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- Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13636
Re: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
One more thing: even if some sites still aren't decided, there seems to be literally no downside to announcing partial sites. Whatever slight decrease in professionalism would result frim slapping a TBA on a region, it would be massively weighed out by giving the rest of us time to plan travel and p...
- Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13636
Re: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
Lauren's post is Good.
NAQT should also keep in mind that certain circuits require aggressive outreach to obtain a decent field, which is much easier to do when you have an official tournament announcement.
NAQT should also keep in mind that certain circuits require aggressive outreach to obtain a decent field, which is much easier to do when you have an official tournament announcement.
- Tue Dec 04, 2018 10:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science (2018 Sun God)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19978
Re: Science (2018 Sun God)
I disagree with this critique for the reasons Graham mentioned above, and also from a quick search, it seems most tossups on "dipole" (the system) accept "dipole moment" (the quantity) but not vice versa, for whatever reason. Perhaps because it's generally correct to say that, f...
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science (2018 Sun God)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19978
Re: Science (2018 Sun God)
a) They play very differently from almost all other questions. It's hard to switch from quickly answering to carefully thinking about whether your answer fit the minutiae of the question. b) Because they are easy to mess up with a small mistake, there will almost certainly be a fraction of players ...
- Tue Nov 13, 2018 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 49866
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
The bottom line is that without a strong showing of support for a Minnesota mirror -- whether underlain by a formal rule directing teams there or not -- it just won't happen. I encourage people who would be likely to play a UMN mirror to list their names or their teams on this spreadsheet . The mai...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 49866
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
So, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the UMN site would require Illinois players for a decent field, but the OSU site wouldn't---the problem being that OSU is a slightly shorter drive from Chicago than UMN. What if the editors allow both sites, but require special approval for people trave...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 49866
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
I went to Michigan State as an undergraduate and road-tripped with Joe, Connor, and Ryan Dillon to Minneapolis for Minnesota Open -- that was just the sort of thing you had to do to play! There was an entire era when the main site of Minnesota Open was an event that people would travel long distanc...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 49866
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Specific Question Request and Discussion
- Replies: 125
- Views: 22175
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Specific Question Request and Discussion
Also, upon further research, I'm not 100% sure I screwed up the clue about time translation symmetry in the Noether's theorem clue for the energy conservation tossup. Does anyone have any feedback here? Think I could probably find a better wording for vis-viva: 3. Banks, Susskind, and Peskin claime...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 1:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13910
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
Generally, I greatly enjoyed this set, and I felt like most of the tossups did a good job of hitting their target difficulty. Our site had a lot of new players, and even those with zero quizbowl experience were able to convert things. That said, I had a few issues with it: I'm probably biased as a p...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18360
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
I think we ended up hitting our target difficulty of "about halfway between 2017 EFT and this past year's Regionals" though the set obviously has a different field than an introductory tournament like EFT. I'm obviously biased but I think it should be a comfortable set for strong novices ...
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 11:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite Playtest Discord Mirror December 22, 2018
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11099
Re: Spartan Housewrite Playtest Discord Mirror Date Poll Inside
I feel like someone should remind people that Dec 23 is Festivus, if that's happening again this year.
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6409
Re: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
Congrats to Colorado A for winning this tournament, and to Zach from KSU for being the top scorer. We'd like sincerely thank all the teams who showed up for contributing to a wonderful day of quizbowl.
Stats can be found here.
Stats can be found here.
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 3:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Help training a math player for quiz bowl
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7685
Re: Help training a math player for quiz bowl
I played Science Bowl in high school, and I got really fast at mental arithmetic by factoring the time in my head whenever I got bored. This definitely gave our team an edge. Next, let me fill you in on my suggestion. We are a new high school academic team in Kentucky, so our primary format for comp...
- Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Canadian Trash Player Poll
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6896
Re: 2018 Canadian Trash Player Poll
Says someone from a country that calls a packet a "pack."Jean de Daumier-Smith wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 11:13 pmI can't believe I had to read this with my own eyes. It's basically a war crime.
