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I may be interested in playing in an East Coast mirror depending on what weekend it is.

If I were planning to use this proposal and had full power to do whatever, here's how I would do it: (thinking out loud mode on) There are exactly four promotion/relegation matches, each between the bottom team from a Tier I group and the top team from a Tier II group. There is no need to earn the r...

This seems like an interesting proposal, and--while I want to be clear, I am not promising anything nor am I speaking on behalf of PACE as a whole--I think there could be something here worth using.

To reiterate my on-topic point: I really can't believe DCC's coaches weren't nominated for coach of the year. If you don't want to nominate one of their players for PotY, that's fine, they were very evenly distributed. But when you have 3 top 5 finishes and 4 top 8 finishes at NSC & HSNCT, you'...

Quizbowl, by contrast, is an activity in which all the players on a team are equivalent. There are no distinct positions to be filled, nor any features of gameplay that inherently require multiple people to execute. While in principle, some sort of uber-Federer who can deliver aces on every serve m...

Not when they're running camps (I'm patiently awaiting confirmation of my son's registration for this Sunday's camp in Lincoln, IL). Yeah... taking on the responsibility to do a whole bunch of things doesn't mean you can use the excuse "I couldn't do that thing well because I had so many other...

I'd presume you'd want the people running the tournament to be, you know, running the tournament instead of responding to this thread. I can understand how some have that viewpoint, but if you look at the thread for any legitimate multi-day national championship (anything NAQT, NSC, ACF, NHBB-HS, N...

I took no part in the seeding conversation, but I'm confident they did a pretty good job. Based on simulations (procedure and code at end), PACE does not appear to have outperformed random chance at seeding teams for the 2016 NSC (although it depends how performance is defined): At balancing the gr...

So we and Great Valley were relegated to a position of complete inability to rise any higher in the ranks than 25th. This is the problem. I don't really know what to do about it. It seems plausible to me to switch the four high-scoring Tier II teams at the end of Saturday (in this case, the teams i...

As the person who came up with the 96-team NSC format that has been in use the last three seasons, I am not completely surprised at the conversation which has poked up about the mobility of teams. First, I'm going to note some things that I said after last year's NSC : I'm not surprised that the 49-...

Even as someone who did predictably terribly, this was a mostly-enjoyable experience. I liked one of my students saying (more than once), "Oh, so that's what that sounds like" or "I wrote a tossup on that piece without ever having actually heard it". One question: Round 1, Tossu...

Even as someone who did predictably terribly, this was a mostly-enjoyable experience. I liked one of my students saying (more than once), "Oh, so that's what that sounds like" or "I wrote a tossup on that piece without ever having actually heard it". One question: Round 1, Tossup...

I know TJ B had some deep runs in the old days, but I feel like this must be a first at a national championship: The last undefeated team is DCC *B*.

(edit to add: and in this round, DCC A sees if they have something to say about that)

For those who want a quick guide as to when teams are playing each other in the top bracket, here's the top tier schedule with teams filled in. Good luck to everyone!

I would like to remind people of what Charlie once told me about not criticizing events that you weren't at. It's a great point and holds true to this day, and will continue to hold true. That advice is extended to this discussion without delay. In the words of the immortal Allen Iverson: We're tal...

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 hou...

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 ...

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 p...

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...

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