The Quizbowl Resource Center

Victor Prieto

There were a few chemistry questions whose earlier clues really led me in the wrong direction - d-orbitals, aromaticity, alkynes, and chirality. I'd like to see the text of those questions, please. I've already privately mentioned this, but I believe the diffusion tossup should have had a prompt for...

Victor Prieto

Rafael Krichevsky
Charles Hang
Jack Lewis
Chicago B

Alternate: Ryan Bilger

Victor Prieto

...just because people who are not enrolled in school are ineligible to play regular season tournaments does not mean that the TD has to verify that all contestants are actually enrolled in school. The burden of verifying eligibility is on the team. If the tournament director has reason to suspect ...

Victor Prieto

One thing that worked out pretty well for us this year is to hold a tiny intramural tournament that lasted only three rounds between four teams. It wasn't at all an official event, we were just trying to simulate the upcoming novice tournament at Carnegie Mellon in a very compressed timeframe. We pu...

Victor Prieto

There are 30 days left to apply for the program. If you're interested in participating, you should apply soon - we cannot accommodate many more mentees in the program, and your chances of being accepted do depend on the number of applicants previously accepted. Thank you!

Victor Prieto

Jack Lewis, Ryan Bilger, and Charles Hang
Texas A

Chicago B as alternate (if we can’t do teams as alternate, then we pick Chicago B as our team and Luke Minton as alternate)

Victor Prieto

For Jacob/Eric/Victor:

Rafael Krichevsky
Charles Hang
Itamar Naveh-Benjamin

Chicago B

alternate: Jack Lewis

Victor Prieto

DROP: Julia Tong
ADD: Itamar Naveh-Benjamin

Victor Prieto

I would only recommend for close matches, when there's less than a 200 point margin. I personally find it rude/insulting if your trying to stall against a comeback when you up 300 points and their are 3 toss-ups left. This is absolutely true. This isn't pro football, this is quizbowl, where players...

Victor Prieto

This isn't exactly fair to Jordan - he didn't misrepresent his thing as equivalent to a standard open tournament, he just said "an announcement is coming soon about an open tournament." You badgered him into revealing information before he wanted to, then condemned the effort as doomed to ...

Victor Prieto

PACE has decided to extend the deadline for applications from July 31st to October 31st. We've received many great applications, and we hope to see some more. There is a limit on how many writers we will be accepting into the program, so it is still in your best interest to apply earlier rather than...

Victor Prieto

Hello,

This is just a reminder that this program is ongoing and still accepting applications for the next several weeks. A handful applicants have been accepted and have begun their initial writing assignments.

Thank you!

Victor Prieto

Hi, popping in to say that Naveed is right about this, there are numerous old discussion groups dating back to 2014 that are cluttering things up a bit and it would be great if someone could archive them.

Victor Prieto

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis through July 31st. I put that date on the application, I'll also put it in my original post.

Victor Prieto

PACE is pleased to announce a mentorship program for writers. Any high school graduate is welcome to apply for the program. We are looking for applicants of all experience levels, including those who have never written a question before and those who have written many questions. The motivation behin...

Victor Prieto

Penn State will be hosting Nittany Lion Novice IV on October 6th, 2018, and Penn State Spring on March 23rd, 2019. We have not yet selected the sets to be used.

Victor Prieto

Congratulations to all the winners! 4th Scorer of the Year : Alston Boyd - Chicago Awarded to the best player who scored the lowest number of points on any team that competed at ICT or ACF Nationals. "Best" is defined as most valuable at securing wins for their team compared to the other p...

Victor Prieto

Today is the last day to submit votes. We've had an impressive number of responses - I'll post the results tomorrow.

Victor Prieto

https://imgur.com/gallery/nvpX3D0.png I’m aware we are the big evil cabal, but as far as I know there’s still only one Chicago institution. Oops. Google actually automatically fixes it, so I'm not going to mess with it and accidentally delete data. It doesn't matter which Chicago is selected. Votin...

Victor Prieto

Voting is now open . I waited for SMT to be clear first, questions submitted from SCT or ICT were not included in the ballot as they are still in use. I decided to dispense with the plan of excluding votes from the same region or affiliated institutions. It just got very complicated, although I wil...

Victor Prieto

What's the date range for considering best set/question of the year? Does it extend back to last summer, or only since September? Sorry I never responded to this - I was counting only sets since September. Nominations will close tonight, ballots for voting will be posted sometime tomorrow. Only one...

Victor Prieto

Nominations are still open for a few more days. Pretty healthy number of nominations for most awards, but only two for newcomer of the year and one for best wrong answer of the year. In addition, I messed up the form for question of the year and wrong answer of the year, and didn't include a field f...

Victor Prieto

Nominations are now live . Nominations will be open until May 7th. This list of awards is reproduced below. A full description of each award can be found in the form, after clicking through to that award. 4th Scorer of the Year Best Newcomer of the Year Best Set of the Year Best Wrong Answer of the...

Victor Prieto

Personally, I think that amending the region requirement to just excluding votes from people at one's current institution would be a good compromise. This still requires a bunch of legwork on my end, but it's a reasonable compromise (I hope nominees are from less than 20 institutions, because havin...

Victor Prieto

A few people have submitted suggestions for awards so far, but not very many. At the very least, there's some submissions that I'd like to highlight as inspiration for others, including some very goofy ones that I love. If you have any ideas (inspired by below), I'd encourage you to submit them here...

Victor Prieto

An Economic Ignoramus wrote:Do open tournaments competed in as a high schooler count as "collegiate" for these purposes?

