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Captain Sinico

I'll be there. If someone doesn't mind my horrible negging all the time, drop me a line.

Captain Sinico

This Saturday, I had the pleasure of directing the 2015 NAQT Illinois State Championship at the University of Illinois. Congratulations to our State Champions for 2015, Auburn High School A of Rockford (Mohammad Nizamuddin, Evan Pandya, Cole Timmerwilke, Steven Vo - Coach Linda Greene!) They defeate...

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Hey, sorry for the delay in updating stuff online! Full stats are posted to the tournament DB page courtesy of Donald Taylor. (Unfortunately, we didn't get any posted during the tournament - sorry about that, Mrs. M! It would have worked if we'd been more fastidious.) Brief results: Auburn A defeate...

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10 minutes. (I thought I'd said that, but it was only to staff. Oops!)

Captain Sinico

Click here to download a (rather exhaustive) description of the format, and full schedule for tomorrow's games.

See you in the morning,

Captain Sinico

A quick update: with 36 teams, we'll use a format beginning with 6 pools of 6 teams, who will play a round-robin and then be rebracketed. More details & a schedule later. According to my research, the following schools are eligible for the Small School championship: Greenville Litchfield Macomb ...

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Hi again everyone, Well, we're a little over a week before the start of the tournament, so let me update you all. First, I'm happy to announce that our tournament is PACE Gold Certified, which means that we qualify additional teams for the PACE NSC . Qualifying teams will be contacted by NAQT and PA...

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If you need a hotel room, we've got a reserved block at the Comfort Suites in Urbana (2001 N. Lincoln Ave, Urbana.) To reserve one, call (217) 328-3500 and mention Scholastic Bowl. Obviously, you're under no obligation to reserve a room if you're coming - these are just for your convenience. I'll ha...

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It looks like we had a hiccup in the wildcard bid submission process - if you were trying to do that and couldn't, please try again. Also, though I addressed this above, I'll reiterate as some people missed it. If you want to pay for the tournament in advance, you can remit payment payable to the I...

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ANNOUNCEMENT I’m very pleased to announce that the NAQT Illinois State Championship will take place on Saturday, February 14, 2015 on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. This event is jointly hosted by the University of Illinois Academic Buzzer Team and the IHSSBCA. I have ...

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Congratulations to our tournament winner, Bloomington A (10-0.) They cleared the field by 2 games to take the championship without the need for a final game. Co-runners-up were William Henry Harrison A (7-3) & William Henry Harrison B (8-2) [see errata 2 & 3 below to see why this is so.] The...

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Quick results: Bloomington A (10-0) cleared the field to win without need of finals. W.H. Harrison B (8-2) were runners up. University Lab (Urbana) were the top small school (as the only small school in the top pool, Maia.) Other pool winners were: Electra (#2) - Mahomet-Seymour A, 8-2; Taygete (#3)...

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Thanks for asking! Normally, stats & results would have been uploaded round-by-round for you to follow and a link posted & sent out. Unfortunately, that didn't happen this time as we were critically short of staff, so I was the only person in HQ and also the only person doing stats. The net ...

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Well, the only thing we're missing for tomorrow is you! All teams have confirmed they'll be here and let me know how much equipment they can bring. Thanks very much for that! We currently have an empty spot in our schedule, which we're planning to fill with a house team. However, the spot is still t...

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Here's a two-week update, First of all, we've got a large, healthy field, but a dearth of committed staffers (so far.) I'm working to rectify that, but I could use any help I can get! If you know anybody who can moderate, please put them in touch with me and I'll gladly pay them $20 to help out. I c...

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I'm posting an update with a month to go. First of all, our field has expanded to 16 teams, so welcome to our new entrants. Look for an invoice in your e-mail today. Secondly, I'm going to announce a tentative timetable of: 8:00 - Registration opens 8:30 - Coaches' & players' meeting 9:00 - Play...

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CAN I HELP OUT? We could sure use your help as a staffer, be that as a moderator, scorekeeper, enterer of stats, or in other ways. If you can help out, you'll get to grow our game and see good high school teams play. On top of that, we’ll feed you lunch and, if you can moderate, pay you $20 (we coul...

