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Horace Greeley Sets Alltime Record in the Title Match
Read on to find out who won ...

What a matchup for the Finals! Plano West (TX), our defending champions, won only one regular-season match during Fall QuizNet, but triumphed in the Semifinals and Finals last December. They advanced to the final game of Winter QuizNet as the wild card team, having been edged by Horace Greeley 460-400 in the Semifinals. Horace Greeley (NY) one year ago accomplished for the first time in QuizNet history a perfect season: 8-0 during regular season, winners in the Semifinals, winners in the Final match. John Cooper School (TX), trying to match Greeley's feat, entered this final match with an 8-0 regular-season record, and winner in their semifinal game.

It should be noted at the outset that Plano West, unfortunately, was suffering from obvious technical difficulties.

With a 40-point lead going into the bonus round, John Cooper got the first five bonus opportunities, adding 15, 15, 30, 30, and 0. At the start of the "Stump the Experts" round the game seemed basically over: Horace Greeley...175, John Cooper...330, Plano West...100. However, in five minutes or so Greeley had moved from a position of virtual impossibility ... to within reach: Horace Greeley...360, John Cooper... 420, Plano West... 130. After a solo shot on this one, Greeley trailed by only 40: "You can only use this Japanese 'hello' (or 'good afternoon') on a person once a day, and never on family members. What's the word?" (Ans. -- Konnichi-wa ). With two questions left, Greeley trailed by only 35: Horace Greeley...435, John Cooper...470, Plano West...220. After a solo shot on this math problem, they trailed by only 15: "Consider the graph of the trig function: Y equals the negative cosine of X. Use an ordered pair to state the smallest positive X-intercept." [Ans. (Pi/2, 0)]. Due to speed, Greeley gained 5 more than John Cooper on the last question. The final score: Horace Greeley...475, John Cooper... 485, Plano West... 220. Greeley set an alltime record for most points in "Stump the Experts" (300), but John Cooper hung on to win, finishing Winter QuizNet with a perfect season.





Regular season results.

Monday League Feb. 2 Feb. 9 Feb. 16 Feb. 23 March 2 March 9 March 16 March 23 Total points.
Bromfield (MA) 445 320 240 355 185 305 345 215 2410
Clark (TX) 145 60 110 195 200 145
145 1000
Kamiakin (WA) 160 135
265 180 185

925
Lamar (TX)
55 60 165 60 60
75 475
Meridian Tech (ID) 180 100
230 175 100 165
950
Middletown (NY) 150 165 135 215
155

820
North Allegheny (PA) 120 160





280
Parker (CA) 225 145
165 230


765
Pingry (NJ) 175 150 235 225 140 290 255 230 1700
Plano East (TX) 200 220
245 210 160
150 1185
Plano West (TX) 285 290 320 395 335 235 270 230 2360


Wednesday League Feb. 4 Feb. 11 Feb. 18 Feb. 25 March 4 March 11 March 18 March 25 Total points.
Central Bucks East (PA) 240 145 210 280 170 225 185 255 1710
Central DeWitt (IA)

35 180 120 115 160
610
Defiance (OH) 95 130 150 110 150 205 165
1005
Emma Willard (NY)
125 195 170 130 110 225 150 1105
H-B Woodlawn (VA) 210 110 230 300 200 160 255 205 1670
John Cooper (TX) 290 360 350 315 415 340 315 380 2765
MAST (NJ) 135 135 140 130 110 145 120 90 1005
Pace (GA) 170 145 175 180 170
170 180 1190
Parkland (PA) 195 175 175 225 185 155 200 260 1570
South Point (OH)
55 145 170



370
Sparta (NJ) 110 105 95 155
125 170 185 945
St. Pius X (GA) 120 170 115 170 195 220 240 205 1435
Syosset (NY) 255 160 235 190 225 175 250 285 1775
Valhalla (NY) 110 80
160 35 145 160
690


