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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.

Hey Everyone! It is finally time! The 2019 PACE NSC kicks off today. You can find a list of twitter and instagram accounts below that will be reporting throughout the tournament to help those at home follow along! Twitter Liveblogs: PACE Account Daniel Hothem Rebecca Rosenthal Micheal Borecki James ...

I began by looking at the subcategory scoring breakdown for players at EFT, Terrapin, ACF Regionals, and Sun God. Why not Penn Bowl? I initially intended to compile Penn Bowl data (and SGI data for science), but ultimately decided that the data I had already compiled was "good enough" and that my t...

The biggest flaw this year to me, as the person organizing the poll, was simply the lack of ballots in certain categories. Maybe more ballots would balance things out, but I really do see the biggest problem as 1) a lack of pertinent information 2) bad interpretations of that information. In additi...

Thanks for putting in the work to make this happen! I thought that this year's iteration of the player poll was much more fun than previous iterations. Although it was a little disappointing, yet understandable to see some categories only get one voter, I had a blast filling out my subject ballots a...

Everyone already knows this but the Yale ACF Nats placement in the spreadsheet should mention the lack of "not that bad at quizbowl" person Jacob Reed. Please see the comments on the spreadsheet on Yale's 17th place finish at ACF Nationals and JHU's 20th place finish without Robert Chu. If any othe...

Could you include these teams'Nats and ICT placement in this thread? Thanks for doing this! On another note, people should remember that Johns Hopkins was playing without their top scorer at Nats, so their placement there seems misleading as to their actual strength. You can find midseason results ...

Hey Everyone! With Naveed's permission, I am running this year's collegiate post-season poll. Like in past years, there are a few ground rules. Your ballot should consist of 25 unique teams. Although you may not vote for high school teams, you may vote for B teams. If you would like to vote, please ...

People discussing quizbowl-related things is what the quizbowl discussion forum is for. I don't believe a semantics debate was the kind of quizbowl discussion that this thread was created to facilitate. That is immaterial. On this the board rules are clear (emphasis mine): As a result of the above,...

It looks like you forgot to make the sign up sheet public. In related news, some UW players and I plan on playing. We are in need of another teammate though!

How is production coming along? Is this set still on pace to be ready for this summer?

I have updated my spreadsheet with some science statistics. I do plan on adding SGI stats soon.

EDIT: Daniel, what criteria did you use to pick the players for the VFA sheet? Strange to not see John Lawrence, among others. I looked through the advance stats for Terrapin, EFT, and Regionals, selecting players who appeared high (roughly top 5-10 at a given site) on the Paintings/Sculpture subca...

To help me with my ballot, I assembled a spreadsheet with Nats and ICT stats for a number of players, as well as Visual Arts stats for various other players. In case it helps others, you may find it here. If you would like to edit this spreadsheet, perhaps by adding other subject area stats, please ...

There are two players from the Pacific Northwest who merit some consideration on the subject polls. The first is Alex van de Poel , a senior at UW. He is easily the best NAQT player who you have never heard of. He has deep pockets of knowledge in history and great coverage of modern world and geogra...

Something that I have always found interesting is how different the community's answer to this question is at the high school level versus the college level. It seems as if the community believes that, relative to their respective sets, high school teams should perform significantly better at natio...

I guess the meta-question I have is - what kind of stats distribution do you want to see at nats? Something that I have always found interesting is how different the community's answer to this question is at the high school level versus the college level. It seems as if the community believes that,...

A quick update: Jakob has offered to run a closed Discord mirror on March 30th. I am staffing a high school tournament that day. Him and I want at least 8 closed HS or college teams to sign up. Please email me and cc him to do so. If we get eight teams in the next week or so, I will allow this mirr...

I too am looking for CO teammates. I'm passable at visual arts, other science, and fake physics. If these niche interests bore you, hit me up!

Edit: Aidan and I are playing together. Get in touch if you'd like to join!

Tentatively, the side event will be held on Friday, June 7th. We hope to begin the tournament by 6 p.m. However, if this time doesn’t work for a lot of people, it is subject to change. I'd like to suggest a later start time. Locals, especially those with jobs or internships, may have trouble gettin...

