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ryanrosenberg

When should we expect to hear back in regards to this? The form submission page seems to be copied over from the previous application, and says we will be contacted no later than March 5th, which I’m guessing is incorrect. Sorry about that! Applicants should expect to hear back no later than July 2...

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ACF welcomes applications for 2023 ACF Nationals assistant Tournament Director (aTD) positions. In a break from previous years, I plan to spread ACF Nationals planning out as much as possible between now and the tournament; my goal is for this role to require a minimal amount of commitment at any pa...

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I've compiled stats for NSC from the scoresheets, including category data: tossup stats and bonus stats . Will possibly replicate some of the analysis I did for ACF Nationals on this data, pending time over the next few weeks. Let me know of any discrepancies between these stats and the scoresheets...

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I've compiled stats for NSC from the scoresheets, including category data: tossup stats and bonus stats . Will possibly replicate some of the analysis I did for ACF Nationals on this data, pending time over the next few weeks. Let me know of any discrepancies between these stats and the scoresheets ...

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I can't help but wonder if the very high correlation between lit subcategories would hold if you distributed by genre instead. Seems unlikely. This was my intuition too, but it's actually not true: https://i.imgur.com/X0yHpzT.png I've updated the above tossup files with the genre tagging. I'll like...

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I've made some plots of correlations in scoring between different categories (i.e. how much does being good at category X indicate someone is good at category Y?). I haven't seen this analysis done before but I found the results pretty interesting. https://i.imgur.com/vbBqNVM.png https://i.imgur.com...

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I've compiled conversion stats for ACF Nationals, as well as tables of all buzzes and bonus parts (complete with category and intended bonus part difficulty). These use the Nats scoresheets that Harry White shared . (linking because the boards won't let me attach CSVs for some reason) Tossup convers...

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I've put together an app reporting on detailed stats for the two seasons of QB League, an online quizbowl competition that used MODAQ as a question reader and kept stats using QBJ , a stats format that supports detailed stats like buzzpoints and individual bonus part conversion. My hope is that this...

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What would be the schedule for a 25-team CO?

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I'll note, though, that "Iroquois supporting the British" is incorrect for the Haldimand Proclamation clue; the Iroquois were guaranteed land purchase rights by the Haldimand Proclamation, not the other way around.

ryanrosenberg

I'm confused, "Torah" is promptable -- would you not then say Oral Torah? If not, what is your understanding of the difference between the oral and written Torah? I wouldn't immediately go to "Oral Torah" if I was told "what set of beliefs is that collected in?" Becaus...

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I'm confused, "Torah" is promptable -- would you not then say Oral Torah? If not, what is your understanding of the difference between the oral and written Torah?

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Note: The initial post has been adjusted to account for some suggested changes in the discord. This is a stupid rule and people should ignore it. EDIT: To be more specific: I find it extremely problematic to have a rule carved out for exactly one person. There is at least one other player besides I...

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The 2022 ACF Nationals program, produced by Caroline Mao, may be viewed at this link. To purchase a physical copy ($20), please find Ganon Evans at team check-in or elsewhere this weekend.

ryanrosenberg

A quick note that I've updated the post with some examples of upsets at different levels of difference in team strength, as well as a link to the data I'm using. I've also added a graph at the end looking at Mike's question about round order -- I don't have data on prelims vs. playoffs, but upsets d...

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I've published a new blog post about upsets in quizbowl here: https://www.rrosenb.org/an-analysis-of- ... -quizbowl/. Interesting, I did not find any sort of variation in upset rates by difficulty, or between ACF Nationals and DI ICT.

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This seems like more than enough for two weekends of events.

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I have a blog post up about using community clustering algorithms to look at what the structure of tournament attendance reveals about college quizbowl circuits. This is the first in a series of posts I have planned about quizbowl using the new college quizbowl stats database . Currently, team names...

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I agree with Eric; I thought this was a good, fun set that needs maybe a little more than the standard post-playtesting polishing but should be a good experience for teams.

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Substitute vs. complement goods is one of the few things I learned in my (bad, rushed) Econ 101 class, I think it's reasonable for an easy part.

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All ARCADIA mirrors have been finished and the set is now clear for discussion. I'll be uploading final packets tonight.

