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Has a final format been chosen?

EDIT: And if a final format hasn't been picked, when might it be picked by? I imagine people would prefer to know sooner rather than later if they can schedule anything else on the 22nd. Thanks!

I'll also speak in favor of bouncebacks, they really do help with engagement, and the field will be very good so I don't think we should worry about it taking too long. Each packet is already 22/22. Adding bouncebacks to what will already be abnormally long rounds seems like a bad idea. I say this ...

Presumably Tim Morrison A combination of Tim and (in my opinion) Stanford being underranked in last year's postseason poll. Gotcha. There’s only so much i can ascertain through stats (I usually check on NAQT’s site because I don’t know any convenient alternatives This is a good time to plug Harry W...

Is there a fixed date yet for the "main site" of FLOpen? I know things are still very much up in the air, but regions are starting to come together to plan their fall schedules. It be nice to have some additional information here so that regions don't schedule non-novice events against wha...

Complementing Ryan, Andrew, and Tejas' excellent "high level" posts on studying for Nats-level quizbowl, I'd like to share my own approach to studying Visual Arts. When I'm actively studying, I like to take a "textbook+" approach to studying visual arts. Each "week", I ...

The theory section is a great place for this post, WIll. A lot of the frustrations that you lay out are frustrations that I myself have dealt with, moreso over the later half of my career as I have played more events solo. I haven't found any "magic bullets" for eliminating these frustrati...

jonah wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:54 pm

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Not thinking that the discussion in this thread was representative of enough customers

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Has NAQT considered surveying their collegiate customer base about this?

EDIT: More "business friendly" language.

Here are the top 10 scores:

Mike Sorice
65
ankit
55
tracy
45
Pinyan
40
arthur [gds]
30
mazin [harvard]
20
r_hi
15
DMA [HCHS --> Y]
15
Natan Holtzman (Stanford)
15
Alexis J.
15

There were many negs.

Piggybacking on this thread to announce that I am going to read my team's DECAMERON packet online tomorrow at 6pm PT.

Because of The Situation, almost all if not all quizbowl tournaments that will happen this fall will probably be online. Although online tournaments are worse than in-person ones in many respects, one upside they do have is that online closed tournaments that have more than one mirror don't need to...

Scores from the second reading:

Jordan B: 2/11/3 125pts
Will N: 1/2/0 35pts
Kenji S: 0/2/1 15pts

Packet will be upload soon.

I will do a second reading tonight at 7pm ET / 4pm PT. It will take place in the packet2 channel on the main Discord.

Packet was read in Discord. Here are the scores from people who buzzed in. Aseem: 2/1/2 30 Doug: 1/1/2 15 Eric: 0/0/1 -5 Ethan Seal: 1/0/2 5 Halle: 1/1/0 25 Jake Boonin: 0/0/2 -10 Mike Bentley: 0/1/6 -20 Nick Jensen: 2/1/0 40 Peter S: 0/1/1 5 Rahul: 2/2/1 45 Vishwa: 0/1/1 5 Kevin: 0/1/1 5 I plan on ...

As a reminder, this will be read in the Discord in about 3 hours.

This tournament was won by Mattdaniel Squirrel. They defeated We're Playing CO in the finals. Final stats will be up tomorrow. In the meantime, here are prelim stats.

Preliminary Schedule here

Logistics email has gone out to teams in the field.

We were unable to find the staff to hold a 28 team tournament. I'm very sorry for those teams who were unable to make it off the waiting list. My hope is that there will be a second mirror that you all can play.

I am still working on trying to expand the field to 28 teams. Expect a resolution of this within an hour or so. After the final decision is made, a logistics email will go out to all teams in the field and to staffers.

I will read this packet Wednesday May 27th at 8PM ET / 5pm PT.

I’m just a high schooler who‘s not exactly good and wanted to play some Brit content, and I don’t want to come off as disrespectful, but I was wondering why it would not be possible for the field to be expanded to 28 teams (which seems appropriate for the waitlist/FA list) and then have prelim brac...

Here's some preliminary logistics information. WHEN: This tournament will take place on 5/24/2020 beginning at 11am ET/8am PT. WHERE: On Zoom with a Discord backup. Please don't forget your webcam! Discord link etc will go out in the logistics email tomorrow. SIZE: We are officially running a 24 tea...

I will read this packet next week. Please mark your availability down here so that I can pick a time that works best for everyone. Final distribution is: Pre-1800s Western: 3/0 Post-1800s Western: 9/0 Pre-1900s Non-Western: 2/0 Post-1900s Non-Western: 6/0 Total: 20/0 Difficulty is "adventurous,...

As I've interpreted Will's public statements, the purpose of using Zoom and webcams is two-fold. The first is to more accurately recreate the in-person quizbowl experience by allowing players to see each other. Maybe this isn't meaningful to you, but it seems worthwhile enough of a goal to me to exp...

Some updates: Those who expressed interest in staffing should get an email tomorrow asking for them to confirm their availability. There will also be a short survey with regards to past online moderating experience plus preferred staffing roles. Filling out this survey will help us assign staffing a...

