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Nick · Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VI (11/12/11) This field is getting out of hand.

This field is getting out of hand.

Nick

In my mind, I always thought of "quizbowl" as the name of the game, and the name of the team was something like Scholastic Team or Academic Team(which is what we called it at my high school). To me this was akin to being on Crew Team where your sport was "rowing." [*] We don't ha...

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Andrew sent me this packet a week or so ago and I played it with a buddy. As someone who just completed their first year of law school, I thought it was super-enjoyable. I can see though how anybody not just out of their first year or in law school at all, wouldn't really find this very entertaining...

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If graham moyer plays for harvard, I think they move up.

Same goes for MIT if the two (i think) state college alums play there.

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https://github.com/mhahnenberg/NAQT-Sco ... or-Android

I've been told that by this evening it will be under the Apache 2.0 license.

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So my buddy Mark Hahnenberg and I thought that since its a tech-hungry 2011, and we have a deep love for computer science (and the environment?), we would look into making an app to keep score for quizbowl games! (by "we" I mean he did all the actual work and I just sat around and thought ...

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This is going to be really helpful and interesting as the year progresses, and thank you for all your work on these Excelsior Rankings. As far as the labeling of teams ("B" in place of "A", etc): It may seem radical at first but perhaps consider attributing the results of a team ...

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Also, if somebody could get a computer to compare the stats (via some sort of complex formula), it would probably be even better, since, you know, computers are pretty good at that.

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While everyone is surely appreciative that Fred is willing to compile and analyze the stats, and crank out a ranking of some sort, It seems pretty clear that people aren't ever going to be fully satisfied because, among other reasons, the rankings arent based on anything definitive. Its Fred's ranki...

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God forbid a tournament only guarantees teams 8 games.

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Just to be clear, when we say things are non-open, does that bar the possibility of combining some B-teamers and C-teamers from two different schools so as to avoid a schedule with byes ("scab teams") or to allow them an opportunity to play on a team that isn't just two people or a number ...

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Im sure the powers-that-be have realized this, but choosing between the 64-team format and the 72-team format doesnt really matter that much because its likely neither of those is going to happen. If PACE is making a last-ditch effort to fill the field (currently at 62, and looks to have been stuck ...

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I agree strongly with Matt's last post. I think quizbowl already has a lot of the characteristics of a Good Ol' Boys Club and mandating more regular just-college tournaments and less of anything else, would help push quizbowl away from that paradigm and closer to an interscholastic competition. Whic...

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I may be way off base here, but I thought the major concern this past season was the complete nonexistence of regular college tournaments in the fall. Looking at the list at the top, there still only appears to be one, this new UVA thing. I might advocate for more. Directed towards Chris Ray or anyb...

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If we have 18 teams the best I can come up with is 3x6 rebracketed WITH repeats (to maximize games). This would mean all teams play all five other teams in their third of the final standings at least once (with one repeat) and two of the teams from each of the other two PM brackets. You could do 2 ...

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I cannot support Fred's post more strongly.

From the Middle School Collaboration up to ACF Nationals, this is the case.

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:
Angstrom wrote:Unless the results are based off anything but record
Texas is, if I recall, perilously near Georgia.

What does this mean?

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Ok ok, im sorry for all these questions, but one more: Are the playoff pools predetermined for each prelim group (1st team in prelim group A goes to playoff group X, 2nd team in prelim group A goes to playoff group Y, etc) or will the playoff pools be based on the stats from the prelims? If the form...

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Another quick question: under the 72-team format outlined above, does a team's record from the prelims carry over to the playoffs and superplayoffs? So, like, will playoff teams be regrouped for superplayoffs based on just the 5 other playoff games from their playoff pool or against all 10 games the...

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Is there a contingency plan/format in the event that the 72-team field does not fill?

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Does anybody know or want to say who the two State College A players were?

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5. Although he had a separated shoulder, Matthew Stafford was able to do this by throwing the game-winning touchdown pass in a game against the Cleveland Browns in 2009. After being dragged back to the underworld by Hermes, Sisyphus was forced to roll a boulder up a hill which always rolled back do...

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Has State College won a high school quizbowl tournament this year?

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just out of curiosity- has the tournament format been announced somewhere?

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This is the second year in a row I've heard the Prison Bowl set and this is the second year in a row that I've walked away thinking it was one of the best high school sets there are. Good job, Hunter.

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Can people post the stat links from all the tournaments that have been run on HSAPQ #16? Or just point me to the thread where this has already been done, if it has. Thanks.

