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I'm not sure any individual games at this year's ICT are particularly extraordinary upsets (both of the teams that beat Chicago were obviously extremely good, and I think Cornell was probably favored in 12 of their 13 games), but Chicago having 3 PPB and 100 PPG more than any other team and losing t...

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I am pleased to announce that Iowa State University Quizbowl will be hosting a mirror of Canadian Novice on Saturday, April 15th, 2023 . I will be directing the tournament. Eligibility This is a closed collegiate tournament. Teams must represent a single school. This is a novice tournament. Players ...

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I am excited to announce the Middle School Players' Academic Individual National Tournament (MSPAINT), an individual middle school tournament to be held Sunday, 7 May, 2023 . I will be directing. Eligibility This is an individual tournament. It is open to any player in eighth grade or below (or the ...

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I am excited to announce the third (annual) Middle School Interstate National Tournament (MINT), to be held online May 20, 2023. I will be directing. Eligibility This tournament will be open to all-star teams representing all states, the District of Columbia, and all US territories. Non-American cou...

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I wonder if HS quizbowl national or state levels championships are more likely to have multiple, high level teams that are closer to a coin flip than college championships. Or if there's something about high schoolers' psyches that they're more likely to fumble the ball when the pressure is on. Giv...

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The purpose of an advantage final is to balance the benefit of a final that provides public display of the best teams and the crowning moment against the detriment of a team going X-0 all day, then losing a one-off final to a team that went (X-1)-1 who they had beaten earlier in the day. And if the...

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Hello quizbowl! Do you enjoy answering questions? Would you like to participate in an additional non-quizbowl question-answering competition that is convenient and inexpensive? Iowa State Virtual Quiz may be for you! What is Virtual Quiz? Virtual Quiz is a long-running event traditionally run by the...

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The spreadsheet appears to be read-only.

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Well, abolishing bouncebacks was certainly a straightforward way to resolve this issue.

Yes, I know my post probably wasn't responsible for it. But I'll take the credit anyway :)

CPiGuy

I have spent some time creating a semi-exhaustive database of what I consider "good" tournament formats. The database can be found here. Currently it only includes formats for tournaments involving up to 36 teams and up to 14 rounds; there are very few tournaments per year which fall outsi...

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As admin of the MS quizbowl Discord server I was made aware of an unusual and troubling situation today. The Discord user e!#3732 has evidently been consistently impersonating another student. This was discovered when they signed up for a tournament today under that student's name, but did not actua...

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I'll start by noting this item in PACE rules that I hadn't previously seen practiced: In the event that the answer of a bonus part is revealed before an expected bounceback opportunity for the non-controlling team, the scorekeeper shall note the issue and the match will continue . At regular season...

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I had meant to make this post shortly after NSC, because it is inspired by a match in which I screwed up on a bounceback and this changed the outcome of the game. The current PACE rules for replacing bouncebacks have the potential to significantly penalize teams for knowing things. Specifically at i...

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We are still accepting signups for the middle school division of this tournament!

CPiGuy

Hello, Just wanted to confirm that you got a submission from Innovation Academy. Also, for eligibility purposes. Is a high school freshman (or a sophomore who didn't play last year) who played quiz bowl in middle school eligible? Thanks! I did get such a registration, yes! Sorry for the late respon...

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I am pleased to announce that Iowa State University Quizbowl will be hosting a collegiate novice tournament on Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 . I will be directing the tournament. Eligibility This is a closed collegiate tournament. Teams must represent a single school. Because this tournament will be ...

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I am pleased to announce that I will be directing a national league-style mirror of MAKEMAKE this fall. Games will begin the first week of October and continue through November and December. Eligibility There will be middle school and high school novice divisions. For more information on the MS divi...

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I am pleased to announce that I will be directing a national league-style mirror of MAKEMAKE this fall. Games will begin the first week of October and continue through November and December. Eligibility There will be middle school and high school novice divisions. For more information on the HS novi...

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I quite enjoyed playing this set. It was very interesting and felt like a death march (in a good way) while not just being completely impossible or, worse, boring. I will add my voice to the chorus of people who noted that the questions, especially the bonuses, were far too long, and I think this wa...

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It has been over three years since the original announcement for this set and so I have decided to start a new thread rather than significantly editing the old one. I am writing a set called Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. This set will consist of 5 rounds of tossups on the history, geography, cult...

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(Also it seems like, pretty unacceptable to change the masking policy days before the event, after it had been in place for months, when people made travel arrangements based on said policy, etc. Perhaps I missed something, but I can't see anywhere that notes the announced policy would be subject t...

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I voted for "Lack of outreach to new clubs and HS players entering college" but think that the actual pressing issue here is something slightly different: namely, the *perception* of college quizbowl among HS players entering college differing substantially from the actual state of things....

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Hey y'all—reminder to submit your vaccination information if you haven't done so yet! This is required of all players, staff, and spectators. Why are you asking for photo ID? Yeah I think this is not necessary. The point of asking for photo ID at vax check at, say, in person nationals is so that Jo...

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This is an announcement for MAKEMAKE (Mass Authored Kickstart Extraordinaire for Middle-grade Academic Kids Everywhere) , a middle school / novice high school tournament set to be available for mirrors starting September 2022 through the end of the 2022-23 school year. The set is head-edited by me, ...

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This is an announcement for MAKEMAKE (Mass Authored Kickstart Extraordinaire for Middle-grade Academic Kids Everywhere) , a middle school / novice high school tournament set to be available for mirrors starting September 2022 through the end of the 2022-23 school year. The set is head-edited by me, ...

