Page 1 of 4

2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge: Illinois wins!

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:14 pm
by hardeecoach
No Virginia. No Missouri. Any prognostication?

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:35 pm
by BuzzerZen
A buzzer game vaguely resembling quiz bowl will be played. The team with the best math player will win, unless another team is better at the crucial coloring portion of the distribution.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:36 pm
by Matt Weiner
Dorman will be approximately one hundred times better at quizbowl than any other team present, but will not win since quizbowl will not occur.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:38 pm
by First Chairman
Dave Bykowski, Eric Bell, Eric Huff, and Julie Gittings stomp on the rest of the competition in the exhibition coaches game.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:39 pm
by Matt Weiner
Oh, is State College going too?

Make that TWO teams who are very good at quizbowl and will lose to someone who can do math quickly.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:41 pm
by Kechara
ILoveReeses wrote:Dave Bykowski, Eric Bell, Eric Huff, and Julie Gittings stomp on the rest of the competition in the exhibition coaches game.
And Byko will spend the next year gloating around me and the cats

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:06 pm
by hardeecoach
Interesting that you think math makes the difference. This same format is used for our state championship, and I have seen Suwannee win several championships without EVER answering a math question. :roll: Hardee has won four times and I can asssure you we are not a math team.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:44 pm
by AndyShootsAndyScores
hardeecoach wrote:Interesting that you think math makes the difference. This same format is used for our state championship, and I have seen Suwannee win several championships without EVER answering a math question. :roll: Hardee has won four times and I can asssure you we are not a math team.
Panasonic is a very math heavy format. Period.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:46 pm
by ieppler
Who is on Team DC? I honestly have no idea.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:53 pm
by wowitsquinthaha
Hopper wrote:Who is on Team DC? I honestly have no idea.
Feldman, Feldman's Mom, Feldman's brother, Nutty Nutman

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:59 pm
by JackGlerum
I have my money on my home state. Go Team Illinois.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:37 pm
by hardeecoach
Somebody described the Illinois team as "an absolutely vicious team" in a previous post. And I think they meant that as the ultimate quizbowl compliment.

The number of questions in the PAC format are supposed to be balanced. The problem is that so many science questions are so "math-y", It seems heavily weighted toward math.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:00 pm
by wowitsquinthaha
I understand completely

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:38 am
by Byko
Okay folks, here's the actual distribution (all numbers are out of 65 questions):

Math: 12
Science: 12
Social Studies: 12
English: 12
Multi-Subject: 4
Music: 3
Art: 3
Humanities: 3
Foreign Language: 3
Technology: 1

Except for the Multi-Subject and Technology, which are only in the 15-point round, everything else is balanced across the 3 rounds of the game. As for the worksheets, well, they're a little of everything.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:28 pm
by Matt Weiner
I've noticed that there's generally an inverse relationship between whether a tournament thinks "social studies" is a quizbowl category and how good the tournament is.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:53 pm
by Mechanical Beasts
Matt Weiner wrote:I've noticed that there's generally an inverse relationship between whether a tournament thinks "social studies" is a quizbowl category and how good the tournament is.
I nominate "Humanities" as the least specific category.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:16 pm
by cdcarter
everyday847 wrote:
Matt Weiner wrote:I've noticed that there's generally an inverse relationship between whether a tournament thinks "social studies" is a quizbowl category and how good the tournament is.
I nominate "Humanities" as the least specific category.
Oh, the huge-manatee!

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 8:17 pm
by AndyShootsAndyScores
everyday847 wrote:
Matt Weiner wrote:I've noticed that there's generally an inverse relationship between whether a tournament thinks "social studies" is a quizbowl category and how good the tournament is.
I nominate "Humanities" as the least specific category.
Considering Art, Music, Language, Foreign Language, and Social Studies (which, I assume, includes History), I'm wondering why that category can't just be renamed RMP and Literature, assuming that their English doesn't include Literature.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:17 pm
by Mechanical Beasts
AndyShootsAndyScores wrote:
everyday847 wrote:
Matt Weiner wrote:I've noticed that there's generally an inverse relationship between whether a tournament thinks "social studies" is a quizbowl category and how good the tournament is.
I nominate "Humanities" as the least specific category.
Considering Art, Music, Language, Foreign Language, and Social Studies (which, I assume, includes History), I'm wondering why that category can't just be renamed RMP and Literature, assuming that their English doesn't include Literature.
Because English probably isn't 6 spelling and 6 grammar, so it has to include some literature--and how much RMP do you think there really is?

