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- Sat Aug 12, 2023 9:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19769
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
3) The Visual Fine Arts tossups also felt a little unbalanced in topic selection. I think the set would've benefited from more tossups along the lines of the ones on Ottoman sultans, The Jewish Bride , and Spain. To be fair, there was many more of these questions in the bonuses. Overall though, I t...
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 7:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19769
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Thanks to the editors, writers, directors, and staffers for a very enjoyable CO! Having been in a similar situation about six years ago, I especially appreciate the willingness of a team of newer editors to take the plunge and produce such a difficult event on a compressed timeframe. Things I really...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 6:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36189
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
First, can I see the current text of the New York City painting tossup from packet 1? It struck me as extremely hard to get a grip on what the clues were pointing to when I played, and I was able to identify some potential reasons why by looking at the version of the question in the previously-uplo...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36189
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
I enjoyed most of the questions in this question set, but I was a bit annoyed by the question on the Farm Security Administration. Both me and another player in the room could recognize the photographs in the second half of the tossup but weren't able to connect them to what we both felt was a kind...
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 3:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36189
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
Strictly speaking, the Khmer empire was not confined to present-day Cambodia and included substantial parts of present-day Thailand, as well as parts of today's Myanmar and Vietnam, at its height. I see what the writer is trying to get at but unless we can show that the oldest prang are from sites ...
- Tue Mar 14, 2023 3:28 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36189
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
Could I see the text of the Cambodia question? I buzzed in at what I recall was a line that went "later empires used the prangs..." and I buzzed and said Thailand and felt sorta hosed, since I'm not sure how, without waiting for the rest of the clue, I could have at that point chosen betw...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 12:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eminent Victorians (a 19th century side event)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4815
Re: Eminent Victorians (a 19th century side event)
I had a blast playing this set at the Stanford side event weekend! There were a ton of great ideas in each packet and I'd highly recommend people try to play this event if they're able to.
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 6:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4691
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
-I know "Cobb-Douglas" is marked as medium and "substitute" is marked as easy, but it played the opposite way for my team. I don't know much about econ, but I think my talented teammates should be converting social science easy parts (and thus, substitute is probably too hard fo...
- Fri Feb 11, 2022 6:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15232
Re: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
aseemsDB now has a dark mode and a multiselect feature for tournament names.
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 3:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1616
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl General Discussion
EDIT: There seemed to be a lot of film. As I'm neither a film nor a trash player by any stretch of the imagination, I'm not sure how much was art film and how much was "trash" film, but it seemed like it was present far more than would be expected, at the expense of the other subcategorie...
- Tue Nov 02, 2021 2:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4951
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
I remember being confused at the "Thor's children" bonus part and missing it, due to the indicator being (as I recall) "these people" (which I took to mean a large/general group). Would I be able to see that bonus? Though nothing is known about one of these people named Modi, hi...
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 4:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4951
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
Also, could I see the tossup on Cormac McCarthy? Just want to make sure there weren't any early Blood Meridian clues I didn't recognize--if so, it does not bode well for my upcoming English exam. Thanks! In a novel by this author, a 13-year-old character who claims to be deaf in one ear after being...
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 1:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Errata
- Replies: 4
- Views: 396
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Errata
From moderating yesterday: Packet 1 Edward Said comes up twice Instruction says to accept procession, and also to prompt on it Packet 2 Steven Spielberg’s name is misspelled Round 4 Hegel occurs twice Jonathan occurs twice For the Cello Sonata bonus part, saying “all” rather than “both” is misleadi...
- Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4951
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
Can I see the poetry tossup on Jews? The lead-in on Charles Reznikoff felt to me like real neg-bait. I buzzed with something like _people in court_ and got negged. I guess you were referencing his work Holocaust ? But, the description sounded just like his much more famous work Testimony . And, in ...
- Wed Oct 27, 2021 2:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4951
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
I really enjoyed this set! Can I see the tossup on probability density functions? 16. Approaches to estimating this function often seek to minimize the mean integrated squared error. The Parzen–Rosenblatt window is a common non-parametric method used to estimate this function using kernels. This fu...
- Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1616
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl General Discussion
I want to thank the Penn club for bringing me on to edit the visual art for this year's Penn Bowl (besides the film, which was edited by Taylor Harvey). Like in 2019, my goal first and foremost was to write questions that players would find interesting. This resulted in some ideas that could not be ...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARCADIA: Announcement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10704
Re: ARCADIA: Announcement
Having played the playtesting mirror, I would highly recommend this set, it’s one of the better regular difficulty sets I’ve seen in a while. Co-sign. In the categories I pay attention to (visual fine arts, science, etc.), the questions balanced both novelty and accessibility in a way that made the...
- Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15232
Re: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
Apologies for being late on set uploads for the last couple weeks, all requested sets have been uploaded now.
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PAveMEnT: A Remote Cooperation Audio Tournament (Winter 2020)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12390
Re: PAveMEnT: A Remote Cooperation Audio Tournament (Winter 2020)
I've been really enjoying both the event and using Qblitz so far! However, I think there could be some improvements to the "Review Questions" page: Display the question prompt when showing each question The ability to jump to a particular question number (rather then clicking forward multi...
- Wed Feb 17, 2021 5:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15232
Re: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
Looks like people are using the set request form, which is great! I've added all the requested sets so far to the database. Here's a list of requested and added sets that I will update until I add a feature on aseemsDB for this.
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 9:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15232
Re: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
aseemsDB has been completely rewritten and several new features have been added: 1. Search results now automatically scroll to the PDF page containing the query when the packet is opened 2. Snippets now have case and punctuation (this didn't require any work and came along with an update to recoll) ...
- Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15232
Re: aseemsDB: Not just another database (hopefully)
I've uploaded a video going over how to write advanced queries for aseemsDB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WYlzOyLaVo. The slides (which have examples) are linked in the video description.
- Sat Dec 07, 2019 10:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3579
Re: Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
Against all odds (and the worst Discord outage in a while), this tournament happened. Coates et al. cleared the field going 9-0. I apologize profusely for all the delays and the haphazard transition to Skype when Discord stopped working. To make up for this, I'll be running a reading of a couple mor...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3579
Re: Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
I've capped the field to 4 teams, free agents please form teams or add yourselves to the existing 2 teams. I've also added a team email field, please add your team's contact email to the sheet.
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4348
Re: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
SQBS stats are available: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... 2B_finals/
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl Detailed Stats
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2156
Re: 2019 Penn Bowl Detailed Stats
11/30 detailed stats have been added, but do not share these publicly.
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 8:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4348
Re: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
A logistics email was just sent out to the team contacts listed on the spreadsheet, and should be forwarded by the team contact to each teammate. If you do not get the logistics email in a timely manner, feel free to PM me.
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4348
Re: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
To accommodate all the free agents, I've decided to allow teams of 5. Please add yourselves to teams before Friday, when I will assign the remaining free agents to teams myself.
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3579
Re: Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
If this mirror doesn't get enough signups for 4 teams by the middle of next week, I plan to cancel this mirror. If those who intended to play are interested in hearing some packets, I can host an informal reading session of 3 to 4 packets on the Discord at the same date/time the tournament was going...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 3:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4348
Re: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
Yes, payment information will be in the logistics email (which I'm planning on sending on Thursday), and was also included in my reply to your email last week. If you cannot use Venmo or need payment to be taken care of earlier due to reimbursement reasons, please let me know and we can figure out h...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 2:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14466
Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
The only question that really bothered me on a factual basis was, funnily enough, the very first bonus of the tournament, on 'books artlovers might use'. While I actively like the idea - asking about how people actually engage with art like this is really cool - the first part perhaps lost somethin...
- Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2697
Re: 2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
The links for detailed stats for 11/23 mirrors have been posted. Feel free to follow along throughout the day, but do not share these stats with people who haven't played the tournament yet.
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 10:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4348
Re: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
I've added a column for a team contact email, please add one for your team when you have a chance.
EDIT: We are still looking for 1-2 more readers who are willing to read the morning half of the tournament, please PM me if interested!
EDIT: We are still looking for 1-2 more readers who are willing to read the morning half of the tournament, please PM me if interested!
