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mlaird

So, even after it's over, I'm still sort of ticked at the IHSA for having the State Finals on a Friday. Pulling our best and brightest out of school to compete has never been something we've done, and it's really just a bad idea, since it also prohibits parents from coming and creates all sorts of o...

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cornfused wrote:He's also one of two All-Staters in Class AA that didn't make it to Sectionals... the other being Paul Botros of Carbondale (second team.)

Carbondale made it to Sectionals... did Paul himself not make it?

mlaird

All right, here you go. Here it is. All-State teams. Class A First Team Evan Daigle So. Litchfield Aaron Deets Sr. Byron Madeline Dillner Sr. Winnebago Cody Dirks Sr. PORTA Andrew Friedman Sr. Latin Ethan Ingram Sr. Cumberland Richard Parker Sr. Cisne Issac Shelton Sr. PORTA Lian States Sr. Fairfiel...

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Matt, note that the IHSSBCA runs All-State, not the IHSA. They absolutely hate doing things that they don't have to.

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JohnGlerum wrote:Mr. Laird, I have my popcorn ready for the "scholastic bowl is inherently elitist" rant.

Nah, that doesn't apply to this situation.

mlaird

Well, my very upset friend, if you take note, there are only 10 all-sectional players from your sectional. That means that EVERY player who was put up for contention got honors. If their coaches had in fact nominated them, then all of those players that you mentioned would be listed up there as well.

mlaird

Just so that all of you know, the All-State Selection Process is now underway. We should have results for you next week.

mlaird

Those of you who missed Coach Reinstein's radio spot before the state tournament can find it here: http://caster.wgnradio.com/podcasts/kjpod-130-080318.mp3 the Schobowl part begins at the 10:04 mark. Note: apparently people actually listen to it, because I told one of my supervisors that I was stude...

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The reason that IMSA doesn't get invited is because of their recruitment policies. No one really appreciates them scouting their school's talent and then courting them while they are currently attending another school (see: the aforementioned Bonny Jain). At least that's what I hear. I don't really ...

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Re: the Bonny Jain talk going on. Since apparently no one reads the IHSSBCA Newsletter anymore, I guess I could be the one to point out the fact that this year Bonny was not even voted All-Sectional. I'm not certain that he was even nominated. If his coach didn't do it, some other coach at the meeti...

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aha. excellent.

mlaird

Hey, so um... why doesn't the QBWiki let me create an account? The login/create link only has a login option, no create.

mlaird

Masonic Academic Bowl question sets are available for perusal at your leisure:

http://www.aegisquestions.com/masonic08/index.html

mlaird

The Loyola Academy Ramblers will be making their first state appearance since 1996 on Friday. There was a 3-way Ring of Death between New Trier, Maine South and Loyola and with scores among tied teams being the tie breaker, LA came out on top. I don't know what it is about us and losing to Maine Sou...

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pasedpawn wrote:
bdavery wrote: Illinois radio series.
?

Says here on Bryce's website:
"We provide academic questions for the following television and radio quiz series:
...
WCCI Academic Bowl (Illinois)"

Also, obligatory comment about question quality.

mlaird

As for non-literature language arts (I assume foreign language, grammar, and vocabulary go here) -- this is where I've had the most minefields in the past couple years while writing for VHSL states. As the predominant writer of Literature questions for our company, I find it ne'er on impossible to ...

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Fairfield beat Peoria Christian, then lost to Springfield. I don't know the score though.

mlaird

I think they're talking about handheld boxes, rather than buzzer sticks like our novell buzzers.

mlaird

RSido wrote:You mean the hyoid.

of course Robert would know that.

Apologies for the unnecessarily high scores and sometimes insultingly easy bonuses, but we had to cater to everyone in the state at this stage of the tournament. I can assure you that Masonic State becomes more difficult.

mlaird

patjm6163 wrote:what happens to the all-sectional voting now (in m.s. sectional because of the snow. Will this list be chosen off of stats too?

We're working this out right now. What do you think should happen?

mlaird

Team Illinois tomorrow? Any takers?

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BarringtonJP wrote:What happened with the seeding meetings?

Mother Nature wrote:SNOW

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New category for our distribution: Internet Memes as Art.

mlaird

<begin degenerative course towards more 80's movie references>
Looks to Fred Morlan to be the guy with bottles on his fingers calling for "Egan.... come out and play...."

mlaird

If anyone read Thayer's email to the coaches, he is very up front and open about his reasons for doing what he did with Masonic. His tournament will not feature the 16 best teams in the state, nor is it trying to provide us with a true tournament format in order to get down to the two best teams in ...

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JohnGlerum wrote:
styxman wrote:questions by David Bykowski
Out of curiosity, who is this?

http://www.aiquizbowl.com/about.html

mlaird

Of course, by "released" you mean, "not actually posted on the IHSA website yet, but I managed to procure them in some shady manner." While not nearly as unfair as last year, having Auburn play Wheaton North will be the State Title match, much like the Auburn v. Fremd in 05-06. B...