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WHAT'S THE FIELD?
Bloomington (3 teams)
Blue Ridge
Champaign Central (2 teams)
Charleston (2 teams)
Mahomet-Seymour
Riverton
Robinson
Springfield
Streator
Warrensburg-Latham (2 teams)
Washington

(16 teams)

Captain Sinico

Hi quizbowl friends! On Saturday, November 22nd, Champaign Centennial High School will host a site of the IHSSBCA Kickoff tournament . I’m your director for this tournament. I’m posting this to encourage you to register and to answer some questions you may have. You can post here or e-mail me with o...

Captain Sinico

I'd definitely play this.

Captain Sinico

Hello friends,

Consonant with my "play anything offered" policy, I've signed up to play this. If you still need some questions, I could be persuaded - let me know.

M

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I know nothing of the rest of the context of this photo, but I'm almost sure that's my keyring on the desk.

Captain Sinico

After losing my stack to consecutive 3-outers at a poker game yesterday, I was thinking about this and I'd have to put Ike up there with the best lit players. What do you think?

M

Captain Sinico

On behalf of my co-TD James Garcia, Champaign Centennial Scholastic Bowl, and the University of Illinois Academic Buzzer Team, I want to thank everyone one last time who made the 2014 NAQT Illinois State Championship the event it was. Congratulations to IMSA, NAQT State Champion for 2014! IMSA A (Wa...

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Those final standings are correct, after a thrilling final game and third place game. In addition, Litchfield is our Small School Champion. Stats and more wrap-up info shortly. Congratulations to all teams on a great contest, and especially to our champions, IMSA A and Litchfield. Thanks very much f...

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Okay, a lot's happened today, so it merits an update. First, we've pulled out all the stops to expand again, to 40 teams. Here's what I hope is for real the final field: Auburn (Rockford) - 3 teams Bloomington - 2 teams Carbondale Centennial (Champaign) Elk Grove Fenton Glenwood (Chatham) Greenville...

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Here's version 2 of the final field: Auburn (Rockford) - 3 teams Bloomington - 2 teams Centennial (Champaign) Elk Grove Fenton Glenwood (Chatham) Greenville Illinois Mathematics and Science (Aurora) - 2 teams Kaneland (Maple Park) Keith Country Day (Rockford) Latin (Chicago) Litchfield Loyola (Wilme...

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Right - that was my thought. Most tournaments haven't released seeds in the past and if the seeds are halfway good, they won't be something you need to think about. In particular, the proposed format should be robust against an average seeding error of up to 3 positions. However, if there's no big d...

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What I'm planning to do is to poll several disinterested knowledgable parties and aggregate that with the coach's poll in Scholastic Visions. I wasn't planning to release seeds - do people want to see them?

M

Captain Sinico

Okay, current draft format: Phase 1. Teams are seeded and placed into initial brackets of 6 snake-style, i.e. such that the first bracket contains seeds 1, 12, 13, 24, 25 & 36; the second bracket contains seeds 2, 11, 14, 23, 26 & 35; etc. Each bracket plays a round-robin. Record ties affect...

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Basically, yes, though 6x6 to 6x6 to final among top tier bracket winners results in a final either way, so maybe it's the best of all worlds.

M

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1. the unfair results possible under NAQT-style finals, like a team with a worse record potentially winning, Can we just abrogate NAQT-style finals and allow a team to clear the field? I think you know I'd love to do ACF-style finals instead. Is that going to fly? Yes; there is no rule that NAQT-st...

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I guess I'm getting old, but what's parallel? That looks good if it's fair. Two pools of 6x6, cross-over finals. I would explain it as "When we break into six pools of 6 for the playoffs, instead of having one top pool containing the prelim pool winners, there are two top pools each of which c...

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jonah wrote:
Captain Sinico wrote:1. the unfair results possible under NAQT-style finals, like a team with a worse record potentially winning,
Can we just abrogate NAQT-style finals and allow a team to clear the field?

I think you know I'd love to do ACF-style finals instead. Is that going to fly?

