All hosts of 9/14 and 9/21 sites should have also received an email from me at the listed contact email for the tournament. If you did not, please let me know!theMoMA wrote:All of the hosts of upcoming sites should have received an email from me as of a few seconds ago.
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- Wed Sep 18, 2013 12:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Global announcement: Collegiate Novice 4
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7850
Re: Global announcement: Collegiate Novice 4
- Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACUI/NAQT partnership comes to an end
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4350
Re: ACUI/NAQT partnership comes to an end
Forgive me if I missed them, but have these changes been announced?bt_green_warbler wrote:naqt.com wrote: In light of the partnership's expiration, NAQT plans to revise the structure of its collegiate programs; those changes will be in place and announced by the start of the next competition year (September 1).
- Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Reverse clue lookup
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6253
Re: Reverse clue lookup
While discussing this in IRC, I threw together an example of a "protest resolution documentation" form that it might be useful for directors of large or national tournaments to use. This is absolutely just a concept/sketch, but the idea is to let the TD have a record of what the protest wa...
- Thu Aug 29, 2013 9:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question about WUStl Live
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6750
Re: Question about WUStl Live
As an update, looking around the WUStL! generated stats, it looks like it wouldn't be too difficult to get a compliant SQBS file out automatically, from an external processing standpoint. It would likely be even easier if Gordon and I could collaborate. It certainly sounds like you'd save yourself a...
- Thu Aug 29, 2013 8:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question about WUStl Live
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6750
Re: Question about WUStl Live
Jeff, what formats besides SQBS are NAQT-friendly? The only formats from which we can currently import full stats (as opposed to just game scores, just records, or just final standings) are SQBS and Tournament Director. Jonah and HSQB database operators: If you have interest in writing your own cod...
- Fri Aug 23, 2013 4:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3520
Re: Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit
Tournakit now supports outputting unbracketed SQBS files. In the code repo, the file "script/sqbs_out.rb" shows an example of how a folder of Lily Chen scoresheets can be parsed and a SQBS file automatically spit out. Some other neat additions: "script/round_report.rb" -- which s...
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 12:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3520
Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit
Hey all, I hope quizbowl has been treating you well. I started a little project a few days ago after a conversation with Matt and Eric, and made some progress today. I wanted to share this with everyone to get feedback and get it into your minds. Tournakit is format for describing results of mACF qu...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 54516
Re: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
Hey y'all, It sucks that this is why I'm coming back to HSQB this week. This totally sucks, in general. I was friends with Watkins though late 2009 before I faded away from him and quizbowl as a whole. I wouldn't have expected him to do this, but I also am not in disbelief. I am so disheartened to s...
- Tue May 08, 2012 6:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: quizbowlpackets.com future
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10819
quizbowlpackets.com future
Hey Everyone! It's time for my annual return to the quizbowl community. George Berry, who has been manning the qbpackets archive for a while now, unfortunately, has to step down. I'd really like to thank him for all his hard work and his ability to work with me to make sure this service is still ava...
- Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Electronic Stats
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1071
Electronic Stats
Hey Everyone, I'm working on a wacky statistics project, and am looking for a good solid corpus of data to use. I know a lot of people these days have been using Lily's scoresheets for their tournaments, just emailing them in. Does anybody have a full tournament worth of electronic scoresheets they ...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Quizbowl Packet Archive Downtime
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16045
Re: HS Quizbowl Packet Archive Downtime
That's...untrue on my machine... There may still be some DNS propagating or cache refreshing going on here, but I definitely updated it so that is no longer the case.jonah wrote:The "high school" link at the top of the collegiate page points to the URL without the www, so it doesn't work.
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Quizbowl Packet Archive Downtime
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16045
Re: HS Quizbowl Packet Archive Downtime
So, it seems we should be close to the end of the planned downtime. The transition, with one caveat, should be complete. The caveat being that right now, with the way Amazon S3 (the new storage mechanism) works, "quizbowlpackets.com" will always be "down". How do you get to quizb...
- Sun May 29, 2011 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate Packet Archive [x-posted from HS section]
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1419
Collegiate Packet Archive [x-posted from HS section]
Hey All, quizbowlpackets.com will soon be undergoing a switch to a different server! This is exciting news, as it will be lowering my costs, as well as moving to a system better designed for large-scale content distribution, hopefully showing better speeds for all users! I'm unsure of the specifics ...
- Sun May 29, 2011 10:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Quizbowl Packet Archive Downtime
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16045
HS Quizbowl Packet Archive Downtime
Hey Everyone, quizbowlpackets.com will soon be undergoing a switch to a different server! This is exciting news, as it will be lowering my costs, as well as moving to a system better designed for large-scale content distribution, hopefully showing better speeds for all users! I'm unsure of the speci...
