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Edited as we have been assigned an HSAPQ set.

I know that several schools are going to this tournament definitely, but I'm going to hold on posting a field.

I hope the field is as strong as last years'. Hopefully we'll have some teams from Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania?

swwFCqb wrote:
Inkana7 wrote:Obviously we're interested in this and will be going, but just a side note, Ike ran a tournament on HSAPQ questions at Kent State lastyear.
I'm assuming he means this year, because we ran our Great Lakes tournament last year with an HSAPQ set as well.

You're right. I wasn't being specific.

Hello everyone! Solon High School in Solon, Ohio is hosting a two-day tournament on February 13 and 14 of 2010. We are using NAQT's set IS-92 on the 13th and Hunter Prison Bowl 3? on the 14th. There is no field size limit and no registration deadline, but try to tell us how many teams you will bring...

We're having a difficult time deciding on if we can even hold a fall tournament; the problem is that almost all of the weekends are taken by nearby schools (my coach doesn't have a problem hosting another one). Our best bet of holding another tournament at this moment is in the spring. I'll talk to ...

Since our school district won't pay for more than one national championship nor more than one overnight trip, I was wondering how my team can raise enough funds to go anywhere we can't reach by driving in the morning. Some of the tournaments in nearby states look quite appealing, but I highly doubt ...

On some NAQT A-set packet:

Given: Tropic of Cancer
Answer: Chile

After clues like "it is X number of miles wide at its widest" and naming some cities.

I noticed a wide fluctuation in LASAs ratings, from 3 down to much lower. I don't know that much about them... can someone fill me in? They placed 11th at the HSNCT, apparently with a pretty young team that's returning everyone. And now I know who voted for us (although when I saw that Jarret sent ...

Antwerp is in NW Ohio about 20 minutes east of Ft. Wayne, IN. I am a member of the Ohio boards that were mentioned and my last team Bryan went to Brave Falcon NAQT, Northmont OAC, Tipp City NAQT, The Brain Game, Defiance Tourney 2x's in the last two years. I'll look at the college packets and other...

Are we talking about practice questions or study materials to purchase (lists, books, and such)? Does Ohio have a formal state tournament for middle school (and thus an established distribution) or are your competitions strictly local (with catch as catch can distributions)? As far as I know, there...

Looks like even though the three top Georgia teams have been weakened some, they're still ruling the state.

MahoningQuizBowler wrote:Is anyone else having problems with the Ohio forum?

Yes. I have no idea what it is that's showing up in place of the forum.

Edit: It works again!

Cool, we got six votes!

I made, I think, one of the more eccentric rankings.

Answer: York (William Clark's slave) How is this even remotley tossupable? Oops, that wasn't a tossup. :lol: Edit: While I'm at it: Answer: IMF There were two given answers before somsone came up with the correct one. After clues about how many countries formed it and the words "lend money&quo...

At practice today: Given: Sacajawea Answer: York (William Clark's slave) The question began with "this man" and someone buzzed soon after. Given: assassinated Answer: TIME Magazine Person of the Year The first several clues included "Winston Churchill in 1940 and 1949" and "...

Sadly, we missed margin :\. Oh, we did too, as well as almost missing "donkey." In IS-83, Round 9 (I think) the first answer, "diprotic acid" seems like a pretty weird choice to write a question about. One time our B team lost to a team on a question with the answer of "the...

Arsonists Get All the Girls wrote:Sadly, we missed margin :\.

Oh, we did too, as well as almost missing "donkey."

In IS-83, Round 9 (I think) the first answer, "diprotic acid" seems like a pretty weird choice to write a question about.

I wish I could see more of North Allegheny. In the last few years we've been to Pittsburgh area tournaments, they and Shady Side have been the only Pennsylvania teams I've seen that have had potential. If they traveled more...

Oh how I wish I went to PACE NSC 2009! I would show better stats than a measly 32-ish ppg in a format I am, to be honest, not so good at. Too much trash and computation for me. Anyways, I think our team is ranked much higher than I ever thought we would be, and I kinda doubt we deserve it...but now ...

Ooh very very cool. I love reading analyses...and I'd like to hear, for once, thoughts about Ohio teams from non-Ohioans.

Ummm, someone seems to have forgotten a name: Jarret Greene should be watched this year as well... shouldn't he? Thank you very much, but I think I should prove myself in an actual game against teams before I can be counted up there with the rest of those players. That skype session was lucky. But ...

mtelepathic wrote:Ummm, someone seems to have forgotten a name: Jarret Greene should be watched this year as well... shouldn't he?

