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Ben Dillon

Quick question... In the case of past sets, are we just scanning in the packets "as they were" or have mistakes that were found been fixed?

Ben Dillon

Hmmm... I've stumbled on to this thread :)

Both NAQT and PACE want to help Indiana out this year, and it appears that NAQT has a nice partnership with IASP that will involve some perks. (See www.iasp.org)

I'm in the middle of other stuff right now... I'll get back to y'all!

Ben Dillon

Here's the brief history of NAQT in Indiana, especially as it compares to Questions Unlimited... 2001 - Butler runs the first NAQT tourney, a "state qualifier" for HSNCT. [They wanted to bill it as a state championship, but the QU State already existed.] It runs one year only. 2004 - Notre Dame runs...

Ben Dillon

Chip would love that, but I wasn't really planning on telling him :)

Ben Dillon

Since I was coach at the time, I can supply the following: Current (2020) presidential candidate Peter Buttigieg competed for two years on the Quiz Bowl team for St. Joseph's, IN (the school's name at the time). During his junior year, he was third on the team in scoring and played at the National A...

Ben Dillon

Rococo A Go Go wrote:Kentucky: http://www.kentuckyquizbowl.org

I don't find that this link works.

Ben Dillon

Anyone know if Specialty Design Corp. (out of Bessemer, AL) still exists? Their website doesn't seem to exist any more, and they aren't answering either phone number.

Ben Dillon

A lot of this just falls under two points:

1. It's a team game, not an individual game, so you should be nothing but supportive of your teammates. You're in this together.

2. It's a game against another team, so you should be nothing but dignified to your opponents. Sportsmanship applies.

Ben Dillon

Your reported PPB of 21.15 there is consistent with your adjusted PPB of 23.14, though there's some sort of anomaly in the stats (280 points scored in round 9 on zero tossups answered) that's inflating that number. Yeah, that's a problem, and I don't have the scoresheet to suggest the fix. All 280 ...

Ben Dillon

Someone help me out here. Our team appears in the rankings at #37, but I can't figure out which tournament qualified us. The ones I've checked so far don't give us that aPPB, but I can't for the life of me unearth ACF Fall @ NIU. It doesn't seem to be in the database.

Ben Dillon

We're not sure what a good user interface for this would look like (keeping in mind that we regularly have dozens of sets in use, and would need to account for question-sharing between our national-format sets and state-specific sets). Suggestions welcome. In the filter area, you'd have a filter by...

Ben Dillon

We're not sure what a good user interface for this would look like (keeping in mind that we regularly have dozens of sets in use, and would need to account for question-sharing between our national-format sets and state-specific sets). Suggestions welcome. In the filter area, you'd have a filter by...

Ben Dillon

I like the map for upcoming tournaments. It would be good to add more filters, e.g. by sets (so that you can find sites that are playing sets you haven't heard yet) and dates.

Ben Dillon

msacks wrote:UPDATED FIELD as of 12/30/17
ST. JOHN'S H.S. (IN) + coach

That'll be Saint Joseph HS (IN) + coach :)

Ben Dillon

Thanks, Jeff. I'm merely pointing out that arguments previously made in this discussion include: HS teams "humiliating" college teams; HS teams "taking spots that should have been reserved" for college teams; and HS teams "skew the rankings" of college teams. All of those arguments could easily be m...

Ben Dillon

On a fundamental level, this practice is a problem because collegiate tournaments are for college students. NAQT has long recognized this, which is why NAQT collegiate tournaments have never been open to high school teams, and ACF has more recently made the same decision to bar high school teams fr...

Ben Dillon

Indiana : C- (down from C) The more I search for information about quizbowl in Indiana, the more non-pyramidal leagues I discover. That ain't good, but it does suggest that there's a lot of untapped potential out there. Some of the long-running pyramidal programs like St. Joe's also seems to be in ...

Ben Dillon

Reportedly, Zionsville (Indiana) won NAC. This of course makes our job of converting Indiana again harder, because the more success our state has with QU, they more schools want to play it.

Ben Dillon

From NAQT's HS eligibility page ( http://www.naqt.com/hs/high-school-eligibility.html ): E. Affiliation Students may only compete at high school tournaments for schools with which they have an affiliation. A player automatically establishes an affiliation with a school for a given competition year b...

Ben Dillon

Also, if you look at the rankings on the website (http://www.qunlimited.com/national/2016/VRanking.html), Briarcliff is listed as 9-1 although they lost twice to Daviess County.

Ben Dillon

Well, this picture makes no sense:

http://www.qunlimited.com/imgnational/2 ... od2016.jpg

Ben Dillon

Father Comstock wrote:The projector flashed up questions and answers to some tossups in that round in which I saw the answers to 3 questions. I was not in but it would've been easy for a competitor to see them as well.

Sounds like a new strike against NAC to add to the wiki :/

Ben Dillon

In previous years, it has still been a knockout bracket, awkwardly pitting three winners. In some years, I think I've seen the last two Chicago teams finish off the final four, e.g. one Chicago finalist versus the NO winner and one Chicago finalist versus the DC winner.

