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Saiem

You're never going to come up with 15-30 questions per tournament that find a new gimmick and avoid number crunching. The other major problem with math calculation, besides its disconnect from pyramidal tossup structure, is that there's really only a few dozen things you can ask about given length ...

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Rickards is probably one or two. I will get back to you later today or so.

Saiem

Where could one get ahold of the ACE lists?

Saiem

yeah actually, I'd do that. Edit: I can't personally do the PACE set... unless there is a second one that is cycling around that wasn't used at the Gulf Coast Tourney on February 2nd. I would prefer something more academic. The sectionals one might be okay. Or IS 72/74, whatevs. All of them seem lik...

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Not to beat a dead horse, but like Euler Lines generally not heard of in any regular high school curriculum. But then again, most geometry classes usually only learn how to coordinate bash how to find the orthocenter, circumcenter, centroid and all that. It isn't too common to find Euler lines in to...

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They were used at the Gulf Coast tournament in Pensacola on the 2nd.

It was a pretty good set, I have to say.

Saiem

FSU has expressed interest in holding a tournament, and is currently asking for open dates. Honestly, I would really really not like for the UF tournament to be on the 29th. It is the state tournament, and most of the pan handle teams would not attend due to spring break. In addition, it is the same...

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uh I just talked to the UF tournament director and they were apparently forced into moving their tournament from the 1st to the 22nd.

Ugh.

Saiem

Erg. This tournament was so frustrating without a full team. Though, we may have fielded the most hardcore colored team there. Actually though, I enjoyed the tournament questions for the most part. Very academic, which was appreciated. The lit was pretty easy, which was really really appreciated haha.

Saiem

Rickards would be more than willing to have a registration fee as low as 40 dollars per team if Brindlee or Scotsboro came to our tournament on the 16th. Same applies with pretty much any team from way up in Alabama.

Saiem

Unfortunately, that is the same date as our prom, so Rickards probably won't attend. I just found this out very recently. But I don't know about other schools. I will ask around at our next tournament. And also, a march 28-29 tournament is the beginning of our spring break, which is a huge factor fo...

Saiem

Dear Brain Bowl Coaches, Itâ€™s that time of year again! James S. Rickards High School will be hosting its Spring Invitational on Saturday, February 16th, and weâ€™d be excited if your school could attend. We want this to be the premier competition for everyone, so schools are encouraged to bring mu...

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Have you all ever gotten an invitation from one of the many Rickards tournaments over the past few years? We have a large and often copied mailing list. If you have not, I will send one to you. Speaking of which Rickards is having a tournament on February 16. You guys should absolutely come. March 2...

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It is not spring break for us.

Saiem

yeah billy, rickards or a tally hs team will be fielded.

Saiem

Hey is there any way to get ahold of the questions used at this tournament?

- saiem gilani, Rickards high school

EDIT: My bad, its an NAQT set. I didn't realize.

Saiem

There are technically two state tournaments. There is the NAQT State Tournament at UF tentatively set for March 1. There is also the Commisioners Academic Challenge at like Disney World or something, which is usually a big deal.

March 8 shouldn't be too bad for Rickards as far as I can tell.

Saiem

I think Rickards would be willing to come. However, April in general is a bad time due to the fact that the state tourney is in April, state JCL is in April, State math competition is in April, and the list goes on of state tournaments. I would suggest a date change to either March 8, January 12/19/...

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Rickards is considering bringing at least 1 team. Two if there is space.

Saiem

I've been looking at the gataquizbowl schedule and notice that you only have a JV tournament for the Feb 16 Saturday. Would any of you like to come down to lovely Tallahassee for the Rickards High Spring Tournament? I'm sure I'll make an announcement soon enough on the message board, but I would lik...

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There was alot to love or hate with this tournament. The lines of communication were clearly very sketchy since it appeared that noone was responding to emails or answering the messageboards. Personally Rickards didn't have too much of a problem with this since we've been pretty familiar with the to...

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yeah also, sign rickards up for 4 teams, if it hasn't already been noted. i mean we might drop down to 3, but there isn't a high probability of that.

Saiem

$110?!?!

Well... that may make bringing 4 teams pretty unfeasible.

Saiem

FSU Tournament Results 1st Pensacola A 2nd Florida High 3rd Chiles A 4th Leon A 5th Maclay 6th Lincoln A 7th Rickards A 8th Hardee A? Uh so basically, Pensacola was totally owning the entire tournament, which was pretty amazing. They lost to Lincoln once, which was a fluke. Florida High is nothing s...

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At a somewhat recent tournament, at the Florida State championship for NAQT, there was a huge disparity in the field. There were three to five obviously good teams, and then 2 dozen or so terrible teams. Rickards sent a 2 person team (consisting of myself and our best player). At the beginning of th...

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I'm pretty interested in this dodgeball tournament idea.

a) who all competed? students from your school, teachers, students from other schools?

b) why were there cops?

c) what about like liability waivers and things of that nature? how did you get around it?

d) thats a ridiculously awesome idea.

Saiem

Billy, I could not be more in love with you right now.

