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- Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21416
Re: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
Just as an FYI, I'd expect meaningful results to start around when HFT posts their results since that tournament will connect the northeast to Texas, and I'd guess that by that point we'll be able to connect the northeast to Illinois through Northmont.
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance Mirror at U of Washington & Online - 12/1/12
- Replies: 28
- Views: 8186
Re: Penn-ance Mirror at U of Washington & Online - 12/1/12
I'd be interested in playing via Skype. Is this an open type where I could be matched up with some teammates, or would I need other people from Duke to be teammates for it?
- Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IFT Mirror at Maryland (10/14/12)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12103
Re: IFT Mirror at Maryland (10/14/12)
We have a number of laptops (at least 2, possibly more) that are available for use at the tournament and we'll have with us.
- Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:53 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: UIUC ABT presents Earlybird (10/06/12)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 23470
Re: UIUC ABT presents Earlybird (10/06/12)
Were all teams from Illinois?
- Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:53 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XX at Princeton University (10/06/12)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6389
Re: PHSAT XX at Princeton University (10/06/12)
Could I get the state that each team is from please?
- Wed Oct 10, 2012 9:52 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANCHORMAN: Richard Montgomery Autumn Novice (10/6/12)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 27467
Re: ANCHORMAN: Richard Montgomery Autumn Novice (10/6/12)
Could I get the states each team is from? Also, should I just be listing the "A" team from this tournament as the "C" team in the rankings and down from there since it was a novice tournament?
- Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall South at Vanderbilt University 11/3/12
- Replies: 40
- Views: 17807
Re: ACF Fall South at Vanderbilt University 11/3/12
Duke should be sending at least 1 team.
- Wed Oct 03, 2012 4:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Seton Hall Prep Pirate Open (Sept. 29, 2012 - W. Orange, NJ)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 16628
Re: Seton Hall Prep Pirate Open (Sept. 29, 2012 - W. Orange, NJ)
From some of the discussion, I see that a bunch of teams were not at full strength. What letters should I be using for each of these teams in my rankings?
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Chapelle HS Fall QB Tournament (9/29/12, Metairie, LA)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3845
Re: Chapelle HS Fall QB Tournament (9/29/12, Metairie, LA)
Were all teams from Louisiana?
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 4:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ezell-Harding Academic Tournament - September 15, 2012
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6248
Re: Ezell-Harding Academic Tournament - September 15, 2012
Or at least scores for every game so I can add it to my computer rankings? It seems like this is a very diverse field, and can do wonders for connecting the nation.
- Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21416
Re: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
Looking over my current data, it's nonsensical to publish anything yet. Expect my first rank to come out around the same time as the first BCS ranking.
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MIT Fall Tournament (9/22/2012)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7662
Re: MIT Fall Tournament (9/22/2012)
What state are each of the teams from?
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Sue Pasco Opening Tournament (9/22/12 at Essex, VT HS)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1780
Re: Sue Pasco Opening Tournament (9/22/12 at Essex, VT HS)
Were all teams from Vermont?
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Golden Eagle Bowl on 9/22/2012 - Raleigh, NC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4642
Re: Golden Eagle Bowl on 9/22/2012 - Raleigh, NC
Were all teams from North Carolina?
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ransom Everglades Tournament (09/15/12) - Miami, FL
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3194
Re: Ransom Everglades Tournament (09/15/12) - Miami, FL
Were all teams in attendance from Florida?
- Sun Sep 23, 2012 7:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William Rufus King Invitational at Alabama (9/15)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4552
Re: William Rufus King Invitational at Alabama (9/15)
Were all teams with the exception of St. Andrews from Alabama?
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IFT SE Mirror (10-6-12) Athens GA
- Replies: 59
- Views: 40640
Re: SE Mirror of IL Novice (10-6-12) Athens GA
Due to a closer mirror at Maryland materializing, Duke is no longer interested in this site.
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IFT Mirror at Maryland (10/14/12)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12103
Re: IFT Mirror at Maryland (10/13/12)
Duke will likely be there with 2-3 teams.
