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by evilmonkey
Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:06 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Postseason Poll
Replies: 21
Views: 12271

Re: Postseason Poll

Does anybody happen to know what teams were playing shorthanded at either tournament? William & Mary was missing Alex Frey at ICT and James Cole at Nats, so we didn't have our full A team at either. FWIW, Texas A&M only had two members of the A team at ICT (and one of those was playing DII)...
by evilmonkey
Sun Apr 19, 2015 11:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)
Replies: 47
Views: 29904

Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)

Colin Whisler (the only member of the Texas A&M A team to play DI ICT this year), will be heading up to Wisconsin for a Ph.D. in physics. He would be cool with playing some more quizbowl, but if the club isn't active he probably won't continue playing. I am retiring from (EDIT: playing) quizbowl...
by evilmonkey
Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT South Sectional @ Texas A&M (College Station, TX)
Replies: 2
Views: 2431

Re: NAQT South Sectional @ Texas A&M (College Station, TX)

Hey all! In DI, in the final game of the triple round-robin, Rice (who had been declared undergraduate champions at the opening meeting) beat ULL 250-225 after ULL lost a protest on ANSWER LINE GOES HERE ONCE CLEAR, to clear the field at 8-1. Jeff Crean of Texas A&M led all scorers with 60.8 PP2...
by evilmonkey
Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:17 pm
Forum: New Collegiate Teams
Topic: Looking for other teams in Indiana
Replies: 6
Views: 13469

Re: Looking for other teams in Indiana

It's hard to imagine a better location to be a quizbowl team than central Indiana. You're close to so many centers of college quizbowl: Chicago, Urbana-Champaign, and Ann Arbor are all within a reasonable drive. Geography is on your side as you try to establish a program. What Bruce said is accurat...
by evilmonkey
Thu Jan 15, 2015 9:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT South Sectional @ Texas A&M (College Station, TX)
Replies: 2
Views: 2431

NAQT South Sectional @ Texas A&M (College Station, TX)

(Copy and pasted from the email I sent out) Howdy! Aggie Quizbowl is pleased to announce that it will be hosting the 2015 NAQT South Sectional Championship Tournament on February 7th, 2015. I (Bryce Durgin) will be tournament director for this tournament. The fees for this tournament are as follows:...
by evilmonkey
Mon Nov 10, 2014 4:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 25884

Re: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion

I enjoyed this tournament overall. I will note that there were four different tossups on gold (including the one on gold leaf in art); and even though they were in separate categories, I definitely held off on buzzing in with gold more with each subsequent tossup. There was, I think, also a bonus pa...
by evilmonkey
Sat Oct 25, 2014 7:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

Re: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14

So, we ended up with a six team tournament. The House team cleared the field at 10-0; Texas A took second at 7-3. Stats can be found here. It should be noted that both Texas and Texas A&M were missing EDIT: members of the A team that may or may not be primarily science players. Thanks to John, A...
by evilmonkey
Fri Oct 24, 2014 10:26 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

Re: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14

[Details copy/pasted from my email on Wednesday] [I can't actually attach the map, it is too large] Howdy! Thank you for registering to compete in the Texas A&M mirror of PADAWAN this Saturday, October 25th. The tournament will be held on the second floor of the Engineering Physics building (alt...
by evilmonkey
Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

Re: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14

Current Field (8, 4 buzzers)
Rice (3, 2 buzzers)
Harmony Austin (1, 1 buzzer)
Texas (2)
Texas A&M (2, 1 buzzer)
by evilmonkey
Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

Re: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14

(Slightly edited from the email I sent out earlier today) Howdy! Aggie Quizbowl is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the Texas mirror of PADAWAN at Texas A&M University on October 25, 2014. PADAWAN is a power-marked, line-capped college regular difficulty tournament - you can read more...
by evilmonkey
Mon Sep 15, 2014 12:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

PADAWAN at Texas A&M 10/25/14

Aggie Quizbowl is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a mirror of PADAWAN on October 25, 2014, at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. Details about the tournament set itself may be found here. Details about this particular mirror will be posted in the not-so-distant future. To r...
by evilmonkey
Sun Aug 17, 2014 8:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Superteam Regulation?
Replies: 17
Views: 8224

Re: Superteam Regulation?

