Patrick Ryan! And yes, and yes it's free.Cheynem wrote:Is this the lot/structure near the George Segal Visitors Center and the Paul Ryan Center for the Musical Arts?
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- Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 77007
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT is now accepting writer applications
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3594
Re: NAQT is now accepting writer applications
There are approximately two weeks left in the writer application period. We've received a number of promising applications and would be thrilled to receive more!
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Appropriate Use of Potentially Ambiguous Identifiers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3953
Re: Appropriate Use of Potentially Ambiguous Identifiers
I strongly agree. (ACF rules don't seem to explicitly allow for this, though. NAQT rules do, but I've never seen it used.)Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:Tangentially, specific prompts are a thing that should be used more often!
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 12:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New NAQT Individual Player NCT - April 15, Chicago
- Replies: 55
- Views: 28981
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 National Quiz Bowl Awards
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25486
Re: 2018 National Quiz Bowl Awards
somebodyDeviant Insider wrote:somebody who was on the MSNCT Championship team
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 1:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT is now accepting writer applications
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3594
- Thu Jun 21, 2018 10:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Quick question regarding application of the rules: After completing 20 tossup/bonus cycles in Round 19, my team (Santa Monica B) and our opponent (Olympian A) had heard 19 bonuses (1 tossup went unanswered). We correctly answered tossup 21 for 10 points. Since there were only about 20 seconds left ...
- Sat Jun 16, 2018 12:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
I recall a sports question where the first clue was about a player retiring due to blood clots (think it was hockey?). Could I see that please? In December 2015 a player on this team was forced to retire due to persistent blood-clot issues. A player on this team is the only teenager to have won a s...
- Wed Jun 13, 2018 10:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Plymouth Academic Quiz Tournament 2 (PAQT)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5500
Re: Plymouth Academic Quiz Tournament 2 (PAQT)
There is no IS #177A. Please contact [email protected] to discuss your needs.
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Location of Powermarks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6500
Re: Location of Powermarks
Hello, I'd like to revisit this thread since I'm writing some HS questions with powermarks. So, for each question I have, do I need to have like a definite point (not necessarily a cliff) where the question transitions from 15 point material to 10, as referencing the Ethan Frome example from above?...
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 10:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NSC Set Discussion Thread
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14192
Re: 2018 NSC Set Discussion Thread
I haven't seen the question, but this site lists dozens of musical settings of Biblical texts other than Psalms, and here's another listing, etc.Curious Homunculus wrote:Specifically for Psalms, there are no other Biblical texts that people would write music for
- Thu Jun 07, 2018 6:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
If I recall correctly, there was a question that referred to John Kasich as the former governor of Ohio. This is wrong, as he is the current governor. I think the team I was reading to converted it anyway, but wanted to point that out. Mitch Hedberg thinks it's fine , but you recall correctly. Than...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Yep, that is an accidental repeat.Cheynem wrote:In Round 11, there's a bonus part on the James-Lange theory of emotion, and in Round 12 James is asked for and James-Lange theory is a clue. I think these were both afternoon rounds.
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
If i recall correctly there was a tossup on tides both Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning that included a common clue between them.. May I please see the tossups on tides? Here is the only tide-related tossup I can find: The Magellanic Stream is a "tail" named for this phenomenon, caus...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 2:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Power Matching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8441
Re: Power Matching
In case it helps, here is the preliminary master schedule from the 2018 HSNCT (in two different formats). The 2018 SSNCT Open Division preliminary card system had a few matches in which teams might have played a team with a record two off from their own (because there was no way to keep the at-most-...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
If I recall correctly, the answerline of French Resistance was repeated in two games which I played, was this intentional? I can't find any evidence this happened. I see one tossup on the French Resistance in packet 22 (second round of the playoffs); do you have any memory of when the other might h...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 10:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Were there repeated answerlines (but not repeated question content necessarily) between the morning and afternoon rounds? I recall playing Keats and Ishiguro tossups, although I do believe they were slightly different in terms of question content. Yes. To a first approximation, in the sense of repe...
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 7:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Can I see the tossup on Logan Paul and the first part of the Italian facism/Pirandello/six characters in search of an author bonus? Thanks. This man's conduct was described as "abhorrent and mutton-headed" in a letter from Maverick Apparel that demanded he change the name of his clothing ...
