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by Whiter Hydra
Wed Apr 09, 2014 5:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: It's Academic discussion
Replies: 105
Views: 53642

Re: Beginner-level competition in DC/MD/VA area

There's also nothing wrong with playing a regular-difficulty tournament. Yes, you struggle against some of the nationals-calibre teams in the morning (and even then you'll learn lots by watching them play!), but in the afternoon playoff rounds you'll be playing against teams of your own level on que...
by Whiter Hydra
Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Aggression and Negs across formats
Replies: 4
Views: 2226

Re: Aggression and Negs across formats

I feel like one would also have to consider the other team negging, though I suspect most of the time it doesn't play a major role.
by Whiter Hydra
Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:06 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
Replies: 46
Views: 51000

Re: Tournament Database Search by Team

My hosting provider is having problems, so my site is down for the time being. Unfortunately I have no idea when it will be up again.

EDIT: It's up again.
by Whiter Hydra
Sat Mar 08, 2014 2:23 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Dan Goff Memorial Tournament (March 8, 2014, Blacksburg, VA)
Replies: 11
Views: 6275

Re: Dan Goff Memorial Tournament (March 8, 2014, Blacksburg,

Stats!

Congratulations to Cave Spring A for clearing the field by three games!
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cane Ridge Revival at UChicago: 2014-03-08
Replies: 56
Views: 26838

Re: Cane Ridge Revival at UChicago: 2014-03-08

Regardless, the only plausible way one would have a two-way tie one game back of first would be if the top three teams finished 10-3, 9-4, and 9-4, which seems rather unlikely to me.
by Whiter Hydra
Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Crowdsourced Head to Head Rankings
Replies: 56
Views: 17486

Re: Crowdsourced Head to Head Rankings

In addition, the Elo system only cares about your current rating, not how many games you've played. So if a team with a record of 100-400 were to suddenly beat a team with a record of 400-100 10 times in a row, the former's Elo will most likely shoot up past the latter's.
by Whiter Hydra
Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:58 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Alabama 2013-14
Replies: 67
Views: 15667

Re: Alabama 2013-14

There's a few bits that are exclusive to the timer and NAQT using two sets for SCT, but the D-value formulation boils down to (Average points per game)*(Average tossup points per game among opponents)/(Average tossup points per game among all teams).
by Whiter Hydra
Mon Feb 10, 2014 6:53 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Dan Goff Memorial Tournament (March 8, 2014, Blacksburg, VA)
Replies: 11
Views: 6275

Dan Goff Memorial Tournament (March 8, 2014, Blacksburg, VA)

The Dan Goff Memorial Tournament is being held on our campus in Blacksburg, VA on March 8, 2014 and will using NAQT's Introductory Invitational Series Set IS-133A. Location Teams will report to McBryde 100. This is the large auditorium on the south side of the building. Parking restrictions are not ...
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:00 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT SCT Mid-Atlantic @ Virginia Tech (2/8/14)
Replies: 18
Views: 6985

Re: NAQT SCT Mid-Atlantic @ Virginia Tech (2/8/14)

Round-robin plus bracketed playoffs in Division I, round-robin in Division II. Finals if needed. Yup. That's what Harry and I worked out at practice tonight. If staffing permits, we'll likely add a house team to Div 2 so that we don't have a bye. So for D1, a round robin and then a split into five ...
by Whiter Hydra
Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:23 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: It's Academic Predictions and Beltway League Discussion
Replies: 3
Views: 3268

Re: It's Academic Predictions and Beltway League Discussion

It's Academic prediction: Whoever has the fastest reaction time will win.
by Whiter Hydra
Tue Jan 14, 2014 1:39 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Transition Time !!! From HS to Collegiate
Replies: 2
Views: 1559

Re: Transition Time !!! From HS to Collegiate

Glad to see you're excited about college Quizbowl! We'd be happy to have you join us, if you do end up going to Virginia Tech. So, any tips on how to transition? Whether it be an intro to college topics or maybe a summer program to suggest or some book to read, I dont care. Quite possibly the best w...
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Jan 12, 2014 9:04 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 34
Views: 8490

