Collegiate difficulties - Revision history

Reilly Melville: list cites 4 examples

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Terminology

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June Yin: /* "Regular" vs. "Regionals" */

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"Regular" vs. "Regionals"

June Yin: /* Terminology */

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Terminology

June Yin: /* The List */

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The List

Kevin Wang at 17:15, 19 January 2022

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Kevin Wang at 19:24, 8 December 2021

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Kevin Wang: /* "Regular" vs. "Regionals" */

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"Regular" vs. "Regionals"

Kevin Wang: /* College Quizbowl Calendar Scale */

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College Quizbowl Calendar Scale

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 There are five broad categories of college difficulty: '''[[novice]]''', '''medium''', '''[[Regular difficulty|regular]]''', '''[[nationals]]''', and '''post-nationals'''.
-The first three correspond roughly to [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Winter]], [[ACF Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals]] respectively. In turn, ACF Regionals difficulty corresponds to DI [[SCT]] and ACF Nationals to DI [[ICT]]; there is no exact [[NAQT]] equivalent to ACF Fall, though DII [[SCT]] is similar. Each of these pairs of ACF and NAQT tournaments are roughly interchangeable. The fifth "post-nationals" difficulty designates any tournament harder than ACF Nationals, of which [[Chicago Open]] is the prototypical example.
+The first four correspond roughly to [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Winter]], [[ACF Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals]] respectively. In turn, ACF Regionals difficulty corresponds to DI [[SCT]] and ACF Nationals to DI [[ICT]]; there is no exact [[NAQT]] equivalent to ACF Fall, though DII [[SCT]] is similar. Each of these pairs of ACF and NAQT tournaments are roughly interchangeable. The fifth "post-nationals" difficulty designates any tournament harder than ACF Nationals, of which [[Chicago Open]] is the prototypical example.
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 There are five broad categories of college difficulty: '''[[novice]]''', '''medium''', '''[[Regular difficulty|regular]]''', '''[[nationals]]''', and '''post-nationals'''.
-The first three correspond roughly to [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals]] respectively. In turn, ACF Regionals difficulty corresponds to DI [[SCT]] and ACF Nationals to DI [[ICT]]; there is no exact [[NAQT]] equivalent to ACF Fall, though DII [[SCT]] is similar. Each of these pairs of ACF and NAQT tournaments are roughly interchangeable. The fifth "post-nationals" difficulty designates any tournament harder than ACF Nationals, of which [[Chicago Open]] is the prototypical example.
+The first three correspond roughly to [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Winter]], [[ACF Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals]] respectively. In turn, ACF Regionals difficulty corresponds to DI [[SCT]] and ACF Nationals to DI [[ICT]]; there is no exact [[NAQT]] equivalent to ACF Fall, though DII [[SCT]] is similar. Each of these pairs of ACF and NAQT tournaments are roughly interchangeable. The fifth "post-nationals" difficulty designates any tournament harder than ACF Nationals, of which [[Chicago Open]] is the prototypical example.
 ===="Plus" and "Minus"====

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 There are five broad categories of college difficulty: '''[[novice]]''', '''medium''', '''[[Regular difficulty|regular]]''', '''[[nationals]]''', and '''post-nationals'''.
-The first three correspond roughly to [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals]] respectively. In turn, ACF Regionals difficulty corresponds to DI [[SCT]] and ACF Nationals to DI [[ICT]]; there is no exact [[NAQT]] equivalent to ACF Fall, though DII [[SCT]] is similar. Each of these pairs of ACF and NAQT tournaments are roughly interchangeable. The fourth "post-nationals" difficulty designates any tournament harder than ACF Nationals, of which [[Chicago Open]] is the prototypical example.
+The first three correspond roughly to [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals]] respectively. In turn, ACF Regionals difficulty corresponds to DI [[SCT]] and ACF Nationals to DI [[ICT]]; there is no exact [[NAQT]] equivalent to ACF Fall, though DII [[SCT]] is similar. Each of these pairs of ACF and NAQT tournaments are roughly interchangeable. The fifth "post-nationals" difficulty designates any tournament harder than ACF Nationals, of which [[Chicago Open]] is the prototypical example.
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 Some people define "regular" difficulty as the same difficulty of ACF Regionals. However, regular typically refers to a wider range of difficulties and includes a number of easier ("medium") tournaments. This distinction between the "regular" and "Regionals" difficulties has been pushed further by arguments to have ACF Regionals no longer represent the difficulty of the median tournament, e.g. by lowering the difficulty of other tournaments relative to Regionals or by making Regionals itself easier.
-Advocates for lowering the average difficulty of college quizbowl to be roughly the difficulty of 2018 [[EFT]] may sometimes use "regular" difficulty to refer to this new difficulty - "Regionals" difficulty would then represent the unchanged objective difficulty of ACF Regionals, which would now be harder than "regular". For clarification purposes, this wiki refers to this difficulty level as "medium."
+Advocates for lowering the average difficulty of college quizbowl to be roughly the difficulty of 2018 [[EFT]] may sometimes use "regular" difficulty to refer to this new difficulty, with "Regionals" difficulty then being harder than "regular". For clarification purposes, this wiki refers to this difficulty level as "medium."
 ====College Quizbowl Calendar Scale====

