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- Thu Nov 14, 2019 5:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open @ UVA (Nov. 16, 2019)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5114
Re: Fall Open @ UVA (Nov. 16, 2019)
Has there been a logistics email sent for this? I don't think we have the location, official start time, etc.
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 10:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Are Laissez-Faire Eligibility Standards Good for the Circuit?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1425
Re: Are Laissez-Faire Eligibility Standards Good for the Circuit?
The Canadian mirror of Penn Bowl was semi-open. People eligible to play for a school were required to play on a school team. An exemption was made for a Carleton student (Daniel) to play with open teammates as the rest of his school. Whether this is good for the circuit, I don't know. Penn Bowl is ...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 2:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Are Laissez-Faire Eligibility Standards Good for the Circuit?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1425
Are Laissez-Faire Eligibility Standards Good for the Circuit?
Rencently, some tournaments have taken different approaches to eligibility restrictions. Notably this year, Penn Bowl has scheduled open mirrors (Cambridge, Minnesota, and Washington), and seemingly allowed some ad hoc exemptions at the Canadian mirror (it's not clear what happened, but two of the t...
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 1:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17000
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
I'm a bit late, but here are some thoughts on the science. Overall I had a good time playing CO, so I hope I don't sound overly negative. 1. The chem tossups were like 70-80% organic syntheses, with the bulk of the clues drawing from named reactions. Quizbowl writing has been moving away from this d...
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:49 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39394
Re: Player Poll 2019
Not only is Caleb Kendrick a really good quizbowl generalist, he's probably the best philosophy player in the country In addition to being a really strong generalist and an elite philosophy player, I want to mention that Caleb is also really good at social science. Many people think of Weijia as ou...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:05 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17942
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
I agree with Chris and Jack that this year's crossover playoff felt less complete than a full round robin in the top bracket. In addition to the point about playoff losses not carrying over, we should remember that this year's format can also erase playoff wins against higher finishing opponents (e....
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 5:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin Open Discord mirror (2/23/19) [REGISTRATION CLOSED]
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6396
Re: 2019 Terrapin Open Discord mirror (2/23/19) [REGISTRATION CLOSED]
We're going to be reading some of the remaining packets in Discord tonight, starting around 7:00 pm EST. Message me or Ophir if you need more details.
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15565
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I'm curious to hear people's thoughts about physics and other science, in terms of difficulty, subject matter and execution. I tried to strike a balance between important things experts would know about and accessibility/maintaining interest from a non scientific audience. I'm specifically intereste...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:07 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9654
Re: ACF Regionals playtesting
I'm going to try to playtest math and earth science tonight starting at 9:00 pm eastern. Message me if you're interested; I'd be happy to have more participants even if they're not experts.
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 5:26 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9654
Re: ACF Regionals playtesting
I'm going to playtest the other science this weekend or next Monday. I'll be reaching out to everyone who's expressed interest to decide the time, but feel free to message me if you haven't expressed interest already.
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9654
Re: ACF Regionals playtesting
I'm going to schedule a playtesting session for Sunday (1/13) at 9:00 pm (8:00 central), hopefully allowing all three interested players to participate. This session will be mostly focussed on physics, but we'll do some other science as time allows. I'll send instructions for this session on Sunday ...
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9654
Re: ACF Regionals playtesting
I'm going to playtest physics and other science this weekend or early next week. I'll probably hold the sessions one after the other, but I'm open to having them at separate times depending on interest. I've made two doodle polls to select times: physics, other science.
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20495
Re: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
To summarize, I know the number of teams limits your logistical options, but I think last year's format (with 36 teams) was significantly better. This is why I think directors should take format into account more when determining field caps. I know you want to let as many people as possible play th...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
- Replies: 23
- Views: 20495
Re: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
I agree with what Jacob and Weijia posted above and want to thank Margaret and Penn for their logistical efforts. I have a few comments about the format: The prelim felt too long. Jacob and Weijia pointed out issues with having long prelim (and a late lunch). Here is another point. I think it would ...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 5:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5803
Re: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
I made a list of teams and people who BPA indicates are very good at various categories (players with single category BPA above 25, teams with single category BPA above 30) (apologies for the formatting; this is copy-pasted from Excel). Brad McLain (Illinois A) Illinois A 32.955 Beliefs Kai Smith (...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16999
Re: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
Yes, the site restricts answers to things that have Wikipedia page titles and have been asked about three times. So if you can select it as an answer, it's totally fine! (We may have more data than the DBs you're using ... we also have lower standards.) Maybe I'm missing something, but I still thin...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16999
Re: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
Only things that have Wikipedia pages can be answers. I think some people (myself included) interpreted this to mean "if X is a Wikipedia page then X can be an answerline," not "the set of submittable answerlines is a subset of Wikipedia article titles." Based on the below post ...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5803
Re: EFT 2018 - Detailed stats
I've also added a link to a folder with graphs like the one below for each tossup. Thanks for making these! They seem like a really useful tool for seeing which questions generated lots of negs, which were powered very often, etc. Hopefully this will help writers and editors better anticipate how q...
- Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16999
Re: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
Is there a length guideline for submitted questions?
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9445
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
The Hessian matrix clue in the derivatives tossup probably caused a few negs with "second derivatives."
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 4:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9136
Re: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
Several thoughts: 1) The art distribution seemed very very 15th-17th century-heavy, with modern art suffering as a result I think this is an interesting point, and I agree that the painting tossups skewed towards pre 19th century art (with the exception of Russian constructivism and abstract expres...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:01 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9445
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
I'm not sure exactly what the _bandwidth_ part in the laser bonus from packet 1 was talking about, but it seemed like the same thing as linewidth (see https://www.rp-photonics.com/bandwidth.html).
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:35 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9445
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
I get why you’d want to write a question on _carbon and carbon_, but saying that you want “these two elements” seems objectively misleading. It seems to me that you could pull off the same thing by changing the pronouns and making the answerline _carbon-carbon bonds_ or _making carbon-carbon bonds_...
- Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Please hold online playtesting mirrors on Sundays
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3410
Re: Please hold online playtesting mirrors on Sundays
A large factor must be travel time. Driving 2-4+ hours after a tournament is easier on Saturday than Sunday, when people have class, work, etc. on Monday.UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:08 am You know, now that this is being brought up, does anyone know why physical tournaments usually happen on Saturdays?
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 1:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
- Replies: 38
- Views: 30230
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
The packet submission requirement this thread is: Packet submission Any team with at least two people on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament prior to September 1, 2017 is required to submit a half-packet, unless it is a high school team attending a high school-only mirr...
- Sun Aug 26, 2018 3:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5312
Re: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
I want to clarify a few things from my earlier post. I'm not advocating anyone break their university's rules, but if you have the option, external accounts are useful. While I previously focussed on what clubs can do, clearly tournament organizers can also help speed the process along. As editors f...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:28 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5312
Re: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
I find your outrage rather incomprehensible. UofL Quizbowl is a part of the University of Louisville, and as such, as absolutely no ability whatsoever to simply mail out checks to people. I'm not commenting directly on Harris's outrage, but I want to point out that the above is an oversimplificatio...
- Thu May 03, 2018 1:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF should rename its "Division II" classification
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4530
Re: ACF should rename its "Division II" classification
I think this topic deserves more discussion. While I think it's important to recognize and reward less experienced players and teams at ACF events, the current setup can be quite confusing for the reasons Naveed pointed out. Beyond this confusion, it might worth discussing the purpose of D2 at ACF N...
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at the University of Michigan (10/21)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9414
Re: EFT at the University of Michigan (10/21)
At the risk of sounding like Naveed, I'm quoting Sam from the [email protected] announcement thread: hosts need to be using SQBS to generate statistics, because the hsqb database only accepts SQBS reports. For a variety of reasons* hosts must put statistics on the hsqb database; this is why any time you p...
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Postseason poll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8480
Re: Postseason poll
As for the rest, interested to hear discussion. Since Will and I mostly agree about the top 10, I'm going to list some thoughts about the rest of the top 25. I would break the remaining ranked teams into the following three categories. Teams that "proved themselves" or exceeded expectatio...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Postseason poll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8480
Re: Postseason poll
8. Minnesota (willing to discount the poor ICT performance, they had a great top bracket performance at ACF) 9. Michigan (despite above, I rate NAQT and ACF formats equally - this probably isn't true for everyone) 10. Berkeley B (top bracket at both Nationals, and ahead of Maryland and Chicago B, w...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 49679
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Physics was, by far, the hardest category for me to write. When I signed on to edit this tournament, I told Andrew H. that I would place question craftsmanship first and excitement second if at all, especially in this category. I knew I didn’t have the depth of knowledge to be especially innovative...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31897
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
The purpose of this post is two fold. The first is to draw your attention to Weijia Cheng and Graham Reid. Weijia is an excellent player who deserves a spot on your ballot. His skills are best showcased on difficult content. He's on when it counts the most. This year he got to showcase that in a po...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 2:10 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
- Replies: 50
- Views: 23139
Re: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
In the thread about the ideal schedule some people discussed utility of having a novice difficulty tournament early in the spring semester. I personally agree with Eric Wolfsberg, and think that a tournament like this should probably exist in every major circuit. I'm not sure this is actually preced...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:02 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: What Does an Ideal Season Look Like?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10791
Re: What Does an Ideal Season Look Like?
