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Why are packets 24 questions when a game plus overtime is 25 tossups? We had to scavenge questions from other packets and hope teams hadn't heard those questions yet since we were already potentially going 16 round.

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There are people who know a lot more about this than me, but there is going to be some amount of fixed cost associated with running a national tournament, such as TDs, statsperson(s), printing, and various other logistics which tends to stay relatively constant despite the number of teams attending....

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Prelim stats are being updated here.

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Prelim stats are posted here.

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With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it. Inspecting the network request, it looks like this url gives you a JSON res...

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With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it.

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I'd hoped for a Virginia site to materialize, but I haven't heard anything from my friends and I don't have the time (or the classrooms) to organize something myself. If there isn't a RAPTURE site within easy distance of me I'll look into doing an online mirror or something, and similarly I wouldn'...

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Beginning with round 3, how are teams with the same record with at least one win and one loss paired? I've heard mention about teams that go WL play those that go LW, but what about further rounds where it's not so cut and dry?

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2. Was anyone at NAQT aware of the accusations against Matt or the disturbing content on his blog? If so, do they have any explanation? I'm not asking for anyone to face mob flagellation but some acknowledgement that people besides Matt could have done better as well would be nice. I can confirm th...

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Ok, so I'm not finding a good solution to the 14 teams right away so we're gonna go with this schedule: http://hdwhite.org/qb/schedules/194/ IGNORE THE 7TH ROW. The team "Beat Misty For Me" will instead be Ophir's team, or what is shown on the schedule as 6P. Since there are no 7th or 8th...

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(CW: Pedophilia) Are any of these reports/allegations actually substantiated at this time? Or proven in any way? It's interesting that Matt went from having a background role to not being able to staff. Was this decision made based off public pressure or actual facts one way or the other? There are ...

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I have included an option to search for exact strings. As usual, please let me know if you find any bugs.

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The finals will be livestreamed on youtube and liveblogged on Twitter.

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If there's a team that's looking for a warm body who hasn't picked up a buzzer in about three years, hit me up.

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Pink Floyd Mother Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother Pink Floyd The Show Must Go On Pink Floyd Nobody Home Pink Floyd Breathe Pink Floyd Run Like Hell Pink Floyd If Pink Floyd Young Lust Pink Floyd Hey You Pink Floyd Sheep Pink Floyd Welcome to the Machine Pink Floyd Brain Damage Pink Floyd Fearless Pink...

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From my understanding, the "sanctioning" process is more to make sure that there aren't three different open tournaments announced for the academic year or something like that.

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AKKOLADE wrote:Brian Eno 1/1

He was taking too much of the distribution anyway.

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stuff I'm glad someone other than me believes in Parliament/Funkadelic and ELO, but I think I would substitute solo Neil Young for CSNY, and as much as I love Kool and the Gang, I think the Eagles had a bigger decade. Also, what is Skynard? As long as Mr. Blue Sky makes the cut, I will be more or l...

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Even more cuts: ABBA Eagle ABBA Voulez-Vous ABBA Money, Money, Money ABBA The Name of the Game ABBA Does Your Mother Know? ABBA Fernando ABBA Mamma Mia ABBA Knowing Me, Knowing You ABBA Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) ABBA S.O.S. ABBA Waterloo ABBA Take a Chance on Me So let's just cut out...

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It works if you click on the name of the tournament, but if you click on NAQT, which should go to the team's stats for the tournament, it always goes to https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/team.jsp?team_id=1, which does not seem to have any information. I'll have to rerun the parser, but once tha...

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Everything should be working again. Let me know if there's any further hiccups.

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I just noticed that NAQT results aren't showing up since they did their redesign. Hopefully I can get that fixed shortly.

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I enjoy Mr. Brightside, it is a great song, and The Killers are one of my favorite bands of the decade, but that is not the song of the 2000s.

Hey Ya!

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Mr. Brightside
Hey Ya!

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Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Toxic by Britney Spears Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand Hey Ya is amazing for the first two minutes, but it slowly loses its luster, and by the end of the song I am content. Take Me Out rock...

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Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Mr. Brightside by The Killers I still don't get the appeal of Crazy, while Mr. Brightside continues to be a Good Song. Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Toxic by Britney Spears Coming into this I didn't think I'd be voting Kanye into the top 8, but here we are. 99 Problems by...

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Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day -- Dunno why, but I could never really get into Crazy that much. Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson -- The Killers are a good band. Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Wake Up by Arcade Fire -- Havin...

