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Jason Puncheon

shar2931 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 24, 2025 3:48 pm I'll be starting a PhD in Physics at the University of Maryland! I don't plan on playing much, but I'd be happy to staff events as I have time for them.

your honor... a second terrapin has hit the "where are you going next year?" thread!

Jason Puncheon

i will try my best to complete a packet and will be glad to read it at hsnct

Jason Puncheon

mehatamm wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 3:26 pm I will be starting a PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park in Computer Science! I plan to continue competing.

let’s freaking go !!

Jason Puncheon

I just sent out a logistics email for the tournament. Please let me know if you were expecting to receive it but did not!

Jason Puncheon

A few updates: 1) We will be swapping LITANY and TOWNS on Sunday such that TOWNS comes second in the day, right after Ahead By a Century 2) We'd like to mirror Lore Dump: Expanded Universe at some point during this weekend as well; due to the already tight schedule we've planned, I think this would ...

Jason Puncheon

I am pleased to announce that the Maryland club will be hosting a side event weekend on the weekend of August 10-11, 2024 in College Park. More final logistics will be updated to this post in the coming weeks as we get closer to the tournament. Below is the general outline of how the weekend will ...

Jason Puncheon

Hopefully this won't get too off topic (and I suppose I'd be OK moving this into a different thread), but I absolutely disagree with this take. I believe ICT should, and successfully did, make an effort to ask about more recent trends and hits in popular music. Yes, it is different to how writing ...

Jason Puncheon

I was extremely disappointed with the pop culture in this set, for the most part. I suppose I'll talk about two questions in particular that I did not enjoy, those being on "Last Night" and "Anti-Hero," which I think struggle from the same problem, and are perhaps indicative of a larger problem in ...

Jason Puncheon

Adventure Temple Trail wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:43 pm
Important Bird Area wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:34 pm
Tippy Martinez wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:27 pm I don't recall any football questions other than 1 that only got played in the third place game.
football 1/1
The football tossup was tossup 23 or 24 of packet 1, I think, so people didn't hear it

the evil of the timed round strikes again....

Jason Puncheon

I was extremely disappointed with the pop culture in this set, for the most part. I suppose I'll talk about two questions in particular that I did not enjoy, those being on "Last Night" and "Anti-Hero," which I think struggle from the same problem, and are perhaps indicative of a larger problem in ...

Jason Puncheon

I have some thoughts about this tournament. First off, the format: while I commend Fred for hearing feedback and switching to a format that guaranteed more games, having paired prelim brackets and both a playoff and super-playoff re-bracket is a bit unideal. While this was almost certainly the best ...

Jason Puncheon

we are so fucking up let's go

Jason Puncheon

ThisIsMyUsername wrote: ↑Wed Apr 26, 2023 9:06 pm Here’s a counterpart to Andrew’s. Instead of squaring Team PPG and Max team PPG without any logical justification whatsoever, I raised them to the 1.5 power without any logical justification whatsoever. The results are similarly revelatory.

Ranks Caleb higher so it's definitely more accurate.

Jason Puncheon

I'm pretty sure UMD will likely host a mirror of either NASAT or maybe COOT this summer. We will also try to play as many side events as possible. Can confirm this will almost certainly happen. I think VCU wants to host one of these tournaments as well, so clearly the Mid-Atlantic is the place to ...

Jason Puncheon

https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/t ... m_id=27884

he was hoopin fr

Jason Puncheon

A few updates about this set: Due to a few factors, primary of those being the high amount of high school tournaments in this difficulty range announced for the spring, we are postponing this set to be played next spring (2024) instead of this one. The set is near completion in terms of writing ...

Jason Puncheon

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO

Jason Puncheon

The field is closed now. Teams should expect a logistics email from me sometime tomorrow.

Jason Puncheon

Is there a date for determining whether this tournament will happen or not? I'm guessing we'd need at least 4 teams to be viable and right now there are at most 3 signed up. It looks like we now have approximately 4 teams worth of people, so I'm confident in saying this tournament will happen. I'm ...

Jason Puncheon

I would love a Big Ten championship. I like it less if it were online, but I understand the need in this case.

I would absolutely not send a Maryland team if these "guest" teams were invited. No offense, but fuck off!

Jason Puncheon

Reminder that this tournament is in a little less than a month. Would love to see some more signups soon!

Jason Puncheon

Having a topic like trash be included in a regular tournament, but be less than 1/1, does not make sense. Either decide that regular academic tournaments don't need trash, and be done with that, or make trash 1/1 of the distribution. This weird middle ground where trash pops up once every couple of ...

Jason Puncheon

I'm pleased to announce that the Maryland Academic Quiz Team in collaboration with the University of Indiana will, after a ten year hiatus, be reviving its spring HS set as the Maryland Spring Classic/Hoosier Invitational . The set will be head edited by Caleb Kendrick with assistance from Justin ...

Jason Puncheon

Thanks for everyone to coming out to College Park yesterday! After the playoff rounds, Virginia A was 5-0 in their bracket, while Johns Hopkins A and Maryland A were both 4-1 in the other championship bracket. On account of better playoff PPG, Johns Hopkins advanced to a one game crossover final ...

Jason Puncheon

I am pleased to announce a mirror of CMST II, to be held in person at the University of Maryland on December 3rd. More information on the set can be found here . I, Connor Mayers, will serve as the TD. Time and Location This tournament will take place at Jimenez Hall. We will start registration at 8 ...

Jason Puncheon

The field is now closed. Registered teams should have received a logistics email at the address you registered at.

Jason Puncheon

Hi y'all. I'll be organizing hosting logistics for this tournament! The set will be available for mirrors staring on November 19th, 2022. We will be open to people running this tournament into the first couple months of 2023. Sites: Northeast: MIT (12/10/22) Mid-Atlantic: Maryland (12/3/22 ...