Something to consider is that if we were to distribute the top 15 players eebly between 15 teams, they'd probably take care of most of the bonuses for their teams. I mean, what's the utility that you as an individual experience when your team hears a bonus? Unless you're coming up with the bonus pa...
by evilmonkey
Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Preseason Poll
Replies: 108
Views: 82418

Re: Preseason Poll

Texas gains Arnav Sastry (and some others that I can't remember)
Rice gains Ben Jones and Ridge Liu (and some others); additionally, Will Otter is back in the States.
A&M gains Carlo De Guzman (and Jeff is still around)
by evilmonkey
Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:26 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
Replies: 91
Views: 51484

Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21

My teammates are Josh Cadungog and Colin Whisler, both of A&M. We are searching for a free agent, and as neither Jeff nor Patrick are on this team, someone who knows history would be wonderful. Also, someone who isn't looking to win this tournament. Chris Price, also of A&M, is our fourth.
by evilmonkey
Thu Jun 19, 2014 9:53 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
Replies: 91
Views: 51484

Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21

My teammates are Josh Cadungog and Colin Whisler, both of A&M. We are searching for a free agent, and as neither Jeff nor Patrick are on this team, someone who knows history would be wonderful. Also, someone who isn't looking to win this tournament.
by evilmonkey
Wed Jun 11, 2014 7:03 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: All-time all-state teams
Replies: 61
Views: 53301

Re: All-time all-state teams

Well, to help fill out the potential roster relative to teams that actually are going to NASAT, I guess I'll chime in about Indiana. The list of Indiana high school quiz bowl players who have at least one modern-era college tournament* is: Nick Wawrykow and Arnav Dutt (St. Joe's), Alex Pijanowski (H...
by evilmonkey
Wed Jun 11, 2014 4:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
Replies: 91
Views: 51484

Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21

Sounds like fun! I will play (and likely will have teammates).
by evilmonkey
Tue May 27, 2014 6:52 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: New College Contact List
Replies: 48
Views: 65967

Re: New College Contact List

Is there any meaning behind the bolded and/or italicized schools in the document?
by evilmonkey
Tue May 27, 2014 4:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2014 nAC
Replies: 27
Views: 12437

Re: 2014 nAC

I don't want to downplay the increase in Oklahoma schools playing pyramidal tournaments, but the trend of Oklahoma schools not attending pyramidal tournaments is fairly recent. Perhaps this is particularly stuck in my mind as Edmond Memorial defeated my team in my only HSNCT. Oklahoma HSNCT Attenden...
by evilmonkey
Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUT South Region Mirror
Replies: 13
Views: 6292

Re: MUT South Region Mirror

A&M would also like a copy of the stats. Tyler, you can send it to my email, since I think its only ULL blocking my emails, and not A&M blocking yours. Thanks!
by evilmonkey
Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Poll: Midseason Edition
Replies: 33
Views: 15124

Re: Poll: Midseason Edition

Is there any plan for anyone to calculate "D-values" from Regionals like last year? It would be a useful tool to help make sense of the numbers and interesting in its own right. I calculated the "ACF Regionals D-Values" last year. I have no intention to do so this year. Someone ...
by evilmonkey
Wed Feb 05, 2014 5:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
Replies: 116
Views: 44884

Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.

If someone wants to explain how stats explain the results of previous national tournaments, I'd like to hear that. If not, why are some people pretending that they are going to predict the results of upcoming national tournaments? I want to first back track - I don't disagree with what you were try...
by evilmonkey
Wed Feb 05, 2014 12:31 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
Replies: 116
Views: 44884

Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.

So, here's a pretty basic challenge for all of you who are trumpeting the predictive value of various manipulations of stats. Find a metric that accurately predicts the last five winners of ACF Nationals (i.e. 2009-2013) from the data that was available before ICT in each of those years. Unlike for...
by evilmonkey
Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Should "Shakespeare" be prompted if looking for "Hamlet?"
Replies: 35
Views: 7820

Re: Should "Shakespeare" be prompted if looking for "Hamlet?

So…. aren't you saying that blitzing should be outlawed because, once the pronoun is specified, answering "Shakespeare" is extra information that isn't correct? EDIT: I mean blitzing with "Hamlet by Shakespeare", not just "Shakespeare". To my knowledge, extraneous rele...
by evilmonkey
Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
Replies: 116
Views: 44884

Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.

