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- Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:25 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49583
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
As of this morning, I finished my MS in applied stats and plan to stick around Chicago for work if at all possible.
- Wed Nov 03, 2021 1:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tossup 21: One More Question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3744
Re: Tossup 21: One More Question
Plus the ad hoc circumambulation of the Northwestern campus (while carrying heavy objects!), the "hold the whole tournament for State College" opening, the inexplicable 2.5 hour delay after Round 2, the numerous contested protests... the possibilities are endless. It was something to witn...
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Coaches in Each State
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4878
Re: Best Coaches in Each State
To follow up Kyle and Jacob, it's probably worth at least mentioning Charlie Dees despite his coaching tenure being so short. He turned Rock Bridge into a top ~50 national team very quickly and actively helped Missouri get its only NASAT title due to a well-placed timeout in the final match.
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1354316
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight--Blondie is great, but Heart of Glass never did it for me. Burning Love--never doubt the King. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood--an unfortunate matchup Fooled Around and Fell in Love--Roxanne isn't great Baker Street--perfect example of 70s smooth pop Let Your Love ...
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324526
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Having just turned 28, I heartily endorse Rob.
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324526
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Sup folks #15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. It's worth noting that this pairing stinks: Eilish is a rising star and Bad Guy delivers, but We Got It from Here is just too good of an album. #15 Flying Lotus (ft...
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 12:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Team Dysfunction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5103
Re: Team Dysfunction
This might seem extreme, but especially given your coach's attitude, I would consider walking away from the team for a month or two to get a fresh perspective on how it's affecting your life and how you're affecting teammates' lives. It sounds like QB is more a source of stress than anything else ri...
- Tue Sep 11, 2018 5:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Gauging Interest: Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-2019
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2389
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 12:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Counterpoint: Sets and stats should be released immediately
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5569
Re: Counterpoint: Sets and stats should be released immediately
Eric's motivation for posting aside, I really don't see much of a difference between being given copies of a set and retaining knowledge of most of it after having played it. If you're trying to prevent contamination, having a physical copy of the set doesn't really prevent anyone from playing it fr...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 84502
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019
It's been pointed out to me that this post probably isn't explicit enough—Palm Sunday isn't a "bad" date for an organist to take off from church, it's a "you'd get fired for asking to take it off" date. Having spent nonzero time in multiple church choirs, I can second this and a...
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6892
Re: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
This happened and went fairly smoothly barring a few technical difficulties. Chip Horton powered the final tossup of an eight-packet shootout to beat Alex Schmidt in a very strong comeback, with Rein Otason taking third. Final scores: Chip: 20/14/19, 345 Alex: 19/8/6, 335 Rein: 10/10/8, 210 Trevor D...
- Sat Aug 18, 2018 10:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6892
Re: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
Reminder this is happening tomorrow at 12 noon (Central) on Discord. The server should be called SHONEYS.
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- Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6892
Re: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
If you want to pay me, you can use PayPal (paypal.me/MichaelCheyne) or message me for my address. I don't have Venmo. Is this event still starting around 11 CST on the 19th, then? If possible, I might ask to be moved back slightly later as while I can't stick around probably for all the packets, I'...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6892
Re: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
Due to a sudden personal conflict, this will now be on the 19th.
- Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6892
Re: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 18th
No issue with DiscordUlyssesInvictus wrote:I'd love to play, but would super vote for this to be done on Discord.
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6892
Re: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 18th
Here we goCheynem wrote:You might want to set up a signup sheet.
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Shoneys [film] Online Mirror: "TD" Needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3741
Re: Shoneys [film] Online Mirror: "TD" Needed
Announced, hmu with concerns
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6892
Cheyne movie set online mirror--August 19th
Hey all--I'm "TDing" Mike's set Chomping Down at Shoney's via Skype/Discord. It's eight packets of all tossups, so the plan is to do a shootout over a group call. To accommodate all time zones, I'm planning on starting at or a little after 11 Central on 8/18. I'm also unopposed to a second...
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:13 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26508
Re: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
It was a very fun and good set.touchpack wrote:I know this is tooting my own horn a bit, but for easier tournaments, I was really proud of the work my co-editors and I did on MUT 2014, and I remember that set being very well-received as well.
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 9:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Shoneys [film] Online Mirror: "TD" Needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3741
Re: Shoneys [film] Online Mirror: "TD" Needed
I'm on a small vacation and need to figure out a few things but it'll happen before August's end. Shouldn't take more than a few days.
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Shoneys [film] Online Mirror: "TD" Needed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3741
Re: Shoneys [film] Online Mirror: "TD" Needed
RogerCheynem wrote:I think Adam Sperber said he would do this, so he'll make an announcement soon I suppose.
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 6:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
- Replies: 224
- Views: 30471
Re: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
nahAKKOLADE wrote:I will definitely get back to posting every single cut
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 CO Trash: Discussion of specific questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9331
Re: Discussion of specific questions
For me the only blatantly bad thing was the omission of a "He's not George Foreman, but" line in that one boxing tossup about some dude who named four sons after himself. In my room it was a four- or five-way buzzer race to a gruesome neg.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 8:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 CO Trash: Thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13545
Re: Thanks and general discussion
My meager power count aside, this was a very fun set to play. The Minnesotacentrism was fine, but I thought there was a bit too much academic/quasi-academic content for a trash setting. That being said, I'm a big fan of "description acceptable"-caliber tossups, and I thought y'all did a gr...
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 2:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78362
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
It was a very fun set to mod, including probably the best bonus part I've ever come across.An Economic Ignoramus wrote:I liked this set a lot. Thanks to everyone involved in producing it!
Trash was a hoot. Thanks to Auroni, Jonah, Rob, Andrew, Carsten, Joe, and everyone else for making this weekend happen.
