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- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4458
Re: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
Bathroom access (not everyone can/wants to pee in the bushes)? Power access that allows questions to be read and score to be kept? Playing late in the dark? Accessible transportation for those who don't drive or have access to a car? Game spaces accessible to everyone, despite physical ability? A na...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:30 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64680
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
At the start of any tournament, the TD or some other high level staffer representing the host should include similar remarks, until "This tournament will not tolerate any abusive language or behavior" becomes as commonplace as "Our timing rules are five seconds for everything." ...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:39 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64680
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
This sort of virtue signaling is unnecessary. What can you do to ensure that you and other men are making quizbowl a more "welcoming place"?
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:39 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64680
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
And I do mean men, because this is my second point: all of the work of making this community become a less toxic place to women should not have to come from women. This is the umpteenth thread like this that has been posted, usually in response to some egregiously vile thing that some guy in quizbo...
- Thu May 07, 2020 2:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals Cancellation Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6525
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern
Is it not feasible to attempt to reschedule this in a state that is following less strict guidelines, i.e. Florida or Georgia? I keep rereading this line and it's starting to make sparks and smoke come out of my brain. You are asking other teams and staffers to put themselves and others at risk for...
- Thu May 07, 2020 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals Cancellation Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6525
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern
Will, I'm not an ACF member but I'd hazard the "reasons behind the cancellation" would be "a frakking global pandemic that will nearly certainly get worse as states relax restrictions without real medical progress being made." I am definitely deeply disappointed that all our tou...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:46 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1328
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
Mak is what I am right now, and it's terrible. It deserves to go.
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Nationals Alternatives?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6573
Re: Nationals Alternatives?
This.Cheynem wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:19 pm If people want quizbowl, I suggest like organizing a few scrimmage tournaments on guerrilla packets or by paying homeward bound wage slaves (like myself) to write them. You could do like an invitational online where 5-7 good teams play each other in a round robin.
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 3:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9588
Re: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
Chiming in to say that the 2-second limit to say one's answer after buzzing in is also frustrating and inopportune for those of us who have speech delays.
- Mon May 20, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 PACE NSC: Congratulations Thomas Jefferson A!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 38699
Re: 2019 PACE NSC: June 8-9, Reston, VA
T-shirts for the 2019 National Scholastic Championship are now available in Women's and Men's styles! Small through XL shirts are $16; 2XL and 3XL are $17. Fill out this this form to order your shirt. The deadline to place an advance order is Monday, May 27th . All shirts will be paid for and picked...
- Mon May 06, 2019 12:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16577
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30842
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
One idea we had was combining religion and myth into a single 1/1 I like this idea. I'd use the resulting extra question to have 1/1 "mathematical sciences" including pure math, math applications, statistics, and CS, and 1/1 "other science" including Earth science, astronomy, en...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 PACE NSC: Congratulations Thomas Jefferson A!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 38699
Re: 2019 PACE NSC: June 8-9, Reston, VA
2019 PACE NSC Venue Information Location: As stated above, the 2019 PACE NSC will be held at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA. Address: 1800 Presidents Street, Reston, Virginia, United States, 20190 Phone Number: 703 709 1234. When calling the hotel with questions or to reserve rooms, please ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RULFO at PACE NSC
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11160
Re: RULFO at PACE NSC
Have you run this by anyone at PACE?
- Wed May 30, 2018 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 111706
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
NAQT has an open investigation into all aspects of the situation, including the alleged sexual assault at Boston University and the series of blog posts. This is not just an informal "we're looking into it" probe, but a result of NAQT's formal grievance process having been triggered. This...
- Wed May 30, 2018 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 111706
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Is there any internal difference between termination of membership and resignation within NAQT? I know that there some sort of profit-sharing given to NAQT members at the end of each year's cycle. Would resignation divest a member? Or does it work like stock in that a resigned member could still pro...
- Wed May 16, 2018 1:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23593
Re: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
My reading of Tamara's point is that all of us in quizbowl can get caught up in the details of the game (competition, PPG, ranking, tournament wins etc...) to the point where we prioritize that over the creation of a free, open, and comfortable community in which people can exist as themselves. (*) ...
- Tue May 15, 2018 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23593
Re: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
Bunnie and I just had a very productive conversation and found out we're on the same page in many important ways, I wasn't making anything up when I say that I'm thankful for her willingness to call out flaws because I think this process deserves heavy scrutiny and nobody should trust themselves to...
