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Take AP Physics, chemistry, and biology if your school offers them. If it doesn't, take them at a college, because they're useful anyway, or at least buy a textbook for them online and read it. You'll learn a lot of useful and interesting stuff and become much better at quizbowl science that way.

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Yeah, I did notice that there seemed to be a lot of bonus parts that were along the lines of book from plot and characters/author from random long list of books/other book or character. Also, there were several bonuses along the lines of person/work/what field was this person in? which were rather s...

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I was counting on Princeton's team to send me their edits after their mirror in exchange for a heavily discounted mirroring fee. Obviously, midterms and what not got in the way of this. If you have any suggestions/corrections, pkease e-mail them to me, as that would be a more efficent way of fixing...

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It seems that one solution to this that previous people have hinted at is simply to make sure that most-to-all regular difficulty answers come from things that we could reasonably expect a high school student to have learned in class. Maybe my view of this is distorted because I go to a magnet schoo...

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TheCopleyIndian wrote:
scquizbowl wrote:Other people were worn out by the 3 practices a day.
I think you found your problem

I thought I was dedicated. People who practice 15 times per week have corrected me.

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Hey, Bruce, this was something I wanted to say in the other thread, but maybe I can bring it up now -- when you argue for getting rid of all forms of accent marks in quizbowl questions, are you including acute accents on final e's in words of French origin? Doesn't that sound like a recipe for disa...

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I don't have a problem with it as long as there are enough moderators. If there were good people who could probably be good moderators playing and parents/volunteers who had no idea what they were doing, what the rules were, or how to pronounce anything reading I'd be pretty annoyed, but, to be blun...

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I'd like to see this tournament use the card system if you have 32 teams, like Wright State did last year. It is great for letting teams play other teams of a similar caliber. I would not. While the card system is the only viable option for an HSNCT-sized field, many people don't even like it there...

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SoLegit12 wrote:
Joe N wrote:
Church51907 wrote: St. X
As in, from Cincinnati? Or is there one in Kentucky too?
There is one in Louisville

That makes much more sense. Thanks.

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Church51907 wrote: St. X

As in, from Cincinnati? Or is there one in Kentucky too?

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My favorite from the Illinois archives: We once playede a tournament that used virtually all volunteer moderators. In one match, we had this moderator who didn't know factorials, and thought that the exclamation mark meant to say the numbers "with feeling". Both teams howled and she got v...

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Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the FKT? I just did a global search and looked in the announcements section and couldn't find any tournament or set with a corresponding acronym. It was a novice level tournament written by some college players and coaches in Ohio and mirrored at two sites in Ohi...

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I asked for them in a PM and haven't received them - [email protected], if someone doesn't mind.

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Ohio has an official format which is used for regional and state tournaments, run by the Ohio Academic Competition Committee. The same format is used for numerous sports leagues and some invitational tournaments throughout the state, however, the only tournaments run by the official committee are si...

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[comments of questionable relevance to question content were here] Don't risk it! - the mgmt Am I missing something or is this perhaps slightly informative of the question content...? Not anymore! - the mgmt It may well be general enough, Sandy, but I ain't taking risks! - the mgmt Hey, so now when...

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Where are mirrors planned as of late? Can you please post a list? And Copley is 6 hours away, unless I have the wrong place. That seems far for many teams, seeing as it isn't a nationals-caliber tournament (yet). I'll talk to him. It would be very difficult for us to get to Copley and not very diff...

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Charbroil wrote:
Youse Da Force wrote: We WILL notify NAQT of this
Why?

If this was run on DAFT, not an NAQT set, and was, therefore, not a HSNCT qualifier, why would NAQT care? Wouldn't you just modify the stats you put up yourself?

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This should be great. Thanks for hosting! Frenchtown is formally expressing interest and will very likely be bringing one team. Wait, the Fall "Kickoff" Tournament is different than the Fall Novice Tournament, right? Hopefully? Edit: Clarity Yes, the Fall Kickoff tournament was mainly wri...

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Speaking from a true position of authority as one of the most obvious examples of a quizbowler from a good high school team who had awful grades and didn't put any kind of meaningful priority on getting into college, focus on getting into college. Right, this is my intention. Getting into and atten...

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So, should I focus on getting in to college or becoming good enough that we deserve to be on here? These things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, the latter may help with the former! My classes this year: AP Computer science is very useful. I've already gotten questions in practice from it. AP P...

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Regarding Ohio teams, which is all I'm overly qualified to do, your rankings are probably accurate. Northmont proved that they were good last year by finishing 19th at the NSC and nearly upsetting Stevenson to put them in a top-bracket tiebreaker, and they return everyone. Olmsted Falls is also pret...

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So, should I focus on getting in to college or becoming good enough that we deserve to be on here? Right now, we very much do not.

