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Does this mean Broward lost Greg and Noah? And on a much more relevant note, have they picked a 4 year school yet?

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I've really gotten into the habit of simply reading things that come up (books, poems, short stories, histories, etc). This isnt extremely efficient, but I find it fulfilling. If you find it fulfilling to read works that come up in quizbowl as a form of studying, then by all means continue. General...

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Great tournament. I got to play against several skilled players I haven't met before. University level quiz bowl is dejecting, exhilarating, and humbling, in that order. Please let me know if you ever get to play against Adam Silverman. I'd love to watch that one. And ya, thanks again to Chris for ...

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I'm not sure what happened with UCF showing up as I didn't go to Chicago. But I'd also like to apologize. The reason, if anyone cares, is that one solo freshman decided to go by himself, stayed the extra day in Chicago, realized he had no clue where he was going or what time it was or how to get the...

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Also, the non-timing of the half packets is pretty much an admission that the clock is dumb. I suppose the relevant model is one in which there's a tradeoff between variability of the outcome due to vagaries of which questions are asked in which part of the packet/half of the match vs. something wo...

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Editx2: Looks like next year I'll be eligible to play solo for a small seminary or to play for UCF. Either one. I'm weighing my options but leaning towards UCF for most major tournaments.

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UCF will play. UCF will probably field 2 teams, but we might bring up to 4.

Edit: We will bring a buzzer set and at least staffer.

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UCF has been everywhere from 9th to dead last. I don't think either is overly accurate. I'm in the same boat.

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Is that why Harvard is 4th?

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Well, since I have to wait for my database to come back online, what else would you like to see added? I've fixed the exploit that was used to screw up the ranking, and I've added Google/Facebook authentication to hopefully keep people honest. I'm a little torn on hiding rankings, because while it ...

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And also boot Claremont off the list. I'm assuming that that part's a joke, right? They're definitely not the worst team on the list. Sorry though. It's frustrating when trolls break nice things. Edit: Took down the whole provider? Forgive my stupid social-science-major question, but is that possib...

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I guess that makes me feel a little better, but I'm definitely all about Jake's suggestion of having to log in so we can keep out trolls.

When we do that, I'll be very interested by the data we get from it.

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Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote:I really hope you guys aren't surprised by this.

Edit: although if someone set up a script to do it and took the site down with it, that'd be pretty annoying.

Surprised isn't the word. I think disappointed is.

bradleykirksey

I also think that some teams are a lot better at ACF than NAQT. We played Alabama very close a few years back on NAQT tossups (losing on the last tossup of course). That was at a combined field on D2 questions, but it was a very fun match indeed! It stayed about a tossup apart the entire time. The ...

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There are so many interesting things that could come of this, say if you make everyone make an account and give some additional info to sign into this. With enough data on each individual voter you can surely weed out trolls. EDIT: You could even ask people to tell you how much emphasis they put on...

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In the very off chance anyone actually cares, full strength for UCF might actually be Cody Johansen over Michael Tichy. On a more relevant note, I feel like Georgia Tech might be very underrepresented if you look at the set of stats given above. Georgia Tech did win on average 583-89 and only had 8....

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Mercer and Valencia are both expressing interest but haven't signed up yet. I'm not sure what UF is doing, if they backed out because they don't want to just play each other, or if they backed out for good or what. UCF is anticipating fielding at least 3 house teams if this goes through (our club ha...

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The actual numbers would need to be adjusted--I think UVA goes up, Yale goes down, Penn goes up, Chicago goes down, Maryland goes up, and Michigan gets added to the mix. Just to be clear, my original percentage thing was a joke. I knew the percentages were a joke, but you went with the top teams in...

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UVA: 50% Yale: 30% Penn: 19.4% I'd give Chicago .5% and Maryland .1%. Everyone else literally 0%. These statistics were calculated using my advanced WIN SHARES prediction formula, so you know they're accurate. So after SCT, Michigan has a higher D value than Yale or Maryland, and Reynolds CC has a ...

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Hello everyone! We’re very excited to say that UCF will be hosting one site for ACF Regionals this year on February 22nd. Because UCF hates me, we’re not going to know which rooms it’ll be in for another two weeks. We will keep everyone posted on here as we find out the information, but it’s most li...

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All of our money is controlled by the Center for Student Engagement and we have to submit forms 4-6 weeks in advance if we want to see any of that money. If you held a separate bank account how would they find out and punish you for it? Practically, is there anything other than punctilious rule fol...

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We are sending 3 teams more likely than not. It might end up being 2. But probably 3.

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A shockingly high percent of stuff I get it stuff I pulled from Sunday School or from a book I read about presidents in 3rd grade, or an offhanded comment a teacher made years ago. Like one SCT where it asked who gave the speech before the Gettysburg Address and then later asked which president was ...

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OK, I know necro-posts are in bad taste, but did anyone catch the last two Jeopardy ToCs? Last year's winner Colby Burnett finished 44th at that ICT, and Jason Keller won the most games that season after finishing 46th. The year before's winner, Roger Craig, finished 4th at ICT, and the 5th place fi...

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I know I'm a little late, but I'd like to second what Matt said. To get funding from the school for tournaments, we have to get paperwork in 8 weeks in advance, and we can only get funding for two tournaments. If there were big changes, especially if it's in the early part of the school year or invo...

