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- Thu Nov 21, 2019 2:38 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Did ACE shut down?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 966
Re: Did ACE shut down?
For what it's worth, aceqb.com redirects to acequizbowlcamps.com, which is down, and sciencechampionship.com is also down.
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Best high school formats for n teams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1103
Re: Best high school formats for n teams
Note that NAQT (IS-###X) sets have 13 packets, but they (historically, at least) do a poor job of ensuring hosts are aware of this option. For the record, our current policy is that we ask every host if they would prefer the 13-packet version of the set. (and more generally, we switched from 14-pac...
- Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:11 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Best high school formats for n teams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1103
Re: Best high school formats for n teams
My concern for some of those schedules is that NAQT (and several other housewritten sets) only have 12 packets. If you assume you need 2 for finals, that leaves only 10 rounds to do everything else in.
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 4:12 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Best high school formats for n teams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1103
Best high school formats for n teams
As part of my schedule generator (see sig), I'm hoping to make a bunch of high school schedule templates for people to use. However, there are certain numbers of teams where things don't exactly lend for an obvious schedule. As such, I would appreciate advice on how to construct acceptable high scho...
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 12:12 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
I think I have it working such that results from recent Yellowfruit tournaments no longer have odd links in there that shouldn't be there. It's fairly likely that new releases of Yellowfruit might inadvertently mess up the HTML parsing that I've been doing, so if there's a result that should be ther...
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 5:52 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quizbowl Schedule Generator
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3364
Re: Quizbowl Schedule Generator
There should now be schedule templates up for all ACF and NAQT-approved college formats up through 24 teams. The one caveat is that at the moment some schedules (I think 16 and 20 teams, for a couple of examples) don't have byes built-in, so if you're hosting ACF Fall, were planning on using this, a...
- Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:24 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quizbowl Schedule Generator
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3364
Re: Quizbowl Schedule Generator
I've added some more schedules for tournaments between 4-10 teams. Assuming nothing surprising happens, I should have all of the suggested ACF formats available with time to spare before ACF Fall. In addition, I fixed a couple of issues regarding escaping characters and a really dumb bug involving b...
- Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:07 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quizbowl Schedule Generator
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3364
Quizbowl Schedule Generator
This tool is still in development. While I don't think there are any critical bugs, I would still suggest you double-check your generated schedules just in case. The Quizbowl Schedule Generator I created a tool that will automatically generate a Quizbowl schedule. Simply tell it how many teams you'...
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:09 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4727
Re: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
One of TJ's tournaments (the one that used to be MLK weekend I believe) used to do this. If you answered a tossup on say Alexander the Great, you got a bonus about the lands he conquered. Or perhaps films about Alexander. I wouldn't want it every week, but I kinda liked it. The major problem having...
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 4:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: NAQT rules and policy changes for 2019-2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3639
Re: NAQT rules and policy changes for 2019-2020
In a given competition year, a player may only compete at NAQT championship events at the secondary or post-secondary levels, but not both. The secondary-level NAQT championships are the Middle School National Championship Tournament, Small School National Championship Tournament (SSNCT), High Scho...
- Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:02 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9923
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 1:00 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
The database once again contains results from NAQT tournaments! Some of the division labels might look a bit funky, but that should hopefully be resolved soonish.
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 3:38 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10535
Re: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
I'm glad that the HSNCT final video is up and has decent audio and video quality, but the video immediately starts with tossup 1 before the title card even goes away. There's no context at all for the grand finals of a 336-team national tournament.
- Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:57 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10535
Re: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
EDIT EDIT: I've just been reminded that the company logo is literally just the letters "NAQT" with the full name in tiny print below it, which seems less than inspiring to be quite honest. To be fair, NAQT does have some really excellent logos for their individual tournaments, which they use in all...
- Fri May 31, 2019 10:23 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10535
Re: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
I suspect I'm on a one-man crusade here, but "High School National Championship Tournament" is a really bad name for an event in terms of outreach. It says absolutely nothing about what it's about, unlike similar championships like the "National Scholastic Championship", "National Academic Champion...
