The Quizbowl Resource Center

Skepticism and Animal Feed

My understanding is that official stats were only kept by 50% of the moderators, but that individual teams kept their own stats. I'm not sure if there are full stats between the two. I'm also not sure how much information the people who were running the tournament have. I guess we'll see if they mak...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

When I played Scholastic Bowl in Illinois, I would put "Captain Bruce", rather than just "Bruce", on my name tags. Apparently, this in and of itself was seen as inappropriate by many of the coaches I played against, and I got a lot of evil looks and condescending lectures. In my ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Does IHSA still have that rule where if one team doesn't have matching uniforms, it starts out with -30 points?

Skepticism and Animal Feed

The official policy of the Chicago College Bowl Team (I'm speaking as an officer of the team, not as an individual) is to maximize the amount of national championships we win. We recognize ACF Nationals, ICT, and CBI Nationals as legitimate national championship conferring tournaments. As such, we d...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Rothlover wrote: From a playing perspective, can some mediocre teams come so we don't finish with an 0-fer :-P

Chicago is sending a B team (Samelson, Arthur, Kannan, Sun).

Come to think of it, that's the same as Chicago B was last year, but without Pericles.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

At practice last night:

Me: Tiki Time
Answer: Bungie Jumping

Skepticism and Animal Feed

The following teams played as Undergrad at SCT and have qualified for ICT: Ottawa McGill Chicago B Truman State Carleton A Wisconsin Carleton B Williams Harvard Harding Of course, due to the disorganized and informal nature of the UG "division", its likely that this will not be the actual ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

As an outsider to high-school quizbowl, I find it quite interesting that there are so many different formats (worksheets, lightning rounds, etc.) between states. As everyone knows, there is pretty much a unified consensus on what constitutes collegiate quizbowl. Why shouldn't high school quizbowl c...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

jonpin wrote:I don't know if the one I saw while scorekeeping was just in D2 or if it was also in D1, but this one was certainly D1:
Hess for Hogan (as in Hogan's Heroes)

I believe I made that neg.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I wanted to go to CO last year (and maybe I would have seen you there) but my graduation party got in the way. So people do in fact venture to see Pericles from near and far. Hot damn. EDIT: To justify this post's existance I'll briefly mention that there were some recycled lead-ins, like James Bon...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

vig180 wrote:I noticed the set was lacking in military history- I don't remember any toss-ups and very few bonuses.

There was a (very short-lived) Austerlitz tossup. It contained "Pratzen Heights" within the power mark, I believe.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Ray wrote:We usually take candy from the Libertarian Club that meets down the hall.

They have miniature Twix bars. They're so cute and delicious.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

In high school, a team we were playing once protested that Bahrain should have been acceptable for a question asking for a country in the Middle East surrounded by water on three sides. Their argument was that since Bahrain is surrounded by water on 4 sides, it is by definition also surrounded by wa...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I know that Ben Smith up in Ottawa made a big deal about having used one of the Windows emulators (I can't remember which one specifically; I've never used a Mac and don't particularly intend to) in order to use SQBS...so that might be an option, I'm not sure. Except emulators cost over $100 and ca...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

As for Mike Wehrman's assertion that military history is little studied in college courses, this has not proved true in my (albeit limited) experience. All the history I ever took (all upper-divison courses) had a healthy dollop of military history, in addition to lengthy discussions of various tre...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Here at Chicago, pretty much a lot of us are Mac users and own iBooks or Powerbooks. Whenever we host a tournament, we're forced to search high and low for a Windows laptop in order to run SQBS, and for both ACF Fall and ACF Regionals this was a huge pain. SQBS seems to me like it would be a very si...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Why must every discussion of a tournament dwindle into an interminable and incomprehensible squabble about the specifics of one science question appearing in that tournament? Maybe in the future we should split every discussion topic into two separate and distinct threads: "individual science ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

ezubaric wrote:Any chance of getting the midwest stats for the playoffs?

Nope. The statistician left to become a moderator during the playoffs.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

The full results for the initial Round Robin: http://home.uchicago.edu/~avebruce/ACFRegs06/ACF%20Regs%20SQBS%20Results_standings.html As I mentioned earlier, Chicago B defeated Chicago A to win the ACF regional title. As a first time TD, I'd like to thank everyone that helped out, especially Mike So...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

In Chicago, Chicago B (Yaphe, Sun, Sagoff) defeated Chicago A (Teitler, Ferrari, Cohn, Koo) in a two-game playoff. Full standings and personal statistics will be posted within the timeframe requested by the ACF Editors.

Andrew Yaphe led in both scoring and negs.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

For those who are wondering what's going on, we are in the penultimate round of the initial round robin. Chicago B (Yaphe) is undefeated, Chicago A (Teitler) has 1 loss, and Michigan A (Kemezis/Westbrook/Turner/Rappaport) has 2 losses.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Matt Weiner wrote: Neither Adam Kemezis nor Ryan Westbrook are playing ICT for Michigan this year, for different reasons.

If this is true, then Michigan should not be discounted for the UG title.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

EDIT: Nevermind this post. I should have read the initial post more carefully.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Somebody pointed out to me yesterday that I haven't posted the start times.

ACF Regionals @ Chicago will start at 9:00 AM. Teams should be in by 8:30 AM for registration.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

ACF Fall has gotten a lot easier in the past two years, it seems, which should be factored in. ACF Fall 2003 is very different from, say, ACF Fall 2005, at least in my experience having practiced on the former and attended the latter. So stock ACF Fall questions might not accurately represent what t...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

In a post that I will almost certainly not regret in the morning, I can announce that Illinois has formally contacted me and that the above field is FINAL.

