2020-21 Midseason Poll

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2020-21 Midseason Poll

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Hello again!

We are pleased to announce the slightly-delayed HSQB Mideason Poll for the 2020-21 season. As always, this poll is open to all players, coaches, and others who feel they have a grasp on the national high school quizbowl landscape for this school year. Please rank the teams that you feel are be top 30 this season and fill out your ballot in order.

Like we said for the preseason poll, our poll has some changes from previous years so even if you have participated before, make sure to look at the changes.

As always, some quick notes on filling out the ballot:
- When filling out this poll, please do not abbreviate team names at all. Specifically, please use the name of the team as it appears in the official standings for the 2019 HSNCT (https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/s ... nt_id=9500). If a team did not go to HSNCT, use your best judgment but try to be as standard and official as possible with your naming conventions.
- Use symbols as they appear in NAQT statistics (for example putting Thomas Jefferson Science & Tech A instead of Thomas Jefferson Science and Tech A)
- In addition, please put a letter with every team, even if you don't think it needs it. For example, Uni Lab should be input as University Lab A, even if they did not carry a letter designation at HSNCT.
- Try to avoid putting spaces after team names (instead of "Richard Montgomery A " put "Richard Montgomery A")
- You don't have to be a high schooler to vote
- We reserve the right to remove any ballots with very "hot takes" or obvious ulterior motives if they lack coherent justification
- Any ballots without any justification can be struck down (for example just putting "thoughts and feelings" or "stats" will no longer be enough - we do not require essays of course but we would prefer to see people put thought into their ballots)

The biggest change this year from previous years is that we are no longer allowing responses to be anonymous. If you have special circumstances that require anonymity, please email us at [email protected].

The poll will close January 16 at 11:59 PM Central. We realize that some tournaments will have already taken place between now and then - you can take those into account with your ballots, and will be allowed to change your responses up to the deadline.

Before filling out your ballots, it might be helpful to refresh the newest midseason rankings: https://grogerranks.com/2020/12/29/2020 ... -rankings/ In particular, we would like to emphasize the teams that were removed from our recent rankings in case that influences your ballots.

The poll can be found here: https://forms.gle/ANwaMfU2WpHitybS9

Thanks for voting!
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Re: 2020-21 Midseason Poll: Results Posted

Post by Berniecrat »

The results of the midseason poll can be found here: https://grogerranks.com/2021/01/25/2020 ... l-results/

As always, thank you everyone for your continued support of Groger Ranks.
Arjun Nageswaran
Aptakisic '17
Stevenson '21
Harvard '25
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