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- Wed May 20, 2020 10:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: "Should have been prompted" replacement policy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6050
Re: "Should have been prompted" replacement policy
One potential problem with advantaging the team that should've been prompted is that we don't know what the other team's knowledge was. Let's say it's a tossup on eagles, and Team A buzzes in with birds and says they should've been prompted. There's no way for us to know if someone on Team B also kn...
- Wed May 20, 2020 7:51 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT's initial precautionary measures for NCT's
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2465
Re: NAQT's initial precautionary measures for NCT's
Some of these ideas are reasonable places to start, but as someone who just had a faculty meeting for my public school at which we talked about ideas and concepts on how we can return to campus in September... I just don't know. I feel like a lot of schools are going to all but nuke extracurricular ...
- Thu May 07, 2020 5:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals Cancellation Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6522
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern
Is it not feasible to attempt to reschedule this in a state that is following less strict guidelines, i.e. Florida or Georgia? I keep rereading this line and it's starting to make sparks and smoke come out of my brain. Besides the fact that it's folly to think the situation in Florida or Georgia ca...
- Tue May 05, 2020 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5799
Re: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020
Is there a list of registered teams anywhere?
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147695
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I generally take the stance of Matt and Chris, that wanting to cheat and cheating are different. That being said, I agree with Andrew that draconian measures don't really work, and, furthermore, that bans won't deter cheaters. People cheat for many reasons, and I don't think people who cheat will b...
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25859
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
So that they don't get lost in the thread, I edited the first post to include links to the list of events, the schedule, and the registration form. To confirm, is "Tier 1" the room for the most experienced, best players? For the events with two or three rooms, it's pretty straightforward -...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1112
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
This is like voting for new region names on LearnedLeague but even more inscrutable.
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1324
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice Online [NEW FIELD EXPANSION]
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5787
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NJ/NY/PA Date Claims Thread 2019-2020
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16220
Re: NJ/NY/PA Date Claims Thread 2019-2020
Is there going to be a state championship this year? April 18 at Rutgers has been on the calendar here and at NAQT.com since early in the year, but that's ACF Nationals weekend, so I don't know how likely that is.
- Wed Feb 19, 2020 3:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ideal Host Cities for a Nationals Event
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5193
Re: Ideal Host Cities for a Nationals Event
On top of the previous points, you also need to get staff to be present, and the more staff you can have drive or take ground transportation, that saves a lot compared to people flying in. But in terms of getting teams to show up, to my memory the last major national held on the west coast was an IC...
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Morristown-Beard Fall Invitational, Morristown, NJ
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2835
Re: Morristown-Beard Fall Invitational, Morristown, NJ
Stats were kept on Neg5 and are available here . Some games are assigned to the wrong round, and some stats are incorrect; I hope some of that gets cleaned up before they send the data to NAQT, but I don't know if that will be possible without a paper record. Most of the moderators I saw (and possib...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Morristown-Beard Fall Invitational, Morristown, NJ
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2835
Re: Morristown-Beard Fall Invitational, Morristown, NJ
While it is the same weekend as Kellenberg, I notice this tournament is on Sunday, rather than Saturday (and it's on a separate set), so it's not necessarily impossible for teams to do both. A more pressing concern might be that it's the weekend of the NJEA convention, and most public schools in the...
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Daylight time is different from standard time
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5701
Re: Daylight time is different from standard time
I'm putting this thread on this board because it's germane to every post on this board, but if there's a better place for it then please move it, mods. Currently by fiat of our respective governments we are in daylight time, and we will be until November. This means that every post that announces t...
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 5:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16508
Re: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
EDIT EDIT: I've just been reminded that the company logo is literally just the letters "NAQT" with the full name in tiny print below it, which seems less than inspiring to be quite honest. To be fair, NAQT does have some really excellent logos for their individual tournaments, which they ...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 1:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 144
- Views: 57316
Re: 2019 HSNCT discussion
Legendre polynomials have this property since the inner product of two of them is proportional to a Kronecker delta function. Vectors must be linearly independent if they mutually have this property. The Gram-Schmidt process finds vectors that have this property, possibly (*) normalized. Two vector...
- Wed May 29, 2019 10:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 144
- Views: 57316
Re: 2019 HSNCT discussion
As a moderator, I noticed that this set had a much higher frequency of copyediting issues that interfered with my ability to read -- there was an omitted preposition/article, an instance of "the that" or something like that, or something along those lines almost every round, and sometimes...
- Thu May 23, 2019 5:16 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Vulching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23943
Re: Vulching
You should also tune the strategy to the rule set you are playing. More specifically: if the format you are using has timed rounds, that will impact your strategy. Although I've never played in a format or scenario in which doing so would be relevant, I've heard of players performing "clock-ki...
