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jonah

What correctness guidelines are these answer lines supposed to conform to?

(This is a matter that writers of question content would do well to address in all formal cases, like announcements for serious sets, though I rarely see it happen.)

jonah

As far as actual additions to the wiki go, it would be really nice to have additional extensions. As one example, I would like to do things like automatically link to stats pages in people's infoboxes based on their listed name but to the best of my knowledge there is no functionality to split stri...

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https://deadline.com/2020/11/college-bo ... 234621247/

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Is there a place where there are sample packets in this format? I checked the NAQT website, and the sample packets on the NAQT site that I checked were still in the old format where the tossups and bonuses were separate. The sample packets at https://www.naqt.com/samples/ (now) use the paired format.

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For the record, NAQT has a feature (I think new since your tournament) by which hosts can limit their tournament to schools from the same state. Whether to use it is, of course, up to the host. (So far there aren't more flexible options like "schools from within a 100-mile radius" or "...

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I'm not planning on playing ACF tournaments online, but I dislike the push to get people to speak their answers, as opposed to type. I realize the rule says that if you have technical issues, you are allowed to type your answer. I am also aware why this rule is being used--it better simulates "...

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eygotem wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 3:07 pmIt appears that you've deleted the original announcement post...

New users' posts are held in a moderation queue and won't show up until approved. They have to be reapproved each time they're edited.

jonah

At least when stats are entered as a game summary (similar to SQBS) rather than cycle-by-cycle, Neg5 fails to validate many aspects, making it easy to produce stats that are obviously impossible and, therefore, not useful (and not acceptable to NAQT). Does the scoresheet entry mode do a better job?

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In 2018–2019 there were at least five middle school tournaments in Minnesota. (I chose that year because the 2019–2020 season was truncated.)

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Could teams that played SCT last year be surveyed relatively easily? Or this year as part of the registration process (if sct is able to occur), or ask hosts to distribute and scan in surveys along with scoresheets? That seems like a way to sample a larger portion of NAQT’s collegiate customer base...

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Has NAQT considered surveying their collegiate customer base about this? I suspect views on surveys vary. Historically, we have done some surveys at national championships. We get good participation in those when we give people time to complete it, but doing so comes with significant scheduling cos...

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I proposed that NAQT change all occurrences of "2 seconds" in our rules to "3 seconds." We took a vote; the vote tied (seven members for it, seven against, one abstention), so the change will not be made at this time. There was less discussion than during last year's discussion/v...

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Kouign Amann wrote: ↑Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:00 am If someone previously registered for Season 2C before D was available, is there an easy way to switch over?

Write to [email protected] and we'll take care of it.

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The ChatSack Triple-Play wrote: ↑Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:04 pm1. I know of at least one other trans person who's had their name changed on NAQT results, although they attended tournaments after coming out. Whom do I contact with a similar request? I don't want to inconvenience the wrong person.

[email protected] or [email protected]

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To minimize the possibility of infections during the HSNCT, we plan to keep track of CDC and WHO guidelines for large-scale gatherings and follow the guidelines wherever possible. We have reached out to the hotels to ensure that they are taking the issue seriously and making effective changes to th...

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All the currently published NAQT distributions:

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I've been unable to edit any of the pages from 1/24/2010 that were lost; when I click "Save Changes," I am sent to the "edit conflict" page that results when two or more people attempt to edit a page at the same time. Does anyone more familiar with the software know any potentia...

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There are dozens if not hundreds of pages that exist but say "this page has no content" ( like this one ). I'm thinking this was a server error at some point, though it seems like more pages are lost every time I go back there. I think that would be a good place to start. This is just how...

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There are dozens if not hundreds of pages that exist but say "this page has no content" ( like this one ). I'm thinking this was a server error at some point, though it seems like more pages are lost every time I go back there. I think that would be a good place to start. This is just how...

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Creating subsidiary titles is a very cheap and logistically easy way to give lots of teams something tangible to play for at a nationals. I'm not qualified to weigh in on this thread as a whole (having played little college quiz bowl and never been very serious about it as a player), but I do want ...

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Matt Weiner used to keep a spreadsheet of this, and I had been updating it for events I knew about. Some of it is…perhaps not the most professional, so I'll copy it over into the new doc.

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NAQT is still waiting on results for this event. Please send them to [email protected] as soon as possible. Thanks!

jonah

Have you read NAQT's notes on nationals site selection ? Not all of them apply to every conceivable national championship (e.g., NASAT doesn't need an HSNCT-sized site), but many of the sites you mention are extremely expensive, practically devoid of local staff and/or teams. And smaller events tend...

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Also, I'll reiterate a prior offer that if you want to examine NAQT performance data in some way that's not convenient on our website, talk to me and I'll make reasonable efforts to provide reasonable data in a useful form.

