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FORTY POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND ONE

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Can I see the conversion and text of the questions on Robert Schumann and coins (math/cs) I know this would be unprotestable, but Sibelius is imo better known for his only VC being in D-minor For the coins tossup, I am interested to see what acceptable other answers would be, since the problems in t...

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Sign up sheet:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... usp=sharin

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Hello Canada! I am pleased to announce a mirror of Early Fall Tournament on October 13th, 2018 at Carleton University. More information on the set can be found here . This tournament will take place in a yet unknown building because of Carleton's nerve-wracking last minute booking system. The tourn...

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McGill is:

Akhil Garg, Daniel Lovsted, Joe Su, Derek So

Toronto is:

Paul Kasinski, Chris Sims, Zhenglin Liu, and Rein

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CO Trash and IL 4 went Extremely Long and Incredibly Late (much like pre-Classical music in the lower room [thinking emoji]) but this set was an absolute blast to play. The set had something for everyone, and we had such an incredibly fun, energetic crowd; that is, we made hilarious faces and curse...

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play offs

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /playoffs/

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http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

yay stats yay

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Hello Canadians and other friends, Carleton University (Ottawa, ON) will host a weekend of Quizbowl on August 25/26. SCHEDULE Saturday, August 25 AM: WORLDSTAR (teams, tentatively Doubles) SHOW UP AT 9AM PM: John Daly Memorial Trash (teams, tentatively up to 4) SHOW UP AT 2PM Sunday, August 26 AM: T...

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A guide was prepared in 2015 when preparing audio clips for the International History Olympiad which may help people who want to contribute to this. Of course, follow the specs in the OP if they differ from this guide. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bzYct0euv3-MOdO0jKA56MnDuLXZ1eFvdYWbiNxe1w/e...

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Is there a sign-up for Imaginary Landscape 4? Has a format been confirmed?

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The Ontario Quizbowl Association will not be involved in hosting NAQT-written sets in the future unless Matt Bruce is released from NAQT and appropriate further measures are taken.

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2. Was anyone at NAQT aware of the accusations against Matt or the disturbing content on his blog? If so, do they have any explanation? I'm not asking for anyone to face mob flagellation but some acknowledgement that people besides Matt could have done better as well would be nice. I can confirm th...

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My staffing ballot is:

1) Joe
2) Aaron
3) RICO
4) Dennis
5) Meghan
6) Peter
7) Christine
8) Brian
9) Brendan
10) Paul

Honorable mention: Adam

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PLAYER OF THE YEAR 1) Derek So, (Sir Winston Churchill BC, provincial champion 2008, 2009) 2) Rein Otsason (UTS, provincial and national champion 2012) 3) Daniel Lovsted (UTS, provincial champion 2012, national champion 2012, 2013) 4) Ian Dewan (Earl of March, came 5-2 at provincials once) 5) Aayush...

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Don't let Jock Goo's ONE PPG performance at SCT and MINUS ONE PPG performance at ICT detract you from looking at McGill B's successes at Regionals and EFT.

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Jay from Toronto is only eligible for NAQT, and being a NAQT specialist really helped them at ICT. Patrick's disappearance also hurt their performances at both tournaments. I suggest voters do not consider Patrick in their polls, since he did not play a single tournament with them this season.

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Both WUSTL and McGill played the role of Liberty at ICT.

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cornfused wrote: I'd advise voters to look at both ICT and ACF.

Shooting yourself in the foot, eh

vinteuil wrote:Agree with Jakob. Also voters should keep in mind how WUSTL got shafted by their ACF prelims bracket.

MSU got shafted at ACF too.

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Akhil Garg's ACF Fall ppg: 29.09
Akhil Garg's ACF Regionals ppg: 11.50
Akhil Garg's ACF Nationals ppg: 20.00

:thinking emoji:

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jonpin wrote:
Cherrybell Miramonte wrote:Considering the far more substantive concerns with the game that were laid out in this thread, this seems very much not a hill worth dying on.
Who else expected that link to go to the haircut thread?

I was expecting the Jordan Palmer retirement post TBH

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May I ask how seeding was done for brackets? Our bracket seemed disproportionately hard, with four teams between 14.3 and 14.4 PPB in prelims. Is ICT taken into account? It doesn't make sense for MSU and Florida to have been underseeded at both of these tournaments (especially since Florida gained ...

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For Canadian hybrid, we're trying to figure out what more work we need to do before it gets played this summer. We will definitely offer a trash-only subset of the packets for sites without the time for a full tournament. Do people want an un-Americanized set (i.e. the original set as is with edits ...

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I think one of the really frustrating aspects of the current format is that if you end up in a bracket with one of the best teams in the tournament (like Chicago in our case) ICT becomes single elimination for your team. Perhaps this format is optimal, but it can really punish teams for playing one...

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I think it would make sense for Division 1's half lengths to be increased to 12 minutes to account for the greater question length. We missed 4 tossups. D1 readers are generally going to be faster. The clock was almost useless at 11 mins. Kill it completely, or go back down to 10 mins in order run ...