- Sun May 05, 2019 6:23 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10535
Re: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
The livestream did not take place because the hotel WiFi was not good enough to upload live video.
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10444
Re: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
I guess it does make sense that the Field Museum is located within the corn part of Illinois.Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:23 pmexcuse you both maps of Chicago say I'm from there
https://imgur.com/a/22wNbeV
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 2:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6729
Re: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
As someone who would very much like to get to the bottom of this, I think that the best option here is to see if Joseph's stats hold up at HSNCT (which I believe is the next tournament that Okemos will be playing). I don't think this is as cut and dry as Jakob said, but it's hard to prove or dispro...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 72
- Views: 25519
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
One mitigating factor of going to 3x12 -> 6x6 is that one fewer tiebreaker game has to be played, which means over a round's worth of time doesn't have to be spent confirming records and playing lunchtime tiebreakers. You'd only need one additional packet's worth of questions and time, not two.
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:53 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 23282
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
Can confirm that this was an amazing set to play.
Slight error in the stats -- my name should be spelt with two r's.Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:57 pmStats will be periodically uploaded here
Due to SQBS limitations I do not have a way to individually record who got final boss tus
Full stats
- Thu Mar 21, 2019 12:23 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
Unfortunately I have been informed that this site violates the terms of use of naqt.com, and so therefore it will no longer be including NAQT results for the time being. I would encourage you to use NAQT's player/team search in conjunction with my site.
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 5:09 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
It's been long overdue, but Neg5 results are (finally) being indexed. As usual, let me know if there are any issues that arise.
- Sun Dec 23, 2018 8:57 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 35047
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
There are people who know a lot more about this than me, but there is going to be some amount of fixed cost associated with running a national tournament, such as TDs, statsperson(s), printing, and various other logistics which tends to stay relatively constant despite the number of teams attending....
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgetown Fall Invitational: 10/20/18 (IS-176A)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2663
Re: Georgetown Fall Invitational: 10/20/18 (IS-176A)
Prelim stats are being updated here.
- Sat Sep 29, 2018 1:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Virginia Tech Fall Kick-Off II (9/29/18) [IS-176A]
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3672
Re: Virginia Tech Fall Kick-Off II (9/29/18) [IS-176A]
Prelim stats are posted here.
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 12:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where Stats Go
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6791
Re: Where Stats Go
With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it. Inspecting the network request, it looks like this url gives you a JSON res...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where Stats Go
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6791
Re: Where Stats Go
With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it.
- Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:32 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Side Event Open: Organization
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11019
Re: Side Event Open: Organization
I'd hoped for a Virginia site to materialize, but I haven't heard anything from my friends and I don't have the time (or the classrooms) to organize something myself. If there isn't a RAPTURE site within easy distance of me I'll look into doing an online mirror or something, and similarly I wouldn'...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:48 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Power Matching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6037
Re: Power Matching
Beginning with round 3, how are teams with the same record with at least one win and one loss paired? I've heard mention about teams that go WL play those that go LW, but what about further rounds where it's not so cut and dry?
- Wed May 30, 2018 1:05 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 68702
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)
2. Was anyone at NAQT aware of the accusations against Matt or the disturbing content on his blog? If so, do they have any explanation? I'm not asking for anyone to face mob flagellation but some acknowledgement that people besides Matt could have done better as well would be nice. I can confirm th...
- Sun May 27, 2018 12:30 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13520
Re: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
Ok, so I'm not finding a good solution to the 14 teams right away so we're gonna go with this schedule: http://hdwhite.org/qb/schedules/194/ IGNORE THE 7TH ROW. The team "Beat Misty For Me" will instead be Ophir's team, or what is shown on the schedule as 6P. Since there are no 7th or 8th teams in ...
- Thu May 24, 2018 12:13 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 68702
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)
(CW: Pedophilia) Are any of these reports/allegations actually substantiated at this time? Or proven in any way? It's interesting that Matt went from having a background role to not being able to staff. Was this decision made based off public pressure or actual facts one way or the other? There are ...
