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I do agree with mostly everything in this post. However looking back at my middle school years I think it would be nice if some schools and experienced writers could team up to write an mACF style MS set to bring more middle schools that cannot afford hosting a tournament based on MS series into th...

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...I think NAQT would be wise to have writers born in this century write the majority of high school and middle school trash questions... Keep in mind that NAQT writers and editors must be at least 18yo and be HS graduates. Those criteria alone will limit the number of writing candidates "born in t...

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rdc20 wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 18, 2020 11:00 pm
This is a good idea, and Harris is right to include it in the SUN pledge.

And Harris's formulation is a definite improvement on it

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Would NAQT and ACF actually get involved (especially if the person is a retired/no-longer-enrolled player)? I'm not sure that outside organizations would have much incentive to get involved in these situations, especially if it's for non-eligible players and didn't take place at events that they sp...

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Would it be useful to append the following to the first sentence? ...nor tolerate those who do. Basic idea: even if a person did not him/herself cheat, if someone involved with an event learns that some other person did cheat, that someone would have a duty to report it through appropriate channels.

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This has been an interesting discussion. I wonder if a possible palliative to the concerns about graduate students beating on UG players (regardless of whether one thinks this is really an issue or not) would be for NAQT to cap the number of years one can play ICT. For instance, a cap of five or si...

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I was one of two moderators for the 1996 CBI NCT final (it used a best of three format). I forget who the other moderator was. (Each team got to choose one moderator; I was Michigan's choice.)

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The Stately Rhododendron wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:58 pm
Go for runs (or the gym) during the lunch break! There's a small park in Rosemont that's got a nice little path.

Do some squats. That way you don't get all sweaty, and don't even have to leave the building.

Take a walk. If you're able, try taking the stairs a few flights.

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One of the criteria that jumps out is Variety among championship sites. Ideally, we would avoid excessive repetition so that frequent attendees can see a variety of cities. 4 years in a row. Should we assume that HSNCT will always be held in Atlanta? Note that while that is a selection criterion, i...

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May I please have the text of the Airplane! tossup from the final?

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You all have mentioned CBI as the sponsoring organization. I mostly remember it as being ACUI. Maybe CBI worked with them? Our school had to be affiliated with ACUI to participate in the College Bowl Tournament. It was quite expensive, as well. It was a partnership between ACUI and CBI. Schools wou...

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You should also tune the strategy to the rule set you are playing. More specifically: if the format you are using has timed rounds, that will impact your strategy. Although I've never played in a format or scenario in which doing so would be relevant, I've heard of players performing "clock-killing...

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For computational math there are some categories of basic formulas to know (certainly not a complete list): Geometry: areas, perimeters, and interior/exterior angles of common polygons; volumes/surface area of common solids; V - E + F = 2 Statistics: mean (arithmetic, harmonic, geometric), median, c...

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You should also tune the strategy to the rule set you are playing. More specifically: if the format you are using has timed rounds, that will impact your strategy. With timed rounds, there will be some scenarios (in all of which you are behind, and time is growing scarce) in which the risk of vulchi...

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1992 in spaceflight wrote: ↑
Mon May 06, 2019 7:50 am
I experienced at least two delays in the Open Division prelims, for example, so that could have not been good.

Yup. Also in Open, and by the time we got started with Round 1 (photography-related delay) my Round 2 teams had started showing up.

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It honestly had not occurred to them that (a) nobody actually followed their rules about destroying old packets because of the dearth of other suitable practice material, and (b) there were players active in 1988 who had played those questions the first time around. I think that by the time nationa...

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I think, as a result, CBI required that schools could only have old questions for like a year or something and then they had to get rid of them. IIRC the rule wasn't quite that strict, but yes, officially you were required to destroy any packets you had once they were N years old, with N being a so...

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If anyone has tried this, I'd be curious about results, and if they haven't, I'd be curious as to any potential downsides. Question security, for one thing. If the form really does come from someone who should be allowed to see details about question content and is similarly limited in who can see ...

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Was the tournament held as planned? Curious to see who attended, who won, what the stats were, etc.

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This sort of makes me wonder: what are you and your teammates eating/drinking for lunch? Also: if you are playing well before the break, chances are decent that you are facing relatively stronger opponents after the break than before. Thus to some degree, a drop-off in afternoon performance probably...

