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Can someone explain how these are created?

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Matt Laird and I are pleased to present the results of a survey we conducted of current and former players of Illinois high school Scholastic Bowl. We made every effort possible to contact as many players as we could, employing Facebook, word of mouth, instant messaging, and email; furthermore, we e...

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Those categories are already represented by only one or two questions each throughout the entire state series, so there's not really any room to decrease them without eliminating them.

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Coaches want the IHSA bonus format back at Kickoff Yes, and unfortunately for them they certainly can't get that for next year, because Kickoff will be run on an IS set. Surely it won't be timed, but THE HATED BONUS FORMAT is back, and there's much much less math. This year's Kickoffs did maintain ...

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Woody Paige wrote:victory for un-hosey, good quizbowl

Wait, the questions are still by Questions Galore, right? I mean, those guys are good, but I imagine even they aren't capable of fixing those questions on the fly.

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MLWGS-Gir wrote:if you're only going to be able to write if enough people are interested to make the workload rather small, please make that known

I am possibly interested in doing a bit of writing, and am making the above known. I could do math, physics, and maybe a bit of chemistry and British literature.

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quantumfootball wrote:What does computational spelling involve? Something using the number of letters that a word has or something?

Yeah. Add that number to the number of letters in some other word, multiply by the number of letters in another...ugh.

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Not that the category usually makes a difference in terms of how unpleasant it is, but the health and agriculture ones and stuff are good for a laugh. Of course, there's also computational biology, where everyone starts applying the Hardy-Weinberg principle before any numbers are actually said. This...

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I think if we took out the poor questions in regionals and sectionals we'd have about 20 legit questions per round right now. I think you'd have about three words left, actually. And if you distributed those three words evenly among forty questions (20/20), some coaches would still complain that th...

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I actually copied ACF guidelines in separating opera from classical music. It could fit within classical music for obvious reasons, though the types of questions often are different since opera questions are often based on plots. I think it also is done to control the number of opera questions, sin...

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I was always under the impression that opera (well, most of what we think of when we say "opera") was part of classical music.

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Is it not considered acceptable to use "god" to refer to either a male or female deity?

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in some sectionals, whoever made it to the state tournament in the old days was pretty much luck of the draw I would argue that's still sometimes true. Rather than boycott, the better teams should continue to show up and win big and demonstrate the advantages of playing on better formats....It woul...

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Since Matt brought it up, I'll state that I am the other person running this players' survey. It is open to current and former players of Illinois high school Scholastic Bowl. If you are eligible and have not yet voted, please contact me or Matt (jonah at jonahgreenthal dot com or mlaird1 at gmail d...

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Woody Paige wrote:If TJ would come up with a mirrorable tournament by March 2010, I'd consider mirroring it as the Barrington Invitational if no one else in Chicago jumped on it.

ITT I am apparently unemployed next spring.

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augh i am going to stab something

Those links should be fixed now. Thanks, Jerry.

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Yet another version of the stats is up.

::crosses fingers::

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no one argues that " the theory of Physical Education" should be included in Illinois Scholastic Bowl. I certainly agree with most of your post and certainly its overall conclusion. However, I have to point out that this (sadly) isn't true. Remember the IHSA State bonus with "aerobic...

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David Riley wrote:Jeff, forget about computational math. Face it, it's doomed!

Would someone please inform the IHSA and Mr. Reinstein?

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Stuff should be fixed now; same address.

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theMoMA wrote:Jonah, feel free to host the stats, but please use the ones located here: http://limozeen.googlepages.com/theexpe ... dings.html

They correctly give points to Mike Sorice's team in the first round, and also enable round report.

Thanks. For your own reference, they're at this address.

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Someone should contact Charles with the correct information so that he can resolve the discrepancy and re-send the files to me. I can't do anything myself; I just work here.

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Was it only six or seven? :-P

Statistics are up.

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Andrew, do you mind if I put those stats at the Illinois ABT site also?

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Tegan wrote:Had a faster moderator been reading, it would have drown out the next question.

That's a pretty hilarious spin on it.

