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Without regard to the content of any specific question, I noticed what appeared to be a shift in the grammatical phrasing of the giveaway line of tossups and certain bonus prompts. I don't think this phrasing was around even in NAQT sets from earlier this year. Almost every tossup I can remember rea...

Based on what Fred's said above, I think the message was "I don't have the time to search every college tournament throughout the year, but if you send me the stats of a college tournament that a HS team played, I can include it" [and that's what happens when i leave a tab open for two hours] At Luk...

It looks like a number of tournaments in AL on NAQT sets don't go that many rounds (Buckhorn for instance on IS-148 only has 8 rounds and Covenant Christian on IS-152 only had 7 according to the NAQT results site; IS sets contain 14 packets, so that's a whole tournament going basically unused). Cou...

Yeah, I will confirm that the buzzer marked as missing a cord which I posted about was not WUSTL's. Not sure how that misreading started.

Why does St. John's have a card in with all the 6-2 teams?

Now if what I said is your plan, I would recommend re-seeding all the teams after the morning. We (LASA) were 5th in points and Naperville North was T-2nd but we ended up in the same afternoon group (there were 9 groups) because everything was pre-seeded; the winner or our morning group and the win...

I think a reasonable system would be a 16+16 DE playoff for varsity and a 16-team 4x4 -> 4-team SE playoff for JV. Varsity plays 4 rounds Saturday night, JV plays its group stage and tiebreakers to win the group. Sunday, the first two rounds of bowl playoff are the Round of 6 and the semifinal(s) f...

This year the final stages of the playoffs was six rounds + the tiebreaker thing; 16 winners + 32 losers would take eight rounds, which is going to be an extra packet = an extra 40 minutes at the end of Saturday night, plus another pile of questions. (It might be possible to do 24 straight-up doubl...

This may have the same problem as Matt's 18-team schedule once it gets to playoffs, but with 20 teams, you can play two groups of 10 in ten submitted rounds. Take a traditional 9-round schedule, and pull one pairing from each round (featuring distinct teams) and place it in round ten instead. Then s...

6. Taking top 2 out of morning rounds. This is likely here to stay – it leads to more competitive games in the afternoon, and most teams that finished in 3rd place last year and went to upper bracket were subsequently defeated resoundingly to no one’s great edification. I would like to explore the ...

Novel Electronic Designs (the ones that look like this), will "refurbish" a buzzer system for $60-$100 depending on model. This entails fixing worn-out wires and busted connections, and replacing light bulbs, etc. Their website at buzzersystems.com has the necessary information.

The format for stuff was announced on the website for a few months: In the playoffs, teams will be seeded based on results from the afternoon’s matches (same method as the Varsity) from 1-24 in the Varsity and 1-16 in the JV. The 6 Varsity group winners and top 2 second place teams then advance, as ...

The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:Also, please post this set somewhere.

The set is not clear because many of the questions will be adapted for use in other markets. So instead, please open a private discussion forum for commentary on individual questions.

No one has said anything about this to Nolwenn or me personally. I cannot comment further until I know more details of whatever (if anything) happened. If anyone can help clarify this, please email me at [email protected].com. Having said that, in 6 years of running hundreds of events all over t...

I don't think I'll have some massive post in response, but a few brief notes: * The fact that the original post of this thread, with the schedule for Friday, was made at ~4am Friday, was not "oh hey I forgot to post this to the boards." That's when the schedule was emailed to participants as well. S...

If you've already played or read the last few years' HSNCTs, note that the difficulty level is intended to be between that of SCT-II and ICT-II, so those can also serve as useful practice material.

Granted, that was to avoid bottom bracket of D-I, so these were teams playing questions that were very difficult for them, but we had Missouri in our room after that, and they reported 8 of the 12 had gone dead, and something along the lines of "that was the worst half of quiz bowl we've ever played...

2-team tiebreakers still run on full packets, right? Then the only case where a half-packet is used is for the 3-or-more-way ties. Besides the additional full packet that would be required, that would also entail adding half an hour to the schedule.

Did this event wind up happening?

We will probably have 1+ teams from WUSTL at this. We aren't going to add any more teams at this point, but you guys are free to join up with other teams. Let me know how many people you actually have so I can see if we should make 4 player teams. (Or we can change the schedule, if someone has a go...

Oh hey I didn't know this was a thing. To the extent that I know things at a "can buzz against good college players" level, it'd probably be in math, science, and trash. And since I'll be at ICT, add me to the list of free agents, I guess.

I'm happy to help, and wish to congratulate High Tech on an amazing fifth straight state title (for a moment there, I thought my kids were gonna break the streak...). The fact that the top five teams were at or above 425 PPG and 22 PPB is a sign of good things to come for the region later this sprin...

Ithaca A defeated Hunter 470-290 in the second game of an advantaged final to win the tournament.

Full stats are available at the above link.

Our field has been roughly cut in half over the last 3-4 days. If anyone else is planning to cancel, please do so soon.

The last scheduled mirror of this event is our tournament on March 5. If other groups would like to run our set this spring, please contact me or Rebecca in the next week; otherwise, we will post the set shortly after our tournament.

I'm not sure about the other stuff, but there's a good bet the 0's assigned for each team at the end are boolean for if it's marked as an exhibition team.

