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How many teams? Most if not all good tournaments have done away with single elimination. Swiss pairing plus RR works, RR+RR works. You're not breaking any ground here.

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I was thinking that we should have a centralized thread to talk about things we have done and want to do to make Illinois better.

I would like this thread to be a place that we can direct people that are trying to understand what makes Illinois bad, so could we try to keep it civil and tangent free?

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(I know we arent really a new team, and we arent really collegiate, but this question fits best here.) Does anyone have any fundraising ideas for a high school? We can't sell candy, and I doubt we can get enough people to come to carwashes with just 1 decentlooking girl. Our school is really low on...

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Food isn't a huge deal for me. But are we inferring that a chipotle burrito is that much lighter thab 3-4 slices of a deep dish pizza?

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Not that I know of. The 15 points thing was a concession made to coaches who think that bonuses have to be exactly double the value of toss-ups.

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Black list Greg Ward and Sarah Peluse from us, Sarah played varsity all year and and Greg put up 15 at HSNCT and has picked up basically everything we've given him so far.

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IMHO, I really feel that the exclusions to this tournament should be minimal at the worst. I agree that people like Zach, Deveau, Zahed, etc.. should be excluded; However when looking at our team (which seems to be the norm for the above average teams in our area in terms of player loss). We have tw...

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I will tentatively volunteer to help staff. I can't read, but anything else I'll be willing to help with.

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In terms of the first playoff round, how are teams matched? I'd hate to play one game tomorrow but will a 6-4 team be paired against a 8-2 team? Or do the 6-4's play eachother in order to really enter the playoffs?

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There are no Illinois teams in the top bracket...

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We ended up not playing off the 3-1's all in all I'd call it a success. Especially after looking at the single elimination bracket one kid was adamant on playing which had the 4-0 and all of the 3-1's on one side of the bracket.

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http://www.charterschool.org/clubs/acad ... et1516.php

This is what I was looking for.

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Never mind found what I was looking for, mods please delete.

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I didn't really know where to put this so mods please feel free to move: Basically, post AP test my physics class has decided to have a Deflection ( http://www.khet.com/ ) tournament and I have convinced my class that power matching is the best way to play said tournament. I know that somewhere some...

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What set will this be using?

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A team consisting of Jack Glerum, Matt Laird, Nick Bergeon and Myself will be playing this.

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We'll know once the goldfish is done, but I know Aurburn beat Walker in the last goldfish, and I think that at least one of the best three in Illinois (RA, NT, Carbondale). Will either be 7-3 with a major upset, or maybe even 8-2. In terms of teams making the playoffs, I think that only Loyola is a ...

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I will be attending and playing Quizbowl at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Heh, I was just about to ask when this announcement would be posted. Expect us to do it, I just need to convince our coach to send you a check.

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http://www.carloangiuli.com/acfdb/searc ... science_=1

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Mine is more along the line of Dr. Reinstein's: Rather than singling out jazz by itself, I would claim it as "non-pop" music. I'm not sure what other than opera and jazz to put in I disagree, questions on Carmen have a more important place than questions on scat and Ella Fitzgerald, not t...

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What's worldQuest?

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one thing you may want to consider is taking one of those 1/1 and dedicating it to trash lit. Books like eragon and harry potter which I hate to see take the place of what the high school level would call literature.

BGSO · Re: Barrington Invitational Tournament VI (3.14.09) - jr high There isn't one

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It should be VotDT

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That is my bad, I think after I wrote that I was alerted that VotDT had already been used, so I must've changed the answer as a note to myself to rewrite that question (a bad idea in retrospect). The way the rest of the situation played out makes no sense. How did she know part 3 was wrong before sh...

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I feel like we should've put out a call to all regions to keep through stats on TU/TU answered for specific categories. When someone saw that 95% of the driver's ed questions went dead, maybe they'll realize that those questions need to go.

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While you're at it you want to get rid of spelling and Grammar?

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Also, whose idea was it to count literature in the LA subject field. All of Monday night I had night mares of a round ending up 2/2 spelling, 2/2 grammar, and 2/2 literature. We all know that the distribution of the tournament needs to change, but even the sub distros present opportunities for disas...

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I thought spelling was gone? Not to mention my favorite question of the night...

Box step!!!!!

Once we get a look at the questions Nick and I will have some more specific criticisms, however last night was not good, not good at all.

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On that topic, i wish good luck to everyone tomorrow.

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Let it be known that on the 7th day of March, 2009, the first scholastic bowl match question to ever reference the IHSA State Series of Bass Fishing was asked at the Streator Northlawn Knowledge Power Tournament for middle schoolers. Credit (or blame) for this pioneering act goes to DogEnd Producti...

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Any updates from state?

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Well, the issue wasn't as much their math speed, we took 1 or 2 of 6. It was the fact that of the 6/6 math distribution all 6 math were answered. While 2 history were answered, 1 or 2 lit, 1fine arts. That's where the questions went wrong.

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What would be your opinion about opening this up to Non blacklisted teams as well as JV teams? If there were enough teams than two completely seperate tournaments could be run or if not then merge them together. If coaches were able to get over their egos then I only see good things coming from expo...

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viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7214

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Schaumburg? We haven't played them this year, but I can tell you that they are not better the Maine South, was MS's side harder than Schaumburg?

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Feb 14, 2009 Walter Payton Invitational (HS) Walter Payton College Prep Jack Bowen

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http://www.ihsa.org/activity/scb/2008-09/2pair.htm

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kid from OPRF

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If the alg was recalculated would Macombhave a rating of ∞?

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http://byko.servehttp.com:6174/bqbq/tea ... Macomb%20A

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Sorry Price I only have 1-5 but...this is what I have so far for Stevenson Stevenson Sectional: 1. Stevenson 2. BG 3. St. Viator 4. Carmel 5. Fremd All sectional players 1. Zach Blumenfeld 2. Arjun Puranik 3. Jamie Kelly 4. ? 5. David Garb 6. guy from Carmel This is all I remember being told (betwee...

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Well then the question once again arises on whether or not the turnabouts should be two completely different sets of questions? It seems to be an option, however won't that just continue to increase the disparities between the top and bottom teams (this is relative of course)?

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I just wanted to throw in that this was an amazing tournament; everyone was a joy to work with, there were no complaints that I heard, not to mention to fantastic finish. Congrats to everyone involved, and here's to doing this again next year for sure. I agree with BJ 100% especially considering th...

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The stats are kind of messed up right now, and I think Kristen and Brad are at the IHSSBCA meeting, so I would just go out and say sometime this week they will be up.

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Siva, put up 195 against us...that's all that really needs to be said.

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FYI, Good news! KP of Fremd passed out copies of NAQT sets and seemed to endorse their use as future conference questions. Bad news... He ALSO told us of a petition circulating south of I-80 where they're intend to lobby AGAINST mACF formatted bonuses. He seemed to endorse this petition as a good t...

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It's a double elimination, so two, unless there is some clause I'm not aware of.

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