2012 NAQT MSNCT: April 21-22, Chicago

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:17 pm

naqt.com wrote:NAQT is pleased to announce that its second annual Middle School National Championship Tournament (MSNCT) will be held at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel on the weekend of April 20-22, 2012. This is the same hotel that hosted the 2011 championship.

The field for the tournament is limited to 72 teams.

Full details

Online registration is now open. The current field can be seen here.

African threadfish · Post by **African threadfish** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:48 pm

What are the requirements for eligibility to participate?

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:08 am

Eligibility rules are here.

Directions for how to qualify.

African threadfish · Post by **African threadfish** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:32 pm

Thank you!

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:46 pm

Wildcard applications for this tournament are now open. To apply, please send a summary of your team's accomplishments this year to msnct [at] naqt.com.

David Riley · Post by **David Riley** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:44 pm

I can moderate this tournament again if needed; let me know.

the return of AHAN · Post by **the return of AHAN** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:40 am

I wonder if, by any chance, half the field is sharing a bus to this thing...

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:26 pm

naqt.com wrote:The 64-team field for the 2012 Middle School National Championship Tournament is now roughly 85% full. NAQT encourages teams that are interested in attending to register or submit their wildcard applications as soon as possible.

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:08 pm

NAQT is pleased to announce that the field for the 2012 MSNCT has been expanded to 72 teams.

the return of AHAN · Post by **the return of AHAN** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:38 am

I'll be tweeting Barrington Station's scores under the handle BarringtonQuizbowl this weekend...

Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:13 pm

If there aren't objections I could tweet results from whatever room I'm in this weekend.

dtaylor4 · Post by **dtaylor4** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:16 am

Golden-bellied Starfrontlet wrote:If there aren't objections I could tweet results from whatever room I'm in this weekend.

This is fine, just no tweeting of question content.

jonah · Post by **jonah** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:57 am

Might I suggest that everyone use the hashtag #msnct. And yes, tweeting is not merely fine but encouraged (by me, at least, not necessarily NAQT officially) as long as there is no question content included.

the return of AHAN · Post by **the return of AHAN** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:25 am

I'm a tweeting party of 1 at #msnct and @StationQuizbowl.

Cassian · Post by **Cassian** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:23 pm

Is anyone posting updates / results anywhere? I'd love to know how Kealing is doing on day 1!

Northern Central Railway · Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:55 pm

Cassian wrote:Is anyone posting updates / results anywhere? I'd love to know how Kealing is doing on day 1!

From #msnct tweets...

Barrington Station A started 5-0, Station B was 3-0, and Station C was 1-2. A few other scattered results have been tweeted but no more than 2 scores for any other team.

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:00 pm

Six teams went undefeated in the prelims: Creekland A, Independence A, Kealing A, Kealing B, Longfellow A, and Westminster A.

The top 32 teams (4 from each bracket) will advance to the double-elimination playoffs tomorrow.

Complete prelim stats

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:49 pm

Is Kealing's score of 925 an all-time record for an NAQT game at any level?

Stained Diviner · Post by **Stained Diviner** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:10 pm

And while we're talking about possible records:
30 PPB on 19 bonuses
29.71 PPB in a match without hitting 30 PPB
656 PP20TH for the entire prelims

MichaelFalk · Post by **MichaelFalk** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:59 pm

The top four teams in each bracket advanced to the playoffs. I know that the three tiebreakers for playoffs were all 4-4 teams:

Westmont Hilltop A (advantage), St. Mary's Visitation, and Westminster B for one spot
Holy Family A (advantage), Wayzata Central, and Challenger Ardenwood for one spot
Nativity of Mary vs. Altoona for one spot

Down and out in Quintana Roo · Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:20 pm

I know it's early, but man, maybe we should start seriously looking at this team as being able to make some true waves at HSNCT, which they are attending. Scary good.

