The Quizbowl Resource Center

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Since people are already making teams for CO proper, should there be a team formation sheet for CO Trash?

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Hey guys! I now have a Patreon set up for my site and my various Quizbowl projects at https://www.patreon.com/hdwhite. I'm mostly doing this to cover hosting costs and to help motivate me to continue working on projects.

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msacks wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:35 pm
7. Returning team of Andrew Yang and others TBD

I'm glad he was able to find a break in between presidential campaign stops.

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It has occurred to me that it's been a really long time since I've seen "The Knot". It was a 16-player buzzer system, obstinately for four teams of four, but with all 16 cables coming out of a central console. The cables naturally became tangled up in a way that seemed to defy 3-dimensional Euclidia...

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Additionally, you can now print schedules for each individual team and room! (Example here)

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Generated schedules should now be printable and give you a QR code that'll take you to the web page. In theory they should work with all schedule formats without any wonky printing issues, but if you see something arise please let me know.

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For what it's worth, aceqb.com redirects to acequizbowlcamps.com, which is down, and sciencechampionship.com is also down.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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The Quizbowl Schedule Generator I created a tool that will automatically generate a Quizbowl schedule. Simply tell it how many teams you're expecting, the format you want to use, and fill in the brackets and room numbers, and it will do all the hard work for you! It comes with a live preview and th...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Sun May 05, 2019 4:31 pm
Apparently that miscommunication issue continued at SSNCT: a link promising a livestream on the YouTube channel was spread, but the livestream never happened, for reasons that still aren't clear.

The livestream did not take place because the hotel WiFi was not good enough to upload live video.

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Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:23 pm
excuse you both maps of Chicago say I'm from there

https://imgur.com/a/22wNbeV

I guess it does make sense that the Field Museum is located within the corn part of Illinois.

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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...

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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.

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Can confirm that this was an amazing set to play.

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Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:57 pm
Stats 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

Slight error in the stats -- my name should be spelt with two r's.

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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.

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It's been long overdue, but Neg5 results are (finally) being indexed. As usual, let me know if there are any issues that arise.

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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....

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Prelim stats are being updated here.

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Prelim stats are posted here.

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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...

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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.

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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'...

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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?

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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...

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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 ...

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(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 ...

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I have included an option to search for exact strings. As usual, please let me know if you find any bugs.

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The finals will be livestreamed on youtube and liveblogged on Twitter.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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Everything should be working again. Let me know if there's any further hiccups.

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I just noticed that NAQT results aren't showing up since they did their redesign. Hopefully I can get that fixed shortly.

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(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...

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Irreligion in Bangladesh wrote:What can we do to repair this relationship?

Get rid of Dave Madden.

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cchiego wrote:a decently-edited video of a basic game

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.

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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.

Seconding this request so I can add Neg5 tournaments to my search database.

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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.

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