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Random odd question: will a netbook count as a laptop? Do we have enough experience with these things? I certainly also have concerns about being able to secure the laptop at tournaments, but netbooks are smaller and even easier to walk away with. Certainly I also have confidential information that ...

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Bad Boy Bill wrote:So I decided I'd make up a Google Map. Must have been bored today or something.

Sorry for anyone whose address is listed incorrectly.

Has anyone made a map for PACE NSC yet?

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Following late on the "full point value on bouncebacks" issue... 1. Technically many places just defer to calling bonuses "bonuses" because of the structure of the matches being similar to standard tossup/bonus. 2. Bouncebacks are not always at full-value, and there are issues wi...

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For Riley, and based on observations and theory from NSC and other bounceback formats: It's probably quality of teams at PACE NSC. I think for two strong teams, bouncebacks keep everyone involved and focused, though for the most part the game feels more like a standard toss/bonus style game. For two...

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While this may have to suffice to satisfy anyone who is worried, PACE NSC will most likely adhere to whatever actions taken by George Mason University on emergency situations. The latest communication simply notes that University officials are monitoring things and letting the University community k...

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I presume most of the budget came from the state of Florida or their Department of Education. I'd be worried about the foreclosure crisis ruining the budget, but I'm also fairly sure the NTAE folks already put down a contract for use with Disney way ahead of time.

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If I remember, there was a small TV-based set of teams between Rochester and Albany. I don't remember how good they were, but it was difficult in the pre-Web 2.0 days to get any interest (to Cleveland). That said, I don't know if there was any success at Cornell or any central NY programs on this.

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Late to discussion: protest resolution committee rosters should be declared ahead of time, either at the first team meeting or on paper at the start. A process for declaring a formal protest and situations should obviously be clearly articulated. Ideally, I would want the committee to consist of sub...

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Also, depending on your school's schedule, Monday is Memorial Day.

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hwhite wrote:TJ should be there with a nonzero amount of teams.

As long as n > 0... ;)

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If the rules are this entertaining (tongue-in-cheek), I'd love to see some of these "questions"... though if they are archived for future use, in theory we will never be able to have these questions posted on this site. Thus, is there a rule regarding destroying all scratch paper, or no re...

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Just wondering: who sponsored your trip? Should we help you point out how attending PACE NSC or NAQT HSCT is much more cost-effective?

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Decathlon is nothing like Quiz Bowl, but that doesn't mean you can't have your own circuit. Many other parts of the country do this successfully as long as the powers that have full buy-in from your administration don't try to squelch it. You can also get other questions for practice like HSAPQ, NAQ...

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Matt hits a concept regarding answer space that is very important: ultimately most of your answers have to be recognizable by the middle 50% of the players in the field for a regular tournament. No student is going to ALWAYS want to learn about something he/she hasn't heard of unless there is an obv...

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I wanted to briefly mention that I've worked with Zeecraft this year to offer a modest discount for teams that will be attending the NSC 2009 competition and all programs that host a PACE-affiliated tournament. I'd say that if you have a competition that would be eligible for PACE affiliation, conta...

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Noting to self... Google calendar updated to this post.

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?sr ... a/New_York

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No specific hotel for teams (PACE will secure its own block for staff). But I will note that since it is Mem Day weekend, Rolling Thunder might be booking some rooms in the area for their participants. The hotel list they've given out to their members: http://www.rollingthunder1.com/PDFs/RT%20XXII%2...

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Thank you all for your feedback on the PACE format. I know I am always interested since I had the history of trying to come up with it based on taking elements of various game formats that were popular 10 years ago and creating something new and hopefully more fair. I am reading and interested in yo...

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bt_green_warbler wrote:NAQT is pleased to announce that our distribution is now available on naqt.com.

High school distribution

If it hasn't been said enough (and it should be said more), thank you.

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There is always Despondex.

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Without reading everyone else's responses (okay I quick-scanned them)... just saying I may repeat stuff. I won't discuss specific details of BG MSL's situation, but I guess I can give some perspective. 1. How do we get coaches like this to come to tournaments on weekends? Obviously it's a question o...

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I do think it's worth a discussion, but there are going to be some other issues where middle school coaches must be included in any discussion. The question that I can think of right now is timing and the legal issues of traveling with even younger students (and their parents) than we are accustomed...

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I am catching this thread late, so consider this obsolete if we've tread this path already. I do think that a 20/20 round should plan for about 30 minutes each, and that a lunch break occurs at halfway through prelims. But what makes a tournament run really well is the training imparted beyond just ...

