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A.F. wrote:
Tegan wrote:I wouldn't have a problem, but the IHSA has a big problem with round robins
Could you elaborate on this some? I'm curious as to what the arguments against a round robin tournament would be.

"No other sport has a round robin."

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There should no way that an Anna Karenina toss-up should begin "Someone should tell this main character to watch out for the train". :w-hat: :w-hat: :w-hat: :w-hat: :w-hat: :w-hat: :w-hat: :chip: :chip: :chip: :chip: :chip: I have not seen the questions (since I'm no longer in Illinois), ...

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HF just went 3-0 to win their sectional.

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BG MSL Champs wrote:Can somebody check my math, because I calculated that WWS outscored Naperville Central based on the scores in the Scorezone?

You only count the games against the tied teams. In other words, the scores in matches against NN are simply disregarded, as NN finished 0-3.

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As of 2:11 CDT:

Stevenson won the Stevenson sectional 3-0
Loyola beat New Trier by 17 in Round 3 to win their sectional 3-0
Rockford Auburn easily won their sectional 3-0
Naperville Central advanced over IMSA and WWS, all 2-1, by 27 points to win the WWS sectional.

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I've already done it, Jonah.

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I've already done it partially: Bradley-Bourbonnais: ???, Lasalle-Peru, Bradley-Bourbonnais, M-Seymour Marist: ???, Lyons, Hinsdale South, Marist Dunlap: Springfield, Richwoods, ???, Washington Stevenson: Stevenson, Fremd, Buffalo Grove, Deerfield O'Fallon: ???, ???, Chatham Glenwood, Belleville Wes...

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Our conference, the CSL, does the same thing as the MSL, the only difference being that coaches get the questions only one week in advance, which is an insignificant difference. You know, recent events would prove you wrong. I think he was saying the difference between one week in advance or months...

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There have been allegations of coaches substituting in players who will know the answer to the succeeding question, but I don't think anything has been proven. (see the discussion following Naperville Central '08)

It's better to take steps to prevent anything like that from ever happening.

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Hey, in IHSA, coaches read for their teams ALL THE TIME...It's just begging for something scandalous to happen.

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And what the heck is up with moderators that won't let kids begin their bonus answer until they've buzzed in??? :w-hat: Buzzing in on bonuses? fsb EXACTLY. There are some high school teams in Illinois that still do this, inexplicably. Are we talking about buzzing in to call time, or what? I'm havin...

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My email is gregory(dot)j[dot]gauthier*at*vanderbilt<dot>edu

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And what the heck is up with moderators that won't let kids begin their bonus answer until they've buzzed in??? :w-hat: Buzzing in on bonuses? fsb EXACTLY. There are some high school teams in Illinois that still do this, inexplicably. Mr. Price, I'm planning to send you by e-mail a file with the &q...

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scquizbowl wrote: Fifth grade Whiz Kids quiz bowl from KY, 1995 (with music sounding like Humpty Dumpty)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7XFNzTKqEs

Somehow it seems quite fitting that the moderator's name is Barbara Bland.

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Hey, glad you enjoyed our wise guy video (at least some of you...heh) We were sick of all the stupid egoists in the competition, so we decided to just make fun of the thing. We were banned from saying anything but our names for the next round, which was even more hilarious. I have an interesting an...

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And here are the statistical results (based on the Goldfish tournament) for predicting whether a negging team would have gotten the tossup right given that the opponents got it right at the giveaway. %chance(N gets it)=19.487% + 2.989% (PPBN) - 1.880% (PPBO) The R^2 value of this regression is 0.587...

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Actually, during my senior year, I developed the quizbowl line score to analyze a statistic I call tossup differential: the number of tossups that would have to go to the losing team instead of the winning team in order to produce a tie. First, to understand this, consider a line score, such as the ...

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but if you put knowladge of math terms in then it's not really math anymore... I really like the 'thinking' related math questions that the naqt(s) use As a Mathcounts champion, USAMO honorable mention and math major, let me tell you that is definitely not the case. For example, the USAMO consists ...

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:If it's only 12 team's I'd imagine a full round robin is in order.

11 Illinois-format rounds would cause the tournament to run to 8:00pm.

It's the format's fault.

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rchschem wrote:
rjaguar3 wrote:Getting back on topic:

Two pictures from broadcast WRAL Brain Game episodes.
No fair picking on Brain Game. The fruit hang too low. For example, "Humphrey Bogart is a ____."

I'm curious. What was the answer to that question?

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From a recent bonus question part; "Original meaning of the acronym R.I.P." Answer stated on page, "Rest in Peace" Answer given by my Latin-taking frosh/soph team; "Requiescat in pace" Any guesses as to how the moderator ruled??????? Thank goodness it wasn't a close ga...

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I can probably elaborate on why Illinois bonuses suck: 1. They unnecessarily slow the game down. As an example, we finished 5 rounds of 20/20 at Penn Bowl in about 3 hours. At Kaneland, teams only got 4 rounds of 20/20 in the same time (and this was in Mike Laudermith's and my room; the other rooms ...

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Getting back on topic:

Two pictures from broadcast WRAL Brain Game episodes.

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DD60004 wrote:I'll e-mail you, but I need your address. (Your user profile isn't showing it.)

Oops. My e-mail address is gregory[ DOT ]j[ DOT ]gauthier[ AT ]vanderbilt.edu

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There numerous mistakes, hoses, buzzer beaters, and the bonuses alternated between 3, 4, and 5 parts, causing frustration for scorekeepers and making for some very strange scores. As question editor for the tournament (editing questions from QG), I'm curious as to which questions you thought had pr...

