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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2024 MSPAINT (nationwide MS solo tournament, 2 June, online)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 268
2024 MSPAINT (nationwide MS solo tournament, 2 June, online)
I am excited to announce the 2024 edition of the Middle School Players' Academic Individual National Tournament (MSPAINT), an individual middle school tournament to be held Sunday, 2 June, 2024 . I will be directing. Eligibility This is an individual tournament. It is open to any player in eighth gr...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:33 am
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: TQBA Online Tournaments
- Replies: 7
- Views: 664
Re: TQBA Online Tournaments
I've played two TQBA tournaments and heard from many who often play TQBA tournaments (mostly because they are in Texas or lack nearby high-quality tournaments). I would NOT recommend playing TQBA tournaments if there are reasonable alternatives. [More things that are correct.] I endorse this produc...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:01 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4121
Re: ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
Let me know if you're interested in staffing for this. Staffers will be paid $5/game read.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4121
Re: ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
I've sent an email to all registered teams and free agents with logistics information. Please check your email and let me know if you didn't get it.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 IQBT Undergraduate Championship - Congrats to Cornell!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15023
Re: 2024 IQBT Undergraduate Championship - Columbia U (NYC) - 3/2/24
We are currently at 30 teams, with one another having indicated interest. Here are our planned schedules. 30 teams: Five brackets of six into five brackets of six with one tiebreaker round, with two parallel top brackets (10 rounds) with one tiebreaker round + 1 game final (rebracket after 5 rounds...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4121
Re: ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
A reminder that this is still happening; the start has been postponed by one week. Signups will close at the end of the day on February 25th.
I will also be emailing registered teams this weekend with more information.
I will also be emailing registered teams this weekend with more information.
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:57 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4121
ISU Sammarinese I (online quiz league, weekly matches, mid-Feb to March 2024)
This is an announcement for ISU Sammarinese I, the first tournament to be held on the Sammarinese format . A full description of the match ruleset can be found here . Questions The tournament will use a set of 6 packets written specifically for the format by the Iowa State University quizbowl team. ...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:47 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Sammarinese format
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2188
Sammarinese format
This is an overview post describing the Sammarinese quiz format, based on Owen Riley's Venetian, but played by teams of two. There are thirty bonus-like sets of three questions, two in each of fifteen categories. The game is split into rounds of four sets. During the first four rounds, each player w...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Questions for 5th/6th grade?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3040
Re: Questions for 5th/6th grade?
I don't know with certainty, but my sense is that SAGES is the way to go. This would be a great choice if they were still producing sets for this year, which I don't think they are, unfortunately. Anyway, I'll do a little bit of self-promotion here: I think my QUAOAR set would be a good fit. It's t...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 1:52 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DMA @ ISU (28 October 2023)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2612
Re: DMA @ ISU (28 October 2023)
This tournament happened. There are staaaaaaaaats.
Congrats to Minnesota for winning with a perfect 10-0 record, and thanks to everyone who came out to play and staff!
Congrats to Minnesota for winning with a perfect 10-0 record, and thanks to everyone who came out to play and staff!
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 11:51 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DMA @ ISU (28 October 2023)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2612
Re: DMA @ ISU (28 October 2023)
A logistics email should have been sent out to all registered teams. If you didn't get it, please let me know. If you have a last-minute registration, that's still welcome -- we have the physical space and the buzzer/staffer support for more teams! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Carver Hall t...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:51 am
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: Online NAQT High School Tournament @ McGill
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3501
Re: Online ACF High School Tournament @ McGill
I assume, by ACF, you mean NAQT?
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Protobowl...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7047
Re: Protobowl...
i am once again asking everyone who uses protobowl to use https://www.qbreader.org/ instead it's got all the features of protobowl, plus better ones like "actually contains sets from within the last five years" (which is especially useful if you want to practice MS questions because that's...
