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Using Discord text chat to buzz is another aspect of online tournaments that I think can be improved. Third-party buzzer apps make it easier on moderators and makes it less likely for buzzes to get mixed up or unnoticed by the moderator. The two that I’ve used that work are buzzin.live and gamenigh...

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Maybe I'm a confused old man, but why is this such a theoretical discussion? Has packet submission not been dying for close to a decade? If reducing packet submission has deleterious effects on player and writer development, should we not be seeing some consequences by now? Instead it seems that ap...

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Read a replacement from the end of the packet. Instead of doing this, can we please finally have the option to request printed editions that excise comp math already? I know that NAQT can and does print custom editions of its sets for local circuits to use according to their specifications, and the...

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The fact that some features on Zoom require a premium / academic account is not ideal. Our bracket got a late start because I think the person who created the initial meeting didn't have permissions to create breakout rooms. Yes, a lot of people playing are going to have academic Zoom accounts. But...

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As far as I know, NAQT has not made any clear statement about whether or not its questions can be used in an online tournament over Zoom or Discord for next year We have not yet reached a decision about this issue (but we are having internal discussion about possibilities for online hosting). A lot...

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The front page of Buzzword has the film sample listed as "Play Level C (hardest) Sample Game."

i never see pigeons in wheeling

This is going to be a High School Tournament, which is why we're using an International-Style Set. We're currently working out the logistics, but anyone High School and under is welcome to join. What’s an “International-Style Set”? Do you mean your set is going to be in the style of an NAQT Invitat...

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Also, regarding "general knowledge" -- this definitely is important and can be used very well in themed bonuses, particularly. I remember one of the earliest bonuses I wrote for an elementary set involved question on apples in various contexts. I've also written questions where the answer is a numb...

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Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gift of the Magi I'm trying to avoid answers like these. It's true that some 6th graders can get those, but that's not who this set is for. Those answers will go dead too often if they are asked to novice middle schoolers. I wouldn't even toss up Orwell. I still ...

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What would people think about the creation of a "starter set" that would be: -basically 3-5 packets at most, perhaps only 1-2 -be specifically targeted to teach new players how to play and to see if they like quizbowl -would feature extremely easy, short questions Such a set, in my opinion, would o...

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3. An implementation of Ophir's "jumping between tossups and bonuses with the stroke of a single key" outside the context of advanced stats. I am guessing this should be fairly straightforward, though I could be wrong. You can split the window into two, depending on your viewer. You can do this in ...

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(He hasn't posted on the forums since 2010, but we olds remember him.) He staffed the last Cal Cup tournament 2 weeks ago! In any case, here are a couple more (small-scale) projects to toss onto the pile: 7. A standardized email outreach template for regional circuits along the lines of what Chiego...

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Can we throw out ideas without committing to working on them? There are several projects that I think the quiz bowl community could really use but that I personally don't necessarily have the time to commit to: 1. Incomplete quiz bowl answerlines (failing to include the entire names of countries and...

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Something that’s been nagging at me more and more (and certainly something I’m very guilty of) is that the forums are a great clearinghouse for tournament announcements for the community at large, but they should not constitute the main interface of interaction between us and the external tournament...

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The newsletter looks excellent—it is good at the message it conveys. A couple more things I would do are to plug Quizbowl 101 harder so teams visit the PACE website and see the other introductory resources. I’d also put a couple examples of a super basic tossup and bonus so administrators don’t have...

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As someone who’s moderated 1000+ official tournament qb/HB matches in the last 10 years, I wholeheartedly support this change. It feels weird and alien to switch to NAQT timing when I staff SCT/MSNCT/HSNCT, and anecdotally it seems to adversely impact the players who use less binary association-base...

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AKKOLADE wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 1:49 pm I've just emailed 30+ prospective hosts for NASAT. I hope to have a site announced by the end of the year. My goal is to not be in Lexington this year.

Is there an update on this?

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Since this is an issue that should ideally be covered by the same ruleset from SAGES all the way up to Arrabal, it doesn’t make much sense for us to only talk about the experiences of good teams at high level collegiate tournaments. At local tournaments with inexperienced moderators and newer teams,...

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The primetime Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time Tournament is receiving higher ratings than Game 1 of last year's NBA Finals and World Series . There seem to be more eyeballs on J! than at any other point in history, and we can anticipate a tremendous number for today, in which Ken Jennings may very w...

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We're glad you're liking them! We'll keep producing them. If you have something you'd like us to cover in a Qwiz5, drop us a line! I'm glad that these guides exist, but make sure that whoever is producing these guides fact-checks themselves and understands the distinction between terms with distinc...

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When I was a subject editor, Stephen Liu was the head editor. Stephen filtered the vast majority of the submissions so that us subject editors only saw a minority of packets that were deemed to have usable submissions--those generally came from teams with writers who had some degree of experience. T...

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I've long been an advocate for msqb vastly expanding its distribution of general knowledge. I'm not a fan of collegiate quiz bowl having more than a little trivia, but it's perfectly apropos for middle school (and hs!) qb to ask more directly about elements of their culture and surroundings they're ...

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This is a really good idea! And probably more practical in a college setting than posting a flyer or going from classroom to classroom. I'd be very interested in doing this at VMI. Do you all write the questions yourselves or find them from the internet? If you write the questions what kind of dist...

