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In a given competition year, a player may only compete at NAQT championship events at the secondary or post-secondary levels, but not both. The secondary-level NAQT championships are the Middle School National Championship Tournament, Small School National Championship Tournament (SSNCT), High Scho...

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The database once again contains results from NAQT tournaments! Some of the division labels might look a bit funky, but that should hopefully be resolved soonish.

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I'm glad that the HSNCT final video is up and has decent audio and video quality, but the video immediately starts with tossup 1 before the title card even goes away. There's no context at all for the grand finals of a 336-team national tournament.

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EDIT EDIT: I've just been reminded that the company logo is literally just the letters "NAQT" with the full name in tiny print below it, which seems less than inspiring to be quite honest. To be fair, NAQT does have some really excellent logos for their individual tournaments, which they use in all...

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I suspect I'm on a one-man crusade here, but "High School National Championship Tournament" is a really bad name for an event in terms of outreach. It says absolutely nothing about what it's about, unlike similar championships like the "National Scholastic Championship", "National Academic Champion...

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cchiego wrote: ↑
Sun May 05, 2019 4:31 pm
Apparently that miscommunication issue continued at SSNCT: a link promising a livestream on the YouTube channel was spread, but the livestream never happened, for reasons that still aren't clear.

The livestream did not take place because the hotel WiFi was not good enough to upload live video.

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Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:23 pm
excuse you both maps of Chicago say I'm from there

https://imgur.com/a/22wNbeV

I guess it does make sense that the Field Museum is located within the corn part of Illinois.

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As someone who would very much like to get to the bottom of this, I think that the best option here is to see if Joseph's stats hold up at HSNCT (which I believe is the next tournament that Okemos will be playing). I don't think this is as cut and dry as Jakob said, but it's hard to prove or dispro...

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One mitigating factor of going to 3x12 -> 6x6 is that one fewer tiebreaker game has to be played, which means over a round's worth of time doesn't have to be spent confirming records and playing lunchtime tiebreakers. You'd only need one additional packet's worth of questions and time, not two.

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Can confirm that this was an amazing set to play.

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Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:57 pm
Stats will be periodically uploaded here

Due to SQBS limitations I do not have a way to individually record who got final boss tus

Full stats

Slight error in the stats -- my name should be spelt with two r's.

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Unfortunately I have been informed that this site violates the terms of use of naqt.com, and so therefore it will no longer be including NAQT results for the time being. I would encourage you to use NAQT's player/team search in conjunction with my site.

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It's been long overdue, but Neg5 results are (finally) being indexed. As usual, let me know if there are any issues that arise.

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There are people who know a lot more about this than me, but there is going to be some amount of fixed cost associated with running a national tournament, such as TDs, statsperson(s), printing, and various other logistics which tends to stay relatively constant despite the number of teams attending....

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Prelim stats are being updated here.

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Prelim stats are posted here.

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With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it. Inspecting the network request, it looks like this url gives you a JSON res...

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With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it.

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I'd hoped for a Virginia site to materialize, but I haven't heard anything from my friends and I don't have the time (or the classrooms) to organize something myself. If there isn't a RAPTURE site within easy distance of me I'll look into doing an online mirror or something, and similarly I wouldn'...

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Beginning with round 3, how are teams with the same record with at least one win and one loss paired? I've heard mention about teams that go WL play those that go LW, but what about further rounds where it's not so cut and dry?

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2. Was anyone at NAQT aware of the accusations against Matt or the disturbing content on his blog? If so, do they have any explanation? I'm not asking for anyone to face mob flagellation but some acknowledgement that people besides Matt could have done better as well would be nice. I can confirm th...

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Ok, so I'm not finding a good solution to the 14 teams right away so we're gonna go with this schedule: http://hdwhite.org/qb/schedules/194/ IGNORE THE 7TH ROW. The team "Beat Misty For Me" will instead be Ophir's team, or what is shown on the schedule as 6P. Since there are no 7th or 8th teams in ...

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(CW: Pedophilia) Are any of these reports/allegations actually substantiated at this time? Or proven in any way? It's interesting that Matt went from having a background role to not being able to staff. Was this decision made based off public pressure or actual facts one way or the other? There are ...

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I have included an option to search for exact strings. As usual, please let me know if you find any bugs.

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The finals will be livestreamed on youtube and liveblogged on Twitter.

