NAQT Invitational Series - Revision history

June Yin: /* Introductory Invitational Series */ the character count was increased recently

2022-07-21T22:50:19Z

Introductory Invitational Series: the character count was increased recently

Kevin Wang at 14:34, 9 December 2021

2021-12-09T14:34:58Z

Kevin Wang: /* Collegiate use */

2021-12-09T14:28:47Z

Collegiate use

June Yin: /* Community college use */

2021-11-21T21:40:01Z

Community college use

June Yin: /* Community college use */

2021-11-21T21:39:31Z

Community college use

June Yin at 21:39, 21 November 2021

2021-11-21T21:39:09Z

Robert Condron: /* Reception */

2021-10-22T19:38:39Z

Reception

Robert Condron: /* Question Sharing */

2021-10-22T19:38:28Z

Question Sharing

Kevin Wang at 18:09, 21 October 2021

2021-10-21T18:09:03Z

Yusuf Amanullah at 18:44, 23 February 2021

2021-02-23T18:44:34Z

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 ==Introductory Invitational Series==
-NAQT also produces Introductory Invitational Series sets, commonly called '''A-sets''' because their numeric designators are followed by "A" (e.g. "Invitational Series #200A" or "IS-200A"). These sets have easier, shorter (maximum 291 characters) questions and are intended for beginning high school players, and use [https://www.naqt.com/hs/distribution-introductory.jsp a slightly different category distribution]. Recently NAQT has produced five new Introductory IS sets per year.
+NAQT also produces Introductory Invitational Series sets, commonly called '''A-sets''' because their numeric designators are followed by "A" (e.g. "Invitational Series #200A" or "IS-200A"). These sets have easier, shorter (maximum 300 characters) questions and are intended for beginning high school players, and use [https://www.naqt.com/hs/distribution-introductory.jsp a slightly different category distribution]. Recently NAQT has produced five new Introductory IS sets per year.
 ==Yearly schedule==

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-'''Invitational Series''' is [[NAQT]]'s standard product for high school invitational tournaments. Popularly known as '''IS Sets''', they are 12-packet (formerly 14- and 15-packet) question sets in which each packet consists of 24 tossups and 24 bonuses according to [http://www.naqt.com/hs/distribution.jsp this category distribution]. Generally, each IS set is used by many different tournaments around the country on different dates during the school year. Recently NAQT has produced five new IS sets per year.
+'''Invitational Series''' is [[NAQT]]'s standard product for high school invitational tournaments. Popularly known as '''IS Sets''', they are 12-packet (formerly 14- and 15-packet) question sets in which each packet consists of 24 tossups and 24 bonuses according to [http://www.naqt.com/hs/distribution.jsp this category distribution]. Generally, each IS set is used by many different tournaments around the country on different dates during the school year.
 As with all NAQT products, IS tossups are [[character limit|limited in length]]. The current limit is 425 characters (with some arcane rules about which characters count).
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 ==Introductory Invitational Series==
 NAQT also produces Introductory Invitational Series sets, commonly called '''A-sets''' because their numeric designators are followed by "A" (e.g. "Invitational Series #200A" or "IS-200A"). These sets have easier, shorter (maximum 291 characters) questions and are intended for beginning high school players, and use [https://www.naqt.com/hs/distribution-introductory.jsp a slightly different category distribution]. Recently NAQT has produced five new Introductory IS sets per year.
 ==Question Sharing==

