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- Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 54300
Re: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
So far Watkins has suffered no consequences whatsoever for this and does not acknowledge either his guilt or the scope of what he has done. We are still firmly in the Old Testament phase of this affair. Justice and punishment only. For what little it's worth, he did have to resign his membership in...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT Repeat/feng shui issues here
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4219
Re: Repeat/feng shui issues here
In DII I recall a tossup on "tales" that included "these 'from the Vienna Woods' by Strauss the Younger, and then a later question on Strauss the Younger that included "Tales from the Vienna Woods" as a clue. They were in separate packets, I believe. While human eyes should...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT: Difficulty
- Replies: 146
- Views: 29344
Re: Difficulty
Maybe I'm wrong because I played on a team with some good people, but I thought that DII Set was not challenging at all. I'm not trying to say that it should be hard to the point where it alienates new schools or anything like that, it's right that it's easy, but there were some tossups (for exampl...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 214
- Views: 50416
Re: 2011 HSNCT discussion
This act involves ritual sequences of raka'as, requires a barrier called the sutrah in front of one performing it, and can lead to a zabiba. According to the Qur'anic surah Hud, it should be performed "at the two ends of the (*) day and the beginning of the night," and it includes the Fat...
- Mon May 30, 2011 6:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 at HSNCT
- Replies: 69
- Views: 20671
Re: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 at HSNCT
I could stay late on Saturday night and do this. You'll have to put up with my crappy netbook speakers since that's all I'm bringing home for the weekend. From a technical standpoint, I think the only real complaint is that for whatever reason, some of the words used in some of the questions were v...
- Mon May 30, 2011 5:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 214
- Views: 50416
Re: 2011 HSNCT discussion
Agreed. I didn't have a problem with any of the geography questions, and the difficulty was probably at a good level for a national tournament. The only thing I found interesting is that Eritrea and Ethiopia were both tossed up and they are bordering countries (in fact, Eritrea was once part of Eth...
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 1:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: talk about individual questions here
- Replies: 124
- Views: 24048
Re: talk about individual questions here
Alright, inexperienced moderator question. DII, packet 4 bonus part: Édouard Lalo composed this violin concerto for Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate. answer: _Symphonie espagnole_ Captain: "Spanish Symphony." Me: *hesitates* Captain: [sub-1s pause] "Uh, Symphonie espagnole." I...
- Fri Jun 04, 2010 1:29 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
To clarify what I meant by that: for the vast majority of students, economics and psychology are generally senior-year electives (especially economics) Is this true? To my knowledge, Samer is correct. Illinois requires Consumer Ed, which students can test out of, but that's not Econ. Connecticut re...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 9:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
Unless there's a secret AP Popular Culture test, I'm not sure why it's not obvious that econ/psych should have a greater share of the distribution relative to trash. Not saying quizbowl should build its distribution around "X number of people take this AP exam so therefore these questions shou...
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
Either way, both economics and psychology deserve a far greater share of the distribution than trash considering the fact that they're both AP classes that are widely taken by many high school students. That's a great argument for saying there should be more questions on each, but I don't see how t...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
My team does well on trash, especially pop music, but I wouldn't be averse to removing it. Especially when I perceived this weekend that there were very few questions about what I consider to be a vital topic for the future, economics. I agree with the part in bold (and would expand it to include t...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
People moderate more than one match, and my guess is that the 20/10 moderator would have a few matches where s/he did not reach 20. 20/10, as Charlie pointed out, is a bit of a straw man (although it's not out of the realm of possibility), but my point still remains that I would use "failure t...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
Yo BJ, I was responding to Samer's very silly hypothetical example, which I don't see as at all worth discussing, not the general idea that we should talk about fixing moderator quality. My point was that according to David's suggestion, moderator A would be "OK," while moderator B would ...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
The only useful purpose of this statistic is to figure out which moderators should not have been moderating at a national tournament. To figure that out, you figure out who moderated for more than one match that did not get through at least 18 tossups and don't invite them back. The ones that misse...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
Renewing my objection in another post that Tossups Heard is not as good an indication of reader speed/quality as Bonuses Heard. I'm not nearly as impressed with a reader who gets through 24+ tossups when I know several tossups went dead, especially if I thought that reader read so fast that it caus...