Jason Puncheon

I am pleased to announce that the Upper Mid Atlantic site of 2022 ACF Fall will be held at Maryland on Saturday, October 15, 2022. The tournament will take place at beautiful and historical Jimenez Hall. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 am and gameplay will begin at 9:00 am. I, Connor Mayers ...

Jason Puncheon

Hello! I am pleased to announce a mirror of Winter Closed, a regular difficulty tournament, to be held in-person at the University of Maryland on September 24th, 2022. More info on the question set can be found here . Location: This tournament will take place in beautiful and historic Jimenez Hall ...

Jason Puncheon

Berniecrat wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:03 am Upper Mid-Atlantic: Cornell
Upstate NY:

edit: seems to be fixed now. mods feel free to delete

Jason Puncheon

The music, for instance, was heavy on music videos and minor bands/artists, but light on engagement with popular music as an art form (e.g. album tossups, tossups on acclaimed/artsier popular music). Contrast this with the movie questions, which I thought struck a nice balance between artsy and ...

Jason Puncheon

Another glaring example: other than, I believe, Bela Tarr, every film tossup was on a 21st century director! I will concur with this point. Although I for the most part liked the film tossups, it is strange and probably not good that every tossup was on "this director" and that they all skewed ...

Jason Puncheon

Sorry for the delay, but all of the stats are now uploaded. Congrats to the winners of the events this weekend: NASAT: [mark morrison voice] ReTUUURN of the Matt (Matt Jackson, Rahul Keyal, Michael Coates, Aaron Rosenberg) TAKETHAT: lets go brandon flowers (Victor Pavao and myself) Ontario Hybrid ...

Jason Puncheon

Stats for NASAT and TAKETHAT are now up. Hyrbid and LOGOMACHY stats should be up tomorrow.

Jason Puncheon

If you are interested in playing LOGAMACHY this afternoon, please be at Jimenez at 3 p.m.

Jason Puncheon

According to the logistical email, there will be 11 rounds. So the format won't be a round robin, then? Regarding transportation to UMD, I was planning to take an Uber from my apartment in Foggy Bottom. But, I would be open to sharing one with someone who has a similar path, or with joining any ...

Jason Puncheon

Also, I'll be finalizing the field and sending some logistics info tomorrow. If you do not want a team name assigned to you, please add it to the spreadsheet or let me know in the next day or two.

Jason Puncheon

Is there a backup set planned for Saturday night in case Tricon doesn't have enough packets to play? (that seems a possibility right now) Yes. I am adjusting the schedule now. Here is my current plan: NASAT will remain where it is. Directly after NASAT ends, we will play TAKETHAT. It's tossup only ...

Jason Puncheon

We will be running TAKETHAT, a modern music side event written by Joseph Krol, Isaac Renert, and Theo Howe. Info here . At the recommendation of Krol, we will (hopefully) run this event as a doubles tournament. I've added tabs for these events to the spreadsheet, do fill them out so I can know what ...

Jason Puncheon

Hello all. Updates time: I've updated the main post with fee information. As of now, we have 14 teams in the field for NASAT. I do not anticipate it getting bigger than that, but stranger things have happened. We will be running Matt Weiner's Tricon after NASAT on Saturday. Info here . I encourage ...

Jason Puncheon

Hi y'all! I'm very pleased to announce that Maryland will be hosting a summer open weekend in scenic College Park the weekend of July 23rd and 24th. This post is a preliminary announcement with more details to be added over time. Rough Schedule The main event on Saturday will be a mirror of 2022 ...

Jason Puncheon

This is a very preliminary announcement of a planned summer open at Maryland in July. If you think you might be interested, please vote on what weekends would work for you. The plan is to use NASAT as the main event and also run Ontario Hybrid. A third Tricon-like guerilla tournament and smaller ...

Jason Puncheon

may post some other subject ballots later, but here’s my lit ballot for now: 1. Matt Bollinger 2. Tim Morrison 3. Mitch McCullar 4. William Golden 5. Matthew Lehmann 6. Caroline Mao 7. Daniel Sheinberg 8. Henry Atkins 9. Eve Fleisig 10. Henry Goff 11. Caleb Kendrick 12. Moses Kitakule 13. Raymond W ...

Jason Puncheon

Liarr wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 1:36 am
Thought

5.Caleb Kendrick

lmao WHAT???

Jason Puncheon

Here's my ballot. Two notes: 1. I personally am in favor of stricter guidelines on who should be ranked, and in my ideal world neither MattBo or Itamar would be on my ballot. Nonetheless, I ranked them since they both played at least one closed tournament this year. 2. I valued Nats performance a ...

Jason Puncheon

At 6 teams registered, I'm going to close the field. Expect a logistics email later today.

Jason Puncheon

The time has come for me to end my long pandemic-related absence from the DC-area quizbowl community. I am offering my services as a staffer for this tournament. Also, have there been any changes to the COVID measures for this tournament, given new guidance from the CDC and new rules in the DMV ...

Jason Puncheon

I've added a tab on the spreadsheet to indicate interest in side events (TELEOLOGY and ACRONYM.) Please just put your name and email down in the column for each event that you are interested in. If you have a strong preference on when these events run, please let me know that as well (for reference ...

Jason Puncheon

msarma wrote: ↑Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:31 pm How many rounds will the tournament be? Will it be the standard 9 rounds?

This depends heavily on field size, but expect a minimum of 9 rounds.

Jason Puncheon

If there is interest, I'd also be willing to run a TELEOLOGY or ACRONYM mirror in conjunction with this tournament, whether it be late on Saturday or on Sunday.

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