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Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I think there should be guidelines in what should be done when there is micro aggressive language or other situations where someone isn’t necessarily being Intentionally malicious. This is where training could help as listing all possibilities on a ruleset would be endless, but an online module woul...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

The Main room in each zoom call needs to have one person active there at all times to troubleshoot people who cut out during games, replace moderators who cut out, etc. This increases staffing demand, but for a tournament like ACF fall there would be excess club members around anyways.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Hi sports fans! I've been mulling over this ideas for a while now, but I've finally decided to once and for all write a hockey set. I am aiming for 100 tossups at an ACF Fall length, skewing modern, roughly split about 1/5 pre 1990, 2/5 1990-2010, 1/5 2010- NHL content and 1/5 non-NHL content. I wil...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

No player poll unfortunately, I didn't go to enough tournaments this year to really get a sense of how all the players, especially the rookies and sophomores, are doing. Rookie Ballot 1) Kevin Fan - close race. Edged out Tony because Kevin is a lot deeper at his areas. 2) Tony Chen 3) Lucas Smith 4)...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

CPiGuy wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:43 pm
2 Writers' Choice
Please submit 2 tossups on literally anything you want to write about, within reason. If you're going to write something unusual like a before-and-after or mashup tossup, please include a note to players, but you're welcome to do so.

Is meta, within reason, okay?

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Stats will be posted after we resolve some issues.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Even if Eric didn't cheat at yesterday's Ontario Hybrid Online mirror, I am concerned at how he chose to wait until after to admit he was cheating at a previous tournament, maybe because otherwise he would have been banned.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

This tournament has been cancelled due to Coronavirus concerns. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to reschedule some sort of HS quizbowl tournament before the end of the school year.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

settlej wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:51 pm

Iamteehee wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 04, 2020 1:20 pm
Proteinbowl 3 is probably happening at ICT.

Not to be a bother but can we get an update on this? I would like to book time off work sooner than later if this is Friday night.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

The Ontario Quizbowl Association is pleased to announce the Toronto Winter Tournament. This tournament aims to be accessible to teams that are new to quizbowl while still providing a meaningful experience to those already familiar with the game. We will be using a slightly modified NAQT IS-191A-set ...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

As SCT approaches and NAQT requires hosts to report in SQBS, are there any known bugs that need to be addressed, or the SQBS export as is good enough for NAQT standards?

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

All of the above discussion conveniently and intellectually dishonestly ignores that a large chunk of the ACF Fall audience does not need to write a packet. To quote from the announcement for this year's tournament: Any team with at least two people on it who played a regular, collegiate , academic...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Players, the schedule will be available at this link, so make sure someone on your team is able to see it. Moderators and scorekeepers will both be using laptops, so they will also have access to the schedule. http://hdwhite.org/qb/schedules/46 The schedule is subject to change based on drops or maj...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Oh my god, thank you so much!

Could you add a QR code to the website so people don't have to type up a URL?

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Looking forward to this. What are the chances that it falls on ICT weekend?

Is there going to be a set-in-stone geographical distribution or is that just gonna be intuitively more or less balanced?

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I think teams and hosts, especially in smaller circuits, need to be more conscious of the fact that even though EFT might be fine for both a top-10 team and a team that got 18ppb at novice the previous weekend, a game between those two teams at EFT could easily end up with a score of 655-5 and demor...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

The control room will be Southam 318. Please arrive by 9 AM.

The building is labelled SA on the southwestern corner of this map https://carleton.ca/campus/map/. The P1 parking lot is right beside it. Do note that the ground floor of this building is the third floor.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Please meet at Paterson 114 for 9:30-9:45 on Saturday.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

The majority of tournaments still happen in schools, and digital packets and e-scoresheets should be used as much as possible there. School and/or board administration may need to cooperate to make sure there’s enough chromebooks or equivalent if staff and players providing laptops is insufficient.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

To quote a wise man, "Hello, Canada! The summer has come to an end, and as promised, that means it's time for this year's trash player poll. Tournaments that have happened since the last poll are listed below, with links to the stats". All the relevant stats are here . Please submit your ballot to e...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Carleton University (the one in Ottawa, Ontario) will be hosting a mirror of NAQT's collegiate novice set (CNS-186) on 28 September 2019. Location and Time The tournament will start at 10:00am (so teams should arrive around 9:30) at an as yet undetermined location at Carleton. There will be a 1 hour...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I am pleased to announce that the Eastern Canadian site of 2019 ACF Fall will be held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The tournament will take place at a TBD location, with team check-in beginning at 9:00 and gameplay beginning at 9:30. I will be the ...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I think there are a solid number of people who are juniors and seniors in college who are not super skilled and for whom ACF Fall is still a very appropriate tournament to play. I think quizbowl tournaments should put the players first, rather than collectively imposing hundreds of writing-hours on...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

BRAINEXPANSION would be a cool name.

