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For SCT, the staffer discount at $40 per school-provided staffer is also substantially larger than what I would otherwise provide (and what I can get local staff for providing). Of course, there's a broader question about compensation in QB that I don't want to wade into, but at least at U of T we ...

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As a host for both ACF Regionals and SCT, I found that both tournaments had one very unusual feature of their fee schedules that ended up creating strange incentives for teams and hosts. For ACF Regionals, I'm very unclear what the rationale is behind providing a massive shorthanded discount for a t...

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Thanks to everyone for coming to this tournament! This was one of the biggest fields we've gotten in Canada ever, which was really great to see. McGill A cleared the field to win Division 1, and McGill B won a one-game final against Toronto C to win Division 2. Various permutations of the stats can ...

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I am pleased to announce that the Eastern Canadian site of WORKSHOP will be held at the University of Toronto on Saturday, March 7, 2020. The tournament will take place at Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., with team check-in beginning at 9:30am in SS 2101 and gameplay beginning at or before 10:...

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Someone in the General Discussion thread brought up an example of “bait,” which was disappointingly more widespread than one question. Off the top of my head, the E minor question had a sentence along the lines of, if I recall correctly, “Victor Herbert’s second cello concerto in this key inspired ...

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Someone in the General Discussion thread brought up an example of “bait,” which was disappointingly more widespread than one question. Off the top of my head, the E minor question had a sentence along the lines of, if I recall correctly, “Victor Herbert’s second cello concerto in this key inspired ...

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I am pleased to announce that the Southern Ontario site of Spring Undergraduate Novice will be held at the University of Toronto on Sunday, March 8, 2020. The tournament will take place at Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., with team check-in beginning at 9:30am in SS 2101 and gameplay beginning...

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Thanks to all the players and staffers for coming to the tournament today! Final stats have been posted here.

Toronto A cleared the field to win the tournament and Waterloo won the undergraduate championship by having two more wins than Toronto D.

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A somewhat more unorthodox response to this concern might be to not give any points for getting a tossup right and have the only benefit of buzzing correctly being the chance at answering the bonus. While this might exacerbate concerns about variability in bonus difficulty, I think this would signif...

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Could this not be applied to many categories? I'll take history. You mention the Battle of Iwo Jima. You could read a long book or article on Iwo Jima, which would take as much time as like reading Pride and Prejudice. You could do this for all of World War II or any of the major battles--El Alamei...

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I'm pleased to announce that the University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club will be holding the Eastern Canadian mirror of Terrapin Open on Sunday, March 29, following the main site of Canadian Hybrid the previous Saturday. Because of room booking incentives, I will provisionally cap the field at 6 ...

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There will be a mirror of Ohio Trash on the Sunday after this tournament - the announcement for that tournament can be found here: viewtopic.php?f=19&p=364599#p364599.

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club is pleased to announce a mirror of the Ohio Trash set happening on Sunday, February 9, 2020. This is the Sunday after our SCT tournament. This tournament will take place in Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St. Tournament will begin at 9 am sharp so ple...

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the NAQT Eastern Canada Sectional Championship Tournament on Saturday, February 8, 2019. The tournament will take place in Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., with registration beginning at 9:00am in SS ...

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I am pleased to announce that the Eastern Canadian site of 2020 ACF Regionals will be held at the University of Toronto on Saturday, January 25, 2020. The tournament will take place at Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., with team check-in beginning at 9:30am in a SS 2101 and gameplay beginning a...

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Thanks to everyone who came out to EFT in Toronto today! Toronto B defeated McGill A 300-260 to win the tournament in the first game of an advantaged final. Over 60 players at a tournament is probably pretty close to a record for a tournament in Canada and it was great to see several teams who haven...

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia will be holding a mirror of the 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT) on October 5, 2019. Logistics The tournament will begin at 10am sharp in Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., Toronto. Please arrive by 9:40am if you are playing, and by 9:35am if you are sta...

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club will be hosting a mirror of NAQT's Collegiate Novice set (CNS-186) on September 21, 2019. Logistics The tournament will begin at 10:00am in room 2105 in Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St, Toronto. I would ask all staff and people bringing buzzers to ...

