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by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
Replies: 131
Views: 57334

Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017

Well, I think I will agree to disagree with you there, or maybe say that my emphasis is somewhere else. I do quizbowl at this point because I want to have fun at it, and I see how other people approach quizbowl and despair at how soulless it feels sometimes. Take, for example, the ritual of people g...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
Replies: 131
Views: 57334

Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017

The "I had a beautiful time" argument is neither here nor there; it was reviled when Will Alston used it to defend playing a closed tournament under a fake name in another thread (yes, I know he had "permission"). It doesn't matter if people have a wonderful time doing something...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
Replies: 131
Views: 57334

Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017

As somebody who has witnessed the annual brutality of the Northeast Sectional firsthand, I have to admit that my bias leaves me deaf to complaints about D-value or who deserves a bid more from other sectionals. Every year the Northeast has a miserably competitive field that leaves multiple incredibl...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Feb 06, 2017 3:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
Replies: 131
Views: 57334

Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017

Again, me being there caused an extra bid to spontaneously generate that would not have been awarded otherwise. CU Boulder A would have gotten their D2 bid with or without me there.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Feb 06, 2017 11:46 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
Replies: 131
Views: 57334

Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017

Also I just want to point out, there's a whole lotta hypotheticals upthread, but not a whole lotta facts.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:59 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
Replies: 131
Views: 57334

Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017

We bought these tickets more or less by accident (literally, I said not to buy the tickets, then I found out one had already just been purchased and I was more or less locked in to go). I was unaware there would be D2 questions until after the ticket purchase as well. However, I primarily wanted to ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Nov 01, 2016 11:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PB2016: Will's Questions (Painting, Religion, Music, etc.)
Replies: 17
Views: 3333

Re: Will's Questions (Painting, Religion, Music, some others

I thought the religion questions were cool, and wasn't so bothered by the proportion of Christianity at the cost of increased Islam (noted religion that has almost as many followers as Christianity and should come up more in quizbowl). I also thought that the Christian questions that were asked were...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Replies: 39
Views: 16333

Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"

Yeah I was skimming and not reading closely, and just having the same visceral reaction I always do to this frequent yet frequently wrong answerline problem.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Oct 28, 2016 9:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Replies: 39
Views: 16333

Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"

I do actually think that, despite the fact it may contradict my point above, the way quizbowl insists on saying "Garcia Lorca" is not correct because his name is SO widely written as "Lorca" in scholarly writing AND on the covers of his books in English (I do not think that Moham...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Replies: 39
Views: 16333

Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"

Your overall point is correct, but I don't think there's anything wrong with taking Pahlavi by itself (to be fair, I see nothing wrong in taking Johnson by itself either for LBJ). There are only two Pahlavi dynasty members and one is not often asked about in high school--to me, this would be like j...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Replies: 39
Views: 16333

Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"

I encountered this problem somewhat recently while editing for the HSNCT. I couldn't think of any particularly satisfactory way to set up an answer line for Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. In my opinion, all of the following should be acceptable: Shah Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza, Mohammed Reza Shah, Mohamme...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Oct 27, 2016 12:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Replies: 39
Views: 16333

Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"

Your overall point is correct, but I don't think there's anything wrong with taking Pahlavi by itself (to be fair, I see nothing wrong in taking Johnson by itself either for LBJ). There are only two Pahlavi dynasty members and one is not often asked about in high school--to me, this would be like j...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:22 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Replies: 39
Views: 16333

Re: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"

Also, Wikipedia, Britannica, and Encyclopedia Iranica consistently adhere to this name scheme.

Of note: the current pretender to the throne of Iran is Crown Prince Reza, so he could theoretically be called "Reza Shah II."
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:13 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"
Replies: 39
Views: 16333

PSA: Mohammed Reza Shah is not "Reza Shah"

No real reason that I'm posting this other than that it came up in a lecture today and reminded me of a minor gripe I have, which is that Reza Shah/Reza Pahlavi is not an acceptable name for Mohammed Reza Shah. The only acceptable person to call "Reza Shah" is his father. I just dug up a b...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:53 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!
Replies: 9
Views: 5169

Re: Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!

Put a lunch break at least at the halfway point.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:52 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PB 2016: General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 6661

Re: PB 2016: General Discussion

Yeah I agree with Jordan's assessment about how this wasn't a bad tournament, and now that I know the thing about the Canadian writers I'm more sympathetic. The older I get, the more I dislike how shrill everybody gets in person over tournaments that aren't perfect. Penn produced a set, it had pyram...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 24, 2016 10:40 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!
Replies: 9
Views: 5169

Re: Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!

I will diverge from Charlie slightly on the subject of timing breaks with potential stat crunches. It's nice to line the breaks up, as it does make everything easier. But, I don't think this is as critical because doing stats for any non-national, untimed tournament should not be that hard (or take...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 24, 2016 9:53 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!
Replies: 9
Views: 5169

Lunch in college: Not after round 5, anything but that!

