HSQBRank is on a bye week

Well, during the last rankings I managed to twist my ankle. Fortunately, it’s not a high ankle sprain, so I won’t miss any game time, but the bye week came at just the right time.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

High School Quiz Bowl Top 100 – 11/20/2011

This time around, I’ve added Michigan State’s HFT mirror, the Western Kentucky Hilltopper Invitational, the Duke Annual Fall Tournament, and the Bill Currie Memorial (I forgot to input the stats to the text display below, but it’s in my database and wouldn’t have resulted in any changes to the rankings).
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1st Post HFT Update

I’ve added stats for the Georgia HFT mirror, Vanderbilt ABC 41, Siouxper Bowl VIII, Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Tournament, BRAVE Falcon, Bull Bowl, Harvard Fall Tournament, and ACF Fall Yale. I’ve also dropped teams outside of my top 25 that have no stats yet from the rankings.

I need to re-evaluate the difficulty of sets. Expect this in the next update. I may delay this next update by a week or two.
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High School Quiz Bowl Top 100 – 11/13/11

This time around, we added ACF Fall West, DAFT, the prelims for the Clayton Invitational, Triton Fall, the Tippecanoe Academic Challenge, the Crusader Cup, SOCIAL, the Tulsa Fall Challenge, and Loyburn. Hopefully, we can add stats for HFT, the Ransom Everglades tournament, and the Webb School tournament next week.

Teams coming in: 24 IMSA B, 52 Belvidere North, 53 North Hollywood, 55 Canyon Crest, 56 La Jolla, 60 Wayzata, 65 Grayson A, 66 duPont Manual B, 70 Dorman C, 72 Buffalo Grove, 76 Helias, 79 Detroit Catholic Central B, 86 Bishop’s, 87 Greenville Technical, 95 Chaska, 97 St. Thomas, 98 Walnut Hills
Teams dropping out: 84 Beachwood, 85 St. Stephens, 86 George C Marshall, 87 Liberty, 88 Daviess County, 89 Caesar Rodney, 90 Loyola B, 91 Half Hollow Hills West, 92 State College A, 93 Seton Hall, 94 Brookwood B, 95 Champaign Centennial, 96 Springfield, 97 Solon B, 98 Bellaire B, 99 Longfellow Middle, 100 Bergen County
Big jumps: none
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Ratings Update – 11/6

Tournaments added this time: Hoover Invitational, Bonfire of the Manatees, Mellon Bowl, Boise State Treasure Valley Tournament III, BAAL Halley, and these sites of ACF Fall: UVA, NIU, Boise State, and Texas.

Coming in: 39 Brookwood A (GA), 58 Treasure Valley Math & Science (ID), 65 Harker (CA), 66 Norcross (GA), 80 Frenchtown (MT), 94 Brookwood B (GA)
Dropping out: 95 Gadsden City (AL), 96 Gonzaga (DC), 97 Hume-Fogg (TN), 98 Fenton (IL), 99 NCSSM B (NC), 100 Maclay (FL)
Big jumps: Early College at Guilford, 49 to 19
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