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- Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3534
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
I thought this set was very good, though I noticed two errata that I don't think have been mentioned yet: Bonus 16.3 in packet C is written in a confusing way: [10] Description acceptable. The horses in The Derby at Epsom have this specific, unusual trait, which was only discovered upon comparison w...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: STAR BOWL (2019 Spring and Summer Side-Event)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10682
Re: STAR BOWL (2019 Spring and Summer Side-Event)
Is this still happening at NSC? I understand that Victor is very busy with the real event, but is it possible to delegate organization to someone else?
- Thu May 16, 2019 5:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: CANONEXPANSION, an experimental science side event ('18-'19)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5004
Re: CANONEXPANSION, an experimental science side event ('18-'19)
I'd also be interested in this.Amizda Calyx, in another thread wrote: ↑Thu May 16, 2019 5:00 pmAre there any plans to run CANONEXPANSION at NSC? I won't be able to make it to HSNCT.
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30740
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
I enjoyed this tournament a lot, though it was a reminder of how difficult it is to lead a team at this difficulty. I don't have an overarching thesis to put forth, but I do want to single out some questions and sets of questions I particularly enjoyed. Some of my favorite questions fell outside of ...
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:31 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 52601
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
Steven's proposal is essentially dual to what Dwight and I have done in the past--we start at the bottom and iteratively work up, rather than starting at the top and working down. It's not immediately obvious to me that one method or the other will lead to intuitively "better" or less disruptive res...
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sun God New England at Brown
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6533
Re: Sun God New England at Brown
This tournament ran very well--in particular, it was very well staffed, allowing advanced statistics to be collected without much hassle or delay. I'm glad to see Brown return to the hosting scene after a two-year hiatus!
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 1:51 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Player tossup etiquette
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12608
Re: Player tossup etiquette
PACE"s rule D11 is similar but slightly stricter and slightly more explicit: 11. If the moderator has begun reading a tossup and has not yet read a verb, or a proper noun, or a word within quotation marks, or a noun or adjective which is a technical term in an academic field, (e.g. "Next tossup. One...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 12:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9923
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
In general, I thought that topic and clue selection in this set were excellent. Many topics that come up often at ACF Fall feel very well-trod, but I found this set fresh and interesting to read. Players seemed to enjoy the set as well. Other people have mentioned the typos and the dearth of pronunc...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:18 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18812
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
There's a lot of criticism in this thread, so I want to make a point of saying that I really enjoyed reading this set and thought it was quite good. That said, a couple other errors I noted: -Enrique Peña Nieto was AMLO's predecessor, not successor. (CMU A etc.) -The main carbon atom of an ester is ...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 11:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18948
Re: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
Again, I'm not sure what I could have done here (outside of seeding the playoffs differently, which was decided on before the tournament). Can someone from Penn elaborate on what this method for seeding was? I can think of several defensible ways to seed the playoffs, none of which are consistent w...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 2:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5140
Re: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
The Midwest, it seems, is the land of generalists. Here are the top 6 players across all sites ranked by their third -best category BPA: 1. Jakob Myers (Michigan State): History 38.979, Other 29.000, Literature 23.896 2. Matthew Lehmann (Chicago): History 24.932, Literature 23.091, Thought 21.955 3....
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4840
Re: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
This is awesome! Thanks for putting the work into coming up with this. This is also an interesting statistic to look at on a game-by-game basis, though you have to take the results with a grain of salt. Here are the top 10 games from 2018 ACF Regionals by total BPA : Winner Loser Score Winner BPA Lo...
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 8:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 20182
Re: Boston Summer Open I
We played FILM and Human Use of Human Beings as shootouts. For FILM , Raynor read all 10 packets at least once over the course of the weekend, with people coming in and out as available. There were superpowers for 20 and powers for 15. Isaac Kirk-Davidoff came out on top; standings were as follows (...
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 20182
Re: Boston Summer Open I
Jacob can't come anymore, so Adam Fine, Nitin Rao, and I are looking for a teammate. Lit and arts knowledge especially appreciated, but we're happy to play with anyone. My email is in the sidebar.
- Thu May 03, 2018 1:21 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16321
Re: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
I'm interested in joining any open team that is looking for a fourth player. When we read a packet from an old ACRONYM in practice I scored the greatest number of points, so I infer that I'm better than Jacob Reed at high school trash.
- Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT ICT: April 14, Chicago
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16045
Re: 2018 NAQT ICT: April 14, Chicago
Has the exact DI tournament format been determined?
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10987
Re: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10987
Re: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom le...
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 1:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10987
Re: 2018 NAQT SCT: February 3
Is there any way to make either the D-value table (at https://www.naqt.com/stats/rating-values.jsp) slightly narrower or the scroll window in which it resides slightly wider? In Firefox 58, the rightmost four columns are cut off, notably including the final D-value; this holds regardless of zoom lev...
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: 2018 ACF Nationals (April 21-22 at MIT)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 39164
Re: ACF Nationals qualifiers and registration information
What is the adjustment from raw to final A-value? The raw A-value is determined by using the strength of schedule (SOS) factor to adjust each team's actual points per game. Then, at a particular tournament site, if team A places higher than team B but has a lower A-value, then they are both assigne...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16631
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
the answerline is the thing the editors won't have changed.. This is an incorrect assumption. Editors will often rework a submitted question to be on a different answerline that preserves the theme of the question, since, as Will suggests, achieving a consistent difficulty across packets is the ove...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Also, if anyone could post up the Kubrick tossup, that would be lovely. It was got on the first line when I played it, and I'd be interested to see what the rest of the clues were for it. In one of this director’s films, a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy is played backwards during a scene in which...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
[10] Finally, for the private key one selects an integer d that has this relation to e modulo the totient of n. 3 and 5 have this multiplicative relationship modulo 7. ANSWER: multiplicative inverses Probably a small point here, but shouldn't something along the lines of "the product is congruent t...
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:20 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Can I see math bonus whose the last part mentioned something about 3(mod7) and 5(mod7) or similar? I believe the answerline was _inverse_ but I had trouble parsing what was going on. Identify the following steps one takes while encoding a message with the RSA algorithm, for 10 points each. [10] Fir...
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Can I see the tossup on "counting"? I only got to hear the first couple lines (it was during our bye round and was buzzed on quickly). But, I really enjoyed seeing new and original linguistics content come up. also, can I see the tossup on "indices"? The ability to vocalize this action is heavily l...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:46 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8789
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
That all makes sense and I respect it. However there was a packet called "Michigan A + Berkeley B + MIT A", which led me to believe that our packet was to be used. This packet was built from the one written by what I believe is the "real" Michigan A team (Saul, Austin, and Noah, modulo Kenji) on be...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:42 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Could I see the bonus on lift / angle of attack / camber? I think the wording on the last part made me think it was an angle for some reason. Identify the following terms one might encounter while designing an aircraft that won’t stall mid-flight, for 10 points each. [10] “Stalling” refers to a red...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Can I see the tossup on characteristics? I'd like to see if characteristic functions came up and I just forgot those existed. Seeing the tossup on "price discrimination" would be cool too. I want to look up the papers that were mentioned early in that tossup that made me neg with something stupid. ...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Could I see the quantum computing bonus? I was glad to see both the adiabatic algorithm and quantum annealing come up, but it seemed a little hard to figure out exactly what the last part was looking for. I really like the physics on the whole, this is just a minor quibble. Identify the following a...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Could I see the tossup on Al-Ghazali? I’m curious as to where the first sentence is from. A work by this thinker describes the trust in one’s legal advocate, the trust of a child in their mother, and the trust of a corpse in its washer as the three stages of trust in God. This thinker ended another...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12113
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Can I see the tossup on freezing? The cryo-EM clue was a little confusing but the rest of the clues seemed to be fine. Also interested in seeing the bonus on perfect numbers, because I thought I heard the word "perfect" in the question. This process occurs along either a horizontal or vertical grad...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8789
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
I'm sorry to be that guy but I was wondering when the final A-values and compiled OphirStats will be up. Selfishly, we want to know if we will be able to take a look at those results before SCT. Final A-values will be released as soon as possible after the British Regionals site, which is next week...
- Mon Jan 15, 2018 5:03 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: HSQBRank 2017-18: Now with a Patreon page!
- Replies: 122
- Views: 62554
Re: HSQBRank 2017-18: Now with a Patreon page!
Someone help me out here. Our team appears in the rankings at #37, but I can't figure out which tournament qualified us. The ones I've checked so far don't give us that aPPB, but I can't for the life of me unearth ACF Fall @ NIU. It doesn't seem to be in the database. It looks like the stats were p...