- Fri May 17, 2019 11:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154482
Re: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Well once you get past the age of 23, it's a lot harder to say that you're "doing JUST FINE"
- Tue May 14, 2019 3:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 Cooper Awards - Nominations closed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7180
Re: 2019 Cooper Awards - Nominations closed
PACE would like to congratulate the winners of the 2019 Benjamin Cooper Awards: The Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Award will be presented to the founders of the Las Vegas Quiz Bowl Alliance, Matt Albert, Justin Sharp, and Paul Villaluz, for their work starting a pyramidal quiz bowl circuit in ...
- Mon May 13, 2019 4:10 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Vulching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23943
Re: Vulching
I think for the large proportion of teams, an ironclad instruction of "Don't vulture!" is going to do a better job of preventing teams from punting away points than anything more complicated. Yes, there are times that it can result in confusion, but I see veterans do this because they're s...
- Sat May 11, 2019 8:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12379
Re: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
After further review, Joe Brosch was the name I was trying to come up with, but he was also caught in the investigation brought on by Josh Alman's actions. Above post edited.
- Sat May 11, 2019 7:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12379
Re: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
Yeah, I think winning ICT versus not even making top bracket at states is dramatically different. Also, did the Andy Watkins story emerge because people looked at the stats again, or did it emerge because NAQT found actual evidence that was a smoking gun? To the best of my memory, Watkins was origi...
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 3:02 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing Qblitz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18980
Re: Announcing Qblitz
As I'm using this for the QANTA League, I find it as a useful resource and a fun game. A couple observations/questions, though: * Is it intentional that the answer is not provided after each question? * Is there a possibility to insert a "pause" feature between questions? If something came...
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 3:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 83226
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
Minor error with the stats, but Tracy Mirkin should be listed as DII (which I think means he ought to have been recognized as a DII top scorer, but alas.) This was fixed in the later stages and in the combined version of the stats. I'm not sure how many places were recognized at each level, but Tra...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:43 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 38818
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
The one CBI NCT I played in (1993) and the two I staffed (1995-96) used a full round robin for the sixteen teams, and a best-of-three final for the top two teams. So at some point, they figured out that the format sucked, and they implemented a format that was much more reasonable. 1991 was the fir...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 NHBB Discord Tournament
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25075
Re: 2019 NHBB Discord Tournament
Also - the preliminary set for this tournament will be made public on quizbowlpackets. Was this written by you (or a group involving you) in the style of NHBB? Because if, as seemed to be the case from the original postings, this was using old NHBB questions, #1 don't do that period, and #2 you abs...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22384
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
Essentially, this is the classic "pick 2 out of 3" situation: * Large ACF Nationals, with more than 40 teams * Championship bracket with 10+ teams playing a full round-robin * Tournament of a length that writers and editors can produce at a high quality; that moderators can read without lo...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 1:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 83226
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
Columbia won with a 260-165 victory over Chicago A in a one-game final. Minnesota A was third place overall. For undergraduate, Berkeley A defeated Michigan State 260-210 in a one-game final. Illinois A was third place. Harvard B defeated Minnesota B 170-155 in the first game of an advantaged final ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 5:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 83226
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
We are aware that MIT is UG and Minnesota-B is D-2. That will be fixed in the next draft.
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 83226
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
I misread the schedule. At some point I heard something about super playoffs as well and this appears to be untrue. There are superplayoffs per my understanding, they just occur for every bracket like at ICT. I'll go out on a limb and say the word "superplayoffs" has exhausted its utility...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45587
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
I would think 6x6 -> 3x12 is much preferable to the reverse, because it will allow the rebracket to happen at lunchtime, and because it allows more TOP. TEAMS. to play directly against each other. Considering the inherent variability with NAQT format (timed / distro by set / trash / general knowled...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 4:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45587
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
I would think 6x6 -> 3x12 is much preferable to the reverse, because it will allow the rebracket to happen at lunchtime, and because it allows more TOP. TEAMS. to play directly against each other.
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45587
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
Just wanna put it out there that if you are not a member of the board staff, you should not be spending the bulk of your post telling someone you don't like the manner in which they are complaining about a quiz bowl thing. It is right at the top of the board rules: As a result of the above, and of t...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:16 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Old time bonus formats
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17004
Re: Old time bonus formats
10-5, 10-5, 10-5 Three part bonus, but each part had a hard clue and an easy clue. If you got it off the hard clue, you got 10 points. If you missed it off the hard clue, they read you the easy clue and you got only 5 points. This could also be done in two waves, either 15-10 or 15-5. I seem to rec...
