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jonpin

The short answer is: the teams at a quiz bowl tournament tend to put a higher premium on playing more quiz bowl games than on "let's get this over with as quickly as possible". In addition, Swiss formats tend to run into significant issues where teams are being compared by win-loss records...

jonpin

Some years, one list is harder than the other. This year, they are both difficult for different reasons. When I made my initial run through to short-list songs, I got 18 on the bad list, and that was with me not including a myriad of songs that make me instantly change the station. Justin Bieber isn...

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Yeah, given the low turnout, I am unlikely to compile a cumulative list unless a bunch more entries show up. I will, however, post my own list, probably this weekend.

jonpin

The problem with the title of the thread is that, despite what the title suggests, no one is doing this, because the tournament wasn't closed to begin with! The Terrapin announcement: Eligibility Anyone who is eligible under ACF rules, in addition to high schoolers, can play this tournament with ot...

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Hello , it's-- wait, dammit, I used that intro last year. Sorry , I'll try again. When I'm Stressed Out from Work , I turn on the radio while I Ride back to My House and listen to the hits. And since we're getting Closer to the end of 2016, it's time once again to find out HSQB's Favorite Hit Song ...

jonpin

Will stats for this tourney be up soon? Looks like the Standard Division's prelim stats are up. Nothing other than that, though. (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4104/) My understanding is that it's finals week at Columbia, so the stats delay is pretty reasonable. According to Columbia's a...

jonpin

There were a couple things I noticed over the course of the day reading 1-9 this past weekend. I didn't have the chance to keep a running written list, but I decided to open up a packet and do some loose critique. Here's some notes on packet 6. Tossup 2: Power is 4.5+ of <6 lines, with Thrushcross G...

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I understand the sense of wanting to be generous with powers, but some of those decisions were over-the-top. I noted a 6-line tossup where power stretched onto the fifth line, and many tossups would have more than half the question in power. Was there any editing or fixing of the set done after its ...

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Is there a private forum for discussion of the set?

jonpin

I disagree with Cody about the prompting on DeWitt Clinton example, because George Clinton is a major figure in New York politics at more or less the same time period in American history. I would definitely confuse these two in a tossup. Oh, that's the other guy I couldn't remember. Sure, in that c...

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I disagree with Cody about the prompting on DeWitt Clinton example, because George Clinton is a major figure in New York politics at more or less the same time period in American history. I would definitely confuse these two in a tossup. Oh, that's the other guy I couldn't remember. Sure, in that c...

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Middlesex pulled off a 1-2 finish for the third straight year. Dalton won third place when Bergen County champions Leonia inadvertently left before the third-place game. Stats to follow later this weekend.

jonpin

The playoffs are underway, featuring Middlesex A and B, Cavallini, Dalton, Leonia, and the A teams of Ben Franklin, Tenafly, and Tuxedo Park. Prelim stats are here.

Lasal Mapitigama of Cavallini was the top scorer.

jonpin

UlyssesInvictus wrote:Also one of y'all posted this great link about who will win, but I forget whose feed it popped up from, so claim your glory ye anon.

Sounds like someone needs to tell Alex Shephard not to speak too soon, while the wheel's still in spin.

jonpin

My interpretation is that this allows traditional public, non-selective students in one division, and either non-selective charter schools or private schools in the other. Does SSNCT still not allow any school with a selective admissions policy to attend? Either way, how does that apply to private ...

jonpin

Is there any quick summation that could be posted in the interim, such as who won?

jonpin

Field update (9/29)

Community (Plainsboro) - 1-2
Dalton - interest
Leonia - 1
Middlebrook (Wilton, CT) - 1
Middlesex (Darien, CT) - 4-6
St. Leo's (Elmwood Park) - 1
Teaneck Charter - 2
Tenafly - 4
Tuxedo Park - 3
Warren - 2-3

Field cap: initially 24

jonpin

On behalf of the Quiz Bowl team at the Bergen County Academies, I wish to extend an invitation to the sixth annual Bergen Academies Junior Academic Competition, a quiz bowl tournament for junior- or middle-schoolers. This competition will be held on Saturday, October 22, 2016 and is a perfect opport...

jonpin · Re: PHSAT XXIV at Princeton (9/24/16) How'd the standard division finish up?

How'd the standard division finish up?

jonpin

When that coach contacted me, he used the word "he" to describe the player moving to NJ, so presumably not.

jonpin

People keep making bad posts in Illinois discussions Please note, from the rules: Avoid making content-free posts on the board. In particular, quoting another post and providing no additional information ("empty-quoting") is forbidden. Meta-bad-posting, wherein one makes bad posts with no...

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It appears that has happened.

jonpin

I was an affiliate/associate/whatever-the-term-was member of HSAPQ for a few years, primarily involved in the calculation questions for VHSL, and it's the only organization I've ever written questions for, for money. There were the (what I assume to be universal) occasional "hey, everybody we n...

jonpin

I may be interested in playing in an East Coast mirror depending on what weekend it is.

jonpin

If I were planning to use this proposal and had full power to do whatever, here's how I would do it: (thinking out loud mode on) There are exactly four promotion/relegation matches, each between the bottom team from a Tier I group and the top team from a Tier II group. There is no need to earn the r...

jonpin

This seems like an interesting proposal, and--while I want to be clear, I am not promising anything nor am I speaking on behalf of PACE as a whole--I think there could be something here worth using.

jonpin

To reiterate my on-topic point: I really can't believe DCC's coaches weren't nominated for coach of the year. If you don't want to nominate one of their players for PotY, that's fine, they were very evenly distributed. But when you have 3 top 5 finishes and 4 top 8 finishes at NSC & HSNCT, you'...

