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Hey everyone. Here are the times and places where registration will be occurring: On Friday, registration will occur at 5:30 PM in Buttrick Hall 112. We plan to start the four rounds at 6. Saturday will have registration occur at 8:30 AM in Calhoun Hall 109. Rounds will begin at 9. Field update comi...

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Some players are stronger on the buzzer, some are stronger at interpreting the question, some are stronger at certain areas of knowledge. Not being able to confer limits a team's ability to take advantage of the positive traits of all its members at the same time. Allowing conferring allows each te...

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Matthew D wrote:I just emailed you but DAR High School will have one varsity team

Thank you. I've just updated the field, so you should be all set.

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Field list (11/06/09) Varsity Brentwood 1 Brookwood 2 (2B)(Fri/Sat) Campbell Co. 1 (B)(Fri/Sat) Chattahoochee 1 (B) DAR 1 (B[2?])(Sat) Daviess Co. 1 (B)(Fri/Sat) Dorman 2 (Fri/Sat) Edmonson 1 (B) Ensworth 2 Ezell-Harding 1 (Sat) James Island Charter 1 (Fri/Sat) Lincoln Co. 2 (2B)(R)(Sat) Norcross 1 ...

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Here is the update. First, due to popular request, we are reinstating the optional Friday rounds on November 6, in addition to the Saturday rounds on November 7. The Friday rounds are for seeding, and they also give you a chance to play more packets in one weekend against more teams. Please let me k...

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Hey I had an idea the other day in practice. In order to quell balance complaints/NAQT rebellion somewhat, in the next tournament we host I was thinking we might read all 24 tu's if we do NAQT, then if there's overtime, do penalty kick style OT. Each team answers one 30-point bonus until there's a ...

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Thank you so much, Mr. Reinstein. Here is the modified version, attached.

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I will have confirmation on Monday, but we will almost certainly be reinstituting the Friday rounds. We're leaning towards using HSAPQ, but again, I will confirm this after our next meeting on Monday.

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An issue I have is the reference to these forums and to the quizbowl wiki. Sure, all of us here talk pretty seriously about quizbowl, but a reference to an internet forum or a wiki of any sort kinda lessens the credibility of the piece. Also, I think that Weiner's Law #1, Numberwang!, and CLOOS are...

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I commend you heartily. Our conference uses these questions and its practically unbearable; the local coaches keep shooting down the process of using actual questions, seriously screwing up the process of spreading good quizbowl down into the nether regions of the state. If you don't mind, I'm prin...

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This is correct (that it will be Nov. 6 and 7). After the rest of team meets tonight, we should be able to declare with certainty whether there will be Friday rounds (Ryan and I are leaning towards it) and the question provider (we plan to use HSAPQ to write the tournament, given that we have four a...

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Thank you so much for your input Mr. Huff and Mr. Rountree. As a result, we are considering reinstating the Friday rounds. This, of course, is dependent on (1) whether we can write an additional four packets for Friday and (2) whether it would be financially feasible to use HSAPQ instead to have the...

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On to more germane discussions: Will any more GA teams be able to go to Vandy now that the date has moved from next weekend to 11/7? Chattahoochee was approved for next weekend's date, but we are waiting to hear back from the county about the new time. Fingers crossed because we always enjoy the Va...

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Wow. And I thought certain Illinois coaches (I won't say who) were bad.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE--DATE CHANGE Effective immediately, the date for Vanderbilt ABC XXXVIII will no longer be October 17, 2009, but it will now be November 7, 2009. The change is due to a lack of availability of rooms for competition. When we set the date for ABC on 10/17/09, it turned out that a spee...

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THIS POST IS NO LONGER VALID. I AM LEAVING IT UP BECAUSE I REFUSE TO COMPLETELY EDIT OUT OLD POSTS. Field update as of October 9, 2009: Varsity ======= Brentwood 1 Brookwood 2 [2B] Chattahoochee 1 [2B] DAR 1 Daviess Co. 1 Dorman 2 Dunbar 1 Ensworth 1 Hoover 1 [2B] McGavock 1 MLK 2 [2B][R] Russell 1...

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Update as of 9/23/09: If your school needs a registration form, it can be found attached to this post. We will provide a mailing address as soon as I find out what it is, in case your school needs that. Also, we ask that schools bringing more than one team please bring at least one reader / You will...

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I am writing a frosh/soph set in the Illinois format.

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As of Tuesday, September 15, we will be using the following fee schedule: $70 per team -$5 per working buzzer system -$15 per competent reader $0 minimum fee We also plan to have separate Varsity and JV divisions (this may change due to the number of participating teams in each division). If you wou...

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Wheaton North frosh/soph will have the IHSA distro, with about 2/3 mathcomp TU and 1/3 noncomp TU.

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We will do that when we plan for the spring tournament.

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First post has been updated to reflect that the packets for ABC will be house-written this year.

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I personally think Fremd and Homewood-Flossmoor have some merit. This year they're both going to be written by the H-F coach and their standard will be far above that of Bryce Avery and QG. Personally, having attended last years H-F tournament, I wouldn't put too much stock in that assumption based...