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I figure you might find the following entertaining, so I'm crossposting it from my twitter: Matt got pulled over for speeding on the way, so we wrote a computational driver's ed question about it. about 11 hours ago Mathew is in a hurry to get to the IHSA state tournament! On the interstate from Blo...

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MikeWormdog wrote:
User was tempbanned for three days due to backseat modding.
Is this for real?

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Sex Thursday What. Not a big Kathy and Judy listener, Jonah? I heard Reinstein's bit last year and that's the only time I've ever listened to them. I just looked Sex Thursday up on their website, but they were really vague ("Throw in a Barney tape to distract the kids" was all they really...

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Shcool wrote:Sex Thursday

What.

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Can someone record this from the WGN Radio feed using software like MP3myMP3 for Windows or Wiretap for Mac? I'd do it, but I strongly desire to not be awake then.

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Mike, I agree with what you've said about the appropriateness of such answers for tossups. I'm curious to know what you think about them as bonus answers? Obviously I'm not talking about the one or two per round of the IHSA, or even close to it, but what would your reaction be to such things coming ...

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Did other people's constitution tests cover the state constitution? I'm almost certain mine didn't.

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I now have a terrible, terrible fear of an interdisciplinary industrial arts/Illinois history question with answer "barbed wire".

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but too many people think state history is "important". Aspects of it might be, but being that it creates inherently unfair advantages, it needs to be severely limited. The sad thing is, there are Illinois state history topics that are legitimately important topics in american history (Ha...

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Well then, how is bass fishing organized?

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Next year's New Trier Varsity will be held December 19, 2009, and I would love to have it mirrored at various locations throughout the country. Mirrors in early and mid-January would be okay. The tournament will be ACF format. The distribution will be slightly different from the ACF distribution, bu...

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I forgot to mention this when I put them up, but stats are available.

jonah · Re: Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Novice Tournament (3/14/09) Stats are up.

Stats are up.

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In case you didn't know, Charlie, yesterday was IHSA Sectionals. I think if it hadn't been for that conflict, more high school teams would've come.

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Realistically, what are the prospects of either or both of those things actually happening?

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JackGlerum wrote:Home Depot product abbreviations

I just choked on a pretzel. No, seriously, I did. Can you remember any more detail of that?

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As to Bob Brown, keep in mind that there are two people named Bob Brown--the Question Bank guy and the former Lake Zurich Coach. I don't know which one it is. Actually, the Bob Brown in question is the former Maine East coach. I don't know how that fits in with the possibilities you gave. As to the...

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I have been doing some investigating into the IHSA question-writing process recently, and have discovered a lot of mostly disturbing information. The following will summarize it (besides the names of some writers I have discovered) along with my opinions. This is all second-hand at least because I a...

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I don't think anyone wants questions on driver's ed (besides driver's ed teachers, maybe) Actual quote from the last IHSSBCA steering committee meeting, said in complete seriousness, and from someone who is not a driver's ed teacher: "We should have driver's ed questions because driver's ed sa...

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It would probably be worth mentioning that despite its name, this site also is the center for collegiate stuff.

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I have heard that Bob Brown didn't actually produce anything this year. Also, those writers have not necessarily all outed themselves as writers, so I don't know that we want to have that list "published". Also, I think some discussion of the IHSA writing process itself should take place. ...

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I was not happy with the work I did. I hope this doesn't come off wrong, because I don't mean to be snarky, but this statement troubles me, and I think that by publicly identifying yourself as a writer you've opened up this opportunity for criticism. You were contributing to a tournament whose ques...

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styxman wrote:Farmington beat Chillicothe for that Regional, Jonah.

Thanks; fixed in both places.

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I've already done it, Jonah. I'm assuming he wants Class A too: Class AA Bradley-Bourbonnais: Bradley-Bourbonnais, Homewood Flossmoor, Mahomet Seymour, LaSalle Peru Dunlap: Peoria Richwoods, Moline, Springfield, Washington Maine South: Oak Park-River Forest, Maine South, Loyola, New Trier Marist: M...

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