Thursday League Feb. 5 Feb. 12 Feb. 19 Feb. 26 March 5 March 12 March 19 March 26 Total Points.
Biotech (NJ) 100 150 145 135 100 150 150 140 1065
DeWitt (MI) 275 345 280 280 195 245 260 365 2245
East JV (PA) 100 135 225 180 170 150 235 140 1335
East Varsity (PA) 205 190 250 390 195 260 325 290 2105
High Tech (NJ) 230 140 175 195 140 150 200 210 1440
Horace Greeley (NY) 285 280 355 355 320 285 470 385 2735
Millburn (NJ) 195 105
215 175 185 170 185 1230
Phillipsburg (NJ) 240 210 250 235 135 250 160 185 1665
Pocono West (PA) 135 170 200 235 155 225 210 205 1535
Sallisaw Central (OK) 110 115 100 110 90 115
120 760
Villa Maria (PA) 100 40 110 145 95 170 210 125 995
WhitePlains (NY) 220 195 170 345 250 260 320 355 2115




THIS IS WHAT QUIZNET "LOOKS" LIKE ...



Flag-waving White Plains team (NY) gathers around
the computer screen before a QuizNet game.

AND ON OUR END ...



Chip Beall moderates and
Tanya Govorune keeps track of scores.

ANNOUNCING OUR WINTER 2009 QUIZNET TOURNAMENT.
Join us for Quiz Bowl on the Internet!

Connected to the Internet, your academic team can compete directly with schools hundreds or thousands of miles away without the costs and inconvenience of traveling. As such, QuizNet is the greenest of all possible quiz bowl tournaments.

The cost to enter our Winter National QuizNet tournament is $150.

You may compete in up to eight preliminary matches, plus another one or two games if you make it to the playoffs. This is a terrific value, and every quiz bowl team that has access to the Internet should be a QuizNet competitor.

All matches last about an hour. We plan to conduct preliminary-round matches every Monday (5:30 Eastern Time), Wednesday (3:30 Eastern Time) and Thursday (3:30 Eastern Time) for 8 consecutive weeks, starting February 2. Each match consists of three parts: Warm-Up Round, Bonus Round, and Stump the Experts Round.

Each school winning any preliminary round match automatically qualifies for the National Academic Championship.

A complete list of rules will be e-mailed to registering teams. All communication, in fact, will be done by e-mail, and you must give a reliable e-mail address which you will be checking every few days.

All online matches are hosted by Chip Beall, America's most prolific writer of quiz bowl questions.

Bonus: You may keep the questions! Among the benefits of enrolling in QuizNet is our permission to log the session and thus acquire all the questions in your match. (This only works with the IRC option; see below.)

More Information: Contact Chip Beall directly at 801-947-8448.

There are two ways to connect to QuizNet:

Some teams report better connection results with A, although the Fall '08 championship was won by a team using B.

A. From your web browser. If your computer supports Java you can join simply by clicking on the word HERE at http://www.qunlimited.com/quiznet1.html. On the popup screen just type in a Nickname (name of your school) and "click to join chatroom". You will be taken to an empty #quiznet channel because there is a password requirement. At the bottom you will need to type: /join #quiznet yourpassword and click Enter.

B. Install IRC software on your computer. . This can be downloaded for free from the Net itself, and takes about 10 minutes. You can get more information about IRC chat and the IRC client mIRC at many websites, including this one: http://www.mirc.co.uk/irc.html if you use a PC and http://www.ircle.com if you use a Mac. ... With the help of your school's computer technical specialist or your computer-savvy students, you should find it easy to connect to IRC through the following server: irc.esper.net
You must connect through this server or you will not be able to find our channel, #quiznet. To do that from the mIRC screen, click on file, then setup, then "add". You can choose your own "Description" or you can put irc.esper.net. "IRC server" box should have irc.esper.net
"Ports" box should have 5555 or any of 6667 - 6669 or 7000. After that click "add", then click "connect to server". Once you note on the screen that you are successfully connected, in the box down below, type /join #quiznet and then click enter ... on game day, when we activate the password requirement, you'll be typing /join #quiznet (followed by a space and the password), and then click enter.

Register for our Winter 2009 QuizNet tournament.

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