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mithokie

George, I just saw the recommendation from the Scholastic Bowl Advisory Committee. It made so much sense that I didn't even consider that it could be rejected. I guess George Mason vs. Maggie Walker should be entertaining in 2A, but it's kind of sad to think that all of the epic TJ vs. MW battles at...

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How the regular season will be affected will be determined by how your district changes (if it changes). New District Alignments can be found here . Districts may now consist of teams from multiple classifications at one time. There will be 6 classifications in the new system. After the regular seas...

mithokie

I have a flowchart that I made before our last tournament. It was too large to print on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, but it might be readable on an 8.5 x 17. Apparently the file is too large to attach to the post. I will find a way to put it up. Resized file so that it could be posted: The Hunter Col...

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Here are a couple of ideas... If you just want to give teams more games, then you could have teams seeded 3-5 play a round robin, and teams seeded 6-8 play a round robin. Packets 1-7 8 team Round Robin Packet 8 3 vs. 5, 6 vs. 8 1 vs. 2, (single final, or 1st game of advantaged file) Packet 9 4 vs. 5...

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Western Albemarle A (VA) is 30th and 65th. They are misspelled once with an extra "r" Albe"r"marle A

Also, Montgomery Blair A is 21st and 32nd; listed once as VA, once as MD. There is no Montgomery Blair HS in VA.

mithokie

If I create a new room by typing in a name Example: "protobowl.com/example", can I then invite people to join me by sharing the link to that room?

mithokie

The tournament has concluded with Cave Spring A taking home the championship, Western Albemarle was runner-up, with Christiansburg A finishing 3rd overall. Also earning a birth to Pace-NSC were E.C. Glass and Loudoun County. Thanks for everyone who came out today; I hope that your experience was pos...

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Due to a production delay, this tournament will now be run on HSAPQ set #32. Fortunately, I believe that no one in the field has played set 32. I checked our field against both the TJ and UNC fields, so we should be just fine.

mithokie

Below is a copy of the e-mail I sent out to coaches on Monday 1/7/13 Registration remains open until Wednesday 1/9/13! Blacksburg High Academic Invitational: The weather looks great for Saturday, so we are looking forward to seeing all of you on 1/12/2013. Below you will find all of the information ...

mithokie

Each match will consist of 20 toss-ups with bonus questions worth up to 30 points each for the team that earns the bonus by answering the toss-up correctly. We are looking forward to seeing you in January.

mithokie

Assuming that you have a random number generator available which I will call rand(), and you are already collecting data on how many times a question has been read [ int(inc_random) ], you could choose the question with the smallest value of value=(rand()+int(inc_random))/rand(). This biases the sel...

mithokie

Is VCU writing their own set for VCU Spring, or will this be a mirrored set? I am trying to finalize my winter and spring schedules, and I don't want to schedule myself into a question set conflict inadvertently.

Thanks,

mithokie

It looks like head-to-head has been proposed as the first tie breaker (by the VHSL Scholastic Bowl Advisory Committee) with Total Points (basically PPG) as the second. This is probably going to end up as a Total Points tie-break most of the time since situations B and C are much more likely (in my o...

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This pertains to VHSL competition where PPB is a non-existant statistic since there are no bonus questions. I am working to influence the decision makers who will determine the tie-break procedures when VHSL moves to round robin competition (6 clasifications with 4 teams each) at the state level for...

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In the following situation, what would you advise as a tie-break procedure. 4 teams play a round robin on a set of 3 available packets and there are no additional packets available to play off any possible ties. Trophies are to be awarded for 1st place and 2nd place only. What tie-break procedure wo...

mithokie

The Sample Scoresheet... It's a pdf.

http://www.naqt.com/downloads/sample-scoresheet.pdf

mithokie

This tournament has been awarded Platinum Certification by PACE and thus, the top 25% of the field will qualify for PACE NSC 2013. I also would like to remind everyone that our early registration deadline is on Friday 12/14, so if you are considering signing up, this week would be a good time to do ...

mithokie

The moderator was incorrect to allow both teams the opportunity to answer the replacement question. If the packet did not have any available replacement directed questions, then the moderator at worst should have read a toss-up that only your team should have had the opportunity to answer. The speci...

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Info that could also be added to the schedule in the first post:

Blacksburg High Academic Invitational is using HSAPQ set #33 on 1/12. I believe New Kent is using the same set on 1/12, and TJ is using HSAPQ set #32 on 12/15.

mithokie

Blacksburg High School will be hosting a tournament on January 12, 2013. The tournament will be played on HSAPQ set #33. The tournament format will be played with some form of pool play followed by re-bracketed playoffs to ensure that all teams will get as many competitive and meaningful matches as ...

mithokie

http://www.naqt.com/ict/2012/brain-world-cup.html

Tangentially related to the previous posts. Interesting...

mithokie

Our Zeecraft Challenger II is missing its "Detachable Powerpack"/"Powerpack for Master Control", which I can order for $21 from Zeecraft. It was not packed up with our buzzers at our last tournament last spring. I think I might be able to get a better price on one at Radio Shack,...

mithokie

The National History Bee & Bowl Southwest Virginia Regional will be played on Bee & Bowl Set C at Blacksburg HS in Blacksburg, VA on Saturday October 20, 2012.

mithokie

Fred,

I could help with writing some Macros to automate the data processing inside of Excel once the data is there if that would be helpful.

mithokie

We got a system from NED at buzzersystems.com last year. They were quite affordable (not quite as affordable as Anderson) and are well built and sturdy. What I really like is the flexibility we have with them. An individual "Traditional System" can support 12 players, but you can purchase ...

mithokie

(Tongue firmly in cheek) If we're comparing pre-nats rankings to post-nats rankings for teams that did no go to nationals, Blacksburg was at 90, so take that Wheatons.

