BEeS .:. a Better Electronic Stats program for quizbowl .:. How does BEeS work?

How does BEeS work?

BEeS is an integrated suite of three software programs.

Central to BEeS is the groundbreaking BEeS Tournament Director. The BTD includes a flexible scheduler that allows the tournament director to place teams into brackets and automatically generate round-robin schedules. You can also input customized tournament setups and print personalized schedules for each team at the tournament. The BTD is also the program that parses packet documents; BEeS supports ACF-formatted documents in Microsoft Word, rich text, or PDF form, NAQT-formatted packets in PDF files, or questions coded in the markup languages of NAQT or HSAPQ.

Each moderator's computer will need the BEeS Quizbowl Reader installed. The BQR is available for free download in our downloads section. The BQR combines the question display and the electronic scoresheet into a single intuitive screen. BQR painlessly allows moderators to record when a player buzzed on each question, and keeps track of detailed bonus conversion stats.

The third program in the BEeS suite is the BEeS Statistics Viewer. BEeS outputs stats in two convenient forms: a handy sortable .html file incorporating all of the most useful results and stats that you can upload to the web, and a .stat file that you can open in the BSV to play around with the data yourself. The .html file encompasses all of the team and individual stats you've come to expect from SQBS and Taft, and also includes new stats derived from buzzer and question category data, as well as detailed answerability stats. The BSV is also free to download.