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- Sun Nov 03, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ACF Fall: Thanks and Discussion Thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2073
Re: 2024 ACF Fall: Thanks and Discussion Thread
If you want buzzpoint stats for your site, I can make them for you assuming you used MODAQ at your site and have the QBJ files from all the rounds. Just dm me at discord at trooper4907 with the QBJ files I do have the QBJ files. Can someone from ACF please confirm or deny if this would be allowed ...
- Mon Sep 02, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3434
Re: 2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
Kevin Park will be editing biology and chemistry for CO this year; I've updated the tournament announcement to reflect that.
- Sun Sep 01, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3434
Re: 2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
Bumping this again, if you're (even just tentatively) interested in editing biology or chemistry for this year's CO, let me know by this Wednesday, September 3.
- Tue Aug 27, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3434
Re: 2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
We are still looking for an editor for biology and chemistry; however, we would also be willing to consider an editor who only wishes to edit one of the two.
- Wed Aug 21, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3434
2025 Chicago Open biology/chemistry editor
The production team for 2025 Chicago Open is seeking an editor for biology and chemistry. Prior experience editing these categories at high difficulties is not required, though people with no prior editing experience will not be considered. If you're interested, please email me (Ryan Rosenberg) at ...
- Wed Aug 21, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2025 Chicago Open
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2074
2025 Chicago Open
I am proud to announce the 26th Chicago Open, to be held presumptively at Northwestern University in summer 2025. I will be head editing and Young Fenimore Lee will be TD. The subject editors are as follows: Caroline Mao : British Literature, World Literature Taylor Harvey : American Literature ...
- Mon Jul 01, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3753
Re: 2024 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
Is there the possibility of holding a side event after rounds on Saturday? I'd be interested in playing HONK! (the Canadian trash tournament) or another side event.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: "Where Are You Going Next Year?" (Collegiate 2024)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13919
Re: "Where Are You Going Next Year?" (Collegiate 2024)
I will be starting a master's of public administration at NYU in the fall. I'm excited to return to the Northeast and plan on playing at least a few tournaments as my schedule allows.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
the rankings from last weekend's uct are kinda fucked up. it seems that (half of) the teams who tied were moved to the bottom of the standings. I believe this is cause the initial combined statistics were sorted by prelim brackets. Im not sure how the stats get from there to Ryan's site but the ...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12186
Re: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
how did you acquire leaked NHBB Nationals 2025 logistical plans
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:13 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9455
Re: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
I'll note that ACF does only award hosting and editing bids if ACF determines that the bid roster would have a reasonable chance of qualifying for Nationals if they played. I'm not sure if NAQT has an equivalent policy, but it does seem evident that Matt J would have qualified if he had played SCT ...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ESPN @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6881
Re: ESPN @ Columbia (Open)
I'm also very interested in a Saturday night TELEOLOGY mirror.
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- Sat Feb 10, 2024 2:49 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9455
Re: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
I compiled a list of people who scored more than 30 PPG or 40% of the points for a nationals-qualifying team, then played Nationals or ICT on a different team. A little under half of these are imo very clear instances of team-splitting to qualify a second team, where the A team at the qualifier has ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9455
Re: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
I like this proposal a lot; it should prevent teams from using a couple of strong players to nab extra bid(s) while still allowing actual roster experimentation.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
Stats from this past weekend's SCT sites that were posted on HSQB have been uploaded. Please note that these are not official stats; official stats from all sites will be uploaded this summer once I get the SCT and ICT data from NAQT.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
This is great! Love the layout, formatting, etc. Thanks for all your hard work on this :0 I'm wondering if there will be an option in the future to (with verification of identity) change your display name for those who have a different preferred name than the one they used to play at past ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 54
- Views: 19229
Re: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
Detailed stats from ACF Regionals are now available here and on a site-by-site basis here . Detailed stats are now added from the games at the MIT mirror that recorded them. I was remiss in my initial message in not thanking the people who helped compile these stats: Jordan Brownstein, whose qbj ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 54
- Views: 19229
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
I've added this weekend's Regionals stats -- note that the A-value on the site is not the official ACF A-value. ACF adds additional corrections, such as the order of finish correction and removing games against teams that were ineligible to qualify for Nats, and so the A-values on this site will not ...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3102
Re: 2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
In predictably oafish fashion, I included two dates in the poll, August 10th and August 17th, that JinAh and I will not be able to make. Given this, I'd prefer to select July 27th or August 3rd; however, August 10th is winning in somewhat of a landslide, with 7 more votes than either of those dates ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
This isn't directly related to the new additions, but I just noticed that the PPGs/detailed stats are giving all players 20 tossups heard at some tournaments, even in games with substitutions (since I know which tournaments we played with subs, here are two examples from Yale: https://quizbowlstats ...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
I've added a Detailed Stats section to the website. Currently, this is essentially a re-skinned version of Jordan Brownstein's buzzpoints app , but with a few more tournaments in the database (this year's Penn Bowl, the Columbia ACF Winter site). My plan is to coordinate an effort to compile ...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
I've updated the site with tournaments played so far this competition year -- let me know if anything looks off. I've streamlined my process for adding tournaments to the site and expect to be able to regularly add tournaments during the spring semester.
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: A Question about the New Packet Archive
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5361
Re: A Question about the New Packet Archive
Agree with what Fred and Ben have said -- QBReader and aseemsDB are the best tools for searching the packet archive. It would be good to link to those from the archive pages.
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:47 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Trophies vs Plaques
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7207
Re: Trophies vs Plaques
For Nationals last year, I intentionally decided to order smaller, non-plastic trophies to try to avoid the problems you described. I'd be curious to hear if people liked those or didn't, and what they'd like to see ACF do in the future.
