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- Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Attitudes towards quizbowl
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7482
Re: Attitudes towards quizbowl
Alright, I'll bite. Let me say that I agree with most everything that Jerry said in his post, but I think there's an aspect of truth in what Taylor was saying, which has been talked about in COTKU thread, but I'd rather not contribute to that abortion of a thread. First, I think the most important t...
- Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The (Im)Moral Values of CBI
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7092
Re: CBI Regionals!
Forums poster barnacles is deeply affected by the disapproval of forums poster Matt Weiner.barnacles wrote: I initally decided not to post anything to avoid what would inevitably be either an outright dismissal of my opinion or some longwinded debate that I don't particularly care enough to worry about.
- Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The (Im)Moral Values of CBI
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7092
Re: CBI Regionals!
I'm sure there's plenty of improprieties committed by CBI, I've heard of several myself. I'm sure you could make similar arguments against doing immoral things like shopping at Walmart, eating at McDonalds, paying taxes to the US government, doing drugs, downloading thousands of dollars worth of ill...
- Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Regionals discussion
- Replies: 79
- Views: 38529
- Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall SE at Shorter: results, stats, gratitude
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18871
and some of the players from schools at the bottom of the brackets shouldn't have placed at all when you factor in the fact that any player from from the top ranked teams could probable take them by his/her self. I can only assume this was directed my way. I am glad to be the standard-bearer for me...
- Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall SE at Shorter: results, stats, gratitude
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18871
I just wanted to thanks Chuck and Shorter for hosting a good tournament and the editors for putting together another good ACF Fall. It continues to be perhaps my favorite tournament of the year. It was good to see such a large and diverse field, too. I wish we had gotten to play everyone who was the...
- Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Admiral Ackbar CC/Uni. (NAQT/PARFAIT III) (12/08/07)@ UA
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7286
- Sun Oct 07, 2007 1:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Vanderbilt mirror of EFT2 - October 6
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9635
Thanks to Vandy for hosting the tournament. It was well-run and my team and I had a good time. It was a solid question set, mostly of about the difficulty I expected. I appreciated the level of competition, also, which was about as level as you can get in a field of this size. Hope to see everyone a...
- Tue Oct 02, 2007 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Berry College SE Early Bird (Sep 29, 2007)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7054
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Yellow Mellow
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10190
- Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS: Dennis Haskins Open (3/3/07) @ UT-Chattanooga
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4599
Congratulations to Detroit Catholic Central A for coming out on top of a very competitive, and very large, field this Saturday. I believe it was the largest field UTC has had at any tournament (42 teams if I'm not mistaken) and I hope all the teams enjoyed the experience. I was personally very impre...
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Movie
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12091
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where have all the bids gone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7687
There are very few programs big enough and with enough resources to effectively host a large SCT. I think there needs to be more measures in place to get more experienced moderators from around a region to come, perhaps more sizable discounts or something else. Of course, if/when we get this automat...
- Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals SE (2/17/07) at Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6925
Very brief results: Vanderbilt cleared the field. USF took second with Kentucky taking a close third. We originally had a triple-round robin scheduled, but after two round robins the order of things was pretty obvious so we played another round and went on our way. Seth of Kentucky was top scorer, f...
- Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Sectionals SE at UTC 2/10/07
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11946
Where did this Aaron character come from? I was very surprised to see that Vandy didn't finish second, so I imagine he must have put up quite a performance. I was pretty impressed by the DII field (I can't speak to DI, I didn't moderate there). I hope at least the top four teams end up making it to ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Georgia Tech MLK Invitational - 1/20/2007
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6006
To be fair, we had a pretty late start waiting to see if any more teams would show up, then deciding just what we were going to do with an 11-player field. USF graciously broke up their three-man squad, with Ahmad playing solo, allowing us to have an even amount of teams and no bye rounds. We got th...
- Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT commentary
- Replies: 52
- Views: 29822
- Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Early Fall Tournament at Georgia Tech (10/08)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5523
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moc Masters 2006 at UTC (8/20)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4043
Congratulations to Seth for writing such a good set. It was very well-written and had a good difficulty level, and was very enjoyable (my alarm clock aside). I look forward to future tournaments under his editorship. I'm sure Charlie will be around soon to post the full stats, and I'm sure Matt Wein...
