2014 PACE NSC Conversion Stats

[AKKOLADE]

Hi everyone,

For this past NSC, I'm working on making conversion statistics for the questions public.

The important things to keep in mind are:

1) For tossups, the PACE format does not have negs. There's only powers, correct answers and dead TUs.

2) For bonuses, I've combined points earned and points stolen on bonuses for tracking conversion. I suppose I could have tracked only points earned, but I think that would have thrown away some data. So, a bonus recorded as a 30 could be that the first team swept the bonus, or they scored 20 and had 10 stolen, or scored 10 and had 20 stolen, etc.

3) This information absolutely should not be applied to regular high school tournament sets. This is information from a high school national championship with a very talented field; the idea that saying "Quo Vadis was converted in 3/4 of the rooms, time to introduce it to A-sets!" should not cross your mind.

4) I unfortunately do not have information on which parts of bonuses were converted.

I just got the scoresheets on Friday and I just had a chance to sit down with the first round. I'm going to slowly work my way through these and post the tabulations in this thread.

Round 1
Tossups - Average points per room: 10.71

1 (Oglethorpe): 2 powers/44 10s/2 dead TUs
2 (Funeral of Orgaz): 14/29/5
3 (looms): 9/34/5
4 (Waugh): 7/34/7
5 (firstborn son (re: Bible)): 3/45/0
6 (atomic nuclei): 13/35/0
7 (nocturnes): 2/46/0
8 (cerebellum): 3/44/1
9 (Greek (re: language for literature)): 5/43/0
10 (Luxembourg): 4/38/6
11 (Seljuk Turks): 3/34/11
12 (Pelops): 1/38/9
13 (Bartleby, the Scrivener): 14/31/3
14 (New Zealand (re: general knowledge)): 27/21/0 - Most points per room for round 1 (15.63)
15 (benzene): 5/43/0
16 (Quo Vadis): 2/30/16 - least points per room for round 1 (7.08)
17 (classical conditioning): 5/37/6
18 (spiral galaxies): 19/29/0
19 (Leo): 6/38/4
20 (Tristan and Isolde): 1/45/2

Bonuses - Average points per bonus per room for round 1: 19.18

1 (transistors/germanium/metal):13 30s/26 20s/7 10s/2 0s
2 (turtle ships/Korean peninsula/Sejong the Great): 23/22/3/0
3 (Rachel/Joseph/silver cup): 30/12/6/0
4 (Japanese internment camps/Korematsu/strict scrutiny): 17/29/2/0
5 (Sartre/Rostand/Poland): 5/31/12
6 (Last Supper/sfumato/ermine): 26/19/3/0
7 (fluorine/electronegativity/hard base): 10/36/2/0
8 (Basil/Justinian's legal code/Fatimid caliphate): 16/23/9/0
9 (La primavera movement/Vivaldi/Stabat Mater): 7/27/14/0
10 (Fanny Price/Anne Elliot/Emma Woodhouse): 4/20/24/0
11 (Sniper's Alley/Bosnia/Dayton Accords): 5/28/15/0
12 (differential equations/two bodies/holomorphic functions): 11/34/3/0
13 (Mindanao/Philippines/Aquino III): 7/14/24/3
14 (Burghers of Calais/Rodin/casting from a living model): 42/4/2/0 - Most points per room (Rd 1): 28.33
15 (production/capital/economies of scale): 14/18/16/0
16 (Millay/Sonnet-To Science/Whitman): 12/21/12/1
17 (Amaterasu/mirrors/Izumo province): 1/37/6/0
18 (Mishima/burns the temple down/Kashiwagi): 3/30/1/0
19 (antibiotics/beta-lactam/cephalosporins): 1/6/21/0 - Least points per room (Rd 1): 12.86
20 (Ryle/dualism/C. S. Lewis): 7/4/2/0

[Corry]

Hey, thanks for doing this. I've always been a big fan of NAQT's public releasing of conversion stats, and I think this is a really good step for PACE to do too.

[AKKOLADE]

Note that I will eventually be releasing this all in a Google Doc of some sort, or maybe just an actual Excel sheet.

Round 2
Tossups - average points per room: 10.63

1 (Ishmael) 1 20/47 10s/0 0s
2 (Florence (from sculptures)) 2/44/22
3 (Gustav Adolphus) 6/40/2
4 (d orbitals) 3/41/4
5 (rape of Persephone) 4/44/0
6 (Odyssey) 0/48/0
7 (border between Egypt & Sudan) 19/26/3 - most points per room for round 2 (13.33)
8 (Oppenheimer) 8/40/0
9 (Karl Benz) 2/45/1
10 (Thomas Bayes) 2/37/9
11 (Vienna (history of)) 13/34/1
12 (Bethlehem (Biblical clues)) 6/41/1
13 (Meselson-Stahl experiment) 6/28/14 - least points per room for round 2 (8.33)
14 (Bartok) 9/37/2
15 (John Singer Sargent) 13/32/3
16 (Baudelaire) 2/46/0
17 (sugar cane) 8/38/2
18 (Ukraine (from history)) 13/35/0
19 (The Time Machine) 7/41/0
20 (speed of sound) 5/41/2

Bonuses - average PPB per room for round 2: 20.56

1 (Somali pirates/appearing in a movie about his life/Gaddafi) 6 30s/37 20s/5 10s/0 0s
2 (alcohol/whirling/memorizing the Quran) 33/13/2/0
3 (Jerusalem/Petra/Palmyra) 16/31/1/0
4 (Thomas Nast/Embargo Act/Nicholas Biddle) 31/15/2/0
5 (enthalpy of formation/specific heat/incompressibility) 13/28/7/0
6 (mass wasting/solifluction/permafrost) 0/6/42/0
7 (Oedipus complex/manifest content or latent content/uncanny) 16/22/10/0
8 (Ode to a Nightingale/Keats/Silence and slow Time) 13/25/10/0
9 (Romance of the Three Kingdoms/China/peach garden) 34/12/2/0 - highest PPB per room for round 2: 26.67
10 (Stravinsky/Dumbarton Oaks/neoclassical) 15/21/12/0
11 (acetylcholine/myasthenia gravis/thymus) 7/29/12/0
12 (William the Silent/Netherlands/Duke of Alba) 24/12/12/0
13 (Michelozzo/Brancacci family/St. Peter) 1/6/41/0 - lowest PPB per room for round 2: 11.67
14 (Indra/elephants/Svarga) 3/31/14/0
15 (The Second Sex/Sartre/male gaze) 10/36/2/0
16 (Las Meninas/Velazquez/Water Carrier of Seville) 9/36/3/0
17 (Baldwin/Fire Next Time/Sonny's Blues) 11/18/19/0
18 (Government Inspector/Gogol/Nevsky Prospekt) 5/26/15/0 (46 rooms)
19 (Rwandan genocide/Tanzania/Habyarimana) 10/21/3/0 (34 rooms)
20 (inward acceleration/centripetal force/tangential acceleratoin) 10/6/2/0 (18 rooms)

[Urech hydantoin synthesis]

I dunno, but that Michelozzo/Brancacci/St. Peter's bonus should have at least one zero.

[AKKOLADE]

I dunno, but that Michelozzo/Brancacci/St. Peter's bonus should have at least one zero.

Including steals?