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by Ciorwrong
Wed May 26, 2021 1:11 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MATCH: A Charity + Vanity Event for Hematological Diseases
Replies: 1
Views: 1487

MATCH: A Charity + Vanity Event for Hematological Diseases

I am pleased to announce my small vanity quizbowl event MATCH: Making Attempts to (Help) Change Hematology. (I apologize in advance for the long post, but please read through it.) As you may be aware, for all of 2021, I have been dealing with aplastic anemia, spent over four months in the hospital a...
by Ciorwrong
Tue May 25, 2021 5:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Help with writing think tankers/poli sci focused packet
Replies: 1
Views: 1563

Re: Help with writing think tankers/poli sci focused packet

Instead of writing a whole new packet for this, have you considered adapting questions from something like a Mike Bentley packet or 2016's Christmas Present or Thought Monstrosity? I've written a lot of social science questions over the years--including in the fields of IR and political science--and...
by Ciorwrong
Sat May 22, 2021 12:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: My Little Pogchamp: Pogchamp is Trash (FIT) (5/28/21) (Cancelled)
Replies: 2
Views: 3223

Re: My Little Pogchamp: Pogchamp is Trash (FIT) (5/28/21)

nicole. wrote: Sat May 22, 2021 8:57 am Due to a lack of demand, this tournament has sadly been cancelled.
Man. I wanted to play just for the Pokémon plushie. I even had a team formed :cry:
by Ciorwrong
Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:10 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Guaging Interest: PHIL reading (12/23)
Replies: 1
Views: 1756

Re: Guaging Interest: PHIL reading (12/23)

I sent this off to Em to be uploaded with the rest of the Festivus packets. Given some recent events, I will not be reading it in the Discord. In the revised PHIL packet, there is a bonus tossup I ran out of time to assemble for the original reading. I hope people enjoy this packet and get something...
by Ciorwrong
Sat Dec 26, 2020 4:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ West, 2/20/21
Replies: 11
Views: 4669

Re: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ West, 2/20/21

This is a really bad idea. Having objective eligibility restrictions, as I did for SUN, is good. Just because ACF tournaments do not have them, does not mean that this tournament should not utilize them. In the past, players have repeatedly failed to show sound judgement when determining whether th...
by Ciorwrong
Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ West, 2/20/21
Replies: 11
Views: 4669

Re: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ West, 2/20/21

Why is it that "if you played ACF Winter, you can probably play this tournament" when Winter, like recent EFTs, had no formal or informal eligibility restrictions and was played by a lot of very good players, while the stated difficulty comparisons, PACE NSC and ILLIAC, are respectively a...
by Ciorwrong
Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Guaging Interest: PHIL reading (12/23)
Replies: 1
Views: 1756

Guaging Interest: PHIL reading (12/23)

Hi all. I am wondering if anymore people want to hear the philosophy packet I wrote for Festivus. The difficulty ranges from like Regs+ to CO level or so. It was read on 12/20, but a couple of people have told me they would be down to hear it. If people are interested, I'll read it in the main Disco...
by Ciorwrong
Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:00 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
Replies: 48
Views: 21077

Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions

Thank you for the info on the Reddit Emily and Chris. Many of the bizarre decisions regarding what is and isn't currently on the wiki would be solved by writing more articles and doing more editing (and besides, the effort required to create a single player's page is far less than that needed to upd...
by Ciorwrong
Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:43 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
Replies: 48
Views: 21077

Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions

I certainly agree with what Chris says above. If I may use myself as an illustrative example, it's patently ridiculous that I have a QBwiki page but the school I attend, UCSD, has a preposterously outdated page that was last meaningfully updated in 2014. (Coincidentally, Chris updated the page then....
by Ciorwrong
Fri Nov 13, 2020 5:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
Replies: 7
Views: 3979

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective

I'd like to thank Kevin for making this thread. I firmly believe more sets should have retrospective open discussion spaces for people to think and discuss them. Looking back, 2020 WORKSHOP was a solid set that had some good ideas. It's certainly been better and more interesting to play than a lot o...
by Ciorwrong
Tue Oct 20, 2020 1:25 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Packet Submission discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 10337

Re: Packet Submission discussion

My opinions on packet submission are well-known. I authored a thread on why it should be abolished for ACF Fall last year and I am extremely grateful ACF decided to make that tournament packet optional. The issues with mandatory packet submission are, in my estimation, that it enforces a workload on...
by Ciorwrong
Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DITCH 2020 (A Packet about Hungary)
Replies: 7
Views: 3150

