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by mushroom
Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT SCT @ UT Dallas (February 3, 2018)
Replies: 2
Views: 3041

Re: NAQT SCT @ UT Dallas (February 3, 2018)

Congratulations to Oklahoma for beating Rice in the first game of an advantaged final. Complete statistics are available on the NAQT website: https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/s ... nt_id=9070

Thank you to all of the teams and staff.
by mushroom
Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:11 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT SCT @ UT Dallas (February 3, 2018)
Replies: 2
Views: 3041

Re: NAQT SCT @ UT Dallas (February 3, 2018)

I just sent a logistics email to all teams and staffers. As indicated above, registration will open at 8am, and the event is in the JSOM building. Please let me know if you expected to receive the email and did not.
by mushroom
Sat Dec 09, 2017 12:29 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT SCT @ UT Dallas (February 3, 2018)
Replies: 2
Views: 3041

NAQT SCT @ UT Dallas (February 3, 2018)

I'm pleased to announce that The University of Texas at Dallas will again be the southern site for the 2018 NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament (SCT), on February 3th, 2018. This tournament is open to all college teams, and will be a qualifier for the 2018 ICT, which will take place at the Hyatt ...
by mushroom
Tue Jun 23, 2015 11:07 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NASAT 2015 Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 52
Views: 4588

Re: NASAT 2015 Specific Question Discussion

Can I see the Derrida and Searle/analytic philosophy/deconstruction bonus? Also, were there three poetry questions in the first packet? I remember Freneau and The Ballad of Reading Gaol and I thought there was another one.
by mushroom
Wed Jun 17, 2015 3:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NASAT 2015 Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 52
Views: 4588

Re: NASAT 2015 Specific Question Discussion

This was a lot of fun to play, thanks to everyone that was involved in delivering the set. I especially enjoyed Thor and Jormungandr and Hello World/teapot/% as creative and fun. Horses / Ares / he is touching the earth, Tryst with Destiny speech/Nehru/Jinnah seemed a bit easy, while The Cut-Glass B...
by mushroom
Fri Jun 12, 2015 2:54 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2015 PACE NSC Seeding/General Seeding Discussion
Replies: 5
Views: 3725

Re: 2015 PACE NSC Seeding/General Seeding Discussion

You'd might expect a prelim bracket with more underseeded teams to be objectively stronger since their strength was underestimated. Since each prelim bracket sends two teams to each tier, you would expect underseeded teams to perform well on Saturday afternoon because they were pushed into a lower t...
by mushroom
Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:42 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2014 HSNCT discussion
Replies: 135
Views: 75200

Re: 2014 HSNCT discussion

I'd also like to see the tossup on the blood of Christ. Our teammate buzzed in on the clue about Longinus, somewhat confused because he never heard Longinus referred to as blind, and also confused later as to why a relic of Saint Andrew would be the blood of Christ (as opposed to the blood of Saint...
by mushroom
Fri May 02, 2014 9:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Where Will You Be Going To College Next Year? 2013-14
Replies: 45
Views: 20781

Re: Where Will You Be Going To College Next Year? 2013-14

I'll be attending the University of Texas at Dallas, and I'd be interested in playing in college. Does anyone have any information on if there actually is a club there? I'm having some trouble finding a contact; it's not on this list of college teams: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ajq...
by mushroom
Sun Feb 09, 2014 11:19 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NJ/NY 2013-2014
Replies: 94
Views: 42213

Re: NJ/NY 2013-2014

The Lusiads are kinda important... Jokes aside, I agree that Sean's analysis is good. I think High Tech A and St. Joe's are ranked a few spots higher than they should be unless they can do a really good job covering their weaknesses in the next few months. As mentioned above, our A Team is vulnerabl...
by mushroom
Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Should "Shakespeare" be prompted if looking for "Hamlet?"
Replies: 35
Views: 7822

Re: Should "Shakespeare" be prompted if looking for "Hamlet?

Just to confirm that I correctly understand the creator-created work rules as they currently stand, under NAQT and ACF rules: Can you answer an author and the work at ANY time during a tossup with an answer of either the author or the work? If I'm not sure whether a tossup is asking for Tennessee Wi...
by mushroom
Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:57 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific question requests and discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 4304

Re: Specific question requests and discussion

Why did "extrema" cease to be acceptable for "maxes and mins" halfway through TU 19 in Round 11? It was prompted - I assumed you were looking for either global or local but then my teammate answered "maxes and mins" and it was taken. The mod said extrema was acceptable ...
by mushroom
Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:52 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific question requests and discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 4304

Re: Specific question requests and discussion

For the third part of the bonus on Chemical Equilibrium, either there is an error or we misheard/misunderstood the question. We heard something to the effect of, "Consider a reaction where two moles of gas X and one mole of gas Y react to form one mole of gas Z. If the pressure on the system i...
by mushroom
Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:06 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific question requests and discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 4304

Re: Specific question requests and discussion

On the Richard Wright bonus, our reader said "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and not "Uncle Tom's Children". While I'm 99% sure this was simply an autopilot reading mistake, I just thought I'd check to make sure. Our reader made the same mistake and corrected himself, so I think it's correc...
by mushroom
Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:57 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific question requests and discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 4304

Re: Specific question requests and discussion

Some specific thoughts: For tossup 3 in Round 5, I answered "the Madonna" about halfway through. The listed answer was "Mary", and the moderator decided that was incorrect but changed his mind when the other team said it should be correct. It would be helpful to either list it as...
by mushroom
Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:30 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Scarsdale Tournament- 1/11/14
Replies: 29
Views: 10710

Re: Scarsdale Tournament- 1/11/14

This tournament was fun, thanks to Scarsdale for putting this together. We appreciated the punctuality; the tournament started on time and was over well before the predicted 5:00pm finish time. As for recommendations, the only suggestion that comes to mind right now is that it would've been nice to ...
by mushroom
Fri Jan 10, 2014 8:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Scarsdale Tournament- 1/11/14
Replies: 29
Views: 10710

Re: Scarsdale Tournament- 1/11/14

Is the intention that we order pizza independently or through you, and in the latter case what is the cost per pizza?
by mushroom
Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:26 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: St. Joes's Rescheduled GSAC: April 12, 2014
Replies: 31
Views: 13853

Re: St. Joes's Rescheduled GSAC: April 12, 2014

Out of curiosity, is there a reason why "Gotham"'s second team is on the waitlist? It seems like there's room in the field.
by mushroom
Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:36 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PHSAT (Princeton, NJ) XXI - Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Replies: 48
Views: 49426

Re: PHSAT (Princeton, NJ) XXI - Saturday, September 28th, 2013

I didn't keep detailed stats until the playoffs. High Tech B had 21 powers, 6 negs, and 21 tossups in the 5 playoff games, for a total of 4.2 powers/game, 4.2 tossups/game, and 1.2 negs/game in the playoffs.
by mushroom
Sun Oct 06, 2013 1:06 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PHSAT (Princeton, NJ) XXI - Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Replies: 48
Views: 49426

Re: PHSAT (Princeton, NJ) XXI - Saturday, September 28th, 2013

High Tech B had 16.75 ppb for the playoffs, I don't have prelim ppb data. If anyone is interested I also have our game scores from each round and opponent's ppb for playoff games.