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The second, far less well known buzzer I want to discuss is something that the MIT team had in its possession circa 2008-2009, and brought to at least a few tournaments. This was a homemade system, I think, and the notable thing about it is that the noise it made when somebody buzzed in was a "ding...

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Now that I have control of the main tournament listing, Uber division stats are here
https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5896/stats/uber/

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Stat reports for the Uber division will be here for the time being

edit: stats are now on the main hsquizbowl database listing

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literally read the news every day, follow some journalists on Twitter or whatever, it'll get you points I'm not being dismissive, this is legit the simplest way to do it imo. Not sure how true this still is, but when I was in high school, regularly reading The Economist would get you a ton of early...

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I think this has been done in some form before, but if anyone needs an easy way to move stat reports from Neg5 to the hsquizbowl database, I've added an "Import QBJ" option. There are a few caveats with this: - This is only for the specific schema version 2.1 file that Neg5 exports - Neg5 doesn't se...

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the return of AHAN wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:08 am
I'm interested in a Mac version since all of our devices in my school are Apple products.

I've linked a MacOS version in the original post.

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Atlashill wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:42 pm
There's a bug with the new version (2.3.2): when I attempt to save phases, the screen goes blank, and it's not possible to save the file from that point.

Fixed

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This is very cool, and something I've been thinking ought to exist for a while.

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It would be nice if there was a third button where once you added a game, it automatically begins creation of another entry. This would help streamline data entry when having to deal with multiple scoresheets on short time. Looks like in the SQBS converter, for forfeits you output a blank line for ...

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it's a bit of a hassle to click "add game", then "new game" over and over. It would be nice if there was a third button where once you added a game, it automatically begins creation of another entry. Good idea. It shouldn't be difficult for me to add an "accept and new" button. In the meantime (I d...

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Again. This is fine. I'm not trying to crucify anyone. Sorry! Just pointing out that it looks goofy to post stats for, like, someone's house party.

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This event was publicly marked as cancelled. When was it uncancelled? Why was that not announced, here or elsewhere? As someone who would very much like to play this set (and who lives in Arlington, where this shadow mirror was apparently held), I really would've appreciated a public indication tha...

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I suppose I may as well make a proper thread for this now that various versions have been floating around for close to a year. What is it? A standalone Windows and MacOS application for (manual) stat entry. Think of it as SQBS but with - Less crummy UI - Support for phases/stages (don't need multipl...

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I would be happy to show how thoroughly I have forgotten everything I learned in college

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John Ketzkorn wrote: ↑
Mon May 13, 2019 9:46 pm
We will be deciding on the order of events

Has this been done yet?

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Is there an explanation of how the re-bracketing works somewhere? Seems like it's different from past years. i'm confused as to why, say, Great Valley B isn't playing for 49th despite winning their tier 3 afternoon group.

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While it’s fun to get to see those who you otherwise only see at collegiate nats in a significantly lower pressure environment, (staffing vs playing), I have trouble putting into words how inappropriate I find openly drinking in front of high schoolers at the side events which take place at these n...

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PACE would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 Benjamin Cooper Awards: The Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Award will be presented to the founders of the Las Vegas Quiz Bowl Alliance, Matt Albert, Justin Sharp, and Paul Villaluz, for their work starting a pyramidal quiz bowl circuit in...

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Alright, more updates - I've closed the field at six teams, so with a five game schedule, that should actually allow us to do full tossup/bonus games. We'll meet at 9:30ish in the top level of the atrium, and figure things out from there. I'm definitely in favor of playing full games, given the hig...

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I thought it would be an interesting exercise to imagine what SQBS would be like if it were less ugly and annoying to use. Mostly for my own amusement but I figure some folks here might get a kick out of it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cikdo25qu6i51 ... 4.exe?dl=0

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Did this tournament happen? Who won?

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Guile Island wrote:and who knows, may even try to get a stronger Wisconsin circuit going?

Happy to have help with outreach, if you're interested!

Welcome to Wisconsin!

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k120 wrote:I'm going to Beloit College. Unfortunately, the don't have a quizbowl team, but hopefilly I'll be able to start one.

Cool! Wisconsin could definitely use more college clubs.

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Cheynem wrote:Yes, if this tournament is anything like the last one, you're going to want to have:

-somebody who knows old TV
-somebody who has good buzzing speed
-somebody who knows country music

None of these describe me, but I'm still very much interested and looking for teammates.