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From a packet written in October, 2008, by everyone's favorite, Wheaton, IL-based question vendor rhyming with "Rest Chins a-bore"... "Tell the state in which the following man-made attactions are located." 5.) Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Answer: Pennsylvania Once we have our to...

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(such as the Crandall pants emergency that allowed me to play at Masonics my sophomore year). BJ, I must know what this is. My sophomore year, due to schedule conflicts, I went to Masonics as the sixth man (In Galena, which is just too darn far to be considered Winnebago's "region"). I wa...

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BGSO wrote:we keep going to these avery and qb tournaments hoping it will get better

"Doctor, it hurts when I do this..."

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"Computational Algebra. Ah, yes, it is time for a buzzer race question. Solve for x in the equation ax + b = cx + d." The question writer set up the expectation that it'd be ax + b = c, hoping to foster a buzz before the equation was finished. How do I know that the writer specifically in...

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Anyone know who is going to Homewood-Flossmoor tournament on March 7th? It is the week before IHSA sectionals and my teams last tournament (excluding sectionals). So I take it you guys are not going to the NAQT State Championship on the same date? I e-mailed Ms. Kidd about that. She said that unfor...

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Fremd was a very disappointing , our division had WWS, BG and loyola. Needless to say, I feel like our division was stacked, intentionally or unintentionally. Also, there was an excessive amount of math with no music and very little lit. The question quality left alot to be desired. All around, i w...

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The sad part is that I'm editing a tournament whose questions are from Questions Galore.

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Um, Mike, I think you probably want to edit that NAQT snippet out...

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If we have to play Fremd not in the finals I will not be a happy person. And this is, once and for all, why most Illinois-style tournaments are bad. Teams SHOULD be playing competitive matches with other teams at their level. It was a waste when I was at Wheaton North to essentially have five match...

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BGSO wrote:Anybody know who the question provider is for Naperville this weekend?

I heard it's NAQT. Given how the questions were last year, that's certainly an improvement.

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I'd certainly be interested.

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:What about trying to talk Kaneland into fixing their format and finding a different provider?

I know Ken Dentino pretty well. From this, I know that it will likely be a futile effort to get him to change. I want your advice: should I send him an e-mail?

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Name the state that borders New Hampshire and Quebec. Answer: Main Was this a worksheet round? It was a rephrased clue from a toss-up which was uniquely identifying. With Platypus Questions, the questions vary widely in difficulty because they are computer-generated. Bonuses of "name these ion...

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And it is very rare that you'd get that last one as a buzzer beater after working on it for 25 seconds (excluding math comp). (playing as Devil's Advocate) The point is that there is nothing to lose by waiting 25 seconds. If anything, you could earn more points by having a teammate pull the answer ...

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We recently had the tossup "Multiply (1/10) times (2/3)." That's Numberwang! Unfortunately, I know that I played on Avery. As far as I remember (this was 2005-06 DVC conference), the questions lacked any semblance of pyramidality. I don't remember any skewed canon, but, then again, nearly...

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Right, but my point is that this does that for you automatically: you have 10 seconds to discuss just one part! That's almost never going to be the case in the old format, even if you know some of the parts dead-bang. I think she means that if you know say the first three parts and can check them i...

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First of all, I'd be sure to raise and hammer that these are still 30-second bonuses: having 3 10-second chunks of time with fewer (or at least not more) answers to discuss should actually increase collaboration (mean time spend discussing each part is higher, not lower.) My HS coach was under the ...

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Stevenson 416, Wheaton North A 35 Stevenson: Jorie 0 0 0, Mark 0 0 0, Zach 0 0 0, Kevin 0 0 0, Jonathan 0 0 0, Andrew 0 0 0 Wheaton North A: Susan 0 0 0, Danny 0 0 0, Mark 0 1 10, Karen 0 0 0, Laura 0 0 0 Bonuses: Stevenson 0 0 0.00, Wheaton North A 0 0 0.00 Bonus Bouncebacks: Stevenson 0 0 0.00, W...

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cornfused wrote:
rjaguar3 wrote:Quizbowl strongholds like Missouri
Gotta love that Florida format.

As I said at PAC 2008, only in Florida can you replace the 5-point round with a dice-rolling round and not affect the results of the national championship. :P

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Sir Thopas wrote:At least Vanderbilt (presumably) stapled their packets.

No we didn't. Made it easier for us readers, too.

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Greg--just curious, who else has defected, recently? I'm just going based on the following things we do know: The number of teams at the tournament has decreased steadily over the last few years. Quizbowl strongholds like Virginia and Missouri have also stopped attending (they were not at PAC 2008)...

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Shcool wrote:REMOVE THAT LINK IMMEDIATELY! That is for members only!

So reported (with the forum's report feature).

On another note, I honestly wonder if there will be an NTAE 2009 after all. Seems like Illinois is not the only team defecting from an already small field.

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In case you may be interested, I posted an analysis of the solo question conversion here

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I had nothing better to do, so I used some formulas to determine the least answered and most answered questions of the tournament. QUESTIONS THAT WERE UNANSWERED Physics R 9 (Energy on a capacitor calc.) QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY 1 PLAYER World Lit R10 (Nausea) Jack Glerum (LA) Current Events R13 (Lilly...

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