Re: DITCH 2020 (A Packet about Hungary)

dpeelen wrote: Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:47 pm
Remember to drink water :))
Doesn't it makes more thematic sense for players to have a shot of Unicum before playing?
by Ciorwrong
Mon Aug 03, 2020 4:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
Replies: 23
Views: 10764

Re: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE

Sadie and Billy posted a lot of extremely valid concerns. I'll go a step further than Sadie. So far, this seems like an unmitigated disaster that will permanently turn off new teams from pyramidal online quizbowl. This slapshod "company" seems like a complete joke to anyone who has thought...
by Ciorwrong
Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
Replies: 23
Views: 10764

Re: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE

According to conversations in the Quizbowl Discord, the editing team for this has refused to let Joe reveal their identities, which is an extremely concerning sign regarding the likely quality of these sets. Strongly agreed. Is there a reason this new quizbowl organization is flouting many of the e...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:23 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: QQBC is looking for staffers!
Replies: 3
Views: 1308

Re: QQBC is looking for staffers!

I'm glad you added some additional transparency. I actually did mow yards for three summers in high school and found that experience far more rewarding than anything I've done in quizbowl. If anyone wants to talk about old Lawn Boys from the 70s-90s, hit me up. I don't believe there is a perfect iso...
by Ciorwrong
Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:21 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: QQBC is looking for staffers!
Replies: 3
Views: 1308

Re: QQBC is looking for staffers!

In the interest of transparency, you should have this payment detail higher on the page if you are advertising a full time job. Yes! You will be paid a proportion of however much money QQBC makes based on how much you work. The better job that everyone does, the more money everyone can make. For ref...
by Ciorwrong
Wed Jul 29, 2020 2:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020 is Available for Mirrors in Fall 2020
Replies: 1
Views: 1494

Re: SUN 2020 is Available for Mirrors in Fall 2020

This post is reserved for online mirrors dates.

University of Florida: September 12
by Ciorwrong
Wed Jul 29, 2020 2:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020 is Available for Mirrors in Fall 2020
Replies: 1
Views: 1494

SUN 2020 is Available for Mirrors in Fall 2020

Hello quizbowl, I am making a new forum post to announce that my collegiate novice set SUN is available for online mirrors in Fall 2020. This set is ideal for new and less experienced players. See the set announcement here for more details. The set will be mostly unchanged from what it was in the Fa...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jul 24, 2020 7:59 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Way to learn PSS?
Replies: 5
Views: 4526

Re: Best Way to learn PSS?

I also vehemently disagree with not engaging with philosophical primary texts. It's especially strange to hear a comment like that from someone who is editing PSS for an upcoming tournament. I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that reading primary texts will not help you get very many points...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Way to learn PSS?
Replies: 5
Views: 4526

Re: Best Way to learn PSS?

I'm sure the rest of Ethan's post is good, but Malcolm Gladwell is not an academic sociologist and I'm sure anyone who included him in a sociology question would be (rightly) ridiculed. [he is a compelling speaker though] Gladwell is a complete joke and should stop showing up in easy tournaments. H...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jul 17, 2020 2:18 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: On HS Teams Without Coaches
Replies: 68
Views: 48437

Re: On HS Teams Without Coaches

I've moderated many times both Michigan and Southern California. The times where I felt most uncomfortable as a moderator were with teams with no adult supervision who would say rude or inappropriate things. Frankly, sometimes I would call out misogynistic things but there were times I failed to con...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jul 10, 2020 12:02 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Playtesting for Wolfie Bowl
Replies: 3
Views: 1216

Re: Playtesting for Wolfie Bowl

Traditionally, I think it's best to playtest high school questions only with players who are ineligible (i.e. graduated from high school.) Else, you create weird incentives and it's harder to reveal answers because there isn't as much contact between current potential players of this set and colleg...
by Ciorwrong
Thu Jul 09, 2020 9:14 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Playtesting for Wolfie Bowl
Replies: 3
Views: 1216

Re: Playtesting for Wolfie Bowl

Traditionally, I think it's best to playtest high school questions only with players who are ineligible (i.e. graduated from high school.) Else, you create weird incentives and it's harder to reveal answers because there isn't as much contact between current potential players of this set and collegi...
by Ciorwrong
Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33260