I've adjusted the definition to make it more clear.

Victor Prieto

Voting is now live for this year's awards. ___________ Based on the suggestion of Justin Hawkins from the players poll thread (and with his permission), I've decided to organize a quizbowl version of the Players Choice Awards. These awards are not intended to distract from the player poll, but inst...

Victor Prieto

If you are seeking an editor, you shouldn't have posted your announcement. If you aren't, then you are presumably capable of editing the category yourselves, somehow. Which would you say is the case? I think it's okay to post an announcement with an editing team short one or two editors, with an op...

Victor Prieto

I would, generally, prefer for announced sets to have a designated literature editor. This is a good opportunity to find and initiate a new literature editor, or even more than one! Consider talking to people at schools which will host the set, and would have people that would be staffing and autom...

Victor Prieto

I think a regular tournament in early December is a good idea Having a regular set around April/May would allow the UK circuit (and others too, for that matter) to run Deep Bench properly. Canada would also greatly appreciate the March Undergraduate Tournament remaining in March, because our exams ...

Victor Prieto

You are all currently posting in a sub-forum in which threads were set up to accomplish every single one of these tasks! There is a thread that includes what is supposed to be the schedule for the year. There is a thread in which people discuss which necessary tournament slots/functions are already...

Victor Prieto

As far as I know, the only way to become a member of ACF is to be an editor for one of the three tournaments. The recruitment of editors for Regionals and Nationals has been 100% opaque to me for years. The Fall editor application has been around for a couple years now, but there's no information ab...

Victor Prieto

It would necessitate rewriting a bunch of clues and the answerline, but "this variable" or "these reaction conditions" might work better.

Victor Prieto

Could the tossup on "Pavia" be posted? It was negged in almost every room it was read. I don't know much about the topic, but I'd be interested in hearing from people who do. I collected this info for the 17 rooms at NYU, UMN, and UMD: Pavia - 16 egocentrism - 15 Joachim Murat - 12 Alawit...

Victor Prieto

2. The first order rate constant for reactions involving these species is called the j-value. Addition of these species can be modeled by the bicycle-pedal and hula-twist mechanisms. Either an alkene and enol or substituted cyclobutanol can be formed after the addition of these species causes the r...

Victor Prieto

ANSWER: swing jazz [prompt on big band jazz] Was that prompt there during the tournament? I buzzed in with "big band" and was negged. ANSWER: SDS PAGES-D-S page [or SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; prompt on PAGE or polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis] (First clue is Laemmli’s origi...

Victor Prieto

There are several tossups I'd like to see:

swing (packet 1, tossup 4)
thin films (3, 1)
ion trapping (4, 6)
photons (8, 2)
fathers/priests (8, 20)
SDS PAGE (11, 2)

Victor Prieto

You folks weren't around when an identifying signature wasn't required, but suffice it to say, it's much easier to be "toxic" when you're anonymous. If making people consider their words more carefully is the cost of keeping things more civil, I think it's a fair trade-off. That said, it'...

Victor Prieto

csheep wrote:Are there any plans to use Ophirstats for CMST?

According to Ophir, it does not look like the system used for ACF Regionals will be implemented elsewhere.

Victor Prieto

I agree with just about everything in John's post, but I don't know to what extent the "bracket rhythm" can be planned out by a TD. At ACF Regionals, I made sure there are no matches in the first round between teams even remotely close in skill level (sorry again Case Western and Princeton...

Victor Prieto

What is this bizarre infatuation with the educational power of lead-ins? Like, at regular collegiate difficulty, there is plenty of new, interesting information in middle clues and bonuses. Clearly, the middle clues are full of new information because most of the field isn't buzzing on them! From a ...

Victor Prieto

LetterOne will have no influence on the content of NAQT questions. If representatives from LetterOne attend NAQT events, they will hear the questions at the same time as the players do. We have instructed our writers and editors that this sponsorship deal should not affect their work, and we want t...

Victor Prieto

Victor Prieto wrote:I made a spreadsheet

This has been updated with SCT stats.

Victor Prieto

Hey Ya!

Victor Prieto

Depending on what Victor used to define "regularly": No team had 50% of their buzzes before the 50% or 60% mark. 4 teams had 25% of their buzzes before the 50% mark. 34 teams had 25% if the buzzes before the 60% mark. 55 teams had 10% of their buzzes before the 50% mark. 89 teams had 10% ...

Victor Prieto

Disclaimer: I'm totally biased because an NYC mirror would be very convenient for me and I would probably attend if at NYU, maybe not if it's at Yale, definitely not if it's even further north. Normally, tournaments should avoid feeding off each other's regions, but for most teams in New England, ha...

Victor Prieto

Paper Planes
Hey Ya!

Victor Prieto

I swear to god, "that could screw up the schedule" was pretty much the first thing that entered my mind. As a TD who obsessively planned a mirror, this also occurred to me the moment I saw it. Before the advanced statistics appear, I'll say that I think most tossup answerlines were just f...

Victor Prieto

I made a spreadsheet compiling all stats from Penn Bowl and ACF Regionals, excepting Connecticut and the UK mirrors. I rushed it and there are probably numerous errors, and I didn't make a very deep attempt to get all the rosters right (and gave up partway through). I set the spreadsheet to comment-...

Victor Prieto

There was a repeat on the bonus part of “gardens,” specifically Gethsemane. The lead-in for equilibrium constant basically said “this quantity and chemical shift can be measured using 15N-1H heteronuclear single quantum coherence spectroscopy.” That statement doesn't really help point at equilibrium...

Search found 421 matches