Re: Specific Question Discussion

KnicksRule wrote:I have a comment about the Everest Geo question earlier discussed. A mountain has to have a higher elevation than 2,000 ft. Thus, this may be a legitimate clue.
It would still apply to the tallest mountain in the Americas and Australia, which are both certainly over 2000 ft in elevation.
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2013 Mid-Atlantic ACF Fall Mirror - UVA (11/3/13)
Replies: 37
Views: 16554

Re: 2013 Mid-Atlantic ACF Fall Mirror - UVA (11/3/13)

Smuttynose Island wrote:I am waiting on some information before I post full combined stats. Sorry.
Paging StatsDiskPr0xy...
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DRAGOON Mirror @ Virginia Tech (Sunday, 11/17/13)
Replies: 13
Views: 5563

Re: DRAGOON Mirror @ Virginia Tech (Sunday, 11/17/13)

We have rebracketed and are currently in the playoffs. Since all teams played the same schedule, prelim records will carry over. Stats can be found here.
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Nov 17, 2013 12:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DRAGOON Mirror @ Virginia Tech (Sunday, 11/17/13)
Replies: 13
Views: 5563

Re: DRAGOON Mirror @ Virginia Tech (Sunday, 11/17/13)

Prelim standings are being updated here. GRRM is an exhibition team used to fill out the schedule, and their games do not count for the final standings.
by Whiter Hydra
Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:03 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: TDB help thread
Replies: 79
Views: 90075

Re: TDB help thread

So I have no idea if it's a TDB error or an SQBS error, but I've noticed that on http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... dividuals/ the table tag isn't closed, so the footer appears near the top.
by Whiter Hydra
Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:48 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2013 Mid-Atlantic ACF Fall Mirror - UVA (11/3/13)
Replies: 37
Views: 16554

Re: 2013 Mid-Atlantic ACF Fall Mirror - UVA (11/3/13)

Smuttynose Island wrote:A Note: The protest in the Round 10 game between VTech A and Johns Hopkins B was decided in VTech A's favor, thus giving them the victory.
The stats still show Johns Hopkins beating Virginia Tech.
by Whiter Hydra
Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:11 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Where do I start?
Replies: 4
Views: 3436

Re: Where do I start?

Depending on what part of the state you are in, Virginia Tech is planning on hosting a high school tournament in the spring, and we would love to have you guys join us!
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
Replies: 112
Views: 45001

Re: Discuss the anime rule here

Cheynem wrote:I have some antipathy towards anime because anime fans hijacked the boards not two years ago and posted all sorts of worthless threads and nonsense.
While what they did was completely idiotic, it was just two people, and I doubt they'd have much reason to protest a rule that is no longer in effect.
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:21 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
Replies: 112
Views: 45001

Re: Discuss the anime rule here

Second, of note that there does exist serious academic relevant discussion of Japanese anime. I do remember a cinema tossup on Tokyo that mentioned The Place Promised in Our Early Days right before Tokyo Monogatari, something relatively justified since both works have probably been discussed in an ...
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:18 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
Replies: 112
Views: 45001

Re: Discuss the anime rule here

To people who don't like the anime rule: If the anime rule is repealed, how will ensure that discussion of anime doesn't get out of hand in a way that will be frustrating for other users, and the moderators who'll have to clean up the mess? Obviously the preferred solution would be for people who p...
by Whiter Hydra
Tue Oct 15, 2013 8:57 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Recommendation for a national tournament.
Replies: 15
Views: 5191

Re: Recommendation for a national tournament.

PACE is harder. Historically speaking, the questions at the PACE NSC are of about equal difficulty, if not slightly easier, than the ones at the HSNCT. However, the median team at NSC tends to be stronger than the median team at HSNCT, so the former will have stronger competition in the earlier rou...
by Whiter Hydra
Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Preseason Poll
Replies: 54
Views: 23660

Re: Preseason Poll

And plus, he would have had to compete with notable community college competitors Rob Carson and Matt Weiner.
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Oct 13, 2013 1:03 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Small School NCT discussion
Replies: 30
Views: 9050