- Thu Nov 21, 2019 5:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4348
Re: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
As this tournament approaches, I've capped the field to 10 teams for now, which should cover the current 8 + the remaining free agents. Please form teams by next Monday. I am looking for mods, who will be paid $40 dollars to read and scorekeep ~10 rounds, or alternatively pairs of readers and scorek...
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2697
Re: 2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
Courtesy of Ophir, a combined sheet for the 11/16 mirrors has been posted.
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 6:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14466
Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
There was a similar problem with the hard part on Mankiw in a Packet 5 bonus; sure, he writes a ton of highly-cited papers worth knowing, and it seemed the question wanted you to specifically know his thought on the issue at hand, but you could have gotten this hard part from knowing “he’s somewhat...
- Sat Nov 16, 2019 3:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2697
Re: 2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
The links for detailed stats for 11/16 mirrors have been posted. Feel free to follow along throughout the day, but do not share these stats with people who haven't played the tournament yet.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14578
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
Thanks for playing, a discussion forum with detailed stats and web packets is now available!
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Errata
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2379
2019 Fall Open Errata
Please post any errors you noticed in this thread.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2665
2019 Fall Open General Discussion
Thanks to everyone for playing the set! Here's a brief breakdown of who worked on what: Literature: Itamar, with contributions from Nick and Jason History: Kenji, Jason, and Itamar, with contributions from me Science: Jonathen and me, with contributions from Samir, Itamar, Nick, and Eddie Fine Arts:...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14466
2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
Please post any thoughts about specific questions in this thread.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2697
2019 Fall Open Detailed Stats
Here are links to the detailed stats of every mirror that chose to use them. Ophir has asked me to mention he was not involved with this set outside of generating the scoresheets and helping me in generating and hosting the web packets. I will add links here to each additional mirror as they use the...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Web Packets
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1044
2019 Fall Open Web Packets
Here are the web packets for Fall Open 2019, please do not share with those who have yet to play the set: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~akeyal/tournaments/fo/packets/ Master username: architecture Master password: circumstance List of packets and passwords: continuation Packet 1 refrigerator Packet ...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 2:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4348
Penn Bowl 2019 Online Mirror (Nov. 30, 2019)
We're pleased to announce the online mirror of Penn Bowl on November 30, 2019. I've made a team formation spreadsheet if you're looking to assemble a team. After deciding on a team, please send me a registration email that includes your roster to aseem.keyal at gmail dot com. The tournament will cos...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 60
- Views: 10413
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
While I said I liked most of the painting, I didn't understand why the 16th century tossup wasn't just a tossup on Mannerism, and while I realize negging with 17th century is stupid and makes my knowledge seem "fake" or whatever, I knew the paintings were Mannerist. Thanks for the kind wo...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3579
Fall Open Online Mirror (Dec. 7, 2019)
We're pleased to announce the online mirror of Fall Open on December 7, 2019. I've made a team formation spreadsheet if you're looking to assemble a team. After deciding on a team, please send me a registration email that includes your roster to aseem.keyal at gmail dot com. The tournament will cost...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 10:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 60
- Views: 10413
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
I enjoyed this tournament a lot and might get chance to feedback on a few more questions later, but I did want to point out that the leadin to the Picasso tossup made it abundantly clear that the answer was a) a notably sexist artist who b) painted a lot of warped faces - this seemed to turn the re...
- Wed Oct 23, 2019 9:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3672
Re: General Discussion Thread
This set had a lot of interesting questions that I enjoyed reading. I was bothered, however, by a number of long, complex sentences that were difficult to process. Many of these sentences parse correctly if you have the time to sit down and read them on paper or screen, as I imagine the editors of ...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 60
- Views: 10413
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
The question on Ovid in painting was probably my favorite regular-difficulty art tossup ever, as an excellent way to draw connections between a bunch of important Italian Renaissance paintings that would be challenging to ask on their own and test knowledge of the mythological sources that inspired...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3672
Re: General Discussion Thread
I want to thank Nitin and the Penn team for bringing me on to edit Painting for this set, especially after some dumb comments I made in last year's discussion forum. My general approach for the painting was: a little less visual description clues, a little more contextual clues, and a decreased emph...