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Hi all,
Topic votes have been tallied.
The selected topics are UTT’s Lithium, Pacific’s Space and Syria, PDB’s East Africa, and Whitman’s Bolivia.
This link will allow you to view this year’s Topic Committee discussion.
If you have any comments, please feel free to share them with any member of the committee or to post them here or in the NPTE/NPDA Tournament group on Facebook.
Re-posting this from Tabroom email for anyone who didn’t see it:
We’ve had to make some changes to the Mound High schedule for a couple of reasons. First, it is looking very likely that we’ll have a partials double round for both halves, which requires us to add two rounds to the schedule from last year. That is a good problem, and we’re really excited for what it means for NPDA and NPTE.
Second, there was a space availability issue on Thursday morning due to another campus event. We will have to start day 1 at noon, meaning day 1 will have only four rounds with a dinner break.
The big takeaways are 1. No changes to the Sunday schedule – you do not need to change travel plans because of this. 2. Our friends in the Midwest can hopefully drive out a day later. 3. It’s going to be busy on days 2 and 3.
I’ve updated the Tabroom schedule and uploaded the new schedule to tournament websites, so you can see the whole plan.Looking forward to hosting y’all in a few weeks!
BrentHey y’all, quick follow-up. Topic half will be the second half! I misremembered the invitation when I typed this up.
BN
The Mound High Swing will be hosted at McKendree University January 9-12. Looking forward to hosting y’all quite a bit this year!
There’s a mistake in this language that we want to clarify. First, a round robin group (or pod) will have 6 teams in it. Second, to create these pods, we need to create “pots” – I’m sure now you see how this mix-up happened.
Each pot has 4 teams who are sorted by rank, 1-4, 5-8, etc. Then they are randomly assigned to a group. That means each group will have one team from each pot, spreading out the seeds among each group with some variance created by the random assignment.
I’d also like to add that we’ve considered a deterministic system that places teams in a “snake” pattern, where 1-4 are placed, then 5-8 in reverse order. That means groups have some pairs of seeds, but it also spreads out the seeds evenly in every group. So, for instance, 1 would be in a group with 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, and 24. 4 is in a group with 4, 5, 12, 13, 20, 21.
I’m curious what the community thinks is a better model. We’re really excited about the chance to use a group stage and we’ve already gotten some excited feedback about it, but we’re still refining, so feel free to make your concerns known.
