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Brandeis would not mind hosting the tournament for New England, as long as we didn't have to do stats (or if we received extensive, extensive help with stats). User was warned for having a signature without a name. People have taught themselves how to do stats. It requires 1) downloading SQBS, 2) h...

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What is this Tidy Whitey Bowl, and what can you tell me about it, lol? I asked Aren, who was a hs freshman nearby, and obviously he had no clue. We read a packet yesterday for historical purposes, and it was either the biggest waste of time, or 20 minutes of awesomeness, not quite sure.

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Purdue wasn't there either. Also, I suck and need to get better and buzz in more. The fact that there were powers surprised me a bit too, since I could have powered the first tossup I played and I didn't since I thought everything was worth only 10 points. I can name my Big Ten schools don't worry....

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Yeah, looking back, I didn't even think to realize that others would have had the same question as I did. If I had realized this, I would have posted my question right in the thread to get it cleared away. I regret that Surya and Nolan were not there, as they are Good People and enliven a tournamen...

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It was really cool to have every active Big Ten school at this tournament (well, if you don't count Penn State and Iowa, but that's pretty debatable). Indiana has a team. Or at least, had a team, and the people who were on that team haven't graduated. i know. I didn't count Indiana, because they ba...

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See I believe this has the opposite effect: a team of novices coming off a 500 point beatdown looks at the stats and sees that team is the number 5 team in the country, and realizes that they lost because they were playing one of the very best teams in all of quizbowl. I would feel better if I got ...

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Stats it doesn't make sense to attach the preseason team rankings to their stats for the following reasons: 1) it's a preseason poll and everyone knows that bullcrap (look how many votes Minnesota "B" got yesterday) 2) it causes confusion at early tournaments like this where teams are not...

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We had one fall into our laps (well it helps that he went to nationals as a home school group, and ended up on our email list because of it). I would say that home schoolers who are serious (in this sense that is very related to good) about quiz bowl will be more likely to continue on. But obviously...

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Man, if I'd known grad students were allowed to play, I would've come to this tournament. It's one of those things where the UIUC mirror of EFT pretended to be MCMNT, but then failed at enforcing it, especially by not following up on it. Also, this tournament was overall pretty well run. Congrats t...

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Papa's in the House wrote:This field is now closed. At this time, we should have enough moderators to run this tournament for the 30 teams listed as attending in my second post.

There are 32 teams listed in your second post.

Broad-tailed Grassbird · Re: ACF Fall Great Lakes at Ohio State (11/6/2010) We're bringing 2-3 teams.

We're bringing 2-3 teams.

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In Michigan, UD Jesuit is more likely to actually play tournaments than Churchill or Plymouth, and on top of that they might be better. But you'll have to talk to the DCC kids to find out more.

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Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:
nalin wrote:
AlphaRasmus wrote:MSU will officially be bringing two teams, plus Nolan and "Someone."
Isn't "someone" providing their own form of transportation?
Yes, SHE will be meeting US there.

i just wanted to use bad english and say their instead of he or she, even though I knew it was she.

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AlphaRasmus wrote:MSU will officially be bringing two teams, plus Nolan and "Someone."

Isn't "someone" providing their own form of transportation?

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$80 and you got a deal.

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Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:I just found out that I'll be able to bring a scorekeeper as well. She's not done quiz bowl before, but I can vouch that she can write names and add multiples of ten and subtract multiples of five.

is "she" the same person as "someone"?

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According to facebook I know someone who knows someone (other than nolan).

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:
nalin wrote:just curious, why has ACF Winter not been announced yet (with ACF Regionals already being announced)?
probably because it isn't happening.

canceling a tournament in which 84 teams competed in last year

At the very least, I hope that MLK can resurrect itself.

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just curious, why has ACF Winter not been announced yet (with ACF Regionals already being announced)?

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85% chance we send 1 team. 1% chance we send 2. 14% chance we don't send a team.

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Let's be honest though about the elevator pitch, its pretty rare that you get someone who doesn't have any academic competition experience to stay on for a long time. You have to focus on the "i did quiz bowl in high school" crowd (because they seem to be everywhere from person experience)...

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EDIT: The Canadian team says they're taking me. I don't know if this means a five-person team or not. If it does mean a 5-person team - it'd be nice to put one of you along with Scot, and perhaps other free agents if they materialize, on an 8th team for Saturday. my team for sunday (MSU) is now wit...

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For those who will be in Novi Friday night, this may be a good event to go to.

AC Milan vs. Panathinaikos FC at the Silverdome

http://www.silverdometickets.com/titans.html

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The ACUI Region 8 shirts we got from UIC were totally sweet. Of course everything ended up being run well, but if things had been a disaster the shirts would have pretty much made up for it anyway. Even the shirts were a disaster. I don't want a size L nightie. It was an ok shirt, but large is your...

