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- Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:19 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: MODAQ (MODerator Assistant for Quizbowl)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 341
Re: MODAQ (MODerator Assistant for Quizbowl)
If anyone has a scoresheet format that also tracks buzz points, let me know and we can look into adding it as an export option.
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:11 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: MODAQ (MODerator Assistant for Quizbowl)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 341
MODAQ (MODerator Assistant for Quizbowl)
MODAQ ( MOD erator A ssistant for Q uizbowl) is a web application that lets moderators read and scorekeep in the same window, making it easier to manage games. Features Read and scorekeep in the same browser tab Track buzz point data Import rosters and export results to a Lifsheets scoresheet. Load ...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 7:23 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 338
Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP)
Yet Another Packet Parser (YAPP) is a parser for quiz bowl packets. Some of its features are: Converts packets in a docx file to HTML and JSON Can convert each packet in a zip file Specific error messages that give a line number and text near where the parser failed Configurable in how many lines to...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:00 am
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Recent downtime
- Replies: 0
- Views: 401
Recent downtime
The server was down for about 2 hours on 1/15/2021. The cause is still unknown, but upgrading some packages fixed the issue. If you notice anything that has broken, please let me know.
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- Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:41 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Score Tracker (Discord)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 674
Quiz Bowl Score Tracker (Discord)
The Quiz Bowl Score Tracker bot is a Discord bot for tracking scores during scrimmages or games. It is currently used in several servers, including the main Quizbowl and hsquizbowl ones. Some of its features include: Tracking scores and splits for tossup-only shootouts or regular tossup/bonus games ...
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 1:11 pm
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Potential downtime the week of 12/7/2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 528
Re: Potential downtime the week of 12/7/2020
Forums were down for ~30 minutes on December 11th. It's now upgraded. Please let me know of any new issues you find.
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:17 am
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Potential downtime the week of 12/7/2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 528
Potential downtime the week of 12/7/2020
We'll be upgrading the forum software, so there will be some downtime this week for the forums. This should only last several minutes.
- Sun Aug 09, 2020 3:18 am
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Potential downtime August 8th or August 9th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1028
Re: Potential downtime August 8th or August 9th
Update completed. I'm still working on fixing the forums logo; that should get finished in a couple days.
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- Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:36 am
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Potential downtime August 8th or August 9th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1028
Potential downtime August 8th or August 9th
I'll be upgrading our version of phpBB, which runs the forums, late on either August 8th or August 9th, 2020. The forums may be down for several minutes. If you notice any problems or bugs after the upgrade, please let me know.
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 3:53 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11808
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
Feedback for Alejandro's bot: [...] • It's more rigid in how the tournament will work. It can set up a schedule for you and create round/room pairs, but can't currently do things like support a cross-bracket playoff structure or making sure the best teams aren't playing each other in the first game...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:19 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Discord Tournament Assistant
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1009
Re: Discord Tournament Assistant
A new version of the bot is out. The bot now supports the following: Checking the schedule of the tournament with !schedule Rebracketing with !rebracket, which will create new rooms for those rounds and assign the correct roles to those rooms Checking the list of commands with !help If you want to u...
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:38 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Discord Tournament Assistant
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1009
Discord Tournament Assistant
The Quiz Bowl Discord Tournament Assistant bot sets up all of the channels and permissions needed to host an online tournament on Discord in minutes. It will ask the tournament director for a list of readers, list of team names, and the number of round robins. From there, it generates the round robi...
- Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6639
Re: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
Using an .xlsx as the input file doesn't really work, and it's easy enough to change into a csv. If you have Excel 2016 or later, you can also use Power Query to calculate BPA by adding the Excel table as a source (disclaimer: I work on Power Query). Here's a sample for ACF Regionals 2018 . The app...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 3:51 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Joint Quizbowl Project
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4371
Re: Joint Quizbowl Project
3. An implementation of Ophir's "jumping between tossups and bonuses with the stroke of a single key" outside the context of advanced stats. I am guessing this should be fairly straightforward, though I could be wrong. You can split the window into two, depending on your viewer. You can d...
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 9:08 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Joint Quizbowl Project
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4371
Re: Joint Quizbowl Project
6. A comprehensive feng shui-incorporating packetization tool, such that the intersection of every reasonable non-contradictory feng shui request can be implemented. Just a warning from someone who's tried this in the past: even simple sounding constraints, like no two questions in a row on Japan o...
- Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:58 am
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Potential downtime February 4th, 2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1858
Re: Potential downtime February 4th, 2020
Upgrade completed. Forums went down for ~15 minutes. If you see any unexpected changes, please PM me.
