The Quizbowl Resource Center

heterodyne

Assuming this thread doesn't get moved to New HS Teams, which it might, there are a couple criteria to look at. Both are going to have really good questions and tournament planning barring some sort of debacle, don't worry about that. PACE is harder. PACE is also going to be closer to you. PACE pull...

heterodyne

I noticed when we played you that you guys were not conferring very well. Especially without bouncebacks, localize your thoughts. You might jar or make some connection that gives you the answer.

heterodyne

P.S. Coach Prince, I don't know what you mean by a "captainless" Bloomington. Isn't Alston the team captain? He was there, and I believe he got all (or all except one)of the tossups for his team when we played them. P.S.S. And, yes, we were missing our #3 player, Will. While we don't foll...

heterodyne

Was anyone surprised by the results? Any predictions confirmed or changed? I was impressed by Stevenson. Everyone knew they were good, but going undefeated in the finals in that pool is quite a feat. I predicted Stevenson would win, and it did not surprise me that they went undefeated along the way...

heterodyne

Following the first major tournament of the season, I thought it would be a good time to revive this thread. (Stats are not posted yet but they should be soon.) Was anyone surprised by the results? Any predictions confirmed or changed? I was impressed by Stevenson. Everyone knew they were good, but ...

heterodyne

Could I possibly see the lit from the second to last final round? (The round with tossups on Hardy and Alan Greenspan).

heterodyne

My team appreciated the lack of trash. It really sucks to have trash decide a match. I felt that the religion was a bit too heavy on Christianity. It did not feel like even other abrahamic religions were getting much coverage. Was this intentional?

heterodyne

It should be noted that a large amount of Ursula K. LeGuin's work is not, in fact, children's or YA lit. Genre lit is not the same as kid lit, and while there are certainly arguments against including genre lit, those aren't really the same as those against kid lit. LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darknes...

heterodyne

Just wondering, although this is obviously a low priority, would it be possible to make the database searchable by the tournament the question came from?

heterodyne

Just gonna throw in my two cents, having seen some players at ACE. I don't really like ranking prepay, so I'm just gonna throw out some stuff I've seen. Stevenson shouldn't be underestimated. Jason is quite good, and they have at least one other good player here (whose name I have forgotten, sorry)....

heterodyne

bum bum bum

heterodyne

Who gives two flying ****s about Amarillo being the helium capital Didn't see this earlier, but I'd like to note that for some reason a member of my team (Sam D.) knew that and first-lined the question. But I agree, it's kind of (very) unrelated to the actual question, and he got that not because o...

heterodyne

One of the most influential philosophers of the nineteenth century is a 'hard' part? Listen, I'm talking about intentions, not actuality. There were plenty of bonuses that did not really have a hard part. I just am going off of the general idea that the most tangentially related part is normally in...

heterodyne

I am not sure how they linked Kierkegaard to Nietzsche, but ok. In that case, Kierkegaard could have been considered the hard part. Either way, I probably would have picked Ecce Homo or The Gay Science or even something about "god is dead" or Apollonian vs Dionysian but w/e.

heterodyne

The issue has rather little to do with the audience the set is aimed at-- regardless of how knowledgeable the teams are, the bonuses should not be of uniform difficulty. In terms of what you actually knew of that bonus, it's either going to be zero or thirty, because anyone who knows enough about N...

heterodyne

Freya's chariot, unless I'm mistaken, is actually pulled by leopards, and I was greatly dismayed when my answer wasn't accepted. They are cats, although I did not hear that bonus. Something else that was a bit frustrating was just how it was written to make you second-guess yourself. Prime example ...

heterodyne

Murakami wouldn't have been out of place at State, ditto Brubeck at Sectionals or State -- but Sister John has traditionally not been one to listen to writers' recommendations for "this question should go at this level." I wonder how many people learned the difference between "alphab...

heterodyne

I felt that a lot of these questions, while written in a manner that would be easy to someone with base knowledge of the subject material, fell outside of the canon. The question difficulty felt variable, but that can be blamed on the fact that the questions in general were short and some were not t...

heterodyne

Congrats to the winners and also to all the runners-up; I'd list them but I'm on mobile and lazy. Thanks to Springfield, the Masons, and all the volunteers (and anyone who I may be leaving out) for putting on what I and my teammates felt was a very smooth-running tournament. When will these sets be ...

heterodyne

A corollary to that question: will that rule be enforced at state?

heterodyne

A rules-related question: Was the "captain must give answer" rule in effect everywhere? It was only going on in some rooms here, but is that actually part of the current rules?

heterodyne

thyringe_supine wrote:
JHuh33 wrote: AGH we got victimized on that Crassus/Cassius thing.

