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when Jeff went back to look at cross-disciplinary giveaways in past IS sets, there actually weren't that many. Most of the ones he found were geography cross-disciplinary giveaways, which isn't all the uncommon for regular packets. For reference: these two threads concluded that cross-disciplinary ...

for the philosophy and social science that seems a little low especially for philosophy. Like in the new PACE distribution there'd be 26 of each and even under the regular NAQT there'd be like 11 philosophy and slight more social science though that might be because with so many tossups you get mor...

what was the distribution for TOMCAT? Thanks. Classical myth 7 Norse myth 1 Nonclassical myth 2 Religious literature (Christian) 3 Religious literature (non-Christian) 2 American literature 29 British literature 28 European literature 17 World literature 5 Miscellaneous literature 5 Physics 23 Astr...

mtimmons wrote:The distribution was simply terrible with almost no social science or philsophy.

Of 528 tossups in the set:

5 philosophy.

14 social science, distributed among the usual subcategories.

I don't really know anything about the format of this event, so I'll pass those along to others at NAQT.

Jacopo Robusti wrote:I guess my initial problem was actually with the distribution of today's set, not the methodology of it.

For that reason we'll have to take this to email (so I can go ahead with "ok, the physics tossup in round 3 was [answer line]" kind of stuff).

Also, can someone explain to me this whole concept of NAQT having a distro for the SET as opposed to a distro for each ROUND? What does that accomplish? Worth reminding everyone that we do balance each round to the best of our ability (see this thread , where I posted the round-by-round numbers for...

lots of IS #92 problems I saw one and a half matches of IS 92 and I find it uplifting that I won't see any more of it. My jaw dropped after no less than 4 tossups and 4 bonuses - inane answer selection and immensely poor clue choices for otherwise acceptable answer selection. Obviously we can't dis...

the first HSNCT in 1997

1999.

Bumping with a quick note about the "team name" field on the registration page. Your school should be automatically listed above, so the only text that goes under team name is the letter (A, B, C, etc.) Please leave this field blank if you're only registering one team. (And don't worry if ...

aarcoh wrote:When will registration for the MIT site be open?

Now.

Whig's Boson wrote:The set should be broadly similar to my previous history subject tournaments, such as July Crisis and EuroFest.

Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS wrote:Who is this Horace Greeley school and are they really that good, or just on A sets?

Not just A-sets; compare IS #88:

Greeley: 30/106/34, 18.6 ppb

Bergen A: 27/113/18, 18.3 ppb

St. Joseph's: 15/120/25, 16.9 ppb

Of course I'll play this.

Second Bill's disclaimer.

The 6th (?) and final edition of this happened in summer 2000, and was moved from Penn to GWU. I believe it was packet submission, and decent quality by the standards of the time. We sent one Princeton team, which beat 3 Boys and a Goy in the final.

Bad Boy Bill wrote:
bt_green_warbler wrote: 1. No public transit, so everyone has to rent cars, offsetting the savings on hotels and airfare.
Really?

Granted, this was in 1999, but I seem to recall going downtown via a bus.

At least, this was true of the trip from the airport to the sites we were considering.

Is this open to high school students (sorry, I'm new to the whole singles tournament thing)? If so, I (as well as others on my squad) might be interested. Sure, absolutely. Although note that: 1. Everyone needs to write a packet and 2. This tournament will probably end around midnight, so make sure...

Sent. Anyone else who's interested in discussing math-comp policy and would like to see this, please email me.

We abolished HNSCT comp tossups; it is likely that there will be a few comp bonuses still. Right, i meant tossups. That's what I thought. Just wanted to make it crystal-clear to everyone reading this thread and not have to see "but I heard on hsqb that you got rid of the bonuses too!" nex...

Peter, if you didn't know, the NAQT National Championship (which we plan on attending, likely) is choosing not to use any math computation questions for its tournament. It merely leaves them in their regular sets (a smaller amount than in any previous year, to my recollection) to teams can use them...

Warning: following post contains sports analogy. NAQT's math-comp policy should be considered as all of MLB is to the DH rule, not just the American League. That is: we know there are strong opinions out there in both directions, and believe that the best policy for the present is to offer both math...

The "near future" according to R.

Teams: Chris Chiego/Mike Cheyne/Aaron Cohen/Matt Greenbacker (packet 5/16) Charles Hang/Ikshu Neithaleth/Gabrielle Lachtrup/Charlie Beard (packet 5/27) Bobby Dorigo Jones/Chris Wolfe/Tanay Kothari/Nikhil Desai (packet 4/29, 5/23, and 5/27) Dallas Simons/Guy Tabachnick/Marshall Steinbaum/Ray Luo (pac...

Distribution: Note that there are two distributions listed below. Packets are expected to follow both of them to ensure both geographic and subject balance. There should be enough your choice/miscellaneous in both of these that you shouldn't be boxed into writing something crazy. 1. Geographic distr...

This is the announcement for Geography Monstrosity 2: Driving Directions to Iqaluit. What: The second edition of the experimental all-geography-tossup tournament. I will be the head editor. When and where: 10 pm, Friday May 28, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. The packet deadline is midnight on Su...

