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You may make any judgement you want about KY's format but I will take students that show higher order thinking skills by doing computational math over a bunch of students that have learned insignificant facts and can regurgitate the trivia once they hear the operative "buzz" word (reminds...

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Charlie, I don't wanna hate on you man, but I wonder, what is the connection you have with GovCup? Did you go to school here once and participate in it? Or have you just heard that the questions aren't 5+ sentences long and have computation and automatically assume it is terirble? I understand your...

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alkrav112 wrote:Please tell me I'm not the only person who, at first, parsed this thread as "Tournaments with Answers that are High Schools."

I have bad news for you.

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NAQT goes to fairly significant lengths to ensure that its tournaments and packets are balanced; assuming that I'm interpreting your comment correctly as saying that we don't go far enough, what would you like to see done differently? I've frequently heard people mention that the individual packets...

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So I'm quite sure NAQT tries to make their tournament distribution balance somewhat every round... You'd be surprised. Also, your John Nash-off-his-meds-like ability to find patterns everywhere impresses me. If you're right about this and they are trying to burn up fine arts questions, then brother...

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All I can say is that we'll be fully sick and tired of this by the end of.. September. I think we're already way past that point. Hey check out my ESPN impression: "BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAVRE BRETT FAV...

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We all knew that we were going to get slaughtered, but it was still awesome, just to hear about interesting stuff (THIS BLOWOUT IS ABOUT LEARNING) and watch QB luminaries pick up questions on ridiculously hard stuff. Also, writing stuff of this difficulty was a great experience, and I am eagerly aw...

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effusive praise You'd better watch it or you're going to lose your title as the angriest man in quizbowl after too many posts like that... Jerry's made enough nice posts (when things don't merit being yelled at because they suck) that he's actually become known as simply the Jerriest man in quizbowl.

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myamphigory wrote:
Andrew Hart wrote:probably the best two quizbowl teams ever
Surely one of those teams would be Chicago A at Beaver Bonspiel in 2004.

There have probably been better individual teams, but if you look at it in terms of grouped talent in a finals match between the two playing teams it makes sense.

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theattachment wrote:Yeah, if someone semi-enlightened can explain how a team with a worse record has an ADVANTAGE in a final, I'd greatly appreciate it.

It's a bad tournament.

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Like Andy said, hosting a tournament or two is by far the best idea. Since your team isn't experienced enough to write a solid pyramidal tournament, I would suggest contacting one of several people about mirroring something that currently doesn't have a site near South Carolina. You'd make a little ...

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leftsaidfred wrote:
Dolemite wrote:
leftsaidfred wrote:playing cornhole
Fred?
bean bags are awesome sucker

Oh.

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leftsaidfred wrote:playing cornhole

Fred?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVn6b7DdpA

save the bees

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mk48adcap wrote:Dunno why someone from Ohio is taking an interest in Texas QB but as a Texan I'm interested

According to the magic of the internet that "someone from Ohio" is you. In the future, please do not do this.

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well, after discussion with my mother, a licensed nurse, there actually is quite an overlap of muscles that are used, particularly by baseball players. You use the same muscles to grip a bat & ball that you do to grip & press a handheld buzzer. I would imagine it has much more of an impact ...

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The opportunity cost of trying to do aerobic exercises on the fast-twich fibers in your hand, considered against using that time on learning earlier clues or seeking out tournaments that discourage buzzer races, is extremely large. Not only this, but buzzer speed is way more about being able to rec...

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Here's a new direction for discussion: What if the game were to end EITHER when time expired at 18 minutes or when a 18-tossup limit was reached, whichever was first? Why would you want to end the game on 18 tossups if you have a moderator who can get through more in the allotted time? Obligatory a...

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The ICT video had great quality and picked up the audio really well. Hopefully this could be the start of a trend of video recording qb matches along with just audio. I don't know how practical that is for more than just finals matches since you'd need someone extra to work the camera as opposed to ...

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He lodged a ridiculous protest against Ernie and Me this weekend because we would not accept "Jonathan" for Jonathan Livingston. He proceeded to wave his hands erratically and raise his voice in toddler fashion, telling us that we were completely wrong and don't know what we're doing. The...

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So Andrew ... my team (SHP) is a "bad team"? Why? Not to speak for Andrew (but here's where I speak for Andrew), but I think instead of actually bad (which would probably accurately describe most of Charter's other opponents at the NAC) he meant something along the lines of "signific...

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Buzz Buzzard wrote:Question:

What happens if scores the new agreement with ACUI?

Don't think it can't or won't happen.

Can't and won't happen.

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This looks pretty awesome.

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LeCoqRouge wrote:I feel like if you have to ask that question, the job is probably not right for you. No offence.

If the next post you make doesn't have your name/school affiliation in the signature you are banned.

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I am interested in playing. If you're interested in playing with me, have your people call my people. --- Here's a list of people who have "signed up" on here Pat Freeburn Since my chance of attending CO is iffy at best, and there may be some theoretical cap to the number of people/teams ...

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It's reassuring to know that if I created a national and ran it on questions stolen verbatim from the 1999 HSNCT and audio questions consisting of "What rock is this?!" I could find at least a few people to defend it.

Coaches expect an email sometime next spring!

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getting the opportunity to read questions for high school teams at the national level. Unless you moderated at the PACE NSC or NAQT HSNCT you didn't get this opportunity. I wouldn't have posted otherwise, but referring to the NAC as being on the "national level" is a, albeit unintentional...

