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Jack

Let me apologize to the good folks at Chicago, first. The use of Chicago C was purely a stand-in to make a greater point, which is: "To some extent, it may not be optimal to have a purely first-come first serve basis, and we may want to allow for some team diversity to the extent that ACF Natio...

Jack

This seems pretty reasonable given the circumstances, though I'd like to make one suggestion. As a precaution for the possibility of a lot of demand and not enough slots to try out enough teams, I think it would be a good idea to initially restrict registration for this event to a school's A and B t...

Jack

Since I think this would be of public interest, I'll ask this question here: should we, the general quiz bowl audience, view the conceptualization and existence of the supersite as an indicator that there is a possibility that ACF Nationals will not be held this academic year? As best I can tell, no...

Jack

I agree that Zoom is the simpler platform to host a tournament on. It also generally has better audio and video, although it's a relatively small difference and I've anecdotally heard some people having better experience with one vs. the other. I've personally experienced quite a noticeable differe...

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When the realization that qb would have to be online first hit, I mostly felt that Discord would be preferable to Zoom for online qb. I now feel the opposite. Having staffed over both Discord and Zoom and having played over Discord, I think at this point Zoom seems to be better in nearly every regar...

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https://i.imgur.com/48bCgxt.png For some reason, I decided to make a density chart of three tournaments' PPBs that all should roughly have been similar in difficulty -- this tournament, LIT, and EFT 2019. From the looks of it, it's clear to me that this tournament's bonuses were slightly easier tha...

Jack

Could I see the tossup on the 1960s? I believe it was just our moderator accidentally skipping over parts of the question (they stopped and then continued to read during the first line), but, from what they read, the first line seemed to be extremely ambiguous and not uniquely identifying.

Jack

Most of these are good additions to the rules, but there are a couple that seem unnecessarily rigid to me. Specifically, these two: Added Section DX.2.B: "Whether or not a player buzzed before, at, or within less than a syllable after the power mark is a matter of moderator judgment, and is not...

Jack

I pretty much agree with everything suggested by Mike. I remember bringing something similar to this up a looong time ago in the discord (though I think my point was that having the more intimate stuff in #politics, #mental-health, etc., might be off-putting to new qbers who join), and I'm glad to s...

Jack

I'm a bit late to this party, and perhaps I've misunderstood the exact details of this proposed "monopolization" since I don't have access to any emails (meaning I'm speculating here), but I am a bit confused why people are so dismissive of this post. The concerns raised in the top of the ...

Jack

Thank you. Thank you for this. I don't know if I'll be able to play, but I'm sure reading it will be just as awesome. (as an aside, I hope you're not counting the great players Jacob Ardown and Olly Postanin as "meme" content.)

Jack

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and presume a healthy majority of people currently involved in college quiz bowl don't know that "biking" means some form of cheating, and even fewer know it specifically refers to what "Player Y" did. Just say "googling tossups." The statistica...

Jack

While the Zoom idea is cool and interesting, almost certainly the biggest problem with it is that unless someone was paying for Zoom (which is relatively cheap, but still requires a fee, unlike discord) then you would have serious limits on what you are able to do on the platform. You could maybe d...

Jack

This has been brought up already, but you have to have somebody monitoring all of these feeds. Staff are already scarce. My idea is not that staff are monitoring it live (sorry if I wasn't clear about this), but that the recording exists, so that, in the case there are accusations of cheating, you ...

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A possible way to mitigate cheating In the era of Zoom University, why should we stop with just school and work for uses of Zoom? Here is how Zoom could potentially be used to mitigate online quiz bowl cheating. *disclaimer: I have never played nor staffed an online tournament, so if I'm wildly off...

Jack

I think I speak for everyone at Princeton when I say we would all favor 3 seconds instead of 2. All the points Will brought up, especially about inconsistent timing rules being applied by mods who just feel bad negging after 2 seconds, seem to suggest that 3 would be a constructive and welcome change.

Jack

We were seriously considering reinstating the Columbia mirror, perhaps under some conditions or expectations, given the understandable backlash to our decision, but since we learned that Will threatened to steal our question set, we decided that we are unwilling to do so. Given that this tournament...

Jack

Although today I can't say whether or not Princeton will play this tournament, it is definitely a lot less likely that we will play (at College Park) if the Columbia mirror really is cancelled.

Jack

I would hope ACF would re-publish or re-release this survey after Regionals and/or Nationals, as I assume a lot of the questions might have different or more complete answers following those 2020 tournaments. I agree with this. Also, part of the reason that I suggest sending this survey directly to...

Jack

] Chiming in as the person who put this together: This was done to ensure anonymity and allow staffers, observers, and members of the wider quizbowl community a chance to weigh in. We’ve also shared it across all of our social media platforms and public spaces dedicated to quizbowl discussion. We’l...

Jack

I'm very happy to see that ACF is trying to get feedback, but I would like to humbly suggest this survey be re-released by being emailed to college clubs directly (assuming the club contact list is complete) rather than being just left on a forum post where anyone on the site can give feedback. I th...

Jack

1. Decrease the size of submissions. For a team of new writers, 12/12 is a lot ... the burden could be significantly lessened by reducing the submission size to 6/6 (or even 4/4). I can't add much to add to the overall discussion, but I wanted to say this seems like a great idea. There certainly mu...

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Agreed, Swarthmore will not be able to play if this is moved before Regionals and would love to attend. I should have just clarified that by "strongly prefer" I really mean to say what Rebecca is saying. We also can't come if it's before Regionals because of our final exam & study per...

Jack

Although the 15th is fine for us, if the date is moved, we would very strongly prefer that it be moved to a later date, and not early January before Regionals.

