February 21 – A New Top 150, A New Hope

This post has been delayed by driving, work, and apparently losing EIGHT POUNDS~

So we have another shake up at the top. We also have some other minor changes.

Tournaments added this time: Texas Invitational, Texas ACF Regionals, Glen Gonsalves Memorial (Saturday & Sunday; Sunday is prelims only), Drake University Bulldog Bowl, Run for the Roses, and TJIAT (prelims only).

I’m going to delay the next update a little bit more than usual because I have a lot of maintenance work I want to get done on the rankings for this year, plus other things.

Top 150 High School Quiz Bowl Rankings Update – Feb. 12

Tournaments added this time: RAVE, Huskie Bowl, WUHSAC, Georgia 5A Regionals, NAQT Vermont Championship, Kingston Area Tournament, Delaware Spring Tournament, Mort Walker Invitational, Parkview Invitational, STANLEY CUP (prelims only)

I forgot about TJIAT! Sorry.

Has this site helped you?

Completely random request, but I’ll roll it out there anyway: I’m just curious as to if this site has helped any teams. If you’d be interested in sharing them, email me at fredmorlan@gmail.com . I’ll post the (appropriate ones) on the site if I have a chance (of course, if you want to let me know but don’t want it published, mention that in the email and I’d happily follow your wishes).

Top 150 High School Quiz Bowl Rankings Update – Feb. 5

No big changes at the very top. The highest spot where there was a change was 29th. Quite a bit of movement throughout, though, with 9 new teams and 7 teams making moves of 10 spots or more, including one going up almost 100 spots.

Tournaments added this time: Half Hollow Hills West Invitational, Standard division of Loyola Ultima, Rock Bridge Winter Invitational, Culver Varsity, Rube Goldberg Invitational, SnowCAT, Baby Anteater, Washington Winter Classic, IHSSBCA Kickoff at Centennial

Tournaments not added this time: WUHSAC, RAVE, Huskie Bowl. I need to try to put together adjustments for these sets.

No update this week

The time needed for this is going to be spent elsewhere this week.

New Top 150 – January 22, 2012

I’ve only added stats for Triton Winter & the Uber-Division of Loyola Ultima.

HSquizbowl Mid-Season Poll

Today is the last day for voting in this poll. You can find more information by clicking here.

Top 150 High School Quiz Bowl Rankings – 1/15/2012

Big jumps: St. Mark’s, 32 to 19; Bellaire, 80 to 55; Marist, 95 to 60; Chattahoochee B, 100 to 63; Maggie Walker A, 89 to 70; Savannah, 124 to 103; Alpharetta, 149 to 135
Entering: 77 Barrington; 88 Marian Central Catholic; 90 Notre Dame; 106 Maggie Walker B; 111 Kinkaid; 117 Maine South; 126 St. Stephens; 132 Bellaire B; 141 Loyola B; 148 Bloomington
Exiting: 140 Caesar Rodney, 141 Millburn, 142 Frenchtown, 143 Bellarmine B, 144 Mounds Park, 145 Daviess County, 146 Fremd, 147 Early College at Guilford B, 148 Lake Zurich, 150 Eden Prairie

Rankings Update – 1/10/12

I only added two tournaments this time around: Ohio State’s Winter War and Niles West’s mirror of BDAT.

I have moved Centennial up to number one. I’ve been considering it for a bit now, and decided to pull the trigger. I would not be surprised to see Hunter (or Bellarmine) take it once we get full stat lines.

Also, Latin School of Chicago hops up one spot, and Detroit Catholic Central B moves up 3. Other than that, nothing happened in the rankings really.

Rankings Update – 1/7/12 – Now with 150 teams!

As I said before, due to the changes of the difficulty adjustments, there will be some significant changes to these rankings. Most notably, performances on A-sets, BDAT and DAFT will be weighted heavier due to the adjustments showing those sets to be harder for teams being tracked than previously thought, while performances on HFT, HSAPQ, FKT, and GSAC will be adjusted to show those sets were easier than previously thought.

I’m not doing a full list of new teams coming into the rankings, due to the 50 new spots. Also, I don’t believe any teams actually dropped out of the rankings.

Entering the top 10: 54 Wissahickon, 79 Harker, 84 John Paul II Catholic, 86 E.O. Smith, 95 Marist, 97 South Burlington, 100 Chattahoochee B
Big jumps: Warren G. Harding, 30 to 18; Belvidere North, 46 to 19; High Tech, 44 to 23; New Trier, 51 to 31; Beachwood, 58 to 38; Hanover, 61 to 42; Solon, 72 to 60; St. Andrew’s, 89 to 70; duPont Manual B, 85 to 75; Dorman C, 88 to 78;