Here’s the preseason top 10, with basketball-based puns
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Post-Nationals Rankings – Top 150
Here are the post-nationals rankings. Performances at NSC & HSNCT are heavily emphasized.
Congratulations to all teams on their performances this year, and best of luck this summer!
Congratulations, College Players Link, and Final Rankings!
Hi everyone,
A few points of order need to be taken care of:
1) Congratulations to Bellarmine for winning HSNCT and Hunter for winning NSC! And, of course, to all the other teams that competed at these tournaments.
2) I will try to have a final set of rankings done by the end of the month.
3) If you are entering college (or have already entered college but are not yet playing quiz bowl), fill out this form and ACF will try to help you out!. Note that this was given out at NSC and is available at hsqb; I don’t believe it was used at HSNCT, though.
HSNCT Blog
For those interested, there is an official blog for the NAQT HSNCT. You can find it here.
Your Final Pre-Nationals Rankings For 2012
I’d like to thank everyone for following the blog this year, and for the feedback and assistance I’ve received. I’m happy to be told that, due to these rankings, teams have received the acclaim and support they deserve for their talents. That said, I am very happy to have finished this for the year; I don’t believe you’ll see a set of rankings extend to 200 teams again.
I’ve broken the top 40 or so into tiers, in an attempt to show how some teams are grouped tightly together. Just because one team’s a spot ahead in the rankings doesn’t mean that the decision was an easy one to make.
Best of luck to teams this weekend at HSNCT, NSC in two weekends, and NASAT the weekend after that. I hope to see many of you in Columbus the weekend of the 16th.
Your final pre-nationals rankings are after the jump.
Pre-Nationals Rankings Post ETA
Thursday, May 24, 2012, 12:01 a.m. ET.
Difficulty Adjustments & Update Progress
I’ve updated the difficulty adjustment values (available after the jump). The final rankings before nationals should appear by Thursday if all goes well.
It should be noted that the final rankings will display teams’ adjusted points-per-bonus, rather than their “raw” score.
High School Quiz Bowl Top 150 – 4/28/2012
Added some BHSAT and LIST tourneys (plus one A set). Ignored everything that happened today (of course, most of it was History Bowl, which wouldn’t help any). 6 big jumps and 3 teams coming in. WHO ARE THEY I DUNNO CLICK MORE NOW!!!!!!11
New Rankings – 4/22/2012
It’s almost the end of the season, so it’s time to get caught up on the rankings.
Not many tournaments remain to add, so I’ll be spending the time I put into the rankings working on reviewing placemen, amongst other things.
NAQT-only Top 25 Rankings – 3/31
I’ve been asked before what would happen if I only used NAQT results, as a projection for HSNCT. So, I sat down and did a top 25 set of rankings using only results from NAQT sets.
I can’t say I buy into the results as an accurate prediction for HSNCT – I think it’s really just results in teams’ best performances being hand waved away because they weren’t on the “right” set, and I think that the skills necessary to perform well at HSNCT are measured just as well on, say, a HSAPQ set or a good house-write as it is on an actual IS set.
This time around, the parentheses denote the team’s place in the real rankings.
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