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!
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- Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4509
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4509
Re: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
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 ...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4463
Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
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...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: FLopen 2020
- Replies: 10
- Views: 16245
Re: FLopen 2020
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...
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:14 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How to prepare for College Nationals
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1809
Re: How to prepare for College Nationals
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 ...
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:45 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Mindset in Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 3
- Views: 902
Re: Mindset in Quiz Bowl
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...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4602
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 10:04 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: DECAMERON Packet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1283
Re: DECAMERON Packet
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.
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.
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 11:08 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: DECAMERON Packet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1283
Re: DECAMERON Packet
Piggybacking on this thread to announce that I am going to read my team's DECAMERON packet online tomorrow at 6pm PT.
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 2:27 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Online Quizbowl in the West
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2913
Re: The Online Quizbowl in the West
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...
- Sun May 31, 2020 7:32 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2358
Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
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.
Jordan B: 2/11/3 125pts
Will N: 1/2/0 35pts
Kenji S: 0/2/1 15pts
Packet will be upload soon.
- Sun May 31, 2020 2:47 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2358
Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
I will do a second reading tonight at 7pm ET / 4pm PT. It will take place in the packet2 channel on the main Discord.
- Wed May 27, 2020 8:40 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2358
Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
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 ...
- Wed May 27, 2020 4:55 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2358
Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
As a reminder, this will be read in the Discord in about 3 hours.
- Mon May 25, 2020 2:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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.
- Sat May 23, 2020 4:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
Preliminary Schedule here
- Fri May 22, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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.
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.
- Fri May 22, 2020 8:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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.
- Fri May 22, 2020 5:10 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2358
Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
I will read this packet Wednesday May 27th at 8PM ET / 5pm PT.
- Fri May 22, 2020 3:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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...
- Thu May 21, 2020 11:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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...
- Thu May 21, 2020 3:15 am
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2358
Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
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,...
- Wed May 20, 2020 5:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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...
- Sun May 17, 2020 9:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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...
- Tue May 12, 2020 2:50 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Postseason poll
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2832
- Mon May 11, 2020 5:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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...
- Thu May 07, 2020 6:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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.
- Thu May 07, 2020 5:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
I am open to this idea.
In other news, we are expanding the field to 18 teams.
- Thu May 07, 2020 4:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
- Thu May 07, 2020 2:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6084
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
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...
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: POLL - Cambridge Open Online (May 24th)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2547
Re: POLL - Cambridge Open Online
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...
- Wed Apr 15, 2020 2:39 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6574
Re: Introducing BPA, a new evaluation metric using detailed stats
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.
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 5:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5726
Re: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
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.
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:33 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2358
A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
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...
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:18 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 25 toss ups and five visual packets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1355
Re: 25 toss ups and five visual packets
There have been a number of Eyes packets read in the Discord before. Copying and pasting slides from the powerpoint presentation worked fine.
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: CamO 2020 available for mirrors
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1780
Re: CamO 2020 available for mirrors
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?
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Terrapin Open Online Mirror Poll
- Replies: 4
- Views: 998
Re: Terrapin Open Online Mirror Poll
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-...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5208
Re: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
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, ...
- Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8669
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
Are there any plans for an online mirror?
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 8:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 7602
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
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...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:45 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4569
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
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...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 7602
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
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.
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2516
Re: CO Matchmaking
I'm looking for teammates for CO. Historically my teams are competitive at VisArts, Physics, OSci, and finishing in the bottom bracket at CO.
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11164
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
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...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl at Stanford, 10/19
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2345
Re: 2019 Penn Bowl at Stanford, 10/19
How did this tournament go?
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3542
Re: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
Big thanks to BSU for hosting and to Matt for graciously suggesting a draw unprompted.
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 5:36 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: CO Reject Readings
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4583
CO Reject Readings
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!
Others should feel free to piggyback on this thread if they wish to announce their reject readings!
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12345
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
They are up (with a few errors)!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.
Unanswered Question
CANONEXPANSION
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12345
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 7:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5889
Re: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
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.