NAQT-format submission tournament
Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:57 pm
Since the idea of an NAQT-style tournament was floated in the VCU Open/second summer open thread, I was wondering if people would be interested in running some sort of FICHTE-inspired NAQT-style tournament outside as part of the regular season next year. I know that there is a subset of the quizbowl community that rarely attends anything besides NAQT tournaments, and I think that an event like this would be a good way to get them to play more tournaments besides just SCT (and ICT, if they quality), as well as providing a fresh alternative to regular ACF and mACF events. I would like it to be packet-submission, though, since I want to see if that can work well with an
My idea is for the tournament to be something of a hybrid between ACF-style packet submission and rules and NAQT question length and distribution (with a few tweaks - for example I would prefer to use line limits instead of character limits because I think that would work better with packet submission). I would instead like to try a five line length cap for all questions before powermarking, since that is roughly what NAQT questions come out to be. I would like for the target difficulty to be around that of 2014 SCT or a regular-difficulty mACF event like DRAGOON.
Alternatively, this could be held over the summer and the difficulty appropriately increased.
A distribution for final packets at this tournament might look like something like the following (roughly adhering to NAQT distribution, with some alterations):
4/4 Literature (1/1 US, 1/1 British, 1/1 Euro, 1/1 World/Other) - somewhat more world/other lit than NAQT
4/4 History (1/1 US, 2/2 Euro, 1/1 World) - if we want more NAQT style, we can do 1.5/1.5 US and 1.5/1.5 Euro
4/4 Science (1/1 Bio, 1/1 Chem, 1/1 Physics, 1/1 Minor Science)
1/1 Additional Big Three (no more than 1 of each; any extra science should be minor science)
1/1 Mythology
1/1 Religion and Philosophy (1 of each)
2.5/2.5 Arts (1/1 Visual (painting, sculpture), 1/1 Aural (classical, jazz), 0.5/0.5 architecture, ballet, opera, other performance art, etc.)
2.5/2.5 Geography/Current Events/Modern World (1/1 Geo, 1/1 CE/Modern World, 0.5/0.5 extra)
1.5/1.5 Trash
1.5/1.5 Social Science/Thought/Other Academic
1/1 Mixed Academic/General Knowledge
Submission requirements might look something like this (28/28 overall):
5/5 Literature (1/1 US, 1/1 British, 1/1 Euro, 1/1 World/Other, 1/1 Your Choice)
5/5 History (1/1 US, 2/2 Euro, 1/1 World, 1/1 Your Choice)
5/5 Science (1/1 Bio, 1/1 Chem, 1/1 Physics, 2/2 Other Science [to be pared down])
1/1 Myth
1/1 R/P (1 of each)
3/3 Arts (1/1 Visual, 1/1 Aural, 1/1 Other [to be pared down])
3/3 Geo/CE/Modern World (1/1 Geo, 1/1 CE/Modern World, 1/1 Your Choice)
2/2 Trash
2/2 SS/Thought/Other Academic
1/1 Mixed/GK
If requiring 28/28 in submissions is too much, it can definitely be toned down.
My idea is for the tournament to be something of a hybrid between ACF-style packet submission and rules and NAQT question length and distribution (with a few tweaks - for example I would prefer to use line limits instead of character limits because I think that would work better with packet submission). I would instead like to try a five line length cap for all questions before powermarking, since that is roughly what NAQT questions come out to be. I would like for the target difficulty to be around that of 2014 SCT or a regular-difficulty mACF event like DRAGOON.
Alternatively, this could be held over the summer and the difficulty appropriately increased.
A distribution for final packets at this tournament might look like something like the following (roughly adhering to NAQT distribution, with some alterations):
4/4 Literature (1/1 US, 1/1 British, 1/1 Euro, 1/1 World/Other) - somewhat more world/other lit than NAQT
4/4 History (1/1 US, 2/2 Euro, 1/1 World) - if we want more NAQT style, we can do 1.5/1.5 US and 1.5/1.5 Euro
4/4 Science (1/1 Bio, 1/1 Chem, 1/1 Physics, 1/1 Minor Science)
1/1 Additional Big Three (no more than 1 of each; any extra science should be minor science)
1/1 Mythology
1/1 Religion and Philosophy (1 of each)
2.5/2.5 Arts (1/1 Visual (painting, sculpture), 1/1 Aural (classical, jazz), 0.5/0.5 architecture, ballet, opera, other performance art, etc.)
2.5/2.5 Geography/Current Events/Modern World (1/1 Geo, 1/1 CE/Modern World, 0.5/0.5 extra)
1.5/1.5 Trash
1.5/1.5 Social Science/Thought/Other Academic
1/1 Mixed Academic/General Knowledge
Submission requirements might look something like this (28/28 overall):
5/5 Literature (1/1 US, 1/1 British, 1/1 Euro, 1/1 World/Other, 1/1 Your Choice)
5/5 History (1/1 US, 2/2 Euro, 1/1 World, 1/1 Your Choice)
5/5 Science (1/1 Bio, 1/1 Chem, 1/1 Physics, 2/2 Other Science [to be pared down])
1/1 Myth
1/1 R/P (1 of each)
3/3 Arts (1/1 Visual, 1/1 Aural, 1/1 Other [to be pared down])
3/3 Geo/CE/Modern World (1/1 Geo, 1/1 CE/Modern World, 1/1 Your Choice)
2/2 Trash
2/2 SS/Thought/Other Academic
1/1 Mixed/GK
If requiring 28/28 in submissions is too much, it can definitely be toned down.