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- Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4381
Re: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
I’m not sure if this is serious or an elaborate troll job, but a friend sent me this and I felt compelled to respond as quizbowl’s resident “alum who actually works for the National Park Service” guy. Two things jumped out at me right away: 1. You can’t just show up to a national park and start hold...
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:18 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49311
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
I’m now living in Arlington, Virginia for my new job with the National Park Service. I won’t really be available on weekends to staff things, but if you’re in the DC area and would like some advice on setting up/running a high school or college club or on outreach things, feel free to reach out to m...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 12:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11273
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)
What should teams in the Great Lakes region do? I held off on signing West Virginia up because the region did not have a host, and since it appears there will not be one, I am curious what ACF would suggest for these teams.
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Need help on how to study
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6412
Re: Need help on how to study
Hi Adhvaith, I'm by no means an expert on these things, but I'll give each question my best shot. 1. Hard high school tournaments, especially housewrites, have a lot of trickle-down from collegiate tournaments these days. If you feel comfortable doing so, I might suggest looking at college sets on t...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2895
Re: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
Just as a quick update, this set is now halfway written. I have been informally playtesting the questions I have written thus far with non-quizbowler Civil War field friends and will continue to do so as I complete my writing/editing processes.
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19069
Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
Can the implementation and enforcement of a code of conduct that establishes behavior standards and outlines punishments for violations of those standards, such as that posted by Marianna Zhang/PACE, be included in the requirements for tournament directors as well? I am looking forward to hopefully ...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:36 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: General Misconduct Discussion (TW: sexual harassment)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 23487
Re: [TW: Sexual Harassment] Harassment in the THAT Online Quizbowl Discord
Even more, from a more personal perspective, this event was held in my church, who's campus we borrowed. I did not attend the event myself because of a church event, but as someone heavily involved in my church, I understand the events and policies that we have. On Saturdays we have many other chil...
- Sun May 03, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2895
Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
After kicking around the idea for a while, I'm happy to announce LINCOLN ( L ots of I nteresting and N ovel C ontent O n L egendary N otables), a side event on the Civil War and Civil War Era. While the majority of this set will focus on the years 1861-1865, it will also include material from the 18...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147695
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in how the quizbowl community has handled the events of the last few days. Apparently we have reached the point where vague posts led to random accusations in a Discord server, which led to piles upon piles of fancy-looking statistical analysis that ser...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147695
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in how the quizbowl community has handled the events of the last few days. Apparently we have reached the point where vague posts led to random accusations in a Discord server, which led to piles upon piles of fancy-looking statistical analysis that serv...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:35 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8706
Re: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
Getting the Civil War bonus at 2019 Nats and hearing the other team (Yale B I think) audibly groan as they realized that I was gonna 30 it was pretty fun and funny.
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7886
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I would agree with what Will said regarding the lack of "meat and potatoes" content in certain categories. I definitely noticed this in the visual arts, and while I wouldn't say it significantly impacted my personal enjoyment of the category (except for getting my brilliant plan to write s...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14735
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
The Georgia Tech A/UCSD A packet mentioned "LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall," then the Cornell A/Penn State B/Wesleyan packet asked for what city the concert hall was in later on.
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 4:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Should Baby Seals Smile While Being Clubbed? Or: Why Should Newer Teams Stick Around College Quizbowl?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7844
Re: Should Baby Seals Smile While Being Clubbed? Or: Why Should Newer Teams Stick Around College Quizbowl?
I'm very glad to see that Chris D. posted here, as I think his perspective is very valuable for those of us who have been around the college game for many years and view things like knowing what packets to read, how to study, etc. as old hat. It seems nearly impossible to overstate the value of such...
- Sun Oct 13, 2019 11:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7570
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
I have no idea if this really helps or not, but waaaaaaay back when I learned about Pennsylvania's Native Americans in 3rd grade (!), we were taught about the Lenape people (the Lenni Lenape, specifically), rather than the Delaware people. I can totally understand the frustration of only knowing Del...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28017
Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
I will be attending West Virginia University for a 2-year MA program in Public History starting in the fall. May try to get quizbowl going there depending on my time availability and motivation.
