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Joshua Rutsky

Speaking of Spring tournaments... Good Hope is still hoping to run a tournament again this year in the early Spring, and I've agreed to help organize/run it. Do the players/coaches who frequent this board have a personal preference in Spring dates? February 4th is probably a no-go for me since that...

Joshua Rutsky

Rutsky’s Humbly Assembled Top Ten (RHATT) for AL Quizbowl 12/14/2016 DISCLAIMER: The list below is purely my opinion, total speculation, and probably should never be read by anyone anywhere for any purpose. You have been warned. RANKING / PREVIOUS - TEAM - WHY? 1 (T) / 1 - Hoover - 1st WRK, Mt. Car...

Joshua Rutsky

Stats for West Point Winter are promised for today, so I'll have more to say after I look over those. New RHATT in time for the holidays!

Joshua Rutsky

Do you still have room for one more team in this event? Hoover is interested.

Josh Rutsky

Joshua Rutsky

Just because it's fun, here's my update for Alabama Quizbowl in the first quarter of the season: Rutsky’s Humbly Assembled Top Ten (RHATT) for AL Quizbowl 10/20/2016 DISCLAIMER: The list below is purely my opinion, total speculation, and probably should never be read by anyone anywhere for any purpo...

Joshua Rutsky

Updated. Thanks, Brett!

Joshua Rutsky

Is there any chance a HS mirror of this will be held in the Southeast this year?

Joshua Rutsky

Stats are now available from this event from the tournament page:

Varsity: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s_%28v%29/

JV: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _%28jv%29/

Joshua Rutsky

Maybe so. I'm old and a geek so I would have powered it right after strategy.

Joshua Rutsky

Raynor, if there's one place I'd make a comment on this set, besides that there were several duplicated bonuses and more than a few awkward sentences that seemed like editing issues, it would be that this might well be the toughest HS packet for converting 30 on the bonus that I've read in several y...

Joshua Rutsky

Thanks to the amazing Neg 5, stats are available for this event already! For this event, we played preliminaries, then rebracketed teams for the playoff phase. While Neg 5 ranks the teams in the event, the actual order of finish is below the link: VARSITY: http://www.neg5.org:3000/t/ByRnhBS0/stats C...

Joshua Rutsky

Any word on stats/results here?

Joshua Rutsky

Field update posted for 9/29. Only two spots remain in the varsity field and one in the JV! Get your request in NOW.

Joshua Rutsky

Also, for the new name, may I suggest TOTAL? (Tournament Online Tracking And Logistics)

Joshua Rutsky

So this is a very limited use feature that I'd love to see implemented at some point, but one thing that always made SQBS handy for me was that it allowed you to hold scrimmages using flexible teams and still compile data. Since you only get a "team playing itself" notice, not a hard stop ...

Joshua Rutsky

This tournament is now a PACE Platinum Certified event.

Joshua Rutsky · Re: Hoover Invitational Tournament - (AL) 10/15/16 Field update, 9/13

Field update, 9/13

Joshua Rutsky

This is being looked into. Speaking as a regular staff member at ACE Camp and as AD for that camp site, I can say that ACE's staff are committed to giving campers a positive, helpful, and engaging camp experience, and that the staff at that camp was a great group of guys. If one of them did, for any...

Joshua Rutsky

ALABAMA PREVIEW: (Relocated from top of thread) I spent about two hours today writing a preview of the state, only to somehow delete it before I posted it. I am really, really, unhappy about that. I'm not going back and reconstructing all the PPG data and stuff I did right now, because I might lose ...

Joshua Rutsky · Re: Hoover Invitational Tournament - (AL) 10/15/16 Field Update, 8/26.

Field Update, 8/26.

Joshua Rutsky · Re: Hoover Invitational Tournament - (AL) 10/15/16 Updated field, 8/22

Updated field, 8/22

Joshua Rutsky · Re: Hoover Invitational Tournament - (AL) 10/15/16 Updated field, 8/16/16

Updated field, 8/16/16

Joshua Rutsky

That's a fair question, Brett, and I don't think it is too early to ask. In my opinion, Team Alabama absolutely should show improvement for next year. Sharath was outstanding at the tournament, and he is only going to improve, so if he returns, that's a big first step. The biggest obstacle from last...

Joshua Rutsky

(Alabama Preview 2016-17 has been relocated downthread. Here is the current calendar for Alabama and regional events. Please feel free to update me as you find out dates: September 3: (Labor Day Weekend) September 10: September 17: ASCA HS Fun Tournaments (Arab and LAMP HS); ASCA MS Fun Tournament (...

Joshua Rutsky

I am pleased to announce that Hoover will be mirroring the Harvard Fall Tournament as its varsity event this year! We will have a limited number of spaces, so teams interested in securing a spot should contact me or post here as early as possible to let me know.

Joshua Rutsky

Coaches and Sponsors; Hoover High School would like to invite you to the 12th Annual Hoover Invitational Tournament, to be held at our school on Saturday, October 15, 2016. This event will, as usual, be split three ways: Novice, JV, and Varsity brackets. Novice teams (teams with minimal experience b...