Title kind of says it all. The Penn Bowl thread is bogged down in a bunch of stuff I don't want to get involved with, because I was glad that they had a tournament for us to play and it wasn't like we were getting out at 10 so some of the complaints seem over the top, but there was one key rookie mi...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Aug 16, 2016 4:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Why is the idea of a Board of Directors being overlooked?
Replies: 3
Views: 3450

Why is the idea of a Board of Directors being overlooked?

In the morass that this forum has recently witnessed, the best idea that anybody has posted was to turn NHBB into a company governed by a board of directors, who install a CEO (presumably Dave) to direct the company at their discretion. It was then rapidly ignored, which I am baffled at. Especially ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Aug 03, 2016 1:52 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ATTN UChicago Undergrads (and HS/MS people who write music)
Replies: 0
Views: 335

ATTN UChicago Undergrads (and HS/MS people who write music)

A new professor named Dr. Sam Pluta joined your faculty to direct the UChicago computer music lab starting this fall. He is also teaching the class in your core curriculum dedicated to music history, which he has already gained rave reviews for doing when he was a DMA student at Columbia. If you are...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:22 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: A plug for my school at Columbia, aimed at CC/older readers
Replies: 3
Views: 802

A plug for my school at Columbia, aimed at CC/older readers

I currently attend Columbia University's School of General Studies, which is their "non-traditional" program. I feel really cheesy breaking my inactivity on the board to promote my school, but I suspect that there will be some people who hang around in quizbowl who might benefit from knowi...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Confessions
Replies: 2
Views: 3227

Confessions

As we all know, my attempt at editing a tournament this past year fared poorly. I was recently singled out for not having explained myself, and given that my disaster was simply a taste of things to come for quizbowl when Matt departed, there might be something worth learning from my explanation. Ri...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:00 pm
Forum: International Comparisons and Discussions
Topic: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)
Replies: 27
Views: 27577

Re: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)

$40 is on the low end, but in America $50-$70 is absolutely the norm for high school tournaments. Anything above that is probably going to start driving away teams, so I see no reason to change your prices (and a couple circuits that did have entry fees closer to $100 have had problems with attendin...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 27, 2014 1:41 pm
Forum: International Comparisons and Discussions
Topic: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)
Replies: 27
Views: 27577

Re: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)

Don't put that blame on yourself, it's not like you were an adult, and it's not like you can do anything about teacher's union negotiations. However, I'm curious if there is a way for you to organize any quizbowl tournaments at the University of Toronto. I can't repeat it enough - the only way to fi...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:34 am
Forum: International Comparisons and Discussions
Topic: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)
Replies: 27
Views: 27577

Re: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)

Most of the complaints were about the questions and format, or related problems. One coach was very upset about the fact we didn't allow 5 second on rebounded bonus parts, because he hadn't realized that his players could collaborate while another team is answering something. Another coach was very ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:58 pm
Forum: International Comparisons and Discussions
Topic: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)
Replies: 27
Views: 27577

Re: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)

Here are some other components of the MOQBA strategy that worked wonders: It is important is to be able to work around your detractors. There is only so much that you can do to convince somebody that pyramidal quizbowl is worthwhile. If people don't want to logically argue with you, and are making i...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:21 pm
Forum: International Comparisons and Discussions
Topic: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)
Replies: 27
Views: 27577

Re: Solving Toronto (and SW Ontario)

I think there are a few things that can be done to ameliorate the situation here, based on my experiences with MOQBA creating the pyramidal circuit that is currently flowering in Missouri despite the presence of an overbearing bad format that has government sponsorship. The absolute first thing here...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Oct 13, 2014 1:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: American Academic Challenge (CANCELLED)
Replies: 9
Views: 9755

Re: American Academic Challenge, May 22-24, 2015, Chattanoog

Is there a sample packet to show participants what they can expect from this event?
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Oct 02, 2014 1:32 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: I found the creator of Vanderbilt ABC
Replies: 6
Views: 10552

Re: I found the creator of Vanderbilt ABC

I would like some clarification on an incident that has entered my high school quizbowl team's lore. Back in the 1990s my coach brought North Kansas City to the fall ABC with some regularity, and apparently one year, they went into the playoffs with a high seed, only to be eliminated by a not notabl...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Sep 26, 2014 3:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES at Northwestern (11/22/2014)
Replies: 24
Views: 14046

DEES at Northwestern (11/22/2014)

Alright, after much deliberation about finding rooms, I'm taking my tournament directing talents to Evanston to bring you the Great Lakes mirror of DEES on November 22nd, 2014. It will be held on the campus of Northwestern University, rooms and start time TBA. This tournament requires packet submiss...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES: November 22nd, 2014
Replies: 39
Views: 32515

Re: DEES: November 22nd, 2014

Send in packets by tomorrow for some discounts!
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Sep 07, 2014 3:37 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES: November 22nd, 2014
Replies: 39
Views: 32515

Re: DEES: November 22nd, 2014

Packets recieved...

For $90 discount:
Carleton A
Penn B
WUSTL A
Penn A
VCU
William and Mary

For the $40 discount:
Michigan A
Penn C

For the $20 discount:
Nobody

For the baseline fee:
Columbia B
Maryland
McGill
McMaster A
Toronto A
Virginia B
Waterloo A
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sat Sep 06, 2014 6:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES: November 22nd, 2014
Replies: 39
Views: 32515

Re: DEES: November 22nd, 2014

Sure, I'll push them back to Sunday. Packets in by tomorrow will get a $90 discount.