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Muck Masters (8/19/06) at UT-Chattanooga
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8080
I'm not sure how you calculated those numbers, but it would also be worth noting that the numbers you used were probably skewed because the high school team there only showed up for half of the day, leaving the rest of their games as forfeits and, I'm sure, skewing the numbers a bit (you can see the...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15999
How is the game? I am looking forward to it a lot, as Star Fox 64 was one of my favorite N64 games. It's actually really good, I think. I was a little concerned that a flight sim wouldn't work very well on a touch-screen, but it's very intuitive and fun. It isn't exactly like Starfox on the N64, as...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15999
While gaming may be quite popular, is it really all that ripe for good quality tossups? Aside from the big franchises, people's tastes vary so widely that I'm not so sure you can fill more than one tossup per round with a solid question. Even where answers might be quite knowable, the surrounding m...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 4:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 15999
As someone who generally enjoys trash but isn't necessarily very good at it, I too find myself usually a bit lost when I go to standard trash and TRASH tournaments (Who is this television actor everyone else has heard of? etc). I think my favorite trash tournament was John Kilby's RC Cola this year ...
- Tue Jul 18, 2006 3:38 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: July 15 to 24: Recruiting team members
- Replies: 45
- Views: 44415
I've played a fairly good (but small) Morehouse team at UTC tournaments (they were quite friendly guys and quite well-received)... Though I wonder what became of them? Perhaps they were faced with the same problems other circuit teams generally ran into as far as recruitment/retention was concerned...
- Sat Jun 24, 2006 11:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moc Masters 2006 at UTC (8/20)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4043
Moc Masters 2006 at UTC (8/20)
As president of UTC's quizbowl team I am posting this on Charlie's behalf. The UTC Academic Trivia Association will host its 4th annual Moon Pie Classic on Sunday, August 20th, 2006, on the UT-Chattanooga campus. It will be a packet submission tournament, with editing responsibilities to be handled ...
- Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeast Tournaments: Fall 2006
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14964
I went to the Southeastern last year, and I didn't think it was a bad tournament. To the best of my recollection the tossups were not one-liners and I think most were basically pyramidal though there were a lot of speed checks. I remember asking Mr. Carpenter where the questions came from, and he as...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RC Cola Trash Tournament at UTC (4/23/06)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4685
I'd like to congratulate Kilby on what I thought was a very good set. I think he met his express purpose, making a tournament with questions that were much more accessible to college-age teams. While I didn't necessarily benefit that much (which my paltry stats show), I enjoyed being able to at leas...
- Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Commodore Classic - March 25
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3541
- Tue Feb 21, 2006 9:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Possible delayed mirror of William Wirt at Vanderbilt
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4556
- Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Possible delayed mirror of William Wirt at Vanderbilt
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4556
- Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT predictions for 2006?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11933
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl/Sword Bowl blew ass
- Replies: 79
- Views: 58614
As current president of UTC's quizbowl team, I'd like to announce that I put a down payment on a new BMW now that I found out I'm due so much money from Sword Bowl. Thanks for making everything abundantly clear for me. I consider myself a pretty prototypical Southern quizbowl player, so perhaps I wi...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SSI Results
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9514
I agree with you, the mistakes UF made were pretty egregious. I was just saying that, in my own limited personal experience, the tournament went pretty well. I can see, however, that many other people had complaints with it, and rightfully so, but the things they are up in arms about didn't really a...
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SSI Results
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9514
I must say that I, for the most part, enjoyed the tournament, playing in Div II and reaching the playoffs for the two extra rounds. I will also begin by saying that the tournament ran smoothly and efficiently and that the Florida folks did a good job during the tournament. I will agree, however, tha...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hosed or not hosed...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25721
You could complain, or you could adjust...meaning you might need to wait longer.....you might need to jump quicker. The problem is, when you throw these questions in every so often, there is no strategy except waiting, which hurts you in straightforward questions. Consider a question that started o...
- Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hosed or not hosed...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25721
- Wed Dec 28, 2005 2:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hosed or not hosed...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25721
Ahh, I wasn't being specific enough, I was considering the original question and assuming that anyone who knows enough about George Gershwin to be able to recall particular songs (other than his major works) should know that he had a brother named Ira who wrote the lyrics for his songs, and that may...
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hosed or not hosed...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25721
Well, the player is punished with a neg for not knowing optative rather than knowing the other terms. Let me begin by restating that I don't think this was a bad or unfair question. The only thing I'm debating is whether or not it is a good idea to mislead players in an attempt to bait them to anot...
- Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hosed or not hosed...
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25721
I disagree with this -- I think that on occasion it is perfectly fine (and even good) to write questions knowing that most people would buzz in with a particular incorrect answer. I don't think it's ever a good idea to try and mislead players. Perhaps that's just my philosophy, but as a player and ...