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14870
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
It's very short notice, but the fourth member of our team dropped, so if anyone doesn't have a team yet and wants to play, you're more than welcome to join me, Danny, and Conor Thompson tomorrow.
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin general discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2356
Re: 2019 Terrapin general discussion
I thought this set did an excellent job of hitting its target goals. For the most part I can only speak to my categories, but I thought the visual arts, pre-20th century American history, British history, and Christianity were well-written. The visual arts particularly did what I am personally a fan...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20734
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
For what it’s worth, I wrote this tossup and most of it is the same as my submission, and I took the lead-in from the opening verses of Ezekiel 33. Apologies for the somewhat confusing wording though.
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational General Discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8155
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational General Discussion
I personally feel that trashing of a set based on vague, unsubstantiated claims like "people at the site said they disliked it," especially when there is plenty of empirical evidence and statistics to actually discuss, is the bigger issue to highlight than picking out a now-admitted error ...
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 8:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 10456
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
Can you please post the Daedra Princes tossup? My teammate who doesn't have a forum account is requesting it.
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 6:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 10456
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
I was negged for saying "Garden of Forking Paths" and told that the answer was "Garden of the Forking Paths." I didn't protest it at the time because we were ahead by a lot at that point in the game, but even a cursory Google search shows that what I said is correct and there is ...
- Wed May 30, 2018 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 111289
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
I have nothing else to say that has not been covered by my colleagues. Gettysburg will not participate in NAQT tournaments and I will not contribute to NAQT sets until Matt Bruce has been removed and NAQT provides a proper explanation of why this monster was allowed near children.
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:51 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
- Replies: 64
- Views: 54583
Re: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
Airing dirty laundry on the forums appears to also be the sort of thing that might make people not want to join the quizbowl community.
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23224
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
This is perhaps tangential to the current discussion, but is there any chance we can get a log of this posted somewhere? I'd love to see a series of "close readings" of the Regs packets in line with the advanced stats we have access to (the inner nerd in me wants a podcast but that's prob...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 2:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23224
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
We had a discussion in the Discord tonight in which we analyzed tossups from a packet (E. Delaware A + Kentucky A + Cambridge A) to try to put together qualitative thoughts about their clues with the buzzpoint histograms. There were a few major conclusions at which we seemed to arrive. 1. Probably a...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23224
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
Based on the extremely scientific method of copying this data into an Excel spreadsheet and running the average function on the data, it appears that the average first buzz on tossups in this set came at 51.33 words. Considering that the same function shows that the average amount of words per tossu...
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154482
Re: IT IS THE FINALS: Best Song of the 2000s
Heeeeeeeeeeey Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19169
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
As an addendum to my previous post, I ought to note that there were lots of cool ideas in submitted and editor-produced content. I liked, for example, the specific tossup on James Longstreet that focused on his Reconstruction career as a good example of military history (sorta) beyond the sort of &...
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Battle of the Burgh XXI (3/24/18)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4556
Re: Battle of the Burgh XXI (3/24/18)
I'm curious as to why teams will be charged an extra twenty dollars in order to receive a copy of the questions they are already paying to play. This seems highly unusual to me and I'm wondering why this policy is in place for this tournament.
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: FIFAS Annoucement
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8713
Re: FIFAS Annoucement
More excited than Gary Neville post-Torres goal about this
- Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:47 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caught in difficulty limbo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7719
Re: Caught in difficulty limbo
Any idea where I can find more LIST packets? There's only one (1) on the packets database. EDIT: WHAQ packets too. I don't think I saw any in the hsqb database. LIST 2017: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/1978/ LIST 2014: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/592/ LIST 2013: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/5...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 5:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caught in difficulty limbo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7719
Re: Caught in difficulty limbo
In particular, the WHAQ and LIST sets are of approximately normal high school difficulty. Here is a list of the difficulty of high school sets from this year (a higher number means the set is more difficult). I like this a lot because it's great for comparison, but based on the information given on...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caught in difficulty limbo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7719
Re: Caught in difficulty limbo
If you have some money to purchase IS sets from NAQT for practice, those would be best. Or for a free option, the VHSL sets should also be good. And you are correct that you are looking at two ends of the difficulty spectrum with SCOP and PACE,
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts on Skype (July 15th, 2017)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10160
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts on Skype (July 15th, 2017)
If someone who knows film is looking to join with somebody who likes to think he knows stuff that's not film, drop me a line. Though ultimately I'm not that particular, so just let me know if you're interested in teaming!