Anyone who's played the format know?

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:21 pm
by BobGHHS
Practice games were fun since teams were mixed up, and my team featuring Dave Bykowski, Eric Huff, and the coach from team Louisiana whose name slips my mind won the coaches' challenge and were rewarded with ipod player stereos... I had a good time. Now comes sitting through 80 minutes of ugh tomorrow.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:40 pm
by AndyShootsAndyScores
everyday847 wrote:Because English probably isn't 6 spelling and 6 grammar, so it has to include some literature--and how much RMP do you think there really is?
There's not much left within the scope of Humanities besides RMP that isn't already in another category, save law.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:55 pm
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
I won a Sony digital recorder at a raffle at this in 2001.

That is all.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 9:57 pm
by harpersferry
I've been told the practice questions are worse than the actual competition. To be honest they sounded like they were from 1979. People in practice rounds buzzed way earlier than is possible. Like after the first part of a two part question and guessing the second part (sometimes successfully).
Probably the worst thing about this tournament: Almost all of their question formats are built to be buzzer beaters. Matching especially. There are some legit people here, but I think some states choose a team based on "Anyone want to go to Disney World?"

One gem (from practice, not competition):

"In this Edward Albee play..."*buzz*
Random kid: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"
Panasonic reader : "that's right, amazing" (or something to that effect)
Everyone legit in the room "are you kidding me?"

We'll have to see how tomorrow goes.

Does anyone who's here want to play some normal quizbowl scrimmages? Maybe on the many rounds where we have byes? (though probably most people want to go to disneyworld?) I'm sure there's some packets that nobody here has heard. Just an idea.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:38 pm
by BobGHHS
I didn't check when you play, we play at 4, and pictures at 1:40, so we have downtime from like 2-3:45 or so. I will ask them if they are up to it and post if so.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:03 am
by Byko
BobGHHS wrote:Practice games were fun since teams were mixed up, and my team featuring Dave Bykowski, Eric Huff, and the coach from team Louisiana whose name slips my mind won the coaches' challenge and were rewarded with ipod player stereos... I had a good time. Now comes sitting through 80 minutes of ugh tomorrow.
And you thought you wouldn't be of any help--bah! Five questions in, and you're at least partially responsible for our 10 points.

Yeah, that was fun. Matt Knupp's antics were amusing as well.

I'll probably be taking plenty of notes, so maybe I can pass along some semblance of sub-distribution information...sometime later.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:45 am
by BobGHHS
We haven't even played a match yet, and we already have a victory. Today, June 8, Dan Humphrey was named Disney World Artist of the Day at the Contemporary Resort. This is not a joke, Joe actually submitted the picture.

Image

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:59 am
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
Wow. :lol: The hardest i've laughed at anything on this site. Did he say he was 3 or something?

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:07 am
by BobGHHS
No, Joe submitted it as a joke and put Dan's name on it. We might have Dan go up later and ask if he can have his picture back, just to gauge their reaction when they realize their artist of the day is 17 and headed to Princeton in 3 months.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:12 am
by Tegan
ILoveReeses wrote:Dave Bykowski, Eric Bell, Eric Huff, and Julie Gittings stomp on the rest of the competition in the exhibition coaches game.
amazing how they can win when I'm not on their team .... coincidence? I think not!

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:17 am
by BobGHHS
Yeah they didn't win altogether though Huff and Byko were with me, Gittings and Knupp were with Eric. We would've gladly taken you on our team though Tom.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:24 am
by Tegan
BobGHHS wrote:No, Joe submitted it as a joke and put Dan's name on it. We might have Dan go up later and ask if he can have his picture back, just to gauge their reaction when they realize their artist of the day is 17 and headed to Princeton in 3 months.
Please post video of this moment when it occurs.

[sarcasm] I sorely miss being at a Disney-related them park this year. [/sarcasm]

Last year, we won, and I'm trying to keep an even keel because I don't want to come across as a poor winner who shoves it in people's faces ... and all I got for my efforts were lectures from some of the people in charge to "smile more".

