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- Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Painfully Easy Giveaways
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9851
Re: Painfully Easy Giveaways
The only time I've truly been frustrated with a giveaway is when it goes something like, name this term, the opposite of another term and it's painfully obvious to anyone who has a pulse. If hearing these giveaways is so excruciatingly painful for you, then learn enough to get questions earlier/sto...
- Sun Apr 01, 2012 1:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BOAT IV - March 31, 2012 - Hackensack NJ
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9376
Re: BOAT IV - March 31, 2012 - Hackensack NJ
As a reminder, LIST is not yet clear; if you have any specific comments/feedback, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!
- Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3736
Re: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
Congratulations to Rock Bridge A, who won the second Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament! Second place was Clayton A, third Savannah, and fourth Rock Bridge B. Rock Bridge A finished 3-0 in the superplayoff bracket, and Clayton 2-1, but Clayton decided to forfeit what would have been an advantaged ...
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT Individual Question Requests and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6799
Re: BHSAT Individual Question Requests and Discussion
I may be wrong/nitpicky, but wouldn't the second sentence be more internally pyramidal if you flipped the clues? I think more people know of the existence of a "nine point circle" than what is actually on the nine-point circle.
- Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT Individual Question Requests and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6799
Re: BHSAT Individual Question Requests and Discussion
Can I see that circle question? It was in Round 11 or so.
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: An NHBB Site for All Regions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5462
Re: An NHBB Site for All Regions
Some of the rules did not get relayed too excellently at our site, so in the prelim rounds, we kept going even after we hit 8 (but got the bonus based on where we hit 8? it was weird). I think I got a 3 point bonus the first round, a 4 point the second, and a 5 point the 3rd, so that would translate...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
There will be a mirror at Westview in southern California sometime in late April/early May. We're still looking for mirrors all over (northern California? Texas? any other regions of the country?) to hear this so far very well-received set!
EDIT: Sunday, April 22nd.
EDIT: Sunday, April 22nd.
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18082
Re: Beyond the canon...
I don't desire a dichotomy, ... tournaments geared for top level teams. I don't understand! How do you have some tournaments geared for top level teams, some tournaments geared for not-top teams, and still not have a dichotomy?!? Because, my idea of a "dichotomy" is where bad teams answer...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18082
Re: Beyond the canon...
I don't understand! How do you have some tournaments geared for top level teams, some tournaments geared for not-top teams, and still not have a dichotomy?!?TheBulgarSlayer wrote: I don't desire a dichotomy, ... tournaments geared for top level teams.
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18082
Re: Beyond the canon...
I actually write perfectly canonical (is that the right adjective?) questions that are completely accesible. All I am advocating is a broadening of tossup answer lines, with things of significance receiving precedence over things with cool names like the war of Jenkins ear. I don't see what's so wr...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18082
Re: Beyond the canon...
The things is though, the vast majority of novice teams dont play that many tournaments. At least in the Metro Detroit Area, an area saturated with quizbowl "clubs", 99% of teams (everyone except DCCand Detroit Country Day) plays in a league, the few MSU and UofM tournaments, naqt and KMO...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18082
Re: Beyond the canon...
This is a terrible idea. Quizbowl, at every level, is about accessible answers. Louis XIV comes up a lot because he's both important and accessible. To avoid stagnancy, you should change up the early clues you use about him or ask about different things at bonus parts (or do tossups on important th...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18082
Re: Beyond the canon...
It's hard right now because it's not part of the cannon. There aren't that many important people in it (Heraclius, Irene, and the other Komnemus emperors). If they were to be introduced initially as bonus parts, people would learn them and boom, a major part of European history is in the cannon. I ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Southern California Date Claim 2011-2012
- Replies: 45
- Views: 14114
Re: Southern California Date Claim 2011-2012
If you guys are trying to pick a set, LIST II hasn't been mirrored in the area yet!
- Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RM+TP Housewrite available for Mirrors!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 16372
Re: RM+TP Housewrite available for Mirrors!
Also, if RAVE isn't used, LIST II is also a rockin set. RM couldn't mirror it due to overlap with TJ's already-run mirror, but if Torrey Pines needs a set in a jam, LIST II would definitely be available if they shoot me an email (igoroogenflagenstein@gmail.com) sometime today or tomorrow if the set...
- Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Accuracy of HSQBRank
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4637
Re: Accuracy of HSQBRank
So being bored, I decided to compare Fred's numbers to the HSQB pre-nats poll. Just thought I'd share the results: I used http://easycalculation.com/statistics/correlation.php -- I'm not sure if this is actually a legit thing but it looked fine and I am not excel-literate. What I did was insert on t...
- Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12032
Re: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
The reason why Max's critique of IMSANITY's math TUs is pertinent is because Adam claimed that IMSANITY's math supported the opposite of my claim, namely that people knowledgeable in math would, regardless of their competency at actually writing questions or being good editors, produce, on average,...
- Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12032
Re: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
So far, you've failed to demonstrate that IMSANITY 1 Math contained anything other than early clues that sometimes started out too difficult, because only a handful of high schoolers would know those clues. The answer lines were for the most part accessible (a term which means convertable, not the ...
- Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12032
Re: Are 20 Questions Enough?
"Most" math questions are bad is an exaggeration. But even in some high school sets that are otherwise good, the percentage of bad questions often approaches 50%. There is indeed a wealth of evidence (See: IMSANITY 2, LIST III) that lots of math can be written and still be good. I really ...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 11:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12032
Re: Are 20 Questions Enough?
Somehow people keep misconstruing what Adam said as "Let's add 4/4 so I can fit more math in" when he said "Let's add 4/4 so that topics like math AND PHILOSOPHY get a distribution that better reflects their importance". Even if that is the case, why does it have to be through s...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12032
Re: Are 20 Questions Enough?
Well, speaking as someone who absolutely loves math, both in quizbowl and outside it, I don't necessarily think that "look how much math is accessible" and "math is SO COOL" are necessarily good reasons to call for a blanket-wide expansion of math's distribution in quizbowl. I a...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 50 Million Math Question Fans Can't Be Wrong! (OR CAN THEY)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 12032
Re: Are 20 Questions Enough?
Well, speaking as someone who absolutely loves math, both in quizbowl and outside it, I don't necessarily think that "look how much math is accessible" and "math is SO COOL" are necessarily good reasons to call for a blanket-wide expansion of math's distribution in quizbowl. Plac...
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:46 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Are 20 Questions Enough?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6855
Re: Are 20 Questions Enough?
I have heard this part of the distribution is most accessible and quite easy to write as well!whitesoxfan wrote:1P, 1 SS
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXI at Yale University (March 24, 2012)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 21281
Re: BHSAT XXI at Yale University (March 24, 2012)
I am the Schindler of whom you speak, but it'd be great if future posts regarding me did not mention the name of a certain school I may attend due to a certain statewide organization in a certain state abutting the Mississippi river.
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESCHEDULED - TJIAT on 1/28/12 -- LIST II Mirror
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9099
Re: RESCHEDULED - TJIAT on 1/28/12 -- LIST II Mirror
As this set is not yet cleared for discussion and the set will be mirrored elsewhere in the coming weeks/months, please do not discuss any questions on any public parts of the internet, etc. Any commentary about the tournament format, etc. can be discussed here or sent to tjhsstquizbowl@gmail.com. ...
- Sat Jan 21, 2012 9:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Loyola Ultima (Wilmette, IL) - 1/21/12
- Replies: 71
- Views: 28609
Re: Loyola Ultima (Wilmette, IL) - 1/21/12
Please email me at [email protected] with feedback of any kind on the set!
- Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3736
Re: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
Field updated; also, we're expanding to 30 teams, maybe more.
- Mon Jan 09, 2012 11:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Loyola Ultima (Wilmette, IL) - 1/21/12
- Replies: 71
- Views: 28609
Re: Loyola Ultima (Wilmette, IL) - 1/21/12
Tournament structure will be as follows (if we have 36 teams): We will have six pools of six in the morning, where each team will play five matches. Teams will then be rebracketed for the afternoon matches based on their placement (based on record, then points per game) within their pool, with pool...
- Sun Jan 08, 2012 3:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
Roughly the same as the original distribution (but no trash). Presumably they will be used as necessary (so as a replacement if needed, or a tiebreaker, or whatever the circumstances dictate).sssssssskkkk wrote:So what distribution will these extra questions follow? Are they intended to be tiebreaker questions?
- Sat Jan 07, 2012 7:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - Herp Derp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 104964
Re: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - so is this where i complain?
Most notably, performances on A-sets , BDAT and DAFT will be weighted heavier due to the adjustments showing those sets to be harder for teams being tracked than previously thought, while performances on HFT , HSAPQ, FKT, and GSAC will be adjusted to show those sets were easier than previously thou...
- Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
There will be powermarks; they will be roughly as lenient as last year, if slightly less. The set is coming along quite well; for purposes of us not having to do extra unnecessary work, is it objectionable to anyone for us to cut down to 22/22 (i.e. only 1 of those extra questions per round instead ...
- Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Skype Practice League - Round 4
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16788
Re: Online Skype Practice League - Round 4
Out of curiosity, why did the non-computational math tossup get skipped?
