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- Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What is the purpose of a first line?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16334
Re: What is the purpose of a first line?
You could compute it with area under the curve too. The Gini coefficient is the area above divided by the total. I was just thinking it would work better this way because then a "harder" tournament would have a higher number.
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What is the purpose of a first line?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16334
Re: What is the purpose of a first line?
This may not be specifically germane to the discussion at hand, but seeing the graph immediately made me think of Lorentz curves and Gini coefficients. Now, don't get me wrong, I've never edited a quiz bowl question in my life, and anything I've ever written has probably been terrible, but I wonder ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7186
Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/27/19
After reading the definition for "new players", I mostly agree. (I think this should be more explicit because the way the post is worded, it makes it sound like no grad students who played in undergrad should be playing -- when that does not seem to be the intent.) Without stated goals fo...
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 6:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7186
Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/27/19
In light of the recent kerfuffle surrounding tournaments geared for newer players, I would like to issue an addendum to the eligibility of players for this tournament, whose purpose is, per the editors, "to provide an accessible tournament for new college quiz bowl players that will still be en...
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 1:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7186
Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/27/19
Looking forward to it! How may teams may we field? User reminded to add signature and asked to change username -mgmt Right now, we don't have a hard limit imposed, but I guess if you're planning on bringing five or more teams we may ask you to contribute a staffer? I hadn't really thought about it....
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7186
Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
The Princeton University Quiz Bowl club is pleased to announce that our Mid-Atlantic mirror of the 2019 Florida Spring Tournament will take place on Sunday, April 28th, 2019. This tournament is a "Regular Minus" difficulty, or one dot of difficulty according to the college quiz bowl calend...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PRINT I at Princeton University [PSACA 2 - Novice] [12/15/2018]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2952
Re: PRINT I at Princeton University [PSACA 2 - Novice] [12/15/2018]
Congratulations to Lenape Regional A, who won the tournament after 10 rounds and a final, going 10-1, and winning that close final against the only team that managed to beat them, East Brunswick A. We hope the teams had a great time! Here are the overall stats. For any teams that couldn't make it, w...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PRINT I at Princeton University [PSACA 2 - Novice] [12/15/2018]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2952
Re: PRINT I at Princeton University [PSACA 2 - Novice] [12/15/2018]
So this tournament will be happening next weekend. We had an eight team field, but our 8th team appears to be on the verge of dropping. If you were on the fence about coming to this event, please email me ASAP and let me know if you're still interested. Again, the rules above still apply, but I woul...
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 8:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PRINT I at Princeton University [PSACA 2 - Novice] [12/15/2018]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2952
PRINT I at Princeton University [PSACA 2 - Novice] [12/15/2018]
We are proud to announce our first ever PRInceton Novice Tournament [PRINT]. This tournament will be taking place on December 15th, 2018. Our question set is the Pennsylvania State Academic Coaches Association's "Groundhog Day" set. The tournament will be taking place in either the Friend ...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
Re: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
I've fixed all the stat mistakes, but I'm having trouble getting SQBS to organize all the teams by the divisions we had in place for the playoffs in the competitive bracket. I'll take another crack at SQBS tomorrow and then upload them. Thank you all for your patience. Also, if you have any last sta...
- Sat Sep 29, 2018 6:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
Re: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
Congratulations to our champion Hunter College HS A who won the competitive division outright after an 11 round tournament. Our runner-up was Wilmington Charter. In the standard division, High Tech D went undefeated and won the tournament after a nine round, round robin tournament. Our runner-up was...
- Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
Re: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
So I neglected to mention this at the opening meeting this morning:
PHSAT XXVI is PACE platinum certified! The top 6 teams in competitive division should receive invitations to PACE via their placement. More to come on this after the tournament concludes.
PHSAT XXVI is PACE platinum certified! The top 6 teams in competitive division should receive invitations to PACE via their placement. More to come on this after the tournament concludes.
- Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
Re: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
For teams who have not sent me their team, buzzer, and staffer confirmations, please do so by tonight as originally requested, or at the very least tomorrow morning. Also, note that because many teams have dropped, we do have space for more teams at this time.
- Sun Sep 16, 2018 3:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
Re: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
Information regarding logistics has been sent to all email addresses that were collected via registration. If you didn't get a logistics email last night, please let me know immediately and I will forward you the information. Thank you!
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
Re: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
Last year, I believe the Frist Center was used for the lower bracket's preliminary games, and then switched for the playoffs to the competitive playoffs. This year, teams should expect to be in the same building for both preliminary and playoff rounds. I can also now say that we are officially using...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
Re: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (10/29/18)
Whoops .. title has been fixedalexdz wrote:FYI... September 29 is 9/29/18.
- Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10287
PHSAT XXVI at Princeton University (9/29/18)
The Princeton University Quiz Bowl club is pleased to (finally!) announce that Princeton High School Academic Tournament (PHSAT) XXVI will take place on Saturday, September 29, 2018. We intend to use an NAQT IS set, as we have done in the past. The tournament will be structured as a series of bracke...
- Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 111183
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
In the spirit of full disclosure and ensuring all its customers are aware of the decision, will NAQT also be issuing this statement on its website or social media accounts?
- Thu May 17, 2018 4:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NJ Date Claims 2018-19
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9489
Re: NJ Date Claims 2018-19
As it stands now, Princeton University will be tentatively holding PHSAT XXVI on September 29th, 2018, and will also be tentatively holding an as-of-yet unnamed novice tournament on December 8th, 2018. This novice tournament will likely be exclusively for high schools in New Jersey, and will carry e...