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Will have to drop. Didn’t realize this conflicted with PACE Conference.

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Why not just roll it into the "eventual" Mons Mathstrosity (the quotation marks being present for a reason)?

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We’re in M103.

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Flights to Long Beach Airport are also pretty cheap and come from all Bay Area airports. It seems like a pretty easy pickup from the campus.

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nadph wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2019 3:06 pm I'd be willing to drive 7 hours from the Bay Area to attend this, should the timing work. If others in NorCal are interested, let me know and we could possibly coordinate on transport and timing.

Indeed.

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With Summer Open not happening, here's my dream lineup for a California side events tournament that would hopefully take place at least a couple weeks away from CO: Saturday: META This Must Be the Place The Unanswered Question Sunday: Super Acronym II RULFO Age of Empires may also be ready by that ...

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The content of the article is mostly very good. I hope it was an editorial decision and not Ken Jennings' to call us Jeopardy's minor leagues (I don't know in what other games the minor leagues would be substantially more difficult than the major leagues). This is the key problem with quizbowl in p...

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The content of the article is mostly very good. I hope it was an editorial decision and not Ken Jennings' to call us Jeopardy's minor leagues (I don't know in what other games the minor leagues would be substantially more difficult than the major leagues).

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Was PACE the first high school quiz bowl organization (whether good or bad) to effect the complete removal of trash from its distribution? What did discussions to that end look like? Did those discussions impact HSAPQ’s own decision not to put trash in its own contemporary inaugural NASAT? Why was a...

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Howdy! I'm fortunate to be in a school that already has a quizbowl team, so I'm not looking for help establishing one. What I'm needing is help with a proposal to justify having a class period set aside for quizbowl (and maybe other academic competitions). Right now, my main argument is that athlet...

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Heh, if only someone offered them a new home in exchange for them going pyramidal.

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You're doing the right thing by having an initial introduction through email about what quiz bowl is about (the elevator pitch) and attaching a separate longer document for interested administrators to peruse. While it may look at first glance like a game of no more value than bar trivia, quiz bowl ...

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I know that we on the board like to argue about a lot of things, but the inaccessibility of Champaign should be something we can all agree on. This might be true, but the fact that there's public transportation to there (the bus and train Alston mentioned) and the fact that the connection is throug...

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It's great that you're interested and I'm excited to see another Mississippi team interested in hosting on good questions. In general, yes, students can direct tournaments, but there have been issues in the past with some that you should be aware of and make sure that y'all won't fall victim to in ...

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A belated reply to the above: we're aware of the relative difficulties of traveling into Lexington, Kentucky, but that is where IQBT is base. A lot of our connections for local staff and room reservations are dependent on hosting in Lexington. Additionally, one of the co-owners would also be unable...

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The Saturday (preliminary) rounds of the 2019 MSNCT will use questions similar in length and difficulty to those at previous championships. The Sunday (playoff and consolation) rounds will use longer and harder questions similar to those in NAQT's Regular Invitational Series. The subject distributi...

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They're a diploma-granting secondary learning institution with formal enrollment and coursework that is also approved as such by NAQT. What's your reasoning for defaulting to the position that "they should not be allowed to play" rather than "trust but verify?"

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So happy for you, David. Hopefully, that "probably" prognosis can turn into a "definitely" in the near future.

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This is great stuff! One question I had is how we as a community will hash out who gets to determine the crowdsourced pronunciation guides. I think that several extant pronunciation guides can be incorrect to the point of confusing players (I encounter this fairly frequently with Indian names, I'm s...

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The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance’s President is a top NAQT member. I have every confidence he’ll do the right thing. That said, if it comes down to it, I will lobby against NAQT tournaments being run in Northern California. Obviously, Matt Bruce is unwelcome at any event here. Anything els...

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This has also been a big problem on the meme page (to the extent that it's become something of a running joke whenever I point out unclear set content to Jakob).

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In my earlier post in this thread, I accidentally spoiled some questions from the unread editors' packets that are being saved for next year. Perhaps it's hubris to think many people actually read my post, but in theory the milk has been spilt. So, here are the text of the questions, which are not ...

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I think I remember the question on Powhatan refer to them as a "tribe." To be fair, I don't know of many non-transparent ways to refer to them (a similar problem exists with questions on the Iroquois / Haudenosaunee) and it didn't affect my enjoyment of the question (it was good to see that answerl...

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The worse instance I ever saw was my player getting awarded the points on a bonus part, and THEN... moments later, the moderator backing up and reconsidering, then asking my player to "SPELL IT." This was a science bonus at sectional championship match, where the answer line was "otoscope." Points ...

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I don't think very many college quizbowlers show up to a tournament, decide that 1/1 world history isn't enough, and walk off, but perhaps you're right that aspects of the distribution are unappealing--can we expound on this? I do, however, suspect that many economics and psychology majors (which i...

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-We expect increased levels of media coverage for future ICTs and HSNCTs as a result of this agreement. Can you clarify how this follows from receiving some financial backing and plastering LetterOne's name everywhere in exchange? What exactly will partnering with LetterOne do to effect this outcome?

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Well I was actually thinking of running a hs tournament and allowing someone who isn't a member of our team TD for obvious ethical reasons. Is this still an ethical gray area? Generally speaking, there’s no issue with having someone from your high school TD a tournament at which your school has ent...

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