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nobthehobbit

You mean abolish SCT, but keep ICT and make ACF Regionals the qualifier? I'm quite certain that's not going to happen. I mean, teams could submit rosters and performances at various tournaments, NAQT could have a selection committee that takes these performances into account, and the ICT field coul...

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1. NAQT needs to eliminate the clock I don't necessarily mind the clock. What I do mind is readers who can't get through more than 14 tossups in 20 minutes. I was advocating the clock+floor in the other thread as a compromise between the "just the clock" and "no clock at all" po...

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I can't say that my thoughts on this issue will make any more sense than anyone else's, but here's how I see the issue: If you take a history tossup and put in a mythology clue, and I get the question off that mythology clue, that's fine; I'm still getting points for academic knowledge. If you take ...

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But that's just restating the premise of the debate: one notion says that matches should end after some time and you say that it should end when a particular number of questions (within a particular distribution) have been read. You think that the former is bad quizbowl and the latter is good quizb...

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I'm a little confused as to how keeping the timer but creating a x TUs per game minimum is a good idea. Wouldn't this make rounds go at least as long as they would go without a timer, thus, well, making the clock moot anyway? Keeping the timer means that teams that play quickly (provided the mod is...

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I agree with what's said above. I've elsewhere mentioned that the one time I played SCT, I also scorekept to make rounds go longer than 19 questions. I also staffed two SCTs; both times I didn't have buzzers in my room (slapbowl, yay!) but did have a scorekeeper and was able to go through 23-24 toss...

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tiwonge wrote:(Although I'm not liking the Friday evening start time.)

Seconded; we may not bring any teams if that's not changed.

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:I take classes. Much like other weekdays, those classes meet on Friday. Also, group meeting is Friday for lab. Weekends should be weekends.

At UBC, ICT falls during exams, so this would give one more day that I could have an exam conflicting with ICT.

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"By default, ACUI Regions that host events will not receive autobids. If they receive substantial staffing support from a school's most experienced players, then they will receive one, but we'll need to be appraised of this situation in advance." So, does this mean that if the Indiana Uni...

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PS: ...actually, you know, in their ACUI region. Is this supposed to start mattering? If Bloomington is closer to your school than Chicago, then yes, it does matter. Still, if a lot of your players live in Chicago as Trygve says, then you might get an exemption for some teams at Chicago. And thanks...

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This misrepresents the concern, I think- a school wouldn't have to host twice in a row. Just that once a bunch more schools start playing DII, it is likely that the DI field might see expansion in subsequent years (whether that particular school had hosted before or not). The only teams absolutely ...

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Before we go any further with this, I think it would be useful to see a few numbers. Jeff, for each of last 3 or so D1 ICTs, how many of the 32 initially awarded bids were wildcards, and how many SCT sites were there in each of those years? I'm thinking that if the "nightmare scenario" of ...

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Michael's concerns were addressed here. Of course, R. didn't say how much the field would be expanded. It's also worth noting that this could have happened in previous years.

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I'm almost of the opinion that we should go and buy some practice speed check (a.k.a. "crack" in the Bergen lexicon) just to try and hook these new people on quizbowl. If NAQT A sets aren't enough "crack" for them, then forget them. This is as far as i stoop when it comes to pra...

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It's hardly one of the ten best, but VETO 2009 sticks out in my mind as one of the most improved over previous editions (notwithstanding playing all three unedited packets at the Vancouver site).

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nalin wrote:Come to MSU! (it was worth the try).

Come to UBC! (I'll be more inclined to try to restart the club if you do.)

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I wouldn't say that, I'd restrict it to there being no consensus between coaches and players (as it seems that a majority of players on this thread agree that blitzing is valid, but a majority of the coaches don't necessarily agree, though this may be because a large amount of posts for coaches hav...

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Frater Taciturnus wrote:Feel free to vote for any B teams or High school teams that you feel are top 25 material.

(emphasis mine)

I echo Matt: State College and Maggie Walker are clearly very good teams that deserve to be in the top 25.

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Dr. Isaac Yankem, DDS wrote:How many other mirrors of this set are there? i.e., when will it be released?

There's one on December 5th at UW.

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On the note of low bonus conversion, the 2007 Northwest SCT (on D1 questions) had an overall conversion of 7.39, but before Zarya showed up for round 8, the overall conversion was 6.83. It may also have set the record for most games played between the same two teams, with 11 (since only two teams sh...

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To add just a bit to what's already been said: regular difficulty is not something that should be overly challenging to Maggie Walker and State College, or other such top-tier nationals-contender teams. Those teams can have a good match on a challenging packet at NSC and HSNCT, and probably will. (O...

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First, what's the rest of the fee guide (ie, how much is the base fee, what are the discounts for buzzers, moderators, distance, etc)? As for late packets, if I were ever to edit a tournament, nothing would make me happier than to be able to give every single team the largest packet discount I had o...

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To sum up all of the above with which I agree:

Regular difficulty != able to reliably and consistently distinguish between teams likely to meet in a nationals final.

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Running two regular tournaments in a weekend may not be the best idea (two regular tournaments, as opposed to say ACF regionals on Saturday and then some side event at night). If you have enough members that your staff each day is composed of different people then I suppose it can work, however mos...

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Will the ACUI have any role on the Scheduling Committee?

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Continuing the derail, VETO VI had a tossup that asked us to name the room we'd met in that morning (after a lot of obscurata about the person/company/whatever it was named for); I'm ashamed to say I got that one. But then, it was my first tournament. </derail> The best player I ever saw in high sch...