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 11:21 am
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: QUAOAR [MS set, 2023-24]
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4761
Re: QUAOAR [MS set, 2023-24]
I've updated the original post with a list of mirrors. We're still looking for mirrors in almost every region, so let me know if you're interested in hosting a tournament on QUAOAR!
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:00 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing Finsheets' Personal Quizbowl Category Stats Generator!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3051
Re: Announcing Finsheets' Personal Quizbowl Category Stats Generator!
This looks pretty cool; I assume the way you use this is by making a copy of some template and filling in the information. I'd caution anyone using this to make sure to keep the sheets private if you're using this to figure out category stats for a tournament that's not clear. (I think the final sta...
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 12:51 am
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2024 MSNCT Predictions
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10762
Re: 2024 MSNCT Predictions
It's about 6 months too early to make any reasonable predictions other than "teams that were good last year and didn't have players graduate will be good again".
Having said that, the teams that were good last year and didn't have all their players graduate will be good again.
Having said that, the teams that were good last year and didn't have all their players graduate will be good again.
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DMA @ ISU (28 October 2023)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2612
DMA @ ISU (28 October 2023)
I am pleased to announce that Iowa State University Quizbowl will be hosting a mirror of DMA on Saturday, October 28th, 2023 . I will be directing the tournament. Eligibility This is a closed collegiate tournament. Teams must represent a single school. There are no further eligibility restrictions (...
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 12:48 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 UMN Open Weekend (COOT + Super ACRONYM 4 + Side Events)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6279
Re: 2023 UMN Open Weekend (COOT + Super ACRONYM 4 + Side Events)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is happening tomorrow at lunch due to QBOWLOSM running long. We'll shoot out the packets.
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4232
Re: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
I'll be running my transportation side event, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , after the main tournament on Saturday. Here is a sheet to sign up to play or staff. I'll plan on running it as doubles unless the interest is unusually low (in which case we'll play it as a shootout) or unusually high (...
- Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: COLONIAL @ CO (8/6)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3087
Re: COLONIAL @ CO (8/6)
1. Because the set is only five packets, the most viable format I can think of is 8 teams split into two brackets of four for three round prelims into two round playoffs. Some suggestions for tournaments with more teams. You don't have to take these, but I think they're at least reasonable. 12: fou...
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 11:59 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4232
Re: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
I'll be running my transportation side event, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , after the main tournament on Saturday. Here is a sheet to sign up to play or staff. I'll plan on running it as doubles unless the interest is unusually low (in which case we'll play it as a shootout) or unusually high (...
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4232
Re: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
I'll be running my transportation side event, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles , after the main tournament on Saturday. Here is a sheet to sign up to play or staff. I'll plan on running it as doubles unless the interest is unusually low (in which case we'll play it as a shootout) or unusually high (i...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 8:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Direction of ACF Winter
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4897
Re: The Direction of ACF Winter
I've really enjoyed all three of the modern iterations of the set. I think that if the goal of ACF Winter is to be exactly halfway in difficulty between Fall and Regionals, then the 2022 iteration did a very good job of keeping the tossups in that sweet spot, but I do think that the increase in bon...
- Thu Jun 08, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2022-23 MS Postseason Poll / Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5658
Re: 2022-23 MS Postseason Poll / Discussion Thread
Thanks to everyone who voted in the poll. Thanks to our voters: myself, Vidyut Arvind, John Augustyn, Padraig Finan (players only), Andrew Gao, Amory Kaufman (players only), Joshua Li, Sreekar Vajjha, Dhanya Velkur, Dylan Zhang (teams only), and Melody Zou. This was a particularly banner year in ter...
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: QUAOAR [Novice set, 2023-24]
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3862
QUAOAR [Novice set, 2023-24]
This is an announcement for QUAOAR (QUestions, Academic, Oriented At Rookies) , a middle school / novice high school tournament set to be available for mirrors starting October 2023 through the end of the 2023-24 school year. The set is head-edited by me, Conor Thompson, with several deputy editors,...
