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Here's the thing... either quiz bowl is a competition that has rules, or it's a competition that has guidelines which can be waived if you're in the in-crowd and know the right people. If it's the latter, and new people who aren't in the in-crowd show up to a college tournament to find a hybrid team...

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Remember that: No thread may contain more than one request for the posting of tournament statistics within the same week or from the same person. So we don't need to make multiple posts asking for stats. Further posts should instead ask why Princeton continues to do things like: not have printed sch...

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While suggested electronic solutions definitely have some advantages over our current procedures, we feel that overall they would end up being worse. Pros of electronic tournament-question distribution: Improved convenience and reduced cost to many (but not necessarily all) tournament directors I w...

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IMPORTANT: High school players may not staff (or observe) SCTs. (NAQT is expanding the use of the Division II SCT set for spring-semester high school tournaments.)

Just for avoidance of doubt: this also applies to high school coaches, correct?

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My team used the new version of neg5 in box-score-entry form (as opposed to scoresheet form) for a tournament this weekend. On the whole, I really liked it, as well as the ability for two people to each be contributing to stats in real-time from their own computers, without having to separate out b...

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"Scooby Dood, Where's My Car?" was an inspired mashup answer line, and I regret that I have never been able to attend a trash tournament written by you. pedantic note, the Eve 6 song is titled "Inside Out". unpedantic note, the Eve 6 song is great and I hope they didn't show up i...

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I might be interested in this. More likely to attend weekend of July 29 than August 5.

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None of the 20/20 format records were broken, but we do have a number of top-ten performances that are to be commended: Most stolen bonus points: IMSA 110 (Round 5 v Mountain Lakes, t-8th) Most tossups answered: La Jolla 19 (Round 4 v Hannibal); Naperville North 19 (Round 6 v Olentangy Liberty) Supe...

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The final statistics have been compiled and organized into a single document here. I'll now be taking a look to see if any single-game or tournament-long performances will earn a space in the PACE NSC record book.

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Besides any discussion of actual or perceived difficulty, cutting the lengths of questions means games are shorter means tournaments run quicker. By throwing away lead-ins that only serve to distinguish the very best teams in all the land, and which 90% of games will sit through, clueless, you can s...

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The key passage from the top of the archive:

Everything posted here is copyright the writers and tournament hosts. Not the archives. It is illegal to make money from the use or sale of these questions without the explicit permission of the owners.

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I would urge PACE to consider the round reports with a grain of salt in the later rounds; there was a packet snafu in Tier IV during the playoffs which caused Packet 9 to be read in Round 8 and so on that may have changed some of those round reports, although I can't be sure of by how much. For wha...

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All games that took place at NSC presently have stats posted on the HSQB/DB . Games that were part of group play are listed in "Prelims", "Playoffs", or "Sunday" as appropriate, and all three of those are gathered together in "Combined". All other matches (pos...

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Small Schools update: Five such teams made the second tier. In alphabetical order, they are Danville, Lehigh Valley, Mountain Lakes, Sidney, and Southside A. I will update at the end of the night with the potential for finals. JV update: Ladue A is the only JV team to make the top tier. They haven'...

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Just a quick word on stats: if you have any corrections, whether to names or to stats, please email me and we'll try to take a look at the scoresheet. Because of the rushed switch to SQBS, we were using a slightly old version of rosters, so some corrections that we made at check-in may need to be re...

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Small Schools update: Five such teams made the second tier. In alphabetical order, they are Danville, Lehigh Valley, Mountain Lakes, Sidney, and Southside A. I will update at the end of the night with the potential for finals. JV update: Ladue A is the only JV team to make the top tier. They haven't...

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We appear to have crashed Neg5, so we've switched back to good ol' SQBS. Through the terrific work of Jeff Hill, Ian Drayer, and Joe Su, prelim stats are now posted. Tiebreakers are not included, but here were the tiebreakers to make it into top 24: Elm: Ladue defeated Hunter-B 230-120, then defeate...

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I might suggest that fourth place deserves a larger trophy than the rest of the top 8. I understand that under this year's format, if the 1-card loses in the first post-lunch round, there is a 6-7-8 and then 4th and 5th get knocked out together, but I could say that 4th place would be played off in ...

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sonstige wrote:While not a true side event, Saturday night (8 PM according to the NAQT site) is going to see another humans vs. QANTA match.

Who is representing humanity this year?

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As you close in on your final rankings, do you have an estimate for how many hours you've worked on the rankings this year?

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Father Comstock wrote:Also, I don't see the original prison bowl? might just be me.

That does appear to be missing from the list, but the final stats posted leave so many questions as to what in the world actually happened (and who several of these teams actually are) that decoding it may prove too challenging.

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PACE is proud to announce this year's Ben Cooper winners: The Academic Ambassador Award is to be presented to Fred Morlan in recognition of his work on HSQB Rank, assisting coaches and tournament directors in West Virginia and Kentucky, and spreading better quiz bowl practices nationwide. The Young ...

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Just to check, is this a new twist on the "Two-Bracket Packet-Submission Even-Team Round Robin" listed on Berkeley's scheduling page?

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Continuing a fine tradition from three years ago at ACF Nats 2014 Columbia... I lost the power cord from my laptop. Specifically, I have the wrong power cord. At some point on Sunday morning, someone else asked to charge their laptop in the control room, and it appears that I took their laptop cord....

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Maryland 250, Michigan 175
UMD: Jordan 9/2, Weijia 0/0, Sam 0/1, Ophir 0/1. Bonuses: 180 on 9.
MICH: Auroni 4/3, Will 2/2, Brian 1/0, Kenji 0/0. Bonuses: 130 on 7.