The links to register for SCT are (mostly) active here.

Post in this thread if you have questions about how to use it or find a way to make it crash. R. and I will make appropriate changes. Alternatively, you can email us: [email protected]

Unlike in past years, NAQT will be providing a centralized registration system for the SCT tournaments; NAQT will invoice schools, collect their money, and disburse payments to the SCT hosts. This is now ready to use. You may register teams and view field updates here . It is likely that we will fi...

bt_green_warbler wrote:
Sun Devil Student wrote:Any idea when the NAQT registration/payment site goes up?
I'll post here when it goes live.

OK, this is now live here. (We're still working out issues with a couple of the hosts, but expect that all of the SCTs should be available to register in the very near future.)

bsmith wrote:
bt_green_warbler wrote:Consider "permission" granted.
OK, it's just that our original request (to play in region 7 instead of hosting region 2) was forwarded to the "exception committee" rather than answered outright.

We screwed up and should have given you an answer right away. Anyway: fixed now.

I think Bruce's original post was a bit harsh on the definition of "Colvin Science." It's fine to use clues about things scientists actually study- a lot of the hostility to questions like this (especially taxonomy and the geologic time scale) was that they did a poor job of rewarding scie...

MahoningQuizBowler wrote:Youngstown State has no choice but to attend here. We're in Region 7, and it's the closest site.

Keep in mind that you do have the choice to ask us for an exception.

We don't have "permission" yet, but Ottawa fully intends to crash the region 7 party. Consider "permission" granted. (You don't actually need our permission, per our policy:) Teams will always be able to attend their "home" Sectional; they will also always have the cho...

There's a difference between "non-canonical" and "too hard for the field." (Maybe that ska bonus would have been better off with part A. answer: _ska_.)

ValenciaQBowl wrote:I think the CCCT site is in serious flux right now.

The above statement is all I can confirm about CCCT at this time.

Church51907 wrote:Is there a maximum number of entries per division?
Matt Church
University of Louisville

You may enter as many teams as you like. (Documented here.)

Updated to add the New England site (MIT; contact Andy Watkins). Like the Indiana setup, this is a combined bid with rooms from one school and staff from another (in this case a combination of the Boston-area circuit teams).

Have you made an announcement yet on the Region 1 (US) SCT, or any progress on finding a Region 2 host? We haven't announced the New England host yet (we're waiting on confirmation of room reservations, which hasn't happened over the holiday break). I've not heard anything about a possible region 2...

Sun Devil Student wrote:Any idea when the NAQT registration/payment site goes up? A possible first-ever CU-Boulder quizbowl team asked us recently about how to register for the Region 13 SCT.

Soon, R. has been at work on this and we're testing it for bugs. I'll post here when it goes live.

Hosts are permitted, indeed encouraged, to run Saturday-only SCTs.

We seriously considered a Vegas site for 2010. The two major drawbacks: 1. No public transit, so everyone has to rent cars, offsetting the savings on hotels and airfare. 2. Much more of the field would have to fly (essentially, everyone except for southern California and the handful of Nevada/Utah t...

I also agree with this, and I am again not arguing for comp math, but NAQT is the only set that contains comp math that I have played, and most of their questions do not contain 7 clues. This is a bug, not a feature. More of our questions should contain at least 7 clues. The shorter character limit...

Re: BATE Competition 3/13/10 #94.

OK, we've switched the packets. Bloomfield will get IS #94 and Chatham IS #95.

Re: BATE Competition 3/13/10 Here and on naqt.com.

Here and on naqt.com.

Here's some WGAL BrainBusters from central Pennsylvania:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCP3uaNDl8

Searching youtube reveals that they've posted a bunch of rounds, possibly the entirety of the 2009 tournament. It hasn't changed much since I played the first season.

Then why number the cards? This is misleading to new teams, who draw the wrong conclusion about the numbers. Instead, how about making the cards with fictional characters for identification. Might be fun for the hosts in the room to be able to say, "Next we'll see the match between "The L...

The point they emphasize is that the number you are given has nothing to do with seeding - they don't necessarily give out the cards in order to their seeding. Then why number the cards? This is misleading to new teams, who draw the wrong conclusion about the numbers. Because numbers are a straight...

they actually made it quite clear that they seed teams going into the tournament. The point they emphasize is that the number you are given has nothing to do with seeding - they don't necessarily give out the cards in order to their seeding. Cloud of smoke notwithstanding, this is an accurate descr...

Even given that, it would probably be possible to run a better HSNCT somehow, and NAQT will be confronted with this issue soon even if they think their current format is great, because an HSNCT that grows much larger will outpace the capacity of any available building to host a one-day prelim tourn...

persuade NAQT to change IS SETS with you & Chatham, allowing anyone going to the Bluehen on the 20th the chance to go to Chatham on May 22 if the switch is made. Since you have changed your date, perhaps you can ask NAQT to make this switch. We're aware of this situation, and will consider maki...

The University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) Quizbowl Club is pleased to announce that it is working with National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC to host the 2010 NAQT North Sectional Championship Tournament for colleges and universities on Saturday, February 6, 2010. The top finishers in all th...

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