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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 Canadianized version of a TBD set, ...

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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?

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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...

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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...

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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?

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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?

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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...

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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.

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

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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BRAINEXPANSION would be a cool name.

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

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Are conversion stats up yet?

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

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

I don't have any of the side events stats

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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)...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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

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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...

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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 ...

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

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

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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...

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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 (...

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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.

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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,

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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/

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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.

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

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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.

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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).

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

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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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Hi Nick,

Will this be available in Canada?

Thanks,

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Nice seeing y'all this weekend!

Toronto A defeated Toronto J in the 2nd game of an advantage final to win the tournament.

Stats

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Same sentiment as above. McGill A will play.

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Eds 3 Bonus 12: Element 118 is "oganesson" though it seems the listed answer of "organesson" at least redirects on wikipedia. It also incorrectly lists the symbol (listed Or, should be Og)

FSU et al. Bonus 12: "gravity waves" should absolutely not be accepted for gravitational waves

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The opening clue of the Dvorak tossup, AFAIK, is a solo piano work and not a work for violin and piano.

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This was a very good set overall. I liked the creativity of the literature questions especially when the answerlines that were essentially the title but as a person, place, or thing. I thought the score clues for music were sometimes quite challenging. Take for example the lead in to the Bizet tossu...

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The tossup on British mathematicians could have used an answerline directive for England. I didn’t accept it because I assumed they were a mix of countries but another reader did.

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Hello,

When will this poll close?

McGill A will play this together. Should we vote once or four times?

Thanks,

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Tournament will be in Southam Hall 3rd and 4th floors (SA on the map), control room TBD. Recommended parking is P1, and this is located at the bottom left of the map. Please be ready to play for 9 AM!

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