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naqt.com wrote:NAQT's first-ever championship for solo high school players, the Individual Player National Championship Tournament (IPNCT), will be held on April 14-15 (Saturday-Sunday) at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare hotel near Chicago. The event will recognize an overall champion as well as the top players in history, literature, and other subject areas.

The Individual Player National Championship Tournament will use the Division II packet set from the Intercollegiate Championship Tournament (ICT), which is being held Saturday at the same site.

naqt.com wrote:The field for the first Individual Player National Championship Tournament (IPNCT) is now more than 90% full: 30 of the 32 spots have been taken.

NAQT's question security responsibility page wrote:Neither hosts nor teams may exchange, show, discuss, or otherwise reveal or suggest the content of NAQT questions from the current academic year in any public forum or in any private conversation.

Antrobus63 wrote:Now that there will be 64 players instead of the original 32, will that change the schedule in any way? I'm trying to figure out what time would be "safe" to schedule a departing flight on Sunday. I assume the other families will need to know as well.

naqt.com wrote:check-in will not start earlier than 6:00 p.m. (on Saturday), the player meeting will not start earlier than 8:00 a.m. (on Sunday), and the finals will finish no later than 5:00 p.m. (on Sunday).

Sima Guang Hater wrote:Still no ICT field expansion though, huh

Aaron's Rod wrote:The Future National Championship Dates & Sites page says this is happening on Sunday, April 14, a date that doesn't exist (this year).

Important Bird Area wrote:We felt that this change was the best balance between providing as many high-quality questions as our customers want to buy and placing reasonable demands on our writers and editors. (Note that some of the "nationals prep" events that formerly used the Division II SCT can be redirected to use the Division II ICT instead.)

Since NAQT is now running a national tournament for high schoolers on the Division II ICT set, it will obviously be difficult for future hosts to run their own tournaments using that set. With that in mind, is it possible that the SCT set ceases to share questions with the state championship IS set in the future? If the current situation is the norm going forward, then high school tournaments held on college NAQT questions will not be viable.

Sima Guang Hater wrote:Still no ICT field expansion though, huh

1.82 wrote:Since NAQT is now running a national tournament for high schoolers on the Division II ICT set, it will obviously be difficult for future hosts to run their own tournaments using that set. With that in mind, is it possible that the SCT set ceases to share questions with the state championship IS set in the future? If the current situation is the norm going forward, then high school tournaments held on college NAQT questions will not be viable.

The NAQT website wrote:A complete set of rule modifications will be published prior to the championship.

D-2-c. Protests will be resolved according to the same principles as in standard NAQT play (e.g., earned points are added, unearned points are removed, missed opportunities to score points are played, gameplay that shouldnʹt have happened is mooted).

D-2-d. Gameplay will continue during the resolution of the protest according to the moderatorʹs original ruling.  In particular, players who would (or may) have buzzed out if the protest is upheld will continue to play until they either buzz out (by answering more questions) or the protest is upheld.

A_Failure wrote:

The NAQT website wrote:A complete set of rule modifications will be published prior to the championship.

When will these be released?

justinduffy wrote:How will the players be seeded for Round 1 Matches?

jonpin wrote:...what will be the resolution if a player buzzes out but then loses points due to a protest (either because their answer was later ruled unacceptable or an opponent's prior answer was accepted)?

Important Bird Area wrote:

jonpin wrote:...what will be the resolution if a player buzzes out but then loses points due to a protest (either because their answer was later ruled unacceptable or an opponent's prior answer was accepted)?

If the points are under protest, the player will not "buzz out." The player will keep playing until the protests are resolved or the player scores enough undisputed points to buzz out.

(Note that protests must be lodged immediately after each tossup.)

jonpin wrote:

Important Bird Area wrote:

jonpin wrote:...what will be the resolution if a player buzzes out but then loses points due to a protest (either because their answer was later ruled unacceptable or an opponent's prior answer was accepted)?

If the points are under protest, the player will not "buzz out." The player will keep playing until the protests are resolved or the player scores enough undisputed points to buzz out.

(Note that protests must be lodged immediately after each tossup.)

So if A and B are both sitting on 50 points in a 60-point round, and on a single question:
A buzzes, is negged
B buzzes, gets points
A protests that their answer should've been accepted
...then both A and B would continue playing (A because, as it stands they don't have 60, and B because, if the protest is upheld, they won't have 60)?

Aaron Goldfein wrote:Does alphabetical order really have to be a tiebreaker? Couldn't you have used last tossup answered or a coin toss or basically anything other than systematically preferring one player over another?

Also aren't the first three group rounds almost completely meaningless?

justinduffy wrote:How will the top subject area (history, mythology, etc) awards be determined? Will only the preliminary rounds will be taken into account?