@ Fred, thanks for all that you have done with these rankings this year!

mithokie

Blacksburg High School is planning to run an invitational on either HSAPQ or NAQT questions on January 12. I do note the potential conflict between the New Kent/Freeman date and ours, but I feel that the circuits are distinct enough that it shouldn't make a big difference to either of us.

mithokie

Spreadsheet is done.

mithokie

The file is attached. Dan, feel free to place this anywhere you want.

mithokie

I think that playoff room assignments should be done ahead of time and published on a bracket for the teams, so that teams can determine from the bracket where to go next. The room assignments could be determined before you even have teams registered if you know the facility you are going to be work...

mithokie

Out of curiosity, does it look like these will be ready in May or is it looking more like a 2012-2013 restart?

Thanks!

mithokie

Is this actively happening?

mithokie

Understood. I hope that the tourney goes well for you, and we'll see you in April for your HS tourney.

mithokie

Is it possible for a high school to enter this tournament?

mithokie

We see Matt quite often, and knew that he was very good. He put up good numbers at NAQT nationals last year (61.40 PP20TUH). When we saw him at ACE camp this summer, he was one of the top individuals there. He and Daniel from GDS as well as a few players from Dorman and the Atlanta metro area were c...

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Well done and efficiently run tournament. For those scoring at home
Honey Badgers = Blacksburg A
Werewolves = Blacksburg B
Polar Bears = Blacksburg C
Rhinos = Blacksburg D
Edwins = Blacksburg E

We had a good time today. Kudos to Bob and Cave Spring.

mithokie

Christiansburg went undefeated through the regular season and at the River Ridge District tournament. During the regular season, they won a 10 point match against Cave Spring on a sudden death overtime question, and won a 5 point match against Blacksburg in which they clinched by going up 15 on the ...

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As a coach, my own personal stance (not necessarily my team's stance) is that I would strongly prefer not to have tournaments on Sundays as that is a day that I spend with my family and attend religious services myself. A few of my players would probably choose not to play on Sundays, but I expect t...

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Do schools know their own NAQT ID numbers? Could this be a line added to registration forms? Is it too much to ask tournament directors to look up ID numbers and include them in their statistical output?

mithokie

Thanks for your work on this. I've thought about trying to do a rating system of my own before and have even started a small one in excel. The most difficult part seems to be school identification. It would be most helpful if we had as a starting point a list of all high schools with some form of ID...

mithokie

As a coach of a high school team, I highly doubt that Andrew can be used as a writer of high school questions for either NAQT or HSAPQ. I have not seen an official policy from either of the main question writing organizations, so I may be mistaken. Would either of the organizations care to confirm t...

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The last two years HSAPQ has made additional sets out of their VHSL material. I don't know if they will do that this year or not. Matt Moschella and Christiansburg are quite good, in case people on the national scene have not noticed. I read that this was Cave Spring's B team on Bob Powers facebook ...

mithokie

Dan,

I don't know if it will make much of a difference or not, but I believe that is the weekend of the VT Spring football game.

Matt

mithokie

Here are the various methods of tournament play that I have seen used in quizbowl tournaments: 1. Single Elimination Tournament 2. Double Elimination Tournament 3. Full Round Robin 4. Randomly assigned schedule followed by single elimination 5. Pooled Prelims followed by single elimination tounramen...

mithokie

On mailings I send to schools with no contact, I always include a generic title like:

Academic Team Coach
Anon. HS
Anon, AN XXXXX

I also include a similar greeting for schools that I have a contact for...

<Name of Last Known Contact>
or Current Academic Team Coach
Anon HS
Anon, AN XXXXX

mithokie

Is the Chattahoochee in your field the same Chattahoochee that competed on this set at UVA on 10/29? I know there have been inadvertent (and I suppose some on purpose, though I am not claiming that is the case here) cases of teams hearing the same question sets at different tournaments. I just wante...

mithokie

Stats have been uploaded for this event on our database page http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/14/stats/bhs_kickoff_all_games/ I hope all had an enjoyable time. Please note that this event was on regular season VHSL sets, and that the directed rounds were recorded in SQBS as "lightning r...

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Menu for concessions lunch:

A big slice of Pizza (1/6 of a large): $2.00
A piece of fruit: $1.00
A bag of chips: $1.00
A drink or bottle of water: $1.00

There will also be baked goods for sale for varying prices in multiples of $0.25.

mithokie

We are a few days away Information e-mail sent to coaches this morning follows: Coaches, We are making final preparations for the Fall Kickoff at Blacksburg High School on Saturday. DIRECTIONS: Please make sure that you are using the current location of Blacksburg High School at 3109 Price's Fork Ro...

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We have taken to holding separate practice rooms for more experienced and less experienced player for just the reasons that Jordan outlined above. I think it is a more welcoming and a better learning environment if you do so. Newer players hearing more experienced players power questions on Tolstoy,...

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