Preliminary results from the Chicago Open mirror at Berkeley today:
Stanford 9-0
Berkeley 5-4
Irvine 2-7
Mission San Jose High School: 2-7
Search found 40 matches
- Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT - BASQUE - UC Berkeley - 7/19/08(?)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1859
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ghetto Warz discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4289
Re: Ghetto Warz discussion
I wrote 5/3 for the Berkeley packet, but I didn't go to the tournament, or see the questions. Does anyone remember individual problem questions?
- Fri Mar 17, 2006 1:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Host
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7957
There is also a guide from Paul and Juliana on the Berkeley Quiz Bowl website.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tdguide.html
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/tdguide.html
- Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: National tournaments
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8125
- Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Poll
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17994
- Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57587
No, I have not heard any official pronouncement regarding question security, my warning was based solely on the notices at the beginning of the packets themselves. If the standard procedure is different, I apologize for the confusion. The D2 questions seemed fairly easy to me as well, but I didn't g...
- Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354878
Are they only cleared after ICT? Security Question security is critical for the integrity of events which might use these questions in the future, as well as to protect the marketability of NAQT’s product. As such, the content of the questions may not be discussed with any person not affiliated w...
- Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57587
- Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT SCT West Results
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2732
Yesterday, NAQT SCT West was held at UC Berkeley. Division 1 consisted of 4 teams, UCI, USC, UCLA, and Stanford. They played a quintuple round robin. Since UCLA and Stanford were tied at 11-3 going into the final round, it was decided that the winner of that round would be the D1 champion, and UCLA ...
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regs discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 51923
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT predictions for 2006?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11934
Berkeley isn't planning on going to ICT this year, and I don't think that's very likely to change. I played with Kevin (I forget his last name) in high school; he is a freshman at Stanford this year, and played at ACF Fall. He is a very good player. Nico as well, though I'm not sure of his status. E...
- Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Club Fair/Recruiting
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12096
- Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354878
- Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Powers
- Replies: 161
- Views: 76787
- Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT High School Math Questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8872
Thanks Dwight, my exposure to computation questions comes solely from Gaius, not NAQT, so I didn't know their format. That looks much better than the buzzer races I'm used to, but I would still say that questions like those are better replaced with conceptual questions. I don't know about other scho...
- Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT High School Math Questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8872
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say anything like get rid of math questions in general. Here are two examples of what I think: Tossups like this are bad: Two balls are selected at random, one after the other, without replacement from a box that contains three red balls and five blue balls. FTP what is t...
- Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT High School Math Questions
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8872
In addition, mathematics is not really taught in a way that allows for quiz bowl competition. Not like I've done a hard-core study of questions asked at MathCounts, but even they have 30-45 seconds to do a problem when they're doing it by themselves. Probably calculation questions don't mesh well w...
- Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH structure
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10090
- Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: double standard?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 31735
I think the best way to explain the difference in attitude is that academic competitions (usually) give away trophies as prizes while trash competitions usually give away trashy books and music as prizes. I have never seen trophies given away as prizes at an academic quiz bowl tournament, only used...
- Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Websites/Places to Find Round Robin Schedules?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4839
Paul's guide is already up. It can be found at http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/schedules.html
- Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:15 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105139
I'm not a chemist, but as far as I know, SN2 and E2 are both concerted while SN1 and E1 first form a carbocation. Uniquely identifying the answer wasn't the issue, that was done adequately in the first clue (which, as I mentioned earlier, I thought was easier than later clues in the question), I jus...
- Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:25 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105139
- Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
Larry, I think you'll find, if you go back and look through the questions after you guys finish playing them, that in general I did not try to test myth depth by choosing harder answers—rather, I focused on well-known answers and tried to find hard clues as lead-ins for those answers. I did not h...
- Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:17 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105139
I think typically, the level of knowledge goes as [name of author]->[names of some of his books]->[names of characters in those books]. That said, I think Raskolnikov is sufficiently well-known to be ok, and a tossup on him would certainly be preferrable to a tossup on The Posessed at this level. I...
- Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:27 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105139
- Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
- Wed Nov 16, 2005 10:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
- Tue Nov 15, 2005 10:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Mid-Atlantic TRASH Regionals Update
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11615
We also have a guide to creating schedules on the Berkeley quiz bowl website.UndercoverParrothead wrote:There already is.matt979 wrote:If there isn't already a place on the web where one can grab & print schedules for the most common QB field sizes, there will be soon.
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~quizbowl/schedules.html
- Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:29 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105139
I hope Chris won't be offended if I say that his tournaments aren't really suitable for veterans of the game; they aren't written to be. The handful of games that were played on those Sunshine packets at last year's MLK produced ludicrous results: an obscene number of powers and vastly inflated sco...
- Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
I don't think being unfamiliar is the same as being hard. Perhaps they're simply from pantheons people aren't familiar with. I know nothing about Scottish/Welsh/whatever myth, so Cuchulainn, Rhiannon, Bran, or whoever were completely unfamiliar to me. Although I do appreciate the references which I ...
- Tue Nov 15, 2005 4:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
We read a few packets in practice tonight, and I thought the questions were both well-written and mostly accessible. However, as far as diversity goes, I think it's still only a small step up from the myth distribution at your typical academic tournament (except for the Welsh and Gaelic sections, wh...
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall at Berkeley Results
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3291
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Coaches' Corner
- Replies: 90
- Views: 47220
OK - I'm ashamed to have to ask this question to my fellow coaches, but here it goes: Do any of you have problems with your players' grades? I have one player, an absolutely brilliant young man and an anchor on our team, who just refuses to do his work and take any initiative. It seems that every t...
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:09 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105139
The problems Dwight mentions at Berkeley's ACF Fall were due to a combination of Stanford arriving over an hour late (we waited for them until 10 before deciding to start) and slow reading on our part. The length of questions was not the primary factor. I agree that it's a pity that the field was so...
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:58 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105139
- Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: personal stats data analysis
- Replies: 55
- Views: 29859
I think it would be interesting to calculate the percentage of tossups a person answers when his teammates don't buzz in. That is, if your teammates buzz in (counting powers, regular +10s, and negs; not counting late wrong buzzes) on half the questions and you answer one-tenth of the questions, the...
- Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Powers
- Replies: 161
- Views: 76787
- Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:18 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Technophobia Discussion or Monologue, Really
- Replies: 56
- Views: 61785
Speaking of how to run tournaments, etc., isn't it about time that regional hosts for ACF Fall made their own individual announcements and stuff? Tournament's next weekend, guys. So far only Chicago has any information at all. Announcements have been sent out. Berkeley's is here: http://groups.yaho...
- Mon Oct 31, 2005 9:01 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Technophobia Discussion or Monologue, Really
- Replies: 56
- Views: 61785
For reference, the packet Berkeley submitted was written entirely by first-year players, and regrettably, I don't think any of the experienced members had time to look over it before it was submitted. We had some transportation issues that were entirely my fault, and sadly, we ended up not going bec...
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best quiz bowl/academic schools?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29553