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This was my first CO, and I really enjoyed the tournament. The history was excellent, with lots of interesting questions and a distribution that felt pretty much exactly right from a regional/era perspective. The thought was great, with the focus on contemporary philosophy in particular being much w...

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2. Rein Otsason (212, Highest #2, Lowest #5, Median #2) 3. Aayush Rajasekaran (206, Highest #2, Lowest #5, Median #3) Sigh... I fear it may look like I have some vendetta against Rein, but conscience compels me, etc. etc. Also, the McGill chat challenged me to produce a compelling argument for my (...

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The results are in! Thank you to our voters Adam Swift, Kevin Lei, Chris Sims, Joe Su, Jack van Nostrand, Daniel Lovsted, Erik Christensen, Raymond Chen, and Milan Fernandez. 1. Derek So (225, Unanimous #1) 2. Rein Otsason (212, Highest #2, Lowest #5, Median #2) 3. Aayush Rajasekaran (206, Highest #...

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I'll extend the deadline on this until May 20th to give people some more time to get ballots in.

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I guess the bottom line is this: polls like this are defined by their eligibility requirements. If, for instance, I had just said in the initial post that this was a Canadian player poll and that people should submit 25 players on their ballots, then it would certainly appear that anyone playing at ...

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Thank you, Naveed, for going back 3 years to find a poll that had substantially different eligibility requirements to prove a point that is clearly not true anymore. Each of the last two polls have had basically identical eligibility to this year's version, and I recall complaints about Rafael not b...

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I suppose I could amend the description to make it absolutely clear that the "Canadian" here refers to the circuit and not the country overall, but no one (to my knowledge) has ever actually interpreted the poll this way until you started posting--indeed, if you actually took the name literally and ...

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The poll is not meant to be putatively national, as the eligibility requirements should make clear (you will note that someone who lives in the US has been included on every ballot submitted so far). The Canadian circuit refers to the players who play tournaments in Ontario in every context that I'v...

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Unfortunately, PNW players are ineligible given the stated eligibility requirements. There have been comments to this effect on previous player polls, but I guess the best answer is that the task is to determine the best players on the (Eastern) Canadian QB circuit, not the best players who currentl...

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1. Derek So Not much I can say here. Derek’s the only Canadian QB player who truly ranks among the game’s elite players. Reading for McGill A at Regionals and watching Derek 30 bonus after bonus was quite an awe-inspiring (or perhaps soul-crushing) experience. 2. Rein Otsason It’s been a great privi...

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Kevin just sent me his player and rookie ballots. Keep them coming!

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I’m pleased to announce the 2019 Canadian player poll, consisting of players in the Canadian circuit! This will be run mostly the same way as the poll last year, with a few eligibility changes. Anyone is eligible for the main poll who played at least one of 2019 ACF Regionals or 2019 SCT in Canada o...

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The history was also good, although I thought there were a few issues with balance between different topics. I found there were too many tossups that focused extensively on French kings in the Middle Ages and Renaissance in this tournament; 3 strikes me as excessive. In the packets I played, I don'...

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I enjoyed the music in this set quite a bit and thought the subdistributing was generally very good both by era and by genre. I think that a tossup on each of Josquin, Tallis and Couperin might have been a bit much, especially considering that Bach didn't come up in the packets I played. There also ...

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I'll also note that the revised later date will make it much easier for Canadians to attend given that it is pretty much after our April exam season finishes. The earlier date in past years has been a barrier for several people who've wanted to attend Nationals.

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I would be interested in an August mirror as well. I can only do weekends.

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I’m generally basing this ranking on Nationals/Nationals-minus difficulty. Let me know if you think I've made some grievous error--I spent a decent amount of time looking over various stats from the year, and relied quite a bit on the ACF Regs advanced stats. I know I'm ranking myself higher than th...

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Overall I very much enjoyed this tournament--thanks to the editors and writers. I particularly enjoyed the thought questions, and very much appreciated the prominence given to modern theorists, although I will note that at times the tossups could seem a bit too much like lists of academics and their...

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I thought there was a lot of good writing in this set in my categories (history and classical music, mostly). I particularly enjoyed the tossup on the Seljuks and the bonus on Nazi-era conductors. That being said, there were several questions that I think had some issues. The hieroglyphics/Egyptian ...

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