Re: Small School NCT discussion

Lee, as a player I completely agree with you but my coach won't be allowing us to attend small school nationals because it is the weekend BEFORE AP EXAMS. I think they should cancel it and merge the tournaments again. Tournaments are always going to have conflicts. Many teams cannot go to HSNCT or ...
by Whiter Hydra
Wed Oct 09, 2013 10:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
Replies: 112
Views: 45001

Re: Discuss the anime rule here

Would it be possible to put discussion of anime "on parole"? Sort of making it permissible, but at the first sign of trouble reinstate the ban?
by Whiter Hydra
Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:45 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Split thread: "Venting and vituperation" and sexism
Replies: 83
Views: 24427

Re: Split thread: "Venting and vituperation" and sexism

Unless I'm missing something, who did that exchange drive away? Anyone that doesn't want the same ad hominem attacks aimed at them. Surely you don't believe that people come here to be attacked. I've noticed in a lot of these discussions, there has been a lot of talk about people having been driven...
by Whiter Hydra
Mon Oct 07, 2013 8:36 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: State of the board discussion thread
Replies: 39
Views: 19241

Re: State of the board discussion thread

Also, I ask people to be aware that traffic near DC and construction near Richmond are as constant and predictable on fall Saturdays as bad high school tournaments run by Princeton Nothing huge, but I feel that potshots like this are unprofessional and nonconstructive and I think that senior member...
by Whiter Hydra
Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:42 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Collegiate Novice @ VT (9/28/13)
Replies: 13
Views: 6239

Re: Collegiate Novice @ VT (9/28/13)

Prelim stats are being posted here.
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Collegiate Novice @ VT (9/28/13)
Replies: 13
Views: 6239

Re: Collegiate Novice @ VT (9/28/13)

Coach Jim wrote:Michael, any suggestions on PARKING?
Parking is unrestricted on weekends. Probably the best place to park would be the lot behind Pamplin Hall.
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Sep 22, 2013 4:16 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Power-marking
Replies: 7
Views: 2371

Re: Power-marking

Because power-marking is not necessary at all, it adds extra work that could be better spent editing, and is yet another thing an inexperienced writing team can mess up.
by Whiter Hydra
Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:30 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Mississippi 2013-14
Replies: 4
Views: 1294

Re: Mississippi 2013-14

Searching the database shows that there's also a tournament in Memphis in November.
by Whiter Hydra
Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:14 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit
Replies: 2
Views: 3510

Re: Tournakit: A Format and Toolkit

I've made a script that takes the HTML files from the tournament database and parses them into Christian's JSON format. For a specific stat report, go to http://hdwhite.org/qb/stats/importmatch.php?t=AAAA&p=BBBB , where AAAA is the number of the tournament in the URL, and BBBB is the name of the...
by Whiter Hydra
Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:47 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NY/NJ/CT Dates Claims, 2013-14
Replies: 94
Views: 39226

Re: NY/NJ/CT Dates Claims, 2013-14

Does anyone know what happened to Princeton's PHSAT September 28th announcement on the Regular Season forum? I went to look for a field update and it seems to have simply disappeared. The person making the tournament announcement only has two posts, so whenever he edits the post, it has to be re-ap...
by Whiter Hydra
Sat Aug 24, 2013 5:24 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: TDB help thread
Replies: 79
Views: 90075

Re: TDB help thread

It would be nice if there was coarser filtering for the date of tournaments. For example, if one were to search "Regionals" , the only real option you have for finding all the 2013 sites is to put in two mm/dd/yyyy dates that includes February 23 & 24. Being able to specify just a yea...
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Aug 23, 2013 8:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
Replies: 46
Views: 51000

Re: Tournament Database Search by Team

huff paste wrote:I've also implemented searching with OR
This should actually work now.
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:54 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
Replies: 46
Views: 51000

Re: Tournament Database Search by Team

Anyway you could implement a search for individual players? That might help with eligibility rules, like with Collegiate Novice. Done. It might take a bit for all the results to show up, though. It's taking me a while for me to build the database. EDIT: All 144,449 player entries and 36,797 team en...
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
Replies: 46
Views: 51000

Re: Tournament Database Search by Team

I do eventually want to integrate team search functionality into the database itself, but in the meantime, is there anything simple I could do to help make your search tool more useful/efficient? I think the main help would be being able to know when entries have been updated. Right now I have to r...
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Aug 23, 2013 4:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Tournament Database Search by Team
Replies: 46
Views: 51000

Re: Tournament Database Search by Team

I've made a few updates to the search. Using apostrophes should no longer break the thing (and naming your team "Ladue'); DROP TABLE teams; --" should no longer make me cry). I've also implemented searching with OR (so you don't have to search for TJ and Thomas Jefferson in two different s...
by Whiter Hydra
Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:45 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Updating old "top 10" lists for best sets and teams?
Replies: 15
Views: 23574

Re: Updating old "top 10" lists for best sets and teams?