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At the very least, letting unvaccinated people play is a bad idea. The masking is a marginal benefit at best (and it's within reason to not enforce but strongly encourage it), though players should wear an N95 anyway. I would like to go a bit further and encourage everyone to seriously reconsider a...

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One last thing: absolutely do not underrate top specialists on your poll. If I were building a team from scratch, I'd rather have Justin Chen, Cole Hartung, or Darryl Wang than most non-top-five generalists Big second here -- IMO quizbowl is a team game and so the best way to rank players is by how...

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I've compiled stats for NSC from the scoresheets, including category data: tossup stats and bonus stats . Will possibly replicate some of the analysis I did for ACF Nationals on this data, pending time over the next few weeks. Let me know of any discrepancies between these stats and the scoresheets...

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Here are some players you should consider voting for. My knowledge of the high school circuit is pretty non-exhaustive so I will probably miss many people who deserve your votes as well. Freshmen: Arin Parsa continues to be really good at quizbowl. Aatreyo Bhattacharyya and Tanay Bodducherla both de...

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Thanks to all the voters. Here are the poll results for this year. In the player poll there were seven voters: myself, Andrew Gao, Aditya Khambekar, Neev Sahgal, and three others. All these voters also voted in the team poll, as did Anthony Zhao, Todd Gunther, and the MSQBRank team, for a total of n...

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Yeah Owen I don't really want to pile on further but that 1 cheating allegation line really comes off like this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwPOFbAXMAMCE-l?format=jpg&name=small in the interest of constructive feedback (because i think if you actually can accomplish the things you want to do it...

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The deadline for ballot submission is extended by a week on the grounds of "I don't want to compile results while staffing PACE so might as well give everyone more time".

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Congratulations to Massachusetts for going 9-1 and winning the tournament without need for a final. California finished in second place with a 7-3 record and Maryland B finished in third place with a 6-4 record. These were some extremely impressive performances on a hard high school set. The top fiv...

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The original post has been updated with a list of registered and interested states so far. There is still time to register -- this tournament is online so scheduling, etc. is very flexible! There are a number of Texas students interested (certainly enough to field one team, and potentially multiple)...

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Here are some teams and people you should consider voting for. Obviously all the teams who finished in the top few places at MSNCT are very good and deserving of votes. Middlesex underperformed at MSNCT but should probably be in your top 10; you should probably rank their very strong B team also. We...

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As is tradition at this point, I am running an MS postseason ranking poll. The poll is intended to be a ranking for the 2021-2022 season. To vote, please send your ballots to me by email at conorjt@iastate.edu by 11:59pm on Wednesday, June 8th . You may vote for players, teams, or both. General guid...

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I think this year is rather unusual in that there are a large number of very good teams but there aren't really one or two teams that stand out as obvious favorites. I am not going to attempt to predict the final rankings but will instead think of things in terms of tiers. Tier 1: Burleigh Manor, Gr...

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I will be driving to HSNCT. If you are also going to HSNCT in some capacity, and you are coming from a place that is reasonably close to my route, I can possibly help facilitate that. In particular: -- On Friday I can pick you up from somewhere between Clarksville, TN and Atlanta (or somewhere close...

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Hello quizbowl! Do you enjoy answering questions? Would you like to participate in an additional non-quizbowl question-answering competition that is convenient and inexpensive? Iowa State Virtual Quiz may be for you! What is Virtual Quiz? Virtual Quiz is a long-running event traditionally run by the...

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An extremely minor issue: TJ Sheets does not currently export overtime games correctly to Yellowfruit. To be more specific, if it helps fix the issue, here are the three problems I saw: -- Yellowfruit has a specific field per team for overtime tossups. TJ Sheets exports nothing here, rather than the...

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AKKOLADE wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 10:21 pm Has anyone ever tried reaching out to Carol Guthrie?

Patrick Matthews also suggested this, but I don't know how I would contact her.

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I am working on a project to enumerate all collegiate nationals appearances. I will post it fully in the near future.

If you know the full field of 1991 ACF Nationals, or any teams that were in it besides Maryland, GT, BYU, Tennessee, and NC State, please post about it.

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Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 2:56 am

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This tournament is cancelled due to lack of interest.

CPiGuy

I am excited to announce the second (annual?) Middle School Interstate National Tournament (MINT), to be held online June 4, 2022. I will be directing. Eligibility This tournament will be open to all-star teams representing all states, the District of Columbia, and all US territories. Non-American c...

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Can I see the bonus part that clued a naval engagement in Orleans, Massachusetts? American neutrality during this war prevented the SMS Cormoran from creating a German port; when the Americans entered the war, the Germans decided to scuttle the ship instead. For 10 points each: [10e] Name this war ...

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Can I see the bonus part that clued a naval engagement in Orleans, Massachusetts?

CPiGuy

I think there's a slight misunderstanding: To my knowledge, neither Joe nor the AQBL directly did any transphobia. In hindsight, it is very likely that the AQBL TDs would have done the right thing without my intervention. What Joe did do, however, was accuse me (both here and on the Discord) of &quo...

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At the present time, we are not (primarily because there is such a wide diversity of possible standards from one state to another). I think what Em meant was official documents (produced by either the government or by one's health provider) giving a list of all the immunizations that someone has re...

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I am pleased to announce that I will be directing the Dwarf Planet Bowls, a series of short Wednesday evening online tournaments in February and March 2022. It will use the CERES set (head-edited by myself), a middle school / high school novice set. Eligibility These tournaments are open to all midd...

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