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 ==Collegiate use==
-When the IS program began in 1997, the sets were intended for college tournaments. At some point shortly after that, they became a high school product. In the 2000s some IS sets were used for four-year college tournaments, a [[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4439&start=0 widely] [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4810 criticized] practice. In the 2010s this practice became very rare. In 2015-2016 NAQT began producing a [[Collegiate Novice Series]], in which one regular IS set (and sometimes one IS-A set) per year would be modified into NAQT's [https://www.naqt.com/college/distribution.jsp college category distribution], with new questions added to be suitable for a college audience.  In 2020-21, NAQT did not produce a Collegiate Novice set and instead allowed hosts to use IS sets for that purpose.
+When the IS program began in 1997, the sets were intended for college tournaments. At some point shortly after that, they became a high school product. In the 2000s some IS sets were used for four-year college tournaments, a widely<ref>[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4439&start=0 College Tournaments Using High School Questions] by [[DumbJaques]] » Fri Sep 14, 2007 10:42 pm</ref> criticized<ref>[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4810 Hey: stop running high school tournaments for colleges] by [[Matt Weiner]] » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:13 am</ref> practice. In the 2010s this practice became very rare. In 2015-2016 NAQT began producing a [[Collegiate Novice Series]], in which one regular IS set (and sometimes one IS-A set) per year would be modified into NAQT's college category distribution.<ref>https://www.naqt.com/college/distribution.jsp</ref> with new questions added to be suitable for a college audience.  In 2020-21, NAQT did not produce a Collegiate Novice set and instead allowed hosts to use IS sets for that purpose.
 ===Community college use===
-With a lower level of competition than the main [[circuit]], many community college tournaments use IS or IS-A sets [https://www.naqt.com/schedule/?audience_id=1003]. This includes the [[SCT|Community College Sectionals]] that qualify for [[CCCT]].
+With a lower level of competition than the main [[circuit]], many community college tournaments use IS or IS-A sets<ref>https://www.naqt.com/schedule/?audience_id=1003</ref>. This includes the [[SCT|Community College Sectionals]] that qualify for [[CCCT]].
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 ===Community college use===
-With a lower level of competition than the main [[circuit]], many community college tournaments use IS or IS-A sets [https://www.naqt.com/schedule/?audience_id=1003]. This includes the [[SCT|CC Sectional Championship Tournament]]s that qualify for [[CCCT]].
+With a lower level of competition than the main [[circuit]], many community college tournaments use IS or IS-A sets [https://www.naqt.com/schedule/?audience_id=1003]. This includes the [[SCT|Community College Sectionals]] that qualify for [[CCCT]].
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 ===Community college use===
-With a lower level of competition than the main [[circuit]], many community college tournaments use IS or IS-A sets [https://www.naqt.com/schedule/?audience_id=1003]. This includes the CC [[Sectional Championship Tournament]]s that qualify for [[CCCT]].
+With a lower level of competition than the main [[circuit]], many community college tournaments use IS or IS-A sets [https://www.naqt.com/schedule/?audience_id=1003]. This includes the [[SCT|CC Sectional Championship Tournament]]s that qualify for [[CCCT]].
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 NAQT shares questions between Invitational Series sets (including introductory sets) and custom offerings, such as questions for the unique [[MSHSAA]] and [[IHSA]] formats, and in 2015-2016 and earlier, questions for [[televised quizbowl|TV shows]]. The corresponding IS sets then become unavailable in the target market for the custom sets.
-In 2016–2017, the fifth regular IS set of the year (IS-166) used some questions modified from the same year's [[Division II]] [[Sectional Championship Tournament]] set. This had also been done in some form a decade prior. In 2017–2018, NAQT discontinued the fifth regular IS set of the year, offering hosts the unmodified Division II SCT set instead.
+In 2016-17, the fifth regular IS set of the year (IS-166) used some questions modified from the same year's [[Division II]] [[Sectional Championship Tournament]] set. This had also been done in some form a decade prior. In 2017-18, NAQT discontinued the fifth regular IS set of the year, offering hosts the unmodified Division II SCT set instead.
 ==Reception==
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 At the beginning of the IS program (1997), regular IS sets were 15 packets (usually of 24/24) long.
-In 2011–2012 NAQT switched regular sets to 14 packets (of 24/24) since almost no tournaments used all 15 packets.
+In 2011-12 NAQT switched regular sets to 14 packets (of 24/24) since almost no tournaments used all 15 packets.
-In 2016–2017 NAQT switched regular sets to 12 packets (of 24/24) and introduced alternate versions in which there were 13 packets of 22/22.
+In 2016-17 NAQT switched regular sets to 12 packets (of 24/24) and introduced alternate versions in which there were 13 packets of 22/22.
 Introductory Invitational Series sets have always been 12 packets long (also of 24/24) except for the very first set (IS-36A), which was 15 packets long. When the 13-packet, 22/22 versions of regular sets became available in 2016-2017, the same offering was made for Introductory Invitational Series sets for the first year only.
-==Collegiate Use==
+==Collegiate use==
-When the IS program began in 1997, the sets were intended for college tournaments. At some point shortly after that, they became a high school product. In the 2000s some IS sets were used for college tournaments, a [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4439&start=0 widely] [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4810 criticized] practice. In the 2010s this practice became very rare. In 2015-2016 NAQT began producing a [[Collegiate Novice Series]], in which one regular Invitational Series set (and sometimes one Introductory Invitational Set) per year would be modified into NAQT's [https://www.naqt.com/college/distribution.jsp college category distribution], with new questions added to be suitable for a college audience.
+When the IS program began in 1997, the sets were intended for college tournaments. At some point shortly after that, they became a high school product. In the 2000s some IS sets were used for four-year college tournaments, a [[http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4439&start=0 widely] [http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=4810 criticized] practice. In the 2010s this practice became very rare. In 2015-2016 NAQT began producing a [[Collegiate Novice Series]], in which one regular IS set (and sometimes one IS-A set) per year would be modified into NAQT's [https://www.naqt.com/college/distribution.jsp college category distribution], with new questions added to be suitable for a college audience.  In 2020-21, NAQT did not produce a Collegiate Novice set and instead allowed hosts to use IS sets for that purpose.
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 ==Reception==
 Since about 2010, IS sets have been well received, though in the previous decade reviews were more commonly negative. Late-season IS sets are sometimes criticized as being too difficult due to NAQT's practice of trying to minimize repeats between IS sets in the same year. Some [http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=11456&p=215479 analysis] was done of difficulty in 2011.
 ==Number of Packets==

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	In 2016–2017, the fifth regular IS set of the year (IS-166) used some questions modified from the same year's [[Division II]] [[Sectional Championship Tournament]] set. This had also been done in some form a decade prior. In 2017–2018, NAQT discontinued the fifth regular IS set of the year, offering hosts the unmodified Division II SCT set instead.		In 2016–2017, the fifth regular IS set of the year (IS-166) used some questions modified from the same year's [[Division II]] [[Sectional Championship Tournament]] set. This had also been done in some form a decade prior. In 2017–2018, NAQT discontinued the fifth regular IS set of the year, offering hosts the unmodified Division II SCT set instead.
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