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- Tue Feb 04, 2020 3:58 am
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Potential downtime February 4th, 2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1858
Potential downtime February 4th, 2020
I'll be upgrading our version of phpBB, which runs the forums, late on February 4th, 2020. The forums may be down for several minutes. If you notice any problems or bugs after the upgrade, please let me know.
- Fri Aug 16, 2019 3:32 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Introducing QuizDroid PacketBuilder (qems csv --> packetized LaTeX pdfs)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6449
Re: Introducing QuizDroid PacketBuilder (qems csv --> packetized LaTeX pdfs)
Now, since each individual category is too small, they're concatenated into major categories: History: 6 Fine Arts: 6 And then these groups of "excess tossups" would be split among the packets. Does the packetizer respect minimum/maximum category and subcategory quotas? Like Mike, I've st...
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 11:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 40855
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
* Tossups will be hard-capped at 8 lines. Please feel free to submit tossups that are longer than 8 lines, but do not submit any tossups that are shorter than 7 lines, or we will send them back to you. It seems like the other references to 7 were changed, so I just wanted to double-check: can we su...
- Sun Apr 16, 2017 8:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5695
Re: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Can I see the traveling salesman bonus? I want to see if there were clues that distinguished that part from the Hamiltonian Cycle problem.
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5695
Re: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could I see the tossup on lines?
- Fri May 08, 2015 2:14 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Question classification
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7141
Re: Question classification
The reason the data set is relatively small is that I had to manually read and categorize 60 packets worth of questions. In R, I used the total number of words in each category as a variable. Unfortunately, I won't have much time to work on this for some time, but hopefully I'll get around to it so...
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Oxford Open North America Online (03/01/2015)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 38740
Re: Announcement: Oxford Open North America Online (03/01/20
Those numbers look correct. It was a low-scoring game.The Ununtiable Twine wrote:Round 3's score between Benji and Jonathan/Alejandro seems a bit low - perhaps this is the right score but it seems really low compared to the others.
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Oxford Open North America Online (03/01/2015)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 38740
Re: Announcement: Oxford Open North America Online (03/01/20
I'm interested in playing this. I'm willing to be a free agent.
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF eligibility rule changes for 2015-2016
- Replies: 74
- Views: 31657
Re: ACF eligibility rule changes for 2015-2016
Incomplete list of major changes to the A-value list by eliminating HS teams: Washington's final A-value would have increased by more than 50 points, although their raw A-value only increased by 2 points, because the order-of-finish correction averaging it with Saratoga HS would have been eliminate...
- Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 Regionals: thread for all things science
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5315
Re: 2015 Regionals: thread for all things science
Could I see the max-flow question? I believe that "network flow" or "flow networks" should be promptable or acceptable for much of it since the question asks about a group of problems and max-flow problems are generally classified under network flow/flow network problems (see her...
- Fri Apr 18, 2014 2:12 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: quizbowl and technology: a proposal
- Replies: 43
- Views: 27209
Re: quizbowl and technology: a proposal
I don't have too much time these days, but I'd be willing to help out on the security end. I can also help write test cases if needed.
- Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:23 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
- Replies: 177
- Views: 151324
Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things
I've gotten at least 3 tossups on or mentioning Howards End based solely on this scene from The Critic.
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 1:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Learning Computer Science
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1537
Re: Learning Computer Science
A lot of computer science questions at the high school level are on data structures or basic algorithms like sorting. An AP Computer Science study guide should help, especially if you can find one for the now-discontinued AB test which covered more data structures like stacks and heaps.
- Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:02 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: BEeS source code
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2033
BEeS source code
There hasn’t been any work done specifically on BEeS for over a year, so we decided to release the source code. Much of it is incomplete (and could use a code quality cleanup), but there is a packet parser that can read doc and docx files and convert them to formats like HTML and JSON. The success r...
- Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bonus part conversion data
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1908
Bonus part conversion data
We can gather conversion data about tossups in a straightforward manner, but we cannot do the same for bonus parts because we only record the bonus total. If scorekeepers kept track of which parts were answered we could get bonus part conversion data which would help determine the actual difficulty ...
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Logistics - Questions
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4449
Re: Chicago Open Logistics - Questions
I can moderate.
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 8:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 150
- Views: 22760
Re: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
There's question that stands out and it was the first tossup in either rounds 10, 12 or 14. (I want to say one of the first two but I really cannot remember.) Anyway, it was on something math related (I don't recall the answer.) but it read something like "First do this. Then do this. Then do ...
