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- Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:16 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: On HS Teams Without Coaches
- Replies: 68
- Views: 48731
Re: On HS Teams Without Coaches
As far as I'm aware, nobody has done anything of the sort (other New England people, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong); just speaking for myself, it never occured to me that that was a thing that we could do, since the coach wasn't at most tournaments, and I didn't have a lot of confidence that...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64587
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
One last observation related to my second paragraph the most--as a college instructor, I would say many instructors are pretty vigilant about sexual misconduct. That's not to say they all do a good job at preventing it or addressing it and in fact some behave extremely badly. But no one can say &qu...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:30 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64587
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
I’d also like to address the incredibly tired statement of “men need to start speaking up when they witness this kind of behavior.” It has been made abundantly clear to me that many adult members of the quizbowl community cannot identify bad behavior in themselves or their friends. Like I said abov...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:09 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64587
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
Men: start calling out other men for this behavior. Call out your teammates, call out players from other schools, call out players in tournaments that you're staffing, and so on. Don't partake in the behavior, don't laugh at it, don't ignore it, and don't dismiss it as "not a big deal" or ...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 5:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Useful Podcasts for Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8181
Re: Useful Podcasts for Quiz Bowl
Although it's probably more specialized than you'd like, I enjoy David Crowther's History of England podcast:
https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/podca ... f-england/
https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/podca ... f-england/
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6566
Re: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
I find your outrage rather incomprehensible. UofL Quizbowl is a part of the University of Louisville, and as such, as absolutely no ability whatsoever to simply mail out checks to people. I'm not commenting directly on Harris's outrage, but I want to point out that the above is an oversimplificatio...
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 4
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12373
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 4
One last thing: Drew Scheeler offered to write the trash tossups. But I didn't get a response from him to my PM from a while ago, and I don't have his e-mail address. If anyone here does, please let me know. Thanks. Last I checked, his e-mail was andrew.scheeler (atsymbolhere) case.edu. Edit: Meant...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:02 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How to be Better at Being an Ally
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15179
Re: How to be Better at Being an Ally
I'd like to add a point to this discussion (which is based on my own discussions with women in quizbowl and beyond). No one should be actively trying to be rude, but if you mess up , people are going to let you know. If you are a man and fall into this category (as I did), the first thing you should...
- Wed May 30, 2018 1:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 111348
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)
Aside from superficial interactions at NAQT events, I do not know Matt that well. He always seemed like a nice person, however. That said, NAQT must take swift action here. From a liability standpoint, I imagine they would be responsible if, God forbid, anything were to happen at one of their events...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:46 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
- Replies: 64
- Views: 54604
Re: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
Don’t make fun of people for not knowing things. This is especially true if you’re an adult staffer at a high school or middle school tournament. A young player’s lack of knowledge in any area should not be met with ridicule or incredulity. It should not be a topic of conversation in a game room or ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
- Replies: 102
- Views: 50419
Re: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
"Your hat probably looks stupid and is probably getting people to make fun of you, especially if it is a fedora or that thing the chimneysweeps wear in Mary Poppins . This is my favorite kind of hat. Although it's ostensibly a source of ridicule, what other kinds of hats are acceptable for bus...
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 11:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Transitioning from Regular to higher difficulty levels
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2526
Re: Transitioning from Regular to higher difficulty levels
I'm far from a literature specialist, but poems, short stories, and novellas are a significant chunk of the literature canon and are relatively easier to read in a short amount of time. For higher difficulty tournaments, many (but not all) answer lines are from lesser known works of well-known autho...
- Sun May 14, 2017 12:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20177
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
I am relocating to New Orleans next month after accepting a position at another university. I will also continue to live in San Diego during the summer months. As always, I am generally available to staff local tournaments.
- Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 LQBA State Championship Tournament
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4399
Re: 2017 LQBA State Championship Tournament
Was an overall state championship awarded?
- Tue Aug 16, 2016 8:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The 10-Point Shootout (NBA Vanity Tournament)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16429
Re: The 10-Point Shootout (NBA Vanity Tournament)
No worries. I didn't mean to come across so grumpy in my post. It's just something to keep in mind, especially for a city like San Diego with a large number of transient residents.
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 12:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The 10-Point Shootout (NBA Vanity Tournament)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16429
Re: The 10-Point Shootout (NBA Vanity Tournament)
Mik read us about three rounds of this over Phil's BBQ after the Side Events at UCSD. I don't have any stats, but let it be known that 1) the questions were super fun and a great addition to delicious barbecue (100% true) and 2) I absolutely murdered Justin Nghiem (significantly less true). I am di...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DEES at WKU (12/7/14)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11223
Re: DEES at WKU (12/7/14)
I'm very likely to show up as a staffer, but I can also join an open team if the need arises.
- Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT IS-A at Tulane 9/27/2014
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4737
Re: NAQT IS-A at Tulane 9/27/2014
Are stats available for this tournament?
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 1:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Louisiana Open at ULL (6/14/14 and 6/15/14)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3551
Re: Louisiana Open at ULL (6/14/14 and 6/15/14)
Team Jake (Jake Sundberg, Matt Berry) finished Saturday with a 7-1 record to win the the academic portion of the Louisiana Open. Team Ryan (Ryan McLaren, Alec Stewart, Billy Benezech) defeated Team Matt (Matt Berry, Kevin Marshall) in a one-game final to win Sunday's trash tournament. Thanks to ever...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:49 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: All-time all-state teams
- Replies: 61
- Views: 53663
Re: All-time all-state teams
Not sure who else is from here--are Jake and Matt? Yes. Tom Chuck is also from Louisiana (Caddo Magnet). I also vaguely recall that Susan Mitchell graduated from (or at least attended) Lafayette High School. ETA: Nick Collins (Byrd High School in Shreveport) deserves mention, as he's one of the bet...
- Sun May 25, 2014 7:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Louisiana Open at ULL (6/14/14 and 6/15/14)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3551
Louisiana Open at ULL (6/14/14 and 6/15/14)
UL Lafayette will host a Summer mirror of Penn Bowl on Saturday June 14th, 2014. The original announcement can be found here . On Sunday June 15th, we will host a mirror of the Ohio Trash Tournament (from December). Distribution 4/4 Literature (1/1 World and Other) 4/4 History 4/4 Science (1/1 Biolo...
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 3:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2 Discussion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12515
Re: Lederberg 2 Discussion
I think the clues are fine, but I probably would have used an exclusionary clue as well. When I see LRU and MRU, I think of page replacement algorithms.Also, that LRU and MRU clue isn’t very good - as that is also how you replace pages. The rest of the tossup looks fine though.
- Mon Mar 31, 2014 1:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91934
Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
I'll play, though I don't expect to get many tossups outside of computer science and the occasional molecular bio tossup. Anytime in late April or beyond works for me.
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT South Region Mirror
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6320
Re: MUT South Region Mirror
I recall that there were problems with the the ULL wi-fi, so the stats guy couldn't download SQBS. He had to use Excel instead.
Tyler, could you have Jeff send me the .xlsx file for the tournament stats?
Tyler, could you have Jeff send me the .xlsx file for the tournament stats?
- Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? [Collegiate edition, 2014]
- Replies: 34
- Views: 14131
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? [Collegiate edition, 2014
Of course! Keep me posted.
- Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? [Collegiate edition, 2014]
- Replies: 34
- Views: 14131
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? [Collegiate edition, 2014
I accepted a permanent faculty position at a university in Nashville, so I will be living there for the foreseeable future. I should be available to staff local tournaments.
- Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT South Region Mirror
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6320
Re: MUT South Region Mirror
I can also provide help as a reader.
- Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Crowdsourced Head to Head Rankings
- Replies: 56
- Views: 17540
Re: Crowdsourced Head to Head Rankings
We murdered WUSTL last year something like 305-100 and finished ahead of them at ICT. We rightfully got no votes in the poll but they got ranked 25th. No offense to Charles Hang, but I still don't understand why people voted for them over the only teams that finished ahead of us both.) Mike instruc...
- Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open 2014 Discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11471
Re: Oxford Open 2014 Discussion
I found this statement to be very disheartening:
Rewarding knowledge is supposed to be a good thing...right?I find it odd that literature becomes nothing more than a litany of plot details, which reward people who've learnt lists of minor characters - or who've read the books
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:35 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
- Replies: 14
- Views: 29046
Re: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
As long as the names of movements are unique, those can also be acceptable clues. A clue about a first movement marked "Allegro affettuoso" will almost certainly point to Schumann's Op. 54.
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8033
Re: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
As long as the names of movements are unique, those can also be acceptable clues. A clue about a first movement marked "Allegro affettuoso" will almost certainly point to Schumann's Op. 54.
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Louisiana 2013-2014
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5929
Re: Louisiana 2013-2014
I was very impressed with Jesuit at Tulane's tournament. It's tragic that they don't play in real national tournaments.Kevin wrote:Looks like it'll be Jesuit and Lusher neck and neck this year. Ben Franklin seems to have fallen off a little bit.
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preseason Poll
- Replies: 54
- Views: 23779
Re: Preseason Poll
They lost Harrison and Dargan.Cheynem wrote:17. Alabama--not sure, I think lose no starter?
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth Teitler Presents: An Intimate Engagement with Trash
- Replies: 75
- Views: 32260
Re: Seth Teitler Presents: An Intimate Engagement with Trash
Jake isn't going to Chicago this weekend.Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:Does anyone know if Bernadette, Trevor, Jake, or Delano are playing?