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After spending a lot of time looking at D-values, reading arguments about DII corrections and PPB clamping, and spilling ink untold on the forums and Discord, there's something I've started to consider: Why not just use PPB? Given the massive amount of edge cases involved in deriving a D-value form...

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For what it's worth, in summer 2019 I proposed changing to 3/3/5. Only one member other than me supported the proposal, and they did so very lukewarmly by my reading. Quite a number of members explicitly opposed it. Appreciate this info, Jonah! That being said, I think it's worth thinking more crit...

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For what it's worth, in summer 2019 I proposed changing to 3/3/5. Only one member other than me supported the proposal, and they did so very lukewarmly by my reading. Quite a number of members explicitly opposed it. edit (see later post): Only two members other than me supported the proposal; one di...

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Is there a way to manually set final rankings outside of editing the HTML report? I had an eleventh round for the top six teams and the real-life fifth-place team is listed as third on the report. Unfortunately, no. I've seen some tournaments create "divisions" (SQBS's term for what most ...

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Additionally, I'd love for Neg5 to actually validate stats. Especially that there aren't too many players in the same game and that bonus (and, if applicable, bounceback) points are divisible by 10, but there are a lot of missing validations. But it really seems to me that this project has been aban...

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Chris Sewell has posted a 64-bit version of SQBS for the Mac on his website. Thanks, Ben and Chris!

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LAMP stats (high school divisions)

(If you know how many tossups were read in each game, let me know and I'll add that.)

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TheScientists wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:06 amAm I high or did the initial announcement disappear?

They're a new user, so when they make new posts or edit old posts, the post has to be approved before it is publicly visible. They probably edited the original post and it's awaiting reapproval.

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We are aware of the tournament and have plans around it. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.

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Final, complete stats for both divisions: https://www.naqt.com/go/stats/10735

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The Mac edition of SQBS is 32-bit and thus cannot be used with Mac OS X Catalina (or subsequent versions). Is there any chance of a 64-bit version?

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NAQT is still waiting to receive official results and team contact information from this tournament; we've sent several e-mails to many people associated with the Johns Hopkins team but haven't gotten a response. Please send the required information to [email protected] as soon as possible. Thanks!

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Ben Fry wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:02 amI negged tossup 49. The point total through 50 is correct, though (I ended with 8).

Confirmed with the original scoresheet and fixed.

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I have added the Championship Match scoresheet and a brief summary of the results. Let me know if you spot any issues.

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Ben Fry wrote: ↑Sat Nov 16, 2019 10:00 pmI may not have been the first to notice this, but it seems that Sumesh Sundaresan from Metea Valley has lost two of his games, and Archan Das of IMSA may have found them.

Thanks; I have fixed this. (It arose from a protest resolution that changed the result of one game.)

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Registration link

Current field

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MahoningQuizBowler wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:15 pmHas the definition of Very Small School changed recently?

Certainly not this year, and I think not since it was introduced.

jonah

All the national-scope rule sets that I'm aware of say that's fine. (Some state-specific rule sets stipulate a minimum number of players required to play.) However, as tournament director, it's completely reasonable for you to say "you can't split up that much; it's hogging spots that other tea...

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Looks like in the SQBS converter, for forfeits you output a blank line for tossups heard. SQBS would output a 0.

jonah

Not directly that I know of. This thread might help, and if you use NAQT questions and submit a valid Neg 5 file that would also be valid in SQBS (i.e., no team uses more than eight players in one game), I can send you the SQBS version. That said, Neg 5 is extremely prone to allowing/producing inval...

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tiwonge wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:06 amAh, thanks. It looks like the nearest CC SCT to this area is Stanford.

That was the case last year, but might not be the case this year: if you want to host one, just let us know at [email protected].

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tiwonge wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:54 amHow do community colleges qualify for NAQT's CCNCT?

The tournament is the Community College Championship Tournament, or CCCT. Qualification to it works pretty much analogously to qualification to the ICT: it takes place via a sectional tournament (CC SCT).

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Are there any tentative estimates for field size? Not really—very few qualifying events have occurred yet (off the top of my head, I think only one). We expect to be able to accommodate similar or somewhat higher numbers of teams as in the past, but the actual final field size probably won't be kno...

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alexdz wrote: ↑Thu Aug 01, 2019 10:22 pmFYI, there appears to be a typo/mistake on the college page where "National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics" is repeated twice rather than including USCAA.

Fixed; thanks!

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Failorjo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:29 pm4 years in a row. Should we assume that HSNCT will always be held in Atlanta?

I wouldn't.

As a point of comparison, the HSNCT was once in the Chicago area for six consecutive years (2005–2010, inclusive).

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Failorjo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:29 pmI thought the plan was to rotate every 3 years between Atlanta and Chicago.

I'm not aware of any such plan.

Failorjo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:29 pmWhy is HSNCT 2020 being held in Atlanta?

We wrote a bit about our site-selection criteria here.

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