2005 Thomas Jefferson - Revision history

Matt Weiner: /* Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams */

2021-08-06T21:33:08Z

Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams

Matt Weiner: /* Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams */

2021-06-30T03:13:24Z

Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams

Matt Weiner: /* Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams */

2021-06-30T03:13:18Z

Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams

Matt Weiner: /* Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams */

2021-06-30T03:12:21Z

Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams

Matt Weiner: /* Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams */

2021-06-30T03:11:10Z

Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams

Reilly Melville at 02:00, 30 June 2021

2021-06-30T02:00:22Z

Matt Weiner: /* Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams */

2021-06-30T01:15:32Z

Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams

Matt Weiner: /* Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams */

2021-04-05T11:08:32Z

Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams

Matt Weiner: /* Results */

2021-04-05T11:06:49Z

Results

Tom Egan at 21:45, 26 June 2017

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 The team's cumulative record at nationals over the three years was 80-5. Their losses were to Maggie Walker (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2004 NSC final), Dunbar (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2003 NSC playoffs), and Dorman (in the 2003 NSC final). The team made the finals of all six nationals in the three-year period. In all three years of nationals, the team never played any game, other than the NSC final four matches, in which they faced elimination from the tournament.
-During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 263-1 in 264 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
+During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the regular A-team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 263-1 in 264 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
-The team also played in several speed-format events during this time, including the televised [[It's Academic]] tournament and the invitationals at Blake and Hammond.  They did not win the IA events and any records of performance at the untelevised speed IA-style events are now lost.
+The team also played in several speed-format events during this time, including the televised [[It's Academic]] tournament and the invitationals at Blake and Hammond.  They did not win the IA events and any records of performance at the untelevised speed IA-style events are now lost. In addition, TJ did not send its regular A-team lineup to the 2004 NAQT state tournament and failed to win that event.
 Thomas Jefferson A won 39 consecutive HSNCT games between its prelim loss to Dunbar in 2003 and a prelim loss to Wilmington Charter B in 2006.

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 The team's cumulative record at nationals over the three years was 80-5. Their losses were to Maggie Walker (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2004 NSC final), Dunbar (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2003 NSC playoffs), and Dorman (in the 2003 NSC final). The team made the finals of all six nationals in the three-year period. In all three years of nationals, the team never played any game, other than the NSC final four matches, in which they faced elimination from the tournament.
-During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 263-1 in 265 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
+During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 263-1 in 264 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
 The team also played in several speed-format events during this time, including the televised [[It's Academic]] tournament and the invitationals at Blake and Hammond.  They did not win the IA events and any records of performance at the untelevised speed IA-style events are now lost.

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 The team's cumulative record at nationals over the three years was 80-5. Their losses were to Maggie Walker (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2004 NSC final), Dunbar (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2003 NSC playoffs), and Dorman (in the 2003 NSC final). The team made the finals of all six nationals in the three-year period. In all three years of nationals, the team never played any game, other than the NSC final four matches, in which they faced elimination from the tournament.
-During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 264-1 in 265 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
+During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 263-1 in 265 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
 The team also played in several speed-format events during this time, including the televised [[It's Academic]] tournament and the invitationals at Blake and Hammond.  They did not win the IA events and any records of performance at the untelevised speed IA-style events are now lost.

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	During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 264-1 in 265 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.		During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 264-1 in 265 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
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		+	The team also played in several speed-format events during this time, including the televised [[It's Academic]] tournament and the invitationals at Blake and Hammond. They did not win the IA events and any records of performance at the untelevised speed IA-style events are now lost.

	Thomas Jefferson A won 39 consecutive HSNCT games between its prelim loss to Dunbar in 2003 and a prelim loss to Wilmington Charter B in 2006.		Thomas Jefferson A won 39 consecutive HSNCT games between its prelim loss to Dunbar in 2003 and a prelim loss to Wilmington Charter B in 2006.

