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- Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What will NAQT do for their nationals in 2008?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 36811
How many teams wanted to go to the HSNCT that were left out of the 160 team field? Were there, for instance, enough to get to 192? My impression from several discussions was that there were maybe 10 or so teams who didn't get off the waitlist. How much that translates into additional demand (intere...
- Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What will NAQT do for their nationals in 2008?
- Replies: 100
- Views: 36811
I don't think expanding supply by having multiple sites is feasible for many reasons, the chief of which is that HSNCT requires a high concentration of people with comparatively rare skills, many of whom NAQT consequently pays to transport in. That cost doesn't scale well with an increase in site n...
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pennsylvania '07-'08
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7142
Eric, I believe NAQT treats Pennsylvania as two entities: http://www.naqt.com/hs/geographic-exclusivity.html If they can synch up the packets or dates correctly, Charter intends to go to either Pittsburgh, or possibly State College next year. The former would be preferable so that we can actually p...
- Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pennsylvania '07-'08
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7142
Pitt has generally run two standard NAQT IS tournaments each year, one in the fall (October, usually), and Battle of the Burgh in February. CMU also traditionally runs a NAQT tournament at some point in the year, and we've coordinated A-level sets at various points in the region. Given the geographi...
- Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:44 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Thread for People who Like NAC
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10496
- Wed May 30, 2007 10:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: Maggie Walker wins 2007 HSNCT!
- Replies: 138
- Views: 52005
- Tue May 01, 2007 3:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Leisure time in Chicago
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12003
I'll second the suggestion about the Art Institute. My wife and I spent most of the Friday before the tournament looking around last year, and it was an absolute treat. Assuming we get the chance, we'll probably hit the Shedd Aquarium this year. Several friends who grew up in the area highly recomme...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Trash or Lit?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9200
- Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2007 HSNCT Field is Full
- Replies: 107
- Views: 42402
It's doubtless that some teams on the wait list is far superior than some teams already in . . . but that's irrelelvant. If anything, blame NAQT for their severe lack of foresight. I really hope the situation would have improved by next year. Seriously, what would you have them do? They already exp...
- Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Format of science questions
- Replies: 58
- Views: 26747
For what it's worth (and that's not a whole lot), the lack of an index reference to the Venturi effect in one particular edition of a fluid mechanics textbook is decidedly not indicative of its accessibility or commonality. I would expect any 3rd year mechanical or chemical engineer to know it by na...
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WHO IS THE GREATEST STALKER IN THE RUNNING MAN?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4164
Voting for Captain Freedom would sort of be like choosing sideline reporter Steve Tasker as the greatest athlete on the field during a Texans-Raiders game. It might be true, but it sort of goes against the spirit of the question. I had to go with Dynamo for the simple reason that he was relatively t...
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MLK Discussion finally open
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5096
Re: Pitt C's
I don't want to be insulting and say "oh, you just suck," but the challenge is trying to write questions that will discriminate between the top teams and still be gettable for the bottom teams. To do that, the question has to be reasonably long and contain many clues. Just as a random tho...
- Sat Feb 03, 2007 12:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Demographic Underrepresentation: questions and rosters in qb
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20086
Here is where I disagree. Being in the United States, you focus on what impacts the United States. I think there should be AT LEAST one per twenty-two questions through the diversity of the writers, even without a quota. I'll assume you mean one per packet as opposed to 22 questions. Consider the d...
- Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Demographic Underrepresentation: questions and rosters in qb
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20086
What I really don't understand is why there were plenty of Asian (I include Middle-Eastern in this just for this particular case) participants, but no hispanics or african-american participants. You shouldn't have to go throughout the school to look for one just to put on the team, but why don't th...
- Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: February Avatars
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10463
- Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: February Avatars
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10463
In case someone hasn't seen it yet ...
http://www.bearvscolt.com/
Oh, and Ditka is, as always, god-like in his awesomeness.
http://www.bearvscolt.com/
Oh, and Ditka is, as always, god-like in his awesomeness.
- Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: exit, voice and loyalty
- Replies: 85
- Views: 39313
The open tournament based on packet submission is dead. And I don't really care. This statement speaks volumes about the current state of the circuit. It's been apparent for a while that the level of questions demanded by the cadre of active, involved players far outstrips the production capacity o...
- Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Worst Question EVER...
- Replies: 92
- Views: 38562
- Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Recruiting "Troubled" Athletes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3552
I think the bigger crime is when a university passes over a more deserving student just to save a spot for an athlete whose grades maybe make the minimum to enter, but in fact are worse than other perspective students. The problem with this statement is that it just doesn't square with the realitie...
- Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Team in Tournament?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11627
I'd echo the sentiment that if a tournament is written in-house, it's generally poor form to field house teams, unless that team is made up of much younger players and used to round out the field. One big thing to consider is that if your questions are written in-house, fielding house teams eliminat...
- Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southern Virginia Tournament?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 18461
Generally a sound principle, but would it be preferable for this tournament to be played on inferior (college) intramural questions? In this case, an IS is preferable. IS sets are more rigorous and generally of a significantly higher competitive value than the annual IMs. IMs are intended for use a...
