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- Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT card-basd power-matching system
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3417
Re: NAQT card-basd power-matching system
Yeah, having the number of teams be a multiple of a large power of two is rather helpful for these schedules to work out nicely.
- Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT card-basd power-matching system
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3417
Re: NAQT card-basd power-matching system
How do people who have designed card-swap systems deal with rounds after the W-L records stop being completely determined? As an example, in a 6-team tournament, there will be three 1-0 teams and three 0-1 teams after the first round. In the second round, some 1-0 team has to play a 0-1 team, but wh...
- Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:43 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT card-basd power-matching system
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3417
Re: NAQT card-basd power-matching system
Effectively, the first log_2(n) rounds are just a straight, pre-planned Swiss pair; for an algorithm, recursively do a n/2 team, r-1 round Swiss pair on the odds and evens, then play 1v2, 3v4 in the round that you add; this has the added benefit of maintaining effective standing order in the cards a...
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 07-08 Midseason Poll
- Replies: 57
- Views: 58475
Re: 07-08 Midseason Poll
I think you're vastly underestimating Tagalong's performance. Granted, no one part of the Tagalong team quite matches up to that of caramel for Samoa A, but when one considers the combined accomplishments of chocolate, peanut butter and cookie for Tagalong, I believe one would be hard pressed to de...
- Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 07-08 Midseason Poll
- Replies: 57
- Views: 58475
Re: 07-08 Midseason Poll
Unofficial Results: 1. Bryce Avery 2. Girl Scouts Tagalongs 3. Brice Avery 4. Pat Freeburn 5. You (imagine this thread has a quasi-reflective square of paper on the front of it, with inane articles inside) Look for further results in the next 48 hours. Anyone who ranked Tagalongs above Samoas clear...
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Private Sectionals Discussion Forum Signup and Access
- Replies: 94
- Views: 17769
- Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 Housh Classic (01/12/08) at TJHSST (Alexandria, VA)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 43573
TJ has had a 1/1 sports per tournament distribution for years. Apparently I somehow managed to impress the importance of this policy on my successors. They said that the sports questions were written... just that they might have been a bit too crazy writing the sports questions. Of course they may ...
- Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 Housh Classic (01/12/08) at TJHSST (Alexandria, VA)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 43573
Is there any chance that the spreadsheet used for the card system could be posted? I am very interested to see how the pairings worked, especially in the later rounds. Yes there is. During the fiasco of teams dropping out at the last minute, I also have a card system set up for 42, 44, and 48 teams...
- Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 Housh Classic (01/12/08) at TJHSST (Alexandria, VA)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 43573
- Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pyramidal Math Tossups
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4880
While the quadratic example seems ugly, you are told that there is only one solution, so a really good math player will know that it is a perfect square trinomial. This can help you solve the problem quickly in a few different ways. The one root will be x=-b/2a, or you can divide everything by 2 an...
- Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pyramidal Math Tossups
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4880
I really like the style of these questions; the idea of putting lots of pyramidally ordered small computation problems has a lot of promise for making pyramidal computational math both easier to write and more accessable to the average player. I fear, however, that having the early clues be too diff...
- Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Mid-Atlantic ACF Fall at VCU: 11/3/07
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9046
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 Housh Classic (01/12/08) at TJHSST (Alexandria, VA)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 43573
Hey, I might just have to come and moderate for the tournament name (I assume this means we're past the Lederer/Silberman days when 1/1 trash did not include sports) I also want to see this card system at work at a non-HSNCT tourney...schafer you should come to...you'd appreciate the math... :grin:...
- Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: TJIAT 07 (10/13/07) at Thomas Jefferson HS
- Replies: 67
- Views: 26564
Time was not the thing preventing 10 rounds. Logistics, as in available moderators, was the problem. Even so, the card system would have a lot of advantages. That seems surprising. At least on paper, TJ's team had more than enough members to moderate and scorekeep rounds for 48 teams. Especially si...
- Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Discussion
- Replies: 92
- Views: 32242
First off, I want to preface these comments with the overall qualifier that this was a fantastic set of questions. While I do have what I hope is constructive feedback, it is mostly on very minor matters that did not significantly affect my great enjoyment of the tournament. Writers/Editors: Thanks....
- Sun Oct 07, 2007 5:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: W&M EFT: Hieronymous BOSCH Appreciation Day (10/6/2007)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20766
My only real complaint is that I just now I got home I'll echo that (at 5:30 on Sunday), though in all fairness, I don't really think our flat tire was the tournament's fault... Overall, the tournament was run quite nicely; a 1.5 page schedule with no less than 7 tables was a little hard to figure ...
- Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Governor's School Academic Competition (GSAC) XV: December 8
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28294
Re: Governor's School Academic Competition (GSAC) XV: Decemb
National tournament qualification : Pending affiliation, the top 4 teams will receive bids to the 11th Annual National Scholastics Championship (NSC), hosted by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE). what about NAQT? I suspect wowitsquinthaha is wondering if there will be quali...
- Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Titanomachy Maryland Mirror Date Poll
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2482
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Trash distribution discussion
- Replies: 76
- Views: 32507
- Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Favorite Intentional Neg
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10952
As a member of the other team in the game referenced by Wall of Shawarma , I'd like to state up front that nobody on my team would have gotten the tossup, even from the giveaway, so this particular stall ended up being utterly irrelevant. I'd then like to note that this particular stalling buzz was ...
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/Metro Area 2007-08
- Replies: 164
- Views: 52895
Coming soon to DACQ sets: computation questions about priming the buzzer. I really have no choice, do I: TOSSUP Pencil and paper ready. During a warm-up match for Panasonic, Chris, practicing his buzzer priming, will accidentally buzz early on 25% of the questions in a 20-question round, though on ...
- Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational math in high school quizbowl
- Replies: 73
- Views: 81886
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QBML: wouldn't it be nice?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20928
Well, if people can be made to format things correctly in Word, you could probably get them to do something similar in Notepad, with underscores instead of underlining, etc. It makes for a much easier parse. In fact, we did this for the 2007 JIAT, with no XML intermediary; just went from text files...
- Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chris McCray Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11916
Okay, I didn't realize that the Heysel disaster was that well known; it probably should have been moved later then. I used the 2007 Champions League as the giveaway simply because of the proximity of the tournament to the game (within a few months); if not for that factor, the 2005 Champions League ...
- Wed Jul 04, 2007 4:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chris McCray Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11916
The one other thing that bothers me is that the Liverpool tossup from round 1 is insultingly easy to anyone who knows minimal amounts about soccer. Which clues are you referencing? As the author of said Liverpool tossup, I thought it was fairly pyramidal, but I don't really have a solid feel as to ...
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 PACE NSC (yes, I said 2008)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11581
Yeah I'll try to volunteer for PACE next year, so for those purposes May 31-June 1 would be a lot better for me (sounds like that's easier for TJ too). Isn't ARML going to be a conflict? AFAIK, It always has been hosted on the first weekend in June (i.e. it might be May 31-June 1)... However, i don...
- Sun May 27, 2007 4:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: Maggie Walker wins 2007 HSNCT!
- Replies: 138
- Views: 52028
Call me picky but I'm curious... if this is setup as a double-elimination tournament (which it looks like it is), why have a 3rd place game? In double-elims 3rd place is already determined... Though I do not know for sure, I believe that the third place game is necessary because of the cross-bracke...
- Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: WJIAT (3/24) @ Walter Johnson HS (Bethesda,MD)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13584
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: National Poll Time
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10776
- Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: MITBAT III (3-3-07) @ MIT (Cambridge, MA)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6605
The program used at the GSAC, as I recall, paired 1 vs. 2, 3 vs. 4, etc. within each group. The JIAT ranks the teams mostly by random for the first round, then re-ranks within each group by PPG. After that re-ranking, 1 plays n/2, 2 plays n/2 + 1, etc, with rearrangements made if necessary to avoid ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Deciding on team standings
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5037
I would agree with PPG, except that for timed tournaments, I would prefer PP20TUH (or PPTUH, which is equivalent). I think that using PPBH favors the bonus aspect of quiz bowl too strongly over the tossup aspect, whereas PPTUH takes into account both. I also think that for a something like the ICT b...
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: VHSL Regional/District Tournaments (Jan-Feb 2007)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 24112
THIS IS A COMPUTATION QUESTION. You are trying to find the area of a triangle with sides of length 4, 8, and 10. This seems impossible, but with Heron's formula becomes much easier. Calculate the semiperimeter, s, by adding the lengths of the sides and dividing by two. Then, multiply s, s minus a, ...
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:22 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: VHSL Regional/District Tournaments (Jan-Feb 2007)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 24112
I haven't seen VHSL questions this year, so I am speaking in the abstract here: Can someone associated with TJ (and Gov if at all possible) send me some examples of their pyramidal math tossups? I liked the one dschafer posted in some other thread, the one that was used this season and essentially r...
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Format of science questions
- Replies: 58
- Views: 26754
Also, lest we forget, computational questions remove one of the pillars of pyramidality -the fact that in depth knowledge should be rewarded. It simply doesn't happen in most computational questions, because it usually ends up rewarding whoever has the best mind for numbers, and quizbowl is not the...
- Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GRUDGE MATCH II: Ghost Ride the Grudge Match
- Replies: 109
- Views: 36513
- Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Results: NAQT Mid-Atlantic at George Mason (2/10/07)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 50658
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Results: NAQT Mid-Atlantic at George Mason (2/10/07)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 50658
- Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Teams In The Country '06-07?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 47812
The only potential issue with such a poll would be the regional nature of high school quiz bowl; I'm not sure how easy it is to rate teams that one hasn't seen. On the other hand, it would be interesting to see how the poll results turned out as compared to the results at the various national tourna...
- Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Results: NAQT Mid-Atlantic at George Mason (2/10/07)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 50658
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Results: NAQT Mid-Atlantic at George Mason (2/10/07)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 50658
- Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Results: NAQT Mid-Atlantic at George Mason (2/10/07)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 50658
- Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Results: NAQT Mid-Atlantic at George Mason (2/10/07)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 50658
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/Metro area 2006-07
- Replies: 111
- Views: 47158
jbarnes112358 : Based on my experiences with stats last year, the neccessary files are on a school computer, so with the three-day weekend, it might be difficult to access them today. As the moderator for that Gonzaga-Gov A game, I must say that it was one of the finest matches I've ever seen. Both...
- Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Last Great Auk
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5573
- Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Last Great Auk
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5573
- Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Election 2006 Pick 'em
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12904
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Election 2006 Pick 'em
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12904
- Thu Nov 02, 2006 9:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QBStatGen Program
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4147
Oops... sorry about that. RC2 is now available for download on the QBStatGen site: http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dschafer/QBStatGen/
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QBStatGen Program
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4147
E.T. Chuck : Given that SQBS supports Bouncebacks, I should be able to add support for them to the next verison of QBStatGen. The script for QBStatGen actually takes the tournament results file rather than the HTML output; I'm on a Mac right now, so I won't be able to create a tournament file which...
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QBStatGen Program
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4147