If it helps, you can find team BPAs for Penn Bowl and Fall Open by following the links below:

Penn Bowl

Fall Open

I am happy to announce that we are expanding the field to 24 teams with the possibility of expanding to to 28 teams if there is interest. As the tournament is under two weeks away, I strongly encourage free agents to coalesce into teams. In order to accommodate such a large online field for a TUs+Bs...

I'd also like to float the idea of increasing the tournament fee by $10. Doing so will allow us to fund scorekeepers, which I think are especially helpful for online events.

CPiGuy wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 5:39 pm Given the apparent huge demand for this tournament, would people consider running a second online mirror if there are a significant number of interested people left out by the first one?

I am open to this idea.

In other news, we are expanding the field to 18 teams.

warum wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 3:58 pm Is it required that the webcam be pointed at our hands? Or is a built-in laptop webcam that can only view our face OK?

Built-in webcams are fine.

Hey Everyone! I will be coordinating the logistics for this tournament. Given both the novelty of the Zoom tournament as well as the intense interest in this specific event, please bear with me a bit. Registration: Teams must officially register for this tournament by emailing me at dhothem[at]uoreg...

I'm open to the idea of bouncebacks, but not if their inclusion adversely affects the schedule or field size. My personal preferences prioritize playing a round robin over bouncebacks. My concern with bouncebacks is the added time that they take. Based on the online mirror of TO, 9 rounds per day is...

I'm late to the party, but you can find a Jupyter Notebook template similar to the one I use to compute BPA on my github.

I'm much less interested in playing a TU only event and signed up under the assumption that we'd play bonuses. I've found that bonuses are a nice way to stay engaged during an online event.

I am in the middle of completing a fairly hard packet on underrepresented art in the quizbowl canon. The packet will consist of somewhere between 20 and 30 tossups primarily focused on art produced by groups that are frequently underrepresented in the quizbowl canon. Some questions will focus on und...

There have been a number of Eyes packets read in the Discord before. Copying and pasting slides from the powerpoint presentation worked fine.

I'm chiming in to express interest in an online mirror of this set. I'm especially interested in hearing tossups and bonuses. Depending upon what readers are available, I would love to play another two-day tournament like TO online. Maybe something in mid- or late-May can be arranged?

So it looks like the 28th was the winning date. The TO team have been discussing how best to run the mirror. Given the length entailed by a Nats- set, plus a discord mirror, would people still be interested in playing and staffing if we had to split the mirror over multiple days? (i.e. the first 7-...

I figure it behooves me to necro this thread since it seems likely that this situation will happen again. The combined-field Northwest SCT site was won by Washington B, a DII team, but since the only other DII teams at that site were all from Boise State there were only DII teams from two schools, ...

Are there any plans for an online mirror?

Edit: Also, I thought some of the quantitative questions were a bit weird. For ex., asking for a "magic angle" of 1.05 degrees, or the precise number of bandits in a Chinese gang (118? forget the exact question. but maybe that one is OK, if it's well-known.) There seemed to be a few quest...

Will's post does an excellent job capturing all of my first impressions of this tournament. Individual questions were clearly written and technically sound, but also very challenging for a variety of reasons. I'm looking forward to the public release of advanced stats (which is a great program for R...

Seemed a bit silly having "contrast" as an answerline twice with pretty much exactly the same sentence as a "giveaway." There's definitely no problem with having repeating answerlines in different subjects, but it felt strange to see the same clue used.

I'm looking for teammates for CO. Historically my teams are competitive at VisArts, Physics, OSci, and finishing in the bottom bracket at CO.

I'd be interested in an online mirror, if it's happening. Is there any info on this? To encourage people to play this tournament in person, we are not currently planning on having an online mirror. However, starting next month, I plan on play-testing my categories. If you can't play the set in-pers...

How did this tournament go?

tiwonge wrote: ↑Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:24 am Matt (Colorado) and Daniel (Oregon) split their games. Since Daniel had to leave to catch a flight and couldn't play a tie-breaker, they agreed to just call it a draw.

Daniel was top scorer overall.

Big thanks to BSU for hosting and to Matt for graciously suggesting a draw unprompted.

I plan on reading my team's rejected CO questions in the Discord tonight around 10pm EST.

Others should feel free to piggyback on this thread if they wish to announce their reject readings!

UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:19 pm Daniel Hothem has graciously volunteered to summarize the CANONEXPANSION and Unanswered Question stats
Apologies if it takes 2 or 3 days.

They are up (with a few errors)!

Unanswered Question

CANONEXPANSION

I'd like to suggest expanding the field to 9 teams and at worst committing to run a 9 team round robin. That will, for now, solve the demand issue while also guaranteeing enough staffers to run the event. If more staffers sign up, then we can readjust. If not, we've at least got 50% more people play...

Sorry about this. Only two people voted, so there will be no results this year. Hopefully, there will be better coordination next year and the poll can go out much earlier than it did.

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