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Important Bird Area wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 1:09 pm
El Salvadoreno wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 12:43 pm round 9 is labeled as a playoff game when it was actually a part of the prelims
Fixed; thanks for letting us know!

No problem

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First and foremost, I would like to thank NAQT for writing a very well-written and enjoyable SCT set and UM and all the staffers for hosting a very well-run and well-staffed tournament. I am not sure how relevant this is, but there is an error on the NAQT stats where round 9 is labeled as a playoff ...

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Thanks to everyone for the feedback. These shirts have already been ordered. This being the first time I've ordered with Custom Ink, I'm not sure what their policy is on changing designs. The "fifteen" design was too clever by half. I've requested that they change it to read "girl (*) power" to avo...

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La Nona Ora wrote:Will depend on the day, but I am interested.

Same

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The worse instance I ever saw was my player getting awarded the points on a bonus part, and THEN... moments later, the moderator backing up and reconsidering, then asking my player to "SPELL IT." This was a science bonus at sectional championship match, where the answer line was "otoscope." Points ...

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That being said, I still hold on to my belief that ACF should have powers in order to create more across-format consistency. Why is this inherently good? Should NAQT dump its idiosyncratic distribution? I do think consistency brings some advantages namely in that it would help comparisons between d...

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...more consistency across formats will be good for the game long-term as it creates less of a shock for newer players shifting formats...longer games may lower retention rates for beginner level players...shorter, quicker [games] will help the game expand long-term. I don't want to speak for "newe...

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I voted for the "should have powers throughout" option. Though I understand that this will require an extra time investment I think more consistency across formats will be good for the game long-term as it creates less of a shock for newer players shifting formats and for helping to compare performa...

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Me when I saw this

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*Mr. Andrew Wang, whose science and mythology questions were incredible, and without whom we would have been lost. While it's great that quality writers are taking over the production of IHSA questions, I'd just like to note that this certainly does not warrant referring to Andrew as Mr. Wang. But ...

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I do think that there is definitely interest among younger players (I would count myself as one of those) to write and maybe even eventually edit at the college level. But I would also appreciate a bit more guidance/encouragement. I've volunteered to contribute to sets before but have on several oc...

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If a top player isn't negging at least once a game they are playing far too conservative on the buzzer. I don't think this claim necessarily holds water in all cases. There are a few incredibly skilled players that manage to put up respectable power numbers and not end a tournament with more than t...

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It comes down to the player in the context of their team. The best player on a weak team, assuming they're decent, probably has a high PPG and a respectably, but low power ratio. What Ricky's saying could be true, but it's also possible the high power percentage player you're comparing them to is o...

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I actually disagree that powers is the best way to judge a player. Sure powers are important, but 10s are just as important. If a player has a low power percentage, but gets nearly every tossup, that person is arguably better than a player with more powers, but that is more specialized (especially i...

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The best place to start would be NAQT.com which will qualify one's team for both PACE and HSNCT. You can also look through the Mirrors Thread to see whether an independent set is being mirrored near you. These will only qualify you for PACE, however.

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I can only speak for Carmel, but we had an awards night at the end of the year where there was a Varsity and JV team MVP announced (came with a trophy) as well as smaller awards (medallions, iirc) for non-MVP important contributors. Everyone was recognized regardless of whether they won an award. In...

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Hello-does anyone know if there will be computational math tossups this year for IHSA? As in 2016, there will be none. I was out of the loop last year. Did the 2017 set have comp math tossups? It did, unfortunately. Fortunately, I don't think Fischer et. al. will use comp math but I do not speak fo...

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Everyone's hands are bloody - there's no corporation out there that won't have some tie to death, decay, etc. that's how accumulation works these days.. That may be true, but most are not tied to a federal investigation into election interference. NAQT should just end the sponsorship before it come...

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According to Rishik, his team said things like "good buzz." Literally almost every team I know does this in some capacity, and only saying things like this does not cause the game to go 15 minutes longer. Speed should be a priority, but we should not make this the No Fun League while we are at it (I...

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Is there any reason why the seeds are not listed? Are they still seeded and then placed like they were previously or is it a new system?

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We won't be expanding the field for the 2018 Division II ICT (we were only able to secure enough rooms to expand the total field by four teams, and prioritized Division I based on past community feedback about expansion). That's fair (and also what I figured but thought it would be safer to ask). O...

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As someone playing DII this year, is there any shot that its field will be expanded as well?

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Shouldn't this tournament be called the John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly Memorial Tournament? Actually, I should have called it one of the many versions of his name with false middle names said by Bennet Cerf during the run of What's My Line Why are you stopping at one when you can use all of them...

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Maybe the 5 years of Sunday School, 4 years of high school religion, and year of college theology will finally pay off.

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Given that I am the originator of the "bunch of people's opinions," I think I will clarify what I mean. I do not mean to say that the preseason poll (or any of the polls) brings no value, only that I find Morlan's rankings far superior, as the consensus seems to be. And, while maybe more strongly wo...

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Well, Rep. Scalise doesn't play quizbowl, whereas there are a number of "liberal Democrats" who do. I think the issue here is that the set of people whose deaths were called for has a significant and nonempty intersection with the set of quizbowlers. To use a more hypothetical example, suppose some...

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I think I would have to make a value judgment on "liberal Democrats deserve to be executed" in regards if this is actually a threat. Is this anymore offensive than saying "Anybody who voted to repeal net neutrality should be tortured or executed" (a statement I've seen widely on people's Facebooks)...