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I also applaud U of M on holding the tournament at DCC, as it is 20 minutes from my house, as opposed to the 21 minutes Mason Hall is (although I swear I made it in 12 minutes that one time).

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I am a free agent for this. I am not that good, but I can bribe you with lodging (my parents house, though it will probably be a couch), and picking you up from the airport. Edit: I need someone to vouch for you that you are not an axe murderer (it is my parents house after all). If you are an axe m...

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For stats comparisons, how very similar lineups for MSU did between two tournaments:

ACF Fall: 237.5 PPG, 16.41 PPB
NAQT SCT-DII: 240.2 PP20TTH, 16.91 PPB

I also agree with the comparison with ACF Winter and ICT D-II, but don't have stats to back it up.

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This is quite awesome.

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TheKingInYellow wrote:Quizbowl is fine if you like driving

Fixed it for most teams.

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gkandlikar wrote:If there promises to be a question on Bhangra I'll play. If not, I can offer to staff, depending on when exactly this is going to be run.

You better hope I'm not playing against you (i will say though that I only 20'd the last bhangra bonus I saw).

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miracle22 wrote:Does anyone have the final results from this weekend?

Also, have they always done All-Class Team nominations at this tournament? I don't recall them doing that in previous years.

They did them last year, I remember voting on it.

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Benjammin? wrote:Would anyone be interested in joining a three man team from Michigan? The team consists of two soon-to-be-sophomores and Phil Guan. We've got about three-fourths of the packet taken care of.

Ben Forster
University of Michigan

i'm interested, depending on the date. Also, I can't write lit.

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Double elimination sucks. So do the questions.

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Cheynem wrote:KMO is still going on?! That tournament always gave me nightmares because it was impossible to predict success for.

Working on fixing that...

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Okemos and DCD when are you getting to MSU on Friday? I need to drop off buzzers (DCD), and a record (Ian from Okemos).

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Thanks guys. KMO works like this. Double elim. You'll see the brackets when you get to the Union on Friday. Someone from the team has been doing them last couple of years, so she knows who to put where (aka Dewitt wouldn't be playing DCD until at least 3 rounds in). I'm assuming the field sizes are ...

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Detroit Country Day A won this, going undefeated through the prelims and the playoffs. Detroit Catholic Central A finished second only losing to DCD A. Novi finished third. Will post finished stats today.

Edit: Not getting done today. Tomorrow evening for sure.

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sds wrote:For 5/5/5/5 then 8/6/6, you could also skip rematches for only the top bracket, which similarly cuts things down to 11 rounds total, and still guarantees the bottom bracket teams 9 games (assuming they do have rematches).

This has worked very well so far. Thanks for all the suggestions.

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Through 3 rounds, half the teams have above 15 PPB, and only 3 have below 10 PPB. Strongest HS field from top to bottom I've seen (not surprised though as it is the state championship).

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Freshman showed up just now. Set his alarm to 7 PM, instead of 7 AM (and kept his phone off).

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I'd like to give a shout out to Jason Jones for helping us out by moderating this morning (because we had some no-shows). Freshmen are unreliable, do not trust them.

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Assuming that you're trying to keep this to 10 rounds (not including finals), why not just do 5-5-5-5 and rebracket? 8 guaranteed games isn't optimal, but you could offer inter-bracket exhibition games if teams wanted. There may be a better option that involves avoiding playoff rematches, but it's ...

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1st thing, I know the teams well enough, all of them have stats I can find minus Kent City. Option 1: 3 divisions 8-6-6 teams each. Play 5 rounds (full round robin for 2 of the divisions). Rebracket into 6-6-8. The championship and first consolation bracket will be the 6 team divisions. Final follow...

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Random announcements that don't fit anywhere. 1) MSU will be having summer practices. We invite anyone in the area to come out (hs, college, unaffiliated too). 4) Does quiz bowl exist west of the capital area (besides the circuit with White Cloud, Reed City, Mason County, etc.)? I'm trying to find ...

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We're taking one more team and then closing the field. First come first serve.

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Is there a date for this? From personal experience, I don't write things before I know if I can come to something (which I need to know a date for), but maybe that's me. Anyways, I'm slightly interested.

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Random announcements that don't fit anywhere. 1) MSU will be having summer practices. We invite anyone in the area to come out (hs, college, unaffiliated too). 2) We still have open spots for NAQT states. 3) On the way back from ICT, Chris and I started working on the push to revamp the "Michig...

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wexs883198215 wrote:Has anything happened with this recently?

no one uses google wave.

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Field Update (and we're still taking teams)
Novi 2
Troy 2
DCDS 2
Dewitt 2
White Cloud
DCC 4
University Liggett
Sand Creek
Kent City?

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nalin wrote:Interested.

no longer interested, we're just going to drive back Saturday.

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