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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...

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As a reminder, LIST is not yet clear; if you have any specific comments/feedback, please email me at [email protected]. Thanks!

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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 ...

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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.

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Can I see that circle question? It was in Round 11 or so.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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TheBulgarSlayer wrote: 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?!?

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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If you guys are trying to pick a set, LIST II hasn't been mirrored in the area yet!

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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 ...

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"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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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whitesoxfan wrote:1P, 1 SS

I have heard this part of the distribution is most accessible and quite easy to write as well!

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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.

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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. ...

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Please email me at [email protected] with feedback of any kind on the set!

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Field updated; also, we're expanding to 30 teams, maybe more.

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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...

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sssssssskkkk wrote:So what distribution will these extra questions follow? Are they intended to be tiebreaker questions?

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).

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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...

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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 ...

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Out of curiosity, why did the non-computational math tossup get skipped?

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ASU will be mirroring on 1/21! Anyone in an area lacking a mirror who wants to run a tournament should email me!

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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...

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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!

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Huzzah, Bergen Academies will be hosting a LIST mirror on 3/31!

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The Ardsley mirror has been cancelled, so we're looking for a host in that area as well!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Stats from the Michigan mirror are even lower.

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What about middle school sets?

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College Park Spyders wrote:There are some important errors in the stats, so these shouldn't be totally relied on.

The prelims are (to my knowledge) almost completely accurate, at least as far as team results (a few individual results are flipped).

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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...

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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/

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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)

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Thanks oodles for running this!

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whitesoxfan wrote:
Mewto55555 wrote: 1 Math (Non-computational)
Thank you for not cramming math in as a minor science with astronomy, earth science, and computer science.

You are very welcome

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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 ...

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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 ...

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