See you all on Feb 4.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Speaking as the guy who did the table for Chicago this year, I can tell you that, in my experience, questions do not work. For three reasons. First, in an activity fair situation, there is often so much noise that questions cannot be heard. Second, every minute you spend reading questions is a minut...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Field Update: UIC WashU Wisconsin CMU Michigan A Michigan B Illinois? Cal-Hulman of Princeton (Boyd-Graber, Irene, two Rose Hulmaners) Chicago A Chicago B Chicago C Please note that due to room constraints, we will be forced to cap the field at 11 teams, which is the number we have now counting Illi...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Eurovision entrants = "pop culture". This should be cannonical: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5082928827632040140 I fully expect that to come up at ACF Nationals and ICT. I'll give ACF Regionals a pass because its so soon, but you NAQT folks see if you can get it into at least a...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

As for the current field:

UIC
WashU
Michigan A?
Michigan B?
Illinois?
Cal-Hulman of Princeton (Boyd-Graber, Irene, two Rose Hulmaners)
Chicago A
Chicago B
Chicago C?

Please note that teams marked with a question mark have only informally told me they will come, and may not actually come at all.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

The University of Chicago will be hosting an ACF Regionals tournament on February 4, 2006. BASE FEE: $95 per team Discounts: - $5 for working buzzer - $10 for competent moderator or official - $10 for additional teams from the same school Packet-related discounts/fees: December 23rd: -$30 January 6t...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

If some of you were wondering why that one guy on Andrew's team was walking around indoors in a winter jacket and groaning throughout matches, well, that was me, and I was very sick on Saturday. I saw the doctor today and I'm going to be fine by the end of the week, but I'd just like to call out (in...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I knew I should have taken a screenshot.

In any event, I'm sure that enough Chicago people read this to make it an running gag at our practices for weeks to come.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Others pointed out (and this was my intent), that you can have a pyramid like question, moving from more general to more specific clues) without necessarily being as precise with the opening clue, and that this is OK This is not incompatible with uniquely identifying information. Surely, there are ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I agree, if the person who negged only knew George Gershwin and buzzed on that, then he deserved the neg. I just figured that the vast majority of quizbowlers who could name Gershwin tunes, such as the player who negged early with George, would know about Ira. But maybe that's incorrect. The issue ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Isn't it the case in Illinois that homeschooled people, or even people who attend private schools that do not have a certain sport, can compete with the public school they would be going to if they were not home/private schooled? For instance, I went to a private high school that did not field an ic...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I think any question that causes players to ring in with an answer that is most probable and gets them wrong is a hose. I disagree with this -- I think that on occasion it is perfectly fine (and even good) to write questions knowing that most people would buzz in with a particular incorrect answer....

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I don't know who this Gershwin fellow is (actually, I sort of do, but I had no clue there were two of them), but what you should do with those is make sure that the first item is something which only the one you're asking about worked with. Otherwise, the information at that point is not uniquely id...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I'm all for the diversification of social science, where I think the quizbowl cannon is bizarrely and arbitrarily narrow in scope, but I think Geography would fit bes elsewhere: interdisciplinary. Think about it. A geography tossup can contain all sorts of clues. It can contain physical geography. I...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Here's how Chicago did it: we had teams of 4, but when a team would play a packet written by a member of that team, that person sat out the game (usually he served as a moderator that round). This would be my suggestion, since it would allow for us to express our individuality in packet-writing but ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Playing a multi-themed tournament solo is extremely unpleasant if you're a specialist, because there will simply be packets and packets worth of stuff you know nothing about. I certainly approve of the team aspect of this, although if we have each team write a packet and we make such teams so as to ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Yeah, it seems to me that the kind of setup you're envisioning would eventually turn into a system like bicycle or automobile racing, with teams of that kind.

Of course, nothing would prevent a university from sponsoring a team.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

I've never found that I get any spam off this board, so I think it's safe to just plaintext your e-mail here. Have other people found otherwise? Later, MaS That just means that either: 1) Spambots have not yet discovered this forum 2) Spambots have not yet evolved a way to harvest emails from PHP-b...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Could you present our emails in a format not vulnerable to spambots? Thanks.

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Oh, Matt Weiner, you accept the challenges of the world. But what do you do, sir, when the WORLD CHALLENGES BACK?????????????? anyone else not able to see whatever that link is about? Seems to me to be a link to http://chibowl.proboards78.com/index.cgi , but with that particular poster you never kn...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

2) I'm rather offended at someone of your age, in this day and time, thinking that "you get an ass pounding every day" is an acceptable insult. This is off-topic, but I think that such a statement could still be an insult even if homosexuality were to be accepted as something non-insultin...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

was it the show called Kolchak: The night stalker, or was that the full title of the original movie/series? There were two TV Movies: The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler . Then there was a single-season TV show with weekly hour-long episodes called Kolchak: The Night Stalker. It all centers o...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

There are short-lived 70's TV shows that I would argue are significant. First and foremost: The Night Stalker . A series of 2 made-for-TV movies and 20 hour-long episodes airing from 1971-74. Apart from being one of the first series to place a vampire in a modern setting, as well as the first movie...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

There are short-lived 70's TV shows that I would argue are significant. First and foremost: The Night Stalker . A series of 2 made-for-TV movies and 20 hour-long episodes airing from 1971-74. Apart from being one of the first series to place a vampire in a modern setting, as well as the first movie ...

Skepticism and Animal Feed

Chicago will be sending two teams to FAQACF Nationals. Miraculously, both will consist of Jared Sagoff playing solo.

The Quizbowl Resource Center

Search found 2189 matches

SQBS for Mac?

ACF Regionals @ Chicago -- Details

Re: Robin, your challenge is accepted.