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:27 pm

Playoff pairings for tomorrow morning:

(Teams reading this: the first playoff round begins at 9 am tomorrow; please pick up your cards at the Information Desk no later than 8:50 am)

1) Kealing A vs. 32) Nativity of Mary
16) Paintsville vs. 17) Mount Nittany
8) Longfellow B vs. 25) Longfellow C
9) Newark Charter vs. 24) Edmonson County
4) Kealing B vs. 29) Gadsden
13) Maclay vs. 20) Monrovia
5) Independence A vs. 28) Saint Ambrose
12) Kealing C vs. 21) Holy Family B
3) Westminster A vs. 30) Challenger Ardenwood
14) Huntsville vs. 19) Barrington Station B
6) Creekland A vs. 27) Bate
11) Challenger Sunnyvale vs. 22) Hawken B
7) Barrington Station A vs. 26) All Saints Catholic
10) Barrington Prairie vs. 23) TH Rogers A
15) Savannah Country Day vs. 18) Ben Franklin
2) Longfellow A vs. 31) St. Mary's Visitation

Cassian · Post by **Cassian** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:56 pm

MichaelFalk · Post by **MichaelFalk** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:34 am

So it goes when you're the 31 seed.

Cassian · Post by **Cassian** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:48 am

Any updates this morning? Is anyone there going to be providing coverage as we get through the playoffs? I'm following the Barrington Twitter feed and a couple of others with the #msnct hashtag, but that's all at this point.

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:13 pm

Lunchtime.

The six remaining teams are:

Barrington Station A
Kealing A
Kealing B
Longfellow A
Longfellow B
Westminster A

The first round after lunch will be the last with three active game rooms; once we reduce to two rooms I suspect we will have enough surplus staff to designate livebloggers.

Cassian · Post by **Cassian** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:29 pm

Thanks for the update, Jeff. I look forward to some live blogging!

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:33 pm

The first game of the finals has just concluded: Longfellow A 460, Kealing A 455.

Westminster A defeated Longfellow B in the third-place game.

Second game of the overall final is starting now.

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:59 pm

Congratulations to Kealing A, which won the second MSNCT title by defeating Longfellow A 550-300 in the second game of an advantaged final.

Stats to follow soon on naqt.com.

Cassian · Post by **Cassian** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:12 pm

Congratulations to Kealing and Longfellow and to all the teams, and thanks to those of you who kept all of us back home informed about the goings-on up in Chicago.

the return of AHAN · Post by **the return of AHAN** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:17 pm

A special thank you to the entire staff of the MSNCT and to NAQT for staging this event. It's truly the highlight of the Station Campus teams' year! I hope even more teams get involved next year!

MichaelFalk · Post by **MichaelFalk** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:18 pm

What struck me at this tournament was how uniformly good the moderators were. Every single one we had was understandable and got through an acceptable number of questions per round. Difficulty seemed a little tougher than last year's MSNCT set but the players seemed to take it in stride.

Congratulations to Kealing, but also to Longfellow, Westminster, and Station for making it to the final six.

Dominator · Post by **Dominator** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:44 pm

MichaelFalk wrote: Difficulty seemed a little tougher than last year's MSNCT set but the players seemed to take it in stride.

As a moderator, I agree on both points. I think a small proportion of questions were legitimately too hard for this level, but I think many of the questions which were harder than last year's set were converted well.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) · Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:53 pm

Was the set easier than an A-set?

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:11 pm

That was the goal.

MichaelFalk · Post by **MichaelFalk** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:14 pm

I think it was a lot closer in difficulty to an MS set than to an A set.

the return of AHAN · Post by **the return of AHAN** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:50 pm

MichaelFalk wrote:I think it was a lot closer in difficulty to an MS set than to an A set.

What Michael said. And stats bear that out. Just look at Kealing A's performance on A sets this year, vs. MSNCT. Also, look at Station A's bonus conversion on MS-02 (25.96), MS-03 (25.05), and then, at least for the prelims our conversion on MSNCT-12 (23.48). I'd say these stats show that MSNCT was a tad more difficult than the MS sets, but easier than the A sets. So, kudos to NAQT for hitting their target!

Post by **Important Bird Area** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:45 pm

(I've split the HSNCT bonus conversion discussion into a new thread.)

Complete stats are now available.

Steeve Ho You Fat · Post by **Steeve Ho You Fat** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:32 pm

Can I just step in for a moment to remark that in the first Kealing-Longfellow game, 21 tossups were powered, and one of the three remaining was negged?