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- Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ASS @ Maryland - 1/28
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4633
Here is a field update for ASS: The following teams have confirmed that they are coming: Wilmington Charter School - 1 Team University of Rochester - 3 Teams Dan Goff and others - 1 Team UVA - 1 Team Brick Barientos and others - 1 Team These teams registered for the earlier date but have not confirm...
- Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DATE CHANGE: ABD mirror at Boston University on 2/04/2007
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4529
While having the tournament on the same day as Penn Bowl doesn't sound like a good idea, moving it to Sunday January 28th would make it interfere with ASS, a trash tournament that we're hosting here at Maryland. While BU and Maryland are decently far away, I get the feeling that some teams in New Yo...
- Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ASS @ Maryland - 1/28
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4633
This tournament, along with the Terrapin Invitational Tournament, will be delayed until the last weekend in January. Specifically, the new date of ASS will be on Sunday, January 28th. All of the other information in the first post stands. I'd like to remind teams that this will be an open tournament...
- Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH regs discussion
- Replies: 77
- Views: 37861
- Sun Nov 19, 2006 11:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH regs discussion
- Replies: 77
- Views: 37861
- Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Embarrassing Answers/powers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7708
- Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Worst Question EVER...
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39065
- Sat Nov 11, 2006 7:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Worst Question EVER...
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39065
- Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: In the Interest of Time...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10268
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ASS @ Maryland - 1/28
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4633
ASS @ Maryland - 1/28
This is a new announcement for our cheaply priced trash tournament, ASS - The Atlantic Seaboard Skirmish - which will be held on Sunday, January 28th, the day after the Terrapin Invitational Tournament. Please disregard all of the information in the previous announcement. The reason for this re-anno...
- Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Trash Jr. Bird (10/21/06) at Boston University
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2315
Just wanted to say a few things about this tournament while it was still fresh in my mind. Overall it was very enjoyable, it was nice having a Trash tournament that focussed a lot on more recent Trash. I felt that music was a little overrepresented in this tournament, seeming to always have 4/4 each...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PARFAIT II
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8958
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PARFAIT II
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8958
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT commentary
- Replies: 52
- Views: 29925
- Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Invitational Tournament - 12/2 @ UMCP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3778
Jonathan Maggin will be one of the editors for TIT this year. There will almost certainly be at least one other person helping out with editting, but we haven't worked that out yet. Also, for anyone going to this tournament also consider staying for the Atlantic Seaboard Skrimage on Sunday, which wi...
- Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: TRASH Regionals 2006/TRASHionals 2007 dates
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7429
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/Metro area 2006-07
- Replies: 111
- Views: 47421
Well, the general format of the tournament is going to stay the same. It will still be an It's Academic style tournament. I just think that it's possible that a few things might be adjusted so as to make it more balanced (such as making the two team rounds equal in points and making sure the order i...
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/Metro area 2006-07
- Replies: 111
- Views: 47421
As a writer for the tournament, I have to say that I also do not particularly enjoy writing team rounds. They're very hard to balance correctly, and it's always very hard to gauge what are two comparable levels of knowledge. I think that's why you saw a lot of same subject comparisons in this tourna...
- Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Invitational Tournament - 12/2 @ UMCP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3778
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Invitational Tournament - 12/2 @ UMCP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3778
ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Invitational Tournament - 12/2 @ UMCP
The Terrapin Invitational Tournament returns to the University of Maryland in College Park on December 2 as part of the T&A weekend. This will be an open tournament, so anyone willing to write a packet, travel to Maryland and pay the registration fee is welcome to play. Base Price: $100 Minimum ...
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Atlantic Seaboard Skrimage (Themed) @ Maryland
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2441
- Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Atlantic Seaboard Skrimage (Themed) @ Maryland
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2441
ANNOUNCEMENT: Atlantic Seaboard Skrimage (Themed) @ Maryland
The first-ever Atlantic Seaboard Skirmish will occur at the University of Maryland in College Park on December 3 as part of the T&A weekend. This will be an open trashy tournament, so anyone is eligible to play. The tournament will be entirely house-written and consist of themed packets with que...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 6:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16011
First off, video game tossups can be VERY well done, just as almost any other subject. This could even be expanded to trashy video game clues on academic subjects (in trash tournaments, of course.) Here's a question: in a normal, academic-ish (after all, I'm talking about Illinois here) high school...