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Quizbowl, by contrast, is an activity in which all the players on a team are equivalent. There are no distinct positions to be filled, nor any features of gameplay that inherently require multiple people to execute. While in principle, some sort of uber-Federer who can deliver aces on every serve m...

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Not when they're running camps (I'm patiently awaiting confirmation of my son's registration for this Sunday's camp in Lincoln, IL). Yeah... taking on the responsibility to do a whole bunch of things doesn't mean you can use the excuse "I couldn't do that thing well because I had so many other...

jonpin

I'd presume you'd want the people running the tournament to be, you know, running the tournament instead of responding to this thread. I can understand how some have that viewpoint, but if you look at the thread for any legitimate multi-day national championship (anything NAQT, NSC, ACF, NHBB-HS, N...

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I took no part in the seeding conversation, but I'm confident they did a pretty good job. Based on simulations (procedure and code at end), PACE does not appear to have outperformed random chance at seeding teams for the 2016 NSC (although it depends how performance is defined): At balancing the gr...

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So we and Great Valley were relegated to a position of complete inability to rise any higher in the ranks than 25th. This is the problem. I don't really know what to do about it. It seems plausible to me to switch the four high-scoring Tier II teams at the end of Saturday (in this case, the teams i...

jonpin

As the person who came up with the 96-team NSC format that has been in use the last three seasons, I am not completely surprised at the conversation which has poked up about the mobility of teams. First, I'm going to note some things that I said after last year's NSC : I'm not surprised that the 49-...

jonpin

Even as someone who did predictably terribly, this was a mostly-enjoyable experience. I liked one of my students saying (more than once), "Oh, so that's what that sounds like" or "I wrote a tossup on that piece without ever having actually heard it". One question: Round 1, Tossu...

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Even as someone who did predictably terribly, this was a mostly-enjoyable experience. I liked one of my students saying (more than once), "Oh, so that's what that sounds like" or "I wrote a tossup on that piece without ever having actually heard it". One question: Round 1, Tossup...

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I know TJ B had some deep runs in the old days, but I feel like this must be a first at a national championship: The last undefeated team is DCC *B*.

(edit to add: and in this round, DCC A sees if they have something to say about that)

jonpin

For those who want a quick guide as to when teams are playing each other in the top bracket, here's the top tier schedule with teams filled in. Good luck to everyone!

jonpin

I would like to remind people of what Charlie once told me about not criticizing events that you weren't at. It's a great point and holds true to this day, and will continue to hold true. That advice is extended to this discussion without delay. In the words of the immortal Allen Iverson: We're tal...

jonpin

Without regard to the content of any specific question, I noticed what appeared to be a shift in the grammatical phrasing of the giveaway line of tossups and certain bonus prompts. I don't think this phrasing was around even in NAQT sets from earlier this year. Almost every tossup I can remember rea...

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Based on what Fred's said above, I think the message was "I don't have the time to search every college tournament throughout the year, but if you send me the stats of a college tournament that a HS team played, I can include it" [and that's what happens when i leave a tab open for two hou...

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It looks like a number of tournaments in AL on NAQT sets don't go that many rounds (Buckhorn for instance on IS-148 only has 8 rounds and Covenant Christian on IS-152 only had 7 according to the NAQT results site; IS sets contain 14 packets, so that's a whole tournament going basically unused). Cou...

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THE BAND IS OUT ON THE FIELD
And I'm gonna write in Gary Cohen for the other semifinal. ok if you insist, i'll pick "tomorrow night"

jonpin

Yeah, I will confirm that the buzzer marked as missing a cord which I posted about was not WUSTL's. Not sure how that misreading started.

jonpin

Why does St. John's have a card in with all the 6-2 teams?

jonpin

Now if what I said is your plan, I would recommend re-seeding all the teams after the morning. We (LASA) were 5th in points and Naperville North was T-2nd but we ended up in the same afternoon group (there were 9 groups) because everything was pre-seeded; the winner or our morning group and the win...

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I think a reasonable system would be a 16+16 DE playoff for varsity and a 16-team 4x4 -> 4-team SE playoff for JV. Varsity plays 4 rounds Saturday night, JV plays its group stage and tiebreakers to win the group. Sunday, the first two rounds of bowl playoff are the Round of 6 and the semifinal(s) f...

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This year the final stages of the playoffs was six rounds + the tiebreaker thing; 16 winners + 32 losers would take eight rounds, which is going to be an extra packet = an extra 40 minutes at the end of Saturday night, plus another pile of questions. (It might be possible to do 24 straight-up doubl...

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This may have the same problem as Matt's 18-team schedule once it gets to playoffs, but with 20 teams, you can play two groups of 10 in ten submitted rounds. Take a traditional 9-round schedule, and pull one pairing from each round (featuring distinct teams) and place it in round ten instead. Then s...

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6. Taking top 2 out of morning rounds. This is likely here to stay – it leads to more competitive games in the afternoon, and most teams that finished in 3rd place last year and went to upper bracket were subsequently defeated resoundingly to no one’s great edification. I would like to explore the ...

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