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patjm6163 wrote:...and i just never understood why the IHSA blends in seasons- -.

Protip:
It's because the IHSA doesn't really care about Scholastic Bowl that much.

mlaird

Well, in the case of Naperville, it was easy to sub in a player based on upcoming questions, even without looking ahead. If you hear one math question, you should have called a timeout after that one was over and put in all your math people, because you knew that the next three would be math as well...

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And....why was the afternoon seeded the way it was? I think it had something to do with trying to prevent the #1 seed from always having the easiest match possible during the playoffs. and of course consequently hosing the other seeds. for those of you not there: Semis= 1 v. 3 2 v. 4 And with unbal...

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hey, hate to burst anyone's bubble here, but this tournament is in 2008, right? if so, then I can say that Loyola Academy from Wilmette, IL will be there.

mlaird

Now that the holiday lull is over, we can jump right back into results: Kaneland Varsity, from what I hear: 1.) Wheaton North 2.) Loyola Academy 3-4.) WWS and someone else I hear the Kaneland questions were, well, Kaneland questions. I can't say much else though, since I wasn't there. Someone to fil...

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I'm in for one. Other things considered: The Japanese fighter plane Jack Skellington's ghost doggie The number of paragraphs not plagiarized in "Chip Beall: A Biography" (most of the material was taken from old ACF Nationals packets and cards from the 20th century edition of Trivial Pursui...

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roll over the annomometer, quizbowlers!

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@ Fred Morlan:

B,Y,O,R,O,Y,R,Y,R,Y,R,Y,R,Y Unlock All

Lather. Rinse. Profit.

mlaird

but have you seen Mr. T?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0DtmxYFuE

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Results from the Davey and Goliath Throwdown II @ Loyola Academy: 1. Stevenson 2. Mundelein 3. Loyola 4. Fremd Finals: Stevenson 220 over Mundelein 95 Loyola 192 over Fremd 188 Semis: Stevenson 170 over Loyola 161 Mundelein ??? over Fremd ??? Quarters: (1) Fremd 219 over (8) WWS 195 (4) Mundelein 20...

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So I heard Jeff Price mention something about being too tired to go to school today:

http://chicagoist.com/2007/12/04/the_wheels_on_t.php

mlaird

My summation of the past 7 pages of "Illinois '07-'08": 1.) Jack Glerum says something inflammatory. 2.) Tom Egan makes a comment about Kenilworth. 3.) David Riley makes a comment about the South Side. 4.) Tom Egan makes a comment about Kentucky, Hungary or both. 5.) Talk about how non-pyr...

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JohnGlerum wrote:We didn't mention you because you aren't from Illinois and nobody on this forum has heard of you because of this. Congrats on 3rd, keep it on the Iowa forum, please.

Whoa, chief.

In reality, we (I) didn't mention it be cause we (I) didn't remember who got it.

mlaird

Aegis Questions, Inc. is seeking pristine, non-pyramidal Computational Math questions for an upcoming tournament. We are willing to give $0.75 for each tossup, and the same for each 4-part, Illinois-style, bonus (that is, teams are read all four parts and then have thirty seconds to work before they...

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And the future Mrs. Brad Fischer, of course.

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Full Results from Sterling F/S:

1.) Loyola
2.) Auburn 'A'
3.) Lasalle-Peru
4.) Byron
5.) Geneseo
6.) Bettendorf
7.) Orion
8.) Moline

Top Scorer was Zahed from Auburn 'A', followed by Christian from Loyola.

mlaird

That's not chatter. That's chitchat. prediction: Gauthier, Brown, Sundaram, and Fast, are probably locks for the finals. Jain, Verity, Ahmad, Jiang, Someone from among the Stevenson players, Sido, Greenthal, Cohen, Irving and Ngo round out the rest of those who have a chance to make the finals, but ...

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No no no no no. Even myself, as a Sox fan, know that it is physically impossible to like both the Cubs and the Mets. 1969? Come on. Ron Santo won't even go to Shea Stadium to do broadcasts there.

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Tegan wrote:I don't know any other good Catholic/private/independent schools in that neck of the woods.

Not gonna happen.

mlaird

Batman once proved the Riemann hypothesis, then turned down the money and ate the paper with the proof on it. Then he Bataranged ("KAPOW!") all those pansy science and math people (e.g. Peter Parker).

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dsfcaptains2005 wrote:NEXT:

Facebook

vs.

Myspace

Unfortunately, Facebook catches something from MySpace while "social networking". Everyone is a loser. Especially emokids.

NEXT:

INTERNET MEMES

vs.

AHAN JR.

mlaird

Tobey Maguire=Conor Oberst of notorious emo-band Bright Eyes
Compare:
Spiderman and Mr. Oberst

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