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Ben Dillon

I realize I don't have a dog in this fight, but here's my thought. #1. Divide into two divisions of 18 #2. Each division runs 3 x 6 (5 games) #3. Each division rebrackets into another 3 x 6 (4 games + 1 carryover result from #2) #4. Combine the divisions and rebracket into 6 x 6 (2 games + 3 carryov...

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Our league switched to NAQT format this year, coming from a QU format. Cost prompted this switch, not any altruistic desire for pyramidal questions. The #1 criticism is indeed length. (I don't really have the heart to tell the rest of the league that we're on A sets and MS sets, and the IS sets woul...

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Do you feel comfortable approaching your principal with your concerns? And is there another faculty member who would be willing to be the assistant coach who accompanies you to tournaments the coach cannot?

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So…. aren't you saying that blitzing should be outlawed because, once the pronoun is specified, answering "Shakespeare" is extra information that isn't correct?

EDIT: I mean blitzing with "Hamlet by Shakespeare", not just "Shakespeare".

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Silly question about this… I guess the gap here is we can't anticipate what kind of incomplete answers might be said. I'd hate to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. No, we aren't going to be able to exhaustively predict what answers might be given. That's an existing problem, and it's one of ...

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We had a case of "incredible shrinking tournament disease" and ended up with two schools (five teams) only. With the ND-USC game threatening to lock up traffic as well, it was decided to do a single round-robin.

First was Saint Joseph A (4-0, 26.3 ppb)

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Actually, the zip code is 46617 :)

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Why do I feel as if I already know the theme?

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How about "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"? I know no reader who wouldn't take "Huckleberry Finn" or at least prompt it.

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If a ring is Noetherian, this type of ring over the original is also Noetherian by the Hilbert basis theorem. A splitting field is the smallest field extension for which a given one of these decomposes into linear factors. The complex numbers are algebraically closed because these functions are alw...

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So in case anyone wants to get involved in outreach towards these Chip Teams, here's a map I compiled using all the middle, jv, and varsity level teams from the Qunlimited website. There are of course some cases where I couldn't tell ("East" High for instance) and had to guess what school...

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Card system? :)

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Given that there seem to be more than enough moderators (I think I counted fifteen), perhaps two more teams should be formed. That opens up the scheduling options, especially if you can scrape up another packet?

20 teams = 4 divisions of 5 = 5 packets
Then rebracket into 4 quads = 3 packets

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What's the subject distribution for NASAT? Is there a question distribution available? The same as each past NASAT--each 20/20 packet has 4/4 each of literature, history, and science; 3/3 arts; 2/2 RMP; 1/1 social science; 1/1 geography; and 1/1 split between current events and academic general kno...

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Having taken the survey, it would be good if you could clean up the lengthy list of activities. It took me forever to locate Quiz Bowl under "High School Quiz Bowl", for example, and there seem to be several duplicates on the list.

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Rotary Indiana Championship
http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-te ... nt_id=4573

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Realdeo wrote:But this is better than a slap bowl (IMO) especially during buzzer race.

Um... no. For so many reasons :)

Ben Dillon

You don't understand how the small school 'division' or national tournaments work. I'm aware of how the small school division works. Teams that are 4-6 or better (no fewer than three) qualify for playoffs, and it gets more complicated if some of them are involved in the general playoffs. And why wo...

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Perhaps it's heresy to suggest this, but I count 25 Small Schools. Maybe there should be a separate HSNCT for them on the following weekend? (If they wanted to play up, they could, but they could only register for one of the two, with question duplication.) This would allow for expansion to 256. I d...

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Yes, it was an official cancel. I apologize for not being more direct :(

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Unfortunately, the local teams have been hemorrhaging. I fear we're going to have to cancel this tournament... truly sorry about that, Jeff. The local schools were all for a tournament if it would occur during the school week, but that was of course impossible since we'd still be holding school ours...

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I'll moderate.

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Skill Bowl used to be one of the leagues. It's been defunct for a couple of years, and most of the schools were absorbed into the White River league.

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Euler's Constant wrote:Morgan you're forgetting the mystery team, which throws a wretch in that situation.

"Wretch"? :)

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Not as yet, but it won't be until second semester.

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Wow. The very purpose of the "Supreme Court appeal" is to correct grave injustices. And the purpose was defeated because it would be too much trouble to get at the truth of the situation and possibly reassemble the teams involved? How disheartening. For me, this would have been simple as a...

