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Dan Greenstein

I did not feel that the questions were any more trashy than normal NAQT sets. NAQT questions are the trashiest ones we play on all year. And you must count ridiculous trashy references that make answering so-vcalled academic tossups possible. It seems there is more than 10% trash in every NAQT set....

Dan Greenstein

One confusing thing in the last six posts of this discussion is the definition of mid-Atlantic. To someone in central Virginia, it could be from Delaware to as far south as North Carolina. To someone in New York City, it could be New Jersey, Delaware, eastern Pennsylvania, and downstate New York, wi...

Dan Greenstein

To confirm what Tom said: We will be running three brackets of 9 or 10 teams, meaning each team will get eight or nine games over nine rounds on Saturday. Each team will get three to four games Sunday. The top four teams in each bracket will advance to the championship playoffs to fill two brackets ...

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leftsaidfred wrote:Yes, below Chip and PACE.

Since when does PACE belong even in the same area code as Chip?

Dan Greenstein

Only two rooms? This tournament offends my sense of quizbowl aesthetic.

Dan Greenstein

From what I have gathered from this thread, it appears CBI matches operate such that if a team correctly answers a tossup and earns a bonus with time running out, the game suddenly ends when time runs out regardless of how far into the bonus the game has progressed; unlike NAQT, where the bonus is c...

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wd4gdz wrote:Obviously, nobody cares about this tournament, since all the good teams are at CBI Nats, but I'll post anyway.

What?!

Dan Greenstein

This tells you I haven't been to ICT since it was run at Chapel Hill... When did ICT go to a prelim bracket format? Whatever happened to power-matching every round all the time because of the inherent problems associated with "arbitrarily" assigning teams into divisions? Am I the only one...

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Santa Monica will be attending NAQT Nats with one team but not PACE. The reasoning for this is a) lack of funding; it should be interesting to see if we can even raise the money we need for NAQT, and b) I don't think our coach has heard of PACE.... Not much you can do about (a), but there is plenty...

Dan Greenstein

Having just attended (as a moderator) the NAQT ICT in College Park, I once again bring up the subject of running a national tournament or any other major tournament over the course of two days (NAQT ICT) as opposed to a one-day operation (ACF Nationals). This is especially relevant as over the past ...

Dan Greenstein

Other advantages of the official hotel are 1) there is a free shuttle from the Metro to the hotel and 2) the hotel is owned by the state of Maryland, so there are no state taxes, which you will have to pay at any other hotel in the area. (1) is a good argument. (2) is not, since those taxes probabl...

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I concur that this "obscure" rule is in the reading material regarding hosting an SCT. In fact, one can argue you did indeed break the spirit of the rule, as that rule is probably in place so the host club will have their best moderators actually moderating rather than playing, under the a...

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... (lol, there was one time when two people on DCC and two on Gov A evidently buzzed in at the exact same moment, and since this was a crappy "Judge" system four lights were flashing and it jammed up so the tossup was replaced). ... I sure hope someone got a picture of that. double elimi...

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During a game against RM two or three years ago, Quince Orchard's infamous one-man team Akshay protested 6/20 naqt questions. The score difference was such that he would have to have been awarded every single protest in order for the game outcome to be changed. As I recall, he was awarded none of t...

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fluffy4102 wrote:This topic brings up the question about surnames in Asia. I'm wondering how a tournament director would respond. but anyways...

For our purposes, Asian surnames work the same way as European surnames: the surname is the required information. You may not prompt on Yukio on a question on Mishima.

Dan Greenstein

Not to get too far off topic, but were the changes to the SCT host requirement announced somewhere? I found some of the changes silly (like the announcement of late-dropout penalties--has anyone ever successfully collected such a fee?) and some of them really annoying (like the change from a "...

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geekjohnson wrote:Jonathan Thompson

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Just win the Alabama CC SCT. Then you will not be sitting nervously at your computer on Selection Thursday/Friday. If you cannot win the tournament, be sure to at least finish in the top three and put up strong statistics. Statistics are a significant part of Q. Even if you do not earn one of the th...

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One-person team or not, it's hard to imagine someone going 71/80/2 in eight rounds on an NAQT set and then averaging just 16 points per bonus. Seems likely to be a series of stat errors, if I had to guess. Maybe this guy is an avatar of Subash Maddipotti, sent to keep his American friends company w...

Dan Greenstein

Is there going to be a mid-Atlantic host? Inquiring minds want to know.

Dan Greenstein

On the other hand, the best high school teams can easily run with the majority of collegiate teams, and should be encouraged to do so more often. It depends on difficulty of the Questions. On the NAQT tour sets or novice tournaments, sure, I'd take any of the country's Top 20 to go above .500. Most...

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ACF Regionals is less than ten weeks away. When can we expect an announcement on the locations?

Dan Greenstein

Many quizbowlers, especially at the college level, carry notebooks with them and write down answers and various clues. This writing is preparation for the future, not the present. Since quizbowl is an auditory game, where answers must be recalled in less than five seconds and there is an answerspace...

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I have to ask this, because it keeps coming up and I'm curious. What is "tuning out?" Is that "people stoping paying attention during questions?" If so, then anyone who's "tuning out" is being worst kind of candy-ass quitter and doesn't deserve any points. Also, since ...

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Scipio wrote:... I went 20-0 ...

Is Mr. Kendall the first person to get the grail solo?