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:41 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
I have included an option to search for exact strings. As usual, please let me know if you find any bugs.
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SSNCT: April 28-29, Chicago
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16880
Re: 2018 NAQT SSNCT: April 28-29, Chicago
The finals will be livestreamed on youtube and liveblogged on Twitter.
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16319
Re: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
If there's a team that's looking for a warm body who hasn't picked up a buzzer in about three years, hit me up.
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:34 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
- Replies: 50
- Views: 20599
Re: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
From my understanding, the "sanctioning" process is more to make sure that there aren't three different open tournaments announced for the academic year or something like that.
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:28 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
It works if you click on the name of the tournament, but if you click on NAQT, which should go to the team's stats for the tournament, it always goes to https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/team.jsp?team_id=1, which does not seem to have any information. I'll have to rerun the parser, but once tha...
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:40 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
Everything should be working again. Let me know if there's any further hiccups.
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 6:54 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
I just noticed that NAQT results aren't showing up since they did their redesign. Hopefully I can get that fixed shortly.
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:58 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discussion)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11772
Re: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discuss
(Resurrecting this thread because it seems to be the most appropriate place to put this; mods feel free to split this if that works better) I took a look at every tournament listed on the HSQB tournament database since the start of the 2015-2016 academic year. I got the top 500 first names* and thei...
- Mon Jul 03, 2017 4:53 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Would You Recommend Working for NAQT? Revisited
- Replies: 41
- Views: 26660
Re: Would You Recommend Working for NAQT? Revisited
Get rid of Dave Madden.Irreligion in Bangladesh wrote:What can we do to repair this relationship?
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:45 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Getting teams started at new schools as an outsider
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2853
Re: Getting teams started at new schools as an outsider
Are there any reasonable-quality high-school videos of matches out there? If so, it should be possible to do a bit of editing and add an overlay with the questions and the score.cchiego wrote:a decently-edited video of a basic game
- Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:03 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
- Replies: 163
- Views: 93269
Re: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
Seconding this request so I can add Neg5 tournaments to my search database.AKKOLADE wrote:Is there still not a way to generate a list of all tournaments that are on Neg5? Because I need that for HSQBRank.
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 1:47 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
I fixed a bug that was preventing the most recent NAQT tournaments from appearing and fixed the issue where the New Tournaments Added section wasn't properly working.
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 3:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC going pyramidal?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15681
Re: NAC going pyramidal?
Haven't they been claiming that for years now?
- Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:35 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
The main page now shows a list of all tournaments that have uploaded stats since the last database update (which now happens regularly and automatically early on Tuesday mornings). It won't register stat corrections, but it will pick up adding in things like combined stats a week after prelims and p...
- Mon Aug 22, 2016 3:55 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
- Replies: 41
- Views: 34709
Re: Tournament Database Search by Team
I'm in the process of transferring hosting. If things decide to not work all of a sudden, please let me know.
- Tue Aug 02, 2016 10:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB, the Community, and the Forums
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12419
Re: 2016 National Quiz Bowl Awards: Nominees Up, Vote Thru 6
I've proposed this in the staff forum, but maybe it's worth a proposal here. Please note that I am not speaking for the chief admin or any other board staffer. This should not be considered an official policy or even a proposed one at this time. With NHBB and its NHBB-affiliated crop of tournaments...
- Mon Aug 01, 2016 5:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: An Apology and an Announcement
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11506
Re: An Apology and an Announcement
What I can say is that I'm working to ensure that the future is better, and that the list of meaningful words I can say in this thread ends right about there. Only actions will prove progress; I have no problem with pessimism until then. For me, the only action that would restore faith in NHBB is f...
- Thu Jun 16, 2016 2:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB for Middle and Elementary Levels (Chicago, IL 6/9-6/12)
- Replies: 86
- Views: 36499
Re: NHBB for Middle and Elementary Levels (Chicago, IL 6/9-6
It has now been a full week since the incident in question. ACE has more than enough time to provide a response.heterodyne wrote:I'd presume you'd want the people running the tournament to be, you know, running the tournament instead of responding to this thread.