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holy cow BCC - who are these guys? Are they new? Jumping on to the circuit and putting up stats that high is mighty impressive. Props to all the hard work these folks are putting in. Lets welcome this fresh and admirable team to the quizbowl community! Their excellence should be a standard that even...

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I dont mean to shake the foundations of quizbowl law, but I think situations like this might support the idea that the mentality of "get the most quizbowl for your money" and "since we have X packets, we must plan for X rounds of play" aren't always or necessarily ideal. I wasn't...

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No, I just don't quite get where you're getting these numbers. I'm not saying you're not accurate in saying that it would be that close, I just dont exactly understand why that has to be true. Or necessarily is true.

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At high difficulty national championships it's more important to accurately distinguish between the levels of knowledge at the high end of the tail. So looking at the playoffs from Nats last year, it is way more important to have the relatively large gaps between the top teams (Stanford almost .9 a...

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Does NAQT have a goal for its SCT DI bonus conversion stats? Does the quizbowl community? I ask because it seems like its okay for the range in high school to be roughly 5 to 25ppb on a "regular" set, but for the last few years the DI range (which I would think would be "regular"...

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Here's the flaw I see with not taking into account actual games: Dorman moved up a spot in these rankings, from 6 to 5, after losing to both TJ B and Centennial. Obviously I think Dorman's still a top 10 team, but that just seems ridiculous. Also, I would have put Centennial ahead of us, if not als...

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Perhaps you’re only talking about the relatively smaller class of established writers and editors who take it upon themselves to write and edit entire tournaments, in which case I may be missing the boat completely. But I think to expect a lot of this from teams who are submitting packets to a tourn...

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how difficult is this supposed to be?

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I dont know what the rules are on this but ive discussed it with the entire rutgers-camden team and we'd love to have you join us. Otherwise, yea, it will just be me playing alone.

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Charlie, I agree very strongly with this. Specifically your point about answer spaces that are answered almost exclusively by teams/players who have read college packets. And I want to reiterate what others have said about this being true for a large portion of the philosophy answers. I would probab...

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Auroni, I think you hit the nail on the head. The good, experienced players are the ones who edit the tournaments, and even before that, they decide which tournaments are going to exist. They might not always choose to give up writing the hard, open tournament that theyd rather play in favor of an e...

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No, I definitly understand that theres only so much ACF specifically can organize. But I should be more clear- I mean that I think there should be more ACF Fall-difficulty tournaments in general. Yes, you're right, MUT and EFT also have huge fields. I think that my point is that theres something ver...

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I think it should be pointed out that for every person on here who thinks ACF Fall was too easy, theres at least three more people who played the set and thought it was too hard, I guarantee it. In general, I thought the set was very good and certainly within the standard "quizbowl margin of er...

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Perhaps this shouldn't/doesn't matter but it seems you have 3 science questions in the first five tossups, and 4 history questions in the second "quarter" (6-10) of bonuses. Just something to think about.

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My question--largely for the ACF powers-that-be/veterans-- is regarding an official rule for field caps/limitations regarding high school versus college teams. The situation at UVA’s ACF Fall site seems to be that the field went from smaller (about 6) to larger (about 20) very very quickly after whi...

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May I ask how many rooms you do currently have and/or think you will have?

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millionwaves wrote:We expect that [Amit/NSC situation] to be publicly announced here in the next couple of days.

Any updates?

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Is this set soon to be posted?

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This was extremely helpful last year, so I thought I'd do one this year. Feel free to correct any and all mistakes/additions. September 11: ACF Novice (Harvard) September 18: ACF Novice (RIT, NIU, Delaware, Duke) September 25: ACF Novice (Waterloo, Harding, Michigan, WashU, Minnesota, Cal-Berkeley) ...

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Just out of curiosity- is any effort being made to reach schools who don't regularly compete and/or specifically read these forums?

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A little bird once told me that Ming Lin from Southside will be attending Penn in the fall. If this is true, and it totally may not be, I predict Penn in the top 2.

I also predict UVA and state college to be somewhere from 3rd to 10th. Matt Bollinger is nasty.

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Jerry, you're probably right that my situation is different with that access to high school people to call on for those last few readers. And I'll just say that I understand that people aren't always willing to give up saturdays "for the good of quizbowl" and while perhaps understandable f...

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Firstly, I think the deadline is the major obstacle- I'm aware of at least two schools not already mentioned who planned/thought of hosting but never had a chance to discuss it with the new team. On a side note- I dont really understand how the clock prevents established programs from hosting the SC...

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I hear they got a legit new coach.

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