The good boys and girls of Penn B and Cartleton University have already submitted packets, so I challenge you to get on their level!
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:28 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES: November 22nd, 2014
Replies: 39
Views: 32515

Re: DEES: November 22nd, 2014

We've now got 2 fully announced mirrors, and the other sites will be announced imminently, so write those packets! The super early discount is September 6th - realistically, is there going to be any team with a packet ready to go then? Private message me if you are planning on getting your team's pa...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:31 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Let's make some more fun of MSHSAA
Replies: 7
Views: 4775

Re: Let's make some more fun of MSHSAA

And yes, they would be able to run whatever they want that doesn't have any Missouri teams attending, but when your reigning SSNCT champion is from Missouri and they are returning everybody, that's an obviously untenable position. I find it galling that a state where over half of the participating t...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:29 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Let's make some more fun of MSHSAA
Replies: 7
Views: 4775

Re: Let's make some more fun of MSHSAA

Yeah, that was the (proper, correct) recommendation the advisory committee gave to MSHSAA, and MSHSAA refused to act on it.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Aug 28, 2014 1:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Let's make some more fun of MSHSAA
Replies: 7
Views: 4775

Let's make some more fun of MSHSAA

http://www.mshsaa.org/Advisory/News/17/May2014MtgSummary.aspx?id=408 (tabled)4. Recommended that the Board of Directors provide an exemption for NAQT that would allow the organization to host a tournament within the borders of Missouri and invite Missouri schools (Missouri schools would represent a ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES: November 22nd, 2014
Replies: 39
Views: 32515

Re: DEES: November 22nd, 2014

The following regions have mirrors in the works, although I will decline to post individual school identities until they are ready to for sure post their announcement. If you are in these regions, go ahead and start making your plans! Chicago-area Missouri West Coast Ontario Upper Southeast (WKU) Mi...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sat Aug 16, 2014 1:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES: November 22nd, 2014
Replies: 39
Views: 32515

Re: DEES: November 22nd, 2014

I was in a rush to put up the announcement before my computer died and I went to bed last night, so yeah I overlooked a couple things. Here is the difficulty instruction I gave to my editors: This is regular difficulty, so write a packet at ACF Regionals difficulty. However, I want to have any errin...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sat Aug 16, 2014 1:28 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: DEES: November 22nd, 2014
Replies: 39
Views: 32515

DEES: November 22nd, 2014

I am pleased to announce the imminent creation of DEES , the Demonstratively Excellent Educational Saturnalia , which I, Charlie Dees, will be head editing with the bright and chipper assistance of Victor Prieto of Rice University and Brian McPeak of the University of Maryland. This tournament will ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Aug 14, 2014 6:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
Replies: 64
Views: 33252

Re: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion

This will happen. Announcement is forthcoming in the next 2 days.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
Replies: 64
Views: 33252

Re: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion

Also, I'm looking a little closer at the schedule, and I see the following date options: A tournament for the window of Nov. 15th/Nov. 22nd (overlaps with Delta Burke) A tournament for the weekend of Dec. 6th (concerns about running up against finals, but gives me far more time to edit over Thanksgi...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
Replies: 64
Views: 33252

Re: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion

OK since Saajid made that post, I guess I'll mention now that I'm seriously considering deciding to get back in the college writing/editing game and doing a packet-sub tournament in mid-November, since I've never actually done one before and I'm a much more organized/fast/productive writer than I ha...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Aug 11, 2014 12:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Thanks and general discussion
Replies: 58
Views: 23354

Re: Thanks and general discussion

I based this judgement on the fact that the decree doesn't show up at all in one of the most-used music history textbooks (Grout/Palisca/Burkholder) and I didn't remember it playing a huge part in the Shostakovich "memoir" Testimony (Zhdanov appears twice for a few pages); but, it appears...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sat Aug 09, 2014 9:03 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Your Lowest Point
Replies: 64
Views: 54168

Re: Your Lowest Point

Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:The Trygve/Andy year of PACE. I nearly quit quiz bowl entirely.
Especially that one meeting. There are few things more pleasant than knowing I will never have to interact with Ian Eppler as long as I'm in quizbowl.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Conversion stats
Replies: 7
Views: 3549

Re: Conversion stats

Who 30ed my Siachen Glacier bonus? Or the one about Indian Christians?
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Aug 08, 2014 11:28 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Thanks and general discussion
Replies: 58
Views: 23354

Re: Thanks and general discussion

The music unfortunately had multiple glaring factual errors that I told Jacob about after the tournament, which came up in the pre-lunch rounds and I think predisposed people to be annoyed with you, because you talk quite a big game about how much more you know about music than other writers, so it ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Summer Practices at Chicago
Replies: 18
Views: 8645

Re: Summer Practices at Chicago

So are practices now on Wednesdays instead of Thursdays?