- Fri Aug 31, 2012 3:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IFT SE Mirror (10-6-12) Athens GA
- Replies: 59
- Views: 40640
Re: SE Mirror of IL Novice (10-6-12) Athens GA
You need to set permissions on the document so that everyone can view and edit it. Also, depending on turnout at the activities fair today, Duke may be sending team(s).
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 5:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21416
Re: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
This post reserved for further results links.
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 5:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21416
Re: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
The following tournaments have their statistics included. If you see errors in final scores on their tournament pages, let me know. Also, let me know if any of these teams are from other states than where the tournament was hosted. Attached is the .xls file that I'll be working with, let me know if ...
- Fri Aug 17, 2012 5:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21416
I'm making [yet another] new high school quizbowl ranking
This past summer, I worked in sports rankings, and this led me to have a pretty good understanding of how some sports rankings work. From it, I also gained a number of computer algorithms to calculate rankings, and some rank optimization algorithms that I would like to apply to quizbowl. So here I a...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Golden Eagle Bowl on 9/22/2012 - Raleigh, NC
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4642
Re: Golden Eagle Bowl on 9/22/2012 - Raleigh, NC
I might be able to staff if you want; when would be the latest I could let you know?
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
- Replies: 138
- Views: 150345
Re: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
E-mails with my results for extraction have been sent. Right now it only works for SQBS output in one division tournaments (soon to expand to multiple divisions), if there's enough interest, I can do it for an NAQT results page, though I think someone on the inside there might be able to cook someth...
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 12:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
- Replies: 138
- Views: 150345
Re: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
So I guess this is as good a spot as any to do 2 things: First, offer any help again with gathering data for Fred (I have a simple php script working that can be used), and second let the quizbowl community know that I'm planning to work on an implementation of the Hodge-rank for quizbowl. For this ...
- Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How far can a blitz/creator-creation answer go?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2556
How far can a blitz/creator-creation answer go?
I'm curious as to how far a person can go when answering a question with a blitz. For example if a person isn't paying attention to the pronoun or part of the question but then hears a clue that they recognize, like the snippet "tortured using rats in Room 101", could the person answer &qu...
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Power Matching for Practices
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1771
Re: Power Matching for Practices
What is the goal for these practices? Is it for determining your best team of 4 or to help all your players in getting better? If it's the latter, then I'd suggest having just 2 or 3 rooms with 6-10 people in each room so that everybody is playing all the questions, and then just shuttling players u...
- Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
- Replies: 138
- Views: 150345
Re: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
I'd be willing to try and write a PHP parser for this... I've been working on Sports Rankings all summer (more the math/graph theory with them), and I'd be interested to see how it would apply to Quizbowl.
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Southern California Date Claim 2012-2013
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10704
Re: Southern California Date Claim 2012-2013
TWAIN will not be happening next year, as UCLA will not really have much of a team. Don't really expect UCLA to go to much either...
- Wed May 30, 2012 5:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Skype Summer Practices
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6957
Re: Open Skype Summer Practices
ian.drayer for me. Likely available most nights after 11PM Eastern
- Mon May 28, 2012 3:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: North Carolina 2012-2013
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19000
Re: North Carolina 2012-2013
I'm also moving to NC for grad school (Duke), and should in general be available as a freelance moderator for area tournaments. Also hoping to see UNC host some college level stuff since it's so close to Duke.
- Wed May 16, 2012 12:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing for SCT/ICT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15749
Re: Writing for SCT/ICT
So I sent in my 5/5 about 2 weeks ago and haven't heard back. Can you pm me with what's going on with my application (or post if it's a more widespread issue)?bt_green_warbler wrote:Yes, absolutely it is. People interested in writing for HSNCT should contact me.
- Tue May 08, 2012 8:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: quizbowlpackets.com future
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11007
Re: quizbowlpackets.com future
I'd also be willing to work on it as far as maintenance so it can stay up.
- Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: neg king/queen/monarch
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13309
Re: neg king/queen/monarch
Maybe put an arbitrary (say 30) ppg minimum to be eligible?
- Wed Apr 11, 2012 1:51 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2011-12
- Replies: 86
- Views: 39345
Re: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2011-12
I will be at Duke, and plan to have some involvement with quizbowl there.
