SCT - Revision history

Olin Bose at 20:33, 11 February 2025

2025-02-11T20:33:38Z

June Yin at 05:44, 2 December 2021

2021-12-02T05:44:24Z

June Yin: added info on community college sectionals; there doesn't seem to be public facing information on the CC question sets, so i've cited the "past results by packet set" page on NAQT's website

2021-11-21T21:38:44Z

added info on community college sectionals; there doesn't seem to be public facing information on the CC question sets, so i've cited the "past results by packet set" page on NAQT's website

June Yin: /* Reception */

2021-10-20T21:12:41Z

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June Yin: /* Reception */

2021-10-20T21:12:27Z

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June Yin at 21:12, 20 October 2021

2021-10-20T21:12:09Z

June Yin at 21:11, 20 October 2021

2021-10-20T21:11:34Z

Reilly Melville: adding info

2021-10-19T18:00:57Z

adding info

Jonah Greenthal: needed a lot of updating

2017-12-19T03:42:37Z

needed a lot of updating

Tom Egan at 02:45, 4 January 2017

2017-01-04T02:45:46Z

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 ==Sources==
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+{{Template:Navbox NAQT Sectionals}}
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 The top teams in each division qualify for [[ICT]] based on the teams' respective [[D-value]]s.<ref>https://www.naqt.com/sct/</ref>
-There are also Community College SCTs that qualify for [[CCCT]]. These use [[Invitational Series]] questions,<ref>https://www.naqt.com/stats/packet-set/team.jsp?playoffs=false&packet_set_id=3255</ref> while the DII SCT question set is used at CCCT.<ref>https://www.naqt.com/stats/packet-set/team.jsp?playoffs=false&packet_set_id=3292</ref>
+There are also Community College SCTs that qualify for [[CCCT]]. These use [[Invitational Series]] questions,<ref>https://www.naqt.com/stats/packet-set/team.jsp?playoffs=false&packet_set_id=3255</ref> while the main SCT [[question set]] is used at CCCT.<ref>https://www.naqt.com/stats/packet-set/team.jsp?playoffs=false&packet_set_id=3292</ref>
 ==History==

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 '''NAQT Sectionals''' (also known as '''SCT''' or the '''Sectional Championship Tournament'''), is an annual collegiate tournament run on [[NAQT]] questions and rules hosted at many different sites throughout the United States (and occasionally internationally).
-Sectionals divide teams into [[Division I]] and [[Division II]] brackets, provided there are enough teams, and award recognition for the top undergraduate team playing in Division I. Each Division I packet has 24 tossups and 24 bonuses at collegiate [[regular difficulty]], while Divison II packet questions are significantly easier. Some questions written for one set will overlap with the other or have an adjusted-difficulty version in the other set in the same round.
+Sectionals divide teams into [[Division I]] and [[Division II]] brackets, provided there are enough teams, and award recognition for the top undergraduate team playing in Division I. Each Division I packet has 24 tossups and 24 bonuses at collegiate [[regular difficulty]], while Divison II questions are significantly easier. Some questions written for one [[set]] will overlap with the other or have an adjusted-difficulty version in the other set in the same round.
 ==History==
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 ==Reception==
 SCT is sometimes [[NAQT#Controversy and Criticism|criticized]] for its [[subject distribution]] and/or [[difficulty]]. These issues have been raised less in recent years due to improving quality and increasing acceptance of distributions other than the [[ACF#ACF Distribution|ACF distribution]].
 {{Navbox NAQT}}

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 ==Reception==
-SCT is sometimes [[NAQT#Controversy and Criticism|criticized]] for its [[subject distribution]] and/or [[difficulty]]. These issues have been raised less in recent years due to improving quality and increasing acceptance of distributions other than the [[ACF#ACF distribution|ACF distribution]].
+SCT is sometimes [[NAQT#Controversy and Criticism|criticized]] for its [[subject distribution]] and/or [[difficulty]]. These issues have been raised less in recent years due to improving quality and increasing acceptance of distributions other than the [[ACF#ACF Distribution|ACF distribution]].
 {{Navbox NAQT}}