- Mon Jul 16, 2018 6:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78362
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
There's a huge lot that's open on weekends on the southeast end of campus next to one of those newfangled giant buildings. Just enter on Sheridan before it intersects with Chicago Avenue.
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 9:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7521
Re: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
Is there any update about this
- Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2018 (July 22, 2018)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 42118
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2018 (July 22, 2018)
The Space Force is really taking offCheynem wrote:Sam Bailey will be replacing Chris Manners on our team, as Chris left to return to his home planet.
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7521
Re: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
Bump?Kasper Kaijanen wrote:Is this happening tomorrow? And if so, when?
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 9:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: High School Player Poll
- Replies: 42
- Views: 28623
Re: High School Player Poll
I think there's yet another Andrew Wang, that has to count for something
- Thu May 31, 2018 8:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112694
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
As a side note - regardless of how disturbing Matt Bruce's blog posts are, can we please stop with the dehumanization? Yes, Matt is clearly a creepy pedophile. He may be guilty of sexual assault. There may be further horrifying proof that he actually acted on his pedophilic instincts - and there ma...
- Wed May 30, 2018 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112694
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)
CW: Pedophilia I was about to make a point about how Conor's post was inflammatory, excessive, and unhelpful due to misuse of the term pedophile, but just to check I ran through Matt's blog posts one more time. I somehow managed to miss this one, on which should be shed excessive light: Round 3: Sun...
- Tue May 29, 2018 1:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7521
Re: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
Just a suggestion: if you put a lot of good effort into this packet, I don't think everyone playing in one discord room is the proper setting. Even if it's eight teams of two, the odds of every tossup being firstlined with most coming from buzzer races are incredibly high.
- Thu May 24, 2018 11:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
- Replies: 35
- Views: 21742
Re: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
Gabe Bob and I have a last minute open slot on our team
- Mon May 21, 2018 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78362
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
As this is both HSNCT and a holiday weekend, can the deadline for packets on the 27th possibly be pushed back a couple days (like the 29th)? Did you one better and pushed it back to the end of the month. It's very late to bring it up, but is replicating some form of this (probably not in the form o...
- Mon May 21, 2018 1:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78362
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
We have increased the fee by $5 a player in order to pay staffers It's very late to bring it up, but is replicating some form of this (probably not in the form of a sudden surcharge for teams) for CO proper possible, considering it's arguably the most physically demanding single day of reading in t...
- Mon May 21, 2018 1:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18731
Re: PACENSC 2018 @HSNCT
Seeking a partner for thisThe Bold Ideas of Bernie Sanders (I-VT) wrote:I'd play this again.
- Thu May 03, 2018 4:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
- Replies: 35
- Views: 21742
Re: ACRONYM 11 @ HSNCT - Friday Night
Trashy boy seeks team, gets more powers than negs
- Sun Apr 15, 2018 10:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOUNDTRACK playtesting at ICT
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7359
Re: SOUNDTRACK playtesting at ICT
This is a great set, and playtesting was a hoot and a half. I highly recommend playing if you're able.
- Sun Apr 15, 2018 3:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: "I'm sorry, I can't accept that."
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10903
"I'm sorry, I can't accept that."
I'm sure nearly everyone who's played a few tournaments has heard a moderator reply to a close neg with the phrase, "I'm sorry, I can't accept that," or something very similar to it. What caught me off guard was hearing a good, experienced moderator use this phrase instinctively during a m...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8098
Re: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
DePaul makes the final fourUnicolored Jay wrote: 36. Georgia (Cancellation Requested) Does this mean they are replaced by DePaul (#1 on the standby list)?
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
- Replies: 224
- Views: 30471
Re: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
Just a last second plug for Janis Ian's At Seventeen
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 1:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
- Replies: 224
- Views: 30471
Re: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
Billy Joel Piano Man So wait, is Billy Joel being cut completely? This is his signature song, if he's to be included then it would be weird to not use this one. The Billy Joel pick is presumably Only the Good Die Young. While perhaps not quite as strong as Piano Man, it's still excellent. Also, as ...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:28 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 61868
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
IMO more tournaments should be willing to stratify, or ban, experienced high school players, from college novice-oriented sets. My personal experience from my vague recollections of my first year of playing quiz bowl, as a freshman, is that going to ostensibly novice-oriented tournaments, I encount...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 1:51 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 61868
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
A few thoughts on difficulty and tournament formatting Given the expansion of high school (and now middle school) pyramidal sets, the average time spent playing quiz bowl per college player has increased a lot over the past ten years. Aside from what that says about inclusivity in QB communities, it...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 1:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Seders
- Replies: 6
- Views: 679
Re: Seders
When I was a kid, whenever someone found the afikoman they couldn't claim it until they got over 15 ppb over four questions on an acf regionals packet.The Stately Rhododendron wrote: How do y'all incorporate Quizbowl into your seders?
- Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Best Two-Way Players
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7202
Re: The Best Two-Way Players
I think this actually underseeds Tejas a bit
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 12:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
- Replies: 224
- Views: 30471
Re: 1970s Music - Prelim to the Bracket
ready 4 bracket now
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Your Favorite Question
- Replies: 45
- Views: 31212
Re: Your Favorite Question
One fictional realm is described as being one of these objects “devised by men” and therefore “destined to be deciphered by men.” In one story, an Arab king builds one of these objects with no stairways, galleries, or walls after capturing a Babylonian king and stranding him in the desert. The narr...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:18 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: Jr. Wildcat IX at Northwestern (3/10/2018)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7295
Re: Jr. Wildcat IX at Northwestern (3/10/2018)
Staff scab plzcornfused wrote:We are now sitting at twenty-seven schools, with the waitlist entirely in the field. The twenty-eighth spot is available on a first-come, first-serve basis!