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I'm curious as to why teams will be charged an extra twenty dollars in order to receive a copy of the questions they are already paying to play. This seems highly unusual to me and I'm wondering why this policy is in place for this tournament. I agree, Ryan. I thought it was standard practice for t...

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I can only speak for Carmel, but we had an awards night at the end of the year where there was a Varsity and JV team MVP announced (came with a trophy) as well as smaller awards (medallions, iirc) for non-MVP important contributors. Everyone was recognized regardless of whether they won an award. I...

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You may want to correct the date of your tournament listing so people can actually search for it.
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4544/

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Who do I talk to to become a moderator? I see no clear resources or hubs online, but I’d really like to do it. I am in the Madison, WI area if that matters. User was reminded to enable a signature. --Mgmt. PACE has some good tips for moderators on their site. By the way, I live in Madison and frequ...

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This was fun and very well written. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this!

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I would definitely play this if it happened at SSNCT.

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I was addressing the implication that it's not possible for someone to know "almost nothing" about another area of the trash distribution.

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Sam wrote: sports is a category where it's possible for players to know almost nothing.

So is every other category... I don't see why sports is special in this respect.

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Isn't USABB just for elementary and middle school? I don't see this as catastrophic, unless USABB is counting on siphoning large amounts of staff from HSNCT.

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A five year non-compete is a pile of hot trash for quiz bowl. Yeah, it's not as if there are "trade secrets" or whatever that a clause like this could be trying to protect. NHBB doesn't have, say, proprietary question-writing or event-hosting strategies. The nature of quiz bowl is such that how its...

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That one question aside (which I still thought was a pretty cool thing to toss up!), this tournament was extremely well written and loads of fun, even if I didn't get much in the way of points, so thanks for all of the hard work that went into writing it.

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Cannonball Run was run five times in the 1970's. Was that part in the question? All I really remember were the clues I buzzed on about Alex Roy and the folks who broke his record, who were just random guys who decided to drive across the country really fast. That's why the terminology was so confus...

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Any particular reason why stuff like "driving from New York to Los Angeles" wasn't at least promptable for the Cannonball Run tossup? The question referred to a specific "event," i.e. named thing the Cannonball Run, and I'm guessing that's why I didn't throw a prompt in there. I think it'd be defen...

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Any particular reason why stuff like "driving from New York to Los Angeles" wasn't at least promptable for the Cannonball Run tossup?

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Fair enough. The other part of this that makes me uneasy, though, is that in both proposals, teams on one side of the divide don't have full control over whether they get a chance to change tiers. In the first one, Algeria could have an extremely "weak" (relatively) team that loses all its games by ...

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What seems more fair would be to use advantaged-final-style playoffs for these cross-tier matches. Teams in the top tier should still be afforded some advantage by virtue of doing better in the preliminary rounds.

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Personally I think using the event as a playtest is a great idea, but at the same time I think that since it *is* in fact being used as a playtesting session, you should cut those fees by a bit. Pros: you'll get lots of feedback and you'll have a couple of weeks to polish your tournament. Cons: wel...

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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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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi wrote: Squalor Squad ["Corin Wagen," "Ethan Russo," John DiCarlo," "Trevor Binford"] (Note: This is not the actual LASA A from this year]

I'm interested to know why people need pseudonyms for a summer open tournament.

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What's the status of all the tentative people in this thread? My tentative plans for a team fell through, so I'm still looking for folks to team up with.

Edit - Didn't realize there was a spreadsheet, despite my name being on it.

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Ndg wrote:Fellow CMU alum Aakash Patel and I would be interested in joining two others free agents if the field expands.

Ryan Rosenberg and Chris Ray having joined us, this provisional team is now full.

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Fellow CMU alum Aakash Patel and I would be interested in joining two others free agents if the field expands.

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got a question on Montauk once after eating some Pepperidge Farm cookies.

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i'm interested in playing this.

Ndg · Re: WUSTL Mirror of 2016 NASAT-June 25, 2016 I'd like to play this.

I'd like to play this.

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A 21st-24th bracket doesn't exist in which a 3-game round robin could be played. It's the difference between teams playing 3 games and playing 7 in the 17th-24th bracket of reality. And like I said, I'm basing this idea off of stats from the past few years, which seem to indicate that the teams in ...

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