I performed the simulations asked about, using the numbers provided. However, after discussions elsewhere I am loathe to put them out on the general message board. I feel that these results are not particularly meaningful - the numbers used are just educated guesses, and the use of those numbers giv...
by evilmonkey
Thu Jan 30, 2014 8:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
Replies: 116
Views: 44884

Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log5 You'd have a separate statistic for the tossup and bonus conversion rates in each category that would vary by team. For example: "Fake UVA" - 0.8 TU/26 bonus conversion in all humanities/arts, 0.6/21 in sciences "Fake Penn" - 0.9/27 conversion i...
by evilmonkey
Thu Jan 30, 2014 6:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
Replies: 116
Views: 44884

Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.

I think it's unlikely that you'll find an upset percentage much higher than 25%, just based on the empirical data presented. In a format in which the nth-best team likely has to beat all teams stronger than it to win, even the fourth-best team has to have three upset victories to hoist the trophy (...
by evilmonkey
Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
Replies: 116
Views: 44884

Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.

I'd be more interested in running an experiment like this with non-zero chances for the worse team getting a tossup, since that's a better simulation of reality. This way you use the log5 formula to determine who wins how many questions in a given category. First - I'm obviously an advocate of the ...
by evilmonkey
Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
Replies: 116
Views: 44884

Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.

I had a longer post typed up, and then I was logged out of HSQB and lost it. So, for now, I will say that I concur with Matt, Rob, and Andrew; and they have almost everything that I would have said about this topic. Obviously, if you have proper inputs, then a model can be built - I built such a thi...
by evilmonkey
Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:19 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Bank Accounts
Replies: 20
Views: 7468

Re: Bank Accounts

Notre Dame explicitly forbade an off-campus bank account.

Texas A&M doesn't forbid the off-campus accounts, but provides banking to sanctioned student organizations free of charge.

I wonder if the difference is a public/private split.
by evilmonkey
Sun Nov 24, 2013 3:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DRAGOON @ Texas A&M (11/16/2013; College Station, TX)
Replies: 4
Views: 3037

Re: DRAGOON @ Texas A&M (11/16/2013; College Station, TX)

We had 4 teams in College Station yesterday. After a triple round-robin, Rice A was 8-1, and A&M A was 7-2. After falling behind late in the second half, Rice A rallied to win the first game of the advantaged final, 195-190.

Tournament stats are located here.
by evilmonkey
Thu Nov 14, 2013 2:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DRAGOON @ Texas A&M (11/16/2013; College Station, TX)
Replies: 4
Views: 3037

Re: DRAGOON @ Texas A&M (11/16/2013; College Station, TX)

This tournament has been postponed to November 23rd, as that weekend is preferable for all interested parties.
by evilmonkey
Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A serious discussion of ACF packet submission
Replies: 72
Views: 32264

Re: A serious discussion of ACF packet submission

Yes, actually, I would argue that an increase of 50 teams year-to-year, regardless of how accomplished, is pretty damn explosive. I'm not sure why you're doing selective arithmetic to try and exclude some of those teams from counting, when obviously raw participation is way up. As far as packets go...
by evilmonkey
Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A serious discussion of ACF packet submission
Replies: 72
Views: 32264

Re: A serious discussion of ACF packet submission

George has eloquently captured my own feelings regarding packet submission, so I'll just say that I endorse his interpretation of what the ACF Fall writing requirement is intended to accomplish. One other thing I will say is that, as someone who has been tracking ACF tournaments in his official cap...
by evilmonkey
Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Texas Collegiate Novice 4 - 09/28 - Austin, TX
Replies: 2
Views: 2204

Re: Texas Collegiate Novice 4 - 09/28 - Austin, TX

Texas, Texas A&M, and Rice all brought two teams to compete in the Collegiate Novice tournament. We played a single round robin, rebracketed into top and bottom brackets of 3 apiece, and ran another round robin. The "bye" teams in the afternoon rounds played against each other in a gam...
by evilmonkey
Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DRAGOON @ Texas A&M (11/16/2013; College Station, TX)
Replies: 4
Views: 3037

DRAGOON @ Texas A&M (11/16/2013; College Station, TX)

Howdy! Texas A&M University will be hosting a mirror of DRAGOON on November 23, 2013 in College Station, TX. DRAGOON is a regular difficulty tournament written by the University of Illinois. This tournament will likely be held in the Wehner Building. Further details will come later. Base Fee: $8...
by evilmonkey
Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Texas Collegiate Novice 4 - 09/28 - Austin, TX
Replies: 2
Views: 2204

