone know if this is just Grand Junction as it has been in the past? As a Coloradoan, I'm always hopeful that some other team will one day realize that quiz bowl, like, exists... Probably. But there are other teams that know tha...

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So Dallas starts tomorrow. For anyone who happens to be out there, here are some questions I'd be interested in getting answers to: 1. Where is the Robert E. Lee HS from that's out there? I'm guessing San Antonio, but, well, there are plenty of them out there (and not just in Texas). 2. I'm assuming...

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Deesy Does It wrote:Should there be a separate HSNCT live coverage thread or will this one do?

Yes, please do. Especially since I won't be up there and will need all the help I can get from folks who are in trying to get scores/results as quickly as reasonable and possible.

Byko

Interesting thoughts. Let me add this one: How much of a discouragement are negs to very inexperienced teams? For example, I read a match a few years ago where a team ended the game with -5 points. They were rather distraught, and understandably so, I think. How much can this stifle a team's early d...

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ReinsteinD wrote:The Vegas Over/Under Lines have been set.
Illinois Saturday Wins: 25.5
Illinois Sunday Wins: 5.5

I'll take the over ever-so-slightly on Saturday and regrettably take the under on Sunday.

Byko

leftsaidfred wrote:And not to get all tangential, but does Cookeville still have a team?

Why yes they do.

http://ratings.aiquizbowl.com/team.php? ... eville%20A

Byko

quizbowllee wrote:OK... is anyone other than:

Russell
Ottawa Hills
Brindlee Mountain A
Brindlee Mountain B

a true contender for the small schools prize?

I'd give Paintsville an outside shot--they're comparable to Brindlee Mountain B. Beyond those, no way.

Byko

Looking at old NSC information has reminded me to ask, Dr. Chuck or Byko (or any other long-time PACE people), do you have stat sheets from early NSCs stored away somewhere? Looking through the archives on the pace-nsc.org site, there are pretty scant results from the pre-SQBS days. Everything befo...

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Last year, Indiana was represented by Ben Davis High School. Prior to last year, I had never heard of them. Wyoming has some sort of competition each year and selects an all-star team to represent them annually. Their coach has been coming for quite a long time. I'm sure there are numerous challenge...

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