- Sun Mar 24, 2019 8:53 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: AMA about the 2011 NSC & the evolution of PACE
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25406
Re: AMA about the 2011 NSC & the evolution of PACE
The delay at the beginning at the tournament wasn't that big of an issue to me, it happens on occasion, but there was a major delay after lunch. The QBWiki page said it was during the morning rounds, but to my recollection it was prior to Round 6. We waited for our match with Dunbar to start for a ...
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 12:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 Cooper Awards - Nominations closed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7180
Re: 2019 Cooper Awards - Call for nominations
I've received a few nominations, but there's about a week left to submit more.
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 11:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Mixtape: A Guerrilla Popular Music Event for Charity
- Replies: 45
- Views: 21647
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 1:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22810
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
FWIW, August 3 was just announced as the weekend of Chicago Open, so that's probably not a great option.
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:58 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 38818
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
I, too, was once a person with the opinion "Yeah, CBI sucks as a quiz bowl competition, but eh what the hell." There was still the game-show-clock rules where you had to beat the clock not only to buzz in for a tossup, but also to give answers to bonuses (NAQT had by then progressed so far...
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:41 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: AMA about the 2011 NSC & the evolution of PACE
- Replies: 14
- Views: 25406
Re: AMA about the 2011 NSC & the evolution of PACE
One of the reasons for NSC scoring rules is that NSC used to use a four-quarter format in which the maximum number of points a team could get in a match was 1000. To allow for historical comparisons, PACE kept a scoring system that kept that number at 1000. I have no idea whether that will change a...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Harder Questions in the Finals?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6901
Re: Harder Questions in the Finals?
I think that having more difficult questions in later packets (i.e. "the playoffs") is a bad idea because many sites will have different schedules, resulting in different packets being in the playoffs. It makes absolutely no sense to have a more difficult packet in the sixth round of prel...
- Thu Mar 07, 2019 12:00 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: 5th of March Incident
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11889
Re: 5th of March Incident
ACF Nationals also needed to come up with a new TD, with even less lead time before the tournament. Once the academic year was winding down and everyone was able to take a deep breath from three months of chaotic catch-up, item #1 on the agenda for the QB community was making sure that so many separ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCIENCE CHAMPIONSHIP (now including all grades!)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14420
Re: SCIENCE CHAMPIONSHIP (now including all grades!)
So, now that some of the regional tournaments have purportedly happened, does anyone on here know anything about the structure and organization of this thing?
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 11:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 Hit Songs Survey
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2958
Re: 2018 Hit Songs Survey
I put this off long enough again, but here we go. Not gonna take the time to scroll through for witty commentary on all the songs that made the final list. 25 voters participated, with all ranking their favorite hits and 21 ranking their least-favorite. Without anything further: Favorite Songs 78 so...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 Cooper Awards - Nominations closed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7180
2019 Cooper Awards - Nominations closed
I am pleased to announce that The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is now accepting nominations for the 2019 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Awards. The Cooper awards, which recognize those who contribute to the “spirit and honor of quizbowl competition,” will be presented at the ...
- Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 Hit Songs Survey
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2958
Re: 2018 Hit Songs Survey
Best Song I Remember Hearing On The Radio That Is Apparently Not Eligible: Lovelytheband - "Broken" - My favourite song of 2018 not eligible for this list: Let Me Go - Hailee Steinfeld and Alesso featuring Florida Georgia Line and watt The mostly-rap-phobic NYC radio stations I listen to ...
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 Hit Songs Survey
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2958
Re: 2018 Hit Songs Survey
I was a little worried I'd have a lot of trouble filling out my top ten. I don't, but I do have difficulty finding something creative to say about some of them. Good 10. By the end of 2018, I was also sick of Zedd's tick-tock motif, but The Middle was a good song. 9. Lights Down Low gets a little bi...
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 1:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Groger Ranks 2018-19
- Replies: 45
- Views: 33648
Re: Groger Ranks 2018-19
I wonder if the powers/game model might work better with multiplicative adjustments rather than additive. Hi Mr. Pinyan, we actually briefly tried doing this, but it was killed very quickly due to anomalous results. Making power adjustments multiplicative completely devalues PPB, making the ranking...
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 5:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Groger Ranks 2018-19
- Replies: 45
- Views: 33648
Re: Groger Ranks 2018-19
I wonder if the powers/game model might work better with multiplicative adjustments rather than additive. As it stands, a team gets a massive boost for playing a hard set, even if they do relatively poorly on it. On EFT, for instance, the adjustment of +6 Pw/Gm represents about 38 Groger points for ...