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by Fado Alexandrino
Sat Feb 03, 2024 2:35 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
Replies: 106
Views: 95112

Re: Introducing YellowFruit.

Today I used Yellowfruit 3.0.2 for the first time. I have not done stats for a tournament with multiple prelim brackets since ACF Winter in 2020 and didn't recall this specific issue there. When I go to carry-over prelim games, I used the search feature to go team-by-team. Say for that team I looke...
by Fado Alexandrino
Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:32 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Canadian Player Poll
Replies: 37
Views: 14086

Re: 2023 Canadian Player Poll

Rookies:

1. Mati
2. Michael
3. Caleb
4. Micah
5. Max Chemtov
6. Isaac Thangaraj
7. Jacob Garofalo
8. Kevin Anderson
9. Max Gross
10. James

HM: LvO, Adil Haider, Maude-Sophie, Henry Olsen, Max from Ottawa

ROTY in our hearts: Devito
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:53 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Canadian Player Poll
Replies: 37
Views: 14086

Re: 2023 Canadian Player Poll

The community ballot is difficult for any individual to do because they don't see the inside workings of all clubs. But here's my shot at it: 1. Henry Atkins Henry is the community member I wish I was when I stopped playing. Henry not only continues to direct tournaments, but he also engages the com...
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:49 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Canadian Player Poll
Replies: 37
Views: 14086

Re: 2023 Canadian Player Poll

1. Ian
2. Sky
3. Tony
4. Gareth
5. Ben
6. Kevin
7. Cormac
8. Adrian
9. Milan
10. Mati
11. Max
12. Jay
13. Wenying
14. Sam
15. Raymond
16. Michael
17. Andrew
18. Parth
19. Liam
20. Albert
21. Edwards
22. Caleb
23. Gaian
24. Kane
25. James Ah Yong

HM: Connor, Gabrielle, Micah Colman
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Apr 25, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread
Replies: 17
Views: 8731

Re: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread

I would like to praise James Wang for all his work in ballooning the size of the UOttawa club, being consistently able to send 3-4 teams to easier local events.
by Fado Alexandrino
Thu Feb 16, 2023 2:40 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Top 10 Retirements Ranking
Replies: 2
Views: 2036

Re: Top 10 Retirements Ranking

I retire
by Fado Alexandrino
Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:58 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: We Need to Make Up Our Minds About Trash
Replies: 27
Views: 8898

Re: We Need to Make Up Our Minds About Trash

I agree with Paul that trash should be a substantial portion of the distribution if included and not just a tossup every four matches. 0/0 makes sense for ACF, and I actually think this means something like NAQT could afford to up their trash distro as to create more of a contrast between the two fo...
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:29 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Directors Commentary
Replies: 5
Views: 2163

Re: Directors Commentary

I was going to reply to this post with just "llamas" but realized that wasn't you.

Your tech sets are always a delight not just to play but also all the things that the audience gets to learn. I am no less excited to play or read through your next set.
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Feb 07, 2023 10:04 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: ACF (and NAQT) Scheduling For Next Year
Replies: 2
Views: 3467

Re: ACF (and NAQT) Scheduling For Next Year

Ben makes several excellent points for both the SCT/Regionals and Fall/Winter issue. To add on with similar experiences in the circuit before Ben's time, If ACF regionals wants more teams, it needs to be two weeks apart from SCT. Experienced players are obviously going to do whatever it takes to pla...
by Fado Alexandrino
Sat Feb 04, 2023 10:18 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
Replies: 106
Views: 95112

Re: Introducing YellowFruit.

Today I used Yellowfruit 3.0.2 for the first time. I have not done stats for a tournament with multiple prelim brackets since ACF Winter in 2020 and didn't recall this specific issue there. When I go to carry-over prelim games, I used the search feature to go team-by-team. Say for that team I looked...
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:36 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2022 HSNCT discussion
Replies: 35
Views: 10495

Re: 2022 HSNCT discussion

Now I can finally read this discussion thread! I was wondering why this year's playoffs played to a Super Six format instead of a Super Seven format, used in previous 272 team HSNCTs, such as 2014 and 2015. The only bye during those events, outside of the first round, iirc was a card 1 bye three rou...
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Jun 26, 2022 3:28 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: EMACS (computer science side event, 2023)
Replies: 14
Views: 5792

Re: EMACS (computer science side event, 2023)

Maybe I shouldn't have dropped out of grad school.

