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Name: Ian Drayer E-mail: ian.drayer@uconn.edu Requests: 1) Board/Card game either in the strategy genre like Settlers of Catan, or humor/party genre like Cards Against Humanity. 2) A trinket to put on my desk at my new job, in a similar vein to the Newton's Cradle. Obligatory Holiday Story/Favorite ...

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If this actually happens on January 10, Amherst will send a team (me and Boyang Jiao). Seriously. Neither of us can attend the MIT mirror of DEES this month, but we're both going to be back in California until past mid-January for winter break. This sounds fun. On a similar note for me, if it's on ...

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The New England site has already hit its field cap and there are 9 teams on the wait list with another 2 expressing interest, almost 2 months out from the tournament. Is there any possibility of getting a second New England site to accommodate these 11 teams?

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Many thanks to Eric Xu, James Zhou, Ben Koppel, Nathan Weiser, Varun Wadhwa, Nirav Ilango, Amith Punyala, Hidehiro Anto, Mohan Malhotra, Sam Blizzard, and two anonymous voters for submitting ballots to this poll. Without further ado, I'll present the results here! Western Albemarle A (3 first place ...

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I've received 11 votes so far, and would love to have a few more. Please email me at [email protected] with your votes tonight!

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Cross-post from Misc. High School. I've only got 2 votes in so far, so please vote so you can have your voice heard! It is my pleasure to announce the preseason poll for the High School 2014-2015 season. I have set up a gmail account for votes - qbrank@gmail.com. Please submit your top 25 to qbrank@...

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It is my pleasure to announce the preseason poll for the High School 2014-2015 season. I have set up a gmail account for votes - qbrank@gmail.com. Please submit your top 25 to qbrank@gmail.com by Friday, September 5th , as I plan to compile the rankings that night and publish here by Saturday, Septe...

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I like statistical things - I'd be willing to run the poll.

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I really enjoyed listening to this set, it really was a great experience to sit in and try to answer all these science. I really liked how all the questions really seemed cohesive and (to me) really painted a story about what was going on - not just stated facts about the answer, which really kept m...

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I did enjoy giving out neg prizes when I directed tournaments. One of my favorites to give out was a book called Gut Feelings. In retrospect, a book like that probably would have been more appropriate as a power prize. What is the community's opinion on giving out a gag prize for most powers like a ...

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I too would like to play an online mirror.

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Perhaps a late January tournament and revive ACF Winter? There will be enough packets with enough accidental difficulty variation that the slightly more difficult packets can be put into ACF Winter, while the easiest packets can be kept in Fall.

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Something that I was thinking of would be to have an expanded editing team and create two sets from the packets, creating an ACF Fall I and ACF Fall II like a month apart that teams would only need to submit the one packet for the ACF Fall I deadlines in order to play both tournaments. You're gettin...

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Where on the campus is this taking place, where should we park, and at what time should we be there?

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This should be sent out with a map attachment soon... The tournament will be taking place in the Carr Building on Duke University's East Campus. Check in will be from 9:00-9:30 in Carr 103, with a small breakfast provided. There will be a short meeting from 9:30-9:45 during which time we will go ove...

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I'm also starting to work on something similar, but as an Android app, that will be able to download team rosters from a server and post statistics, hopefully speeding up the scorekeeping task. I'll probably get significant progress on it in the next few weeks, but I've got a few other projects goin...

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If you're in a crunch for booking hotels, feel free to contact me (bmongilio@vt.edu) or Mike (hundleymw@vt.edu) and we'll try to figure out what we can do to help while we figure this out. Most hotels will allow you to make a reservation and then cancel up to like noon on the day of check in (varie...

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I just entered all the scoresheets I have for the lower division from HSNCT, and they are now at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/ . I seem to be missing all of the scoresheets for a single room in division 2, and one crossover scoresheet.

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I would probably talk with the writer about how the questions were written, and discuss that this may be plagiarism. Quizbowl is such an activity that citations are rarely seen by the participants; only 1-2 out of the 10 or so people in the room actually see the citation when the question is first p...

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Matrix multiplication is covered on the SAT Subject test Math level II, so I don't think it's too outlandish for us to expect some of the brightest (remember, this was in a finals packet of a national championship) students in the country to know how to multiply matrices and be able to do it quickly...

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I'm working in the stats room, and I'll post any really interesting scores that come my way.

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They are... I'll fix that tomorrow...

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New Pre-HSNCT Rankings are now available in the dropbox at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j8vyl95g1cpch4j/Scores%20and%20Ranks%20May%2021.xlsx At this update, a total of 30,499 games have been played between 3,147 teams. What is special about this ranking set is how I've pruned some of the data. On shee...

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New ranks are now available in the dropbox at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8dnqgpkia07zr5v/Scores%20and%20Ranks%20May%2013.xlsx Notable in the newest set of rankings: -The "zero" score for insufficient games (still need 12 games to be ranked) is now 426.0912. -Arcadia, once it connected to t...