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

The fact that some features on Zoom require a premium / academic account is not ideal. Our bracket got a late start because I think the person who created the initial meeting didn't have permissions to create breakout rooms. Yes, a lot of people playing are going to have academic Zoom accounts. But...
by Ciorwrong
Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: G2G FASTER
Replies: 4
Views: 1913

Re: G2G FASTER

by Ciorwrong
Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:23 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: G2G FASTER
Replies: 4
Views: 1913

Re: G2G FASTER

My inner 12-year-old is very interested in this. Where can I find the original packet? Will this be read in the main QB Discord?
by Ciorwrong
Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The Online Quizbowl in the West
Replies: 12
Views: 4613

Re: The Online Quizbowl in the West

Well if that's the case, great! Let's run some summer discord tournaments with video and see if any issues arise. If not, maybe we can start implementing discord's video feature more often. We are tentatively thinking of running summer online practices for anyone in the Pacific Time zone. Details w...
by Ciorwrong
Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Announcement: Forward-Thinking Trash Tournament Seeking Writers
Replies: 15
Views: 5768

Re: Announcement: Forward-Thinking Trash Tournament Seeking Writers

100% of the video games questions will be on broadly popular games since 2010 (there will be no "classic gaming" or niche JRPG content in this tournament). Why are culturally-significant video games from before 2010 unworthy of being asked about in the same way as culturally significant T...
by Ciorwrong
Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Trash Questions in College Sets
Replies: 19
Views: 6138

Re: Trash Questions in College Sets

Trash can be historically important, but can pop culture not be important in the present? Can a 2020 regionals bonus on the WNBA not reflect a growing recognition of that league, its players, their advocacy? Isn't a question on Megan Rapinoe (as a player) be just as much a comment on her broader ex...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Trash Questions in College Sets
Replies: 19
Views: 6138

Re: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community

I think that IS true about how a lot of trash questions are written, but not all, and it's entirely possible not to write them that way. You could write a very fine De Niro tossup just cluing, say, Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. In fact, that's probably going to be better than a catch-all De Niro toss...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jun 05, 2020 7:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Trash Questions in College Sets
Replies: 19
Views: 6138

Re: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community

I'm not sure what is meant by "trivial clues" in this context. I wouldn't toss Troll 2 up at like ACF Fall or SCT because I doubt many in the target audience have seen it or know about it in a non-meme context, but you could take, I don't know, any number of "trash" films (off t...
by Ciorwrong
Fri Jun 05, 2020 6:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Trash Questions in College Sets
Replies: 19
Views: 6138

Trash Questions in College Sets

I remain unconvinced why we need trash in collegiate quizbowl. ACF should eliminate it from its distribution like many tournaments have already done. I think having a few pop culture-adjacent questions is fine per tournament. For sports, it seems perfectly reasonable to ask about historically import...
by Ciorwrong
Mon Jun 01, 2020 6:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020
Replies: 16
Views: 5743

Re: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020

Is there a way we can like scrimmage on some of the later packets? Paying for sevens games(assuming elimination in first round of single elim playoffs) is a poor deal in terms of $/hour. My team and I would be happy to play other squads if/when we get eliminated in the playoffs provided we qualify....
by Ciorwrong
Mon Jun 01, 2020 4:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020
Replies: 16
Views: 5743

Re: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020

Is there a way we can like scrimmage on some of the later packets? Paying for sevens games(assuming elimination in first round of single elim playoffs) is a poor deal in terms of $/hour. My team and I would be happy to play other squads if/when we get eliminated in the playoffs provided we qualify. ...
by Ciorwrong
Thu May 28, 2020 11:18 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
Replies: 19
Views: 11406

Re: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community

While I don't agree with its main prescription, Harris's post has another issue with trash writing that I'd like to highlight: the disconnect between the age of trash writers and the age of their audiences. For other categories this isn't much of an issue, but pop-cultural tastes evolve dramaticall...
by Ciorwrong
Thu May 28, 2020 10:41 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
Replies: 19
Views: 11406

Re: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community

As someone who has written literally hundreds of trash tossups and bonuses over the years (see FTP), I think trash does not balance the intercollegiate game of quizbowl very well. I would like to see it removed from the already incredibly crowded distribution at events harder than ACF Fall. Events s...
by Ciorwrong
Wed May 27, 2020 3:17 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33260

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

The Main room in each zoom call needs to have one person active there at all times to troubleshoot people who cut out during games, replace moderators who cut out, etc. This increases staffing demand, but for a tournament like ACF fall there would be excess club members around anyways. Nothing ment...
by Ciorwrong
Tue May 26, 2020 6:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33260

