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- Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DATE POLL: Illinois Side Event Weekend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7819
Re: DATE POLL: Illinois Side Event Weekend
I would strongly prefer this being in August, but I realize I'm likely close to the only one
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292496
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
I would love to just once read a questions discussion thread where the players who didn't actually write the set respond to the editors who did write a set that makes an honest effort at being good quizbowl, worth one's time and money, without a list of proclamations that the clues are BAD AND MISP...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 2:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite Online II (Closed) (March 30)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2578
Re: Spartan Housewrite Online II (Closed) (March 30)
Update: This is in 5 days, and we'd like to see as many teams as possible register. Please do so by Friday morning; I plan to close the field then.
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 9:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9975
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
This set was probably my favorite that I've played this year, and it left me with a ton of things I'm excited to learn about, which is what sets should do. As mentioned in the intro post, Jason's history leadins (and questions in general) were consistently engaging, even when the material he was wri...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3899
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
I found it a bit iffy that a history tossup on holy Roman emperors named Otto and an art tossup on Charlemagne were in the same packet. The Castiglione clue in the Qianlong tossup was non-specific; Castiglione served as a court painter to three different Chinese emperors, including the one I negged ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:38 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Happy 6th Watkinsgate Anniversary!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18526
Re: Happy 6th Watkinsgate Anniversary!
I was 13 when this happened. I don't know why continuing to commemorate Watkins is necessary, especially in this weirdly celebratory tone. Cheating is bad, but I'm sure people are aware of this and that doesn't strike me as a terribly valid excuse to post. If this is just a Guy Remembering exercise...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:01 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Happy 6th Watkinsgate Anniversary!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18526
Re: Happy 6th Watkinsgate Anniversary!
I was 13 when this happened. I don't know why continuing to commemorate Watkins is necessary, especially in this weirdly celebratory tone. Cheating is bad, but I'm sure people are aware of this and that doesn't strike me as a terribly valid excuse to post. If this is just a Guy Remembering exercise,...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite Online II (Closed) (March 30)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2578
Spartan Housewrite Online II (Closed) (March 30)
Given multiple mirror cancellations, our team felt it was fair to offer a second online mirror of Spartan Housewrite for March 30. The fee structure will be $100 per team, payable via venmo (strongly preferred) to Jakob Myers or by a check written to the MSU Academic Competition club (once again, co...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 6:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite (Regular difficulty, January 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 19344
Re: Spartan Housewrite (Regular difficulty, January 2019)
A quick update: Jakob has offered to run a closed Discord mirror on March 30th. I am staffing a high school tournament that day. Him and I want at least 8 closed HS or college teams to sign up. Please email me and cc him to do so. If we get eight teams in the next week or so, I will allow this mirr...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
- Replies: 79
- Views: 46430
Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
x-post from the matchmaking thread:
I made a team formation spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
If you have formed a team, please register that information therein.
I made a team formation spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
If you have formed a team, please register that information therein.
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8094
Re: CO Matchmaking
I made a team formation spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
If you have formed a team, please register that information therein.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
If you have formed a team, please register that information therein.
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Harder Questions in the Finals?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6943
Re: Harder Questions in the Finals?
A fairly common trend in quizbowl is to tag some of the harder questions for the finals of a tournament. If I recall, this got some discussion at one point and there was some pushback against doing it, but I don't remember if that went anywhere. This isn't related to any specific tournament, but I'...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 7:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5103
Re: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
I'll co-sign on all of Seth's posts regarding the linguistics; Chomsky-centricity is a real problem with the way QB asks about linguistics that I'd like to see something done about. He is an influential figure, yes, but not influential enough that he should be coming up in half of all questions. Als...
- Sun Mar 17, 2019 1:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin general discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2357
Re: 2019 Terrapin general discussion
A few impressions -science seemed easy in general, especially bio -This tournament's tossups felt below EFT in difficulty, but bonuses, especially hard parts, did not. Who were parts like "Zazie" (a book that no one in our field had heard of besides Mitch McCullar, who still did not conver...
- Sat Mar 16, 2019 11:32 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Indulge me a moment...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16904
Re: Indulge me a moment...
Keep your eyes peeled in the coming months for a mirror site near you!Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 12:16 amAn Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:49 pm Shill time: NASAT is notably available for mirroring as a summer open and is not terribly difficult!
I honestly didn't know that. Where 'bouts?
