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jonah

After a few more weeks with the stats still Pending on the official NAQT stats page, I wrote NAQT. They replied, "We are waiting for the hosts to correct errata." I wrote the TD again, who said: "We corrected all we could. We told them. Never heard back. Stats are on Neg5. Why is thi...

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Silverman wrote:If you're willing to provide your team's buzzers, or your hotel room in case the game rooms are no longer available

Per the NAQT side event policy, "No [tournament game] rooms will be available after the conclusion of the tournament finals and awards."

jonah

I don't know much of the details, but I'm pretty sure this (or something similar) was attempted about eight years ago. If I'm right, it might be instructive to figure out what went right (if anything) and wrong with that group, and why it's no longer around.

jonah

And please submit your information here once it is certain!

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Thumbs Up! for History might be useful.

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There's also the common link bonus from SCT 2015 on "1988 movies in which a character is run over by a steamroller." For 10 points each—name these films from 1988 where a character gets run over by a steamroller: A. Christopher Lloyd's Judge Doom is revealed to be a toon when he is crushe...

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Any reason why the IHSA and Masonic sets didn't include sub-distributions in the question headers this year? Masonic didn't include them because they are not supposed to be read, and including them would make it likely that they would be read. I imagine, but do not specifically know, the IHSA-writi...

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I don't know if this is possible, but it would be really awesome to be able to sort programs by their "program status," or even if they just have a listed coach/contact as I'm currently going through a list of the 190 CT schools in the database and clicking on the links to get that inform...

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The complete archive of contact list data is now available on naqt.com . Future editions will also be on naqt.com. Anyone with information for future lists should submit it (free account required); we welcome submissions by people about themselves, but also submissions from coaches about their play...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:I don't remember what NAQT's official policy on side-events is, but it might be helpful for someone to dig that up again as well.

Here is NAQT's side event policy.

jonah

I see an invitation for Michigan B, but I'm not sure why teams are being labeled with the D2 teams getting the A team and D1 getting B and so on. Where do you see this? This page lists Michigan A in Division I and Michigan B in Division II (which seems correct to me; we label teams in Division I fi...

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Over the summer we will review the many changes we made to SCT and ICT this year, including the new qualification scheme, and we will consider changes (including this one) for 2019 and beyond. Thanks for the suggestion!

jonah

I see an invitation for Michigan B, but I'm not sure why teams are being labeled with the D2 teams getting the A team and D1 getting B and so on. Where do you see this? This page lists Michigan A in Division I and Michigan B in Division II (which seems correct to me; we label teams in Division I fi...

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I would go a bit further, and say that the 1v3 and 2v3 matches also, in general, tend to be critical matches, and should never be put in round 1. Depending on the pooling scheme, 2v3 can often be "more important" (which I take to mean "more likely to be close") than 1v2, and it ...

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I'll add that anyone on Andrew's quest (or something similar) who wants data from NAQT's public website in a more convenient format is welcome to contact me ([email protected]) and I'll make reasonable efforts to provide it. (It might have to wait until the summer, but I'll do what I can.)

jonah

Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...

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Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...

jonah · Re: NAQT SCT at Northwestern (2/3/18) Stats are here.

Stats are here.

jonah

I have added to the Scobol Solo website all the old results I could find: 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 (was already on the site) 2015 (was already on the site) 2016 (was already on the site) 2017 (was already on the site) From 2001 through 2007 (the era of ke...

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I was told by someone that the SSNCT uses a "card method" for seeding, but couldn't find information that reflected this upon looking at information about the 2018 SSNCT. Is this correct? We won't decide the tournament format until we know the final field size, though it is very likely th...

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Aaron's Rod wrote:The Future National Championship Dates & Sites page says this is happening on Sunday, April 14, a date that doesn't exist (this year).

Fixed.

jonah

Since I've already initiated a fussy punctuation/editing discussion, I'll point out that in NAQT's IS-174, which we read for the CC SCTs yesterday, it seemed consistent (though I haven't gone back to double check, so maybe it was sporadic?) that proper names ending in -s used as possessives did not...

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I'd also be interested in a field update. Since chimera teams are allowed, what would the deal be with nats qualification, or will this tournament not be a qualifier? Teams that do not consist of players who are all affiliated with the same school cannot qualify for NAQT national championships and ...

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Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:Does this hamper the ability of computers to read and parse questions? If not, I don't see how it possibly matters.

Typesetting all questions in 6-point Wingdings would not hamper computers' ability to read and parse questions, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't matter if we did so.

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When writing for or speaking about NAQT, I write "like this," because it is NAQT style to do so. When speaking for myself, I write "like this", because it is logically correct to do so.

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NAQT also needs stats for this tournament.

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This tournament will use NAQT Invitational Series #175A.

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I'm not concerned about everybody clambering to get into the afternoon session. If it happens, great--you could simply cut off the migration once you get what you need--but unless NAQT offers people a tangible inducement, why would they move? In terms of competitiveness (i.e., ignoring factors like...