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 ==Terminology==
-There are four broad categories of college difficulty: '''[[novice]]''', '''[[Regular difficulty|regular]]''', '''[[nationals]]''', and '''post-nationals'''.
+There are five broad categories of college difficulty: '''[[novice]]''', '''medium''', '''[[Regular difficulty|regular]]''', '''[[nationals]]''', and '''post-nationals'''.
 The first three correspond roughly to [[ACF Fall]], [[ACF Regionals]], and [[ACF Nationals]] respectively. In turn, ACF Regionals difficulty corresponds to DI [[SCT]] and ACF Nationals to DI [[ICT]]; there is no exact [[NAQT]] equivalent to ACF Fall, though DII [[SCT]] is similar. Each of these pairs of ACF and NAQT tournaments are roughly interchangeable. The fourth "post-nationals" difficulty designates any tournament harder than ACF Nationals, of which [[Chicago Open]] is the prototypical example.
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 ===="Regular" vs. "Regionals"====
 :''See also: [[Regular difficulty#Redefining regular]]''
-Some people define "regular" difficulty as the same difficulty of ACF Regionals. However, regular typically refers to a wider range of difficulties and includes a number of easier tournaments. This distinction between the "regular" and "Regionals" difficulties has been pushed further by arguments to have ACF Regionals no longer represent the difficulty of the median tournament, e.g. by lowering the difficulty of other tournaments relative to Regionals or by making Regionals itself easier.
+Some people define "regular" difficulty as the same difficulty of ACF Regionals. However, regular typically refers to a wider range of difficulties and includes a number of easier ("medium") tournaments. This distinction between the "regular" and "Regionals" difficulties has been pushed further by arguments to have ACF Regionals no longer represent the difficulty of the median tournament, e.g. by lowering the difficulty of other tournaments relative to Regionals or by making Regionals itself easier.
-Advocates for lowering the average difficulty of college quizbowl to be roughly the difficulty of 2018 [[EFT]] may sometimes use "regular" difficulty to refer to this new difficulty - "Regionals" difficulty would then represent the unchanged objective difficulty of ACF Regionals, which would now be harder than "regular".
+Advocates for lowering the average difficulty of college quizbowl to be roughly the difficulty of 2018 [[EFT]] may sometimes use "regular" difficulty to refer to this new difficulty - "Regionals" difficulty would then represent the unchanged objective difficulty of ACF Regionals, which would now be harder than "regular". For clarification purposes, this wiki refers to this difficulty level as "medium."
 ====College Quizbowl Calendar Scale====

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 **2 dots on the college quizbowl calendar difficulty scale
 ***[[EFT]] - the difficulty of the revived set under the head-editorship of [[Will Alston]]
 **"2.5 dots"<sup>†</sup>
 ****[[IKEA]] and [[ARCADIA]]

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	'''Collegiate quizbowl tournaments''' span a wide range of '''difficulty levels''', from the easiest difficulties intended for college students who are complete beginners to quizbowl (which overlap with the difficulties of high school quizbowl), to the hardest difficulties intended to challenge college students, college graduates, and seasoned players at national championships, [[open\|open tournament]]s, and beyond.		'''Collegiate quizbowl tournaments''' span a wide range of '''difficulty levels''', from the easiest difficulties intended for college students who are complete beginners to quizbowl (which overlap with the difficulties of high school quizbowl), to the hardest difficulties intended to challenge college students, college graduates, and seasoned players at national championships, [[open\|open tournament]]s, and beyond.

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 ====College Quizbowl Calendar Scale====
 As part of his work to improve tournament scheduling, cooperation, and knowledge sharing in quizbowl, [[Ophir Lifshitz]] developed the [https://collegequizbowlcalendar.com/difficulty-scale/ college quizbowl calendar difficulty scale] in March 2018 to remove much of the ambiguity associated with the previously mentioned terms and to better communicate the difficulty of the tournaments being listed side-by-side on the [[College Quizbowl Calendar]]. The scale uses four broad ordinal categories, spanning from one to four "dots", to cover the range of difficulties of mainstream college quizbowl tournaments, with two principal relative thresholds ("too easy for experts" and "too hard for beginners") defining 2 and 3 dots. Thus, it is not recommended for question sets to target fine-grained difficulty levels (or "half-dots") in between each of these categories.
 ==The List==