Old Tricks and New Features

Hello All,

In order to keep the scoreboard interesting this year, I thought it would be best to bring back some old features, and add some new ones I've thought about over the summer.

First, what's coming back (or is already being utilized):

• Team Bid Counts: This feature attracted a fairly decent amount of attention last season, so it will be coming back. Just like last year, tie-breakers will be determined based on the number of students who belong to a certain team. If two teams have a matching number of bids, the team with less students will be ranked higher than the team with more students.
• List of Auto-Qual students: this feature is self explanatory.

Now, for some new features:

• State Bid Count: The 5 states with the highest number of students who have received bids will be listed. Student names will be included, but not the number of bids each student has.
• A Potential At-Large List: Following Harker, I will compile the list of all students who are at-large candidates. From there, students may (via comments) let the rest of the community know if they are applying for an at-large or not. The list will display the student, their school, and where they received a bid at.
• Class Listing: Each student who receives bids and/or qualifies to the TOC will have their graduation year listed. This may also lead to a bid count determined by graduating classes, please send me feedback via comments letting me know if you think this is a viable feature to the scoreboard.
  
• Point System: I am in the process of determining a point system in which to 'rank' debaters based on how they do at a given tournament. Ideally, I will have a point system created by the end of October.

Thank you all for continuing to visit the LD Scoreboard, and be sure to check back every weekend that a bid tournament occurs.