Mirza/Mitch/Myself will be playing on a team - open to anyone as a fourth, just drop us/me a line.
We are old and bad (except Mitch - he's pretty good!) so set expectations accordingly if you want to play with us. Mirza might miss the first 1 - 2 rounds as he's getting in early in the AM.
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- Sat Jul 22, 2023 7:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4223
- Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:17 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4459
Re: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)
Ah thanks for the inv but I paired up with someone else. Appreciate it!
- Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:14 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4459
Re: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)
I'd love to team up with someone for this. I don't anticipate buzzing much and I don't actually play many games.
edit: i've teamed up with fellow michael (w) for this
edit: i've teamed up with fellow michael (w) for this
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TOEJAM III Online Doubles: January 31, 2021
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3611
Re: TOEJAM III Online Doubles: January 31, 2021
Should we expect a logistics email of some sort ahead of time? (I'm asking as a staff sign up)
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5259
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
Happy to join a team if any one wants to fill up their roster. As noted, mainly contributing in sporadic lit.
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6148
Re: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20
Would love to find a team for this. I have sporadic knowledge but nothing consistent/coherent. Probably best on vaguely finance-y and business-y and related things with misc. other knowledge. Might neg a lot.
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147785
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
It's simply the case that, at an online tournament, there is really nothing stopping people from cheating in a modest way, and because of that, I assume that many people in this community, if they were being honest with themselves, would have to admit that they did something at an online event or p...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25888
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
(Sorry to single out Wonyoung specifically, but I'm skeptical that the term "mixed impure academic," as defined by NAQT, would communicate the flavor of his packet to someone who had never met him.) [...] I'd like to again hold out the "East Asia" packet as exemplary, as its wri...
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25888
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
This has been a very fun and exceptionally well-organized day of QB so far. Big thanks to Will and Em and everyone else involved for putting this together; to all the writers who had some great and fun packets; and to all the readers. The smoothness of the logistics and the innovation of multi-room/...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147785
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Name and shame :mad: As someone who unwittingly played in a recent online tournament with a player that I found out, post facto, is an "open secret" cheater, I did not feel very good about the situation! Since neither me nor my other teammates are part of the cool kids in group of QB lumin...
- Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wisdom Extracted Hybrid (4/3 @ 9 PM EST on Discord)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2807
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6577
Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Some other random things I remembered- Is there a reason concentration camps were outright accepted for gulags? I imagine most people buzzing with that answer aren't thinking of gulags but rather nazi concentration camps (which is what I'd have done) - seems like it should be a prompt at best. I th...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6577
Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Packet 3 - I really disliked the "fraud" (financial) toss up. I just think it's way too vague/broad of a concept to clue effectively while keeping in mind considerations of pyramidality. The first clue - while using the industry accepted and recognized term of "gap detection" is ...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MWT Online [Open, Tossups-Only] - 21 March 2020
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3283
Re: MWT Online [Open, Tossups-Only] - 21 March 2020
This was run well and efficiently, a feat all the more impressive given the size. Thanks a bunch to Conor and all of the staffers who helped make this happen.
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Degen Packet
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2776
Re: Degen Packet
cool i love degening.
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54643
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
From a perception perspective, people generally feel better about getting thrashed by their "equals" than by people with a perceived advantage - whether real or not (and it could very well be real). Is this true? I have always felt better about losing to people with more experience than m...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54643
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
The other reason suggested is that graduate students stifle the growth of the game by playing for years and beating up on younger teams. I will get this out of the way first - this is a cognitive distortion, and is ultimately not true . Some of greatest players of our age got to where they are with...
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ontario Hybrid @ Barnard, NYC [DELAYED INDEFINITELY] (OPEN)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1928
Re: Ontario Hybrid @ Barnard, NYC 3/28/2020 (OPEN)
Aaron Cohen,James Lasker, Isaac KD and I have formed a team. We don't know a lot of trash and inconsistently know certain pockets of academic. You can see our recent work (read: shame) at such tournaments like Fall Open at NYU and NYC Summer Open for a sense of how we expect to perform/place. Find m...
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19458
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
I'd personally be willing to pay a higher fee so that more can go towards a mirror fee given that quiz bowl tournaments are generally pretty underpriced for open teams given th amount of work that goes into writing and editing. Same. I'm very inelastic with respect to time but very elastic with res...
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19458
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
The justifications given by the TO editors for not reinstating the mirror are strikingly thin. We can discard the stuff done by prior Columbia administrations, and we can likely also disregard a large portion of the EFT-related grievances given the very different nature of a 24-field college tournam...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19458
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
No idea why the "NYC vs. Maryland/adjacent area" issue seems to always pop up in relation to spring opens considering the multiple precedent cases demonstrating that 1. Many NE teams will simply not attend if there's no NYC/further north mirror 2. NYC and Mid-Atlantic mirrors do not cannib...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2666
Re: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
I enjoyed the lit and music. I thought the answerline selection was good and the cluing had creative/novel ways to go deeper into core canonical topics while retaining accessibility. Good tournament, would recommend.
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Errata
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2382
Re: 2019 Fall Open Errata
The Song Dynasty TU: For 10 points, name this dynasty founded by Zhao Guangyin, which repeatedly fought the Jin dynasty until Mongols conquered both of them. This should read Zhao K uangyin (and the pronunciation guide should probably be changed as well) Wikipedia tells me Zhao Guangyin is someone e...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14466
Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
I thought the music was done very well and liked the balance of clues/approaches. Bruch - Joachim seems to be a negbait for Brahms given his close association with Brahms. I think it'd be better if the phrasing of the clue placed the actual text of the clue (the description of the Bruch VC) before t...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7582
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Entirely trivial, but referring to Tencent as a "financial" firm seems questionable.