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
To elaborate on the bonuses, the most egregious example that comes to mind was somewhere around round 13. Charter A got a Gestalt psychology bonus whose first answer wasn't even Gestalt. In retrospect, the answers of perception and holistic made sense but in the time allotted both my team and me in...
- Mon May 31, 2010 11:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51287
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
I was responsible for looking over some of these questions for editing. If I had been told that the questions were going to allot five seconds per part (my understanding, which apparently was incorrect, was that the standard 10 seconds for calculations would apply), I would have done my best to redu...
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Inevitable Distribution Discussion
- Replies: 2
- Views: 909
Re: The Inevitable Distribution Discussion
Tweak one: Remove 3/3 or 4/2 PC and a corresponding 2/1 or 1/2 Sports, to give a hard 2/2 per packet cap on pop culture/sports. Remove 0/1 Mixed-Impure-Academic to give a hard 1 question per packet cap. Add the resultant 5/5 to FA-Music-Composers_Works. I have yet to hear a good reason why NAQT can...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Miscellaneous and Cross-disciplinary questions
- Replies: 55
- Views: 8274
Re: Miscellaneous and Cross-disciplinary questions
I hope I'm not telling NAQT's tales out of school, but there is usually a part of the distribution called "mixed, with popular culture," meaning a mixture of academic and PC (or sports) clues. I think it is at least as plentiful as straight "miscellaneous, academic," but that ma...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37071
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
Sorry Andrew, I wasn't clear: I meant that I see no reason why BSG could not have been an easy part in that bonus, instead of Caprica. Jerry: In other words, something like this? For 10 points each--answer these questions about the 2010 TV series Caprica : A. Caprica is a prequel to . . . answer: _...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37071
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
Hannah, any further thoughts on mitochondria and malaria? Though this isn't that great of an excuse, those were two of the very few bio questions originating from others, and I had way less time to write/edit than I would have liked this year (going back to like July...). Sure, although be forewarn...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37071
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
I'm probably going to be responded to here with some numbers that prove me wrong/I'm going on gut feel, and maybe this is my Canadian-ness shining through but: What, exactly, is the point of having 2/2 U.S. Politics in every pack? (Other than that, I enjoyed the tournament) I won't be the one provi...
- Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Masterplots?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2752
Re: Masterplots?
You can also try used bookstores/library sales. I found a copy of the Fourth Series, two volumes, for <$10.
- Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Chip's Love of Pyramids! (renamed from NAC legitimacy)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 11023
Re: Chip's Love of Pyramids! (renamed from NAC legitimacy)
Obviously, the answer is "ozone."Howard wrote:Coming to a tournament near you:
"Why is the sky blue?"
- Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2008 Question Discussion
- Replies: 93
- Views: 15567
Re: PACE NSC 2008 Question Discussion
With the Tallis, I buzzed in and said "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis" and was negged because I said "by" instead of "of." Am I the only person who thinks that in a situation like this I should have been awarded the tossup? I mean, that's a really silly thing to ...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2008 Question Discussion
- Replies: 93
- Views: 15567
Re: PACE NSC 2008 Question Discussion
In general though, I think PACE would have been able to produce just as valid results if they were to use the stretch round format for just 20 tossups and have that be that for the game without all these wacky bonus formats. Luckily though, the questions were good enough that the format didn't real...
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 22272
Re: ICT Discussion
The elements "quota" in Chemistry is not the problem here; the problem is the "miscellaneous science" category, which can theoretically be all elements (or all astronomy or all biochemistry or all quantum mechanics, etc.).ImmaculateDeception wrote:Also xenon (lower bound now 22%).
MaS
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT's Post-ICT Survey
- Replies: 84
- Views: 20277
Re: NAQT's Post-ICT Survey
Perhaps a survey question could ask whether people would prefer a chemistry distribution divided into organic/biological and non-organic (in which element questions could still definitely be written, but would be more relevant to what is taught in college chemistry courses). Your proposal more-or-l...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 22272
Re: ICT Discussion
the chemistry distribution in particular was divided into "elements" and "non-elements". No, it's actually more complex than that, and elements are strictly limited to a small percentage of that distribution. As others have pointed out, the production did lag behind schedule thi...
