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'''Jonah Greenthal''' is a former player at [[New Trier]], where he played on the [[2007 IHSA State Championship Tournament|2007 IHSA]] class AA state champion team and captained the team the following year. He attended and played with [[Illinois]] for one year, then went to [[Chicago]], where he is a math major but does not play quizbowl. He continues to staff high school (mostly) and college tournaments (occasionally) around the state and country. He also hosts the [[QBWiki]] and has turned it into an awful version of Wikipedia.
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'''Jonah Greenthal''' is a player at [[Chicago]], to which he transferred from [[Illinois]]. In high school, he played for [[New Trier]]'s [[2007 IHSA State Championship Tournament|2007 IHSA]] class AA state champion team and captained the team the following year. More often than playing, he frequently staffs high school and college tournaments around the state and country.
  
He head-edited and wrote a plurality of the 2008 and 2009 [[New Trier Varsity]] tournaments. Additionally, he was an occasional contributor to [[Aegis Questions]] before its untimely death and helps edit the New Trier [[Scobol Solo]]. Jonah assisted [[Jeff Price]] in editing the 2009 [[Barrington Invitational Tournament]], improving on the work of [[Quillin's Questions]]. He writes for the [[IHSA]]; for the 2010 State Series his categories included all the physics, all the music theory, a handful of British literature, a bunch of the terrible [[bad quizbowl|miscellaneous categories]] (i.e., driver's ed, agriculture, and industrial arts), and some art history.
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He head-edited and wrote a plurality of the 2008 and 2009 [[New Trier Varsity]] tournaments, which he has co-directed (with [[David Reinstein]]) since 2009. He also helps edit the New Trier [[Scobol Solo]], for which he developed custom software. He occasionally contributed to [[Aegis Questions]], and wrote for [[Brad Fischer]]'s 2009-10 conference set, [[SCOP]] Novice 2010, the second [[CMST]], the 2010 and 2011 [[IHSA]] State Series, and assorted other tournaments. He edits lower-level visual arts and most mathematics questions for [[NAQT]].
  
Jonah is also the current college student liaison to the [[IHSSBCA]] steering committee and a test- and performance-certified moderator by the IHSSBCA. He has often incurred the wrath of some IHSSBCA members for advocating [[ACF]]-style bonuses, [[good quizbowl|good questions]], the institution of [[negs]], and the elimination of [[computational math]].  
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Jonah is also the current college student liaison to the [[IHSSBCA]] steering committee, for which he also does software development and other technical tasks. He has often incurred the wrath of some IHSSBCA members for advocating [[ACF]]-style bonuses, [[good quizbowl|good questions]], the institution of [[negs]], and the elimination of [[computational math]].  
  
In conjunction with the above liaison role, in March and April 2009 Jonah (with [[Matt Laird]]) conducted a survey of current and former Illinois high school players, which featured questions about changing the unusual Illinois bonus format to an ACF-style one and about changing the distribution of certain minor categories such as driver's ed and agriculture. The survey was sent to the [[IHSSBCA]] and [[IHSA]] Scholastic Bowl advisory committee with the intention of accompanying a similar survey the IHSSBCA took of coaches, where it was pretty much ignored. Its results are available [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7681 here].
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With [[Tom Egan]], he was the commissioner of the Scholastic Bowl program in the [[Central Suburban League]] for the 2010-11 academic year, during which he also assistant-coached at [[St. Ignatius]].
  
With [[Tom Egan]], he was the commissioner of the Scholastic Bowl program in the [[Central Suburban League]] for the 2010-11 academic year. He assistant-coaches at [[St. Ignatius]].
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Revision as of 02:35, 11 July 2011

Jonah Greenthal
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Noted subjects Judaism, math, musicals, Tom Lehrer, Arrested Development
Current college Chicago (2011–present)
Past colleges Illinois (2008–2009)
High school New Trier (2005–2008)
Stats HDWhite • NAQT

Jonah Greenthal is a player at Chicago, to which he transferred from Illinois. In high school, he played for New Trier's 2007 IHSA class AA state champion team and captained the team the following year. More often than playing, he frequently staffs high school and college tournaments around the state and country.

He head-edited and wrote a plurality of the 2008 and 2009 New Trier Varsity tournaments, which he has co-directed (with David Reinstein) since 2009. He also helps edit the New Trier Scobol Solo, for which he developed custom software. He occasionally contributed to Aegis Questions, and wrote for Brad Fischer's 2009-10 conference set, SCOP Novice 2010, the second CMST, the 2010 and 2011 IHSA State Series, and assorted other tournaments. He edits lower-level visual arts and most mathematics questions for NAQT.

Jonah is also the current college student liaison to the IHSSBCA steering committee, for which he also does software development and other technical tasks. He has often incurred the wrath of some IHSSBCA members for advocating ACF-style bonuses, good questions, the institution of negs, and the elimination of computational math.

With Tom Egan, he was the commissioner of the Scholastic Bowl program in the Central Suburban League for the 2010-11 academic year, during which he also assistant-coached at St. Ignatius.