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 8:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3628
Re: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
When will the stats be posted?
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Age of Empires - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 6
- Views: 634
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
The TU on translating (Buddhist texts) into Chinese seems like it could be confused for simply "spreading Buddhism in China" or some similar answer line? Diving in a bit: 3. Victor Mair argued against the common interpretation that geyi (“guh-yee”) was a method for this activity, as prese...
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Age of Empires - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 6
- Views: 634
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
The TU on translating (Buddhist texts) into Chinese seems like it could be confused for simply "spreading Buddhism in China" or some similar answer line?
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GOLBEZ discussion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 323
Re: GOLBEZ discussion
For that reason, there was definitely more "culture/community" (for lack of a better term) content in this set than other video game sets, but it gave me a chance to ask about stuff that I thought deserved to come up, or at least get clued. This is one of the reasons I didn't want to lock...
- Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Raw stats are publicly available, but I will try and soon directly post the summarized stats here (and Daniel Hothem has graciously volunteered to summarize the CANONEXPANSION and Unanswered Question stats). Apologies if it takes 2 or 3 days. Do these raw stats include the GLOBEZ shootout/where mig...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Raw stats are publicly available, but I will try and soon directly post the summarized stats here (and Daniel Hothem has graciously volunteered to summarize the CANONEXPANSION and Unanswered Question stats). Apologies if it takes 2 or 3 days. Do these raw stats include the GLOBEZ shootout/where mig...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Age of Empires (Side Event)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11709
Re: Age of Empires (Side Event)
I can only speak to the ~10% of the questions that I have any semblance of knowledge of, but this set was very hard, very real, and very fun. And, based on the reactions of others who played it/whom I read for, the other 90% is similarly excellent.
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Thanks for running the event Raynor. The logistics and communication were on point.
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 38221
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
To repeat what everyone has mentioned, I very much enjoyed this set.
- Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
I'm looking for a team for META, Age of Empires, and possibly Muses/Unanswered Q. I can hopefully contribute miscellaneous lit, spotty classical music, and China Stuff. I know nothing about visual art. I will probably be a third/fourth scorer. Separately, our main event team currently consisting of ...
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
. double post
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Demand for the main event seems like it's far outstripping the six teams. The current method of allocating spots based on who happened to be online and saw this thread first seems incredibly unfair to me, given how drawn out this scheduling process has been. I would be very annoyed if I don't get t...
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 8:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21494
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Demand for the main event seems like it's far outstripping the six teams. The current method of allocating spots based on who happened to be online and saw this thread first seems incredibly unfair to me, given how drawn out this scheduling process has been. I would be very annoyed if I don't get to...
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22858
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
Yes please, more Scattergories votes.
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22858
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
I agree with Will's point regarding not wanting to play a truncated set. Just in case it's an important point, hopefully "truncated" here refers to potentially playing 20/24 given questions from the CamO packets. Whether we play NASAT, OxO, or CamO, we will definitely not play all the pac...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 1:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22858
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
I agree with Will's point regarding not wanting to play a truncated set. My original vote was for OxO and I guess I will keep it that way, though I'm personally agnostic between OxO and NASAT.
Please vote for Rulfo and Scattergories :<
Please vote for Rulfo and Scattergories :<
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 6:41 pm
- 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?
Quiz bowl distribution isn't based on the distribution of college majors, nor should it be.
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 22858
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
Last weekend of July sounds good to me at this juncture. In terms of side events, I'd personally be very interested in, and like to agitate for: Scattergories RULFO Golbez Imaginary Landscapes Assuming these are ready + available for mirrors/haven't been over-mirrored by the time late-July rolls aro...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 38221
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
I'd like to play this at a summer side event weekend (mainly thinking of the NYC side event that's was announced to be in the works); if that ends up not happening I'd like to play an online mirror.
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292451
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
For the bulk of the English speaking readership, Stoner was catapulted to fame via the NYRB publication, whose preface/introduction discussed at length the argument for Stoner as a "hero," as labeled by the author in a later interview. I don't want to sound too dismissive here, but have I...
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292451
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the TU on Alyosha from Karamazov? I negged very early in with Stoner on the hero/preface clue which I thought was a reasonable thing to answer. In an authorial preface, this character is called a “hero” despite being “a figure of an indefinite, indeterminate sort” and an “odd man.” This...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9934
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
I enjoyed this tournament! We went 1-9 and generally put up some pretty mediocre stats, but I at least had a pretty good time in the process. I thought the questions were interesting and fair in the (limited) categories I'm familiar with (a narrow subdistribution of lit and music; "China stuff&...
- Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292451
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the TU on Alyosha from Karamazov? I negged very early in with Stoner on the hero/preface clue which I thought was a reasonable thing to answer.
Also I think I generally enjoyed the prevalence of countries as answerlines.
Also I think I generally enjoyed the prevalence of countries as answerlines.
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17397
Re: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
As someone who believes that quizbowl ought to roughly track the academy, I think that this drastic increase in nonwestern art is a pretty terrible idea. This statement seems at odds with "Furthermore, a lot of the questions drew heavily from secondary sources (many of which I suspect few peop...