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT bid prediction
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8236
Not that most folks here care, but I posted some predictions for CCs on our juco site, and I've pasted those speculations here. I might be interested in anyone's thoughts on the weight given head-to-head results versus stats, though (and, of course, any gross errors you think I might be making): On...
- Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
- Replies: 127
- Views: 59092
Oh, and in answer to Samer's question: there was a tossup on some dude who is on Ugly Betty. He's so non-notable, at least to me, that I can't even remember who it was even staring at the IMDB credits for that show. If indeed you wrote that question, then I ask: Do you expect people who do not watc...
- Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT ICT 2007 discussion
- Replies: 127
- Views: 59092
Re: Current Events
It would take me at least six or seven weeks of working on questions for the whole evening, every single day. I sure would be pissed if I did that and then they slapped my questions together with that Best Buy tossup or Samer's "I hope you watch 14 hours of television a day if you even want to...
- Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Movement/Retirement Thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 17369
The idea of grad students playing quiz bowl at Harvard is, frankly, staggering. At the ripe old age of 20, I am currently the oldest person on our team. Bruce and Paul: if you can tolerate us little kids, you should both come play. I'll make sure you get info about the first practices next fall. An...
- Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Nitpick zone: Pronunciation guides
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5298
- Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Flights to Nationals & Quizbowl Travel Tips Thread
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5850
- Thu Mar 29, 2007 6:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Court of Question Judgment
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8020
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Road to Minneapolis: NAQT ICT bid prediction thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 48817
It's been pretty well documented that the Big Three stats are bonus conversion, power percentage, and PPTU to varying extents, right? Not quite. NAQT does not release the formula for the S-value, but it combines statistical measures of tossup performance and bonus performance and includes correctio...
- Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33578
The United States is not the only English speaking country. Certainly we should allow alternate pronunciations from other English speakers. Ever hear a British person pronounce Aluminum or laboratory? I'm not sure if the former even passes the consonant/syllable test. Just a minor point here: for N...
- Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 353965
- Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 144964
- Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Retiring Some Questions?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25215
- Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Jeopardy tryouts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11069
This year, I assume, is a bit different, since a large number of people may have qualified via the recent online pretest they had at jeopardy.com. Actually, they changed the procedure; instead of random draws for auditions of 100+, they had random draws among people who passed the test for audition...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Restricting NAQT HSNCT in 2007 and beyond
- Replies: 70
- Views: 30812
Matt: We do try to win each match we play all year including at NAQTHSNCT. That doesn't change my idea about a Nationals trip as a reward for a year of work. My suggestion that NAQT might limit schools to TWO teams in 2007 is just that, a suggestion to ponder. Note: only speaking on behalf of mysel...
- Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Jeopardy tryouts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11069
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 5:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 144964
So, anyone care to explain why a team should earn bonus points when they never did anything to warrant a bonus in the first place? You want the bonus? You get the tossup. It's that simple. Suppose every bonus had exactly three answers, each worth 10 points; if the first team misses, then they rebou...
- Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT and PACE-Who's going to which?
- Replies: 50
- Views: 26411
Of course, our stupid legislators could stop passing stupid laws mandating a late start date for the year so that we have to be in school after Memorial Day, but that's another thread. Someday NC will stop doing everything that Va. does. FWIW, I graduated from Danbury HS in Danbury, CT on June 24 ,...
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 5:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Double Elimination (a la NAQT and VHSL, for example)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11905
Let me make sure I've got this straight: take the eight teams and split them into two pools of four, so that two region winners and two region runners-up are in each pool? We can either do this randomly or have a pre-set rotation (I'd prefer the latter.) Then have the pool winners face off in the s...
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT invitations
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15840
Irrespective of the two Rochesters issue, it used to be considered common wisdom that B teams received some sort of derogatory multiplier onto their S values that made it more difficult for them to qualify. Of course, this may have been baseless all along, or may have once been true and since chang...
- Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57503
Since Dan brought up CBI, I thought I'd go off on a tangent: When did NAQT packets get so short? This was the first SCT I have played since 2001 (and here I date myself), when I recall packets having 28 tossups. If my notes and memory are to be trusted, the D1 packets I played this weekend had 26 t...
- Fri Nov 18, 2005 4:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: personal stats data analysis
- Replies: 55
- Views: 29841