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 7:40 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Super ACRONYM 4 Online - September 30 and October 15
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5732
Re: Super ACRONYM 4 Online - September 30 and October 15
What time is this planned to start on Saturday?
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
I've updated the site with tournaments played at the end of this competition season, as well as the NAQT tournaments from this season. I believe I have a fairly smooth process for updating the site now, so the plan is to update the site weekly during the next competition season as stats are posted ...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3744
Re: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
We do have experience writing packets, but it has been minimal with regard to interscholastic competition. That's been a consequence of there not really being many opportunities to packet write, especially over the past year. We do intend on playtesting - that is something I meant to add to the ...
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 8:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ARCHIVE - Online Mirror - 6/24/23
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5476
Re: ARCHIVE - Online Mirror - 6/24/23
I heartily endorse this product and/or service.
- Mon Jun 19, 2023 4:45 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Geoword
- Replies: 29
- Views: 16185
Re: Geoword
Cool to see this start up. After having played the D1 sample, I do wonder if you all want to tone down the difficulty a little bit. For a format where you're asking people to individually answer all questions, it's going to feel harder than playing as a team. And even as written, it looks like the ...
- Tue May 23, 2023 4:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
Good work, Ryan! So in the CC section, when one clicks on "Florida," one can see an alphabetical list of community college programs in our state, but Valencia isn't listed there. However, our records are shown in the players and school top ten lists. Nutty! It looks like Valencia was grouped in the ...
- Tue May 23, 2023 12:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
Good work, Ryan! So in the CC section, when one clicks on "Florida," one can see an alphabetical list of community college programs in our state, but Valencia isn't listed there. However, our records are shown in the players and school top ten lists. Nutty! It looks like Valencia was grouped in the ...
- Tue May 23, 2023 9:38 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
This is pretty cool! It's nice that you have A-values listed on each tournament page. Since you have the A-values for each team that played each set, it would be informative to have a column for A-value rank so that viewers can more easily compare teams across each set. On the circuits page, it ...
- Mon May 22, 2023 2:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 19082
- Mon May 22, 2023 1:35 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
Great website. Easy to use and I like the design. However, I must take umbrage with the fact that neg records are included in these statistics. To some of us, negs are small shameful personal failures best forgotten in the labyrinth of hsquizbowl.org stats, and so you can imagine my dismay when I ...
- Sun May 21, 2023 6:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16902
New college quizbowl stats website
I'm pleased to announce the release of College Quizbowl Stats , a new quizbowl stats website. Welcome to College Quizbowl Stats. This site has two intended purposes: To serve as a repository of quizbowl statistics, preserving records of the game’s playing history. This includes traditional s ...
- Thu May 11, 2023 2:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
A few more recordings (from the Braintree and Everett brackets) have been added to the Drive folder.
- Wed May 03, 2023 1:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
Audio recordings and detailed stats ( buzzpoints , bonuses ) from 2023 ACF Nationals are now available. The detailed stats have been updated to include two missing games (GT A-Cornell A R10, and Brown-Chicago A R14). There's still one game that we're waiting on the scoresheet from (Cornell A vs ...
- Tue May 02, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
Audio recordings and detailed stats ( buzzpoints , bonuses ) from 2023 ACF Nationals are now available. The detailed stats have been updated to include two missing games (GT A-Cornell A R10, and Brown-Chicago A R14). There's still one game that we're waiting on the scoresheet from (Cornell A vs ...
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
Audio recordings and detailed stats (buzzpoints, bonuses) from 2023 ACF Nationals are now available.
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Summer Opens?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9146
Re: Summer Opens?
I'd like to run another NorCal side event weekend, probably in August after CO. It would be great to have people come out here again!
- Mon Apr 24, 2023 11:48 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
A fuller recap post now that I'm back from the tournament: Thank you to all the teams, staff, and spectators who came out to ACF Nationals! This tournament was a joy to see, and I'm so glad we were able to deliver a quality ACF Nationals experience. I also want to recognize MIT as a host, it was ...
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 6:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
2023 ACF Nationals: Congratulations to Georgia Tech!
Georgia Tech A (Matt Bollinger, Arya Karthik, Alex Li, Hari Parameswaran) defeated Chicago A (Adam Fine, Matt Jackson, Claire Jones, Ned Tagtmeier) in the second game of a disadvantaged final, after defeating Cornell A (Geoffrey Chen, Jonathan Tran, Raymond Wang, Nathan Zhang) in a playin game ...
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
The prelim brackets are posted at https://acf-quizbowl.com/schedule.
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 12:48 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
After deliberation and considering the low level of community transmission of COVID in Boston and the vast majority of the US, ACF has revised its mask policy for 2023 ACF Nationals. Players and staff are strongly encouraged to wear a well-fitting N95 mask if they choose, but masks will not be ...
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Announcement: HAHA (tentatively 2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1950
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 7:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26515
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
Teams that have accepted their bids should fill out this form to register for ACF Nationals: https://forms.gle/ibABJF5Kz6X63RLe7. Teams that drop from ACF Nationals after April 1st will be required to pay 50% of the registration fee. Teams that drop from ACF Nationals after April 8th will be ...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 41729
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
I wanted to flag one more question that I thought was problematic. Bonus 1 in Packet 2, last part, reads: [10m] Recent models of cognition tend to use a framework drawing on the work of this mathematician, promoted by Joshua Tenenbaum and others. Stan and BUGS are common softwares for implementing ...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12308
Re: BHSU (Available for mirrors starting 2/25/23)
I'm excited to announce that we'll have a mirror at UC Berkeley on March 18th! We're still looking for a Southeast host -- if you're interested in hosting, please email me at [email protected]