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Charbroil

Sit Room Guy wrote:Provisional list of housewrites (announced or privately disclosed to me) (sets not (to my knowledge) already in production marked with asterisks)
-Terrapin

What is this Terrapin housewrite? Is it associated with the Maryland team, or just a high school set that coincidentally uses the same name?

Charbroil

Ditto "you shouldn't do 1/1 Social Science and Philosophy at regular season HS difficulty." I agree with most everything else in this post, but I don't know if this is true or not. As far as I can tell, most if not all of the regular difficulty housewrites this past year had 1/1 to 1.5/1....

Charbroil

I'm playing this tournament with Patrick Butenhoff.

Charbroil

It looks like about 15 people are scheduled to play this, which is a little much for a single-room shootout. Is there any plan to divide the competition into separate rooms, etc.? My proposal, for what it's worth, is to have 2 game rooms and split the 60 tossups into 2 30-tossup packets. Randomly so...

Charbroil

I'll play this.

Charbroil

Will Mason (tentatively) and I are playing this and looking for two teammates. Preferably, these would be people who know the non-history part of the distribution, but we're not terribly picky.

Charbroil

As with last year, we might bring a couple of team staffers to CO. If we do, is there any way we could get a discount? We've started discussions about bringing staffers to CO, and as of now, we might be able to bring up to 3 +/- 1 staffers. Along those lines, it would be nice to know if a discount ...

Charbroil

AKKOLADE wrote:For those that care, the HSNCT aPPB adjustment is +4.67. The two closest sets are BHSAT (+3.47) and EMT (+6.08).

Is there a list of all of the adjustments available?

Charbroil

I can staff this. Jeff, I'll send you a message about this.

Charbroil

As with last year, we might bring a couple of team staffers to CO. If we do, is there any way we could get a discount?

Charbroil

Progcon wrote:
That DCC guy wrote:Similarly to the Texas Mirror idea will there be an open skype tournament of WAO?
If this Skype mirror isn't happening, can the set be posted?

I've heard that there will be a mirror in Louisiana in late June.

Charbroil

We played the first two packets in two preliminary rooms. We then divided everyone based on their preliminary results into upper and a lower playoff pools and played the last packet there. I couldn't play the two preliminary packets because I playtested them, but I won the upper playoff pool. Logan ...

Charbroil

2/ When will ACF Regionals be? This season, the date for Regionals changed suddenly and without warning from what was the past two years. This almost proved catastrophic for our team because we'd already scheduled our high school tournament for the same weekend, which meant that we almost missed ou...

Charbroil

Two questions: 1/ Is Penn Bowl occurring again this year? This seems like the kind of thing that the Penn team should announce relatively soon. 2/ When will ACF Regionals be? This season, the date for Regionals changed suddenly and without warning from what it was the past two years. This almost pro...

Charbroil

Can we share the spreadsheet with people who aren't going to play the tournament (and who, for example, want to see it for player poll voting purposes)?

Alternatively, are there any mirrors of this set still coming up? If not, can the subforum just be opened up to general viewing?

Charbroil

Someone asked me for a copy of the ACF Regionals set; is there a reason why it hasn't been posted yet? If it's still being used for NASAT tryouts, which states is it being used in? It would be nice to know so that we can know whom we can share it with.

Charbroil

If you came to Nationals, you just received an email asking you to fill out a survey. If you didn't come to Nationals but could potentially have (i.e. you played Regionals but either didn't qualify or turned down your bid), we'd appreciate it if you also filled it out. It shouldn't take you more th...

Charbroil

You should be able to see final results for every individual event at nhbbstats.com. We have the bowl placements, but we're trying to figure out how to display those most gracefully; you can generally figure out where you are by looking at your afternoon group (like Threes, Fours, etc) and looking ...

Charbroil

I mean that ICT has more schools, total. So if one school fails to bring buzzers, there are still more schools that might do so. And in fact we did end up relying on a smaller proportion of teams to bring a larger number of buzzers, so when those teams didn't bring them we were much more vulnerable...

Charbroil

In that case, I think it would make more sense for ACF to just figure out why NAQT doesn't have the same issue with teams not bringing buzzers to nationals. That seems much easier than coming up with complex schemes about buying/storing thousands of dollars' worth of buzzers and then funding those ...

Charbroil

Does NAQT own a large portion of the buzzers used at ICT? And, along those lines, would ICT have the same problem as ACF Nationals if NAQT didn't own its own buzzers? The 2017 ICT had 44 team buzzers for 32 game rooms (so that tournament would have been ok without the addition of the NAQT buzzers)....

Charbroil

Does NAQT own a large portion of the buzzers used at ICT? And, along those lines, would ICT have the same problem as ACF Nationals if NAQT didn't own its own buzzers? I'm asking this because it seems to me that more teams bring buzzers to ICT than ACF Nationals, enough so that ICT wouldn't have this...

Charbroil

R-value just because: 1. ADR 169.54% 2. Martingrove Alumni 152.62% 3. Challen 152.62% 4. Martingrove 137.35% 5. CRH A 117.07% 6. Breslyingmond 104.88% 7. Westmount 96.61% 8. Free Agents 63.51% 9. Westdale 59.84% 10. CRH C 64.64% 11. CRH B 56.17% 12. Retired 41.41% I imagine it's just coincidence be...

Charbroil

I certainly think that it is possible that the similarity is a coincidence, and don't intend to accuse anyone in particular of plagiarism. However, I find the similar structures of the two bonuses to be somewhat suspicious. I think the fact that they have exactly the same answerlines in the same or...