- Fall Novice in mid November (e.g. Delta Burke) It's not really clear why a mid November novice event is an essential part of the calendar, especially given its proximity to ACF Fall. Collegiate Novice gives new players an introduction to quizbowl near the start of the fall semester, and ACF Fall ...
- Sun Mar 18, 2018 3:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CMST: General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7238
Re: CMST: General Discussion
I'm a bit late, but I want to thank the editors for a very enjoyable set and post some thoughts about difficulty. In particular, I'm going to focus on the science. First of all, I want to commend Ryan and Aseem for producing a solid science distribution! My comments/suggestions are relatively minor ...
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Midseason poll
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10440
Re: Midseason poll
One might be tempted to derive conclusions about the skill of all Chicago teams from the mixed results of the A team, but I would caution against this. In particular, Matthew Lehmann is exceptionally good and only improving, but all the players on the B are highly capable of converting tossups agai...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 NAQT ICT: April 14, Chicago
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16678
Re: 2018 NAQT ICT: April 14, Chicago
I see an invitation for Michigan B, but I'm not sure why teams are being labeled with the D2 teams getting the A team and D1 getting B and so on. Where do you see this? This page lists Michigan A in Division I and Michigan B in Division II (which seems correct to me; we label teams in Division I fi...
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18433
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
Buzzpoints by team, split by player EDIT: The area under a player's curve is equal to the number of tossups answered correctly. Y axis is thus in arbitrary units of points*probability. Someone should design an interactive website with custom results and graphs but that I unfortunately don't have th...
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 1:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
- Replies: 66
- Views: 28374
Re: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
There are essentially two question about East Coast mirrors in this thread: 1) Should there be a single mirror site on the East Coast to allow for the largest/strongest possible field? 2) If there are two mirror sites on the East Coast, is it a good idea for those two sites to be Maryland and NYU? C...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13445
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Could I see the quantum computing bonus? I was glad to see both the adiabatic algorithm and quantum annealing come up, but it seemed a little hard to figure out exactly what the last part was looking for. I really like the physics on the whole, this is just a minor quibble.
- Thu Jan 18, 2018 10:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
- Replies: 66
- Views: 28374
Re: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
Just like Naveed, I'm not speaking in an official capacity, but I have some observation and concerns about the East Coast mirror situation. When a second Midwest mirror of CMST was announced, advocates of a 'one site per region' policy argued that: the existence of this site is bad for the Spring Op...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 9:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7922
Re: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
Can I see the tossup on phonons? I wanted to see what made the first clue phonons and not superfluids. Thanks! If I remember correctly, the first line refereed to packets of phonons [these things] being exchanged, resulting in second sound (a phenomenon that can happen in some solids as well as sup...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 2:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11965
Re: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments
I'm not sure I see your point here; I don't see how losing to a team of 4 high schoolers is less demoralizing than, for instance, losing to a high schooler playing solo or a B team from a high school. I'm not arguing that neither of those teams should have been allowed to play, but rather that I be...
- Mon Oct 23, 2017 12:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11965
Re: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments
I think Naveed's post bring up some important points. The issue of high school teams playing regular season tournaments is somewhat complicated since it has advantages (as Paul noted) and disadvantages, but I think in the case of open/chimera teams the loss of legitimacy probably outweighs the poten...
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2017 EFT: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4287
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Hey, could I see the Coulomb tossup from packet 1? Maybe the science editors were aware of this already, but the vapor pressure (chem) tossup from packet 6 and the diffusion (phys) tossup for packet 10 reference Knudsen cells and Knudsen diffusion respectively. This isn't literally a repeat, but I t...
- Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24797
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
Could I see the gravitational waves toss up? There was a buzzer race on the first line when I played it; I'm curious if this happened to anyone else.
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 5:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
- Replies: 131
- Views: 47966
SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
Just out of curiosity, does NAQT have a formal policy on teams from the same school addending multiple Sectionals? Or on two teams from the same school both claiming ICT bids by winning two different sites of SCT?
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- Mon Jan 23, 2017 5:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Midseason Poll
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6495
Re: Midseason Poll
Jumping on the EFT stats bandwagon, it looks like EFT at WUSTL and Youngstown state are not yet included.
- Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DATE CHANGE: Terrapin Mirror at OSU: 12/4/16
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9263
Re: DATE CHANGE: Terrapin Mirror at OSU: 12/4/16
Thanks to OSU for hosting. Congrats to OSU, Chicago, Michigan and the other teams for their strong performances. Also, thanks to all the staff, particularly everyone who traveled to staff this. We had a really good time, and I don't think things would have gone so smoothly without having so many goo...