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Can I see the Brandenburg Gate tossup? One of my players negged the Brandenburg Gate tossup with the Reichstag. Given that they are next to each other and the thing on the top mentioned in the leadin is on both the Recihstag and the Brandenburg Gate (according to people who have actually been in Ge...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 11:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48295
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Can I see the tossup on "relatively prime"? I negged it with "a + b = c" on the leadin, but I might have misheard what exactly it was asking for. Three numbers must have this property in a claim, possibly proven in 2012 by Shinichi Mochizuki via "interuniversal Teichm\"...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations Plano West!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 27358
Re: 2018 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations Plano West!
Jeff (or anyone else who may know), has there been a discussion of splitting the HSNCT into TPS and Open Divisions like at the SSNCT? I looked at a few forums and didn't see anything mentioned, but I may have missed it. Just curious if it's been brought up before. Thanks. There has been no such dis...
- Sat May 26, 2018 1:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations Plano West!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 27358
- Thu May 17, 2018 11:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: My Health
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8085
Re: My Health
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- Mon May 14, 2018 12:04 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455501
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I wrote some questions about the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. Tossups, bonuses (including deprecated bonus formats), and just for the hell of it, lightning rounds. It's ridiculous and probably not much fun to play for most people, but a few people asked about it, so I have posted it (with slight tweaks for...
- Sat May 05, 2018 12:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8268
Re: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Sometime this summer.The Stately Rhododendron wrote:Is there an ETA on the recordings of the final?
- Tue May 01, 2018 5:44 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20382
Re: QBNotify: A email notification system for tournaments
It would also be nice if I could input a ZIP or address instead of having to look up my lat/lon. Americans have a pretty poor sense of how many meters they'd be willing to travel for a tournament. This or this may be useful to you (disclaimer––I haven't personally used either). The Google Maps API ...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41440
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
Is this helpful for ICT PATH? Note the "Phase" and "Round" filters. I'm sorry if I did this wrong; I've never computed PATH before.
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 8:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41440
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
Feel free to send me (detailed, specific) requests for things to look up/calculate from the ICT stats. I can't promise timely responses, especially with the SSNCT coming up this weekend and the MSNCT and HSNCT following soon, but in general I'm happy to try to help and I'll try to be timely.
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 11:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41440
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
My number one is Jacob Reed. He was the second scorer in the top bracket at ICT (based on overall, since NAQT doesn't have a separate page for individual playoff stats) Top ten PP20TUH in 2018 ICT Division I playoffs only: Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, 73.48 Jakob Myers, 69.47 Chris Ray, 68.23 Hidehiro An...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The new naqt.com
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8362
Re: The new naqt.com
This may or may not be intentional, but there are certain national championships missing from that national championships page when you open the naqt site on mobile. See below: It's working for me in Safari on iOS 11.4. Given the cutoff point I suspect this is a scrolling issue—can you scroll and s...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41440
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
My number one is Jacob Reed. He was the second scorer in the top bracket at ICT (based on overall, since NAQT doesn't have a separate page for individual playoff stats) Top ten PP20TUH in 2018 ICT Division I playoffs only: Itamar Naveh-Benjamin, 73.48 Jakob Myers, 69.47 Chris Ray, 68.23 Hidehiro An...
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 11:54 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 SSNCT Pre-Nats Discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 22487
Re: 2018 SSNCT Pre-Nats Discussion
From 64 teams, there will be 21 to 26 playoff teams, most likely 24.tksaleija wrote:Out of curiosity, does anybody have any idea what the min/max number of 6-4+ records for the open bracket (61 teams)?
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 11:52 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SSNCT: April 28-29, Chicago
- Replies: 22
- Views: 19642
Re: 2018 NAQT SSNCT: April 28-29, Chicago
Out of curiosity, was the cut-off for All-Star awards changed from last year, and if so, how? No (but it would have been plausible to do so because each team plays ten prelim games instead of nine). The number of awards in the Open Division is twice the number from last year's Charter and Private S...
- Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New NAQT Individual Player NCT - April 15, Chicago
- Replies: 55
- Views: 28981
Re: New NAQT Individual Player NCT - April 15, Chicago
The aforementioned video is the only one. We tried to livestream the finals, but it didn't work.