Lost points on that one here too.

heterodyne

I've heard that in slow moderator desperate situations, vulching early can be necessary, but then again, my first timed experience (same as yours, I assume) will be at NAQT state. EDIT: also, there was http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=117&t=13351 <----- the clock theory thread, which...

heterodyne

(Not an expert here; correct if wrong)

If you could have a team where everyone was good at everything, it would be great. That, however, is not going to happen, so it is better to have everyone put their effort into one specific category.

heterodyne

I'll be playing this.

heterodyne

Is there any way that the people of this here fine forum would reccomend for studying Japanese lit and poetry? Our team is so, so weak on that, and I can't get quizbowldb to work. Are there any good anthologies to read?

heterodyne

A side idea kind of relevant to this would be creating a room in which users can submit their own questions (with their intended difficulty, subject, etc.) and others can playtest them and provide feedback. I endorse this idea. There is also the possibility of user accounts, although I've heard tha...

heterodyne

So far, this has been great. Is there any chance of getting a hold of a bonus database for use? My team has set up a room, and it works very well. The ability to establish custom distribs is great, and the UI is very smooth. EDIT: Perhaps include several common distribs, ACF, NAQT, the like? The qu...

heterodyne

So far, this has been great. Is there any chance of getting a hold of a bonus database for use? My team has set up a room, and it works very well. The ability to establish custom distribs is great, and the UI is very smooth. EDIT: Perhaps include several common distribs, ACF, NAQT, the like? The qu...

heterodyne

So far, this has been great. Is there any chance of getting a hold of a bonus database for use? My team has set up a room, and it works very well. The ability to establish custom distribs is great, and the UI is very smooth.

EDIT: Perhaps include several common distribs, ACF, NAQT, the like?

heterodyne

Fred wrote:Your power rate is comparable with other teams on high school sets with a comparable (a)ppb.

Huh. Must have been just mental. Well, thanks anyway.

heterodyne

Unfortunately, as far as I know we can't discuss specific questions, but Bloomington has not really been a very power-y team in the past, so for us to have our tournament's highest number of powers is a tad bit surprising.

heterodyne

Did all of these tournaments use the same sets? If so, did anyone else find the powermarking rather liberal? There were several questions that really seemed like power went late.

heterodyne

The Facebook Login is not working for me. The multiplayer is having some issues too. I cannot create a game.

heterodyne

Golran wrote:Were all teams from Illinois?

Dunbar, the Kentucky state champs, also the victors ,were there. Other than that, I think we were all from Illinois.

heterodyne

So I would not be surprised if Carbondale has the best frosh-soph in the state, seeing as Jame sis their highest scorer (I think) andd they almost beat our full varsity. (Typing on a Nook right now, sorry for the typos. Loyola... Oh god Venkus. I had to be in the same RMP prelim room with him at ACE...

heterodyne

If it meant finally getting the multiplayer up, then I'm down with a little outage.

The Quizbowl Resource Center

Search found 387 matches

Re: Recommendation for a national tournament.

Re: Improving bonus conversion

Re: Illinois '13-'14

Re: Illinois '13-'14

Re: Illinois '13-'14

Re: BISB Specific Question Discussion

Re: BISB General Discussion

Re: Distribution

Re: Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search

Re: Illinois '13-'14

Re: HELP US. 3 DAYS LEFT

Re: IHSA 2013

Re: IHSA 2013

Re: IHSA 2013

Re: IHSA 2013

Re: IHSA 2013

Re: IHSA 2013

Re: IHSA 2013

Re: Masonic

Re: Masonic

Re: Masonic

Re: Masonic

Re: Timed Rounds

Re: All very good at all or every specialist at each different

Re: OSPL 2012-2013 NOVICE -- Official Sign Up Post for January

Japanese Lit

Re: ProtoBowl

Re: ProtoBowl

Re: ProtoBowl

Re: ProtoBowl

Re: Kickoffs

Re: Kickoffs

Re: Kickoffs

Re: Quizbowl Central

Re: UIUC ABT presents Earlybird (10/06/12)

Re: Illinois '12-'13

Re: Quizbowl Database Down?