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2007 NAQT High School National Championship
- Replies: 40
- Views: 15057
I think the dissatisfaction with the Chicago location isn't that Chicago is boring, it's that the Crowne Plaza is a 45-minute train ride from actual Chicago. The last two years, it hasn't been feasible for us to spend extra time there, so there was no way to actually go do Chicago stuff. The extent...
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2007 NAQT High School National Championship
- Replies: 40
- Views: 15057
Interesting to see the date shift to late May, right before Memorial Day, instead of continuing to grab the first weekend in June. My guess is that it accomplishes a few things: * Since most folks will have Monday off, travel arrangements will likely be easier for everyone. * Earlier date means les...
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SEC tournament?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13923
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 6:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
Matt, I don't think it's really all that odd. There are some hard numbers on the relative popularity of various things throughout the culture (ratings, attendance figures, sales, etc), and if something reaches a particular threshold of popularity, it probably demands at least a few token questions t...
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
When I ran Pitt's trash events back in the day, we combined TV and movies into one big Visual Media category. I still like this idea, particularly since it has the flexibility to include the non-traditional stuff that's so popular among the college crowd these days. I'm intrigued by this. So would ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 3:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
The only thing I think is systematically wrong with most coarse trash distributions as such is the exclusion or marginalization of videogames, which are both ripe for questions and as popular as television or movies by some metrics. While gaming may be quite popular, is it really all that ripe for ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 11:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
Just to answer my own questions: When I ran Pitt's trash events back in the day, we combined TV and movies into one big Visual Media category. I still like this idea, particularly since it has the flexibility to include the non-traditional stuff that's so popular among the college crowd these days. ...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15953
Ideal trashy distribution?
Since discussion of the Gottfried Keller event has sparked some criticism of its distribution and those of other trashy events, I figured it might be worthwhile to ask people for their ideas on the ideal trash / pop culture packet distribution. The general distribution for most trash packet submissi...
- Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33567
Proper pronunciation (and spelling) are just trivia compared to the knowledge of subjects which are tested in quizbowl. Moderators should have broad discretion to accept reasonable equivalents, particularly when a player is demonstrating clear and complete knowledge. I tend to be fairly lenient when...
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bible/Old Testament Questions: Un-Quizbowl worthy?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20052
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bible/Old Testament Questions: Un-Quizbowl worthy?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20052
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bible/Old Testament Questions: Un-Quizbowl worthy?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20052
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bible/Old Testament Questions: Un-Quizbowl worthy?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20052
- Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bible/Old Testament Questions: Un-Quizbowl worthy?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20052
Re: Bible/Old Testament Questions: Un-Quizbowl worthy?
I don't think you're going to get any support for this notion here. You're pretty much 100% offbase in your comments. Like it or not, religion has played a huge part in human culture and history for the past 6,000+ years. To refuse to have questions based around this fact is simply burying our colle...
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quizbowl
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3685
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Are there ever an open NAC-style tournaments?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7069
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Are there ever an open NAC-style tournaments?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7069
I'll go ahead and bite with a serious, explanatory response. My guess is that pappy and I have similar HS backgrounds -- my school (Friendswood HS, Texas) only did the Texaco Star Chip thingy during my freshman and sophomore years, playing only 2-3 games per year before we were eliminated in the TV ...
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Are there ever an open NAC-style tournaments?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7069
Re: Are there ever an open NAC-style tournaments?
Amen, though I suspect we might have different reasons ...E.T. Chuck wrote:and we all thank God there is no college Decathlon circuit.
- Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QU-The field in Chicago
- Replies: 144
- Views: 65702
Any good quiz team player should know to say both the title and the author if they're not sure what the question is asking for. You are correct in that a player who doesn't know whether the question is asking for the creator or the creation should use the old blitz rule. However, good question writ...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:12 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 144941
Since when is the weaker team supposed to have a chance? Isn't the point of the game to figure out the smarter team? No, I think the point of the game is to determine who is able to accumulate the most points on a particular set of questions during the course of a tossup+bonus buzzer game. Knowledg...
- Wed Jun 07, 2006 2:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: high school-to-college thread, redux
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5594
As far as I know, he's always in the process of updating / maintaining it.KilroyWasHere wrote:Does anybody know if Dwight Kidder's contact list is being updated for 2006?
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 144941
umm, because they answered it correctly? You don't want a team to get bounceback points scored against you, you answer it correctly first, it's fairly simple. I like games that are more knowledge-based like that. They answered nothing; the other team beat them to the tossup. Whether or not the toss...
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 144941
- Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 144941
A couple of very general observations about the HSNCT from a reader's perspective: 1. Contrary to some of the posts here, I didn't notice any shift in distribution or emphasis from previous sets. I think some of the reaction may be coming from the use of some current event-type leadins to other ques...
- Sun May 28, 2006 12:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSNCT Question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5297
Don't assume that last year's format will be used this year ... there is a larger field, and the logistics of these kind of tournaments is nuts. Last I heard things weren't finalized, but based on what I have been told, it would be safe to assume that teams won't have too much time between matches u...
- Thu May 25, 2006 10:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion on why short tossups are terrible
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17501
Re: SO TO FOLLOWUP...
On the opposite side of the aisle, we engage in short pyramid questions all the time in writing bonus questions. Not to pick nits here, but I don't think this is true at all, unless you count the (increasingly unpopular) 30-20-10. Bonuses test a different set of knowledge and skills than tossups. B...