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Finally done with finals etc, I'll be updating this in the next couple of days... I've just got about 80-100 tournaments left to enter (I fell behind really badly), and I'd expect to have the update done by Tuesday night at the latest. In relation to Bellarmine being double listed, that will be fixe...

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I've got some files as a .php that do just that, and also pull it off NAQT's. All my code (possibly including random homework assignment) for this project is now available at my public dropbox, in https://www.dropbox.com/home/QB%20Rank/Public%20Rankings/Ranking%20Code , in which use the page tournam...

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I would be willing to edit math and physics if you're interested, though I have zero editing experience and it would be quite a learning experience for me. If you'd prefer someone more experienced, I'd agree that that's a good thought, but I'll step up if nobody else wants to do it.

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New ranks are now in the dropbox covering over 20,000 games between 2481 teams in 239 tournaments. The list is available in the dropbox as "Entered Tournaments.txt". Of note is Ladue jumping up to #1, and Texas teams occupying 4 of the top 7 spots. Biggest drop by a former top-10 was Ezell...

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I'd like to contribute some mathematics and maybe a couple physics questions.

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Other teams played games during that time, and as a result their ranks went up. Also, since you're not really connected to other regions, you'll be very volatile.

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Prelim/Playoff split. If you click the individual player's name, you'll get their stats.

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New ranks are up (link in first post), minimum games pushed up to 11 to try to force teams out of the ranked category if they've only played 1 tournament and therefore are not very connected to the rest of the country. (Cistercian, as a heads up, when the minimum was at 10 and I was looking at them,...

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We are not planning on attending (and I have no idea how to cancel the registration)... I went on looking to see what the field was like, and I think I accidentally clicked register.

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My opinion is that nobody should be excluded from activities that wants to put in the effort and work that the activity deserves. For quizbowl especially since there's no AAU quizbowl, no rec leagues, no club/travel teams not associated with schools. In nearly any other competitive activity, there i...

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One thing you can do instead of creating endless ban filters is to integrate Protobowl with Facebook, so that people use their real names in the lobby and in games. That way, you remove their cover of anonymity and make them accountable for disgusting things that they say. I'm not really a fan of t...

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What I find even more surprising than the fact that Ian's computers didn't rank Cistercian is the fact that Ian's computers DID rank Bellarmine, considering Sameer has still not played anything this year. How did that happen? I just inserted Bellarmine as my best guess of them since I knew they are...

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My stats have Cistercian at 19-8 for the year, with losses to Norman North B (OK) and Deer Creek A (OK), as well as St. Mark's B and St. Mark's C, pushing them down, despite their wins over LASA.

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New ranks are up at the dropbox, I'll probably be keeping current by updating every Friday.

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My recommendation would be to do a sort-by team name and look through for repeat names. There are some I'm not certain of, but I do see these in looking through the A's and B's. American Christian & American Christian Academy Bainbridge & Bainbridge Middle Belvidere & Belvidere North (?...

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mithokie wrote:Western Albemarle A (VA) is 30th and 65th. They are misspelled once with an extra "r" Albe"r"marle A

Also, Montgomery Blair A is 21st and 32nd; listed once as VA, once as MD. There is no Montgomery Blair HS in VA.

Fixed.

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Making this change by just deleting all the single quotes.

Edit: And I went through and did it. Current set should reflect this, let me know if you see any more like that.

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Now that we're in the spring semester, I should be able to keep up with these a bit more often. There have now been over 12,000 games of quizbowl played this year between a total of 1778 teams. The rating now does have some meaning-- the difference in two teams ratings is the expected score differen...

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I should be getting my ranks in tonight.

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There's also National Science Bowl run by the Department of Energy (http://science.energy.gov/wdts/nsb/) which is a almost single subject in the way that history is single subject. A lot of these teams are crossovers in the area I'm from, but the questions are not quite the greatest, and the format ...

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Yes... I've got 5 finals in 5 days this week, so I'll be putting together an update next week once I've finished these finals.

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My guess is no, but I'll try to work on getting something going for later in the spring semester.

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The method it seems you're describing would be a random walker. What I've done is created a multigraph between the teams (nodes) where each game played is an edge weighted by the score differential. We then have an m by n matrix (B) of the game results, where m is the number of games and n is the nu...

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The number is a rating, a scale-able number that, the closer numbers are together, the closer they are. I've just kept it on a 0-100 scale, with a higher number being better, normalized so the worst team is a 0, and the best team is a 100. The ranking then becomes your order by rating.

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The file of scores I've been working with has gotten too big in order to upload to this site (limit 256 kB), so if anyone wants it, let me know. The highlights of the rankings to this point: -The Northeast has connected to the Mid-Atlantic, allowing Dorman to take over the highest ranked spot in our...

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