The Quizbowl Resource Center

Yikes.

Interesting...

ScienceFail wrote:Which UC schools have QB clubs? I know the "higher" UCs like LA, Berkeley and SD have them but what about the other schools?

UC-Irvine has a team. I believe UC-Riverside also has a club, but I'm not positive.

Uh, how late did you start? If I were driving really far away for a tournament, I would think that it would be especially in my interest to get my money's worth of play, not the other way around. I remember Jake mentioning that at least one team left the tournament extremely early (i.e. after round...

Journey to the Planets wrote:That's probably why he said "team stats".

My mistake. But thanks anyway for that clarification...

sychipola wrote:Team stats for the Delta Burke can be found here: http://results.scobo.net/SQBS.aspx?org= ... =standings

Apparently only the team standings have been uploaded. The rest of the links on the page don't work.

I'd like to try it.

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let's get NAQT and the larger community working together on that goal rather than on creating teams who only play DII Sectionals and high school questions. I agree, but this has been a problem for years. I know of clubs/teams that have essentially disappeared since winning DII sectionals. Newer clu...

There were 12 teams total, so I wonder if the field could have been merged to avoid the triple round robin in DI. Seems like the tournament went well, though.

Is there anything in place to discourage student unions from setting up quizbowl clubs at schools that already have an independent circuit team? Usually schools don't allow this to happen. Two clubs generally can't have duplicate purposes, and the existing club gets priority. Let's look at two scen...

Whig's Boson wrote:Is there anything in place to discourage student unions from setting up quizbowl clubs at schools that already have an independent circuit team?

Usually schools don't allow this to happen. Two clubs generally can't have duplicate purposes, and the existing club gets priority.

I like the idea of encouraging ACUI schools without quiz bowl clubs to establish them. Are there any incentives for establishing clubs for schools without them?

So does that mean that the ACUI at UT-Knoxville is hosting a sectional on 2/13? Since the agreement was just signed, we may see more ACUI chapters at different schools hosting the SCT. I'm suddenly not so sure that the agreement was a good idea after all.

Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I've heard a rumor that, at least in the Northwest, that ACUI signed or was about to sign a contract with NAQT.

That would be great. If the agreement was for all regions, then there could be a surge of new teams in the non-CBI formats.

When he says "participate", is he referring to having your club field a team, or simply having you staff the event? In any case, this event would be a great recruiting tool for your club, seeing as you don't have many members. Regardless of the capacity in which your club participates in t...

You should look into running a HS tournament to raise money. Why? A high school quiz bowl tournament is great marketing for a small college, and you have more money to go to more tournaments. You and your school win. Exactly. I would guess that 90% of college clubs host a high school tournament at ...

TheLessFamousEthan wrote:Is there going to be any protection offered to us little community college teams against Case Western? Perhaps in the form of them only being freshman and sophomores?

I know that two of the guys going with the Case team are freshmen. Not sure of the others, however.

Could we get a link to stats from this event? Thanks.

So is it your goal to use a diverse set of tournaments to prevent "overfitting" of your simulation to one or a few tournaments? If so, I would think the criteria you mentioned would be satisfied as long as you used a large number of tournaments as your input. Then again, I'm thinking about...

I'm also interested if it isn't too late.

It's been really great seeing ULL at tons of non-NAQT circuit events in the last two years...

Well I wouldn't say we've been at tons of events, but hopefully the guys there now will change things.

I still will have no idea what teams in Louisiana actually exist.

Well, I founded the UL Lafayette team in 2001, though we participated in NAQT almost exclusively until about two years ago.

That was my fault.

When I look at some of the teams who sign up for CBI regionals, I can't help but think of what it would be like if half of them participated in NAQT or ACF events every year. For the most part, we don't see these teams at events like ACF Fall or any quiz bowl event independent of CBI. As it is, I'm ...

Something about a 1960s NBA player winning the league MVP award without being named an all-star.

Answer: Jerry West
My teammate's answer: "Chauncey Billups"

Mhayes

That's understandable. We had similar issues when I was at UL Lafayette.

Are meetings still at 6pm on Thursdays, or has one not been scheduled yet?

I'm also curious. I just started Ph.D. study at Case and was under the impression that the tournament would be this Saturday.

What's the difference between a college team beating or losing to another college team and beating or losing to a high school team of comparable skill? From the standpoint of pure skill, there isn't much of a difference of all. However, to an outsider who doesn't know much of anything about the ski...

Personally, I'm vehemently against high school teams competing in college tournaments, regardless of their skill levels.

From the standpoint of the college team, I don't see what it would have to gain by defeating or losing to a high school team. It's a no-win situation.

The full announcement can be found here:

http://ullquizbowl.tripod.com/HSTourneyInformation.htm

UL Lafayette may not get many votes either, but our four going to the NAQT ICT are:

Jake Sundberg
Scott Broussard
Chris Fontenot
Bryan Fontenot

This is the same team that won DII in the Southwest Sectional.

As for ACF Nationals, I don't think we'll be going this year