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 The team's cumulative record at nationals over the three years was 80-5. Their losses were to Maggie Walker (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2004 NSC final), Dunbar (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2003 NSC playoffs), and Dorman (in the 2003 NSC final). The team made the finals of all six nationals in the three-year period. In all three years of nationals, the team never played any game, other than the NSC final four matches, in which they faced elimination from the tournament.
-During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game recod) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 264-1 in 265 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
+During the last two years of the run, at all regular and national tournaments combined from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final) played at pyramidal events. This period included 27 victories and 1 second-place finish at 22 tossup/bonus format tournaments (239-1 game record) and 6 VHSL-format tournaments (24-0 game record) for a total record of 264-1 in 265 games played on pyramidal formats over the two years.
 Thomas Jefferson A won 39 consecutive HSNCT games between its prelim loss to Dunbar in 2003 and a prelim loss to Wilmington Charter B in 2006.

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 ==Results==
-Thomas Jefferson won both the NAQT [[2005 HSNCT|HSNCT]] and the PACE [[2005 NSC|NSC]]. Thomas Jefferson's 2005 team remains the only team to go undefeated at both tournaments in a single year, and still holds major scoring records (including: points per 20 tossups heard at HSNCT, points per bonus at HSNCT) at the events.
+Thomas Jefferson won both the NAQT [[2005 HSNCT|HSNCT]] and the PACE [[2005 NSC|NSC]]. Thomas Jefferson's 2005 team remains the only team to go undefeated at both tournaments in a single year, and still holds major scoring records (including points per 20 tossups heard at HSNCT and points per bonus at HSNCT) at the events.
 In 2005, TJ's B team also accomplished a unique feat by reaching the semifinals of the [[2005 NSC|NSC]].

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	It is unlikely that any team will ever achieve a similar level of dominance again, since the widespread adoption of effective quizbowl study methods, greater availability of practice material, expansion of interest in highly-competitive quizbowl, and adoption of round-robin playoffs at the NSC all make it more likely that even the most dominant team in the country will incur at least a few losses at some point during the year.		It is unlikely that any team will ever achieve a similar level of dominance again, since the widespread adoption of effective quizbowl study methods, greater availability of practice material, expansion of interest in highly-competitive quizbowl, and adoption of round-robin playoffs at the NSC all make it more likely that even the most dominant team in the country will incur at least a few losses at some point during the year.
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		+	==Retrospective of 2003-2005 teams==
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		+	[[Sam Lederer]] and [[Jacob Oppenheim]] played on the A team for all three years of the run. [[S.R. Sidarth]] was on the 2003 team along with [[Steve Young]]. [[Will Sullivan]] took Sidarth's place after the latter's graduation and was on the 2004 and 2005 teams. Young graduated in 2004 and the final spot was filled by [[Dan Wright]] in 2005.
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		+	The team's cumulative record at nationals over the three years was 80-5. Their losses were to Maggie Walker (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2004 NSC final), Dunbar (in the 2003 HSNCT prelims and 2003 NSC playoffs), and Dorman (in the 2003 NSC final). The team made the finals of all six nationals in the three-year period. In all three years of nationals, the team never played any game, other than the NSC final four matches, in which they faced elimination from the tournament.
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		+	At all regular and national tournaments combined, from fall 2003 to spring 2005, the team lost only one game (the 2004 NSC final).
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		+	Thomas Jefferson A won 39 consecutive HSNCT games between its prelim loss to Dunbar in 2003 and a prelim loss to Wilmington Charter B in 2006.

	{{NSC Champions}}		{{NSC Champions}}

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 It is unlikely that any team will ever achieve a similar level of dominance again, since the widespread adoption of effective quizbowl study methods, greater availability of practice material, expansion of interest in highly-competitive quizbowl, and adoption of round-robin playoffs at the NSC all make it more likely that even the most dominant team in the country will incur at least a few losses at some point during the year.
-{{Succession_box|Tournament = [[PACE NSC]]
+{{NSC Champions}}
 {{HSNCT Champions}}
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