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I asked my dad, who teaches at Edgemont. He said that the team had to leave to go catch their flight back. They were apparently up 200 in the fourth quarter but were unable to finish the game.Snoopy wrote:What happened with that Edgemont forfeit in the middle of playoffs?
Well, that's notGranny Soberer wrote:I asked my dad, who teaches at Edgemont. He said that the team had to leave to go catch their flight back. They were apparently up 200 in the fourth quarter but were unable to finish the game.Snoopy wrote:What happened with that Edgemont forfeit in the middle of playoffs?
's fault. That's just poor planning by Edgemont. I mean, I assume provides the expected conclusion time of the championship finals.It doesn't take an absurdly long time; the game as a whole takes ~40-45 minutes, theoretically, which is far longer than most Quizbowl matches but still not horrible.Big Y wrote:How long does the 4th quarter take?
They weren't expecting to do that well, they were mediocre at local competitions and had only qualified for nationals a couple of weeks before.the return of AHAN wrote:Well, that's notGranny Soberer wrote:I asked my dad, who teaches at Edgemont. He said that the team had to leave to go catch their flight back. They were apparently up 200 in the fourth quarter but were unable to finish the game.Snoopy wrote:What happened with that Edgemont forfeit in the middle of playoffs?
Snoopy wrote:It doesn't take an absurdly long time; the game as a whole takes ~40-45 minutes, theoretically, which is far longer than most Quizbowl matches but still not horrible.Big Y wrote:How long does the 4th quarter take?
I've sat in those rooms for quite longer than that; in the one playoff round I was ever in, we were in there for a good 40 minutes. (EDIT: And that was a high-scoring game too. It's not like a lot of things went dead)Father Comstock wrote:I played 11 nationals rounds, and not one took more than 30 minutes.
The question on identifying Klimt as the artist of The Kiss was a dead giveaway ahead of time if you had looked at the projector.
Snoopy wrote:I've sat in those rooms for quite longer than that; in the one playoff round I was ever in, we were in there for a good 40 minutes. (EDIT: And that was a high-scoring game too. It's not like a lot of things went dead)Father Comstock wrote:I played 11 nationals rounds, and not one took more than 30 minutes.
The question on identifying Klimt as the artist of The Kiss was a dead giveaway ahead of time if you had looked at the projector.
Now that, my friend, has to be one of the finest cases of Chip's stupidity I've ever heard.
They didn't even put the powerpoint in presentation mode?!Father Comstock wrote:Also some art pieces were displayed ahead of time in the powerpoint scrollbar on the left, so the question on identifying Klimt as the artist of The Kiss was a dead giveaway ahead of time if you had looked at the projector.
PowerPoint being out of slideshow mode happens more often than I would hope for humanity's sake, speaking outside of quizbowl, as that is where the nAC is.Marble-faced Bristle Tyrant wrote:They didn't even put the powerpoint in presentation mode?!Father Comstock wrote:Also some art pieces were displayed ahead of time in the powerpoint scrollbar on the left, so the question on identifying Klimt as the artist of The Kiss was a dead giveaway ahead of time if you had looked at the projector.
Yes, I've been at DC phase for four miserable years. This year in particular my whole team was taking SATs so I went with a bunch of... (okay, I guess) players. We were destroyed.Father Comstock wrote:Did you go to nationals this year? The past years it's been behind, but this year, everything was right on schedule or even early. Quite a shocker.
could result in a situation in which a question packet could be accidentally displayed along with a Powerpoint presentation (like, were the questions also for some reason in the Powerpoint file?!), but I'd be worried that would lead to a real life reenactment of that scene from Scanners.Vissi d'arte wrote:I'd think more about what sort of logical cluster
This highlights what is easily my biggest gripe with the nAC... Next Gen got punished for having more difficult opponents in a tournament that wasn't really seeded, never mind that they may very well have been playing the toughest field. The 'declaring a national champion' criteria, or any criteria that doesn't involve the teams playing each other, is no better than spinning a wheel.QUnlimited wrote:The first consideration in declaring a national champion is number of losses. Next Generation suffered one loss in the preliminary rounds to perennial contender Danville Bate (KY), winners of this year’s Giant Killer Award. The Illinois team finished first in total points by far – 411 to Wooster’s 354 -- but that one loss kept them from winning it all. Paideia and Wooster were undefeated, and Wooster ended up No. 1 in the nation, narrowly edging Paideia on statistics. Wooster won the $1,500 prize for their No. 1 finish; Paideia, $1,000 for No. 2; Next Generation, $500 for No. 3.
Weirdly, I can see what he did; just follow the game numbers. The 'loser's bracket' was where the loser of game 1 went to go play Daviess County. Which bolsters my suspicion that in this format, you want to be the team sitting out 1st. The other two teams that play in the first round MUST play at least FOUR times to be crowned champion, if they lose a match, while it's possible, in Daviess County's position, to lose once and still win the championship by playing three matches.Ben Dillon wrote:Well, this picture makes no sense:
http://www.qunlimited.com/imgnational/2 ... od2016.jpg
Especially when 20 or so of those testimonials areEnt wrote:I find it difficult to accept that a guy with 50 testimonials on his website would make a math mistake like this.
ing duplicates... ) as Jason Russell has left to work for NHBB (don't blame him). NAC questions will start to return to the horrible one liners they were before Jason at least attempted to make them pyramidal while Chip suffocated his attempts.