Yeah, I was about to say...especially after that last Skype session.

I wonder if :chip: 's regisnation has anything to do with the fact that while the company is based in Ohio, no one in Ohio currently uses their questions (except for maybe some TV tournaments), and now that it seems that the governor wants to start a competition somewhat equivalent to KAAC Governor...

Huh, so there is a Michigan-only format being played across the state! Here in Ohio, I think our OAC format is in a lot of ways worse, but we're pretty much in the same boat, except that lots of legitimate TU/B tournaments have been popping up lately in our state, giving us lots of other choices. M...

I wish there were more ACF/PACE format tournaments in Ohio. Based on practices over the summer, I think that our team is pretty unbalanced, as I am better at arts, literature, history, some science, social sciences, geography, and RMP than pretty much all of my teammates. If I played aggressively at...

Huh, so there is a Michigan-only format being played across the state! Here in Ohio, I think our OAC format is in a lot of ways worse, but we're pretty much in the same boat, except that lots of legitimate TU/B tournaments have been popping up lately in our state, giving us lots of other choices. Ma...

Unless I am doing a poor reading job upthread, you are conflating Andrew's assertion that there was plagiarism between two Russian history bonuses, one two-part, and Niel's assertion that a two-part bonus on Bowen's/plagioclase is too hard. No one's asserting that the latter was plagiarized from so...

Ohio has a decently extensive pyramidal circuit - Ohio State, Kent State, I think Tippecanoe, and Solon ran invitationals on pyramidal questions, and there were possibly more. Add Case Western's GLRAC (PACE) to the list. I remember DCC attending earlier this year and DCD attending the year before. ...

It wasn't directly plagarized from WoQ (if it was plagarizing). This is what WoQ had: [quote=WoQ Packet 8, Last bonus] Types of this include Aventurine, Tiger’s Eye and Amethyst, and it exhibits piezoelectricity, for 10 points each: [10] Name this mineral with a Mohs hardness of 7. ANSWER: Quartz [1...

With the loss of one Ike Jose and a host of other very talented seniors across Ohio, the state is completely up for grabs. I kinda disagree with that part since most of the good Ohio teams last year are still around, and it's pretty unlikely any team other than those five will win a state champions...

I've been wondering why the two NSC sets were, in the category round, missing the science category, as it is pretty big in quiz bowl. (Trash was left out too, but then, that shouldn't come up as often, of course.)

While reading, one thing I felt about comp math tossups (and bonuses, I guess, although I really don't remember that many if at all), is that due to the time given to perform the computations, for two teams that weren't strong at math, this in effect turned into multiple seconds of dead space, whic...

chemqueen2 wrote:
Bird Sonata wrote:At HSNCT 2009 one person on our B team answered "passenger penguin" to a tossup in round two about birds. (I forgot what the answer was, but it produced hilarity)
It was carrier pigeon...

Someone on our team I think said passenger pigeon...

Yeah, that's what I thought it was. Thanks.

Since I used to live in the Pee Dee area, I would like to say that many of the schools may not have the money to pay for tournaments, much less drive an hour or more to tournaments happening elsewhere in the state. However, they may not be aware of other formats (as far as I know, they only do leagu...

Answer the following about some named items from Norse myth, for 10 points each. [10] The sword known as Nothung, Balmung, or Gram was owned by this son of Sigmund, killer of Fafnir, and hero of the Volsungcycle. ANSWER: Sigurd [or Sigfried; prompt on “Hart“] [10] Examples of these items include Fr...

I think the right policy solution for NAQT is to have our writers and editors crack down on overly difficult material in next year's A-series leadins. I'd like to point out that some tossups in A sets were too difficult for that level, such as the Strindberg tossup in IS 82A. How many novice teams ...

Does anyone remember the tossup in IS-83 that Ike said had a bad leadin, and sent it to NAQT? It was a tossup on Torricelli that began by mentioning his work De Motu. Berkeley wrote a work called De Motu. The original tossup is as follows: His work De Motu brought him to the attention of Galileo, w...

At HSNCT 2009 one person on our B team answered "passenger penguin" to a tossup in round two about birds. (I forgot what the answer was, but it produced hilarity)

master15625 wrote:Does anyone remember the tossup in IS-83 that Ike said had a bad leadin, and sent it to NAQT?

Which round was it from? I can look for it.

Well, I'd assume that, if these are continued, Byko would start from scratch next year and this year would be a hole in the record. This year being a hole in the record!? Sounds great! But I would also like to help, as I would also want to see this year's stats up, even though they aren't very pret...

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