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 9:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 ACF Fall Global Announcement (5 Nov 2016)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 27804
Re: 2016 ACF Fall Global Announcement (5 Nov 2016)
Regionals has been posted, can this set be posted as well please?
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
- Replies: 37
- Views: 26174
Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
The Great Gatsby has been my favorite "classic" lit book for quite a while now. Plus it comes up a ton in quizbowl, so it's definitely worth the read.
Great Expectations, on the other hand, is not so great.
Great Expectations, on the other hand, is not so great.
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Poll
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8329
Re: Postseason Poll
Would people like to do another postseason roundtable to discuss the teams this year?
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Listory 2016: General Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4430
Re: General Discussion
Sorry to bring this up so long after the fact, but will this set ever be posted?
- Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Help with HSQBRank & 2x check this tournament list please!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 20371
Re: Annual call for help with HSQBRank!
High Tech A and B and Ithaca played EMT at Princeton yesterday. Stats here. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/
- Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT General Discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10068
Re: 2017 EMT General Discussion
I thought in many ways this was a very fun set to play, and my team had a really good time doing so yesterday. I want to commend the writers for coming together so quickly and producing it for us to play. That said, I think this set had two big issues on which I would like to provide feedback for th...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcement
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12500
Re: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcemen
Quick reminder that non-Skype mirrors of this tournament are beginning this weekend! Teams should definitely sign-up for their local EMT mirrors, if they haven't yet! This set is one of the final chances to play a regular-minus tournament this semester, and being similar to previous years' MUT's in...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcement
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12500
Re: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcemen
Quick reminder that non-Skype mirrors of this tournament are beginning this weekend! Teams should definitely sign-up for their local EMT mirrors, if they haven't yet! This set is one of the final chances to play a regular-minus tournament this semester, and being similar to previous years' MUT's in...
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts
- Replies: 36
- Views: 23862
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts
Beautiful, though in all likelihood I won't be at CO so hopefully this can get some other mirrors too.
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament at Princeton - April 15
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11478
Re: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament at Princeton - Date TBD
For Gettysburg, April 29 would be the preferable date. People may have plans to visit family over the weekend of the 15th as it is Easter weekend and then May 6 is the weekend before our finals. We would look into the possibility of attending on either of the latter two dates should it be the most p...
- Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: "Let's Remember Some Guys"
- Replies: 44
- Views: 25399
Re: "Let's Remember Some Guys"
I will probably write a packet for this and do my best to ensure that the Philadelphia bias is not too noticeable.
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARTSEE 2016: Apologies and General Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4336
Re: Apologies and General Discussion
I hate to be the guy who does this, but will this be posted? I'd definitely like to take another look at some of these clues now.
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 31009
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
Just wanna give a shout out to the author of the First Manassas bonus for justifying my entire summer internship there.
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 81619
Re: 2017 ICT bids
Would it be worth considering moving the ICT out of being held at a hotel then? It seems that it would be more cost-economical for NAQT, because they'd have to pay less for facilities and could potentially accommodate more teams, which seems to be something that most people are in favor of. Also jus...
- Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What keeps you doing quizbowl?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15356
Re: Quizbowl?
Well, you're definitely not the only person to ever wonder this. Heck, even all-time greats like Matt Bollinger and Andrew Hart have done the same. As far as my own answers to your questions, I'll write my honest opinions as opposed to waxing eternal about quizbowl's many virtues. Not that there's a...