Dan Greenstein

There were more probably more trash questions than Math and CS questions, which I don't think has ever been the case at ACF as far as I can remember. The distribution included 1/1 "Your Choice (may be trash)" Whenever a tournament expected to be devoid of trash allows trash, it will be wr...

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In the case of this tournament, the best solution would have been to devolve to a 16-team field by removing the house team (Maryland P.I.M.P.S.), Casey-be-damned. There would have been two divisions of eight, which would take seven rounds. The field could then be divided into two brackets, top-four ...

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http://www.collegequizbowl.org/schedules/

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I first pose the following question: Without regards to location, would you rather attend a poorly-run tournament with excellent questions or a fantastically-run tournament with awful questions? Of course, your answer to that question will vary based on what you define as poorly-run, excellent, fant...

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Brad, why not cap the field at 13 and insist that teams on their bye moderate/scorekeep? That way, you have 1-4 people each round to mollify your staffing problem.

Dan Greenstein

Considering 20 tossups is considered the "holy grail" in quizbowl, and even that occurs only once or twice a year in college and high school combined , I would be willing to bet you a substantial amount of money that no one has ever reached that. A slightly more realistic achievement is 70...

Dan Greenstein

If you bought the questions, wait until you read the semifinal round before you say the rest of the tournament was hard. Final score: RCHS B beat Walter Williams 55-40. This set was one of the most obscure I have EVER heard. Totally inappropriate for a high school match--those Marylanders should be...

Dan Greenstein

The standard ACF playoff format follows. The format assumes a single round robin, which is realistic (in college) for any number of teams equal to or less than 15. In these examples, the described teams are those at the top of the standings after the round robin. If Team A has a two-game lead on Tea...

Dan Greenstein

The best way to get around the league size requirement is to say you have a 15-member league. You can mention the divisions are simply a scheduling convenience, since everyone plays everyone else an equal number of times. You can also keep with the OAC regulations (8 teams need in the league tournam...

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The idea I came up with is for 16 teams, and it is: - Split field into two divisions of 8 teams. - Eight sets of dual, cross-over meets on eight Wednesdays. - Divisional tournaments, each involving eight teams, the first weekend of February. The tournaments for each division can be the same site, if...

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Can you tell us the logistics of your league last year when it had 12 teams? Once we know those, we can provide more salient ideas for your 15-team conundrum.

Dan Greenstein

As the editor of this yearâ€™s tournament, it is my pleasure to remind you aboutâ€¦ The 19th annual Terrapin Invitational Tournament will be held at the University of Maryland (in College Park) Saturday, October 22. This modified ACF tournament is open to all collegiate teams. Bastard and master tea...

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Why Not Quiz Bowl?

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blazer06 wrote:We can't go to NAQT this year either, seeing as our prom is Saturday, June 3.

How is your prom preventing you from going to NAQT HSNCT?

Dan Greenstein

Generally, other sporting events would not be an issue unless something crazy was likely to happen. For example, while I do not think it has happened yet, I do not think it would be wise to schedule a tournament at Maryland the same day as the Duke basketball game. However, an early season basketba...

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Thompson wrote:You see what I mean? Language is quickly meeting it's untimely demise.

Yes, I see what you mean. Even you language zealots are afflicted.

Dan Greenstein

From what I have heard about some of these state organizations and of public schools in general, I would be cautious and be sure there are no arbitrary rules that are preventing you from organizing and running a league unaffiliated with the school system. There are a number of reasons; for one, you ...

Dan Greenstein

National tournament bids: Top 15% of the field will recieve bids to the 2006 NAQT HSNCT in...???. Depending on field size, this may be 6-8 teams. Pending PACE affiliation (note to self: e-mail Dr. Chuck), the top 4 teams will recieve bids to the PACE NSC which will take place (I believe, though I c...

Dan Greenstein

When I was at Maryland, we avoided hosting a tournaments the same day as a football game. There were several reasons: - I went to every football game for which I was present and not at a quizbowl tournament out of town. Had a tournament been going on the same time as a game, I would not have been ha...

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Not mine: Wrong: The Yellow Rose of Texas Right: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom There were several more bad negs that came up at this past weekend's PACE NSC. Hopefully someone with the list (Tom? Trish?) can provide us with the juicy details, including something said in FIVE different rooms.

Dan Greenstein

Congratulations to the members of Thomas Jefferson's A squad on their run to this championship. While I have only seen the preliminary stats so far (NAQT's site is currently down), the performance were exemplary and dominating. This was quite possibly the greatest high school team show of dominance...

Dan Greenstein

I too was surprised that no Florida teams have signed up for PACE NSC, considering it is going to be a long time before they again experience the convenience of a national tournament in Florida. Presumably they have been informed about the tournament and they have to make the decision on their own t...

Dan Greenstein

Generally, the playoffs (both championship playoffs for the top 12 and consolation playoffs for everyone else) would end before lunch. I am referring to the two-division round robin that determines the Final Four. Those playoffs would end by 12:30-1 pm, so barring a disaster, you would be able to pl...

Dan Greenstein

As of this morning, 93 teams were registed for NAQT's 2005 High School National Championship Tournament in Chicago. While we would like to accommodate every possible team, logistical reasons have forced us to place a hard cap at 96 teams. Are you implying NAQT once had thoughts of potentially runni...

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That was our tournament field as of April 19, which was noted on the page. We have yet to hear from many of the usual suspects; a few more teams have likely registered in the last two weeks; and we expect several more teams to register in the next few weeks.

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