Saiem

If anyone from NC is interested in a tournament on the 12th-13th of October, please consider the Rickards Fall Tournament in Tallahassee, FL. I notice that there isn't a set date on the NC schedule. Its an NAQT tournament. IS-70

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We can't really change our date, though its not working out so well on our end either. But we're going to carry on and hope for the best. With 3 weeks left to register the field is looking like: School-Varsity-JV Leon High School - 2 - 1 Lincoln High School - 1 - 1 Wakulla High School - 1 - 1 Robert...

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hey, come to the rickards tournament on Oct. 12th and 13th. NAQT tournament (IS-70). That means you can buy those questions, and questions from all our previous tournaments. As for slightly lower quality questions than NAQT, I'd suggest Straight A Quiz Questions. We bought a packet of 500 questions ...

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Dear Brain Bowl Sponsor, Itâ€™s that time of year again! James S. Rickards High School will be hosting its fall invitational on Friday, October 12 through Saturday, October 13, and we would be excited if your school could attend. We want this to be the premier competition for everyone, so schools ar...

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Hmm, fair enough. It just helps to have a setting. I just don't see how I can give much more insight into the problem without flat out saying "Hey, use this really cool formula that you should know." If I were house-writing a tournament, I'd definitely let a question like that slide since ...

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You know... I'm beginning to think that they are not one and the same. The shoelace theorem is derived from the box product of a bunch of vectors. It shouldn't really be called a theorem.. so much as a method. basically any time you're given a bunch of points take the determinant of this matrix: x1 ...

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What is the official name of the shoelace theorem? The only thing I could think of is pick's theorem. Other awesome names for math things: Chicken McNugget Theorem (real cool/simple concept that could be used in brain bowl) Simon's Favorite Factoring Trick (this guy didn't come up with it. However, ...

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Basically allows you to compute the area of any figure in coordinates real quick. i.e. Find the area of the figure bounded by the points (1,1), (1,4), and (5,1) I'd quickly just line them up like this: 1 1 1 4 5 1 1 1 absolute value [ (1*4 +1*1 + 5*1) - ( 1*1 + 4*5 + 1*1)] divided by two. = 6. Multi...

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A shoelace theorem question would be absolutely delightful in an NAQT format. Thats a real math type topic. Or even a question that involved vectors with the same motivation. How do people feel about multiple questions proposed testing the same concept, and with the same numerical answer? "Give...

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10 if you know the question before the question is over. I like alot of NAQT style where they ask the question, and then tell you how to solve it, allowing you to still potentially get power if you know how to solve it. Otherwise, I'd go with 15. Just a personal opinion. If the question is like &quo...

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As someone else said in a previous post, my problem with the compuational math questions is the lack of variety. If you memorize how to do the 15 or so odd math questions that they love to ask, you can proclaim yourself a quizbowl math expert. Don't worry, we'll all applaud. There are a number of co...

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I'll keep you informed about a middle school tournament. The only other middle school tournament I can think of is the Tallahassee Democrat Big Bend Brain Bowl tournament. Really easy questions, even for middle school, though they do a better job with middle school than with their high school tourna...

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I assume that will be assimilated into the FSU Hatin question distribution of 1/1 somehow.

Saiem

I will respond to Billy first, cause his statements are the only ones I really know about. Ransom Everglades is pretty dang good from what I saw at the UF Spring tournament. They were certainly beatable though. I'm just wondering how sophomores could be that good. Its a really scary thought to think...

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I also wish that NAQT would bump up their Fine Arts Distribution. 4/4 Literature 4/4 Science/Conceptual Mathematics (i.e. Physics, Chem, Bio, Math Concept, earth/space science, etc.) 4/4 SS (History, Sociology) 2/2 RMP (as much as I love powering Myth questions, its far too gettable) 3/3 FA 1/1 Comp...

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Sorry if I'm a bit delayed in responding about FL tournaments... but as a student at Rickards - one of the more competitive teams in the panhandle - I must say that the reason we don't go to more tournaments is largely due to sponsors. That isn't inherently their fault, but its honestly alot of hass...

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hey don't forget about the Rickards tournament. we're holding a two day tournament. Billy! we need to talk in that case.

Saiem

As of March 2nd (3/2/07) the following teams have signed up: School-JV-Varsity-Total OWCC - 1 - 1 - 2 (we need confirmation on this) Cairo - 2 - 0 - 2 Hardee - 1 - 1 - 2 Wakulla - 1 - 1 - 2 Buchholz - 2 - 2 - 4 Vero Beach - 1 - 2 - 3 Taylor County - 0 - 1 - 1 Niceville - 1 - 1 - 2 St. Lucie West Cen...

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As of Friday February 9 (2/9/07) the following teams have signed up:

OWCC (2)
Wakulla (2)
Hardee (2)
Cairo (2)

The following schools have expressed interest in coming:
Lincoln
Chiles
Buchholz
Taylor County

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Dear Brain Bowl Sponsor, Itâ€™s that time of year again! James S. Rickards High School will be hosting its spring invitational on Friday, March 16th through Saturday, March 17th, and weâ€™d be excited if your school could attend. We want this to be the premier competition for everyone, so schools ar...

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