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 11:43 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: QUAOAR [MS set, 2023-24]
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4761
QUAOAR [MS set, 2023-24]
This is an announcement for QUAOAR (QUestions, Academic, Oriented At Rookies) , a middle school / novice high school tournament set to be available for mirrors starting October 2023 through the end of the 2023-24 school year. The set is head-edited by me, Conor Thompson, with several deputy editors,...
- Sun May 28, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (transportation side event) - re-announcement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2785
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (transportation side event) - re-announcement
This set is going to have at least one online mirror TBA, and is also open for use at side event weekends if people want to run it. Let me know.
- Sun May 28, 2023 12:22 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
This happened. There are stats! Congratulations to Nic Pruitt, BJ Ryan, and Mike Cheyne for winning in dominant fashion, taking the final over Sean Higgins and Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury -- and thanks to everyone who showed up to play. Thanks also to our awesome staffers: Colby Burnett, Cody J...
- Sat May 27, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
- Sat May 27, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
For those playing this at HSNCT, let's meet at 8:30 on the 200 level of the Hilton tomorrow, assuming those game rooms are unlocked and within range of the lobby internet. (If those things are false, I'll find somewhere else and post an update). Some more specific logistics: I have instituted a fie...
- Sat May 27, 2023 1:26 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
For those playing this at HSNCT, let's meet at 8:30 on the 200 level of the Hilton tomorrow, assuming those game rooms are unlocked and within range of the lobby internet. (If those things are false, I'll find somewhere else and post an update). Some more specific logistics: I have instituted a fie...
- Fri May 26, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
For those playing this at HSNCT, let's meet at 8:30 on the 200 level of the Hilton tomorrow, assuming those game rooms are unlocked and within range of the lobby internet. (If those things are false, I'll find somewhere else and post an update).
- Mon May 15, 2023 11:46 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2022-23 MS Postseason Poll / Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5658
Re: 2022-23 MS Postseason Poll / Discussion Thread
I encourage people to use this thread to discuss which teams and players they feel are deserving of votes. I will be making such a post at some point soon. You can (and should!) also use this thread to shout out people you think are worthy of being shouted out, regardless of whether they may or may...
- Mon May 15, 2023 8:54 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2022-23 MS Postseason Poll / Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5658
2022-23 MS Postseason Poll / Discussion Thread
As is tradition, I am running an MS postseason ranking poll. The poll is intended to be a ranking for the 2022-2023 season. To vote, please send your ballots to me by email at conorjt@iastate.edu by 11:59pm on Wednesday, June 7th . You may vote for players, teams, or both. General guidelines (mostly...
- Mon May 15, 2023 8:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
This happened at MSNCT, and there are stats. Shower Curtain Ring Division (Colby Burnett and Jim Puls) won the tournament with a 5-0 record. Unfortunately one team had to leave after the first 3 rounds, so the bottom bracket was condensed into two teams (with Jeff and Noelle acquiring Jake); after t...
- Mon May 15, 2023 1:54 am
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Middle School Quiz Bowl: Player/Team Rankings
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3268
Re: 2023 Middle School Quiz Bowl: Player/Team Rankings
I'll be running a poll (as has become tradition); expect a post announcing it in the next day or two. When I do so, perhaps this thread can be merged into the poll thread (as it is also typical to post in the poll thread extolling various people's virtues).
- Sat May 13, 2023 6:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
Can we bring cash and pay onsite? I have a team of two and we are planning to play, but the Google Form to sign up wasn’t working. Thanks! It's not a gform, it's just a spreadsheet. And yes, absolutely. Relatedly, we are going to meet for this at 6:30 tonight, in the lower level of the conference c...
- Wed May 10, 2023 7:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
I would love to participate, but is there a rough timetable? Good question. Let's aim to meet at 6:30 in the small atrium outside Lambert/Sky Harbor/SeaTac/etc (I don't remember all the room names but hopefully this is uniquely identifying). If we have enough people for at least 4 teams of doubles ...