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

Yes, and for IRL tournaments, lots of people get home well past 9, so playing into the late evening is not that big a deal. It goes both ways. My point is that forcing West Coast players to accommodate East Coast players every single time is not a fair solution. Yes, but that usually includes a pos...
by Ciorwrong
Mon May 25, 2020 8:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33260

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

I more or less agree with everything Mike said above. None of the UCSD players particularly enjoyed the Zoom tournament experience. The waiting time was obnoxious and sometimes my Zoom would freeze up or audio would echo or whatever. Moderators still not using a headset might have contributed to thi...
by Ciorwrong
Fri May 22, 2020 6:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Join the LIQBA as a Contact Finder!
Replies: 9
Views: 3406

Re: Join the LIQBA as a Contact Finder!

10 cents per entry is a ripoff and I hope people who do this hope they know they are probably making hourly wages far below minimum wages. If you really need the money, I'm sure surveys and mturk are better options. At 10 cents per entry, a person from California would have to find 130 quizbowl team...
by Ciorwrong
Wed May 20, 2020 1:48 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NAQT's initial precautionary measures for NCT's
Replies: 8
Views: 2441

Re: NAQT's initial precautionary measures for NCT's

Thanks for posting! Yes, a lot has changed and we have a lot more information about COVID-19 now. I do believe that the quizbowl community will come up with feasible solutions, if it is possible to hold in person events in the fall. I know some of us coaches are about to end school for the year and...
by Ciorwrong
Thu May 07, 2020 12:28 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020
Replies: 16
Views: 5743

Re: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020

Here you go! Of note - there are currently just five teams who have specified that they'd like to play in a high school-only division. If you're a high school team who'd like to play in such a division, please sign up soon to ensure we have enough teams! EDIT: I took a look at the free agent sheet ...
by Ciorwrong
Wed May 06, 2020 1:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020
Replies: 16
Views: 5743

Re: ACRONYM League - May/June 2020

It appears the free agent sheet is out of date and there is no way of knowing who is in the field or what. I am still looking for a team and teammates. Please email me. I'd prefer to play this set than not but remain confused why details on this have been so scant.
by Ciorwrong
Sun May 03, 2020 6:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 4
Views: 689

Re: SUN 2020: Specific Question Discussion

The lead-in of the Indian philosophy question was to prevent a neg of Germany if someone recognized the Schopenhauer quote. Additionally, the countries of Japan (e.g. Kyoto school), Kenya, Nigeria and countless others have long philosophical traditions that could be clued from a non-Western perspect...
by Ciorwrong
Sun May 03, 2020 5:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020 Packets
Replies: 1
Views: 427

Re: SUN 2020 Packets

Packets used for 5/3/2020 mirror
by Ciorwrong
Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spring Undergraduate Novice 2020 (Easy Difficulty)
Replies: 10
Views: 7290

Re: Spring Undergraduate Novice 2020 (Easy Difficulty)

For a variety of reasons, I've decided to more or less leave the national quizbowl community active immediately with no foreseeable date of return. I'd ask you respect this and not discuss this here or frankly anywhere. However, I still want to at least recoup some of the lost money for this set so ...
by Ciorwrong
Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020 Changelog
Replies: 1
Views: 390

Re: SUN 2020 Changelog

Changes before 5/3 Closed Discord mirror: Packet 1 -lead-in to “Geography” tossup altered to prevent confusion to instead be about buffer analysis in ArcGIS Packet 2 -Rephrased lead-in to “color” tossup -reordered power clues in “alcohols” tossup -added an accept “bus stop” in the “diner” tossup -ad...
by Ciorwrong
Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020 Changelog
Replies: 1
Views: 390

SUN 2020 Changelog

This thread will be used for updated errata and substantial (i.e. clue) alterations in SUN. I will try to document these as much as possible.
by Ciorwrong
Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020 Packets
Replies: 1
Views: 427

SUN 2020 Packets

Attached are the packets for 2020 SUN as it was mirrored on 4/19/2020.
by Ciorwrong
Sun Apr 19, 2020 3:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SUN 2020: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 4
Views: 689

SUN 2020: Specific Question Discussion

Use this thread to discuss individual questions and answerlines in SUN 2020. I have a strong preference that discussion be constructive and consider a variety of constraints such as difficulty, clue availability, etc.