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Simple solution: Questions Galore should never write questions again.

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Hilarious:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/15 ... kerfuffle/

First off, I had no idea that it was spelled "badminton".
Also, opinions on this sport of dedication and "sophisticated racket skills".

mlaird

Thankyoumayihaveanother?

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I would like to say that I am very excited about the development of Aegis Questions, Inc. Hey thanks. If you really want to help out (this goes for anybody) send us any of your comments and critiques by way of our email: aegis [atsymbol] aegisquestions [dot] com. We really take anything the teeming...

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Morton's Fork wrote:http://www.dadsrootbeer.com/oldfashioned/buyonline.htm

Blue Cream Soda? Can they do that?

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Results from the 2007 NAQT Illinois State Qualifier â€”

1.) New Trier
2.) Maine South
3.) St. Ignatius
4.) Carbondale

Morning Stats
Playoff Stats

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styxman wrote:Scholastic Bowl has considerably more participating schools than some of these activities - why can't we have a two day final?

More matches + More days of a tournament = More Money the IHSA has to spend that it doesn't want to spend. Especially on us, the dregs of the activities basin to them.

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Pepsi Blue tasted like Christmas in your mouth. As soon as I heard it was being discontinued, I bought all I could. I still have an unopened 12-pack sitting in my basement on a shelf as a conversation piece. This stuff is a collectors item now, I once saw a 12-pack going for around 60 bucks on ebay,...

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Why can't we do a big ol' round robin with all 8 teams? then have the top two square off in the finals or top four square off in a semi-finals --> finals playoff? Granted, 9 rounds of thirty questions is pretty darn long. It would be nice to see it, though. I do think it's funny that IHSA and some c...

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Well, state tournament brackets have been posted to http://www.ihsa.org/activity/scb/index.htm

What does everyone think?

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i dont know if this skews the data at all, but our last game against stevenson was mostly reserves vs reserves since the sectional was decided after 2 rounds. I figured this would be the case in a few places, but we don't have any other data to go off of, so this take all my stats with a grain of s...

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Results so far: Here are the results from Sectionals: Advancing from Class A: Beardstown (163.3 PPG + 117 PAPG =280.3 Avg. Pts scored per game) Latin (308.3 PPG + 118.3 PAPG = 426.6 Avg) PORTA (262 PPG + 110.6 PAPG = 372.6 Avg) Columbia (231.3 PPG + 107.3 PAPG = 338.6 Avg) Fairfield (210.6 PPG + 11...

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For the record, both Chris Ray and Eric Kwartler blow mad-style chunks, and here's a quote.

"'What is best in life?'
'To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of the women.'"

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Don't tease the octopus, Kiddies!

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OK guys, dunno about you, but it bugs me when random non-programming, non-scripting, computer-related questions are put under Math: Programming and Scripting. FAT is not a programming question, and neither was MBR at State last year. Those are no more about programming than "Hard Drive" i...

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Aegis Questions, Inc. has a public demo of their Question Editing Database as well, available here:

http://www.aegisquestions.com/editor.html

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Um, out of interest, I noticed that Auburn was consolation champs, but what happened to Bloomington? Granted, with these questions, who knows what could have happened, but what were the opening matches like?

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Rothlover wrote:What's wrong with my politics or what q's I play?

Whoa whoa. Let's not get off topic here.

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cornfused wrote:From the Great Auk site...

9. What is the first noun in the Pledge of Allegiance that includes a long vowel sound?
9A: "Allegiance."

Um... what about "I?"

I can't believe you got as far as number 9.

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Aegis Questions is now accepting applications for new question writers for the 2007-2008 season. We invite all current seniors, older players, and coaches to apply. Check out our online application!

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I'd just like to say that I really don't care if they are old guys now. They're still my favorite band of all time. I will pay that $100 fee for the fan club to go to a concert if I have to. Seeing as I wasn't alive the last time they toured, I am amped to see them, even if they suck. Some of their ...

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Wikipedia says that the general form of a linear equation is Ax + By + C = 0, and I've seen it like that in most of my math textbooks. Wait a minute. Did the Masonic q ask for standard form or general form? That same wiki article shows Ax + By = C for the standard form! It's wikipedia. Check out th...

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4. The answer given is: Copper Two Sulfate, but since it only says "copper sulfate" on the page, the moderator will not take it. For the record, my instinct as a moderator of some high school tourneys, would've been to rule incorrect to give the opposing team a chance to give the exact an...

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Tegan wrote:
BarringtonJP wrote:As an outsider, I'm curious if anyone can tell me what company was used for this year's Masonic questions.
If the company is smart, they will NOT permit their names to be found out!

It was Great Auk. Oops!

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STANDARD FORM BLAH BLAH BLAH Check it out: http://www.mathwords.com/s/standard_form_for_the_equation_of_a_line.htm It's the questions fault for being dumb. That seemed to be the trend of the day. Masons? Masonic Bowl is another (albeit a terrible one, and that's saying a lot) state wide, sectional-...

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Another good one can be found here:

http://sugroups.wustl.edu/~collbowl/lexicon.html

I am all for this.

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Breakout from the Fenwick Octangular: Gold Division (Teams that have placed 1st or 2nd at a tournament this year, or were state champs last year): 1.) New Trier 2.) Auburn 3.) OPRF [note: a three-way 6-1 tie was broken by points scored] Silver Division (all the other teams that weren't 'B' teams) 1....