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If there's a team that's looking for a warm body who hasn't picked up a buzzer in about three years, hit me up.

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From my understanding, the "sanctioning" process is more to make sure that there aren't three different open tournaments announced for the academic year or something like that.

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It works if you click on the name of the tournament, but if you click on NAQT, which should go to the team's stats for the tournament, it always goes to https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/team.jsp?team_id=1, which does not seem to have any information. I'll have to rerun the parser, but once tha...

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Everything should be working again. Let me know if there's any further hiccups.

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I just noticed that NAQT results aren't showing up since they did their redesign. Hopefully I can get that fixed shortly.

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(Resurrecting this thread because it seems to be the most appropriate place to put this; mods feel free to split this if that works better) I took a look at every tournament listed on the HSQB tournament database since the start of the 2015-2016 academic year. I got the top 500 first names* and thei...

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Irreligion in Bangladesh wrote:What can we do to repair this relationship?

Get rid of Dave Madden.

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cchiego wrote:a decently-edited video of a basic game

Are there any reasonable-quality high-school videos of matches out there? If so, it should be possible to do a bit of editing and add an overlay with the questions and the score.

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AKKOLADE wrote:Is there still not a way to generate a list of all tournaments that are on Neg5? Because I need that for HSQBRank.

Seconding this request so I can add Neg5 tournaments to my search database.

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I fixed a bug that was preventing the most recent NAQT tournaments from appearing and fixed the issue where the New Tournaments Added section wasn't properly working.

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Haven't they been claiming that for years now?

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The main page now shows a list of all tournaments that have uploaded stats since the last database update (which now happens regularly and automatically early on Tuesday mornings). It won't register stat corrections, but it will pick up adding in things like combined stats a week after prelims and p...

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I'm in the process of transferring hosting. If things decide to not work all of a sudden, please let me know.

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I've proposed this in the staff forum, but maybe it's worth a proposal here. Please note that I am not speaking for the chief admin or any other board staffer. This should not be considered an official policy or even a proposed one at this time. With NHBB and its NHBB-affiliated crop of tournaments...

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What I can say is that I'm working to ensure that the future is better, and that the list of meaningful words I can say in this thread ends right about there. Only actions will prove progress; I have no problem with pessimism until then. For me, the only action that would restore faith in NHBB is f...

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heterodyne wrote:I'd presume you'd want the people running the tournament to be, you know, running the tournament instead of responding to this thread.

It has now been a full week since the incident in question. ACE has more than enough time to provide a response.

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What was the format of the preliminary rounds? 52 teams, 5 rounds of...something, cut to top 32 elimination also seems quite archaic. Also if you're seeding by ppg strength of schedule becomes a lot more relevant than it does at PACE or HSNCT since there is much less contribution from bonuses. We p...

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The liveblog is up at http://www.coveritlive.com/index2.php?o ... bf7a4185a9 and http://twitter.com/NAQTLive. Be sure to tweet scores and interesting happenstances using the hashtag #MSNCT.

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Stats are being updated here

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johntait1 wrote:Looks like there's finally a tournament on good questions scheduled in East Tennessee http://www.historybowl.com/eastern-tennessee/
It's on 12/12/15 at Jefferson County High School.

Unfortunately it's only History Bowl, and not a full-blown Quizbowl tournament.

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it's not a great idea to inundate the field with really great players who play on teams that power 70% of the questions I agree, but I don't think this is a matter of much concern. The highest value of powers/TUH over the course of a whole tournament on an NAQT high school set that we're sure of* w...

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To make another comparison: Would "lightning war" be allowed for "blitzkrieg"?

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I don't personally mind Nationals difficulty as is but clearly I feel perfectly at home at CO-level difficulty, so I'm not much one to speak. What does bother me is that we are attempting to reach so many new teams at Nationals yet not moderating difficulty accordingly. Tossups don't really need to...

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I don't personally mind Nationals difficulty as is but clearly I feel perfectly at home at CO-level difficulty, so I'm not much one to speak. What does bother me is that we are attempting to reach so many new teams at Nationals yet not moderating difficulty accordingly. Tossups don't really need to...

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I happened to be free last weekend, so I ended up going down to Williamsburg to help out IHO for a bit. Here are a few observations from what I saw of the event, plus from talking to other staffers: The initial plan was to play the full national anthem or state song of each gold medalist for every e...

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