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jonah

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?

jonah

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 results@naqt.com as soon as possible. Thanks!

jonah

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

Confirmed with the original scoresheet and fixed.

jonah

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

jonah

Ben Fry wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 16, 2019 10:00 pm
I 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.)

jonah

Registration link

Current field

jonah

MahoningQuizBowler wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 08, 2019 1:15 pm
Has 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 teams wa...

jonah

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 am
Ah, 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 hosting@naqt.com.

jonah

tiwonge wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:54 am
How 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).

jonah

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 pm
FYI, 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!

jonah

Failorjo wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:29 pm
4 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).

jonah

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

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

jonah

I asked NAQT last year if we could do that in quiz bowl with respect to NAQT eligibility…and I never heard back definitively from them. You're referring to an email conversation from late February 2018, right? I thought I answered it, but I can see how you might not have considered it an answer. NA...

jonah

The stats for the University Lab vs Stevenson A game in Round 29 are incorrect. I should have 3 negs (TUs 13, 22, 23), and Dylan should have 2 negs (TUs 5 & 24). I'll take a look at the scoresheet and make any necessary changes. For future reference, results corrections should go to results@naqt.co...

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Vembanad wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:11 pm
Some of the late playoff games were livestreamed on twitch, but seem to have since been deleted. Is there any plan to put these videos on the Youtube account?

Yes.

jonah

NAQT requires that (absent special approval to the contrary) players only play for the school(s) they actually attend. So middle schoolers cannot play for a high school (unless they also take classes there or have special approval), but a player in grade 8 at a K–12 school could play with high schoo...

jonah

About two years ago, NAQT contemplated running a Deep Bench-style tournament, but ended up going in the exact opposite direction and creating the IPNCT.

jonah

I would be interested if I'm not too busy (which I won't know until it's time). I realize that's a pretty incongruous thing to say for Havdalah.

jonah

tabstop wrote: ↑
Tue May 21, 2019 8:54 am

jonah wrote: ↑
Sun May 19, 2019 1:11 pm
Something else was wrong. Fixed; thanks!
I don't think that actually addresses the problem (eight teams tied for 12th place can't lead to the next set of trophies starting at 19).

Okay, I just need to stop counting by hand. Here's the actual data used to generate card-system paperwork.

jonah

Something else was wrong. Fixed; thanks!

jonah

For the record, trophies will be awarded to the top four teams individually by place, three teams tied for 5th place, five teams tied for 8th place, eight teams tied for 13th place, and twelve teams tied for 21st place. (In other words, it probably makes more sense to talk about top seven than top ...

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troyharris wrote: ↑
Wed May 08, 2019 7:18 pm
I'm assuming that you are using the 2019 SCT Division II set?

Yes.

jonah

For the record, trophies will be awarded to the top four teams individually by place, three teams tied for 5th place, five teams tied for 8th place, eight teams tied for 13th place, and twelve teams tied for 21st place. (In other words, it probably makes more sense to talk about top seven than top ...

jonah

For the record, trophies will be awarded to the top four teams individually by place, three teams tied for 5th place, five teams tied for 8th place, eight teams tied for 13th place, and twelve teams tied for 21st place. (In other words, it probably makes more sense to talk about top seven than top s...

jonah

bradleykirksey wrote: ↑
Wed May 01, 2019 5:08 pm
It might be worth noting that the above criteria would include several people who are not currently going to school, like…Jesse Gingold

I sure hope he's enrolled, because he's been playing stuff.

jonah · Re: Livingston HS (NJ) March Madness - NAQT IS-183 - 3/16/19 Stats are here.