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 3:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2013 NAQT ICT: April 13, Chicago
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10944
Re: 2013 NAQT ICT: April 13, Chicago
MCTC was actually the highest placing community college in attendance Care to explain how you drew this conclusion about MCTC? It's entirely speculative since MCTC was in a separate division, but the D1 field is significantly more competitive than the D2 field. I mean no disrespect to your team, ho...
- Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fighting Trash Capture
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6094
Re: Fighting Trash Capture
At this point, I guess the only thing that would work is a complete newcomer either waiting out the trash people or forming a new team altogether. I don't know what the policies are at other schools, but at ULL, "duplicate" student organizations were not allowed. Of course people can alwa...
- Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fighting Trash Capture
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6094
Re: Fighting Trash Capture
I wonder if people have any thoughts about how to overcome trash capture--what would you suggest to people who want to change things at a school stuck in trash only mode? This may seem like an overly simplistic solution, but I think it comes down to just getting *better* at the academic side. Peopl...
- Mon Mar 18, 2013 1:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin Mirror @ MSU, March 23, 2013
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10973
Re: Terrapin Mirror @ MSU, March 23, 2013
There's a nonzero chance that a Case Western contingent will show up, excluding myself. We'll let you know by today or tomorrow.
- Wed Mar 13, 2013 11:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT's agreement with ACUI
- Replies: 242
- Views: 66655
Re: NAQT's agreement with ACUI
I played D2 at the 2012 SCT. I wasn't new to quizbowl, but I never qualified for ICT as an undergraduate.
- Fri Mar 08, 2013 12:57 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Looking for Info and Advice for the Minnesota/Midwest Region
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7869
Re: Looking for Info and Advice for the Minnesota/Midwest Region
What school do you attend? The University of Minnesota has a very active club that hosts things. There are also a number of colleges in Minnesota that attend tournaments.
- Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 19969
Re: Tournament Discussion
Ah ok. I remember answering with "support vectors", so I may have misunderstood.
- Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: autobid thread split
- Replies: 62
- Views: 13410
Re: autobid thread split
There have been UG teams which received an autobid to ICT which, speaking factually, had worse stats than us, though due to our site we did not receive a bid and it is unclear if we will eventually qualify for ICT or not. Not to beat a dead horse, but the D-value conversion is also problematic. I t...
- Wed Mar 06, 2013 4:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 19969
Re: Tournament Discussion
I enjoyed the computer science in this tournament, though the "support vectors" tossup probably should have just been a tossup on "support vector machines". The European history was also good, but I thought that Yaroslav the Wise was mentioned a tad early in the Kievan Rus' tossup.
- Wed Feb 27, 2013 2:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT @ Ohio State - 3/2/2013
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6252
Re: WIT @ Ohio State - 3/2/2013
Since there are so many 1 man teams, maybe people would be interested having just some sort of round robin tournament + finals followed by a draft where we could mix up the teams for some fun. Obviously, this would be contingent on there being enough packets and this being allowed by the glorious e...
- Tue Feb 19, 2013 2:28 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Louisiana community college team
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7666
Re: Louisiana community college team
Hi Kendra. You guys are fortunate in that the most active college club in the state (Tulane) is just a few miles away. You may want to contact Ryan McLaren (jrynmac -at- gmail.com) to see about holding joint practices. ULL also has a team, though they are less active. La Tech is also in the process ...
- Thu Feb 14, 2013 10:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXII at Tulane in New Orleans, LA on 4/13
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4869
Re: BHSAT XXII at Tulane in New Orleans, LA
On what date will this be held?
- Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 184652
Re: ProtoBowl
There's a difference between being dumb and being mean. Between using words and meaning them. If people can't tell the difference, then I'm not sure how exactly you get along with people in real life Homophobic, racist, and sexist insults go beyond the threshold of simply "being dumb". I ...
- Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Reviving the collegiate poll
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6629
Re: Reviving the collegiate poll
Maybe, but for the most part, the community seems to agree on the best 15 teams. There may not be much diversity among top-15 ballots.Cheynem wrote:I think a top 15 poll would be fine. The "also receiving votes" section would probably be used to create an unofficial top 25.
- Mon Nov 26, 2012 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 84
- Views: 13612
Re: Question-specific discussion
I'm also told Rob Carson, Sam Spaulding, and if I'm not mistaken, Will Butler, have done things with LZ[W] in classes. I think something got mixed up here--I intended to communicate (initially to Auroni, I think?) that I'd done some relatively basic stuff with compression (Huffman coding, stuff lik...
- Mon Nov 19, 2012 2:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes That Do Not See IV @ Minnesota Open 2012
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11441
Re: Eyes That Do Not See IV @ Minnesota Open 2012
I had fun playing this. Thanks Mike.