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Having heard the packets, I can moderate this.

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Hopefully there's room for another team? Neggers in Paris = St. Joseph's (plus me)

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A warning to NAC teams: Harrison, the defending champs, returned everyone from last year's team. They won Indiana's QU State Championship this year and finished a narrow runnerup at NAQT Rotary State (to Culver Academies). They should be considered a strong threat to repeat. They are solid on pyrami...

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Saint Joseph's is now in for 1 standard team, 1 buzzer, 1 moderator.

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:::shudder:::

I am reminded of the NAC bonus circa ten years ago about Brad Rutter.

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Longshot too long. Sorry, we're out :(

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Longshot, but I'll check with my team tomorrow and see if they're interested. It'd be short notice, but it might happen; probably depends on my #1 player's hockey schedule.

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St. Joseph's is in for two teams (at this point, 1 V / 1 FS, but that could change to 2 V if I can't get enough youngers). Thought I'd sent this in earlier.

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The first is a card system, which works great at HSNCT, but is complex and requires a lot of know-how with a thin margin of error. Chess tournaments for years have used Swiss system pairing programs. Seems to me there could be a downloadable program a la SQBS to pair on the fly. The second is what ...

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Aren't we starting to slice really thinly the line between blitzing and providing harmless extra information? If I respond "Franklin Delano Roosevelt" instead of just "Franklin Roosevelt", is that blitzing? If I give the creator along with the creation, does the moderator need to...

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At one point a couple of years ago, I found time to modify Excel macros that Phil Blessman was using that would respond to double-clicking the cells. For example, the first double-click would enter a 10, the second would power with 15, the third would neg as -5. The purpose was to tailor it for a Sm...

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I take it there are no records of earlier Purdue College Bowl teams. Sigh. Four years of my life with no proof of the (admittedly scant) accomplishments.

Good luck though!

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Sorry. Wasn't seeing the graphs because of the older IE. Now that I can see them, though... The rating/ranking over time doesn't seem that helpful too me. I doubt there's enough of a significant trend during the course of one year for a team. However, the second graph (margin versus rating) does loo...

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The multiple St. Joseph's doppelgangers have been disaggregated, I can confirm. I'm curious about what might go in the "Graphs" sections. Off the top of my head, here be my spitball suggestions if it hasn't been decided yet: 1. Put PPTUH on the x-axis and PPB on the y-axis, which I think a...

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From the Indiana perspective, not finding funding to defray the expense ended up prohibiting us from attending, but other factors were at play too. All-Star #1 probably would not have attended, or would have attended at most one day, as his family had planned a trip to France. NASAT can't control th...

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As hinted by Matt earlier, Team Indiana will sadly not be able to attend. Next year hopefully, when I've got the full year to score the funding.

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Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote:Why don't you tell this person she is a phenomenal idiot then? Because you're scared?

Ummm... because that won't accomplish anything?

I gotta go with the (admittedly slow) diplomatic route. People don't usually respond well to bludgeoning.

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Actually, it's a little deeper than that. Coach Schneider believes strongly in her position. She thinks QUnlimited allows girls to show their strengths in English and Literature better. (In fact, she very much likes vocabulary-based questions such as anagrams and synonyms because of this. The fact ...

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Also, for those of you who don't keep track of Indiana quiz bowl... :grin: The state is undergoing a (excruciatingly?) slow evolution toward modern quiz bowl. When the state tournament was started in '97, it was organized by the Indy-based league and immediately gravitated toward Chip. He even hoste...

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I'll add to what Bryce has said... On a more serious note, I believe the subject of Chip vs. pyramidal has been discussed with Harrison multiple times. I don't think that Mrs. Schneider will budge from her support of Chip. Actually, it's a little deeper than that. Coach Schneider believes strongly i...

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So using fake names promotes team unity and thereby helps advance the game overall? Why not... it worked for the XFL!

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I was going to make a thread about this in miscellaneous a few days ago, but opted not to. I now regret that decision, as the NAC must still be considered in the company of actual national quiz bowl tournaments. Maybe next year... I see Anchorage in that schedule. Has Questions Unlimited broken int...

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Indiana is holding tryouts 4/30. Assuming we can secure funding, we'll be in attendance.

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At first glance, every category has a plurality in "same", arguing for no change in distribution. If you merge "lots fewer" into "fewer" and "lots more" into "more", the plurality is maintained in half the cases, except for the following: Fine Arts: ...

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