- Wed Aug 02, 2006 5:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ideal trashy distribution?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16011
While gaming may be quite popular, is it really all that ripe for good quality tossups? Aside from the big franchises, people's tastes vary so widely that I'm not so sure you can fill more than one tossup per round with a solid question. Even where answers might be quite knowable, the surrounding m...
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Early Fall Tournament at Brown (10/07/06)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4004
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Early Fall Tournament at Brown (10/07/06)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4004
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gottfried Keller Results
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14797
Although I don't play trash, I would like to see video games represented more than they are in generic trash distributions. I agree. It seems like the standard TRASH distribution is stuck in the early '90s to a certain degree. The popularity of big categories such as Movies, TV, and Pop Music have ...
- Tue Aug 01, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Mirrors @ UMD update
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2374
Jason won the singles tossup-only CO mirror, with Jonathan from UMD I believe coming in second (there ended up being a total of 5 people playing). Geezers for The Next Generation (Arthur, Adam, Michelle, Jason D.) won the trash mirror with a record of 6 and 3. The other three teams, You Call THIS Ke...
- Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gottfried Keller Results
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14797
I understand that this tournament was writing about what Andrew and Zeke like, but I don't really see how the 1 meta question per packet and things like 1/1 Hip Hop were enjoyable for almost anyone but the writers. I was reading for this tournament and the meta questions were enjoyable for me. They...
- Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gottfried Keller Results
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14797
Thanks to Andrew and Zeke for writing 10 entire packets by themselves. The tournament was very well editted. However, I did have some complaints about the questions in the tournament. I understand that this tournament was writing about what Andrew and Zeke like, but I don't really see how the 1 meta...
- Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Computer Science Coursework and Quizbowlers
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8007
Who says computer science has to be about programming? What about rewarding hardware or OS knowledge? I've written questions like this in the past for the NSC. Well, hardware knowledge is a little more Computer Engineering and Operating Systems a little more Information Systems, but these might as ...
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quizbowl
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3695
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quizbowl
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3695
Has anyone ever tried playing a round using a Teamspeak or Ventrilo server? Seems like that could be a little annoying having to yell buzz (and having someone dedicated to reading), but I've never personally tried it. One of the benefits of the system I'd like to do would be to get rid of the need ...
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quizbowl
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3695
- Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quizbowl
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3695
Online Quizbowl
Sitting at work I got to thinking about a system for playing Quizbowl matches online. Two teams (or more) would compete against each other in a chat room of sorts. Each person can identify what team they're on. There would be one person who would serve as host and would be able to choose a packet st...
- Sun Jun 25, 2006 5:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: East Coast Summer Open: Crime on Goat Island @ CMU
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11255
Just distribution wise, I only remember hearing 3 computer science questions in the opening 9 packets (the graph theory bonus in round 5, the compiler bonus, and the NTFS question which is pretty borderline CS). Astronomy seemed well represented, there seemed to be almost 1/1 astronomy per packet. I...
- Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2006 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 309
- Views: 145603
- Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Computer Science Coursework and Quizbowlers
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8007
- Sun May 21, 2006 12:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl tournament database, alpha version
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12052
- Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Call for hosts for summer East Coast tournament
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5941
- Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ghetto Warz commentary
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14270
The worst packet was the one with the 2 comedy central bonuses. That's fine for a trash packet but not an academic one. I've attended a lot of tournaments in my 4 years playing quiz bowl and have heard hundreds of packets, the aforementioned packet by far had the worst question I have ever heard. I...
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:21 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Underwhelmed
- Replies: 141
- Views: 162555
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:46 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Underwhelmed
- Replies: 141
- Views: 162555
First of all, maybe you can tell me whether the above accusations have been leveled at any of the ACF tournaments this year or other outstanding events like MLK. The fact that they have not is, I think, indicative of the relative quality of the aforementioned events as compared with ICT. But doesn'...
- Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT parking
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3599
Actually, it turns out that the teams will initially be meeting in the Armory, not the physics building. So disregard the above post. The best place to park (after 4) for the Armory is in Lot L which is right next to that building. From Route 1, turn left at the M Traffic circle. Take a left into th...
- Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT parking
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3599