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Having talked with the only local Reach coach I know who's still around, there might be some interest. She suggested that some of her alumni (who are apparently at UBC) may be interested.

If anything more happens I'll let you know.

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I don't see this listed anywhere on NAQT's website, but I'm with Charlie on this one: are there really collegiate teams that want to play IS-A questions?

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My former teammate Brendan Newton was pretty good at both quizbowl and trash, but most of my other former teammates disdained the latter.

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Another not-entirely-unrealistic scenario, this one having to do with automatic bids: In (say) 2011, Univ A's club has 2 D1 teams qualify for and attend ICT. At the start of the 2011-2012 competition year (or at least before SCT bidding begins), Univ A's club finds out it has an influx of new player...

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As for exchange students: I have no idea what our actual policy is, and was speculating (perhaps unfoundedly) in my earlier response. I'll ask R., but in the absence of an actual case it might be weeks before we make a decision. (I'll guess offhand that we have probably never had a case of an excha...

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A few more questions... 1. How will the ICT bidding process work? Will it be like the SCT bidding process, where both Regions (with a school in mind) and clubs (and other entities, as indicated at the host call page) can bid? 1a. If a Region wins its bid to host ICT, would local schools that provide...

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So let's say some hypothetical team with a lot of players and a lot of money decided they want to game the old system in some arbitrary year - let's say last year. They sent one team in each division to two different (though both nearby) sites, hoping that the two weaker teams would win the weaker ...

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Sorry if this sounds nitpicky and largely irrelevant to 99% of situations, but I think that the more that's asked and answered now, when there's little rush to do so, the less that has to be asked and answered later when it's a week from SCT. 1. With regards to the "home or closest SCT" po...

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What happens if an ACUI Region wins the host bid? Specifically: 1. Who decides what school the Sectional is played at? Bids from ACUI regions will be bids to host at a specified university; we won't try to evaluate "unknown site somewhere in region 14." Okay, though that still leaves open...

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What happens if an ACUI Region wins the host bid? Specifically: 1. Who decides what school the Sectional is played at? For instance, if ACUI Region 14 wins their bid (over Washington, Gonzaga, Boise State, or even UBC or SFU if those clubs ever restart, or others), could they choose any school in th...

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So does that mean that the ACUI at UT-Knoxville is hosting a sectional on 2/13? No, it means UT-Knoxville has submitted a bid to host SCT on the scheduled date, February 6th. Maybe this'll be answered in the other thread, but why does this page say quite clearly that the NAQT Sectional will be held...

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So does that mean that the ACUI at UT-Knoxville is hosting a sectional on 2/13? Since the agreement was just signed, we may see more ACUI chapters at different schools hosting the SCT. I'm suddenly not so sure that the agreement was a good idea after all. Yeah, I'm wondering what'll be going on wit...

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As a comment on writing math questions, if you're going to talk about how to prove something, keep in mind that many results have many different proofs, and so unless you're doing something out of a text as ubiquitous as Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis (and even then...), a math person c...

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<derail>Yes, having HSNCT in LA (or Seattle, or San Francisco), so far from the concentration of good East Coast teams, probably isn't a great idea, but are there travel discounts for the tournament, and if not, why not?</derail>

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Saturday, December 5th, 2009 Hope to see you in November, Mike Bentley Well, for one, I think you mean December. I'll also look into tracking down local Reach for the Top coaches here in Vancouver. They won't be overly familiar with the tossup-bonus format, but hopefully they'll be interested. (But...

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Once I started using Word97 format when I saved my Open Office files, people have had no trouble opening them. I can't speak as to whether all the desired functions are there. Unfortunately, saving in pdf format isn't available as one of the options. I've read using Open Office on my laptop with li...

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Matt Weiner wrote:State College wins the first finals game 350-325. The tournament is over.

Out of curiosity, on which packet was the final played?

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Down the line, other, even cooler stuff could be done. For example, rounds could be recorded as audio files and used to play games with automated reading and scorekeeping (obviously human intervention would still be needed to judge answers) with recording of exact buzz points. I suppose that's real...

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I'm not sure what you guys are doing buzzing in before the end of the question after the neg unless you're absolutely sure and you don't want to have the moderator read another five lines of tossup. Well, in tournaments with power marks, there's that. And in those without, even if you always wait f...

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I'm not sure what you guys are doing buzzing in before the end of the question after the neg unless you're absolutely sure and you don't want to have the moderator read another five lines of tossup. Well, in tournaments with power marks, there's that. And in those without, even if you always wait f...

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This can be done non-verbally, via a raised buzzer or other form of hand signaling, and in a standard tournament is legal. If you ever have the pleasure of playing with or against any of my former UBC teammates, tell them, "when I wave you off, you stay off". You'll probably get at least ...

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I have played a format that allowed buzz-then-confer (SmartAsk!) and one that allows confer-then-buzz (Reach). Buzz-then-confer was ridiculous when we had it. If you're going to take the risk of buzzing, you need to own up to that risk on your own. Having teammates bail you out leads to spectacles ...

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Glacier wrote:I want to play this

I'd want to read this. All the fun of hearing other people neg without the shame of doing it yourself!

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If I were moderating a match in which a team was acting as described, I would give a warning the first time it happens followed by negs. (The whole point of that time to answer after you buzz is time to think, which is hard to do when you have other players shouting things at you.) If the behaviour ...

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