We recorded audio of every round and will post the recordings when they are edited and the set is clear.
We recorded audio of every round and will post the recordings when they are edited and the set is clear.
- Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:23 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The new naqt.com
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8362
Re: The new naqt.com
This may or may not be intentional, but there are certain national championships missing from that national championships page when you open the naqt site on mobile. See below: It's working for me in Safari on iOS 11.4. Given the cutoff point I suspect this is a scrolling issue—can you scroll and s...
- Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:50 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Haven't recieved my NAQT Account Activation E-Mail
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2130
Re: Haven't recieved my NAQT Account Activation E-Mail
You did successfully activate your account, which means you must have received the activation e-mail.
We haven't received any e-mail from you. If you have further problems, you can try e-mailing us and [email protected] again (making sure you are spelling the addresses correctly)
We haven't received any e-mail from you. If you have further problems, you can try e-mailing us and [email protected] again (making sure you are spelling the addresses correctly)
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 11:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT press guide
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8130
Re: NAQT press guide
In the correct thread this time, the section "who are the defending national champions" lists last year's ICT champtions (switching Berkeley's and Oklahoma's titles as well) and links to last year's CCCT. Fixed; thanks. Serves me right for creating this page the week before a national cha...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8268
Re: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
I was pretty surprised that the bonus part on "reduced mass" didn't have mu listed as an (at least promptable) answer. There was another case later in the day when Maia said a Greek letter for a different bonus and wasn't prompted. Was there a conscious decision on NAQT's part to not incl...
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New NAQT Individual Player NCT - April 15, Chicago
- Replies: 55
- Views: 28981
Re: New NAQT Individual Player NCT - April 15, Chicago
Full statistics with standings are now available.
Thanks to all the players, parents, coaches, friends, and staff. I had a great time and I hope you did too.
Thanks to all the players, parents, coaches, friends, and staff. I had a great time and I hope you did too.
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8268
Re: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
I was pretty surprised that the bonus part on "reduced mass" didn't have mu listed as an (at least promptable) answer. There was another case later in the day when Maia said a Greek letter for a different bonus and wasn't prompted. Was there a conscious decision on NAQT's part to not incl...
- Sat Apr 14, 2018 1:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT ICT: April 14, Chicago
- Replies: 30
- Views: 20040
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 6:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8033
Re: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
Georgia (Cancellation Requested) Does this mean they are replaced by DePaul (#1 on the standby list)? We've just gotten in touch with the waitlist teams to see who can attend on short notice, if anyone. Several teams near the top of the waitlist are local. Of course, if there is interest from multi...
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 12:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF and Powers (POLL)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 34865
Re: ACF and Powers (POLL)
I don't think this is that hard. Literally you could just have the head editor be like "ok mates I want the power mark to end so that we intend to have 33% of people power it by the end of the tossup". Then he can send that logistics email to every other editor so they're all on the same ...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 1995 ACF Nationals program
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6604
Re: 1995 ACF Nationals program
I have the packets from a 1994 tournament at Berkeley called Harmonic Convergence Bowl, so I assume this is a follow-up to that.Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:I really want to know about "Harmonic Divergence Bowl".
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8033
Re: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
Georgia (Cancellation Requested) Does this mean they are replaced by DePaul (#1 on the standby list)? We've just gotten in touch with the waitlist teams to see who can attend on short notice, if anyone. Several teams near the top of the waitlist are local. Of course, if there is interest from multi...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 1995 ACF Nationals program
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6604
1995 ACF Nationals program
David Frazee sent me a box of old quizbowl stuff. One of the more interesting things was a program from 1995 ACF Nationals, featuring some artwork; a combination welcome and birth announcement from Don Windham and Carol Guthrie; information on participating teams (including messages), officials, and...
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 12:34 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Student looking to start a team
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12945
Re: Student looking to start a team
Is this article helpful?
- Thu Apr 05, 2018 11:39 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Contesting Statistics After a Tournament
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8569
Re: Contesting Statistics After a Tournament
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...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 12:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOUNDTRACK at HSNCT - Saturday
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5645
Re: SOUNDTRACK at HSNCT - Sunday night
Per the NAQT side event policy, "No [tournament game] rooms will be available after the conclusion of the tournament finals and awards."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
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:44 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
- Replies: 50
- Views: 38560
Re: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
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.