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jonpin

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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Is there a list of registered teams anywhere?

jonpin

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...

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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 -...

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This is like voting for new region names on LearnedLeague but even more inscrutable.

jonpin

Kobe.

jonpin

Snoopy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:56 pm The eligibility guidelines for this event have been changed.

Also, I'm not sure why bold, underline, and URLs are not working, but know that the issue ain't on my end.

Somehow the "Disable BBCode" checkbox below the post got checked. I've fixed it.

jonpin

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.

jonpin

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 5:17 am
Sam wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 12:52 amMaybe it captures a mood that a lot of people between the ages of 13 and 23 feel frequently?
That mood, of course, is "being Mr. Brightside".

Well once you get past the age of 23, it's a lot harder to say that you're "doing JUST FINE"

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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 ...

jonpin

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...

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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.

jonpin

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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We are aware that MIT is UG and Minnesota-B is D-2. That will be fixed in the next draft.

jonpin

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...

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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...

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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.

jonpin

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...

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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...

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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 ...

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I've received a few nominations, but there's about a week left to submit more.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2019 9:34 am I will write a packet that will appeal to the folks with bad musical taste such as myself, those who like bands such as Savage Garden, Wilson Phillips, and One Direction.

Hold on, I want you to know that those bands are just perfect.

jonpin

FWIW, August 3 was just announced as the weekend of Chicago Open, so that's probably not a great option.

jonpin

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

jonpin

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?

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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