- Mon May 14, 2018 10:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23593
Re: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
Speaking just for myself here, let it crumble. Our validity and humanity is worth more than quizbowl.
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Public discourse, on the forums and elsewhere
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9463
Re: Public discourse, on the forums and elsewhere
I whole-heartedly encourage everyone to embrace my (former) Minnesotans' advice in this thread. I don't post much anymore because of much of this (including to avoid the temptation to engage myself, as I have in the past), so I feel we should all really sit with this advice and think about how we ca...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: 2018 ACF Nationals (April 21-22 at MIT)
- Replies: 64
- Views: 75476
Re: Announcement: 2018 ACF Nationals (April 21-22 at MIT)
Also does anyone have some advice on where/how close to campus teams should stay? Anywhere off the Red Line is good. The Courtyard South Boston has pretty cheap rates and is a short walk to the T, which would take you to campus in less than 30 minutes. The cheapest and closest options in Cambridge ...
- Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: List of HSNCT (2018) side events
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9921
Re: List of HSNCT (2018) side events
I like them, even if I do not win a lot.Cheynem wrote:I mean, the last two years there's been a summer open that's just been all side events.
(I like those because I win a lot)
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: We Need an Alternative to the Women in Quizbowl Forum
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18798
Re: We Need an Alternative to the Women in Quizbowl Forum
While Athena is right to point out that putting the work on women isn't necessarily fair, I am willing to do some work as both a woman and a board staffer here. In such a forum or the existing one, I would like to propose something like "Dear Prudence," which I would run, possibly along w...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
- Replies: 102
- Views: 50580
Re: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
Based on my observations of human social behavior and gender relations, women are more likely to be disinclined to sticking around a space full of smelly, unkempt men than men are. Speculating as to what those reasons are is beyond my scope. Dude, we are calling you sexist because you are making es...
- Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154701
Re: ROUND ONE, PART TWO: Best Song of the 2000s
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Blind by Hercules and Love Affair - duh Time to Pretend by MGMT vs. The Funeral by Band of Horses - Time to Pretend is the best of MGMT's big singles. One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Independent Women Part 1 by Destiny's Child - sure Bad Romance by Lady Gaga vs. Do You Realize...
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:13 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154701
Re: ROUND 0 PART 1 VOTING NOW: Best Song of the 2000s Bracke
Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson 1234 – Feist vs. Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story) – !!! vs. Do ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 7:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST at Michigan (NOT HAPPENING, see thread)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9700
Re: CMST and side event weekend at Michigan (17-18 March)
Miscellaneous Many of you had a negative experience at our EFT mirror due to our failure to provide enough competent staff, so we would like to make it clear that we will not consider playing house teams until we know we have two staffers for each room, including at least one competent moderator pe...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 81839
Re: 2017 ICT bids
I think Fred's point would be something like "the system is flawed, but that means you should reform the system, not get mad at the people using the system now." Right, so Fred's response to John would be along the lines of "the claim you make about the moral culpability of actors in...
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 81839
Re: 2017 ICT bids
Would it be worth considering moving the ICT out of being held at a hotel then? It seems that it would be more cost-economical for NAQT, because they'd have to pay less for facilities and could potentially accommodate more teams, which seems to be something that most people are in favor of. Also ju...
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 4:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 81839
Re: 2017 ICT bids
Hotel Sales & Catering Manager here. While I cannot speak to the specifics of NAQT's budgetary constraints nor the specifics of their contracts, I can tell you that NAQT is not exaggerating the increased costs of a larger ICT. Hotels strive to capture business that optimizes revenue capture from...
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 10:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2016: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send Those Gifts!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 7129
Re: SMV 2016: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send Those Gifts!
Amazon claims my gift was delivered Friday, but my partner has not responded, suggesting there was a problem with delivery or something. Since madness is doing something twice and expecting a different result, it should arrive again on the 28th. Aiiii, this is on me! Thank you for sending me a copy...
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 5:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 67638
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I've been incubating a Festivus packet. The distribution is roughly: 25% Game of Thrones mashups 25% hard answers from easy video games (i.e. more questions like the ones in my Nintendo packet from a couple years ago) 25% wint's Twitter (@dril) 25% Seinfeld and other miscellanies So hopefully somet...
- Sun Dec 11, 2016 12:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2016: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send Those Gifts!
- Replies: 79
- Views: 7129
Re: SMV 2016: HSQB's Secret Santa - Register now! (12/11/16)
Why not.
