2020-21 MS Postseason Poll
Posted: Mon May 03, 2021 6:28 pm
MSNCT has happened! I am therefore going to open this year's MS postseason poll. The poll is intended to be a ranking for the 2020-2021 season.
To vote, please send your ballots to me at [email protected] by 11:59pm on Friday, May 28th. You may vote for players, teams, or both.
General guidelines (mostly borrowed from last year's iteration)
Anyone (coaches, players, parents, interested observers) is welcome to submit a ballot, and ballots will not be weighted.
Vote for exactly twenty-five (25) teams or players in each ballot, ranked from 1st through 25th. (The team you rank first will get 25 points, the team in second will get 24, etc.) If you send me a ballot with more than 25 entries, I will count only the first 25. If you send me a ballot with fewer than 25 entries, I will ask you to re-submit it with enough entries.
Please put "MS Quizbowl Poll" in the subject line in some fashion so I can easily search for your ballot. If you don't do this, you risk me missing your ballot.
I will name all the voters but will not specify who voted for whom -- if you want to submit your ballot anonymously please tell me.
Please be reasonable with your ballots -- if you do something like rank your own team first despite the fact that you put up 10 PPB on an MS set, I will probably ask you to re-submit your ballot.
There is no need to specify "A" or "B" unless you vote for a school's B team. If you put a school twice and do not specify A or B, I will assume this is an error and ask you to correct it.
For the team poll, please specify what state each of the teams you are voting for is from (both for my ease in cross-checking with stats, and in case there are two Smith Middle Schools that receive votes).
There is no need to conform to a standard name -- for example, I'll interpret "Hunter", "Hunter College", or "Hunter College High School" as the school who won MSNCT last year -- as long as it is unambiguous who you're voting for. Please do not use abbreviations like "HCHS" or "OMS" -- there are many schools with those abbreviations, and if it's not clear who any of your votes are for I'll ask you to clarify before I accept your ballot.
If you want to vote for Arin Parsa's team (and you probably should!), vote for Stanford Online, not Challenger-Almaden or Almaden Scholars.
For the player poll, please specify the affiliation and state for each of the players you are voting for. Also please use their first and last name.
If you want to revise your ballot, just email me your new ballot. (Don't do something like "I want to switch my 3rd and 4th picks". Just rewrite the whole thing, please.)
Eligibility to be voted for in the poll:
Schools that fielded at least one team in a middle school all-subject quizbowl tournament this school year are eligible, even if they did not play MSNCT. Schools that played exclusively (for example) NHBB events, or schools that did not attend any tournaments as a team but one of their players attended IPNCT, are not eligible. Homeschool collectives and other non-traditional schools are eligible as long as they fit the other requirements.
Players who were in 8th grade or below for this school year and played at least one all-subject quizbowl tournament are eligible, even if they did not play MSNCT or IPNCT, or even any tournaments at the middle school level. Players who exclusively played (for example) NHBB events are not eligible.
New this year: 2021-22 prediction poll
There will be a third poll this year, in which you may vote for who you think will be the top five (5) teams in the 2021-22 season. (There is not a parallel prediction poll for players.)
I encourage people to use this thread to discuss which teams and players they feel are deserving of votes. I will be making such a post at some point soon. (I have already filled out my ballots, in order to not be biased by seeing others' votes.)
To vote, please send your ballots to me at [email protected] by 11:59pm on Friday, May 28th. You may vote for players, teams, or both.
General guidelines (mostly borrowed from last year's iteration)
Anyone (coaches, players, parents, interested observers) is welcome to submit a ballot, and ballots will not be weighted.
Vote for exactly twenty-five (25) teams or players in each ballot, ranked from 1st through 25th. (The team you rank first will get 25 points, the team in second will get 24, etc.) If you send me a ballot with more than 25 entries, I will count only the first 25. If you send me a ballot with fewer than 25 entries, I will ask you to re-submit it with enough entries.
Please put "MS Quizbowl Poll" in the subject line in some fashion so I can easily search for your ballot. If you don't do this, you risk me missing your ballot.
I will name all the voters but will not specify who voted for whom -- if you want to submit your ballot anonymously please tell me.
Please be reasonable with your ballots -- if you do something like rank your own team first despite the fact that you put up 10 PPB on an MS set, I will probably ask you to re-submit your ballot.
There is no need to specify "A" or "B" unless you vote for a school's B team. If you put a school twice and do not specify A or B, I will assume this is an error and ask you to correct it.
For the team poll, please specify what state each of the teams you are voting for is from (both for my ease in cross-checking with stats, and in case there are two Smith Middle Schools that receive votes).
There is no need to conform to a standard name -- for example, I'll interpret "Hunter", "Hunter College", or "Hunter College High School" as the school who won MSNCT last year -- as long as it is unambiguous who you're voting for. Please do not use abbreviations like "HCHS" or "OMS" -- there are many schools with those abbreviations, and if it's not clear who any of your votes are for I'll ask you to clarify before I accept your ballot.
If you want to vote for Arin Parsa's team (and you probably should!), vote for Stanford Online, not Challenger-Almaden or Almaden Scholars.
For the player poll, please specify the affiliation and state for each of the players you are voting for. Also please use their first and last name.
If you want to revise your ballot, just email me your new ballot. (Don't do something like "I want to switch my 3rd and 4th picks". Just rewrite the whole thing, please.)
Eligibility to be voted for in the poll:
Schools that fielded at least one team in a middle school all-subject quizbowl tournament this school year are eligible, even if they did not play MSNCT. Schools that played exclusively (for example) NHBB events, or schools that did not attend any tournaments as a team but one of their players attended IPNCT, are not eligible. Homeschool collectives and other non-traditional schools are eligible as long as they fit the other requirements.
Players who were in 8th grade or below for this school year and played at least one all-subject quizbowl tournament are eligible, even if they did not play MSNCT or IPNCT, or even any tournaments at the middle school level. Players who exclusively played (for example) NHBB events are not eligible.
New this year: 2021-22 prediction poll
There will be a third poll this year, in which you may vote for who you think will be the top five (5) teams in the 2021-22 season. (There is not a parallel prediction poll for players.)
I encourage people to use this thread to discuss which teams and players they feel are deserving of votes. I will be making such a post at some point soon. (I have already filled out my ballots, in order to not be biased by seeing others' votes.)