- Tue May 15, 2018 7:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NJ Date Claims 2018-19
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9489
Re: NJ Date Claims 2018-19
Note that the splitting of the NY/NJ field posts is for the following reason: This has been discussed before, but it may be time to start thinking about splitting the NJ and NY circuits (i.e. running mirrors of the same set in both states). This could allow for greater outreach on both sides of the ...
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:59 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 60949
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
Now, for what I can contribute to this thread, I definitely think that institutional continuity poses a major issue for college quiz bowl in most cases. I'm nevertheless unconditionally proud of the difference between what the Princeton club looks like now and what the Princeton club looked like be...
- Tue Apr 03, 2018 12:19 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 60949
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
Have you considered not reserving rooms on behalf of NHBB if they continue to run bad tournaments? It seems like they are reflecting badly on your club, even if you aren't associated with them. Basically, NHBB could reserve rooms anyway without us helping (and since David Madden is an alum '00 of P...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 10:13 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 60949
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
This might be a quick tangent, but I cannot agree more with this. I can't speak for the entire country, but over the last four years, I have seen a precipitous decline in the quality in college-led tournaments in our area (PHSAT, the NHBB A set usually hosted at Princeton, and especially the Columb...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF and Powers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9199
Re: ACF and Powers
Certainly, though, if ACF sets became powermarked, it should be done meticulously, as you suggest.
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF and Powers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9199
Re: ACF and Powers
To be clear, I don't think powers are unfair, but they do play a role in the game's outcome in my opinion, just as negs do. That doesn't make them good or bad, just a note that if you're going to have powers, you have to place them carefully because they are important. That's true, sorry for misrep...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 6:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF and Powers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9199
Re: ACF and Powers
I have no opinion on powers. I think they're fun and I wouldn't mind if quizbowl had them or didn't. I do question the assertion that powers play no role in affecting the outcome of games. In a 20 tossup packet, that's potentially 100 points in swing involving powers. This is certainly possible, bu...
- Sun Mar 04, 2018 1:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Princeton High School Invitational, March 3rd, IS 171 A
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6626
Re: Princeton High School Invitational, March 3rd, IS 171 A
Thanks to Princeton High School and especially Monty for a well-done tournament. It was great to help the local circuit, and hopefully some of us at Princeton University can help at more local HS and MS events in the future. Nice to see some new schools made it today, too. Hope to see some familiar ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23201
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
Eric and Mike are hitting the nail on the head with their posts. I was following the discussion of the packet that was analyzed in the quiz bowl discord, and many of the questions had extremely skewed buzzpoints (and some even had major difficulty cliffs-- which are now represented as actual cliffs!...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 1:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23201
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
When I was a freshman, we got destroyed by Michigan and Chicago at our first tournament. Afterwards, I was pretty demoralized . I felt like JL, Auroni, and Will knew more than I'd ever know. However, instead quitting or complaining, I studied and got better. Sure, it was exhausting. Sure, we got ou...
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23201
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
am i supposed to read the thing about people who have played quizbowl for comparable amounts of time to the time he's been alive to say that he's younger than 10 years old then? I'd wager he's just taking the opportunity to voice his opinion, not to troll or anything. I say good for him since it sa...
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23201
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
yo I get that playing long questions tougher than you're used to is hard but please explain but you mean by "better pyramidality" I assume he's probably thinking something like "all the tossups in the beginning of questions are clues that are all equally too difficult followed by a d...
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23201
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
In retrospect, and in response to Mike, I'll say that it might make more sense for a "DII" division to exist. While I certainly respect and support the notion that some early, harder clues can be used as a learning tool for even the best players, it is still empirically apparent that too m...
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23201
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
As someone who is "new" to collegiate quiz bowl and the quiz bowl scene in general, I have to say I find Ryan's post particularly striking. I did not play this year's ACF Regionals (thanks Princeton final exam schedule), but two members of our team managed to make the trek. I heard from th...
- Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Philadelphia City Championship Tournament: March 17th
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3183
Re: Philadelphia City Championship Tournament: March 17th
I think it has been in the past, since it also serves as the qualifier for the PA Academic Competition.monty wrote:Is this tournament for schools located within Philadelphia only?
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13316
Re: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
We had a great time playing this set. There were some questions that I know other players said they thought were a little easy (mostly bonuses), but for the most part it was well received from what I heard. I should mention though that one bonus erroneously referred to Victor Hugo as the author of t...
- Sat Oct 21, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl 2017 (10/21/17)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17898
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl 2017 (10/21/17)
Prelim stats can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4683/stats/prelims/ I know you guys don't have your stats done yet, but my name is erroneously listed as Edmonton (this was almost assuredly our fault). The correct spelling is "Edmondson." Can you guys change this b...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SQBS Help Thread
- Replies: 48
- Views: 56576
Re: SQBS Help Thread
Okay thanks! Are there any tricks with the round/games, too? I assume no overlap on that.
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fundraising
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4267
Re: Fundraising
If your school lets you, sending mass solicitation letters to local businesses in exchange for listing them as a sponsor somewhere (or even just straight up asking them for $) can actually be very effective for the amount of time you have to put into it. Considering Hunter College HS is in NYC I ass...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 1:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SQBS Help Thread
- Replies: 48
- Views: 56576
Re: SQBS Help Thread
Can two people working on the same tournament/division on different devices merge their files into one?