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In terms of parking, the best option would be the Visitor's Center lot on S. College Avenue, which can be found on the map. Parking is supposedly $12 for the day, but in past experience the lot has been unattended on weekends. Another option is the Trabant Garage, which assuredly costs $12 for the ...

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The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:A scab team.

Isn't this one of the crimes that incurs the zillion dollar penalty for quizbowl shenanigans during this event?

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Is Loyola planning on doing one of these at HSNCT this year?

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The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi wrote:The NAQT website shows the Missouri Qualifier as using IS 124.

Take a look here. I think there's a typo at the top, but I believe Jeff is saying that 126 questions will be used in MSHSAA states.

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I agree with everything Mike said. If this is what you need to do and 4/6 is an open date on the calednar, I say go for it.

Providing whatever date you choose works for us, I imagine at least one team of Delaware and its alums would show.

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I guess I'll vote for total points scored in all cases.

Scenario (A) is the only place where head-to-head might apply, and I personally have never liked using head-to-head because it essentially double counts a match.

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Could somebody mail this set to stat74@yahoo.com? Thanks. I was thinking Oort Cloud question at Gliese 710 and then talked myself out of that and negged with Kuiper Belt. I was kind of disappointed I can only remember one astronomy question in the eight packets I heard, but maybe there was a bonus t...

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I'd also like to thank Mike and Washington for organizing this. Except for a small number of times where a transmission would get mangled, this really worked out well. And I think that 8 teams is exactly the number to have.

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I disagree with that logic. This is a nationwide set and I see nothing wrong with there being a question that inherently favors teams from one area. That just happens sometimes and we shouldn't have to fret about it. I will shockingly have to agree with Charlie. If we start down that path, then sud...

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All of the above concerns have been addressed.

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I have made the correction to the varsity file. Please let me know if there are any other corrections to make before I send the file to NAQT. JV Standings There were 20 teams total at the tournament, so the top 3 varsity teams qualified to HSNCT. I encouraged the 4th place team, Henderson, to apply ...

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Varsity Standings: 1. Richard Montgomery A 2. Richard Montgomery B 3. Walter Johnson 4. Henderson Full Stats I noticed that one of the RM B/Walter Johnson matches was missing some data. I will find that scoresheet and fix that tomorrow. On the JV side, SQBS froze shortly after round 10 was input. I ...

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Provided they both stay less than 10, is there anything wrong with just doing round-robins among both JV and Varsity? In most, but not all cases, the varsity teams end up beating the JV teams anyway. Yes, in other years we were able to draw as many as 30 varsity teams. But those years might be gone ...

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I'm not sure I qualify as a "better" lit player, but I have no qualms in sharing the things I've done over the year to learn some literature. First of all, you have to know title / author pairs. NAQT sells a list of its most-frequently asked titles and you should either buy the list or mak...

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I'm glad to hear that people generally enjoyed the set. Please remember that it is not yet clear for public discussion. If you have any comments on it, I encourage you them E-mail them to me or join the private discussion forum that's been set up on here. I want to add to the public praise for this...

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The power marking felt overly generous in many cases. I wanted to comment on this. I have to disagree. This set was supposed to be a little easier than NAQT's IS sets. To that end, I thought that powermarks could have been more generous. We had top teams (Richard Montgomery for example, or DCC at M...

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On the Sirius tossup, as I was reading it I was wondering why no one was buzzing in after "Ancient Egypt." Had I been playing I probably would have buzzed at that point, but in my room that went almost to the end. In the Silas Marner (bonus part I think) it said that Silas adopts "Ell...

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There is interest among Delaware players in participating online. We will let you know how many players we have closer to the event.

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Richard Montgomery currently holds a one-game advantage in a final with Centennial A.

Stats Through the first 7 rounds

EDIT: Richard Montgomery won. Your PACE qualifiers are:

1. Richard Montgomery
2. Centennial A
3. Charter A
4. Oakland Mills

Overall standings

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For those who are driving, your best parking option is probably the Trabant University Center garage, which can also be found on the map. From there, it's only a short walk to Smith. Parking for the day should cost $12. The website suggests that parking options are going to be more open this weeken...

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though I'll probably end up hosting it at the HSNCT in order to draw a bigger field. This year in a 10-round tossup-only tournament on Saturday night, the final was after midnight and the hotel staff was very interested in kicking us out of the meeting rounds. You might want to keep that in mind, a...

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Congratulations on generating such interest. When I was Wilmington Charter's coach we got to the point where we had to have tryouts. Here's my thoughts: I grandfathered any member in good standing. I was not going to spend years teaching someone answers and then cut them. At my discretion, I could d...

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I'm sure its beating a dead horse; but having "5" being considered the extreme for bad and "1" considered the extreme for good for the evaluation cards was probably a bad idea. Those of us in HQs figured that out early in the morning -- I told moderators to point this out to tea...

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the return of AHAN wrote:Flying Space Pimps (Tressler & Co.)

I might have been there, but rode the coattails of Alex Gross, Rob Poirier, and Ian Lenhoff.

IMO this set was well-written and fun to play. I especially enjoyed the occasional creative yet gettable answer selections. Please do this again.

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- Don't know any better (outreach failure) - Misconceptions about Good Questions or Good Nationals (information failure) - Fossilized Admin/Coach (institutional failure) - Trophy Whores Who Know Very Well What They're Doing (morality failure) Also add: - Prize for winning competition (e.g. televisi...