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Everything's done but the final: Maryland v Michigan, one game, after Michigan won their last-round meeting by a substantial margin. Final standings for 3rd onward are now available in the "Playoffs" statfile, while all games except for the Round 9 tiebreakers are in the "Combined&quo...

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To note a clarification in response to a concern that a few people have messaged Jerry or me about: the packet list is not quite correct as of now on the prelim stats, because SQBS interpreted "WUSTL + Virginia + Toronto + Pennsylvania" running onto a second line of text as two separate pa...

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As of the end of Saturday play here are the standings in the top bracket: Maryland and Michigan are 5-0, separated by only 3 PPG. Yale is 4-1, having lost to Maryland. Chicago, Columbia, and Stanford are all 3-2. Berkeley-A is the only UG team in the top bracket and will have an advantage in the UG ...

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These ten teams comprise the GWB bracket which will contest the national championship: Michigan*, Oxford A, Stanford*, Berkeley A, Columbia*, Chicago A, Maryland*, Penn, Yale*, Berkeley B. The starred teams carry a win from the prelims.

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The other benefit of "e-packets," as Chris is calling them, is the ability to extract information from them. Even if you obtained paper copies in a totally legitimate way, looking up a certain question you heard is a huge pain. If you count individual bonus parts, there's ~1,400 answer li...

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My team wrote a set this year, and last week my captain forwarded this email he had received: https://s20.postimg.org/cjmgxnh71/avery.png The header of this email, along with the lack of identifying details in the message, leaves me with the impression it was probably sent to every independent set w...

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Likewise, I've never had an issue with needing to produce any sort of document. Still, it might be a good idea to have whatever permission slips you're using at the ready.

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My team used the new version of neg5 in box-score-entry form (as opposed to scoresheet form) for a tournament this weekend. On the whole, I really liked it, as well as the ability for two people to each be contributing to stats in real-time from their own computers, without having to separate out br...

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I still need to enter the last round of games and finals into the above, but... After losing to them in the last round of the playoffs, Ithaca defeated Lehigh Valley 500-350 in a one-game final to win the 2017 Bergen Academies Spring Quizbowl Tournament. Meanwhile, West Egg defeated High Tech 350-34...

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The tournament is underway, and live stats are being kept at http://tinyurl.com/basqt2017

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I've received a few nominations, but we always have room for more. If there's someone you think has made significant contributions to high school quiz bowl and should be recognized for such, please send me a nomination this week as per the instructions in the first post of the thread.

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There are about three weeks left to put people forward for the 2017 Cooper Awards. Please send in your nominations to the address in the above post!

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At some point (I think last week), Joe Nutter asked me if I was gonna total these up. I have nothing better to do*, so I did it. All told, 13 voters cast a positive ballot and 11 cast a negative ballot. THE FAVORITES 10. Gold (Kiiara) - 23 points on 3 votes, one #1. "This song is dope." &q...

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NAQT's method is absurd, and has been forever, which can be further demonstrated by considering even slightly more complicated situations. If you have a 15-team tournament, the official NAQT format is: "SFRR (8/7 split) + 1/2 RR w/o rpts (10-11g*/11r) (Top 4 from each SFRR plays top 4 from othe...

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Indeed it was, and it has been, and it's visible again. Just a reminder, especially to newer posters: It's a good idea to make your "field update" a separate post from the initial announcement. That way you can edit the field update and just that post will go invisible until approved*, whe...

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Has a logistics email been sent out to competing teams yet? I haven't gotten one, but I'm not sure if it's because I didn't fill out the registration form (having no new teams to sign up beyond those already signed up for the Cup). I especially ask because one of my students posted in my team's inte...

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Another possibility is various hotels in the Fort Lee / Edgewater / Englewood area that are on the west side of the George Washington Bridge. There are a number of buses that can take you to the GW Bus Terminal, from which it is a short ride south to Columbia. The downside is that it's harder to get...

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I know that my look at the early use of BASQT implied it was likely to play relatively hard, however it wasn't used before February 4, so I'm surprised it's on here at all.

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Did this set get posted online? If not, is there a point at which it will be?

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-Is there anything the circuit could do to alleviate some of the pressures driving the autobid situation? In the past, we've talked about things like having something like a national registry of potential moderators (which would make it easier to staff big tournaments), or having regional circuits ...

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Just to clarify, that linked packet is a Sectionals D-II round, not ICT D-II.

Also, given that this is explicitly a nationals warm-up, is there any chance it might be played on the clock so teams can get used to that style in competition?

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Thank you for the feedback. We've playtested a few of the packets in our practices, but didn't get a chance to go through the whole set. We'll continue doing so, and hopefully catch most of the typos and pronoun issues. And we'll do what we can about overly hard answer lines. I did notice as stats w...

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To answer Vasa's (likely rhetorical) question, in my opinions SCT is first and foremost the qualifier for ICT. It's a fun tournament, it's nice to have a that-difficulty tournament in the Spring, but it exists to determine who gets to go to ICT. If Columbia E comes down to Florida and plays our sec...

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I would think NAQT would be open to a site in either state hosting 166, the designated "state championship" set. However, none currently exists, and with the loss of the host benefit (with questions for state championships being free), I'm not sure anyone's eager to jump in and fill that g...

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I am pleased to announce that The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Awards. The Cooper awards, which recognize those who contribute to the “spirit and honor of quizbowl competition,” will be presented at the ...

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