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I'd throw all adults from that school out of game rooms throughout the rest of the tournament. I'd make it clear also in the team meetings that such behavior is tantamount to cheating, and no one wants cheating in sports or academic competitions. The other thing is set up the rooms so that the stude...

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Just making sure I counted correctly as of this post: this puts the number of affiliated tournaments to 63.

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Is there a specific example that came up that prompted this, Dr. Chuck? No particular example though the discussion in the middle school thread sparked some questions from me. (I don't want to recall the Ohio protest rule's genesis or ways that various coaches had tried to bully me as a new TD back...

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A number of discussions that have been running recently has mentioned how often coaches from less-nationally-competitive teams (I'm being kind) use a strategy of just complaining or putting up frivolous protests to try to give their students a chance against other teams (whether the opponent is nati...

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That's wonderful news, and I hope all the teams appreciate the change.

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Can you please do more to identify yourself. Michigan is a pretty big state, and we do not know if you are a student, a parent, a teacher, or a competition administrator.

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Host information I have not yet secured a group reservation for the Weekend of Quizbowl, but this is the list of nearby hotels in case you are interested. Unfortunately the closest hotel is about 2 miles away (until we build that conference center hotel in a few years). You may want to ask if there ...

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It's always nice when you have the server at home and can come up with perfect answers. :)

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If you are certain, can you change the thread title or should one of us mods do it for you?

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Excuse me if it has already been covered. If it has, just ignore this post. Can we also get a listing of tossups (or bonus parts if we're going to be that sophisticated) that went completely dead, or were on the upper percentile tier of difficulty (only one or two people got)? I know it take Charlie...

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That is perhaps the hardest challenge to confront because it is extremely difficult to appeal to teams that meet every other day for a couple of hours to those school teams that just met each other on the van/bus trip to the competition. There's no way we can have everyone run the same 5K if some of...

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I'd be interested in the question of what you would want to see done with CAC/NTAE to significantly improve the tournament. I think most people on this board would want complete wholesale changes such as one-vs.-one team matchups, individual scoring (rather than the four people on one buzzer busines...

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Kay, My own opinions (no one else is represented) to add to what has been said. If I were to list some of the positive things that CAC/NTAE does well over 10 years ago, it is the ability to have some interesting multimedia questions such as music and art-excerpt-based questions. In the early days of...

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Throwing in a small question that probably is just an issue of making it explicit to me. Current events/affairs as has been pointed out should likely involve deeper writing than just being from the headlines, so I am wondering how one would necessarily work on the current economic situation as a cur...

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Good luck then with your selection process. I suppose what we can do on another thread or a wiki spreadsheet is to list the major competitions and list the question sources used for those events. This would include a list of all the state championship competitions run by various organizations. But i...

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Agreeing with Bykowski in the venue aspect of things... it may be even easier (certainly cheaper) to do it at a school, depending on how extensive a program one wants to do. The smaller rooms in a school make it possible for breakouts. I suppose it would be nice to have coffee, but depending on who ...

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All my opinion. Just wondering: can you post the call for proposals? From my own standpoint, I would like to find out what Oklahoma is specifically looking for and values in the questions to pick the vendor that best fits its programmatic goals. How are the vendors going to be accountable for satisf...

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Speaking just for me... Let us know when IHSA/IHSSBCA (whatever abbrev) wants to hold something like that. It may be worthwhile to get something together. Maybe even during any of the major summer events in Chicagoland if someone wants to step up. I'm sure I can find some of the PACE folks who like ...

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Lee... yes, this is a situation where I'd rather have the complainers provide the evidence. It's too difficult to always come up with different clues for material that should be considered "general knowledge." Now if there was evidence that the questions were pulled from the hsquizbowl pac...

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As I have observed other organizations (including marketing), I admit when I use surveys for the variety of reasons and organizations, I use them to identify problems and open conversations to consider them (and that's how other admins work with surveys anyway). But if over half of the US population...

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This is perhaps the reason why you have at least one additional staff person available per bracket (or more immediately, per room). I don't know what percentage of games has a protest, but in the age of accessing internets by smartphone, I would suspect that if we had a research gopher dedicated to ...

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Making this post stick.

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I would hope it would be common sense to use this board to post events (as well as do things like Facebook). Why would one not use this board?

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In an ideal world, the protest would be resolved on the spot if the reader or judge has on-hand clear knowledge that the protest would be denied outright. Obviously during timed matches, this is impossible to place on the shoulders of the reader, and for tournament expediency, it's easier to set asi...

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