Excited regardless.
by Fado Alexandrino
Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:21 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
Replies: 6
Views: 3639

Re: Teammate Appreciation Thread

I would like to thank my writing teammates this season, I won't name all names, you are all wonderful and great, but I would like to personally thank Paul Kasinski for changing all my What's to Which's and vice versa and adding question marks at the end of all my questions. I would also like to than...
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Apr 12, 2022 8:37 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 28
Views: 14260

Re: 2022 Canadian Circuit Player Poll

I don't want to write a full on community ballot this year, but I would like to praise Toronto for having a different Tournament Director for each tournament they hosted this year, giving many younger members of their club an opportunity to perform successfully in a leadership role.
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Apr 04, 2022 3:57 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: The Hyatt Regency O'Hare
Replies: 4
Views: 1911

Re: The Hyatt Regency O'Hare

My power ranking of the hardest rooms to find: 1) Old PBX (not on the floorplan as far as I can tell)* 2) Tech Center (non-international airport on the international level) 3) Directors (out of the way from all the other rooms, on the way to the 2XXX rooms) 4) O'Hare Private Dining (the location nea...
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:46 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 25771

Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

Pulsar stands for “pulsating radio source” so there should at least have some sort of answerline directive if someone answered “radio source”.
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Feb 01, 2022 2:41 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Your Long Answerlines Might be a Problem
Replies: 3
Views: 2522

Re: Your Long Answerlines Might be a Problem

I agree with all of Eric's points here. The other thing I noticed with ACF regionals was that a lot of questions had notes in the answerline regarding the clues that were used. I did end up reading most of these notes to the players, but that added to the amount of answerline that I needed to parse....
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Oct 18, 2021 7:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Fall - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 3935

Re: 2021 ACF Fall - Specific Question Discussion

The bonus on Battle of Lake Erie that also accepts Put-In-Bay mentions Put-In-Bay in the question. The tossup on magnetic fields that accepts nuclear magnetic resonance imaging should have an answerline directive on "NMR" The tossup on David Foster Wallace should have an answerline directi...
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:01 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TJ Electronic Scoresheets
Replies: 18
Views: 11901

Re: TJ Electronic Scoresheets

Hey, quick question:

Does the TJ sheets download automatically tag carryover games (i.e. when you go from 2 groups of 8 into top/bottom 4, "playoffs" will be rounds 8-11 plus assorted games from rounds 1-7)? Or do they have to manually be dealt with in SQBS/Yellowfruit?

Thanks,
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Jun 07, 2021 12:38 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2021 HSNCT discussion
Replies: 57
Views: 18290

Re: 2021 HSNCT discussion

I should have written down my comments rather than relying on memory... Could I see the bonus on solfege? I think there was something in the first part that felt it wasn't totally correct to me. I can't recall if this was at HSNCT or a pack I read practice last week, but was there a bonus with the a...
by Fado Alexandrino
Fri May 07, 2021 9:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 27
Views: 14348

Re: 2021 Canadian Circuit Player Poll

My community poll is as follows: I value tournament organizers more than someone like myself, whose commitment to the community is rolling out of bed at 9:59 once every three or four weeks. 1. Henry Atkisn 2. Meghan Torchia 3. Aaron dos Remedios 4. Lia Rathburn 5. Josh Lane 6. Colin Veevers 7. Rick ...
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun May 02, 2021 9:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 27
Views: 14348

Re: 2021 Canadian Circuit Player Poll

Main Ballot: 1. Henry Atkisn Hears the growing crescendo of "battle of shiloh... battle of shiloh ... BATTLE OF SHILOH " as he opens his Jeff Koons handbag. Really unfortunate that Henry won't have had a chance to play either ICT or Nationals with McGill A. He's come a long way since I put...
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:29 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
Replies: 51
Views: 49026

Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)

Barring any issues with the conclusion of the pandemic, I will be working in Guangzhou, China next year. I would love to staff tournaments in and around that area.
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:50 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Fall: Global Announcement (October 17)
Replies: 5
Views: 7731

Re: 2020 ACF Fall: Global Announcement (October 17)

How many packets is ACF expecting to produce for this tournament?
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Fall at McGill University (17/10/2020)
Replies: 5
Views: 3157

Re: 2020 ACF Fall at McGill University (17/10/2020)

I’m trying to register as a staffer and the form it takes me to seems to be the team registration form.
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Sep 01, 2020 2:11 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MARCATo (Summer 2020)
Replies: 48
Views: 19773

Re: MARCATo (Summer 2020)