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Matt, given that we have some records for 2000 State College, where in that top-10 list would you place them? They were the first to unify the HSNCT/NSC crown and did so in dominating fashion, going 25-1 over the two tournaments with the only loss by 35 to your team. Not to speak for Matt Weiner, b...

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I am not sure what you mean by "in a region not friendly to good quiz bowl, no less." There has been plenty of good quiz bowl in Alabama and the SE region for decades. I know schools like Indian Springs and a couple I can't recall at the moment (LAMP?) often sent schools to NAQT and PACE ...

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Start studying and practicing? Okie dokie, i suppose practice twice a week all year plus all the lists and study material i give the kids isn't enough apparently. I don't want to pile on here, but you're right in that it apparently isn't enough, depending on how lofty your goals are. Now, I'm not s...

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Anyone who requests money over cookies is a damn fool and deserves to be carjacked and dumped in a ditch by Susan and her cronies.

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I would hate to be in a situation where there are 3+ elite teams in one pool. Fortunately, every pool that we seem to have drawn up has 3 elite teams per pool. Or maybe I should say "unfortunately." When might we see these pools? I'd like to get an early mindset on our chances. Brindlee M...

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So because it's the end of the year, you want packets that don't exist yet and will not in fact be released until it's actually the beginning of next year in high school academic calendar terms, because you've somehow gone through the 7,114 (actual number) packets that are available as free practic...

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I'd rather let the thread play out before it's moved into the Best of the Best forum, but that's just me I feel the same way, I only wanted to point out the possibility of a great discussion originating in a high school forum, resulting in some college players never reading it and being able to add...

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Caesar Rodney HS wrote:
SwissBoy wrote:It seems as though you do more writing than most of us as well.
And more posting...

Charlie Dees' posts per day: 2.13
Your posts per day: 1.93

Probably not enough of a disparity to warrant a rolleyes. Besides, Charlie's signal-to-being-Charlie-Dees ratio is steadily improving.

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http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=5152 This make it? That thread probably has too much stuff not related to its topic and doesn't cover enough things that it is supposed to be about. I think it'd be much better if someone just created a thread with a comprehensive list of st...

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Things Regarding your first couple of points, the league idea was only briefly mentioned and I don't think it's being considered too seriously. At least I hope it isn't, as I have the same misgivings about the idea that you do. I agree that running something like this more than once a semester tops...

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If this tournament is only going to use two packets per year, I don't see why using packets from a tournament is going to be an issue. Just find someone to write the 2 packets. It's not like 2 packets takes a ridiculous amount of time to produce. This seems by far the most reasonable thing to do. I...

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I agree with the idea of getting rid of QFT as well as other internet acronyms and abbreviations in the main part of the board. I also think empty quoting can go in most places. Empty quoting isn't too bad in tournament announcement threads where you empty quote someone saying they're looking into g...

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Instead of a double-elimination play-off, I'd recommend "rebracketing" after a certain number of sets (no point in getting pounded over and over again by the full field, so this would give weaker teams a chance to win "Quartile Three" (or whatever we'd call the groups into which...

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I just don't see why we make moderators and players humiliate themselves by reading/answering tossups about anime, accessibility issues aside. We've come to the sensible conclusion that we don't make people at high school tournaments read clues about the "Land of Fuck" from Tropic of Capr...

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The coaches at Catholic Central take an extremely strict, no-nonsense approach to running the quiz bowl program, something that I feel is difficult to implement in a public school setting. For instance, attendance during QB at DCC for members is mandatory and I believe that the players are not allo...

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White Cloud, UM-Dearborn, and Hartland tournaments would be better with good questions, of course, but I think the most important tournament to improve is the MSU state tournament run by the Honors College . Those questions are terrible, it's near the end of the year, and it's supposed to be someth...

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Since this is among the slower of the state comparisons threads and not much seems to be going on at the moment, I was wondering what the class makeup of some of the schools in the state is like so people can get a feel for how next year might look and generate some discussion. DCC seems to be the o...

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Ryan Westbrook wrote:Yeah, "grapesmoker," thanks for the tip.

Grapesmoker. I mean, who is this person? It's like Grape Nuts. No Grapes. No Nuts. I mean, come on!

Dude, you can't go around just expecting various high schoolers to know or understand the glory that is Jerry Vinokurov.

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It'd also be pretty cool if more people in Michigan running tournaments did a better job of keeping specific stats and posting them to this board, but I guess you can't have everything. Hey, no need to put down the Michigan tournament staff who I think do a phenominal job of running tournaments and...

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Four Michigan teams in the top ten is not going to happen, even with NAQT's ability to be completely unpredictable due to their questions. I feel like I made a similar point last year (and was right) so I'm doing it again. I'll say 3 Michigan teams in the top 10 (or however specifically NAQT ranks t...

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It'd be interesting to see CBI get into some kind of clash with Beall over this. They have the money (relatively at least, compared to other Beall-steal sources) and hopefully the litigious nature to throw down over something like this. Perhaps the two will annihilate one another in some sort of sup...

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SwissBoy wrote:Dickinson? Do you guys mean Dickens?

No?

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You guys are cool as hell for manning up and attending CO as a team while still in high school, and I'd be quite surprised if you didn't win some games here and there depending on the exact field.

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