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 ==Reception==
-SCT is sometimes [[NAQT#Controversy and Criticism|criticized]] for its [[subject distribution]] and/or [[difficulty]]. These issues have been raised less in recent years due to improving quality and increasing acceptance of distributions other than the [[ACF#ACF distributoin|ACF distribution]].
+SCT is sometimes [[NAQT#Controversy and Criticism|criticized]] for its [[subject distribution]] and/or [[difficulty]]. These issues have been raised less in recent years due to improving quality and increasing acceptance of distributions other than the [[ACF#ACF distribution|ACF distribution]].
 {{Navbox NAQT}}

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	From the first SCTs in 1997 through 2017, all SCTs were [[timed]]. Beginning in 2018, SCTs switched to untimed gameplay in response to community concerns about timing (especially with the difficulty of recruiting quality moderators).		From the first SCTs in 1997 through 2017, all SCTs were [[timed]]. Beginning in 2018, SCTs switched to untimed gameplay in response to community concerns about timing (especially with the difficulty of recruiting quality moderators).
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-'''NAQT Sectionals''' (also known as '''SCT''' or the '''Sectional Championship Tournament'''), is an annual collegiate tournament run on [[NAQT]] questions and rules hosted at many different colleges throughout the United States (and occasionally [[Canada]]).
+'''NAQT Sectionals''' (also known as '''SCT''' or the '''Sectional Championship Tournament'''), is an annual collegiate tournament run on [[NAQT]] questions and rules hosted at many different sites throughout the United States (and occasionally internationally).
-Sectionals also divides teams up into [[Division I]] and [[Division II]] brackets, provided there are enough teams, and awards recognition for the top undergraduate team playing in Division I. Each Division I packet has 24 tossups and 24 bonuses at collegiate [[regular difficulty]], while Divison II packet questions are significantly easier. Some questions written for one set will overlap with the other or have an adjusted-difficulty version in the other set in the same round.
+Sectionals divide teams into [[Division I]] and [[Division II]] brackets, provided there are enough teams, and award recognition for the top undergraduate team playing in Division I. Each Division I packet has 24 tossups and 24 bonuses at collegiate [[regular difficulty]], while Divison II packet questions are significantly easier. Some questions written for one set will overlap with the other or have an adjusted-difficulty version in the other set in the same round.
 ==History==
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 Since 2009, SCT has often been "guest-edited" by one or more active college players, who sit out SCT but receive an automatic bid to the [[ICT]] for their team. [[Seth Teitler]] was the first person to do this.
-From the first SCTs in 1997 through 2017, all SCTs were [[timed]]. The 2018 SCTs will be untimed as an experiment in response to community concerns about timing (especially with the difficulty of recruiting quality moderators).
+From the first SCTs in 1997 through 2017, all SCTs were [[timed]]. Beginning in 2018, SCTs switched to untimed gameplay in response to community concerns about timing (especially with the difficulty of recruiting quality moderators).
 ==Reception==
-SCT is sometimes [[NAQT#Controversy and Criticism|criticized]] with respect to its [[subject distribution]] and/or [[difficulty]]. These issues have been raised less in recent years due to improving quality and increasing acceptance of distributions other than the [[ACF distribution]].
+SCT is sometimes [[NAQT#Controversy and Criticism|criticized]] for its [[subject distribution]] and/or [[difficulty]]. These issues have been raised less in recent years due to improving quality and increasing acceptance of distributions other than the [[ACF distribution]].
 {{Navbox NAQT}}

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 Some players continue to criticize Sectionals for its use of the timed format (often combined with bad moderators), a distribution heavy on trash, current events and geography, and occurrences of badly written questions. In response to these criticisms (and of criticisms of the [[ICT]]), NAQT has released surveys following recent ICTs. These surveys are rarely followed by a lack of significant changes to Sectionals and the ICT. See the [[NAQT]] page for more information on this subject.
 In 2010 and 2011, several players criticized the DI set for being too hard for most teams, and/or significantly harder than that year's succeeding [[ACF Regionals]].
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