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:49 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Indulge me a moment...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16904
Re: Indulge me a moment...
Shill time: NASAT is notably available for mirroring as a summer open and is not terribly difficult!
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:45 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 26736
Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
I'll have more thoughts later on, but for now, here are a few extremely scattershot observations that hopefully other people can build on: I honestly couldn't imagine something like that Tricon Kirk Jing question happening today. References to QB "notables" in questions for academic tourna...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 12:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17299
Where are you going to college next year? (2019)
This is about the time of year I posted this thread last year. If you're a current high school senior, post here once you know what your plans are!
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 12:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 8: PIANO
- Replies: 8
- Views: 532
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 8: PIANO
Matthew Lehmann
Vishwa Shanmugam
Alston Boyd
Berkeley A
Alt: Dylan Minarik
Vishwa Shanmugam
Alston Boyd
Berkeley A
Alt: Dylan Minarik
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:17 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Books "for Quizbowl"
- Replies: 217
- Views: 227057
Re: Books "for Quizbowl"
Yes. Europe and Vanished Kingdoms (in addition to the aforementioned God's Playground) are both pretty good reads and very clue-dense. Highly recommend.iarehavethestupid wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 1:27 pm Are all/most of Norman Davies's books good for quizbowl?
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:52 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I'm bored so let's suggest music
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4321
Re: I'm bored so let's suggest music
Epic.Sjenk225 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:55 pm This one's ridiculously catchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 6:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7234
Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/27/19
In light of the recent kerfuffle surrounding tournaments geared for newer players, I would like to issue an addendum to the eligibility of players for this tournament, whose purpose is, per the editors, "to provide an accessible tournament for new college quiz bowl players that will still be e...
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 12:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8315
Re: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
a) http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21943 for the additional reason that if you don't, teams that do not belong at your novice-oriented tournament will attend it and put up >25 ppb against clubs that acted in good faith and sent actual less experienced players (Chicago, etc.) b) ...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8269
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Good eye; that'll be fixed in future editions.The Billiards Fool wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:31 pm Packet 12, bonus 19 incorrectly states that Marc-Andre Hamelin finished second at the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition; it was Charles Richard-Hamelin who finished second.
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8269
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
16. For 10 points each, answer the following about the historical works of the Comte de Volney in 19th century literature: [10] In one novel, Felix De Lacey teaches Safie, a woman from this modern-day country , French using Volney's Ruins of Empires. Another woman from this country, Haydee, helps...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1788
Re: 2019 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
For the leadin to the Blake tossup, describing Stedman's Suriname as anti-slavery is a bit suspect. He attacks some of the more egregious practices of Dutch slave masters in places, but he expresses his attitude that slavery is biologically pre-ordained for black people and condemns the maroons he w...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 5:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8632
Re: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
Just drawing attention to the fact that Columbia A is indeed flying to this because it's the only PIANO date that our whole team can play, and if MSU and Chicago can be roped in this there's suddenly a crazy strong pre-nats field, so I'm gonna need you all to FREE YOUR MINDS about a Sunday event an...
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 7: NAQT SCT
- Replies: 9
- Views: 735
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 7: NAQT SCT
Myers/Borecki's lineup:
Jonathan Tran
Vishwa Shanmugam
Matthew Lehmann
Berkeley A
Alternate: Michael Borecki
Jonathan Tran
Vishwa Shanmugam
Matthew Lehmann
Berkeley A
Alternate: Michael Borecki
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 8:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 NAQT SCT: February 9
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18218
Re: 2019 NAQT SCT: February 9 - register now!
Is there any word on the status of the Brown site? I've heard it was cancelled, but whatever that status is, it would be nice to get word from NAQT on it.
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 10:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8269
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 11:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8269
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
I agree with you on the Spanish Civil War and Tasmania tossups. I will, however, dispute the idea that Ryukyu being a difficult EU4 achievement that people post about a lot should make cluing it in a tossup on a historical topic to which it was very important haram. I'll also defend veches and the B...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8269
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Between the Discord mirror and the in-person mirror, this set went through very extensive revisions. We'd like to thank everyone who left comments on the set in the past few weeks, especially Will Alston, Jason Golfinos, Ryan Rosenberg, and Mike Bentley. Thanks are also due to Billy Busse for steppi...
