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- Sun Sep 28, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PATHOGEN at Purdue, December 6
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6117
Re: PATHOGEN at Purdue, December 6
On 12/6, if you switch it to be a high school tournament, you'll run into direct competition with the Brownsburg High School tournament run on Chip questions. Having the courage to offer a superior alternative to a Chip tournament seems like something Stan could do to dramatically win the esteem of...
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 8:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PATHOGEN at Purdue, December 6
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6117
Re: PATHOGEN at Purdue, December 6
This is not a good debut for you here. Please consult the board rules, and also consult the evolution of quizbowl over the last 12 years. I would suggest the DEES tournament (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16257), which is being run around that time. It already has sites at...
- Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:58 pm
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Policy change/clarification on set discussion embargos
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12039
Policy change/clarification on set discussion embargos
The board staff has reached the following policy conclusions about the discussion of question sets here on the forums: Firstly: The board will assume that all sets are clear for public discussion once their last announced date of use has passed. Discussion includes mentioning specific question and a...
- Sat Sep 20, 2014 11:34 pm
- Forum: Rules and global announcements
- Topic: Requesting private forum creation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 31374
Re: Requesting private forum creation
When you post in your private discussion forum, please use thread titles that contain the name and year of the tournament, such as: "Wyoming Quizbowl Invitational 2014- Tossup difficulty discussion" "Wyoming Quizbowl Invitational 2014- Thoughts on the history questions" and not: ...
- Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:57 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: The Big Vision: [6] Growing staff, teams, coaches, & writers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14884
Re: The Big Vision: [6] Growing staff, teams, coaches, & wri
I don't know what good it does to argue against it here -- the guy's never gonna see it, nor are the people he's talking to (who probably don't consider KB and quizbowl to be in conflict anyhow). We know that people with no real arguments will appeal to fluffy nonsense like "my bad format is mo...
- Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Big Vision: [6] Growing staff, teams, coaches, & writers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7352
Re: The Big Vision: [6] Growing staff, teams, coaches, & wri
I don't know what good it does to argue against it here -- the guy's never gonna see it, nor are the people he's talking to (who probably don't consider KB and quizbowl to be in conflict anyhow). We know that people with no real arguments will appeal to fluffy nonsense like "my bad format is mo...
- Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:48 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: TDB help thread
- Replies: 79
- Views: 94354
Re: TDB help thread
I'm still looking for people willing to put in a small bit of work to keep the DB up to date. This is a really good tool for coaches who want to quickly find things like "tournaments within 100 miles of my school" as well as for anyone scheduling an event -- for example, for a college host...
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 High School Pre-Season Poll
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13235
Re: 2014-15 High School Pre-Season Poll
The purpose of the polls at both the college and high school level is: Primarily, to give teams something they can boast about when trying to recruit, compete for resources, etc. Saying that you were ranked in the top 25 nationally by a poll does, oftentimes, mean something to a school administrator...
- Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:32 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: The Big Vision: [3] Rooting out the "Eh, who cares" attitude
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20403
Re: The Big Vision: [3] Rooting out the "Eh, who cares" atti
The HSAPQ regionals idea is a good idea in theory and I look forward to seeing how it grows this year and in the future. But it needs to keep growing and doing things to try to acquire more of this kind of legitimacy--if the tournaments have a tiny handful of teams, slow stats-posting, and lack som...
- Sun Aug 31, 2014 10:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Big Vision: [3] Rooting out the "Eh, who cares" attitude
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9742
Re: The Big Vision: [3] Rooting out the "Eh, who cares" atti
The HSAPQ regionals idea is a good idea in theory and I look forward to seeing how it grows this year and in the future. But it needs to keep growing and doing things to try to acquire more of this kind of legitimacy--if the tournaments have a tiny handful of teams, slow stats-posting, and lack som...
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 7:35 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: TDB help thread
- Replies: 79
- Views: 94354
Re: TDB help thread
As a reminder, it can be very useful for you to go through and make sure all high school and middle school events in your state are properly listed on the DB. This is the best way to have a single searchable list by factors like distance that can aid in avoiding scheduling conflicts, and it is what ...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 6:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 27,000 HSAPQ answer lines
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13039
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This year's sets missing from archive
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13173
Re: This year's sets missing from archive
This is the list of stuff that's being gradually uploaded to the archive (it includes tournaments that are already available there). If you have a tournament not listed here, please send it to me or directly upload it to the DB on your own. To avoid issues, questions that are still being sold by var...
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 11:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moving up the dates of low-difficulty tournaments in 2015
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7312
Re: Moving up the dates of low-difficulty tournaments in 201
I think this issue has been brewing for at least as long as the current system of widely mirrored, collaboratively edited tournaments has been in place (since 2007 or so). Prior to that, you had a lot more fragmented local events all over the calendar. We've seen a lot less redundant work and an inc...
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 11:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moving up the dates of low-difficulty tournaments in 2015
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7312
Re: Moving up the dates of low-difficulty tournaments in 201
Yeah, what we have right now is everyone doing things way too late because of California and two schools in Chicago rather than letting those places figure out their situations. What's the problem with this? What's wrong with (for example) running Novice in late-September, 1-2 regionals-level events...