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
- Replies: 66
- Views: 26871
Re: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
Is there a date set for the NYU site?
- Fri Nov 24, 2017 12:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 38520
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
The main reason I'd recommend submitting longer tossups is because editors are liable to cut and/or alter clues - so if you give us more to work with, we're more likely to keep your clues. Keep it reasonable, of course - there's probably not a real need to spend the effort writing tons of of ten-li...
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
- Replies: 163
- Views: 93293
Re: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
1) Server-side caching stats. When someone initially wants some stats for a tournament, the server will do the calculation and save it somewhere. When someone comes along 15-30 seconds later and asks for the same stats calculation, we'll give them the previously calculated result. This will prevent...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 at Stanford, 11/4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2303
Re: ACF Fall 2017 at Stanford, 11/4
I see that the posted results, labeled "Round Robin," have Berkeley A leading the field by two games. Were there any more games played after this?
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 @ Georgia Tech (11/5/17)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3282
Re: ACF Fall 2017 @ Georgia Tech (11/5/17)
Thanks for posting results, Justin. If you get a chance, can you post a combined stats file? Thanks!
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at the University of Michigan (10/21)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8869
Re: EFT at the University of Michigan (10/21)
Should we be expecting an SQBS report at some point? I know we have the scoresheets in the subforum, but many of the results that are easy to read off of SQBS reports are harder to extract from the raw data or Ophir's summary sheets.
- Sat Oct 28, 2017 10:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7155
Re: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
I enjoyed this set a lot, and I heard multiple interesting and rewarding questions in pretty much all the categories I know anything about. I may have more comments later, but I want to point out two things that affected gameplay for us, and should probably be tweaked for the few future mirrors. 1. ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2017 7:06 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Flashcard Resources
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11957
Re: Flashcard Resources
I got the same problem a while ago and used some online service to convert .json to .csv, like https://konklone.io/json/ or anything else. It could be a problem with the original Anki add on. But the csv should work That's exactly what I do now to create Anki decks. Alright I'm just straight up bad...
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2018: seeking host bids
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2029
Re: ACF Nationals 2018: seeking host bids
As a reminder, if you're planning to submit a bid, please get it in by next Tuesday!
- Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:44 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Starting to Write Questions
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7573
Re: Starting to Write Questions
Welcome to college quizbowl! If you haven't already, you should get in contact with Susan Ferrari ( Susan on these forums), who played quizbowl at the University of Chicago and now works at Grinnell. She has tons of experience with all aspects of quizbowl, including but certainly not limited to ques...
- Tue Oct 03, 2017 8:46 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Nationals?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2197
Re: Nationals?
ACF Nationals will be on the weekend of April 21-22, 2018. We are actively seeking host bids: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =8&t=20511. If your school wants to host ACF Nationals, let us know!
- Tue Oct 03, 2017 8:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2018: seeking host bids
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2029
ACF Nationals 2018: seeking host bids
Hello all! ACF is currently seeking a host site for ACF Nationals, to be held on the weekend of April 21-22, 2018. (We apologize for the delay in getting this solicitation posted.) You can bid to host ACF Nationals using this form . We are looking to receive as many bids as possible from many differ...
- Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:54 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Preseason Poll
- Replies: 37
- Views: 16659
Re: Preseason Poll
Shouldn't the point range go from either 26-2 or 25-1, not 26-1?Progcon wrote:if you get a 1st place vote, you get 26 points, and if you get a 25th place vote, you get 1 point, and so on
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 7:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15786
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
This makes me curious what the eligibility rules would be for people in a university system, but not affiliated with a "traditional" campus with undergrads (i.e. UC Hastings Law, USCF Med school, etc). The reason I bring this up is because I know Richard Yu is at medical school at SUNY Downstate Me...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 1:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sivakumar Day Inter-Nationals
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12566
Re: Sivakumar Day Inter-Nationals
Did this ever get posted?
- Mon Jul 24, 2017 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sivakumar Day Inter-Nationals
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12566
Re: Sivakumar Day Inter-Nationals
Sure, I'd be interested. Available tonight, Tuesday, and Thursday.
- Sat Jul 01, 2017 9:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On Trash Writing Absofuckinglutely NOT Considered a Fine Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3759
Re: On Trash Writing Absofuckinglutely NOT Considered a Fine
Just add a clue about this video and this tossup is good to go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDkwdPaYmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DDkwdPaYmk