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I have received a lot of questions about what exactly the joint quizbowl organizations have been working on. Although we are not entirely ready to roll out the project itself, it seems that quizbowlers are understandably anxious to know what the project will be. On behalf of a joint effort among PAC...

I have received a lot of questions about what exactly the joint quizbowl organizations have been working on. Although we are not entirely ready to roll out the project itself, it seems that quizbowlers are understandably anxious to know what the project will be. On behalf of a joint effort among PAC...

If someone is reported for misconduct at NSC, are they still able to participate in or staff ACF, NAQT, NHBB, and various collegiate and high school regular-season events? Representatives of PACE and NAQT have been in talks about this very issue for a couple of months now, but we've been spread thi...

Would anyone be opposed to this event being pushed back to August 18th? Seems that may accommodate some people busy the weekend of the 11th, but if this adversely affects more people, I'd be against doing so. Perhaps a Google poll where people could indicate their likeliness to come on each date wo...

I will travel to UIUC in August, but I imagine that there won't be a ton of other people there from Michigan--especially Metro Detroit-- at this event. For people who are cagey about driving to Champaign-Urbana outright, I want to preemptively note that we could hopefully get several carpools from ...

I'm really glad somebody's brought this up. This has been a huge problem on the Discord in particular. People should be more responsible about not revealing unclear content, but to a certain extent I understand why this is happening--it's currently difficult to keep track of whether a set is clear o...

1. This rocks and you rock. (And you were very kind to mention me!) It's one thing to have an idea about a useful quizbowl technology, it's another thing altogether to bite the bullet and put it together. The world needs more Matt Mitchells. 2. This obviously only works well if tournament hosts put ...

Upset of the Year (submitted as the "Liberty defeats Penn" award): awarded to the team that pulled off the most notable upset of the year. Examples from last year would include McGill taking a top bracket spot from Columbia at ICT or Northwestern making a run to the ICT finals. If this is...

People have brought up really good questions here, and I appreciate that people are willing to ask meaningful questions instead of blithely agreeing and not changing their behavior. I specifically (perhaps glaringly) didn't touch on harassment or general vitriol in non-public media. This is of cours...

I am really unhappy with how some people in the collegiate/open community act towards each other, especially on the forums and sometimes on the Discord. After several instances of privately getting people to modulate their public behavior-–sometimes successfully-–I’m finally pissed-off about it enou...

The tournament format for the 2018 NSC will be the same as last year. A full description of that format is available here (PDF).

I thought that the ideas that a) you could get away with Saturday leftovers for Sunday breakfast, and b) the tournament would finish so early on Sunday that you wouldn't have to feed staffers were both wildly unrealistic expectations. I don't necessarily mind having to get my own food, but I do mind...

Sima Guang Hater wrote: 2 Data Science/Stats/Applied Math

hell yeah

The worse instance I ever saw was my player getting awarded the points on a bonus part, and THEN... moments later, the moderator backing up and reconsidering, then asking my player to "SPELL IT." This was a science bonus at sectional championship match, where the answer line was "oto...

PACE is delighted to announce that Catherine Qian is the winner of the 2018 Morgan Costa-Rhodes Memorial Scholarship. Catherine is a senior at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School (Richmond, VA). Catherine will be attending the University of Pennsylvania next fall as part of the Huntsman Program in In...

Will there be a discussion thread set up for this?

10. Oklahoma (UG) 11. Missouri 12. WUSTL A Take that, Itamar/Charles. https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=748236 I honestly think your teams are better than ours, but since we're on the subject of last year's ICT... https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=748252 ht...

Effective April 4, 2018, PACE has made a few important changes in our ruleset. PACE's current gameplay and eligibility rules are available here . The two rules changes are in the gameplay rules, sections H.3 ("Protests") and I.5 ("Ethics and Conduct"). In short: Protests concerni...

Sima Guang Hater wrote:I support this proposal, at the very least for fall and possibly regionals.

Small side note: Since Regs potentially qualifies you for Nats, I imagine that philosophically the format of Regs should be as similar to Nats as possible.

I'm graduating in June. I'm hoping to spend most of the summer "on sabbatical" as a semi-itinerant ne'er-do-well. Unless something comes completely out of left field with my SO, I'll be doing government work in Chicago after that. I hope to continue staffing and occasionally playing side e...

Does "the side event must conclude by 11 PM" refer to all side events, or just those conducted using (any number of) PACE provided rooms? It refers to rooms provided by PACE. We can't stop people from continuing to play events past that time in other rooms, although in the interests of th...

PACE has made some changes to our policy on side events at NSC. Relevant changes are in bold. 1) PACE does not officially organize or sanction side events. 2) NSC staffers cannot volunteer PACE-provided hotel rooms for use at side events without the consent of all room occupants. The side event must...

I have tried, with my past two projects, to recruit younger co-editors who are still undergraduates. However, this measure isn't enough -- we need the same people to volunteer to head edit regular difficulty tournaments, the mainstays of college competition. This is what needs to be happening. More...

My school’s entire varsity team is graduating this year. Now that our season is over, I want to focus on passing on the knowledge base that I’ve accrued to the sophomores (we’ve never had juniors ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). What are the best ways to do that? If this has already been discussed elsewhere, I’d apprec...