- Mon Apr 04, 2011 2:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 165
- Views: 58187
Re: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
As requested I used the 2010 ACF Nationals to test the stat we used. To test only the stat I did no sorting based on W-L. As such the statistic was able to predict the Preliminary outcome to and overall accuracy of 71%. This is better than the calculated values for other tie breakers, and this is t...
- Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Discussion
- Replies: 79
- Views: 19828
Re: Illinois Open Discussion
A couple of points. 1) The giveaway for the queue tossup is misleading. A "horizontal stack" does not describe a queue since a horizontal stack would still be a last-in, first-out data structure (unlike a queue, which is first-in, first-out). 2) There were too many tossups asking for "...
- Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IO Mirror (3/5/2011) at UC Irvine
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4154
Re: IO Mirror (3/5/2011) at UC Irvine
We should be bringing 2 teams and a buzzer system to this tournament.
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IO Mirror (3/5/2011) at UC Irvine
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4154
Re: IO Mirror (3/5/2011) at UC Irvine
We're having trouble finding transportation again, although there's still hope. If we can't get a car, though, is there any feasible way to get to Irvine through public transportation?Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I think Alejandro said that Claremont might be coming, but that could be old information.
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: talk about individual questions here
- Replies: 124
- Views: 18830
Re: talk about individual questions here
A couple small issues:
There was a question in DII on the New York World that seemed to reuse the leadin from last year's SCT.
The set bonus has a confusing description for intersection: it says that it is the operation that takes the elements from X and Y, which can also describe union.
There was a question in DII on the New York World that seemed to reuse the leadin from last year's SCT.
The set bonus has a confusing description for intersection: it says that it is the operation that takes the elements from X and Y, which can also describe union.
- Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CONFIRMED: MUT mirror at ASU-Tempe, 3/19/11
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3539
Re: INTEREST CHECK: Sack of Antwerp Delayed Mirror 3/5,12,or 19?
Thanks for the feedback. It is highly likely now that ASU will host something on March 19. However, we have a new question for all our California comrades: Would you be interested in a MUT mirror, instead of/in addition to a Sack of Antwerp mirror? Depending on interest from U of A (which is imposs...
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 12:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Packet Parser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3103
Re: Packet Parser
Yes please.sportfreak1881 wrote:Sure, at [email protected]?
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Packet Parser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3103
Re: Packet Parser
Nothing looks wrong there. Can you send me the doc file with that answer?sportfreak1881 wrote:I am having problems with format that isn't covered in the readme
What are possible problems in an answer line that reads
ANSWER: James Franco
- Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Packet Parser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3103
Re: Packet Parser
The link seems to be broken. I forgot that our college is undergoing power tests for the next few days, so server access will be sporadic. What do you do with questions that have answer lines like: ANSWER: Marriages of Elizabeth Taylor [accept stuff like Weddings, Espousals, Nuptials, or Matrimony ...
- Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:53 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Packet Parser
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3103
Packet Parser
I wrote a program that takes packets saved as Microsoft Word doc files and translate them into a QBBot-formatted packet, QBML, or HTML. You can get it here . Looking over the readme file is recommended. I would appreciate any feedback on the parser. Let me know if it has any problems translating a p...
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 38524
Re: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
Christmas Wrapping.
- Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 38524
Re: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
Linus and Lucy.
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
- Replies: 369
- Views: 38524
Re: March Madness comes early this year: Top 64 Christmas Songs
1) Christmas Time in Hell
2) Christmas Wrapping
Abstaining my vote for the other two.
2) Christmas Wrapping
Abstaining my vote for the other two.
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5162
Re: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10
I know that there are 3 UCLAers interested (Guy, Ray, and Jerry). Do any teams have space for one of them. UCLA will contribute to your team fees proportionately. Right now we have 2 extra spaces that you can use. Also, if it's not too much of an inconvenience would you guys be able to pick me up f...
- Sat Nov 20, 2010 1:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UCLA Mirror of Minnesota Open (Nov. 21)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3913
Re: UCLA Mirror of Minnesota Open (Nov. 21)
I am now the only person from Claremont attending. I would prefer to play as a free agent if possible.
Also, the earliest I can arrive at UCLA will be ~9:00.
Also, the earliest I can arrive at UCLA will be ~9:00.
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5162
Re: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10
If we can resolve transportation/lodging issues we should be able to bring 1-2 teams and a buzzer system.
- Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UCLA Mirror of Minnesota Open (Nov. 21)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3913
Re: UCLA Mirror of Minnesota Open (Nov. 21)
We should be sending a full team to this.