Thank you to the organizers for making this tournament a success - especially considering how the answers were due by midnight and we got our results emailed to us by 9 am! I have two suggestions for a tournament like this in the future. Firstly, The distribution (which mixes popular and classical g...
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Jul 12, 2020 2:03 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: General Misconduct Discussion (TW: sexual harassment)
Replies: 39
Views: 23244

Re: [TW: Sexual Harassment] Harassment in the THAT Online Quizbowl Discord

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...
by Fado Alexandrino
Wed May 27, 2020 2:31 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33261

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

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.
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:42 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: -5 for Fighting
Replies: 2
Views: 1792

-5 for Fighting

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...
by Fado Alexandrino
Wed Apr 22, 2020 1:30 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 21
Views: 10150

Re: 2020 Canadian Circuit Player Poll

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)...
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DECAMERON - Asynchronous guerrilla tournament announcement and signups
Replies: 29
Views: 9805

Re: DECAMERON - Asynchronous guerrilla tournament announcement and signups

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?
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)
Replies: 18
Views: 6941

Re: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)

Stats will be posted after we resolve some issues.
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146964

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

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.
by Fado Alexandrino
Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Toronto Winter Tournament (March 14, 2020) [CANCELLED]
Replies: 1
Views: 1923

Re: Toronto Winter Tournament (March 14, 2020)

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.
by Fado Alexandrino
Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT Side Events
Replies: 19
Views: 6264

Re: ICT Side Events

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.
:party:
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.
by Fado Alexandrino
Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16699

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

The D2 tossup on the influenza virus prompts on "flu virus" but the D1 tossup does not.
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Feb 11, 2020 11:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Toronto Winter Tournament (March 14, 2020) [CANCELLED]
Replies: 1
Views: 1923

Toronto Winter Tournament (March 14, 2020) [CANCELLED]

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 ...
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
Replies: 38
Views: 6383

Re: 2020 SCT general discussion

Is there a way for NAQT to guarantee a distribution within the first 22/22 of a pack? Also, considering those two extra questions don't even constitute the requisite number of tiebreakers, I don't get why packets aren't 25/25 or 22/22 with an extra tiebreaker pack.
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division II SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 2437

Re: 2020 Division II SCT: specific question discussion

Asking for hydrogen as "this substance" was pretty confusing.
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Feb 03, 2020 11:23 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
Replies: 106
Views: 95112

Re: Introducing YellowFruit.

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?
by Fado Alexandrino
Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Abolish packet submission for ACF Fall
Replies: 29
Views: 8465

Re: Abolish packet submission for ACF Fall

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...
by Fado Alexandrino
Wed Oct 30, 2019 10:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Fall at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) (11/02/2019)
Replies: 2
Views: 4792

Re: 2019 ACF Fall at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) (11/02/2019)

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...
by Fado Alexandrino
Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Quizbowl Schedule Generator
Replies: 11
Views: 10846

Re: Quizbowl Schedule Generator

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?
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [Side Event]
Replies: 11
Views: 5988

Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles [Side Event]

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?
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Oct 28, 2019 5:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Should Baby Seals Smile While Being Clubbed? Or: Why Should Newer Teams Stick Around College Quizbowl?
Replies: 14
Views: 7785

Re: Should Baby Seals Smile While Being Clubbed? Or: Why Should Newer Teams Stick Around College Quizbowl?

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...
by Fado Alexandrino
Mon Oct 28, 2019 9:22 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Fall at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) (11/02/2019)
Replies: 2
Views: 4792

Re: 2019 ACF Fall at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) (11/02/2019)

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.
by Fado Alexandrino
Thu Sep 26, 2019 10:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT Collegiate Novice @ Carleton University (28/09/2019)
Replies: 1
Views: 4254

Re: NAQT Collegiate Novice @ Carleton University (28/09/2019)

Please meet at Paterson 114 for 9:30-9:45 on Saturday.
by Fado Alexandrino
Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:02 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Climate change and quizbowl
Replies: 29
Views: 26526

Re: Climate change and quizbowl

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.
by Fado Alexandrino
Sun Aug 25, 2019 7:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Canadian Trash Player Poll 2019
Replies: 1
Views: 4000

Canadian Trash Player Poll 2019

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 b...
by Fado Alexandrino
Fri Aug 23, 2019 11:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT Collegiate Novice @ Carleton University (28/09/2019)
Replies: 1
Views: 4254

NAQT Collegiate Novice @ Carleton University (28/09/2019)

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...