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Its a series of hopefully 3 tournaments...though if NAQT only writes 2 middle school packets this year it may only be 2 (although we could use A series). Don't forget that Wilmington Charter probably has first right of refusal on one of those sets if they are running a tournament again this year. T...

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Darn. I got excited about the possibility of more MS quizbowl tournaments sets being available to mirror. Never mind. Hopefully NAQT produces more than the 2 sets they cranked out this year. In fact this topic was discussed. My response was I think we could do a third set in a year with the caveat ...

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To quantify this (prelim rounds only): Max = 27.23 Q3 = 19.32 Q2 = 16.69 Q1 = 14.19 Min = 9.11 This is close to what I was aiming for as an editor. Last year the median was even higher, so I was aiming to increase the difficulty, mainly on medium and hard parts. I wouldn't mind if these numbers were...

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I have been the lead editor on all the NAQT MS sets produced thus far. Here's a few general remarks on what to expect at the MSNCT: The overall philosophy is that MSNCT is similar to the Introductory Series (level A) sets, but probably a little easier. So if you study some of those sets, you will de...

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prelim stats

playoff stats

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I believe that the 2011 data was on purpose -- the set's difficulty was brought down a notch.

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It's not looking promising for Delaware to get off the ICT waitlist, so I'll help moderate.

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bt_green_warbler wrote:1. It is very likely that there will be a Pennsylvania state championship for NAQT in spring 2012, which your team should certainly attend

Jeff -- was any progress made on this topic?

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I am at fault for the delay in the statistics posting. I had something else to do last weekend and then spent a significant amount of time this week making sure Illinois could have a state qualifier. I can tell you that the 7-8 final was oustanding, something like 365-350. It was won by Newark Chart...

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I have entered the above corrections into the stats file.

Are there are comments on the JV stats? In particular, any information on the missing Longfellow/Seton Hall match would be appreciated.

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With apologies, I have discovered that I was not given a copy of the JV stats before the laptop keeping them went home. Hopefully that can be corrected sometime this week.

In the meantime, here's some varsity standings.

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Varsity (20 teams) 1. Saint Joseph A 2. Richard Montgomery A 3. State College A 4. Robinson 5. Manheim Township or GDS 7. Richard Montgomery B 8. Caesar Rodney A JV (16 teams) 1. State College B 2. Richard Montgomery C 3. Longfellow A 4. Georgetown Day B 5. Saint Joseph C 6. Henderson 7. Richard Mon...

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Has this been resolved? Or updated? C'mon now. If there's anything I've learned over the years, it's to make a draft of the schedule and then set it aside until the morning of the event because someone will have less or more teams than is expected. This is doubly true when light snow is falling. Sp...

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Ah yes. We forgot to tell you that it always precipitates on Saturday around here. Ravi can call me as necessary, and I'll post. The best information we have at the moment is that less than an inch is predicted, probably similar to what we had earlier this week. Thankfully the reports seem to be sim...

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Has the tournament schedule (specifically, registration window & start time for the rounds) been nailed down yet? Those of us traveling to Wilmington from multiple hours away need to know that info ASAP so we can figure out at what ungodly hour of the morning we need to leave in order to arrive...

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I mean, if it's clearly going slower in the morning, then we''ll re-evaluate, but i'd hope we wouldn't have to. That's kinda my plan, as long as things are going ok. I'll stick myself in that group if there are people to number crunch in HQ. I don't know exactly what moderators are on staff, but I ...

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So at the moment, it looks like each group has around 15-18 teams. I suspect we'll want to make groups of 5 or 6 and do five rounds in the morning as usual. (If, say a 19th team happens, probably a partial round robin.) In the afternoon, and if I draft the most efficient moderators for the top group...

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As a reader in Div I, there were two questions that were big buzzer races on the first clue in my room. The one was "this city rejected black firefighter test scores" -- it's pretty much the only thing I remember about Sotomayor other than the "wise Latina" remark, and apparently...

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Production of Watchmen wrote:Yes, there was a half-game tiebreaker between my team and Delaware. Delaware won 220-30.

I stand corrected -- didn't know that happened.

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Actually, looking these over I believe a rule wasn't followed. After the initial RR, it appears the records were NYU 6-1 Maryland C 6-1 RPI B 5-2 Delaware 4-3 Stony Brook A 4-3 Cornell B 2-5 Stony Brook B 1-6 Penn State 0-7 I'm assuming the tie for 4th was broken by PPG or head-to-head. According to...

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Sorry, I think I've missed something. . . shouldn't there have been a finals series played off between NYU and RPI B? Or perhaps, did such a game in fact take place in some previously uncharted recess of McCosh? It seemed like they had identical records within the top playoff flight after the secon...

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where would be the best place to park? In years past, I have used parking lot 10 which is about a block from McCosh Hall. I think I have also parked in the North Garage, which has always been almost vacant on a Saturday. Would there be any team with a car perhaps willing to give us a lift from the ...

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Perhaps the tense of the verb of the first sentence, second paragraph in the history section of this page could use an update.

Here's hoping tomorrow's tournament will be just as much fun.

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Ditto Chris' assumption -- Delaware is bringing two teams.

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The Schopenhauer Power Hour wrote:January 15, 2010

Will there be a DeLorean available upon arrival?

Some number of teams composed of current and former Delaware players are planning on attendance. We will probably not be able to firm up the number of teams until the week of the tournament, but let's say 2 for now.

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