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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Northeast Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Vermont NAQT States Results and Reflections
- Replies: 0
- Views: 359
2024 Vermont NAQT States Results and Reflections
The Vermont NAQT Championship Tournament was played on Friday, March 15 at Spaulding High School in Barre, Vermont, home of the Crimson Tide. Mr. Michael Whalen of Spaulding ran the tournament, assisted by indispensable Vermont quiz bowl pillar Kevin Commo, and the smooth execution of the event was ...
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MLK 2008
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11727
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MLK 2008
- Replies: 34
- Views: 11727
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: a new stat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7234
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Hey: stop running high school tournaments for colleges
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20989
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: a new stat
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7234
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Guns of August and the state of quizbowl history
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15553
- Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6894
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
if you criticize these people your an idiotsetht wrote:I guess I'll kick this off.
Michael Arnold--a little trash
William Dix--a little trash
David Seal--a little of the trash
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Predictions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5123
- Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question for Matt Lafer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3124
- Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Road to Minneapolis: NAQT ICT bid prediction thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 49074
- Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Road to Minneapolis: NAQT ICT bid prediction thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 49074
- Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Midwest SCT at Michigan, 2/10/07
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5528
- Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12131
There were egregious logistical problems (bye teams were actually point-blank denied when they offered to help read) Is this really true? I read during my bye round, as did two of my teammates, and there didn't seem to be any objections. Seth Teitler's offer to read our packet for Chicago B was met...
- Mon Jan 22, 2007 12:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12131
There were egregious logistical problems (bye teams were actually point-blank denied when they offered to help read), and there were lots of repeats, but I don't think we should let that overshadow the fact that this set was one of the best-written and best-edited sets in recent memory, on par with ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl quick results
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3654
Penn Bowl quick results
Brown defeated Chicago A in the finals after an abbreviated round robin to remain the only undefeated team in the field and win the tournament.
- Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:17 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: College quizbowl 5 years from now...
- Replies: 37
- Views: 48301
i'm not trolling, i just thought the point was kind of obvious...maybe you just want me to use proper capitalization, fine Back in the mid to late 90s, quiz bowl was easy enough so that some random undergrad who paid attention in his classes could go to a tournament and probably get a tossup or two ...
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:54 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: College quizbowl 5 years from now...
- Replies: 37
- Views: 48301
- Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:15 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: College quizbowl 5 years from now...
- Replies: 37
- Views: 48301
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: wit results
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11334
wit results
Chicago A went undefeated to win; Stanford A was second; Chicago B walked it out to take third despite being under .500. The tournament was slightly less horrendous than one might have expected, with the obvious exception of my UCLA namesake's "I am a fucking tool and love theme rounds" pa...
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 1:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Plagiarism is awesome
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14899
- Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Commentary
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18220
- Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:12 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 Nobel in Literature Predictions?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6339
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Commentary
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18220
I agree with what everyone's saying about how the questions were too long and in many cases too steeply constructed, but lest we forget, I'd like to point out that the answer set was suitably accessible and the clues were reasonably novel and interesting. In these respects, the editors did an excell...
- Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Deep Bench predictions
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9243
- Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: high school - college retention
- Replies: 72
- Views: 31205
- Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moderating Speed --
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8393
I'll join the chorus of voices declaring that comprehensibility is more important than raw speed. I myself learned this lesson the hard way: by being the last room done at tournaments at which I've moderated too fast to be coherent and gotten flustered while trying to keep scores because I was think...
- Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:01 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Recent Literature: General Thoughts/Who Makes the Cut?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 38586
- Sun Apr 09, 2006 6:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Two Day Tournaments
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6182
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: what do you do at practice?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9473
- Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan MLK discussion / difficulty of playoff packets
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6901
- Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MLK Field Update
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4445
I always thought of MLK as a sort of prepatory tournament for NAQT, in which the distribution was closer to the ACF ideal but the format and frenetic pace of play mirrored that of the upcoming NAQT sectionals. While I prefer untimed rounds, I always thought that MLK's observance of timed rounds was ...
- Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: geography
- Replies: 36
- Views: 21087
I agree with Ryan. Just as literary analysis is grounded in knowledge of texts, much of contemporary macro-level social science is grounded in a knowledge of geography. If we accept that the study of, say, international politics is as worthwhile an academic pursuit as critical analysis of literature...
- Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2005 Chicago Open: Official Announcement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11430
- Thu May 26, 2005 6:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 05 discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21114
- Thu May 05, 2005 3:38 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 89931
In 1997, the venerated John Sheahan posted to the now-sadly-defunct alt.college.college-bowl newsgroup a dishearteningly well-reasoned explication of CBI's seeming immunity to market pressures exerted by the will of the top-tier circuit teams. His post is available thanks to Google's Usenet archive,...
- Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Individual rankings thread, take 2
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9232
Since Andrew Yaphe is generally acknowledged as the best player, it would be interesting to see how you would rerank 2-20 if the criteria were changed to who would make the best two-person team with #1 against a national collegiate field. I agree with Jerry that Seth Teitler or Jeff Hoppes would be...
- Sun Apr 24, 2005 9:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A blast from the past ...
- Replies: 46
- Views: 39907
Yeah, use RoundUp instead. FUNNAY Here are my Top 20 rankings, which are based on my own limited experience. 1. Andrew Yaphe 2. Subash Maddipoti 3. Ezequiel Berdichevsky 4. Adam Kemezis 5. Matt Weiner 6. Jeff Hoppes 7. Seth Teitler 8. Mike Sorice 9. Chris Romero 10. Chris Frankel 11. Seth Kendall 1...
- Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Best team in the nation?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13528
Voted for Chicago. Both Andrew and Subash are game-distorting forces on the buzzer. With Yaphe/Teitler/Austin/Devecka on NAQT and Maddipoti/Teitler/Austin/Devecka on ACF, I think Chicago will remain the team to beat, even in an increasingly strong midwest region. It's also my understanding that Ed C...
- Mon Jan 26, 2004 4:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Transition from High School to College
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51016
You'd be practicing with Yaphe and Subash though, so really you'd be something of an outlier. Actually, Andrew Yaphe never comes to practice. When Subash comes he usually just reads questions for us or sits in the corner with a book and picks up the questions nobody else gets. Even when he actively...
- Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Transition from High School to College
- Replies: 54
- Views: 51016
As a first year student coming from an extremely uncompetitive Quiz Bowl environment (New Hampshire) in which I was one of the top players into the highest level of intercollegiate competition (the University of Chicago), I think that the hubris of the average first-year player is greatly overestima...