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The PACE website is currently temporarily down due to WordPress issues. I'll update this thread when it's back up.

I went to the Reston web site to try to reserve hotel rooms, and have gotten a "nothing available" response. Does PACE have a block of rooms reserved, and if so, what is the procedure for getting them? Should I be looking for another hotel in the immediate area (which there does not appea...

There were some suboptimal choices in both answer lines and pronouns, but this was very fun to casually shoot out after CMST. If packets 8-10 emerge at some point, I'd love to play those, too. There are also some simple conventions for visual tournaments that this tournament would do well to heed, s...

Here's a bright idea: If you have an issue with seeing someone at a tournament, especially a nationals, please go through the appropriate channels** so that the organizations can adjudicate the issue themselves. How about we have no show trials of anybody? **EDIT: Not actually speaking for PACE at t...

P.S. Yay I'm an honorary Old for the purposes of this argument now even though Aria and I are the same age (I'm pretty sure). I'll take it I guess. older and/or accomplished quizbowl guys Let me rephrase some of this--I didn't mean to imply that Jakob or anybody else in this thread was being a tyra...

Oy vey, guys. Younger(?) college woman posts something very reasonable about things that drove her away from quizbowl and then older and/or accomplished quizbowl guys go nitpicking strawmen. I take a lot of issue with this post because the bolded sections read, to me, like someone who was simply (as...

This winter, PACE welcomes Matt Mitchell as our new member. We look forward to his contributions in supporting high school quizbowl!

Shake the other team's hands after matches and say "good game" or whatever. At Delta Burke this year I really painfully lost a game by 5 points, and I tried to make myself look busy to avoid it. Somebody on Loyola waited very persistently by where I was sitting until I shook his hand. He w...

I suppose the issues feed off each other, but I was originally suggesting that more women in leadership positions within the quizbowl community would attract more women to the community. As an empirical matter, this has been correct in my experience (when Sarita Jamil became president our gender re...

As someone who seems to object to people prying in their chat logs , I sure as hell hope you got permission from both parties before posting screenshots of private conversations. Will any of you on the other side do the same? "Other side"? This is literally a post/thread about how to make ...

Stop being a dick, folks. Multiple people** have personally DMed me to agree that you are a sexist piece of shit and should stop giving your bad opinions on the forums. I realize this is a very charged topic for you, but this makes for a poor juxtaposition. [...]you've suggested that female involve...

or perhaps we should all shut up and pretend that excess sugar consumption isn't a top of America's health problems no matter what your gender is Yes, I'm sure that addressing "excess sugar consumption" will immediately resolve quiz bowl's gender gap. I, for one, am extremely concerned ab...

And honestly, I do think it could do a lot for improving the game's gender balance. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? You honestly think that this is why women play quiz bowl? That we're just bimbos who are here to stare at men who play quiz bowl, and not because, oh, I dunno, we like playing quiz bowl o...

matt2718 wrote:my only collared shirt

This is also a thing you might want to consider amending.

Hairstyles that look good on men... You know what else is good? Not blindly conforming to gender roles. you know the best solution to other quizbowlers having bad hair is to stop being so offended by other people's bad hair. it doesn't affect you, and it's not like you're deciding whether to hire t...

WUSTL A went undefeated with a 10-0 record after beating DePaul in a one-game advantaged final. Stats are here.

The Future National Championship Dates & Sites page says this is happening on Sunday, April 14, a date that doesn't exist (this year).

Don't forget to get these in by the end of the week!

Happy New Year, quizbowlers! The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is again seeking nominations for new members ! Nominations are due to secretary Michael Hundley at [email protected].org by Saturday, January 13 at 11:59 PM Eastern time. PACE has many objectives, among which are: • to...

I took scores on my 19-tossup musicals packet for some reason, which came out as follows: John Lawrence: 110 Greg Peterson: 100 Alston Boyd: 55 Dakota (?): 45 Alex Damisch: 10 Erik Christensen: -5 Adam Sperber: -10 Dakota is Dakota Williams. I had so much fun last year reading my academic/trash mas...

You: Can actually remember the names of actors/directors, and/or enjoys Remembering Some Guys I: Know some things about music and even fewer things about hockey. I was the exact middle of the field in Celebs individual PPG and randomly 30ed a volleyball bonus at ACRONYM X. Call me, beep me, if you w...

I had so much fun last year reading my academic/trash mashups packet that I'm pleased to say I have another ~20 answer lines for "Trashups Packet 2: Electric Switcheroo." The trash will be mostly music and TV, the academics will roughly follow a standard ACF-ish distro (except maybe 2/0 m...

As the theme of the genre used in the bonus has become so overly abundant in its usage in anime memes and culture during recent years, I hadn't realized just how insensitive and inappropriate it was to those unacquainted with anime culture. Due to the already existing negative associations and bias...

even better our moderator was also a female it me Anger 2: Traveling MEN AND WOMEN CAN SHARE A BED WITHOUT IT BEING AWKWARD OR SEXUAL. Okay, so we are in college. We are adults, you'd think we'd be able to handle this one but yet it's still a problem. I will travel to a tournament with my team and ...

If your practices are big enough, some teams find it helpful to split into two simultaneous practices--one for the more experienced players to read harder questions, and one for the less experienced players so they actually get a chance to buzz.

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