Telling me how to feel and express myself .... not a way to get me to smile.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:24 pm
by BobGHHS
So I should apologize to one of the Panasonic judges for some unnamed state's captain moving her stuff off of their lunch table and onto another table for whatever reason. He was given hell for it I promise you.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 3:55 pm
by ClemsonQB
Results from the First Round (or atleast all I know of it):
(1st, 2nd, 3rd)

SC, WY, NM

IL, CA, CO

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:04 pm
by ClemsonQB
And elsewhere I'm told that Maryland put down an ungodly 510...

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:08 pm
by Tegan
quizbowlabc wrote:And elsewhere I'm told that Maryland put down an ungodly 510...
Was there anyone in the room with them when this happened?

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:24 pm
by ClemsonQB
Tegan wrote: Was there anyone in the room with them when this happened?
DC, Indiana and Washington

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:28 pm
by ClemsonQB
In addition to SC, IL and MD, first round winners include Oklahoma, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Vermont. I didn't hear anything about the Wisconsin/Ohio/ Montana/Idaho game.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:54 pm
by hardeecoach
ROUND 1

Nutcracker 1
District of Columbia 96
Indiana 102
Maryland 510


Fantasia KL

Oklahoma 263
West Virginia 122
Louisiana 164
New Jersey 109

Fantasia MN
Colorado 165
California 173
Illinois 381

Fantasia PQ
New Mexico 79
Wyoming 143
South Carolina 418

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:00 pm
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
13 teams? Wow.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:02 pm
by Tegan
quizbowlabc wrote:
Tegan wrote: Was there anyone in the room with them when this happened?
DC, Indiana and Washington
Can we confirm that the teams were actually, physically present. That's one major league good ol' fashioned hippie butt whipping!

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:03 pm
by hardeecoach
ROUND 2

Nutcracker 1
Wisconsin 63
Ohio 289
Montana 209
Idaho 113

Fantasia KL
Guam 114
Kentucky 391
Florida 211
Alabama 137

Fantasia MN
New Hampshire 184
Maine 105
Pennsylvania 256

Fantasia PQ
Iowa 123
Vermont 265
Tennessee 155

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:05 pm
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Oh, more teams then.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:06 pm
by wowitsquinthaha
dude, Guam sucks.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:08 pm
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
Well Maine did worse than Guam...

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:10 pm
by wowitsquinthaha
Caesar Rodney HS wrote:Well Maine did worse than Guam...
That's because Pennsylvania is like the Dorman of Panasonic.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:12 pm
by AndyShootsAndyScores
wowitsquinthaha wrote:dude, Guam sucks.
Since they're the only team Alabama beat, I feel SO proud.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:12 pm
by harpersferry
Tegan wrote:
quizbowlabc wrote:
Tegan wrote: Was there anyone in the room with them when this happened?
DC, Indiana and Washington
Can we confirm that the teams were actually, physically present. That's one major league good ol' fashioned hippie butt whipping!
Judging by the scores, they were there, but probably buzzed in fewer times than the square root of the number of letters in their state/territory names.

And btw what happened to you and missouri, charlie?

in re guam: how do you not buzz in at all? At least neg some to make it interesting.

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:13 pm
by hardeecoach
Round 3 -- Monday, June 9, 10 am TO 12 pm

Fantasia KL
Wyoming
Idaho
Guam

Fantasia MN
Florida
West Virginia
District of Columbia

Fantasia PQ
Louisiana
Maine
Iowa

Round 4-- Monday, June 9, 12:30 PM - 230 P.M.

Fantasia KL

Tennessee
New Hampshire
New Mexico
Wisconsin

Fantasia MN
Montana
Colorado
New Jersey

Fantasia PQ
Indiana
California
Alabama

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:13 pm
by Down and out in Quintana Roo
wowitsquinthaha wrote:
Caesar Rodney HS wrote:Well Maine did worse than Guam...
13+14=27
It certainly is. Can they not add in U.S. territories? How dare you insinuate they have inferior arithmetic skills!

Re: 2008 Panasonic Academic Challenge updates

Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 10:14 pm
by AKKOLADE
pasedpawn wrote:And btw what happened to you and missouri, charlie?
I believe Dees previously posted that the Michigan team didn't find the tournament worthwhile.