NAQT Scheduling Committee

[Important Bird Area]

NAQT is pleased to announce the formation of its Scheduling Committee. Full details are here.

The committee's membership for 2009-2010 will be R. Robert Hentzel, Jeff Hoppes, Chad Kubicek, and Trygve Meade.

This is your discussion thread for all matters concerning NAQT scheduling.

[Sima Guang Hater]

I wish to lodge a complaint.

According to the NAQT website (http://naqt.com/schedule.jsp?coll=yes), Pitt is hosting a collegiate A-set tournament on the same day as Brown's Early Fall Tournament. Putting aside all arguments about whether A-sets are appropriate for college play (which we have repeatedly proven that they aren't), this event would draw teams away from one of the premier introductory events of the year. Please rectify this situation.

[AKKOLADE]

I hope this has been resolved by now. If not, then what's going on here?

[grapesmoker]

Hey, are we ever going to get a public resolution of this? This is kind of important.

[dschafer]

My name is Brian Sisco and I am the tournament director for the University of Pittsburgh's Quiz Bowl team. I am pleased to announce that we will be hosting a NAQT tournament using an A-Level set to be held at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday, October 3rd, 2009.

EDIT: Removed irrelevant parts of e-mail (I hit Submit rather than Preview at first), but not before Jerry responded... sorry about that.

[grapesmoker]

Surely "November 18" must be September 18. But that doesn't actually help explain what the hell is going on because viewing that announcement tells me nothing of this tournament is scheduled opposite ours.

[Wall of Ham]

I don't think the NAQT scheduling commitee can do much about when/what hosts choose to host, it can only "recommend". Take it up with Pitt.

[at your pleasure]

Why doesn't Pitt just host an EFT mirror if it's not too close to any other sites?

[grapesmoker]

I don't think the NAQT scheduling commitee can do much about when/what hosts choose to host, it can only "recommend". Take it up with Pitt.

Umm... the committee was expressly formed for the purpose of preventing such incidents. Given that no one on the Pitt team has even bothered to post in this thread, which has been live for forever now, and also given that noted NAQT member Dwight Kidder has a connection to that team (unless I am mistaken), it seems to me that the only way this is going to get resolved is if I force the issue publicly.

Why doesn't Pitt just host an EFT mirror if it's not too close to any other sites?

Now that is something you'd have to ask Pitt. I would be more than happy to let them do so.

[at your pleasure]

Has Pitt even announced their tournament on the boards?

[Important Bird Area]

Why doesn't Pitt just host an EFT mirror if it's not too close to any other sites?

Both Trygve and I recommended this solution to the scheduling committee on August 27th.

Pitt has not been in contact with us recently; I'll ask R. what the current status of this event is.

[at your pleasure]

So, this is a high school issue, but this thread is the NAQT scheduling thread. According to NAQT's tournament calendar, http://www.naqt.com/schedule.jsp?hs=yes ... s&long=yes ,Bel Air High School in Bel Air, MD is hosting a A-set tournament on the 21st. This is notably the same day as QuAC II at Penn.

[Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)]

You know Bel-Air is like 4 hours away from Philadelphia, right?

[Theory Of The Leisure Flask]

So, this is a high school issue, but this thread is the NAQT scheduling thread. According to NAQT's tournament calendar, http://www.naqt.com/schedule.jsp?hs=yes ... s&long=yes ,Bel Air High School in Bel Air, MD is hosting a A-set tournament on the 21st. This is notably the same day as QuAC II at Penn.

Eh, this isn't a problem. Our 32-team field is full as is (with a waitlist to boot), and the Mid-Atlantic is a large enough place that it can support multiple tournaments on the same weekend, especially when we're mostly drawing northern (NY/NJ/PA) teams traveling south to Philly, plus a few strong programs from further afield that probably aren't going to drop everything to attend an A-set tournament. The two tournaments serve different fields, and there is more than enough room for both of them.

You know Bel-Air is like 4 hours away from Philadelphia, right?

It's actually closer- probably somewhere just north of an hour. Still not a problem though.

[btressler]

So, this is a high school issue, but this thread is the NAQT scheduling thread. According to NAQT's tournament calendar, http://www.naqt.com/schedule.jsp?hs=yes ... s&long=yes ,Bel Air High School in Bel Air, MD is hosting a A-set tournament on the 21st. This is notably the same day as QuAC II at Penn.

There is no problem here. I looked into sending some of my students to the tournament, but ended up deciding we couldn't go due to a lack of drivers.

The Bel Air tournament is meant for the local Western Maryland teams, few of which go to other events posted on this board. I think they have a county league or something. Also, the tournament is using the set, but is not playing standard 20/20. I think they are doing a tossup round, followed by a bonus round, and then a tossup round. We were confused when we were trying to figure it out.

Anyway, the likely overlap between these events is practically zero teams.

[at your pleasure]

You know Bel-Air is like 4 hours away from Philadelphia, right?

I think you are thinking of the wrong Bel Air. The Bel Air the tournament is being held at is the one in Harford County, which is north of Baltimore.

[MicroEStudent]

Do we know when SCT sites are going to be announced? If a non-Canada site was closest for us, I could ask for funding for the trip, but I would need to submit my request before the Fall quarter ends on November 21st.

Thanks.