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Maybe one alternative is to have a frosh/soph circuit with the same level diffuculty questions as varsity. It would help bridge the gap, introduce them to the canon, give them the desire to study, and even keep it competitive (even if conversion is rather low) because they'd be playing against othe...

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Greg, This is a couple weeks earlier in October than it has typically been, correct? Is there a reason for the change of date? I don't think it will matter for us; I was just curious. Thanks! ACF Fall is scheduled to take place on October 31, and I believe Vanderbilt will be attending that tourname...

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Vanderbilt's 38th iteration of ABC will now be held on November 7, 2009 . Please consult http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=154193#p154193 for more information about the date change. The fees are still the same: $70 per team -$5 per working buzzer system -$15 per competent reader $0 mi...

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I'm really excited to play Loyola and Carbondale's sophomores as well in the few F/S tournaments that Ms. Greene is going to have us play in. Unfortuantely, the latter won't be at Knights' Challenge, but I know they were at D&G (which, unfortuantely, I ended up missing). "Unfortuantely&quo...

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Just checked my e-mail and somehow I got a message from Quiz Bowl Prep as well.

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Dwight, that's why I use PPB to create games between sectionals, so that the sectionals are linked by artificial (lightly-weighted) games in order to produce rankings among teams in all sectionals. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother with PPB.

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My problem with incorporating toss-ups into the mix is that this creates even more possibilities of match fixing. Winning by a lot? Neg with no answer or an answer that is the correct answer with additional incorrect information, allowing your opponents to rebound, making them look stronger and your...

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I don't think this will be much of a problem unless the sample size of bonuses heard is too small, which can only happen for weak teams. For all it's worth, you never know whether the next bonus in the packet will help or hurt PPB. If you're a good team, the effect of hearing one additional bonus on...

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Pardon me for bumping, but I just came up with an idea. The idea is to use KRACH ratings without phantom teams (see http://www.collegehockeynews.com/info/?d=krach and http://slack.net/~whelan/tbrw/tbrw.cgi?krach ). Within each sectional, each team gets the wins that it accumulates against other team...

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Hey guys.

I can't log in because my screenname, RJaguar3, has a capital letter, and the text field for my username keeps changing the name to lowercase in Firefox. Can someone help me?

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A high school students vs. faculty competition with questions

would be proud of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWm0Y8TKv0

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Thanks Greg. The writing guidelines we developed over the winter address these very issues. Are these the guidelines? If so, I do have some brief comments about them: On the Poe example question (p. 2), a clue about one of his lesser-known works or a plot description of one of his major works would...

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Everything hinges on having writers who either (a) know our format and understand the concept of multiple clues in descending order of difficulty or (b) know the concept of multiple clues in descending order of difficulty and can follow the format instructions we provide. If I can make a suggestion...

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Man those Quick Recall questions blow.

Two-to-three line questions do no good if the first two lines consist of CLOOS and tangents that only reward players who can make a good ESPN connection with the question writer.

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Here's another clear-cut case: This great thinker wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, and ethics. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethi...

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Here's another clear-cut case: This great thinker wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, and ethics. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethic...

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2008 7A state finals wrote: What is a nine-letter synonym for "important" in which the second letter is an "o" and the fifth letter is an "n"?

That's Wordwang!

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You guys are right. I probably should retitle the thread. The issue is that the Platypus stuff is unquestionably wikiplagiarism (except potentially the Puerto Rico question). The QG stuff is more of a pattern of lifting stuff from Wikipedia (using it as a reference source) as well as taking specific...

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I didn't know Nashville had their own show. I've never heard of Pope John Paul II in any quiz bowl competition, except for maybe Ezell-Harding. This doesn't represent NAQT, as MLK (one of the top teams in the nation) lost by 140 points to the Webb School on the first week of the show. I didn't catc...

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The common definition of odds and the mathematical definition of odds are very different things. So? First of all, the "mathematical" definition of odds, whatever that is, is equivalent to some "mathematical" definition of probability. They literally represent the same number, j...

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Extending from Jerry's example, we don't say "Do not give your answer as Louis Napoleon" in the middle of a tossup. No, but in IHSA state series, about half the questions begin with one of the following: Identify the n-word phrase... Identify the k-letter <part of speech>... Identify the ...

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This African American woman founded her own hair care and cosmetics company in the early 1900s. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she was the first female, black or white, to become a millionaire by her own achievements. Who was this successful entrepreneur ? Her fortune was made by ...

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Westfield Insurance Quizbusters now has videos up.

http://www.cw58.tv/contests/quizbusters/index.shtml

EDIT: Questions Galore writes the questions...so enjoy!

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Any indication at the ceremony whether NTAE will be held in 2010?

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I'll do that when you show me somebody on this board claiming that doing third-grade-level calculation within ten seconds in a race against some other person is good quizbowl. 24. Pencil and paper ready. Nate's fruit stand has 123 apples, 456 oranges, and 789 pears. The total number of fruits is ju...

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I would have loved to attend this, but alas, I am leaving on a cross-country trip to a summer internship early Saturday morning.

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Might as well announce it here, and not as a competitor to BeES, but I have been developing a question-reading program called JAGUARS ("[insert programmer whose first name starts with "J"] and Greg's User-friendly Automated Reading System). As soon as I can get a handle on doing a pl...

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