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I'll be working New York at this time and would love to play this event and maybe run FTP 3 on the second day, Let me know if you'd like to play with me or if you could give some advice on getting to Toronto from NYC. VIA Rail/Amtrak does a joint day-train (8am-8pm) either direction from Toronto to...

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Is the slate of side events confirmed yet?

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Uploading stats to the database after a tournament in a timely manner should be what is expected of hosts.

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That said, (disclaimer: speaking as a Canadian who doesn't have deep knowledge of the circuit) there do clubs that seem to be able to continue having high recruitment rates and retain deep, strong clubs. Maybe it is worth looking at what the difference between how a Chicago or UC Berkeley manages i...

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A central committee could also be useful as a source not just for matching writers and editors but also more involved collegiate writer/editor training. The committee could work with other companies to help produce questions for NSC or NASAT if these novice collegiate writers would rather be playing...

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The overriding scheduling principle besides not booking things in the same week is to avoid having tournaments in back-to-back weeks, within any one region. I hope Regionals and SCT never fall on consecutive weekends again. I wish even non-flexible tournaments like ACF and NAQT could allow for tour...

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In Canada the biggest problem is lack of continuity in an institution once the most involved members graduate. We’ve lost a lot of clubs over the years and are on the verge of losing a few as well.

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I agree more or less with the pro-committee side of this debate but I don’t get why ACF can’t rebrand and do all of this and be the main collegiate quizbowl umbrella organization.

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The bonus part on "thermogenin" should also accept UCP1. The bonus part asking for the probability that a random walk returns to the origin, is "approaching 1" acceptable? And if not, is there an ELI5 reason why it's exactly 1? I can't seem to find a good explanation that I under...

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I like the idea music+opera/other audio division, but it seemed that in practice it didn't make much of a difference, since ballet and world vs. opera ended up being switched in the distro and there wasn't actually an increase in jazz.

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Derek So had an excellent showing at CO Visual Arts last summer.

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Probably a controversial suggestion - stop calling trash "trash" and refer to it as pop culture or whatever.

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I generally agree with Naveed, Mike and Billy, and as a player who only really started to play lots of quizbowl seriously in University, thought that "regular difficulty" was just how quizbowl is like. That being said, this Regionals set could have been easier in ways already mentioned abo...

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I was exaggerating when I said ppb meant everything (not looking at you Fred), but it definitely should be the starting point for future improvements of the system. I did a quick excel calculation with 2017 and these teams that had identical enough rosters between SCT and ICT: Stanford, Berkeley A, ...

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What about looking at SCT ppb only? I've strongly suspected this for years now while looking at recently underranked teams like Chicago B.

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What is NAQT's goal for D2 and how is it produced? This year moreso than last, it felt that it was a hodge podge of stuff a bit too hard for IS and toned down D1 answerlines. I felt some bonuses in D2 were lacking in true easy parts and not just easy parts if you've been playing quizbowl for three y...

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The Mozart string quartet bonus had an error - D minor has a key signature of one flat, not two.

The tossup on Uranus refers to it as a “gos” more than once.

The bonus part on Oliver Twist lacked an easy part and felt like a zero or thirty bonus.

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Is it still 20 automatic D-value qualifiers?

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Buzzpoints by team, split by player EDIT: The area under a player's curve is equal to the number of tossups answered correctly. Y axis is thus in arbitrary units of points*probability. Someone should design an interactive website with custom results and graphs but that I unfortunately don't have th...

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Something on my to do list is to look at reaction time. In the aforementioned tossup on Islam where a third of the buzzes occurred after a particular clue, those buzzes were all within three words past the offending clue. Note that the offending clue ended a sentence. Personally I tend to reaction b...

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Here is a big dump of buzzpoint data by team. I feel that this is OK for how buzzpoints should be distributed for a tournament like this, but ACF could definitely afford to cut an early line and add more pre-FTP fluff.

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There may be a useful statistic for cliffing - places in a tossup where an abnormal number of buzzes happen at once. That'd require figuring out what the standard distribution of buzzes across a tossup is though. Islam had the most egregious difficulty cliff out of all first half of tossup cliffs. ...

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It's worth keeping in mind that first buzz data may be limited by some rooms not keeping advanced stats - there weren't too many issues with this but there were a few. So, keep that in mind when evaluating some peoples' performances. That said, to my knowledge this only affected the Kansas State an...

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A couple of predictions: Concordant with the above, I predict the British site will have the highest percentage of first buzzes (even after excluding British content). In terms of median first buzz, the UCSD site was the best at 74.5%. The UK site was second at 75% If you only look at top 25% or lo...

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For example, Victor predicted that very few teams regularly buzz before the 50% mark. Depending on what Victor used to define "regularly": No team had 50% of their buzzes before the 50% or 60% mark. 4 teams had 25% of their buzzes before the 50% mark. 34 teams had 25% if the buzzes before...

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