- Fri May 28, 2010 7:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2032
Re: 2010 NAQT HSNCT
Hey Gang!
Since I have shady internet access here, my witty live updates will be available at https://twitter.com/hsnct2010 (which I can update from my phone, apparently!). Full fledged posts will still go to Chiego though.
Woohoo!
Since I have shady internet access here, my witty live updates will be available at https://twitter.com/hsnct2010 (which I can update from my phone, apparently!). Full fledged posts will still go to Chiego though.
Woohoo!
- Thu May 27, 2010 6:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2032
2010 NAQT HSNCT
Hey kids. Once again I have made the last minute decision to attend HSNCT and be the roving reporter of your dreams. I will have Chiego feeding me where the best games should be, but if you are a top team and you know me personally, feel free to shoot me an email with a contact phone number that I c...
- Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: That NAQT thing I made
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1791
That NAQT thing I made
Hey, Some of you all might still be using that NAQT formatting generator I made one day a while ago. I just wanted to let you know that I finally fixed it to put the new line between the question and the answer and not indent the answer. You might have been getting your questions returned because of...
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Discussion
- Replies: 186
- Views: 28133
Re: EFT Discussion
For what it's worth, I have not received a copy of the set to post yet.
- Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QuizBowlPackets.com Maintainer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1292
Re: QuizBowlPackets.com Maintainer
P.S. If your name is the Stanford Quizbowl Club and you would be interested in having quizbowlpackets.com point to your archive and can update your archive regularly, this is your opportunity!
- Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QuizBowlPackets.com Maintainer
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1292
QuizBowlPackets.com Maintainer
Hello! I am currently looking for someone to help me maintain QBPackets for the upcoming school year. The only skills/things you need are reliable internet access, the ability to do the few tasks required very quickly, and basic understanding of how SFTP/SSH and HTML work. Here's what you would do: ...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: All videos of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 206
- Views: 156363
Re: All videos of Quiz Bowl
It should be noted that this isn't a 9th grade competition. This is a Minnesota Knowledge Bowl regionals. And yes, every team does get 15 seconds to answer.scquizbowl wrote: Here is a video of a 9th grade quiz bowl competition in Mankato, MN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vIRQ73L ... re=related
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournament Dates 2009-2010
- Replies: 79
- Views: 12954
Re: Tournament Dates 2009-2010
Man, too bad we don't have some sort of awesome database to keep track of when tournaments are. Too bad indeed.
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11639
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15446
- Tue Aug 11, 2009 1:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 153
- Views: 52055
Re: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
I have CO Lit and will be posting it once I get back into Minneapolis, and I am waiting on a final version of CO from Eric.
- Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:12 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Distribution of Brookwood Invitational Scholars Bowl
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5205
Re: Distribution of Brookwood Invitational Scholars Bowl
I don't specifically remember whether "social studies" was ever considered a category for quizbowl purposes in NJ circa 2000, but I do remember taking "social studies" classes from 1st through 8th grade. These tended to be a mix of American history, basic civics, geography, and ...
- Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: Sue Pasco Opening Tournament (9/26/09; Essex, VT)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2591
Re: Sue Pasco Opening Tournament (9/26/09 at Essex Junction, VT)
Why not use an HSAPQ set from this year that serves better quality questions? Chances are that many teams have already played on IS-84A, and I think you would be doing them a favor by using a HSAPQ set instead of an NAQT set. I assume since they are running this tournament for free, they need the d...
- Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 153
- Views: 52055
Re: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
The powers were incredibly stingy in this set, for one. I spoke with Eric about this, but I certainly agree that the questions I wrote/edited later on in the editing process were somewhat stingy in power. Is this actually an issue? If powers are stingy throughout (I'll admit I don't know if they we...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 153
- Views: 52055
Re: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
Mike, here is the question: One of these actions was foiled by Gevork Vartanian, while another unsuccessfully attempted to foment rebellion among disgruntled Iranian mountain tribes. Another of these actions violated the Hague Convention regarding improper use of uniforms, prompting a later trial. O...
- Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit announcement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30059
Re: CO Lit announcement
Greg, I will fix that once I get some sleep, thanks for letting me know. Chris, I will look into it, but you are probably right about it being something SQBS "just does".
If anybody finds any more stats issues, send me an email ([email protected]) and I can take care of it off the forums.
If anybody finds any more stats issues, send me an email ([email protected]) and I can take care of it off the forums.
- Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit announcement
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30059
Re: CO Lit announcement
http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/s ... dings.html. Here are stats through the first 7 rounds (the prelim round robins). When I get a chance to re-enter the score sheets from the single elim bracket, they will be posted there.
- Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 51308
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/stats/co/co2009playoffsofficialcombined_standings.html Here are full stats, missing the finals and missing the last Magin v Weinersota game. Once that scoresheet is located I will put those up. If there are any errors, please email me. The champions are The Lad...
- Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 51308
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/s ... dings.html Stats through the prelims!
EDIT: updated the stats and changed the file names to be legit.
EDIT: updated the stats and changed the file names to be legit.
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: S-value revision
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19235
Re: S-value revision
I thought I'd point out that for the D1-field-only data I have for 2008 and 2009, both TPTH (R^2 values of 0.69-0.96) and Bonus Conversion (R^2 values of 0.58-0.98) correlate quite well with within-sectional order of finish (defined as % of teams in same sectional that a given team finished ahead o...
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 51308
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
Lou Malnati's pizza has won the vote! After some research, the lunch cost for people is going to be eight dollars, due at tournament registration. That will cover your pizza and access to the soda and water that I'm bringing with me. You will have forty-five minutes to eat lunch, which will happen ...
- Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
- Replies: 114
- Views: 46570
Re: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
Would anybody traveling to VCU for this be willing to split a hotel room with Charlie Rosenthal and I for Saturday night? Or anybody generally have housing available?
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 51308
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
Lou Malnati's pizza has won the vote! After some research, the lunch cost for people is going to be eight dollars, due at tournament registration. That will cover your pizza and access to the soda and water that I'm bringing with me. You will have forty-five minutes to eat lunch, which will happen ...
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sun N' Fun Mirror at University of Minnesota (7/11/09)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14162
Re: Sun N' Fun Mirror at University of Minnesota (7/11/09)
Ahmad, It should be working, people in the IRC are able to access it.
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sun N' Fun Mirror at University of Minnesota (7/11/09)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14162
Re: Sun N' Fun Mirror at University of Minnesota (7/11/09)
http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/s ... dings.html Final stats after all the round robins! Team Toxin + Antitoxin won by one game, but we didn't have any more packets to do an advantaged final so just went with that.
This was fun.
This was fun.
- Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sun N' Fun Mirror at University of Minnesota (7/11/09)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14162
Re: Sun N' Fun Mirror at University of Minnesota (7/11/09)
http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/s ... dings.html Here are stats through the first and second round robins (of four).
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 3:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12615
Re: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
Hello Everyone! We are currently deliberating on the bids we have, but would like to remind you that bids to host this tournament in October through December 19th are still being accepted and would love to see more from any high school or college that wants to run a high school novice tournament!
- Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: All videos of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 206
- Views: 156363
- Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12615
Re: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
Decisions on the initial bids likely won't be made until after the holiday.
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008-2009 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 87
- Views: 13197
Re: 2008-2009 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
8. Sometimes when two or more words are joined they form a third word unrelated to the other two. For instance, “his” plus “Tory” combine to form “history.” For 10 points each— A. What word is formed by joining a “title for a Spanish nobleman” to “a locking or unlocking device”? answer: donkey B. W...
- Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bloggin' about you-know-what
- Replies: 110
- Views: 18338
Re: Bloggin' about you-know-what
Make sure to listen to his great marimba compositions, Jack.JackGlerum wrote:Also, I've been told that round sweepers get CDs of Chip's son, Andrew, making music. http://www.andrewbeall.com/
Hence, the "Not nepotism, Genius" quote. Amazing.
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12615
Re: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
The Fall Novice Tournament is proud to announce a partnership with Evan Silberman to offer free Taft licenses to any host of Fall Novice who would like to use it. You can find out more about Taft at http://taftqb.com, and make sure to submit your bids to host to me by July 1. Will bids for October-...
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12615
Re: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
The Fall Novice Tournament is proud to announce a partnership with Evan Silberman to offer free Taft licenses to any host of Fall Novice who would like to use it. You can find out more about Taft at http://taftqb.com, and make sure to submit your bids to host to me by July 1.
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Texas '09-'10
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9448
Re: Texas '09-'10
I can safely say, on behalf of the 2009 Fall Novice Tournament "management", that we would love to see a mirror of the Fall Novice set go up in Texas, and we think Texas could benefit a lot from it. The set is of A-level difficulty, but with standard length pyramidal questions. If there ar...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23264
Re: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
I'm playing this with Charlie R, Sarah, and probably Lily, and it will be exciting.
- Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 45025
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
"We have been going to Nationals in Chicago with the ----. Your tournament is so much better and more organized. We have now attended 3 different Nationals and none compare to the quality of your tournament organization and READERS!!!!" --Rae Gambler, Defiance High School [name of other t...