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by Bosa of York
Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:29 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
Replies: 17
Views: 5697

Re: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)

Now that CO is over, do the folks organizing this have an idea of when what sets are being played will be finalized?
by Bosa of York
Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:37 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: Introducing the UQC
Replies: 23
Views: 7307

Re: Introducing the UQC

CPiGuy wrote: Sat Jun 11, 2022 10:29 pm obviously people who have been deeply involved in online QB for multiple years know that only having one cheating allegation at eight tournaments is pretty good, actually
not sure this is true
by Bosa of York
Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The Quizbowl Packet Archive DESPERATELY needs an overhaul.
Replies: 11
Views: 5946

Re: The Quizbowl Packet Archive DESPERATELY needs an overhaul.

It might in principle be okay to mark older tournaments that were panned by the community as of lower quality since that information can be of use to people looking for practice material who aren't going to be combing through the forums; the DB obviously shouldn't editorialize with current sets but ...
by Bosa of York
Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:47 am
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 Bosa of York
Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata
Replies: 21
Views: 3135

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata

Mea culpa for not pointing this out when I played the set, but the Versos Sencillos/Guantanamera/Cuba bonus refers to Guantanamera as the national anthem of Cuba, which it isn't.
by Bosa of York
Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:19 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
Replies: 14
Views: 7809

Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1

Voting has finished. Thank you to the eleven voters in this poll for making these rankings possible: Leo Law, Jonathen Settle, Ryan Humphrey, Bradley McLain, Daniel Hothem, Emmett Laurie, Ryan Rosenberg, Alston Boyd, Rudra Rangnathan, Kai Smith, and Rahul Keyal. The results are as follows: #1: Colum...
by Bosa of York
Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
Replies: 14
Views: 7809

Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1

The deadline for this passed last night but I, uh, forgot about that, and I won't have a good chance to finish the calculations and post the results until tomorrow I think, so I am extending the deadline for ballots until midnight Pacific Time tonight (9/26) . If you wanted to vote in this poll but ...
by Bosa of York
Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
Replies: 14
Views: 7809

Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1

A reminder that the deadline for voting in this poll is one week away. I know that there was some discussion about rankings in the Discord earlier this week, but if people want to share their thoughts in this thread that may both be edifying and help more people solidify their thoughts for the poll.
by Bosa of York
Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
Replies: 14
Views: 7809

Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1

The is the announcement for the preseason poll for collegiate teams (the extent to which it is actually "pre" season is debatable since some closed collegiate events have already happened but whatever). Please do not post ballots in this thread, but email them to eb.wolf@verizon.net by the...
by Bosa of York
Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
Replies: 25
Views: 18957

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)

Sorry if this is said somewhere that I am once again not seeing, but do the editors of this set intend to make online mirrors play using video for players (eg via Zoom or Discord video) to discourage cheating?
by Bosa of York
Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Replies: 55
Views: 22822

Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)

Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that Columbia was doing anything wrong; I just thought that it would be desirable for the LIT editors to put in the LIT global announcement that exemptions from the geographical restrictions are available and will be granted for good reasons so that everybody knows that ...
by Bosa of York
Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Replies: 55
Views: 22822

Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)

According to the spreadsheet, Columbia has registered a team for this tournament despite the fact that New York is not one of the states included in the first post of this thread or in the Mid-Atlantic region on the overall LIT announcement. I don't much care whether they play this mirror or the Nor...
by Bosa of York
Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:59 am
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.
by Bosa of York
Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
Replies: 25
Views: 18957

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)

To clarify something from your previous post from March, will people who graduated from one school in the Spring but who are now enrolled somewhere else for the fall be required to play for their old school rather than their new one?
by Bosa of York
Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:16 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - THE FINALS!

i can't wait to vote on all the best songs of the 1780s
by Bosa of York
Thu Jul 02, 2020 8:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - THE FINALS!

Stairway to Heaven vs. Born to Run
by Bosa of York
Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:06 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

rylltraka wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 9:20 pm "Psycho Killer" is good and all, but people are voting for it over "Bohemian Rhapsody", especially as something representative of the 70s?
i voted against bohemian rhapsody because i voted for good songs
by Bosa of York
Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:33 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Psycho Killer
Lola vs. Ohio
London Calling vs. Wish You Were Here
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Only the Good Die Young
by Bosa of York
Fri May 22, 2020 6:35 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Riders on the Storm
Psycho Killer vs. Gloria
Bridge Over Troubled Water vs. Ohio
Hotel California vs. Lola
London Calling vs. La Grange
Wish You Were Here vs. Sultans of Swing
War vs. Only the Good Die Young
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Take Me Home, Country Roads
by Bosa of York
Thu May 07, 2020 5:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals Cancellation Discussion
Replies: 21
Views: 6435

Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]

I think one of the options ACF presented in the poll they sent out to teams would be to have regional prelimsat some point in the spring followed by a playoff bracket the day before Nats 21. Relative to what Mike proposed, this would at least give teams who qualified this year and who would be inter...
by Bosa of York
Mon May 04, 2020 1:29 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

communism is good; john lennon is bad
by Bosa of York
Mon May 04, 2020 12:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) vs. I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home): No vote No Woman No Cry vs. Fly Like an Eagle: No vote Bang a Gong (Get It On) vs. American Girl: No vote My Sweet Lord vs. Flash Light: No vote Barracuda vs. Just What I Needed: No vote Imagine vs. Southern Man Kodachrome vs....
by Bosa of York
Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
Replies: 48
Views: 32734

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Spring 2021)

Since you're explicitly putting physical chemistry in with physics, will biochemistry/"bio-y" chemistry be placed in the biology distribution (ie where it isn't crowding out "core chemistry" in the reduced chemistry distribution)?
by Bosa of York
Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

Goodbye Stranger vs. Cold as Ice Move On Up vs. The Man with the Child in His Eyes I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home) vs. America The Beautiful (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night vs. More Than a Feeling Smoke on the Water vs. Delta Dawn Pink Moon vs. Garden Party Brass in Pocket vs. I'd Love T...
by Bosa of York
Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Statistics Questions
Replies: 14
Views: 4555

Re: Statistics Questions

I'd guess that if this is true it's because of the greater breadth of askable topics in college math combined with the ladder place of mathematics in college distributions, especially compared to state formats like VHSL Scholastic Bowl. Math questions in college can more easily ask about relatively ...
by Bosa of York
Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:25 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

Doctor, My Eyes vs. Roadrunner (Once) : This is a tough matchup but I'm a sucker for singing that's actually just talking. Cherry Bomb vs. Easy: My hatred of Easy is as intense as it is difficult for me to put into words When Will I Be Loved vs. Smiling Faces Sometimes The Shape I'm In vs. The Revol...
by Bosa of York
Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351162

Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket

Heart Of Glass vs. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight Radio Radio vs. Burning Love Friend of the Devil vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Roxanne vs. Fooled Around and Fell in Love Lust For Life vs. Baker Street Marquee Moon vs. Let Your Love Flow Highway to Hell vs. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) ...
by Bosa of York
Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
Replies: 22
Views: 1574

Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant

Most of my votes here are inspired by the facts that the French Republican calendar is great and pataphysics is obscurationist and dumb, so I'm always voting for the former and against the latter 3/62: Thermidor v Self-Existing 30/35: Pédale v Frederick 19/46: Absolu v Lilius 14/51: Shakespeare v Mo...
by Bosa of York
Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
Replies: 21
Views: 11657

Re: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)

I'll be starting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford. If time allows I hope to keep playing.
by Bosa of York
Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:22 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round
Replies: 22
Views: 1213

Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round

40 seed: Thargelion v Anthesterion
49 seed: Gamelion v Metageitnion
52 seed: Sabatu v Abu
58 seed: Addaru v Tisritum
60 seed: 1 Deer v 1 Flower
62 seed: 1 House v 1 Flint
63 seed: Boedromion v Maimakterion
64 seed: Pharmuthi v Mesore
by Bosa of York
Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:00 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
Replies: 20
Views: 1298

Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round

i cant in good conscience vote against wayeb' here because i need the sansculottides to win this
by Bosa of York
Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:49 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
Replies: 11
Views: 8625

Re: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed

I think in the last match of ACF Nationals 2018, Delaware was playing in the bottom bracket, and one of the last tossups was asking for "this event" in a way that, to my ably frauding ears, really sounded like the assassination of someone from early Islamic history. The most obvious answer...
by Bosa of York
Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Replies: 43
Views: 19221

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)

In light of the two physical mirrors of this set that have been cancelled, I hope that this set's editors organize or allow others to organize an online mirror.
by Bosa of York
Thu Mar 05, 2020 1:26 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: 5th of March Incident
Replies: 13
Views: 9788

Re: 5th of March Incident

(This post is not directed at Emily in particular. It’s also pretty cranky.) Can we stop obsessing and mythologizing over this crap? All of the good stories have been told a zillion times by now, and you can read the anecdotes off of an overlong/injoke-y QBWiki page. There are so many other good qu...
by Bosa of York
Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:42 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (see new announcement thread for 2022)
Replies: 26
Views: 13143