Jack

A few people pointed out some errors in the final stats. These all should be fixed now, and I have sent NAQT the new stats. If there are any other name/spelling errors, please let me know and I will fix them.

Thanks for coming everyone, hope to see you next year!

Jack

Congratulations to Hunter College HS A for winning the tournament, amassing a 10-1 record, and defeating High Tech A in a one game final -- only losing once to Manheim Township. In the third place game, Millburn A beat East Brunswick A, and in the fifth place game, Manheim Township A defeated Robert...

Jack

Stats are uploaded here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5789/
We may be a bit behind uploading the stats, as Yellowfruit crashed on us midway through round 2. We're working to get live stats up ASAP!

Thanks to Brian Lu from Rutgers for offering to stats for us today!

Jack

We've expanded the field to 30 teams based on room and staffer availability. We hope to get to 36 in the coming days. I've also just submitted our PACE certification request, so expect to hear about this soon. We anticipate the highest level (Platinum, I believe) being applied to the tournament, as ...

Jack

An update: Unfortunately, Princeton still has yet to give me any information about our room reservation and event registration, and the online system still says it's "awaiting initial confirmation." Because of this, I can't expand the waitlist yet. I apologize for everyone waiting. This we...

Jack

Google Form has been updated and should work now, sorry about that!

Jack

The Princeton University Quiz Bowl club will host the 27th Princeton High School Academic Tournament, PHSAT XXVII, tentatively on Saturday, September 28, 2019. We will be using NAQT IS-186, which is standard high school difficulty. The tournament will be structured as a series of bracketed, round-ro...

Jack

I think one could write some great bonuses in the Skyrim packet. Do you plan to upload the packets online afterwards?

Jack

Congratulations to Nitin Rao and Will DiGrande of Penn A, who won the tournament. Wilmington Charter took second place. There were a ton of competitive matches throughout the day, with many close wins and upsets. Stats can be found here. I'd also like to thank Eric Wolfsberg and Rahul Rao-Pothuraju ...

Jack

If there are any teams interested in registering at the last minute, please do so by Tuesday evening at the latest. Thank you!

Stats will also be available here, and I will try to upload the files at the end of each round people can follow along.

Jack

We are currently considering hosting the BUMPY II visual movie packet as a side event during this tournament. It is my understanding that the fee is $5 per person, so if you're interested, please let me know (staffers welcome to play!). JJ (or someone else from Rutgers) will be the point man for col...

Jack

CPiGuy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:11 pm Ugh, I knew I'd missed something.

The tournament will have powers.

Jack

The distribution, difficulty, and length of tossups of this tournament together look very appealing. Looking forward to playing this at Rutgers next year! Will this tournament be powermarked, or is it 10's and negs only?

Jack

Our mirror of FST is now taking place on Sunday, and we have once again raised the field limit to 16. Get your registrations in!

Jack

I want to let everyone know that our FST mirror may be moved to Sunday, April 28th . Unfortunately, our scheduling office has decided that Mock Trial will be granted precedence over contested claims to rooms. What this means is that, unless we move the tournament, our new field cap is ten . That sai...

Jack

For what it's worth, some of the schools in NJ I emailed this year about coming to good qb tournaments had told me that one of the reasons they stopped coming to events was that they found the matches too difficult (i.e. the other teams were far better than they were comparatively, not that the cont...

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ansonberns wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:49 pm Just commenting to say that it is in fact accurate that Blair is bringing 2 teams despite them being listed separately.

If that's the case, given what Nitin said, then there are actually 19 teams registered for this tournament, I believe, unless another team was not fully updated.

Jack

I believe I emailed about this, but seeing as we are still listed with two teams, I want to clarify that Princeton is only bringing one team, one buzzer, and no staffers. I apologize for any confusion and I hope this hasn't prevented another team from registering. Edit: Also, I believe you have incl...

Jack

You could compute it with area under the curve too. The Gini coefficient is the area above divided by the total. I was just thinking it would work better this way because then a "harder" tournament would have a higher number.

Jack

This may not be specifically germane to the discussion at hand, but seeing the graph immediately made me think of Lorentz curves and Gini coefficients. Now, don't get me wrong, I've never edited a quiz bowl question in my life, and anything I've ever written has probably been terrible, but I wonder ...

Jack

After reading the definition for "new players", I mostly agree. (I think this should be more explicit because the way the post is worded, it makes it sound like no grad students who played in undergrad should be playing -- when that does not seem to be the intent.) Without stated goals fo...

Jack

In light of the recent kerfuffle surrounding tournaments geared for newer players, I would like to issue an addendum to the eligibility of players for this tournament, whose purpose is, per the editors, "to provide an accessible tournament for new college quiz bowl players that will still be en...

Jack

Looking forward to it! How may teams may we field? User reminded to add signature and asked to change username -mgmt Right now, we don't have a hard limit imposed, but I guess if you're planning on bringing five or more teams we may ask you to contribute a staffer? I hadn't really thought about it....

Jack

The Princeton University Quiz Bowl club is pleased to announce that our Mid-Atlantic mirror of the 2019 Florida Spring Tournament will take place on Sunday, April 28th, 2019. This tournament is a "Regular Minus" difficulty, or one dot of difficulty according to the college quiz bowl calend...

Jack

Congratulations to Lenape Regional A, who won the tournament after 10 rounds and a final, going 10-1, and winning that close final against the only team that managed to beat them, East Brunswick A. We hope the teams had a great time! Here are the overall stats. For any teams that couldn't make it, w...

Jack

So this tournament will be happening next weekend. We had an eight team field, but our 8th team appears to be on the verge of dropping. If you were on the fence about coming to this event, please email me ASAP and let me know if you're still interested. Again, the rules above still apply, but I woul...

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