Charbroil

I'm pretty sure that this shows an instance of plagiarism, but I can't be certain. It could easily be two cases of uninspired writing from the same source. Plagiarism or not, it's a problem. I've gone back and checked our team's original submission for that packet; that question wasn't in it, so it...

Charbroil

A couple of people have mentioned having to buy copies of old sets their teams played that got misplaced. Does NAQT not provide replacement copies for free? I'm just wondering since my high school team forgot to pick up its copy of the 2009 HSNCT set at the tournament itself, and when I asked about ...

Charbroil

I would like to see NAQT make geography easier across the board. I think the majority of our zeroed bonuses at this tournament came on bonuses where we had to name a Canadian National Park or the longest Laotian river or whatever to get ten points. I do believe that NAQT would work to make bonuses ...

Charbroil

As mentioned, there was a more conventional economics bonus in packet 11. That said, I do want to push back on the question of whether mortgages are "academically interesting" or not. I don't think there's a universal standard for whether a subject is "academically interesting,"...

Charbroil

So, it's obviously hard to make statements on what people know from what I know, but I've taken exactly one econ course in my entire life, which was a required general Introduction to Economics, and that was enough to know what REMICs are. It seemed a bit strange for that to be the first clue, espe...

Charbroil

jasonzhou wrote:!!!!!!

Same here.

Charbroil

Congratulations to Chicago (Max Schindler playing solo) for winning our mirror of the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament. He went 10-0 to clear the field. WUSTL A and WUSTL B tied for 2nd with records of 7-3. Final results can be found here ; the top individual scorers can be found here . Thank you to e...

Charbroil

Charbroil wrote:Results through Round 4

Stats are now updated through Round 7, after which we'll have a rebracket.

Charbroil · Re: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament at WUSTL - 3/25/17 Results through Round 4

Results through Round 4

Charbroil

So, it's obviously hard to make statements on what people know from what I know, but I've taken exactly one econ course in my entire life, which was a required general Introduction to Economics, and that was enough to know what REMICs are. It seemed a bit strange for that to be the first clue, espe...

Charbroil

So, it's obviously hard to make statements on what people know from what I know, but I've taken exactly one econ course in my entire life, which was a required general Introduction to Economics, and that was enough to know what REMICs are. It seemed a bit strange for that to be the first clue, espe...

Charbroil

For all of these questions, I tried to make sure power was ended before the 5th line of a tossup was ended, so that I left behind a significant amount of lower middle clues. This in turn made my questions harder to power since you had much less wiggle room to sit on a tossup--and I strongly suspect...

Charbroil

Mike Bentley wrote:Is there a reason we can't do it all on 3/19? It's just tossups so it shouldn't take all that long. If we break this into a bunch of sessions we'll probably add 30 minutes to an hour each time trying to make sure everyone is there / dealing with connectivity issues.

I endorse this suggestion.

Charbroil

There are over 4 teams (albeit most of them still 1-person), so I will, in fact, be doing this after all. What date is this supposed to be? I don't think there is a lot of open weekends left in the quizbowl calendar with ICT, ACF Nationals and assorted mirrors of Eisenhower tournament, NAQT states,...

Charbroil

It looks like there's a fairly significant lack of interest in a skype mirror at this point. I'm nixing it unless 4 teams sign up by next Monday. If some reasonable number of people (ex. 5 or 6) sign up but not enough for 4 teams, would it be possible to just do this as a shootout with people alter...

Charbroil

I delegated protest adjudication to Saul, because I was too overwhelmed to do it properly, and because he volunteered. At the time, I didn't realize that he was the one who moderated the round. I stand by and endorse his ruling. Given that it seems like* he's changed his ruling, do you also stand b...

Charbroil

The Washington University Academic Team will be hosting a mirror of the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament on March 25th, 2017. I, Charles Hang, will be the Tournament Director. To register for the tournament, or if you have any questions, please email me at charleshang228@yahoo.com. Eligibility Only un...

Charbroil

Well, I can't seem to figure out why AWS won't let me into my server. I've decided to simply just move to a new service for now. Hopefully this issue will resolve itself in the near future. For now, you can access both versions of the Neg5 app at these locations: OLD NEW If you want to access stats...

Charbroil

I delegated protest adjudication to Saul, because I was too overwhelmed to do it properly, and because he volunteered. At the time, I didn't realize that he was the one who moderated the round. I stand by and endorse his ruling. Given that it seems like* he's changed his ruling, do you also stand b...

Charbroil

That's rather galling, given that it appears that whoever decided the protest did absolutely no research before doing so. (If that person wants to disagree, I'll point him to the fact that the word "Holocaust" appears in literally the first search entry on Google when you Google "Ari...

Charbroil

Ringil wrote:Here are combined stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... ned_stats/

Let me know if there were any errors.

I'm listed as having played 19 games for some reason.

Charbroil

That's rather galling, given that it appears that whoever decided the protest did absolutely no research before doing so. (If that person wants to disagree, I'll point him to the fact that the word "Holocaust" appears in literally the first search entry on Google when you Google "Ari...

Charbroil

Also in Packet 5: The giveaway on the "vibrational modes" tossup is a little confusing because it refers to a "sort of motion." I buzzed in with "vibrations" there, was prompted, and gave the correct answer. The other team (understandably) protested that "vibration...

Charbroil

The tossup on German POW camps in Packet 5 should accept or, at the absolute minimum , prompt on "concentration camps." I buzzed in with that answer on the first clue about Ari Libsker's Stalags , was negged, protested, and was told that the protest was rejected because "the movie is ...

Charbroil

It's obviously too early for me to know what my plans are for next year's HSNCT, but I'd enjoy doing this.

Charbroil

Are there any plans to create a discussion forum for this set?

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