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jacke

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 weekend and ...

jacke

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

jacke

The Princeton University Quiz Bowl club will host the 27th Princeton High School Academic Tournament, PHSAT XXVII, tentatively on Saturday, September 28, 2019. We intend to use an NAQT IS set as usual. The tournament will be structured as a series of bracketed, round-robin preliminary matches follow...

jacke

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

jacke

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 ...

jacke

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.

jacke

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...

jacke

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

The tournament will have powers.

jacke

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?

jacke

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!

jacke

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...

jacke

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.

jacke

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...

jacke

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.

jacke

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 ...

jacke

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 for the fiel...

jacke

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 engagin...

jacke

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....

jacke

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 calendar . To le...

jacke

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...

jacke

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...

jacke

We are proud to announce our first ever PRInceton Novice Tournament [PRINT]. This tournament will be taking place on December 15th, 2018. Our question set is the Pennsylvania State Academic Coaches Association's "Groundhog Day" set. The tournament will be taking place in either the Friend Center or ...

jacke

I've fixed all the stat mistakes, but I'm having trouble getting SQBS to organize all the teams by the divisions we had in place for the playoffs in the competitive bracket. I'll take another crack at SQBS tomorrow and then upload them. Thank you all for your patience. Also, if you have any last sta...

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Congratulations to our champion Hunter College HS A who won the competitive division outright after an 11 round tournament. Our runner-up was Wilmington Charter. In the standard division, High Tech D went undefeated and won the tournament after a nine round, round robin tournament. Our runner-up was...

jacke

So I neglected to mention this at the opening meeting this morning:

PHSAT XXVI is PACE platinum certified! The top 6 teams in competitive division should receive invitations to PACE via their placement. More to come on this after the tournament concludes.

jacke

For teams who have not sent me their team, buzzer, and staffer confirmations, please do so by tonight as originally requested, or at the very least tomorrow morning. Also, note that because many teams have dropped, we do have space for more teams at this time.

jacke

Information regarding logistics has been sent to all email addresses that were collected via registration. If you didn't get a logistics email last night, please let me know immediately and I will forward you the information. Thank you!

jacke

Last year, I believe the Frist Center was used for the lower bracket's preliminary games, and then switched for the playoffs to the competitive playoffs. This year, teams should expect to be in the same building for both preliminary and playoff rounds. I can also now say that we are officially using...

jacke

alexdz wrote:FYI... September 29 is 9/29/18.

Whoops

.. title has been fixed

jacke

The Princeton University Quiz Bowl club is pleased to (finally!) announce that Princeton High School Academic Tournament (PHSAT) XXVI will take place on Saturday, September 29, 2018. We intend to use an NAQT IS set, as we have done in the past. The tournament will be structured as a series of bracke...

jacke

In the spirit of full disclosure and ensuring all its customers are aware of the decision, will NAQT also be issuing this statement on its website or social media accounts?

jacke

As it stands now, Princeton University will be tentatively holding PHSAT XXVI on September 29th, 2018, and will also be tentatively holding an as-of-yet unnamed novice tournament on December 8th, 2018. This novice tournament will likely be exclusively for high schools in New Jersey, and will carry e...

jacke

Note that the splitting of the NY/NJ field posts is for the following reason: This has been discussed before, but it may be time to start thinking about splitting the NJ and NY circuits (i.e. running mirrors of the same set in both states). This could allow for greater outreach on both sides of the ...

jacke

Now, for what I can contribute to this thread, I definitely think that institutional continuity poses a major issue for college quiz bowl in most cases. I'm nevertheless unconditionally proud of the difference between what the Princeton club looks like now and what the Princeton club looked like be...

jacke

Have you considered not reserving rooms on behalf of NHBB if they continue to run bad tournaments? It seems like they are reflecting badly on your club, even if you aren't associated with them. Basically, NHBB could reserve rooms anyway without us helping (and since David Madden is an alum '00 of P...

jacke

This might be a quick tangent, but I cannot agree more with this. I can't speak for the entire country, but over the last four years, I have seen a precipitous decline in the quality in college-led tournaments in our area (PHSAT, the NHBB A set usually hosted at Princeton, and especially the Columb...

jacke

Certainly, though, if ACF sets became powermarked, it should be done meticulously, as you suggest.

jacke

To be clear, I don't think powers are unfair, but they do play a role in the game's outcome in my opinion, just as negs do. That doesn't make them good or bad, just a note that if you're going to have powers, you have to place them carefully because they are important. That's true, sorry for misrep...

jacke

I have no opinion on powers. I think they're fun and I wouldn't mind if quizbowl had them or didn't. I do question the assertion that powers play no role in affecting the outcome of games. In a 20 tossup packet, that's potentially 100 points in swing involving powers. This is certainly possible, bu...

jacke

Thanks to Princeton High School and especially Monty for a well-done tournament. It was great to help the local circuit, and hopefully some of us at Princeton University can help at more local HS and MS events in the future. Nice to see some new schools made it today, too. Hope to see some familiar ...

jacke

Eric and Mike are hitting the nail on the head with their posts. I was following the discussion of the packet that was analyzed in the quiz bowl discord, and many of the questions had extremely skewed buzzpoints (and some even had major difficulty cliffs-- which are now represented as actual cliffs!...

jacke

When I was a freshman, we got destroyed by Michigan and Chicago at our first tournament. Afterwards, I was pretty demoralized . I felt like JL, Auroni, and Will knew more than I'd ever know. However, instead quitting or complaining, I studied and got better. Sure, it was exhausting. Sure, we got ou...

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am i supposed to read the thing about people who have played quizbowl for comparable amounts of time to the time he's been alive to say that he's younger than 10 years old then? I'd wager he's just taking the opportunity to voice his opinion, not to troll or anything. I say good for him since it sa...

jacke

yo I get that playing long questions tougher than you're used to is hard but please explain but you mean by "better pyramidality" I assume he's probably thinking something like "all the tossups in the beginning of questions are clues that are all equally too difficult followed by a difficulty cliff...

jacke

In retrospect, and in response to Mike, I'll say that it might make more sense for a "DII" division to exist. While I certainly respect and support the notion that some early, harder clues can be used as a learning tool for even the best players, it is still empirically apparent that too many teams ...

jacke

As someone who is "new" to collegiate quiz bowl and the quiz bowl scene in general, I have to say I find Ryan's post particularly striking. I did not play this year's ACF Regionals (thanks Princeton final exam schedule), but two members of our team managed to make the trek. I heard from them and oth...

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monty wrote:Is this tournament for schools located within Philadelphia only?

I think it has been in the past, since it also serves as the qualifier for the PA Academic Competition.

jacke

We had a great time playing this set. There were some questions that I know other players said they thought were a little easy (mostly bonuses), but for the most part it was well received from what I heard. I should mention though that one bonus erroneously referred to Victor Hugo as the author of t...

jacke

Prelim stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4683/stats/prelims/ I know you guys don't have your stats done yet, but my name is erroneously listed as Edmonton (this was almost assuredly our fault). The correct spelling is "Edmondson." Can you guys change this by any chan...

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