Re: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (July 19, 2020)

When the staffer recruitment form asks if you're "comfortable" reading or staffing a room by yourself does that just mean "Are you familiar and proficient enough with quizbowl to do this" or is a target time limit per round implied, and if so what would you want?
by Bosa of York
Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:34 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 NAQT SCT: February 8
Replies: 16
Views: 8093

Re: 2020 NAQT SCT: February 8

In 2017, Penn applied for and was denied a wildcard bid for ICT, despite the fact that Eric Mukherjee was unable to make it to SCT but obviously would have qualified if he had been able to play. This made many in the community believe that it was completely impossible to have a wildcard bid for ICT ...
by Bosa of York
Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:42 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Ideal Host Cities for a Nationals Event
Replies: 10
Views: 5143

Re: Ideal Host Cities for a Nationals Event

hosting national tournaments on the west coast is a bad idea because then it will be substantially more expensive to get there for the majority of teams, which are not on the west coast.
by Bosa of York
Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
Replies: 37
Views: 9475

Re: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion

My memory of playing in high school (mostly in NYC+New Jersey and Boston-area events) is that being given five seconds to answer tossups was typical, even on IS-sets.
by Bosa of York
Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16698

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

100% Clean Comedian Dan Nainan wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:12 pm I was very bewildered by the tossup linking Avengers: Endgame and the Beckett play, which was perhaps the worst idea for a tossup I have seen in a long time.
I got this off the Beckett clues and didn't notice that that was what was going on; could the text of this be posted?
by Bosa of York
Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
Replies: 15
Views: 7561

Re: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification

Is Washington taking their host bid in DII (which is the situation that would obviate this)? I assumed that they'd take it in DI since they have DII-ineligible players. In any event that doesn't change the central issue here, which is something that's going to keep happening as long as there are the...
by Bosa of York
Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
Replies: 15
Views: 7561

Re: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification

I figure it behooves me to necro this thread since it seems likely that this situation will happen again. The combined-field Northwest SCT site was won by Washington B, a DII team, but since the only other DII teams at that site were all from Boise State there were only DII teams from two schools, t...
by Bosa of York
Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:06 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Guardian article on quizzing
Replies: 3
Views: 1691

Re: Guardian article on quizzing

In the US, the more academic style of Quiz Bowl was supplemented in the late 1990s by Trash tournaments Makes sense to me. I could imagine that it's more like the broader/British quizzing community diverged from academic quizbowl at that time due to the development of more modern/pyramidal question...
by Bosa of York
Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)
Replies: 13
Views: 5327

Re: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)

Could a field update be provided? Thanks.
by Bosa of York
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25362

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata

The tossup on auroras (which generally described them as "this phenomenon") had a sentence that I remember saying something to the effect of "Homer used the phrase 'rosy-fingered' to describe a god whose Roman equivalent names these phenomena." This seems like a not insubstantial...
by Bosa of York
Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
Replies: 18
Views: 12544

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP

Are there any plans for a collegiate mirror of this set in the Northeast/upper Mid-Atlantic (the NYU mirror being high-school-only, which one might also regard as a questionable decision but nevermind that)?
by Bosa of York
Wed Jan 15, 2020 2:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Call for Editors - MAGIC (2020 HS Set) [Suspended Indefinitely]
Replies: 10
Views: 3480

Re: Call for Editors - MAGIC (2020 HS Set)

Also, is there a rationale behind the very small philosophy/social science distribution? I don't mean to defend any of the other decisions being made in this distribution, but 1/1 combined Philosophy+SS is almost certainly a good upper bound for regular difficulty HS sets and is present in nearly e...
by Bosa of York
Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Matchmaking
Replies: 14
Views: 4627

Re: CO Matchmaking

I'd like to play CO for the first time this year but am not actually good at anything. I probably have the closest thing to specialist knowledge in bio and chem but knowing random stuff in other categories will likely make up most of my few tossup conversions.
by Bosa of York
Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323225

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

Robyn
by Bosa of York
Sat Dec 21, 2019 1:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 EFT - Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 3524

Re: Thanks and General Discussion

Also, considering that it is very nearly January, is there an idea of whether such an online mirror will or will not happen, or when that determination will be made?
by Bosa of York
Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:23 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323225

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

i cant wait to make this data way more noisy with my bizarre, terrible, and inconsistent taste #15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magn...