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Let's go ahead and fix that double post, and I'll just post the roster for Fenwick: Wheaton North St. Patrick Lake Park (2 Teams) Fremd (2 Teams) St. Ignatius IMSA Wheaton Academy Libertyville Montini (2 Teams) Marist New Trier Notre Dame Waukegan OPRF Carmel (2 Teams) Fenwick (2 Teams) [Edit: DOUBL...

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David Riley wrote:Does anyone have/wish to post a complete list of the attending teams?

Check the last page, I totally posted one. Also, you got an email from Draski with it.

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Y'know, I'll just go ahead and fix Nick's post for him, since it was meant as a zing to me. The seeding in the New Trier Subsectional is as follows: 1.) MS 2.) NT 3.) ME 4.) Deerfield 5.) LA 6.) Lake Forest 7.) Notre Dame 8.) Highland Park 9.) Evanston 10.) Niles West 11.) Elk Grove 12.) Glenbrook S...

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I was a big fan of the Bud Light "Rock beats paper" ad.

I was not a big fan of Peyton winning MVP over Addai or Rhodes, nor was I a big fan of the gloriously inappropriate shadow puppets during halftime. The pregame show also sucked.[/url]

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It also helps to have your players carry their IDs so that if you have an outstanding freshman or sophomore playing on fr/so, they can't level the charge that you're playing juniors and seniors on your fr/so team. Wait wait. Are you honestly serious? is there a story behind this that I haven't hear...

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well, I started this. oops. I just think it's a problem when the captain does something, and the rest of the team isn't on board with it. For instance "teammates will introduce themselves by whoever buzzes in first." My other beef is that that specific "unique" method of introduc...

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B-teams might be seperate? People seem to like doing that nowadays.

Another thing that people seem to like doing nowadays is introducing their teams by whoever can buzz the fastest or in alphabetical order by brand of jeans, etc. Come on. Just do it from the left or right.

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Thought some folks might want to see the lineup so far for the Fenwick tournament in two weeks. This, and the New Trier Sectional make up the most brutal of meets this year. Wheaton North St. Patrick Lake Park (2 Teams) Fremd (2 Teams) St. Ignatius IMSA Wheaton Academy Libertyville Montini (2 Teams)...

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And also of interest, results from the WN F/S Falcon Classic:

1.) Auburn
2.) Loyola 'A'
3.) Stevenson
4.) Fremd

Quarterfinalists: New Trier, Fenwick, Wheaton Warrenville South, Moline

'B' Team Champion: Loyola 'B'

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The thing that bothers me isn't so much the undeserving teams going to Peoria, it's the fully deserving teams that are left sitting in front of their computers, constantly refreshing the IHSA schobowl page. The fact that one of either Maine South or New Trier isn't going to Peoria already sees the s...

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Technically every high school tournament could open to any high school in the country from Vanderbilt to Case's tournament to Maryland to whoever. Most nationals are open... you have to qualify first, but there are no other restrictions. Carlo means "open" in the way that masters tourname...

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The guy with the numbers screen name needs to edit the Aegis Question out of his post and Brad, you need to edit your quote of him. Conference questions are not cleared until after the District 207 Championships.

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I'm convinced that Maine South Fr-Soph could have beaten Loyola if Coach Biondo had offered to shave his head ..... but then again Coach Biondo is a sane, rational man. You offer to shave your head for winning Nationals or maybe state .... not some podunk 10 team tournament. That's right, you heard...

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Pst... styxman,

editing=reenabled

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Of course, as Mr. Egan points out, there is the seeding problem--teams might not want to go to strong tournaments and hurt their records. Perhaps IHSA could instruct coaches to carefully examine the team records & results before seeding instead of applying a numerical formula. a team that goes ...

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Third, the problem of bonuses being in the last three is, as you point out, impossible to solve without putting all the questions on the same page. However, an effort was made to place extremely "trashy" bonuses as far to the beginning of the round as possible. I can't imagine one becomin...

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Re the Auburn tournament: I'm not one to air my dirty laundry, especially in a forum where I'm not sure the persons it's regarding are frequenting. So I'm forwarding this to Ms. Greene as well as posting here, since I want responses. Something I've noticed, not just at Auburn, but elsewheres as well...

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To quote Rodney Dangerfield, "We don't get no respect." We beat Naperville North, Fenwick, and Deerfield by over 100 points each, and we defeated Latin. We're definitely not #1, or even in the top 5, but we feel like we're being ignored. Dude, that poll is complete garbage, don't worry ab...

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After what will probably go down as one of the longest and most grueling days in Illinois Scholastic Bowl History, we have these results from the Davey and Goliath Throwdown I: 1st Wheaton Warrenville South 2nd Fremd 3rd Stevenson 4th Loyola Also making the playoffs: New Trier, Naperville North, Mai...

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Hey. I helped write those questions, and I'll be the first to admit (since no one actually has yet) that they do in fact probably take longer. They shortened the morning to 16 questions at WN's Kickoff (which created a problem with us having to re-order the questions), and it still went longer than ...

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I think that it would be a HUGE sway if we ever get the Masonic Series on board with pyramidals. The money is what makes a lot of smaller schools compete in that, and they aren't going to turn down the opportunity because of the questions.

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Field Update 11/22/06: Hoffman Estates Fenton Fremd Loyola (2) Libertyville Naperville North Quincy (2) Fenwick (2) Stevenson (2) New Trier Eisenhower Carmel Wheaton North (2) Marist (2) Lake Zurich Maine South Homewood-Flossmoor Wheaton Warrenville South Evanston Lincoln-Way East Leyden Kaneland Mu...

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