Re: Texas Collegiate Novice 4 - 09/28 - Austin, TX

Logistics Registration for the tournament will begin at 9:30 AM. The tournament will likely be held in Mezes Hall. Parking is available in Brazos Garage, on MLK Drive, for $15 (assuming under 8 hours spent in the garage). Round 1 will begin promptly at 10:00 AM. Lunch will be held from approximatel...
by evilmonkey
Thu Sep 05, 2013 12:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Texas Collegiate Novice 4 - 09/28 - Austin, TX
Replies: 2
Views: 2204

Texas Collegiate Novice 4 - 09/28 - Austin, TX

The University of Texas at Austin will be hosting a mirror of the Collegiate Novice tournament in Austin, TX on Saturday, September 28. This tournament is designed as an introduction to quiz bowl where novice players can play against teams of similar skill on questions that reward their level of kno...
by evilmonkey
Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:00 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?
Replies: 31
Views: 8667

Re: Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?

At lot has already been said about them, but I'll chime in that Borges and Marquez are at the top of my list.
by evilmonkey
Wed Aug 07, 2013 3:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
Replies: 95
Views: 30542

Re: Chicago Open Discussion

-I negged predestination with "free will." I am not a theologian, but in my layman's mind and various Bible studies I've been to, I thought these concepts were very highly related--i.e., do we have free will if something like predestination exists? I am not sure if I deserved a prompt tho...
by evilmonkey
Sun Aug 04, 2013 11:13 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
Replies: 30
Views: 15761

Re: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU

Oh, I just realized I forgot to link to the full stats.
by evilmonkey
Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
Replies: 30
Views: 15761

Re: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU

We have now rebracketed into a top bracket of 4, and a bottom bracket of 6. The top 4 will be playing a round robin. Fake Tupac: 9-0, 423.3 PPG Poodle Doo: 7-2, 288.1 PPG Gemeinschaft: 7-2, 275.0 PPG 4 Locofoco: 6-3, 197.5 PPG MSIRI: 5-4, 181.9 PPG Harper Valley ETA: 4-5, 183.3 PPG Sixteen & Pra...
by evilmonkey
Sat Aug 03, 2013 3:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
Replies: 30
Views: 15761

Re: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU

After the lunchtime game;

Fake Tupac Amaru (UVA): 6-0
A Pup Named Poodle Doo (UMD): 5-1 (Loss by forfeit)
I Hear That Gemeinschaft Is A Bad Mother--(Chicago A): 5-1 (Loss to UVA)
4 LocoFoco: 4-2

We have three rounds to go before rebracketing.
by evilmonkey
Sat Aug 03, 2013 12:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
Replies: 30
Views: 15761

Re: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU

Updated stats will be here throughout the day;
Round 2 is missing a game that will be played at lunch
by evilmonkey
Mon Jul 08, 2013 8:17 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals 2014 qualifying system
Replies: 46
Views: 16621

Re: ACF Nationals 2014 qualifying system

In that situation, I suspect what might happen is that teams from more "in" programs like Chicago might get the benefit of the doubt over a more "peripheral" program like Carleton (just to be clear, I am using these words in a purely notional sense, not to suggest that Carleton ...
by evilmonkey
Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:31 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Maryland Summer Practice
Replies: 8
Views: 3055

Re: Maryland Summer Practice

Where is the best place to park?
by evilmonkey
Tue May 07, 2013 1:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule
Replies: 79
Views: 25694

Re: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule

People who need 3 tournaments in a semester just for them before they play big-mean-scary regular difficulty aren't going to play quizbowl for long anyway. No. But people who are the major targets of these tournaments probably aren't committed enough yet that they'll make all three, either. You're ...
by evilmonkey
Mon May 06, 2013 8:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule
Replies: 79
Views: 25694

Re: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule

One (maybe two) tournaments isn't a great introduction to quizbowl before throwing (new) people into regular difficulty. I agree. The fall is the key time to brainwash new people into the belief that quizbowl is awesome. However, the vast majority of potential team members will not be at all ready ...
by evilmonkey
Fri May 03, 2013 6:12 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
Replies: 138
Views: 150105

Re: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank

Fred Morlan, you are the best.

Signed,

Everyone (Well, really just me, because I didn't actually talk to anyone else before posting, but I think most people would agree).
by evilmonkey
Fri May 03, 2013 9:49 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule
Replies: 79
Views: 25694

Re: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule

Re: the Sunday issue - My speculation is that there's a difference to some between spending a full day playing quizbowl and getting home at 8 when you have no obligations (or church) in the morning, and when you have class (or work) in the morning. While I prefer Saturday tournaments, and have no re...