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Howdy! For reference, the mean ExpPP20TUH is 204.06. I am uncertain as to whether this number can be interpreted by saying "UVA would beat Penn by 18 points on average" - my gut instinct is to say no. The comparisons might be accurate for MIT and Rice, who are right below the mean. [/code...

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OK, we aren't new, and we aren't high school, but we don't have buzzers.

Most of the sites online are like $500 for a set that plays for one team of three. Is there any way to actually afford useful buzzers?

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NOSTRADAMUSHAHA wrote: 32. Central Florida. After ICT, I predict that UCF will no longer be indefeated this year, unless that word doesn't mean what Bradley Kirksey thinks it means.

When you don't take a shower for months and you are encased in fetid matter. Am I wrong?

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He was on Mickey's team last year at MUT when they lost to Kelson the Elder. So I don't think anyone will cry foul too much.

Thanks, everyone. I'll let him know he can play.

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If Sean graduated in April and the tournament is in May, he still qualifies, right?

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I find it likely that UCF will field a team.

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This is a total shot in the dark, but here's my guess. With this information, an team of relatively unknown ability (UCF for example) would know that they, if they want any chance of winning, really need to get aggressive on the buzzers to beat UVA, but against Chicago C, we could probably sit back ...

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This is a good read. I got awfully frustrated at a few tournaments last year (3 powers, 3 tossups, 2 negs) before lunch. But at SCT, I had two first line powers that kept us competitive against Alabama and we beat South Carolina last year at ACF regionals when I got the last tossup. I know no one wa...

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Out of curiosity, what were the warning signs about Andy that made people suspicious in the first place? As his teammate on one of the ICT teams, I hadn't the faintest idea that he was cheating, but of course by that point I was already mostly out of the quiz bowl loop. I've never seen Andy play, w...

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Hey, Well-written social science questions that aren't on dusty tomes from the Devonian period are pretty awesome. The problem is, they're a real pain in the ass to write (especially compared to, say, literature, history, or myth) and a lot of people don't seem to like playing them for one reason o...

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Jake, I'm not faulting anyone who did that. I'd have jumped on the chance to save money and time. Just, when we made the bid, I didn't think that that would happen. That was more me not thinking it through than anything else. And for the record, the UCF quiz bowl operating budget is $1500 this whole...

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Would programs who qualified teams via autobid (Minnesota, Buffalo, Central Florida, Truman State, Texas A&M, Delaware, McMaster, Ohio State) have hosted SCT without that opportunity? I'm not Bradley, but I don't believe Central Florida would have bid to host without an autobid in place. In hin...

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Central Florida - Did any of these people go to Valencia? Alas, no. CC players (excluding George Berry and Charles Hang, if we consider the latter to have ever really been a CC player) generally don't continue playing, or at least mine don't. I have lots of theories, but this ain't the place for th...

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Sam's right. There's a mistake I'm never going to make again. I thought that since money is very tight, and printing money is coming directly out of my pocket. I shouldn't spent another $20 on packets we probably won't ever use. Now I know better, and I won't do that again.

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So, the results. We had a combined field of 6 DII teams and 1 DI team. We expected to have 8 and printed off enough packets for 8. A tournament of 7 means a double round robin. This caught us off guard, we couldn't get the packets in time, so we played it like UF B forfeited every round. UCF A was t...

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Apparently this SCT site is going to have a huge number of teams. Yep. I suppose Orlando is out of the way for several people in the south east. Though I have to say, Auburn would save an hour and fifteen minutes on a six and a half hour trip by going to Knoxville and would be looking at a MUCH sti...

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Glad to say that sectionals for region 6 will be held at UCF. It'll be a one day event on February 9th, Location will depend on what winds up getting booked for us, but will most likely be then Student Union at the center of campus. Time will depend on the number of teams who sign up, obviously, How...

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OK. Thanks very much. Then I strongly suspect that the difficulty will be turned down a lot. And we'll look into other ways to get packets. Thanks.

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UCF wants to house-write a tournament next year, perhaps. The big, first question is what difficulty. The first thought is that something HSNCT level, like a warmup, in the november-january would be fun. Then people started questioning the ability to get high school teams good enough to field HSNCT ...

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nadph wrote:
bradleykirksey wrote:Might be a little off topic, but I'll base any one of you a cookie every day if you play quiz bowl at UCF. And I bake some good cookies, too.
What's in these cookies?

Chocolate chips, oatmeal, the antidote... Basically the usual.

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Might be a little off topic, but I'll base any one of you a cookie every day if you play quiz bowl at UCF. And I bake some good cookies, too. Also, congrats all of you smart Ivy thingy peoples. Also, college quiz bowl really is more fun, and the MSU guys seem nice enough, claim they don't kick puppi...

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Thanks. All of this advice kinda looks common sense, but the only part of that I'd been doing was keeping my finger on the button. I'll start trying to do all of that.

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I'm very interested in seeing how Delaware does in D1 next year. And us, too, of course. There was a lot of discussion about that, and they didn't stack because Julio's strengths (current events and literature) are owned so strongly by CJ and others. The extra 30 PPG he would have added wouldn't hav...

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I'm pretty sure at ICT that half of our games were decided by a buzzer race at some point, and that I did not win one of them through the course of the tournament. How do some people so conistantly get their lights to turn on when they know things?

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I'll bite.

Maryland and Chris Ray win it. No one else's schools will pay for 2 national championships, and they end up walking to pick up their trophies.

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