- Fri Dec 30, 2011 8:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
ASU will be mirroring on 1/21! Anyone in an area lacking a mirror who wants to run a tournament should email me!
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - Herp Derp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 104964
Re: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - where is rhode island
Here are the stats for Saturday's Tiger Bowl at Mizzou run on HSAPQ 22: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/40/stats/all_games/ First: Ladue Horton Watkins "A" Second: Rock Bridge "A" Third: North Kansas City "A" Iyas D. (Rock Bridge "A") was tops in the indi...
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
LIST will also be the set used by an after-school league run by Heritage High School in GA. We'd still love to have another tournament in the south that isn't located too close to Heritage!
- Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
Huzzah, Bergen Academies will be hosting a LIST mirror on 3/31!
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
The Ardsley mirror has been cancelled, so we're looking for a host in that area as well!
- Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
There will also be a mirror at TJ on 1/21, yay!
We'd love to have mirrors in the parts of the country which don't already have them, please email me if you're interested!
We'd love to have mirrors in the parts of the country which don't already have them, please email me if you're interested!
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13827
Re: LIST II is looking for mirrors!
Detroit Country Day (MI) will be hosting a mirror sometime in THE FUTURE.
Ardsley (NY) will be hosting a mirror as well, which, judging from this post, will be March 10th.
Ardsley (NY) will be hosting a mirror as well, which, judging from this post, will be March 10th.
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What We Talk About When We Talk About Difficulty
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3004
Re: What We Talk About When We Talk About Difficulty
I think also possibly worth discussing in the same vein is whether or not "9. Difficult questions are needed to adequately distinguish between top teams." is true.
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VI (11/12/11)
- Replies: 164
- Views: 67892
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VI (11/12/11)
Stats from the Michigan mirror are even lower.
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 7:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT A set difficulty
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5659
Re: NAQT A set difficulty
What about middle school sets?
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 1:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Clayton Quizbowl Invitational (Nov. 12th, 2011)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1036
Re: Clayton Quizbowl Invitational (Nov. 12th, 2011)
The prelims are (to my knowledge) almost completely accurate, at least as far as team results (a few individual results are flipped).College Park Spyders wrote:There are some important errors in the stats, so these shouldn't be totally relied on.
- Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Fall Novice Tournament (11/5/11)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1316
Re: Ladue Fall Novice Tournament (11/5/11)
Congratulations to SLUH, who went undefeated in the playoff bracket and cleared the field to win. Clayton A, Clayton B, and CBC all tied for 2nd with a 3-2 record; CBC declined to play off the tie, so Clayton A played and beat Clayton B 335-315 to claim 2nd place. Stats: Prelims: http://hsquizbowl.o...
- Sat Nov 05, 2011 9:03 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Middle School Tournament (11/5/11)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2202
Re: Ladue Middle School Tournament (11/5/11)
This tournament happened. Richland split their teams so we could run a full round robin. Washington A cleared the field with a 7-0 record. Parkway Northeast and Ladue (both 5-2) played for second place, a game which Ladue won 200-165.
Stats are at http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/141/stats/all/
Stats are at http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/141/stats/all/
- Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Skype Practice League - Round 3
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6291
Re: Online Skype Practice League - Round 3
Ben's on two teams
Also, is it possible to change the schedule so I have games in the 9:45 slot? (except the last one, there 7:15 is optimal)
Also, is it possible to change the schedule so I have games in the 9:45 slot? (except the last one, there 7:15 is optimal)
- Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Skype Practice League - Round 2
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16202
Re: Online Skype Practice League - Round 2
Thanks oodles for running this!
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3736
Re: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
You are very welcomewhitesoxfan wrote:Thank you for not cramming math in as a minor science with astronomy, earth science, and computer science.Mewto55555 wrote: 1 Math (Non-computational)
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3736
Re: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
Field (updated 1/25): Teams (30/30) Clayton (3) De Smet (1) Fulton (2) Hancock (1) Helias (2) Kickapoo (2) Lutheran South (2) Mehlville (1) Notre Dame (1) Orchard Farm (1) Parkway Central (1) Parkway South (1) Pattonville (1) Rock Bridge (3) Savannah (1) SLUH (1) St. Joseph's (1) Troy (1) Tuscumbia ...
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3736
Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament (LIST II) - 3/31/2012
The Ladue Academic Team is pleased to announced that we will be holding the second incarnation of the Ladue Invitational Spring Tournament on Saturday, March 31st, 2012. We hope to attract many teams from across the state and perhaps some out-of-state teams as well. The top teams will qualify for a ...