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At the risk of thread-sitting… I have sympathy for your dilemma -- I often hear people say "quizbowl" to refer to any kind of school quiz game. Sometimes I distinguish by saying "true quizbowl." I think this has the same basic problem as "good quizbowl", though probably...

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I'm looking for alternatives to the phrase "good quizbowl" that convey as much as possible of the same idea, but abrogates the drawbacks. The principal drawback I see to the phrase "good quizbowl" is that it tends to irritate many people who do not prefer (or even necessarily kno...

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We're not sure what a good user interface for this would look like (keeping in mind that we regularly have dozens of sets in use, and would need to account for question-sharing between our national-format sets and state-specific sets). Suggestions welcome. In the filter area, you'd have a filter by...

jonah

We're not sure what a good user interface for this would look like (keeping in mind that we regularly have dozens of sets in use, and would need to account for question-sharing between our national-format sets and state-specific sets). Suggestions welcome. In the filter area, you'd have a filter by...

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This tournament will use NAQT Invitational Series #171A.

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Big Y wrote:Full stats will be posted by NAQT at some point.

This point.

jonah

I begged Fred for Rilo Kiley and he said if I could pick one song he might include it. But who can pick one song? Sorry, Jon, Steven, and others of fine taste! I actually have a handful of questions about the work of Rilo and Jenny Lewis that I wrote for absolutely no good reason at all, since I dou...

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No one can play both ICT (either division) and IPNCT. Right now no one knows who will play ICT.

Playing SCT has no bearing on IPNCT.

Also, the IPNCT field is 56% full; we encourage interested players to register quickly!

jonah

No, there will be both a NAQT state championship, with its unique HSNCT qualification procedure hosted by us and there will the traditional state championship sponsored by Meijer. Apologies for the late posting, but for the record: NAQT state championships now use the same qualification procedures ...

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Does this mean that only the top 30% of teams at an NAQT tournament may attend NAQT states? Who may attend a state championship is up to the tournament director. The top 15% of eligible teams at an NAQT state championship will qualify for the HSNCT. The top 30% of small school teams (separately for...

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Here is NAQT's relevant rule (currently designated C.4): If a player objects to using a lockout system because of religious or other reasons, the player and the tournament director may jointly devise an alternate method of signaling for that player. A designated official (who might be the moderator)...

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Perhaps you can settle an argument between me and my dad, s'il vous plaît. We were arguing about the true purpose of quiz bowl. He said that quiz bowl is, at its core, about answering questions correctly faster than the opposing team. Meanwhile, I said that quiz bowl was more about testing knowledg...

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The best way to label games is by round and room number. Any string is valid, so things like 1-219A or 10-2117 are perfectly kosher for game IDs. Yeah, this works pretty well if the room names are very short, which is usually the case for tournaments held at schools. But IDs like "01-Marquis A...

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I've worked with hundreds, maybe thousands of SQBS files in the last five-ish years as I process a plurality (estimated) of NAQT's results. Based on that — though not officially speaking for NAQT — here are some suggestions to help with common mistakes I see (in no particular order). Most of these a...

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Did this tournament happen? If so, could you please send the stats to results@naqt.com? The stats as posted on the DB are a little wonky in that the finals for the Nationals was treated as a double-length game (not two separate games as it appears in the stats), so Norfolk AG is actually your Natio...

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Did this tournament happen? If so, could you please send the stats to [email protected]?

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NAQT would very much appreciate receiving the stats from this event. (Please send them to [email protected].)

jonah

I don't know much about the Neg 5 stack, but I'm skeptical that the problem is just what's been described. NAQT's database also recalculates stats for every page load, and handled the demand of a 304-team HSNCT without blinking. (It runs on an AWS T2 small instance.) I have to wonder if Neg 5's calc...

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I do not think many teams in the first 100 to register will opt for the morning session. Selecting the afternoon session allows for more of a buffer in case of any travel related issues, and likely will assist in getting a higher PP20TUH as you can eliminate many possible answer lines by electing t...

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I mean, a few more packets seems like a not-insignificant load. Are all HSNCT packets at the same difficulty? More or less, yes. In practice, we tend to mark a handful of questions as "on the hard side; keep in the playoffs" and a handful as "on the easy side; keep in the prelims,&qu...

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Hey, I was looking at last year's set and was wondering if anyone knows what novel this is referring to: A character in this profession imitates Barnes by smoking crack cocaine while trying to be “Time’s first human author of perfection." [editors 1, question 2, the answer is Lawyer . Googling...

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I am aware that some of the stats pages are unusably slow. This will be fixed in some fashion within a day or so, maybe tonight. Okay, I think I have the stats pages working better and the data pretty well cleaned up from anomalies that came up because of our use of phantoms to compensate for the t...

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