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Mike Cheyne is entirely right. I am TDing Rube in January. I really don't want to have to go through the social media history of tons of high school quizbowlers I have never met in my life (and have to ask their coaches for names) just to see if a couple have hateful views so I can ban them. The mo...

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Mike Cheyne is entirely right. I am TDing Rube in January. I really don't want to have to go through the social media history of tons of high school quizbowlers I have never met in my life (and have to ask their coaches for names) just to see if a couple have hateful views so I can ban them. The mo...

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6) There was at least one acceptance of an incorrect answer (player answered lanthanoids, was asked to repeat, and answered "lanthanides" the second time). Everything else is pretty bad, yeah, but you should know that the ACF rules (which are, I hope, "good quizbowl") have this to say: Players are ...

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Important Bird Area wrote:
I was hoping this was the 1990s BCE.
I fixed your post

Who has been studying their Minoan culture?

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- Agree with lit critiques. The one TU on A Long Day's Journey into Night seemed really easy (or I just recall the wedding dress scene being way more famous than it is). I'm honestly not sure if the wedding dress scene is super famous or not, but I think it's definitely harder than the clues that c...

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- In the same packet (Mich B I think) that alt history bonus had "winning the civil war for the CSA" as the last part, even though that was mentioned as part of the first book, which made it really confusing. I wrote the original version of this question, and the easy part was originally "Gettysbur...

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My list will be less extensive then the others, since they touched on a lot and I do not have the set in front of me, but... - WTF with the Thomson and Thompson TU. Nobody is going to pull that unless they have like super deep Tintin knowledge. - In the same packet (Mich B I think) that alt history ...

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The thing is that IS-A and IS sets are incredibly different. A-set questions are much shorter and directed at novices. The best free novice sets are the SCOP Novice sets. In contrast, IS sets are considered to be regular difficulty. Almost all the sets listed here are regular difficulty, with the e...

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The thing is that IS-A and IS sets are incredibly different. A-set questions are much shorter and directed at novices. The best free novice sets are the SCOP Novice sets. In contrast, IS sets are considered to be regular difficulty. Almost all the sets listed here are regular difficulty, with the ex...

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People are allowed to vote for each day that works for them, so I don't think that many have taken the poll. Well then, disregard my faulty statistics. That being said, Mike’s point is still valid. EDIT: After rereading my post, I felt I needed to make it more clear that I do not doubt the veracity...

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Mike Bentley wrote:I think a final date should come first. It sounds like many people are tentative based on when it will take place (I am also in this camp).

I second this, especially given that 49 people have taken the poll and thus (we can assume) have some interest.

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Yeah, the more this thread goes on, the more I agree with Harris. This cause is just too lost for now, and even if it was not I just do not see a lot of people getting involved in this mess.

That being said, my advice would be to just try and make the best of it.

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Given that there's a TV aspect, you may just be out of luck. There's a reason Jeopardy isn't ACF Regs. If they expect people to watch, the viewers will have to get some enjoyment out of it and let's face it, to the uninitiated, quiz bowl is really not much of a spectator sport. Honestly, rather tha...

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I could only think of SCOP. That's because, outside of housewrites, only SCOP and NAQT make novice sets. There simply isn't anyone else. Housewrites are fine too. From what I've heard with people who have experience with the director, he thinks hs students aren't smart enough to handle reg sets or ...

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Gentlemen, Rest assured, in my 18 years of teaching and coaching Scholar Bowl, I have taken plenty of criticism, so I have the ability to do it. I posted this yesterday, but for some reason, it did not go through. I have played and/or coached Scholar Bowl since 1994. I get the game, and the distric...

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It's hard not to admire your persistence, but I have two suggestions: Since the distribution used in this set is different from what one might find in standard high school sets, you might not want to market this as "another option for teams looking at a Novice competition for the 2017-18 school yea...

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So if HSAPQ is, in fact, dead, is there any word on whether another group will take over NASAT?

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I'm confused as to why Adlai Stevenson didn't at least get an honorable mention in the rankings. At IHSSBCA Kickoff http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4079/stats/upper_div_prelims Stevenson played with their approximate 2017-18 roster and got over 24 PPB on an IS-set, which should put them in...

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If the Preseason Poll was claiming to represent the predictive views of our entire community, then criticisms of sampling and methodology would be in order. But the Preseason Poll doesn't make those claims because it is not an opinion poll . It aggregates the views of many informed people solely as...

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Ben, If you had actually read my posts, you will know that I never said you could not disagree. Hell, I said I disagree sometimes. I simply said that you've made your point and you continuing to complain about it for whatever reason makes you look ungrateful and is not getting you anywhere. It is no...

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I do appreciate Fred's rankings, as I have now pointed out repeatedly in this thread. However, my gratitude does not bar me from presenting concerns about his decisions. I don't agree that Fred's comparison methods are necessarily the best possible, and regardless of what semantics games we play, t...

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The notable Eshaan Vakil defeated Hunter (2 time HSNCT champs) at PACE this past year. Why isn't he ranked Mr. Morlan!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not talking about one game or one tournament. I am talking about two teams which a knowledgeable corps of voters deemed some of country's very best being excluded f...

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Toystory (bull) wrote:This is almost useless unless you want to study for NAC. People playing actually pyramidal quiz bowl will not benefit from knowing "In what decade did Josef Stalin die?"

So what is the over/under on how many of these questions

is going to plagarize next year?

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