Ben Dillon

It's good to see Harrison players participating on the boards! However, I'm going to have to disagree with one of Ben's points: I understand the disdain for NAC, but the lack of pyramidal tournaments in Indiana is a leading cause of us playing NAC, it's a real bummer. Also as stated, our coach (who ...

Ben Dillon

Saint Joseph (IN) graduated Nolan Liu. The returning players have experience at HSNCT but will be green.

Ben Dillon

Indiana will probably not warrant higher than a C grade until Chip retires and/or QUnlimited folds its tent. Teams in the Indianapolis-based league *prefer* and even *like* the QU format over any pyramidal-style. Harrison's coach says NAQT questions are gender-biased; she often has girls come out of...

Ben Dillon

NLiu wrote:4. Mishawaka
Dominic Giannuzzi is young and decent at quizbowl;

I believe I found out at the last coaches' meeting that Dominic was actually a senior, so Mishawaka graduated their best (only?) weapon.

Ben Dillon

I'll volunteer to help moderate.

Ben Dillon

Check www.inqblots.org for the high school circuit in the state. Also, you should enable a signature :)

Ben Dillon

I would say it's probably the same thing as there being a poster with all the presidents or a giant map; everyone has an equal advantage (unless I guess it's a bonus, but hopefully we're not writing binary matching bonuses anymore) and the advantage is probably nil. If only one team can see it and ...

Ben Dillon

My team's a little sketchy since it's the Saturday before Christmas, but we'll reserve an Uber-spot, please.

Ben Dillon

How about good high school teams?

Ben Dillon

Welcome to Indiana Quiz Bowl!

On 12/6, if you switch it to be a high school tournament, you'll run into direct competition with the Brownsburg High School tournament run on Chip questions.

(Check the current dates on www.inqblots.org.)

Ben Dillon

Check out this article on the QB Wiki: http://www.qbwiki.com/wiki/Computational_math In short, modern quiz bowl is about rewarding depth of knowledge (as well as breadth). Hence the pyramidal nature of tossups. Now, can computation be written pyramidally? Chip/Questions Unlimited would argue that co...

Ben Dillon

Couldn't the Proto-programmers include a "Dated Question" under their Edit feature along with "Broken Question", "Wrong Category", etc.?

Ben Dillon

Sounds good to me. After all, the answer line can have an "accept equivalents" if it's really necessary, and a well-written tossup will make it clear that a description is being called for anyway. To take your "winning tennis' Grand Slam" as an example... Don Budge was the first man and Maureen Conn...

Ben Dillon

Interesting on the SSNCT that the top three items that bothered participants were related to the site, not the tournament. That suggests NAQT is delivering a quality competition.

However, a surprisingly high 6% were bothered by the protest process. Anyone who responded that way want to weigh in?

Ben Dillon

I must have missed something here. Why are people listing the National Academic Championship with a lower-case N?

If the answer is that it doesn't deserve to be called "National", then I believe the case has been made many times over that all three letters should be lower case :>

Ben Dillon

Can't speak a word of German, so that would be counterproductive, to say the least :>

Ben Dillon

When Nolan says "we don't have a team", he means he's not expecting much support from the young'uns, i.e. he expects to be pretty much a one-man team. Saint Joe will still attend as many tourneys as feasible.

Ben Dillon

Indiana = 2, with Zionsville and Harrison

Ben Dillon

I believe you're missing Harrison (IN)

Ben Dillon

Team Indiana lost one player:

Smuttynose Island wrote: Indiana
Nolan Liu
Davide Behr
Michael Oei
Kyle Pratt
Benjamin Eby

Ben Dillon

Not sure if NAQT can spare personnel, but perhaps it should be someone's job to spot-check the new readers during the day (to make sure they're quality) and to follow up when moderator cards come in that are poor. It occurs to me that logistics could be handled better with an HSNCT app. First, it wo...

Ben Dillon

The "Connor M" in the stats line for St. Joe B should be merged with "Gus". Not sure why he played with an alias for one game.

Ben Dillon

Team Indiana tryouts are complete. The team will consist of the following...

Arts: Davide Behr (Saint Joseph HS)
History: Kyle Pratt (Fishers HS)
Literature: Nolan Liu (Saint Joseph HS)
Sciences: Michael Oei (Saint Joseph HS)
Alternate: Benjamin Eby (Mississinewa HS)

Ben Dillon

Quantum Mushroom Billiard Hat wrote:It looks like the correct final stats are here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/

Yes, but the Prelims are incorrect.

Ben Dillon

Yeah, that's a thing wrote:Prelim Stats

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

Yeah, these aren't the correct stats. Some wires have gotten crossed here. They were correct earlier.

Ben Dillon

Are we seriously engaging with "mythology shouldn't be asked because it isn't true?" I agree with Matt. We have courses in Mythology at the high school level and majors in Mythology at the collegiate level. Once upon a time, it was Religion. Of course it belongs. Don't consign it to the Lit categor...

Ben Dillon

For what it's worth, the mailings Chip is sending out to HS teams now advertise that NAC is "100% Pyramidal." Chip's website also says, "Math calculation questions, of course, make great tossups, and can only be made pyramidal artificially." By this, he means that, once the tossup is complete and t...

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