I don't have the stats in front of me, but if I remember correctly, at the end of the prelims the "circle" teams were all 12-13 ppb. While Swarthmore pulled about 12.5 ppb at ACF Regionals, and Swarthmore also had about 12.5 ppb at QOTC, the QOTC team was our div. II team, instead of the full A team we sent to ACF. Leaving aside Freeburg, I believe that Rutgers-Newark and Maryland were the only schools to bring anything resembling their full A team. I maintain that the questions were closer to this year's Terrapin than anything else I've been to this year. And sorry about the confusion with the ad hoc team. Had it been a five way tie, I'm pretty sure the teams to advance wold have been Rutgers-Newark, Freeburg/Wang, and either Princeton or Swat, depending on which tiebreaker was used. (Princeton had slightly better ppg, but Swat edged them out in ppb and margin.) -Chris --- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, stat74 <no_reply_at_y...> wrote: > > To absolutely nobody's surprise, Nathan Freeburg led the field with > > (I believe) 20 negs in the prelims; he was also the second > > individual scorer. I should also mention that he was the unlucky > > recipient of a particularly nasty quadrilateral of death, which had > > Princeton, Rutgers, Swarthmore and Freeburg all at 4-3 after the > > prelims > > If Delaware had known that the round we were playing against the ad > hoc team which included someone who wrote/edited questions actually > counted, maybe we would have tried. Then the tie could have been 5- > way. Tiebreakers should always be announced ahead of time so there's > not controversy later. > > Did anyone else think this tournament was hard enough to be ACF > nationals? > > Questions that are too easy or too hard fail to discriminate between > teams. Hence the records all bunched at 0.500. I suspect only > Maryland ran >15 points per bonus, and that the majority of the field > was under 10. > > I will take one round's worth of blame for this. But I think we need > to yet again revisit the issue of how hard is "ACF regionals" (the > tournament goal) supposed to be. > > - Bill
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