- Sun May 07, 2023 5:01 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2023 MSPAINT (MS Individual Tournament, 7 May 2023, online)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4369
Re: 2023 MSPAINT (MS Individual Tournament, 7 May 2023, online)
This tournament happened! Andrew Gao won the tournament without ever losing a room; Sreekar Vajjha took second and only ever finished behind Andrew. Haughton Neppl and Padraig Finan finished third and fourth in the championship match respectively, with Vidyut Arvind winning the 5th-8th placement gam...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: Nationals side events thread
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3662
Re: Nationals side events thread
I'll start -- I am running Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at MSNCT and HSNCT on their respective Saturday evenings.
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:07 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: Nationals side events thread
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3662
Nationals side events thread
There are several side events already announced for various national tournaments, which are scattered across at least three different subforums. I figured it would be a good idea to have a centralized thread for crossposting these announcements with any details that people find relevant. Feel free t...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 4:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3908
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles @ MSNCT/HSNCT
I will be running a side event on my set Planes, Trains, and Automobiles at MSNCT and HSNCT. It will take place on Saturday evening at both tournaments, after the conclusion of tournament gameplay for the day (and some time to allow people to get food) -- I'll post more specific logistics/times/etc....
- Fri Apr 21, 2023 10:32 am
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: 2023 MSPAINT (MS Individual Tournament, 7 May 2023, online)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4369
Re: 2023 MSPAINT (MS Individual Tournament, 7 May 2023, online)
Signups are still open for this tournament, and will be until Thursday, May 4th!
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:31 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (transportation side event) - re-announcement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2785
Re: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (transportation side event) - re-announcement
Are there plans for this set to be mirrored during nationals season? Yes. I am not going to announce anything until the set is, uh, finished, but I would like to run it as a side event at several national tournaments this year (and perhaps also on CO Sunday if there are not that many other side eve...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
- Replies: 106
- Views: 96566
Re: Introducing YellowFruit.
It would be neat if a future update could allow us to manually edit individual phase rankings and/or specify tiebreaking criteria -- I just had a bracket in which two teams were tied in both record and PPG, and Yellowfruit sorted them in an order that was not PPB (which the tournament directors used...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 3:41 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
- Replies: 106
- Views: 96566
Re: Introducing YellowFruit.
Is there a functionality to "select all" games (either all of them, or all of them within a search)?
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 2:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2023 NAQT SSNCT: April 28-30, Chicago
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11114
Re: 2023 NAQT SSNCT: April 28-30, Chicago
I have a weird suggestion about the prelim format for this tournament. The last few years, SSNCT prelims have not used a card system, instead dividing the field into pools of 11 and having them play a round robin, with teams finishing 6-4 or better making playoffs. This is by no means a bad format, ...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:40 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Best Debut Performances?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8281
Re: Best Debut Performances?
I have heard that half of UWaterloo's ICT DII winning team this year had never played quiz bowl before. I cannot confirm this but consultation of the NAQT website suggests at least some of them were only recorded as playing one novice tournament before SCT. I can see how that wouldn't count as &quo...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 6:16 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
- Replies: 75
- Views: 79716
Re: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
I'm not sure any individual games at this year's ICT are particularly extraordinary upsets (both of the teams that beat Chicago were obviously extremely good, and I think Cornell was probably favored in 12 of their 13 games), but Chicago having 3 PPB and 100 PPG more than any other team and losing ...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:54 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Best Debut Performances?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8281
Re: Best Debut Performances?
Moultrie at the 2019 MSNCT had never played pyramidal quizbowl before (at least in an official tournament) and qualified via wildcard. As one might expect from a team used to playing bad one-sentence questions on a ruleset that did not include neg penalties, they negged a *lot* -- about 22% of all ...