Not a neuroscientist myself but several of my teammates would love to play.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Are conversion stats up yet?

The tossup in pack 21 on shuffling should have an answerline directive on "randomization"

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/58 ... und_robin/

I don't have any of the side events stats

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I held a mirror today. Player (rounds played) scores We took turns reading the 8 packets Chris (7) 36 Dr. Renert (7) 29 Me (7) 23 (10 of which came in the round that Chris read -_______-) Erik (7) 12 Aaron (7) 11 Sky (7) 10 Isaac T. (5) 9 Jay (3) 4 Isaac R. (4) 4 Milan (7) 4 Phillip (3) 3 Marcel (3)...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Could someone send me (or remind Kevin to send me) the packets by the middle of Tomorrow? Kevin agreed on me hosting a mirror tomorrow evening.

Thanks.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

1) Derek So Was a strong support player in 2007-08 and 2008-09 for Sir Winston Churchill. Too bad their captain came to McGill but never played a collegiate game. 2) Rein Otsason Went 52-1 or something in 2011-12 on the way to a national championship, probably a top five season this decade (comparab...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Rein Otsason should be in your science polls. Aayush Rajasekaran should be in consideration for your literature polls. Both are outside shots for overall top 25.

Nobody's mentioned this so far but I think Eric Xu should be higher up in your polls than where you're gonna put him.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Where does the estimate of 30-45 minute increase if you played off all rr-playoff tiebreakers come from? I don’t think you’d save much time if, for example, at ICT only the top bracket ties were played off.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

On this schedule we have two byes and play both Chicago and WUSTL in the same round.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Did the pre-nationals poll even happen this year? It should at least differentiate between ACF and NAQT somehow, these polls tend to lean ACF it seems. I wonder if it would be useful for NAQT to look at whatever limited buzzpoint data on NAQT-specific categories exist over the course of regular seas...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

This is a terrible decision. Why is the top bracket the only bracket worth playing a tiebreaker for? The difference between playoff brackets is significant not just for final placement (which I suppose you could argue matters less for weaker teams)— it also determines the quality of opponents that ...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

How much more money would it cost to run the proposed 40 team format?

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Every Canadian CO trip just tries to imitate this but fails at doing so.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Why are the NSC scoring rules the way they are? Are they likely to change in the near future? Why are PACE, ACF, IQBT separate from each other? It seems a lot of them share staffers, leaders, and writers. Would quizbowl be stronger with one unified non-NAQT umbrella organization? In 10 years from no...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

It doesn’t fully answer your question because these tournaments are not held during the regular season, but the Canadian HSNCT mirror has been quite successful over the last several years as an easier option for alumni. In the past, we’ve also used Delta Burke as a tournament geared for open teams (...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I will be going to Queen’s University for a one year bachelor of education. It’s not conditional on graduating my masters, but I sure hope I can do so before August, cutting any ties I may still have with Les Chevaliers de McGill.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Hello,

It says in the post for this tournament that it’s difficultly is regular minus (so EFT, Terrapin) but it also says it’s the same difficulty as 2018 FST which in turn is the same difficulty of 2017 ACF Fall. So which one is it?

Thanks,

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Montcalm Collegiate Institute beat University of Toronto Schools A in a tight 1 game final to win this tournament.

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/56 ... ith_final/

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

This was an extremely well run tournament. Thanks to all the staffers and writers for an enjoyable time. I think this had the best online tournament logistics of any I have played.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Toronto's SCT performance was affected by the fact Sky Li showed up very late.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I thought NAQT makes hosts rank teams by all games played.

Jonah in the 2017 thread wrote:The hosts of this tournament did not realize that NAQT's policy is to consider all games when ranking teams.

It's a dumb policy but it's definitely a policy.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

At last year's SCT, Toronto D had a playoff record of 4-2 and Toronto E had a playoff record of 5-1, yet Toronto D is listed ahead of Toronto E (as it should be, because they tied in record and Toronto D had a higher PP20).

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Thanks Jeff. Would it be possible to see past year's D-value rankings using this new formula?

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I found the music to be excellent. I don’t have much more to say about specific questions because it wasn’t my personal preferences. The one score clue I wanna comment on was the leadin to the messiah, which mentions an ascending scale from C to A without any indication of tempo or rhythm. (You say ...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

I'm curious to hear people's thoughts about physics and other science, in terms of difficulty, subject matter and execution. I tried to strike a balance between important things experts would know about and accessibility/maintaining interest from a non scientific audience. I thought the CS/applied ...

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Canada's SCT D1 field is looking at lot like what the Chicago/Chicago/Northwestern/WUSTL site looked like in 2016. I hope we don't end up in a million way circle of death and knock each other out of qualifying.

Lighthouse Expert Elinor DeWire

Self-centered post but since my countrymen can't go to HS national stuff we'd love to have it over ICT or CO

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