In response to your "top 10 best sets" prompt, my list of the top collegiate sets of the past five years is: 1. ACF Regionals 2010 2. Minnesota Open 2010 3. VCU Open 2011 4. Chicago Open 2011 5. VCU Open 2010 (Saturday) 6. EFT 2008 7. Penn Intergalactic 8. ACF Fall 2008 9. ACF Nationals 2...
by Whiter Hydra
Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Missouri Open at Virginia Tech : 7/6/13
Replies: 28
Views: 9100

Re: Missouri Open at Virginia Tech : 7/6/13

We are in the middle of round 3 of a 10-team round-robin. Stats are being updated here.
by Whiter Hydra
Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:41 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
Replies: 40
Views: 10781

Re: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion

The first clue on the S&G tossup rules out Queen. That's true. I'm not concerned with the question's accuracy or anything-- I just I feel like the second sentence could have used a "It's not ____, but..." disclaimer. Bohemian Rhapsody did not begin with "I am just a poor boy".
by Whiter Hydra
Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Ideal Question Distribution
Replies: 18
Views: 5443

Re: Ideal Question Distribution

Here is what I thought would be good: 4/4 Literature (1/1 American, 1/1 British, 1/1 Other European, 1/1 World) 4/4 History (1/1 American, 1/1 European, 1/1 World, .5/.5 Ancient, .5/.5 Other) 4/4 Science (1/1 Physics, 1/1 Chemistry, 1/1 Biology, .5/.5 Earth Science or Astronomy, .5/.5 Other Science...
by Whiter Hydra
Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2013 NAC
Replies: 89
Views: 47128

Re: 2013 NAC

Honestly, if you go into NAC knowing how awful it will be and are going for free and don't really have anything better to do with a weekend, it's quite fun. Not to play, to laugh at during and after. And as Sean said, that Thai place is freaking amazing. At the end of the day, Chip is still making ...
by Whiter Hydra
Sat Jun 01, 2013 11:55 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2013 NAC
Replies: 89
Views: 47128

Re: 2013 NAC

I think this whole thing is a supply and demand thing. Last year, there were at least 5 tournaments (2XUMD, 2XSt. Anselm's, one at GDS) that didn't happen this year, with, (by my count) one new tournament (Perry Hall). This points to what I think is the real issue here: Less Tournaments close = les...
by Whiter Hydra
Fri May 31, 2013 3:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Geography Monstrosity 5
Replies: 47
Views: 12707

Re: Geography Monstrosity 5 (postponed to NSC)

If this is taking place on Saturday or Sunday, I'd be willing to sign up as a free agent.
by Whiter Hydra
Wed May 29, 2013 2:51 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2013 NAC
Replies: 89
Views: 47128

Re: 2013 NAC

There's been declining attendance in the DC area for years. It was common to see 64 teams at a tournament with another 5 to 10 on the wait list. It's very rare to see a tournament with 32 teams now. In fact, many have on the order of 16 to 20. Not too long after the decline in attendance, organizer...
by Whiter Hydra
Sat May 25, 2013 9:39 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2013 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations LASA!
Replies: 109
Views: 69209

Re: 2013 NAQT HSNCT: May 25-26, Atlanta

The playoff spreadsheet has been updated with all the teams.
by Whiter Hydra
Sat May 25, 2013 8:16 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2013 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations LASA!
Replies: 109
Views: 69209

Re: 2013 NAQT HSNCT: May 25-26, Atlanta

The liveblog for today can be found at http://tinyurl.com/HSNCTliveblog. It will start around 9:00.

Also, if you have game results, tweet them with the hashtag #hsnct.