Stats are here.

jonah

I've been asking for this since August 2017 and have been told (several times, last in September 2018) that it's on the radar. All the relevant people are volunteers, so I don't feel comfortable pinging too often.

jonah

RE: the 2v3 matchup in round 1, Caleb and I both specifically raised that issue in the ICT discussion thread last year after we had to play WUSTL round 1 http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=280&t=21208 Guess I blew it (didn't notice it), then. Sorry! It really has been fixed for next y...

jonah

why was this alphabet thing a policy in the first place? It's a carryover from the 32-team format (still used for Division II), in which the order of certain tied teams truly doesn't matter (it only affects the order, not the identities, of their opponents), we just need some way to assign their pl...

jonah

In addition, why were the 2 and 3 seeds paired in round 1 again, despite there being a discussion about this before? I think it's reasonable to have a five game prelim schedule if it's seeded well, since in the previous seven game format you still wouldn't get a chance at top bracket if you had two...

jonah

For each of the following, say whether it is true of x, true of y, true of both, or true of neither This could be a three part bonus with parts worth 5 points each, or it could be a 5-10-15 or even a 5-5-10-10. Point was, the writer picked two things that are both similar and different. As a colleg...

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30-20-10-5 There was only one answer, but 4 clues of decreasing difficulty. If you got it off the first clue, you got 30 points. If you needed the second clue, you got 20 points, and so on. Sometimes there was an insultingly easy 1 point clue at the end. Many variations of this. One of the variatio...

jonah

There are a few spots left in each division. Registration closes at 5 p.m. CDT tomorrow, Tuesday, April 2.

The current field caps are 140 players in the High School Division and 90 players in the Middle School Division.

jonah

With nationals season approaching, we'd like to remind everyone of NAQT's policy regarding side events at its national championships . We made two additions to the policy, which are highlighted in orange on that page, so if you are contemplating running a side event, please read those points even if...

jonah

We're going to work with Harry on a better approach (that is in keeping with our terms of service and also much, much more efficient than scraping our entire tournament history every week).

jonah

NAQT has been trying to get in touch with the organizers of this tournament regarding some unfinished business. Could anyone involved in the running of the tournament, preferably Dennis, please e-mail me at jonah@naqt.com promptly? Thanks!

jonah

I stopped reading NAQT nationals because neither myself nor the kids I was reading to considered my reading to be up to standards, especially with regards to speed. The player reviews of my moderation at the last HSNCT I read for were dreadful and depressing. For what it's worth, NAQT would be glad...

jonah

"The Lamb", while famous, is probably too hard to toss up at this level. It hasn't been tossed up before at any difficulty. This is not true. (It was tossed up at the 2015 HSNCT, for one thing.) William Styron is too hard; he hasn't been tossed up at any difficulty in around 8 years. This isn't tru...

jonah

Pascal Plays Poker wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 27, 2019 9:52 am
permission from NAQT.

https://www.naqt.com/nationals/side-event-policy.html

jonah

Cross-posted from National Tournaments in the HS/MS Section I'm pleased to announce the companion mobile app for NAQT national championships. It includes each championship’s tournament schedule (with the ability to set reminders for various events), links to results, maps of the venue, help reachin...

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I'm pleased to announce the companion mobile app for NAQT national championships. It includes each championship’s tournament schedule (with the ability to set reminders for various events), links to results, maps of the venue, help reaching the Information Desk, connections to social media, and othe...

jonah

jonathanshauf wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:06 pm
Is this tournament happening?

NAQT still hasn't heard anything, so for that and a variety of reasons along the same theme, I would assume no.

jonah

dtaylor4 wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:30 am
Can an updated field be posted, and is there a chance of expansion?

The field is on NAQT's website: https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=10317 . I am not sure why a field is being listed here too; that seems like it can accomplish nothing but create confusion.

jonah

Is there any sense as to when the stats from this tournament will be forwarded to NAQT? I ask mostly because an updated NAQT database makes coaching decisions clearer, but I think there may be teams who have qualified for NAQT Nationals tournaments who would like their eligibility noted. Thank you ...

jonah

If anyone has tried this, I'd be curious about results, and if they haven't, I'd be curious as to any potential downsides. Question security, for one thing. If the form really does come from someone who should be allowed to see details about question content and is similarly limited in who can see ...

jonah

"etc." seems vague. Can it be clarified? (I realize this issue also existed with the previous version, but I didn't know about it.) In the U.S., at the federal level, there are additional protected classes: color, religion/creed, ancestry, age, disability (physical or mental), veteran status, geneti...

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