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(Resurrecting this thread because it seems to be the most appropriate place to put this; mods feel free to split this if that works better) I took a look at every tournament listed on the HSQB tournament database since the start of the 2015-2016 academic year. I got the top 500 first names* and thei...

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I'm saddened I was out of town for Christmas and missed the chance to give Supermassive Black Hole the respect it deserves. Anyway, Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Blind by Hercules and Love Affair Time to Pretend by MGMT vs. The Funeral by Band of Horses One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Independent Women Part...

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Irreligion in Bangladesh wrote:What can we do to repair this relationship?

Get rid of Dave Madden.

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cchiego wrote:a decently-edited video of a basic game

Are there any reasonable-quality high-school videos of matches out there? If so, it should be possible to do a bit of editing and add an overlay with the questions and the score.

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AKKOLADE wrote:Is there still not a way to generate a list of all tournaments that are on Neg5? Because I need that for HSQBRank.

Seconding this request so I can add Neg5 tournaments to my search database.

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I fixed a bug that was preventing the most recent NAQT tournaments from appearing and fixed the issue where the New Tournaments Added section wasn't properly working.

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Haven't they been claiming that for years now?

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The main page now shows a list of all tournaments that have uploaded stats since the last database update (which now happens regularly and automatically early on Tuesday mornings). It won't register stat corrections, but it will pick up adding in things like combined stats a week after prelims and p...

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I'm in the process of transferring hosting. If things decide to not work all of a sudden, please let me know.

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I've proposed this in the staff forum, but maybe it's worth a proposal here. Please note that I am not speaking for the chief admin or any other board staffer. This should not be considered an official policy or even a proposed one at this time. With NHBB and its NHBB-affiliated crop of tournaments...

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What I can say is that I'm working to ensure that the future is better, and that the list of meaningful words I can say in this thread ends right about there. Only actions will prove progress; I have no problem with pessimism until then. For me, the only action that would restore faith in NHBB is f...

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heterodyne wrote:I'd presume you'd want the people running the tournament to be, you know, running the tournament instead of responding to this thread.

It has now been a full week since the incident in question. ACE has more than enough time to provide a response.

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What was the format of the preliminary rounds? 52 teams, 5 rounds of...something, cut to top 32 elimination also seems quite archaic. Also if you're seeding by ppg strength of schedule becomes a lot more relevant than it does at PACE or HSNCT since there is much less contribution from bonuses. We p...

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The liveblog is up at http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?o ... bf7a4185a9 and http://twitter.com/NAQTLive. Be sure to tweet scores and interesting happenstances using the hashtag #MSNCT.

Whiter Hydra · Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl 2015 (10/24/15) Stats are being updated here

Stats are being updated here

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johntait1 wrote:Looks like there's finally a tournament on good questions scheduled in East Tennessee http://www.historybowl.com/eastern-tennessee/
It's on 12/12/15 at Jefferson County High School.

Unfortunately it's only History Bowl, and not a full-blown Quizbowl tournament.

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it's not a great idea to inundate the field with really great players who play on teams that power 70% of the questions I agree, but I don't think this is a matter of much concern. The highest value of powers/TUH over the course of a whole tournament on an NAQT high school set that we're sure of* w...

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To make another comparison: Would "lightning war" be allowed for "blitzkrieg"?

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I don't personally mind Nationals difficulty as is but clearly I feel perfectly at home at CO-level difficulty, so I'm not much one to speak. What does bother me is that we are attempting to reach so many new teams at Nationals yet not moderating difficulty accordingly. Tossups don't really need to...

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I don't personally mind Nationals difficulty as is but clearly I feel perfectly at home at CO-level difficulty, so I'm not much one to speak. What does bother me is that we are attempting to reach so many new teams at Nationals yet not moderating difficulty accordingly. Tossups don't really need to...

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I happened to be free last weekend, so I ended up going down to Williamsburg to help out IHO for a bit. Here are a few observations from what I saw of the event, plus from talking to other staffers: The initial plan was to play the full national anthem or state song of each gold medalist for every e...

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Wilmington Charter has claimed that date, as well, which would siphon Pennsylvania teams. Three tournaments in that corridor probably can't coexist. Looking at the last time Charter hosted a tournament , the only teams that they would be losing, based on proximity, would be Kellenberg and East Brun...

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Virginia: B VHSL is great. But given that so many schools play at least some good quizbowl each year, the absence of those schools at circuit events is surprising. The circuit is very top-heavy with a few schools dominating many tournaments and a lack of depth of quizbowl in the NoVA area especiall...

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