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- Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:59 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: HSNCT and its Problems
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1993
Re: HSNCT and its Problems
To NAQT, I ask, what gives? More importantly, how do you expect HSNCT to continue to be viable without doing anything to satisfy your customers? The revolt has already begun; multiple top teams have already decided against playing HSNCT this year. The revolt has been so widespread and the customers...
- Wed Feb 24, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: MODAQ (MODerator Assistant for Quizbowl)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 354
Re: MODAQ (MODerator Assistant for Quizbowl)
Alejandro, this looks super-slick. Well done!
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2347
Re: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
Added Section E.4.A: “For an online tournament, a team shall direct a response to the moderator by prepending “Our answer is” to their answer. Moderators should only consider responses preceded by “Our answer is” or any other phrase designated by the TD. (For example, for a bonus part on Sextus Emp...
- Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:30 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Electronic scoresheets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1154
Re: Electronic scoresheets
I see NAQT has one but that's closely tied to their format and also doesn't have multiple sheets (meaning you need a new document for each round). The scoresheet format thing might be a deal-breaker depending on the rules you are using, but the single worksheet thing is not a barrier. If you want, ...
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 3:26 pm
- Forum: Northeast Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Discussion '20-21
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4600
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:53 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1777
Re: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
Dave also included the likely-not-seen-in-20-years 1995 ACF Nationals program, which is up here. I was very surprised to see my name appear in the program. I know I didn't play in the event, and to be honest I don't even remember applying for a wild card bid :) Hope some people enjoy this slice of ...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:14 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Vulching (Continued)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1905
Re: Vulching (Continued)
Honestly... I think it's fine to sometimes vulch-- but only under the following circumstances: 1) The other team negged early and you think that you still can buzz early enough where your buzz would still be in power; 2) You are absolutely 100% sure you know the answer. (Duh lol) Other possible sce...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 10:08 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Guide to Using Discord Bots to Limit Misconduct During Online Tournaments
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1755
Re: A Guide to Using Discord Bots to Limit Misconduct During Online Tournaments
Not a lawyer, but in brief... In the US, whether you can record an interaction is mostly governed by state laws, and generally speaking, there are two types of state legal regimes: "Two-Party Consent": despite the "two" in the name, this basically means "everyone about to be...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:16 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: On the Abundance of High School Sets During the Pandemic [And Its Problems]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3504
Re: On the Abundance of High School Sets During the Pandemic [And Its Problems]
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...
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 2:17 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3340
Re: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
...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...
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 1:12 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Online Tournament Honor Pledge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1387
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 11:11 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Punishment for cheating in online quizbowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2315
Re: Punishment for cheating in online quizbowl
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...
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:51 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Online Tournament Honor Pledge
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1387
Re: Online Tournament Honor Pledge
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.
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 12:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 16675
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
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...
- Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:23 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Moderators of past national finals
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1113
Re: Moderators of past national finals
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.)
- Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Stamina during Nationals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3215
Re: Stamina during Nationals
Do some squats. That way you don't get all sweaty, and don't even have to leave the building.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.
Take a walk. If you're able, try taking the stairs a few flights.
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2020 NAQT HSNCT: CANCELED
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10897
Re: 2020 NAQT HSNCT: Atlanta, May 22-24
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...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 144
- Views: 42512
Re: 2019 HSNCT discussion
May I please have the text of the Airplane! tossup from the final?
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:37 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19031
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
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...
- Thu May 23, 2019 3:23 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Vulching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12966
Re: Vulching
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-ki...
- Tue May 14, 2019 5:17 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: NAQT IS/HS Level Math
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5180
Re: NAQT IS/HS Level Math
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...
- Tue May 14, 2019 3:52 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Vulching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12966
Re: Vulching
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...
- Tue May 07, 2019 10:19 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12384
Re: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
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.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.
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:14 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19031
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:42 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19031
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
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...
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:42 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Feedback about Feedback
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5019
Re: Feedback about Feedback
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 ...
- Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Charter School of Wilmington Invitational Tournament (12/1/18)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2316
Re: Charter School of Wilmington Invitational Tournament (12/1/18)
Was the tournament held as planned? Curious to see who attended, who won, what the stats were, etc.
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 12:55 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Staying Alert/Focused after Lunch
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7824
Re: Staying Alert/Focused after Lunch
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...
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:58 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: What Constitutes Good Moderating
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8069
Re: What Constitutes Good Moderating
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...
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:55 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: What Constitutes Good Moderating
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8069
Re: What Constitutes Good Moderating
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...
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:08 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9336
Re: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
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 ...
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:04 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9336
Re: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
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...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Groger Ranks 2018-19
- Replies: 45
- Views: 29952
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Groger Ranks 2018-19
- Replies: 45
- Views: 29952
Re: Groger Ranks 2018-19
We need someone to come up with a clever backronym so we can talk about GROGER ranks.
- Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:19 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Sports Teams as Answerlines
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5954
Re: Sports Teams as Answerlines
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.Cheynem wrote:Are we not counting the Mets as a New York team (good move, if questionable)?
- Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:12 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Sports Teams as Answerlines
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5954
Re: Sports Teams as Answerlines
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...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Misconduct Reporting Form
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13505
Re: Misconduct Reporting Form
Out of curiosity, what is the IQBL doing?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?
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:30 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Misconduct Reporting Form
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9940
Re: Misconduct Reporting Form
Out of curiosity, what is the IQBL doing?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?
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:04 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: International Expansion of Quizbowl
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7237
Re: International Expansion of Quizbowl
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 Bahra...
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 10:40 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75697
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
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...
- Thu May 17, 2018 1:14 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: My Health
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7106
Re: My Health
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
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
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 11:36 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Accommodating for player needs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6654
Re: Accommodating for player needs
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"...
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QuBIT IV (2/24/18) Lincroft, NJ [FACTS]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6160
Re: QuBIT IV (2/24/18) Lincroft, NJ [FACTS]
Following the edits, can we say that the subsequent mirrors will be playing...alternative FACTS?


- Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT sponsorship
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21368
Re: 2018 HSNCT sponsorship
"Quiz bowl community is dumbfounded by the sudden spike in Trofim Lysenko questions."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
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT sponsorship
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21368
Re: 2018 HSNCT sponsorship
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 ...
- Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations Plano West!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23882
Re: 2018 NAQT HSNCT: May 26-27, Atlanta
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 ...
- Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:59 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: The State of Good Quizbowl, State-by-State
- Replies: 61
- Views: 45405
Re: The State of Good Quizbowl, State-by-State
Everyone from a "blue" state who expected the only state to get an A to be Alabama, raise your hands...
- Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:39 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Skill and Income
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7883
Re: Quiz Bowl Skill and Income
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) T...