M

Captain Sinico

dtaylor4 wrote:Suggestion (via Joe Nutter/Rob Carson):

6x6 (5) + TB (1) + 6x6 parallel (5) + TB (1) + finals (1) is 13 packets. Seed for the parallel based on PPB.

I guess I'm getting old, but what's parallel? That looks good if it's fair.

M

Captain Sinico

Okay, here's a thought inspired by that. Do RR's in snake-seeded 6x6. Rebracket into 3-tiered 6x6, but keep the teams from the initial bracket together; RR in each bracket skipping repeat game. Determine final standings using common-opponent games. That takes 5-5.5 rounds to do phase 1+tiebreakers, ...

Captain Sinico

I appreciate your suggestion. Head-to-head falls under what I mean by statistical tiebreakers. Actually, it's not a very good statistical tiebreaker in the sense that it's not very predictive of future results compared to, say, PPG or PPB (there's a thread somewhere with the data on that from long a...

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Yeah, I'd looked at 9-brackets-of-4 formats, but I don't see any way they work out any better; they require the same number of games for round robins, and they have the disadvantage of being much more sensitive to initial seeding. Another option would be to do 4 brackets of 9 for phase 1 (8 rounds +...

Captain Sinico

Does my incompetence at counting know no bounds?! Okay, so let's see, then. Options seem to be (in order from most bad to least bad): 1. Tear up format and start all over. I like this format right up until I run out of packets at the end there, so I'd prefer not to, though I'm open to suggestions. 2...

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Well, that's an excellent argument against a format if I ever saw one! Back to the old drawing board, then. Let's amend phase 3 as follows. The top 4 teams (with eliminative ties played off on half packets) play cross-bracket against the team a position lower or higher, so the 1 from each Tier 1 bra...

Captain Sinico

Hi everyone, Here's a quick update with just a week to go. Let's start with good news. I'm happy to announce that through the efforts of many, especially Jonah Greenthal and my co-TD James Garcia, we've been able to obtain staff sufficient to run 18 rooms, allowing our field to expand to 36. Therefo...

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Well, it would seem that I underestimated late interest! The field is now closed with 32 qualified teams as of last night. I'll contact new registrants regarding their status shortly and then post the full field and standby list. If you still want to register, please do and I'll add you on a standby...

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To end this update, let me announce timing. A high level of unanimous opinion existed for a later start time. I'm not going to argue with that, so we'll start rounds at 9:30 A.M., sharp. A brief team meeting will commence at 9 A.M. in Room 114 David Kinley Hall . Since we're using timed rounds in on...

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Third, let me announce the current field: QUALIFIED (29 TEAMS): Auburn (Rockford) - 2 teams Bloomington Centennial (Champaign) Elk Grove Fenton Glenwood (Chatham) Greenville Illinois Mathematics and Science (Aurora) - 2 teams Kaneland (Maple Park) Keith Country Day (Rockford) Latin (Chicago) Litchfi...

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Second, let's finalize the rules. Reflecting a unanimous consensus, we're going to use full official NAQT rules, including timing (9 minute halves,) negs, and all other rules. Please acquaint yourself with the brief rules or even pore over the full rules to give yourself the best shot to win. Opinio...

Captain Sinico

We're less than 2 weeks away, so it's time for an update. Registered contacts will get an e-mail with this same information shortly. First, let me announce that we have an increasingly pressing need for a few more staffers. If you can staff or know someone who can, please contact me right away ! We'...

Captain Sinico

Please don't forget to register to staff by filling out our staff registration form! Regrettably, I can't read all these exciting rounds for excellent teams myself.

M

Captain Sinico

Dominator wrote:Is there any way that this can be moved later?

I'm open to starting at 9 if people would rather start - and end - later. Is that the case for other teams?

M

Captain Sinico

Hi everyone, I'm glad to see that registration is humming along. I have a piece of good news and the answers to some common questions. First, the good news. We're now Platinum certified according to PACE, meaning that the top quarter of the field qualifies for PACE NSC. That's on top of the HSNCT qu...

Captain Sinico

My e-mail address was misspelled in the original version of my post. I've just corrected it, but if you e-mailed me earlier today and your e-mail bounced, I apologize and please try again! The correct address is [email protected].

M

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