- Tue Oct 23, 2018 7:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying specific parts of the Lit Cannon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6528
Re: Studying specific parts of the Lit Cannon
If you're looking for survey texts, there's an excellent list here.
- Sun Oct 21, 2018 3:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24034
Re: Announcement: Penn Bowl 2018
Echoing this. If there is one, I will play the out of it.
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19 (update)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14359
Re: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19
This particular rule change also has the potential to disproportionately impact students with especially challenging life circumstances who might have to take leaves of absence or repeat a grade for any number of reasons, including illness and mental health matters, parenthood, being required to wo...
- Thu Oct 18, 2018 1:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19 (update)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14359
Re: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19
Out of curiosity are these types of policies in place for other high school competitions? I imagine most sports have something like this in place. Yes, and depending on the state, 19 year olds can play (see Conor's post above). I'll dig up some sources later, but I have to get to class. Keep in min...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 2: Penn Bowl
- Replies: 10
- Views: 840
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 2: Penn Bowl
For Matt/Daniel:
OSU A
Eric W.
Daniel H.
Shan K.
Alternate: Weija
OSU A
Eric W.
Daniel H.
Shan K.
Alternate: Weija
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 5:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-19
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4989
Re: Announcement: Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-19
DROP Yonathan Stone
ADD John Marvin
ADD John Marvin
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 12:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14818
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
Can I see the bonus on integration? My impression was that the question didn't exclude a possible answer of "solving differential equations" for the first part (particularly since it mentions Runge-Kutta). Rather complex forms of performing this operation make use of temporal discretizati...
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 110
- Views: 113158
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
OK, it's working again. For about an hour (9pm-10pm eastern), attempting to load the site returned a generic Heroku error page.UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:08 pmIt's working for me as of 10:08 PM. Could you describe the issue you experienced?
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 110
- Views: 113158
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
QuizDB is down right now.
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11094
Re: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
In chess, it is my understanding that there are tournaments, say, for players with Elo of 1000-1500, 1500-1700, etc. Know how strong the people playing your tournament are. Chess has reduced "how good a player is" to a simple number, and made this number trivially easy to look up in an au...
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14818
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
Could you post the tossup on "postmodernism"? I recall Lyotard's definition being clued very early.
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11094
Re: Please codify eligibility restrictions for your novice tournament
It might be a good idea for NAQT to publish some sort of "recommended eligibility policy," with final judgement calls left up to the host.
- Sun Oct 14, 2018 3:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14818
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
I also did this. I buzzed at structural, IIRC, but the question was asking about structural functionalism.
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
- Replies: 38
- Views: 36821
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
Also this.CaseyB wrote: ↑Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:09 pmThis.CPiGuy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 06, 2018 2:41 pmIt's now been two weeks since the September 22 deadline, and the next deadline is today. A submitted packets update would be great.100% Clean Comedian Dan Nainan wrote: ↑Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:36 pm Can the list of submitted packets be updated please?
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New Google Sheet for a Collegiate Contact List: 2018/2019
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5415
Re: New Google Sheet for a Collegiate Contact List: 2018/2019
I've added a "date updated" column to the sheet, with formatting based on how recently the contact info was updated.
- Thu Oct 11, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New Google Sheet for a Collegiate Contact List: 2018/2019
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5415
Re: New Google Sheet for a Collegiate Contact List: 2018/2019
I think it would be a good idea to have an annual top-down project in which we go through every school on the list and verify that the contact info is current and actually works. Plenty of people forget to update the old list when they leave their club, I've been burned by outdated contact info in t...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19 (update)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14359
Re: NAQT eligibility changes for 2018-19
Individuals wishing to compete at high school tournaments must not turn 19 until after the current competition year—in other words, if they will still be 18 or younger as of next July 31. This seems like a pretty big change, especially to be announced a month and a half into the school year. If som...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 5:13 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: New Team Problems
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10082
Re: New Team Problems
So, about a year ago, I was in the exact same position, albeit with a college team rather than a high school one. Our old club president and our faculty advisor both left at the same time, so I ended up running our team. The most important thing is to be enthusiastic . You can't make people study, b...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate outreach ideas
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4081
Re: Collegiate outreach ideas
OK, reaching out to honors colleges is actually kind of working. Let it be known that Chris Chiego is a stone cold outreach genius.