Are we returning to the original planned location of Hamilton Hall?

My students at Bergen Academies wrote the set; if you have any comments, please join the "BASQT 2016" usergroup and post in the discussion forum. Hope you enjoyed the set!

The Seahawks are too da-- wait, sorry, that's how the conversation goes in the other ranking thread I tend to visit.

Thank you a hundred times over for all the work you put into this, Fred.

I am designing a packet of 20-30 tossups that has a theme. I will try to adhere to a semi-reasonable distribution, though there may be somewhat more trash.

Kilroy Was Here wrote:I make my answerlines on a merit based system and since Detroit sports are the best sports, they get the most tossups.

I see the Lions spent the rest of the night disproving this assertion.

Is there likely to be a Festivus theme-and-trash-packet frenzy again this year? I'll be writing a theme packet sometime this month if time allows and would play it either then or at some other time around then.

The results at Teaneck / Torah Academy to the best of my knowledge: Bergen defeated Ridgewood 260-200 in the Varsity Bowl final. Julian from Kings Park [clap] won the Varsity Bee over David and Rebecca from Bergen. I think the JV final was Newark Academy A vs B, and I am completely spacing out on wh...

PS - For those who don't know, sometimes there is a compelling reason to want to throw a match at the ICT, none of which involve betting against your own team. Consider three purely hypothetical teams UVA-Evil, Chicago-Good, and Penn-Good. UVA-Evil's record right now is X-2. Penn-Good's record is u...

Congratulations to Middlesex Middle School of Darien, CT for defending not just their championship but also their second-place finish from last year, as they claimed both berths in the final at today's 5th Annual Bergen Academies Junior Academic Championship. Tenafly Middle School fielded both teams...

A year or two ago, a colleague passed me a box of old NAQT sets, some still in their wrappers, that dated back to my era as a student (one of them was notably from the first tournament BCA Quiz Bowl ever attended in 2000), and on a lark I've read a few packets. They are, as Lee mentions, outright te...

If you're fairly confident a mistake was made, it's not a bad thing to try to clarify what was said and what the answer was. One of the issues that can come up in games between teams of widely differing skill levels, especially on tossups, is that the better team says something which is not exactly ...

On behalf of the Quiz Bowl team at the Bergen County Academies, I wish to extend an invitation to the fifth annual Bergen Academies Junior Academic Competition, a quiz bowl tournament for junior- or middle-schoolers. This competition will be held on Saturday, October 24, 2015 and is a perfect opport...

I would still really be curious about logistical details, though, especially how many people would need to be there to keep it running smoothly, before I could commit to a date. And yeah, I have no idea how I'll deal with buzzers (I've considered prioritizing schools that bring them, but that's not...

Sorry that it took so long, I was basically trying to spend a few weeks, well, not caring about quiz bowl (or school stuff in general).

Anyway... Using Casey's post and NAQT's tournament list, I made a first draft of the calendar. I'll update it as I get a chance.

I'm disappointed that the creator-creation rule has been removed; I've been advising players for years that they're allowed to give that compound answer if they lose track of the pronouns, and I find it has helped make new players at least a little less hesitant to buzz in. Separately, what the hell...

If anyone could tell me if these players are returning this year or not, I'd really appreciate it. (Part 1) Will Anderson of Bethlehem Central Thomas Husband of Ridgewood Dan Blackburn of St. Joseph (of New Jersey) Owen Pasley of Hickman I am fairly confident that Thomas has graduated. I am not sur...

It's when they take up a Saturday, such as Hybrid or Mac Vanity, that they begin to hurt the circuit as you could just host a high school tournament on that day. The dates for tournaments are organized for the most part way in advanced in the Fall, so I don't see how scheduling these tournaments ha...

Jerry's post explains why ACF Nationals definitely doesn't have to worry about non-moot protests, but for smaller events, it's not as cut and dry. Consider a 24-team tournament that runs four prelim pools of 6, then four playoff pools of 6, with no time and/or packets to run tiebreaking games for p...

Is it practical or even possible to do one side event Friday night? I know that many of the participants would still be flying in then, but for those already present, is that an option?

Very briefly, I'm in the middle of the post-Olympiad tour, and will post some thoughts next week once I have time to decompress. I do not believe though that Harry's post begins to really tell the full story of what the week was like (and I don't see the sense in speculating about price or the prog...

My initial thoughts on this are that there has been a tendency to get away from more-biographical clues like just dropping the word "gay" into a question where it is not related to the reason we are asking about this person. Your Oscar Wilde point is well noted, though, and I understand the idea tha...

Then, once a lot of the writers finally thought they had turned the corner with Weiner handling the sets on his own, things returned in 3 tsunamis, namely the A Set Blitz, the Nationals Blitz, and the Olympiad Blitz. All of which stems from Weiner reneging on his contract, but which won’t happen ag...

Bergen Academies is planning to host its annual fall middle school tournament, Bergen Junior 5, likely on October 24.
We are also planning our spring high school tournament, BASQT 2016, on a date to be determined. We are looking into options for the set.

The same group that released mid-season and pre-nationals polls is intending to publish a post-nationals poll in the coming weeks.

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