Joshua Rutsky

The Hoover Invitational, one of the largest tourneys in the Southeast, is looking for a high-quality set to mirror on October 15th, 2016. We understand that this is a very early date, but we always schedule early, and we hope that one of the fine college or high school housewrites out there will be ...

Joshua Rutsky

As usual, Hoover would like to mirror this for our Hoover Invitational, tentatively October 15th. Thank you!

Joshua Rutsky

With the new move towards tossing up theoretical math in the last couple of years, and particularly coming off the NASAT, I was interested in hearing how people are studying or prepping math theory. Are there any good texts or clusters of information hat would help a team get started with this? I ha...

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If there is a coach for either of the Ohio teams, would you please PM me? Thanks!

Joshua Rutsky

Just as an addendum, Hoover switched this year away from NAQT for our major tournament SPECIFICALLY because of this issue. We know that the NAQT sets are in very high demand in state, but we are also trying to promote opportunities for other teams to host in-state, and so we gave up our normal NAQT ...

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Dr. Prince-

I have a short (24 question) packet of pretty bad but possibly salvageable mash-up questions that I wrote for a local bar trivia night. Objects were thrown, leading me to believe that the packet has potential. I'll send them to you and if you can use them, please feel free.

Joshua Rutsky

I had to take a couple days before I could post. This was a really, really tough year in ASCA, and Hoover took a really, really, tough set of losses at State. Three total matches decided by four questions is rough to get over, especially when two of them are the semifinals and the consolation match....

Joshua Rutsky

Full Stats:

https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-t ... nt_id=6748 or at
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/

Joshua Rutsky

Quick results from today's Elite Meet:

1) Spain Park 10-1
2) Dorman A 9-2
3) Dorman B 8-3 (HTH)
4) Hoover A 8-3

Thanks to all the teams who attended. Full stats will be up soon.

Joshua Rutsky

Results have been posted for the ASCA JV, Small School, and Middle School championships: Middle School: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3654/stats/all_games/ JV: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3655/stats/all_games/ Small School: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3656/stats/...

Joshua Rutsky

I have now had multiple players ask about having a NASAT team from Alabama this year. The tourney is at UKentucky, which isn't that bad a drive, really, and it is really time we consider making this happen. Lee Henry and I have dIscussed this in the past, and I think that between the two of us we wo...

Joshua Rutsky

At this time, I feel confident enough to say that Alabama is looking into forming a team for NASAT this year with a serious intent to compete, not just pay lip service to the process. I hope to be able to say something former about this in the near future.

Joshua Rutsky

Personally, I think that the biggest obstacle to outreach has been mentioned -- the lack of a tourney coordinator in the locations where good quizbowl is iffy at best. Many coaches, who are your TD core, are intimidated enough by the giant mess of regulations involved in being a coach for a team and...

Joshua Rutsky

What's so great about SQBS? I would have classified it as adequate for most tournaments (but just barely), and woefully inadequate for many (large ones, ones using less common formats, etc.). I think the natural way to address your goal would also involve replacing SQBS. Jim Puls has already done a...

Joshua Rutsky

I am in the early stages of trying to sketch out an ideal program for QB work. Here are the basic premises I'm starting from: 1) SQBS is awesome, and there isn't a lot of reason to try to replicate what it does well. Therefore, the main purpose of this software would be to handle two areas that I do...

Joshua Rutsky

Stats for HIT are up at

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3135/ for JV/Novice

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3134/ for Varsity.

Joshua Rutsky

STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATS!

VARSITY:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/

JV:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _complete/

NOVICE:http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _complete/

Joshua Rutsky

Stats from the HIT will be up soon, but I just want to say that I was very happy with the performance of our teams from Alabama in this event. Despite the extremely strong field, including two teams (Woodford KY and Dorman) who I will be shocked if I don't see in the top 30 nationally, our squads he...

Joshua Rutsky

This tournament happened. I apologize to all the teams who were delayed by our buzzer issues; we aim to finish by 4PM and tonight we didn't finish until 5:45. That's really not acceptable to us, and we regret the inconvenience it will cause to our guests. Quick results: Dorman A won the Varsity brac...

Joshua Rutsky

You know, Lee, I think you're right--and I think it is something we all should be pretty proud of here. I am grateful to the folks from Itawamba, Woodford County, and Dorman for choosing our event to travel to for this weekend, but I think that there are a lot of really talented teams here in Alabam...

Joshua Rutsky

Final field update for Saturday's tourney: Varsity: Altamont Buckhorn Covenant Christian Dorman A (South Carolina) Dorman B (South Carolina) Evangel Christian Gadsden City Hewitt-Trussville Homewood Itawamba (Mississippi) James Clemens LAMP Mountain Brook Northridge Oak Mountain Pell City Prestige W...

Joshua Rutsky

We have now hit the Varsity field cap and will begin a waiting list for this tournament.

Joshua Rutsky

FIELD UPDATE: One month before the tourney, we are at 22 Varsity teams (cap is 24). We have 18 registered JV teams (cap is 24). There are 8 Novice teams registered (cap is 10). The tourney format is pretty firmed up at this point, so I've edited the lead post with details. Varsity Altamont CCA Dorma...

Joshua Rutsky · Re: West Point Winter Invitational - 12/5/15 (IS-151A) No more than four. :)

No more than four. :)

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