Bernadette Spencer
[email protected]
1. Fun foods
2. Wool socks of hilarious design
3. Surprising true crime books.
Bernadette Spencer
[email protected]
1. Fun foods
2. Wool socks of hilarious design
3. Surprising true crime books.
- Tue Dec 06, 2016 10:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31197
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
I'm going to Minnesota for a two-year MS in Statistics. I'd love to continue staffing, especially (but maybe not exclusively?) at collegiate tournaments. The only situation in which I can see myself playing is if there's a spot on a DI NAQT team that would otherwise go unfilled--I'm done with learn...
- Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5187
Re: Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!
Breaks should be scheduled to maximize tournament efficiency. Bring snacks, yo.
- Wed Nov 23, 2016 1:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 67638
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I am ready for thisRexSueciae wrote:I will probably have finished at some point a packet on "fictional characters in popular music."
- Sun Jun 12, 2016 1:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 31197
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
I suppose I should actually announce that I'm working in Seattle for the near future. I'll be around and *may* want to take a class or two.Mike Bentley wrote:I don't suppose anyone knows of anyone heading to the Pacific Northwest...
- Sun Apr 17, 2016 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals - University of Michigan, 04.16-17.2016
- Replies: 104
- Views: 61074
Re: ACF Nationals - University of Michigan, 04.16-17.2016
Cody wrote:Final rankings! Michigan A is your 2016 ACF Nationals champion, having beat Chicago A in the first game of an advantaged final.
Wahoo, congratulations Michigan!
- Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:23 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7731
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - 12/8 Deadline
Bernadette Spencer
[email protected]
1. wool socks or other extremity-warming implements
2. nonfiction (especially true crime) books
3. easily-shippable local food specialties, or food/food-related items that you like
[email protected]
1. wool socks or other extremity-warming implements
2. nonfiction (especially true crime) books
3. easily-shippable local food specialties, or food/food-related items that you like
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 4:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 PACE NSC: June 6-7, Washington, DC
- Replies: 75
- Views: 66347
Re: 2015 PACE NSC: June 6-7, Washington, DC
Any lost and found items have been handed off to the hotel. Please contact them at 703-709-1234 if you are looking for anything. Thanks.
- Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 PACE NSC: June 6-7, Washington, DC
- Replies: 75
- Views: 66347
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 1:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Up Late with Eric Xu cover art
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6644
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 12:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Up Late with Eric Xu cover art
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6644
Re: Up Late with Eric Xu cover art
If you're feeling student theatery.... (and want to be overly dramatic about how long your podcast is)
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Up Late with Eric Xu cover art
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6644
Re: Up Late with Eric Xu cover art
For a classier look:
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 11:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Up Late with Eric Xu cover art
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6644
- Sat Dec 20, 2014 9:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6791
Re: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
Thanks to Vasa for the most elaborately prepared SMV gift ever! I got some awesome books:
The Mark Inside by Amy Reading
The Burglary by Betty Medsger
A Deed So Accursed by Terrence Finnegan
The Mark Inside by Amy Reading
The Burglary by Betty Medsger
A Deed So Accursed by Terrence Finnegan
- Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2014: Quentin Tarantino Edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 37774
Re: IRC Festivus 2014: Quentin Tarantino Edition
I'd be willing to churn out a sub-20 number of musical theater/musical film questions and/or pun questions, all with ridiculous answer lines, if interest exists. (hi john lawrence) Hi, there! I will write some amount of James Bond tossups. And hello to you too! If I find time, I'll write an all car...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:27 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Tournaments/Being Competitive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14876
Re: Tournaments/Being Competitive
Oh, I'm so glad that you talked to one of your "feminist classmates" about "your biggest regret" and the best you have to offer is "good luck". As a woman in QB, do you have any thoughts or suggestions that can help to either advance the conversation or make women feel...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:37 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Tournaments/Being Competitive
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14876
Re: Tournaments/Being Competitive
My impression has been that if it's even slightly uncomfortable, that is enough to drive away the vast majority of women unless they have some other reason to stay. At my undergrad club some women quit because they found the guys' harsh/demeaning trash talk (to each other, not directed at the women...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6791
Re: SMV 2014: 11/25 DEADLINE
Name: Bernadette Spencer Email Address: bernadette.spencer@gmail.com Present Requests: random food stuffs (spices, flavored bitters, snacks etc....), books about crime (especially things like The Journalist and the Murderer ), posters of random philosophers that are not Kant, macaroni portraits of ...