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate outreach ideas
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4081
Re: Collegiate outreach ideas
We want to make sure we'll have enough experienced staffers, and I'm flying out to a conference that Sunday. I believe several other people have conflicts as well. We're definitely considering it, though.
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 11:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Who Would Win In A Fight?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2012
Re: Who Would Win In A Fight?
Though I don't want to say numerical advantage would be the absolute deciding factor, Colorado's six-person ICT team from last year definitely deserves a mention Ah, someone has finally stumbled across the real reason we brought six people to ICT (I still can't believe anyone bought that story abou...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate outreach ideas
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4081
Collegiate outreach ideas
So, I'm really worried about getting a field for Fall (currently it's just us), and outreach isn't really working So far: - I've contacted incoming freshmen at other Colorado schools, but none of them are interested - I've emailed activities directors at every school on the front range, but I didn't...
- Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6409
Re: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
If any well-funded programs want to fly out a B/C/D team, we'd greatly appreciate it. Colorado (and Boulder in particular) is a wonderful place to visit.
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Team Dysfunction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5088
Re: Team Dysfunction
You should definitely consider walking away, at least temporarily. I can only speak for myself, but the people are a pretty big part of the reason I do quizbowl, and while I'm fine not being best friends with all of my teammates, I wouldn't even show up to practice if I didn't enjoy interacting with...
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 2:29 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Jordan Boyd-Graber on Jeopardy!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 352
Jordan Boyd-Graber on Jeopardy!
I'm surprised no one's mentioned this by now, but our very own Jordan Boyd-Graber will be on Jeopardy this Wednesday!
- Sun Sep 23, 2018 4:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Player tossup etiquette
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16522
Re: Player tossup etiquette
Fun fact: under PACE and ACF rules, buzzer faking and other "psychological ploys" are considered minor misconduct, and multiple instances can get you ejected from a game. Also, the miniscule advantage that a team would gain from buzzer-faking could also be gained from spending a few hours ...
- Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:59 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20557
Re: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
It looks like notifications weren't going out for the last couple weeks, due to a bug that caused the parser to fail when attempting to process a tournament that had already been processed. It's fixed now, and some of you have probably recieved emails with a backlog of tournaments.
- Tue Sep 11, 2018 8:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Gauging Interest: Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-2019
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2381
Re: Gauging Interest: Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-2019
I'm in, if only to see how little I know about the quizbowl meta.
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IQBTee Shirts
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7993
Re: IQBTee Shirts
How would non-qbers know what a power mark is? They may not get the joke, but they'll at least get that " girl (*) power" is something related to, y'know, girl power. a quick urbandictionary search informs me it's an informal way to display an anus in chat Are most people going to associa...
- Mon Sep 03, 2018 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6409
Re: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
We'd like to thank ACF for graciously allowing us to open the field to high school teams.
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:51 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20557
Re: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
Just a reminder that QBNotify can't see your tournament if it's not posted to the hsquizbowl.org database ahead of time. Please add a database entry, even if there's already one on NAQT's website (and, of course, post an announcment on these forums).
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:36 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20557
Re: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
QBNotify can now display a map of all upcoming tournaments! I've been working on this for a while, and it's finally here. (no login required, check it out on the front page: https://qbnotify.msmitchell.org/) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/275279348855209984/483041159816413226/2018-08-25-1632...
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6409
Re: ACF Fall @ CU Boulder (Nov 3)
Due to a lack of rooms in the engineering center, the tournament has been moved to Hellems.
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:53 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20557
Re: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
All regions now show up on the map, and the resolution of US states has been increased. GeoJSON is wonderful.
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 1:53 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20557
Re: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
You can now view a map of your notifications!
(Caveat: this feature does not yet work for territories, Canadian provinces, DC, or the UK, since I don't have shape data in an easily parseable format. This will be fixed shortly.)
(Caveat: this feature does not yet work for territories, Canadian provinces, DC, or the UK, since I don't have shape data in an easily parseable format. This will be fixed shortly.)