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Jordan is being far too modest; this is really really good stuff and a high bar for another project to clear.

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I've added the rest of the college tournaments on the database; there's now fairly complete coverage back to the 2011-12 season, and scattered tournaments before that. Team stats and player stats With the bulk of data scraping done, I'd like to begin the process of cleaning and resolving team and pl...

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Thanks to some assistance from Maxwell Ye and Harry White, and some suggestions from Dylan Bowman, I've now been able to scrape stats from the remaining college tournaments on the database. I'll work on cleaning them up and publishing them, hopefully over the weekend.

ryanrosenberg

I've put together an R package to scrape team and player stats from a stats report on the hsquizbowl.org tournament database. Installation and usage instructions are on the package GitHub page . This package was used to compile the college quizbowl statistics dataset I put together. If you have ques...

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Inspired by the data analysis from the bonuses thread , I've scraped and compiled stats from the last five competition years of college quizbowl (including open tournaments listed as college tournaments on the DB). My hope is that this dataset enables both more research to better our understanding o...

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What should we expect top-end and low-end PPBs to be like for two-part bonuses pitched at 66% and 33% conversion? I'd be worried you'd get a fair number of PPBs in the 19 range and a fair number < 5.

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I was going to post saying that bonuses are too long, but Henry basically already did that as part of his thread here. Condensing bonuses is the easiest way to ensure matches move quickly.

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This is a good post, and I hope people (including me!) take it to heart. I've also heard variations on "[the main quizbowl] Discord is terrible", "I enjoyed [online quizbowl socialization] much more when I don't look at mainqb", "oh I never read mainqb" from a variety o...

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IAC's membership on the form committee has lapsed. The active form representatives still plan to work with IAC and alert them of relevant reports, as with other quizbowl organizations that are not part of the form committee.

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The members of the Quizbowl Misconduct Reporting Form are pleased to announce the release of a new website for the form, containing an FAQ, a diagram of the report handling process, and summary statistics about past reports. You can access the site at qbmisconduct.com.

ryanrosenberg

Thanks for playing ARCADIA! If you'd like to discuss the questions, there's a discussion forum that you can request to join from the Usergroups tab of the User Control Panel. There's also a Discord discussion server (once you join, you'll need to post in #verification to get access to discussion cha...

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Thanks for playing ARCADIA! If you'd like to discuss the questions, there's a discussion forum that you can request to join from the Usergroups tab of the User Control Panel. There's also a Discord discussion server (once you join, you'll need to post in #verification to get access to discussion cha...

ryanrosenberg

Thanks for playing ARCADIA! If you'd like to discuss the questions, there's a discussion forum that you can request to join from the Usergroups tab of the User Control Panel. There's also a Discord discussion server (once you join, you'll need to post in #verification to get access to discussion cha...

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We've set up a discussion server, which can be joined here: https://discord.gg/pWGDMVSzhv

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This thread is for general discussion of ARCADIA (i.e. anything not involving analysis of a single question), though I certainly imagine there will be references to specific questions in this thread. I want to start out by thanking everyone who worked on this set: Annabelle Yang, Ashish Subramanian,...

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We have some slight changes to editing assignments to announce: Jacob Egol will now be editing Auditory Arts, Annabelle Yang and Jacob will be co-editing Other Fine Arts, and Vincent Du and I will be collaborating on Other Science.

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Kevin Wang has been added to the Misconduct Reporting Form in his role as admin of the Quizbowl Discord . The Discord has grown rapidly and is now a hub of online quizbowl social communication; we as a group want to ensure that people feel safe and confident in the form to handle instances of miscon...

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db0wman wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:42 pm Are there any plans for a spring novice for this season? Last year's seemed to be very successful.

I won't have time to produce it, but would be happy to see one happen again. I had heard some tentative interest from a team but I'm not sure what the status of that is.

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Oh No You Didn't wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:26 pm anyone wanna get walker bros in wilmette at like 6 am on saturday

yes please

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Can California residents apply?

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This set is now clear and the questions are posted! https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2593/

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Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel). Actually we didn't finish playing the tournament yet. It was 7pm when we got to the end of round 8 and since ...

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