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As a high school player whose best subject is history and greatly enjoys hearing well-written history questions, I can say that I would have no desire to play a tournament with questions written in the style of those in the sample packet and would be disappointed and feel like I had wasted my money ...

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If it ends up on October 9th we may be able to go, and if it's October 30th it'd be closer than the Ohio mirror held that day for us.

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Any word on the date? We're going to be putting together our schedule in the next week, and if this will be the fall I'd like to know, both so we can plan to go down there and I don't schedule a college visit on the same weekend. Also, if it's being postponed until winter, the February 5th tournamen...

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The United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve is stored in salt domes and is partially in Texas and partially in Louisiana, and it is in salt domes, so they aren't unique to Louisiana.

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If it will be house-written, will it be available for mirrors?

EDIT: Pronouns

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1) Brandon Williams, Michael Czupryn, Dan Welch, Joe Czupryn

Joe Nutter is replacing Dan Welch on this team.

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Based on Bruce's posting on the forum and participation in CO, he appears to no longer be in Bosnia.

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So, with the release of Ohio's first state poll (http://www.createphpbb.com/oac/viewtopic.php?t=875&mforum=oac) and school starting in two weeks, at least for us, I figured someone should go ahead and post this. I'll post the rankings from the poll, along with a bit of my analysis. 1: Northmont....

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such as Literature and RMP, have been overrepresented in some tournaments from the past year - an impression I got both from reading through said tournaments and from following the posts from this board. But, do not fear, for every question in those subjects, there will be one in History and RMP, b...

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February in Ohio has NAQT tournaments in the Northeast that might reduce attendance among southwestern teams on the 5th, 12th, and 19th, and a non-NAQT TU/B event on the 20th. An awful tournament in OAC format is the 26th, so if it were that day we would love a good reason to skip it, and I expect a...

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Please do, I'd appreciate that very much. I'm not sure why they use single-elimination, almost all other Ohio tournaments rebracket so it's not a regional thing.

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grayson77 wrote:Who can I contact about this Tipp tournament?

Probably Joe Bellas. I'm not sure if he reads these boards or not, but you can PM him on the Ohio boards. It's on November 6 and uses an A set.

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December has Rowdy Raider at Wright State on the 4th, which a lot of Kentucky teams come to. The 11th is an Ohio trash tournament, but I'm not sure if Kentucky teams go to that or if that would stop my team from coming to your thing. In January, the 8th is a tournament in Columbus that would probabl...

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I don't know of any Ohio tournaments that day, so I could talk to my coach about it if it's the 25th.

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If someone at DCC or U of M could make this happen at their VCU Open mirror, I would be very interested in playing it.

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Walnut Hills High School has been growing rapidly recently and the past several years we've hired many new teachers, some of them immediately before or after the school year started. Assuming the pattern continues, it'd be awesome if you could come to Cincinnati and teach (probably better than some ...

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It would be really interesting if, based on the votes here, someone made a head-to-head thing like was done last time for the top teams, and compared that to actual results. That would make it easier to see how precise these polls are, now that the majority of teams on here have played the others at...

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I think Jeff's reasoning is perfect. You have to take into account selection bias - in this case, there are a lot of Southern teams that either do not want to travel to Chicago or can't raise the funds to get there and their votes obviously don't count. A lot of teams are also going to attend HSNCT...

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Something like boarding the bus at Cleveland Avenue seems awfully close to trivia to me. A better early clue might involve mentioning Claudette Colvin, but that might be too well-known to come up right away.

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Would you mind posting the results for Ypres, in round 17, I think? It was still in power after mentioning "Race to the Sea," which I felt was kind of strange.

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Hope everyone is doing well. For our spring tournament, we did rebracketing for the first time and, other than conflict with Thunder over Louisville, thought it went well. If there are no objections, we are going to use that for our fall tournaments as well and forego our previous single eliminatio...

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In that case, is there a date by which you want all mirrors to be completed and the set clearable? If we host a tournament next year, I would very much like to use this set, but due to already scheduled tournaments and other scheduling constraints we might not be able to find a date until January.

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If, as you said in your first post, the set will be done early, does that mean that mirrors could happen early? How early would this be?

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September 2 might be a bit early; I don't know how it works in Kentucky but we start much earlier than most Ohio schools and we haven't even had tryouts by then. While we probably couldn't make it on October 16, if this is on October 30 I will speak to our coach about crossing the river and venturin...

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It's for novice tournaments: the sum of the grade levels of your team members must be less than 40. And I thought Bowling Green State University's tournament was going to be that day. That's only half an hour or so farther than Louisville, and I'd prefer to play against Ohioans if the sets are compr...

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Have you decided if you'll ask NAQT for an IS-set or an A-set? There's an Ohio tournament going on the same day, but I may try to convince my team to go to this, depending on which set is used.

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