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERRILLA IV - Chicago, IL - Saturday, 3/31
- Replies: 57
- Views: 25930
Re: GUERRILLA IV - Chicago, IL - Saturday, 3/31
I'll pitch in and write a team's science questions.Mike Bentley wrote: Also, I don't really care how you produce a packet, so long as it's produced. If there are people not playing this tournament who want to write some freelance questions and you can convince them to do so for you, that's fine with me.
- Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 MUT @ Claremont (4/14)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2177
Re: 2012 MUT @ Claremont (4/14)
I plan to be there, and I'll try to get some other UCLA people to go too.
Edit: After a quick e-mail to our listserv, expect at least 2 UCLA teams. We'll see about getting buzzers.
Edit: After a quick e-mail to our listserv, expect at least 2 UCLA teams. We'll see about getting buzzers.
- Fri Mar 16, 2012 12:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Central
- Replies: 144
- Views: 86454
Re: Quizbowl Central
Any potential for creating user accounts for those of us who are no longer on Facebook? Or did I just miss something on the site?
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10559
Re: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
From my understanding, the patent/TM is regarding the methods through which the information is transmitted, not the information itself. It is possible that in order for the work he needs done to get done, the novel aspect of his idea must be revealed, which is what he is trying to protect. If he's t...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Lite at Virginia Tech, 3/31
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3051
Re: ICT Lite at Virginia Tech, 3/31
Are there the same eligibility restrictions for this event as there were with Collegiate Novice in the fall?
- Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10559
Re: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
Probably because he is trying to massively improve his question quality or branch out into the collegiate game. Perhaps he believes that participation in higher-level tournaments will contribute to the perceived legitimacy of his questions. Also, it is not entirely certain that this is question writ...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 1:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Southern California Date Claim 2011-2012
- Replies: 45
- Views: 14184
Re: Southern California Date Claim 2011-2012
Sad as it is, UCLA quizbowl is pretty much dead. We haven't really been able to recruit new people, and old people that once were able to come (including myself) no longer have the time during the week. We were lucky to get 5 people to a practice/meeting.
- Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Mirror (Athens GA) March 10, 2012
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15079
Re: Penn Bowl Mirror (Athens GA) March 10, 2012
Chris and Jake, your packet. (Though the match may not be fair since Chris already played it.)
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Central
- Replies: 144
- Views: 86454
Re: Quizbowl Central
When using the reader, I keep getting the same question over and over again. Is there something I should do so this doesn't happen? My only restrictions are selecting certain tournaments.
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:18 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Dressing for (Quiz-Bowl) Success
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7259
Re: Dressing for (Quiz-Bowl) Success
Pretty much every tournament I've gone to or hosted at UCLA, I've worn a UCLA sports polo with cargo shorts. I know my middle school's football coach (and my history teacher) was big on the mantra "look good, feel good, play good" and so if you're dressed appropriately to succeed, there's ...
- Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at UCLA (Oct. 1)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3595
Re: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at UCLA (Oct. 1)
Bump to let you know it's now moved to Oct. 1 (Saturday). I also sent this message along Stanford's list-serv.
- Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: TWAIN XII at UCLA, October 2nd, 2011
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9623
Re: TWAIN XII at UCLA, October 1st, 2011
As Carl indicates, we have switched this tournament date to the 2nd. Original post will be updated to reflect this.
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at UCLA (Oct. 1)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3595
Re: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at UCLA (Oct. 2)
Bump to say that this tournament is still happening at this point, but we still need teams. We are considering moving it to Saturday and our HS to Sunday to help with an SAT conflict. Potential teams, let us know which day is better.
- Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10289
Re: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
A quick glance shows me that ACF's first tournament was in 1999, while NAQT's was at least as early as 1996.
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at UCLA (Oct. 1)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3595
Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at UCLA (Oct. 1)
UCLA will be hosting the Southern California site of this year's Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament on Saturday, October 1, 2011. This tournament is meant to serve as an introduction to collegiate quizbowl for entirely new players or teams with less experience in the college game, using lengt...