It seems reasonable (or at least plausible) to me that the distribution of buzzes on early clues is pretty much "y = x^2, but with a ~9-10 word delay while players process hard clues." But I would interpret the middle and late parts of the distribution a bit differently—my impression has been that ...

I was inspired by Fred's post on the purpose of first line clues to revisit this year's ACF Regionals data. Below you'll find a hodgepodge of results along with comments. Highest Neg% (Min ~15 rooms heard) Volsunga Saga - .368421 Uyghers - .3666 saddle points - .365591 Uranus - .358025 Hitler Youth ...

I will add one word of caution - There's always a non-negligible chance that I messed up somewhere. If anyone wants to double check my work, they can find my code on github. My username is dhoth. I'm getting different results -- it looks like you're setting the maximum possible gets on a tossup to ...

It might be interesting to generate a similar CDF that ignores buzz point data whenever there's a neg Ophir's raw data conveniently lists if a TU was gotten as a "bounceback." I went ahead and computed the cdf for the "average" ACF Regionals 2019 TU that was not a bounceback. This cdf only includes...

This may not be specifically germane to the discussion at hand, but seeing the graph immediately made me think of Lorentz curves and Gini coefficients. Now, don't get me wrong, I've never edited a quiz bowl question in my life, and anything I've ever written has probably been terrible, but I wonder...

Michael Coates and I are looking for two teammates for this. Feel free to PM or email me if you would like to team up!

EDIT: Kurtis and Neil have joined us.

ezubaric wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:25 pm
Full prize information, stats, and videos after I get grades in. In the meantime, please don't discuss questions as we're going to have an online mirror.

Thanks for running this, it was a blast. Will videos and full results be posted soon?

Directors such as Satyajit Ray are occassionally clued and asked about. As is often the case with more niche topics, Indian film content is naturally limited by a lack of exposure as well as the small space occupied by film in the distribution. There is certainly room for intrepid writers to change ...

Re: Open Penn Bowl Mirror @ University of Washington - 12/1/18 Stats are here

Stats are here

This looks great. Are there plans to develop a similar app for Android phones?

Matt Weiner and I are teaming up for this. We're looking for a 4th, preferably someone who knows biology.

EDIT: Mia Nussbaum is joining us a our third. Geoffrey Chen is our fourth.

Any chance of Eyes X being run after Penn Bowl?

The registration form doesn't seem to be working. It states that I need permission to access it.

Unfortunately there isn't much of a quizbowl circuit in Oregon. NAQT has run a high school tournament, the Portland Invitational, in the spring for the past few years. I'm not sure that there is much else. It might be worth contacting Westview's team or getting in touch with UW Quizbowl.

Re: EFT Open Discord Mirror (09/22/2018) Who won this?

Who won this?

Will there be an online mirror of Penn Bowl?

The registration form says "two players." Since last year's policy required "two players," I imagine that it is the actual policy. The "one player" language probably comes from last year's Regionals announcements for which any team with a single experienced player was required to write a half packet.

I'm interested in playing this. Feel free to get in touch with me if your team needs an extra player.

I plan on playing this. If anyone wants to take a Quizbowl trip to Seattle to play this and needs a teammate, then let me know!

How will the cancellation of OCTAVIAN affect the schedule? Rather than poach an event from the second weekend, is it possible to push back the start time for NASAT? Or to have some previously run event (Math Monstrosity, Fight the Power, etc) take its place?

I've got two spots open on my team now. Feel free to PM if you are interested in playing with me.

In an ideal world, I would prefer the original arrangement - NASAT on Saturday (8/5) with a slate of side events on Sunday(8/6). The trash tournament and the remaining side events could be played on the 18th and 19th.

Much like Will and Ryan, I am dismayed by the sudden ouster of NASAT from the weekend's activities. Obviously VCU is a different entity than UVA, but, per the tournament's announcement, VCU's event is in some sense a "continuation" of UVa's previously announced tournament. It seems silly and disinge...

I'm personally in favor of running a full NASAT mirror, but, like Tommy, am intrigued with Evan's idea of running it as a TU only event. I'll second Tommy's call for a poll with the three options being - run a full NASAT mirror, run NASAT as a TU only event, and not run NASAT.

I ought to be able to make this while visiting home in August. Like others, I am all for a NASAT mirror on Saturday and side events on Sunday.

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