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What I focus on in reading is establishing a flow - keeping moving from tossups to bonuses without having to shuffle a ton of papers, etc.. That, and eliminating "down time" goes a long way to making a game move quickly. If you have to move papers around or have to uncover your scoresheet, it gives...

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I tell my moderators to always first glance at the answerline, because: 1) If someone buzzes early and gives the answer, you don't have to scan for a second or two to find if they're right and break the flow, and 2) You can use that knowledge in the back of your mind to help you phrase the sentence...

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Both hosts and NAQT need to step up and prevent this kind of stuff and I agree that a narrow list of criteria involving just PACE and HSNCT stats may miss certain players. What, exactly, would you expect NAQT to do to "step up and prevent this kind of stuff"? Beyond a pointed reminder to hosts that...

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NAQT implementing its own eligibility restrictions would be good, but in the absence of those hosts need to step in. Given that NAQT does not run any collegiate novice events at present, and does not use collegiate novice tournament performance for ICT entry tiers, I'd argue that they should more o...

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SirMrGuy wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 08, 2018 10:49 am
(alternatively, for ARJUN, Appreciable Ranking Justifies my Unintelligent Negs)

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We need someone to come up with a clever backronym so we can talk about GROGER ranks.

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Cheynem wrote:Are we not counting the Mets as a New York team (good move, if questionable)?

Unintentionally left out the Mets, but now I wish I had done it purposefully as a joke. I guess I got tunnel vision on historical collisions which got resolved when one of the teams moved or folded.

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Since 2013 this NBA team has been coached by a former head coach of the Australian menʹs national team. Brett Brown coaches this team, which lost an NBA‐record 28 consecutive games in 2015. “The (*) Process” resulted in Ben Simmons playing on—for 10 points—what Pennsylvania‐based team? answer: Phil...

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CometsCoach wrote:That question is: what are NAQT (and for that matter, all quiz bowl organizations) doing to ensure that the people they bring aboard to staff their events are properly vetted to work with students?

Out of curiosity, what is the IQBL doing?

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CometsCoach wrote:That question is: what are NAQT (and for that matter, all quiz bowl organizations) doing to ensure that the people they bring aboard to staff their events are properly vetted to work with students?

Out of curiosity, what is the IQBL doing?

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Intriguing! Some notes: Qatar, Bahrain, & UAE: As all these countries are smaller in relation to the other countries on my list, instead of a national tournament for each, I propose a larger tournament encompassing all three countries with similar regional intermediary tournaments. In 2017 Bahrain a...

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Would it be possible to release the formal grievance and Matt’s response to the public? With respect, this is simply not a reasonable request to make. Companies generally have to be very circumspect in the public release of documents related to personnel matters. This is not like deciding whether o...

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David,

Best wishes to you and your family as you go through your treatment, and I hope that the treatment will have its desired effect. You are a pillar of our community, a terrific teacher, and more important than any of those a truly good person.

Patrick

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I've seen Orthodox Jews simply say "buzz" instead of pressing a buzzer. It's then up to the moderator to figure out if the verbal "buzz" came before or after another player rang in with a buzzer. NAQT rules explicitly allow a player to "signal in an appropriate manner" if they cannot use a buzzer (...

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Following the edits, can we say that the subsequent mirrors will be playing...alternative FACTS?

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Borel hierarchy wrote:i demand all ict editors and writers just admit the jig is up already and that ur gonna make all of the science biased towards the russia

"Quiz bowl community is dumbfounded by the sudden spike in Trofim Lysenko questions."

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I would have called NAQT a pretty good corporate citizen until this news broke. So in other words, up until now, you trusted the NAQT crew to generally do the right thing. In the absence of any evidence that these people you've known for years have done anything wrong yet, maybe that would merit a ...

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Aside from a presumption that teams from the Pacific and possibly Mountain time zones would just as soon not play the morning session when their players may be zombie-like, I'm not sure we can make any broad assumptions as to which session the "top contenders" would prefer. There could be as many co...

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Everyone from a "blue" state who expected the only state to get an A to be Alabama, raise your hands...

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Interesting thought, and intuitively it "feels right" that income and quiz bowl success would be correlated, since income and almost all positive academic outcomes are generally correlated. Median income by ZIP code, however, is going to be problematic, for reasons already brought up: 1) The ZIP cod...

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