- Sun Jan 20, 2019 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8269
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 5: Spartan Housewrite
- Replies: 10
- Views: 727
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 5: Spartan Housewrite
Matthew Lehmann
Vishwa Shanmugam
Alston Boyd
Penn
Alt: Boyang Jiao
Vishwa Shanmugam
Alston Boyd
Penn
Alt: Boyang Jiao
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Staffer Database
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6099
Re: Quiz Bowl Staffer Database
This project is now being integrated with QBNotify to tell registered staffers about local tournaments. If anyone has suggestions on an efficient way to notify tournament hosts of available staffers, I'd be open to hearing them. For now, name and email information on local staffers is available to t...
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 NAQT SCT: February 9
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18218
Re: 2019 NAQT SCT: February 9 - registration open
Subtracting MSU and Illinois from last year's Northwestern SCT D1 field leaves just 4 Chicago teams, which doesn't sound like the most optimal field to me.
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 NAQT SCT: February 9
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18218
Re: 2019 NAQT SCT: February 9 - registration open
Having sites at Northwestern and Michigan both strikes me as not the best idea, especially given that Northwestern SCT's Division 1 had 6 teams from 3 schools attend, at least one of which the Michigan site is more convenient for. It's roughly a 4 hour drive between the two, and all the teams that w...
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12438
Re: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
I'm not mad that three questions were bad, or even that a good portion of the tournament was bad. Lots of tournaments are bad. If you read what I said, I'm mad that the editors required that hosts take advanced stats, and then (read closely, since this is the important part) did nothing with them! ...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 9:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8160
- Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8160
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Mitski
Lucy Dacus
Lucy Dacus
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 9:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8160
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy
#2: Pusha-T - Daytona
#7: Lucy Dacus - Historian
#1: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
#2: Pusha-T - Daytona
#7: Lucy Dacus - Historian
#1: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 11:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Approach Literature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7673
Re: How to Approach Literature
OK Will and Jacob are correct that I definitely had too narrow of a view of what "literary criticism" is in my initial post. You should read the essays at the beginnings of editions of novels. I'll say, however, that whether pursuing secondary literature as a matter of first resort in lear...
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 48067
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
Oops; I was under the impression that a call to writers had already been posted in this thread. If you're interested in writing, email me at [email protected] or Fred at [email protected].
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Approach Literature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7673
Re: How to Approach Literature
I'd advocate learning the canon in terms of plots, character names, etc. before you start delving into literary criticism. My entry point into literature was noticing topics I was annoyed at getting beaten to and just reading either the works themselves or the wikipedia articles on them. Later, I st...
- Wed Dec 26, 2018 2:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8269
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Here were the notes I took that I also posted in the Discord channel: • General ○ Agreed with the sentiment that literature and arts were for the most part pretty good ○ History as a bit hit or miss. There were some tossup answer choices that seemed a little on the difficult side for regular diffic...
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 2:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8160
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimite...
- Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Secret Mount Vinokurov - HSQB's Secret Santa - Last Day to Sign Up!
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2656
Re: Secret Mount Vinokurov - HSQB's Secret Santa - Last Day to Sign Up!
Whoever got me a copy of the Rukhnama because I asked for "a book by a non-European author that I don't own": you're very funny. I already own one.
EDIT: Also thanks for A Grain of Wheat, Conor!
EDIT: Also thanks for A Grain of Wheat, Conor!
- Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why isn't Bollywood canon?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13055
Re: Why isn't Bollywood canon?
Ray does have 5 of the 11 Indian films listed on TSPDT. For the other directors: Guru Dutt - 1 results (Scattegories '13; Pyaasa was mentioned without Dutt's name at the 2018 NSC) Ritwik Ghatak - 0 results Mehboob Khan - 0 results (Mother India was clued in Scattegories 2) Ramesh Sippy - 0 results ...
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 57
- Views: 3327
Re: Specific Question Discussion
About the Idaho question: The Basque clue appears to be inaccurate. http://nabasque.eus/us_basque_population.html, a website about the Basque diaspora, says that Winnemuca, Nevada claims that honor. Wikipedia seconds that claim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Americans#Population), but points...
- Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why isn't Bollywood canon?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13055
Re: Why isn't Bollywood canon?
If you mean Bollywood as in "Indian popular film", the Satantango comparison doesn't really hold water; they'd be in different parts of the distribution (art vs. trash). I'd also be interested in seeing an expansion in Nollywood content but recognize basically no one would convert that.