

I honestly don't know why it came up. For the past couple months we've been planning on attending NSC, and then someone brought up the idea ofMr. Scogan wrote:Why is your team deciding what national tournament to attend?
ANNND, there's the main selling point to Master Borecki's teammates. That it wouldn't be a legitimate claim to being the best in the land is of no consequence. After all, it's not THEIR fault the LASAs and IMSAs of the world avoid NAC.The Predictable Consequences wrote: In regards to the quality of the field, the teams that play NAC are nowhere near the best teams in the country, and it would be disingenuous to call it a "national championship". The best teams that play are generally somewhere in the 80-100 range in the Morlan rankings, and most of the teams, in my experience, are nowhere near that standard.
ANNND, you're right. They're afraid of losing badly.the return of AHAN wrote:ANNND, there's the main selling point to Master Borecki's teammates. That it wouldn't be a legitimate claim to being the best in the land is of no consequence. After all, it's not THEIR fault the LASAs and IMSAs of the world avoid NAC.The Predictable Consequences wrote: In regards to the quality of the field, the teams that play NAC are nowhere near the best teams in the country, and it would be disingenuous to call it a "national championship". The best teams that play are generally somewhere in the 80-100 range in the Morlan rankings, and most of the teams, in my experience, are nowhere near that standard.
Sad thing is, if I'm predicting this right, if they're worried about not getting blown out then I'm not sure how PACE length tossups are going to make them want to come. Sometimes people are only in quiz bowl for the vacation.Cheynem wrote:At NSC, your team will play a range of teams with skill level and eventually end up playing teams with similar records/skill levels in hopefully competitive games.
It's not as bad now, but the first (and last) time I considered going to NAC, before really even knowing anything about it, this was my take. Another coach recommended it to me, saying we could win and get the cash. My take was that winning was statistically unlikely and there was no way I could justify spending several thousand dollars on one tournament whose advertising included questions with errors.the return of AHAN wrote:that YOU paid for with an inflated entry fee.
Yeah, I don't just rank whoever in the top 200.KnicksRule wrote:Mike, Darien is a solid team. You guys almost beat Charter this year, beat Lexington, and beat AMSA (albeit by 5 points in an overtime game). You will win a decent amount of games at PACE.
Tell them to look at stats from last year at PACE, especially at teams you have beaten this year. Also, it is no fun to go to a national tournament with no competition.
(Not trying to backseat moderate/tell people how to post, but an observation: I never understand why people from the same high school team end up replying to each other on this board instead of having their own discussion off the board.)Athenatennis42122 wrote:If you guys has been practicing on pyramidal questions all year, then you're going to have to buy practice sets for the NAC (which, I understand, are quite expensive; also assuming that you would practice for it) and pay an additional $600/team in entry fees (bad ideas for clubs with not a lot of funds). Also, if you (Mikee) aren't going to go, and you are the strongest player on the team, shouldn't that be a pretty big talking point to sway everyone else from going?
Because they're NOT on the same high school team? Look at Julia's sig more closely. She was a teammate of Michael's at Middlesex, and anticipates attending Darien NEXT year.Mr. Scogan wrote:(Not trying to backseat moderate/tell people how to post, but an observation: I never understand why people from the same high school team end up replying to each other on this board instead of having their own discussion off the board.)Athenatennis42122 wrote:If you guys has been practicing on pyramidal questions all year, then you're going to have to buy practice sets for the NAC (which, I understand, are quite expensive; also assuming that you would practice for it) and pay an additional $600/team in entry fees (bad ideas for clubs with not a lot of funds). Also, if you (Mikee) aren't going to go, and you are the strongest player on the team, shouldn't that be a pretty big talking point to sway everyone else from going?