- Tue Aug 19, 2014 7:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Moving up the dates of low-difficulty tournaments in 2015
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7312
Moving up the dates of low-difficulty tournaments in 2015
So, it's too late to do anything about this in the current year, but something that's periodically come up is that the fall novice event and ACF Fall run too late in the calendar to effectively serve as an "introduction" to quizbowl. Part of the reason is just inertia -- Fall debuted as a ...
- Fri Aug 08, 2014 5:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
Packets were sent out to mirror hosts earlier today. Let me know if you did not get them.
- Fri Aug 08, 2014 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 58
- Views: 23449
Re: Thanks and general discussion
But realize that editors have responsibilities beyond ensuring that your cool questions are used. Complaining about your questions getting cut is essentially complaining that the editors edited. I told the other CO editors that it was entirely up to them whether they used submitted questions, and I...
- Wed Aug 06, 2014 2:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014 discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5626
Re: VCU Open 2014 discussion
I can't speak to why people were making up their own protest procedures, but when the substance of that protest finally made it to me, I did some research and found that the clue was simply wrong, and the rules say to play a replacement question when that happens. An outright incorrect clue is not t...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
-That's just alarmist and I suspect mainly a reaction to how annoying it was to deal with complaints Sunday (and was it ever). Running 5 things in a weekend went badly and now we're only going to run 1.5 ever again? I think everyone would agree this is an overreaction, especially when the schedulin...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
Once it was clear that the DISCO set was not unplayably easy, the playoffs went ahead. That's what "see what we're going to do" referred to -- I was hedging in case it turned out that it really was HSNCT level and people were just having constant buzzer races. This did not end up being the...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014 discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5626
Re: VCU Open 2014 discussion
I mean, you're welcome to have your opinions on the set, but to be clear, the "planning how we were going to finish the tournament" consisted of writing 10 questions that were still open in the set for various reasons. As I mentioned in the other post, this didn't actually delay anything. ...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 5:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
Just to defend our actions, to my knowledge, everyone in the top bracket had agreed to end the tournament after one round robin following lunch. Perhaps signals got crossed there, but that was what I thought was agreed upon so that Imaginary Landscape could be run at a sane hour. In any case, I apo...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014 discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5626
Re: VCU Open 2014 discussion
Can someone email copies of the set already? I've asked like 3 times now. This is the first I've heard of it, and I'm the only person who has the full set. I've sent you a copy. As a general practice, though, people should not expect editors or TDs to send out sets that are still being mirrored; th...
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014 discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5626
VCU Open 2014 discussion
Discussion of the main tournament. Here is who wrote things. Sinan Ulusoy- 92 questions, all science Dan Puma- 62 questions, history and religion Jordan Brownstein- 53 questions, literature and history Shan Kothari- 114 questions, most of the arts and philosophy plus a few in other topics Mike Bentl...
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tricon 2.5 discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4672
Tricon 2.5 discussion
Discuss Tricon 2.5 here.
Cody is banned from writing for the next version of this tournament.
Cody is banned from writing for the next version of this tournament.
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2499
Imaginary Landscape discussion
Imaginary Landscape discussion
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Texas Camp/ DISCO discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8693
Texas Camp/ DISCO discussion
Discuss DISCO aka the Texas Quizbowl Camp tournament here. If you played VCU Open at Minnesota in August, you are not playing this set until September, so close this thread now!
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DUST discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2659
DUST discussion
Discuss the DUST trash tournament here.
- Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
For simplicity's sake, I've created a single group for discussion of VCU Open, the Texas Camp tournament, Imaginary Landscape, Tricon, and DUST. As far as I know these tournaments are being run together everywhere. Don't join the group until your opportunity to play ALL of them has passed (or you ar...
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
The Mukherjee/Jackson team won the Sunday tournament: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... _combined/
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 11:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17799
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
The Bollinger/Mukherjee team won by going 10-2 for the day while all other teams had at least 4 losses. Playoff stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /playoffs/
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 5:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
Updates: *The VCU Open field should be closed at 7 teams above with the possibility of an 8th, though if only 1-2 free agents show up I'll probably slot them onto existing teams if they don't want to play by themselves. *I've received only 1 more registration for the Texas tournament on Sunday, so i...
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17799
Re: Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
Please send your packets to Andrew Feist at [email protected] before Saturday afternoon.
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 11:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
Both days will be normal quizbowl timeframe -- starting by 9, taking a lunch break, then completing the schedule when we return without any further stoppages. To be clear: Registration will run from 8 to 8:30 for both events, with the goal of starting round 1 as soon after 8:30 as possible. Show up...
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The high school poll in 2014-2015
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7249
The high school poll in 2014-2015
George Berry has retired from operating the poll. I am looking for a volunteer to take over coordinating this. Given the growth in high school quizbowl over the past several years, it may be an opportune time to reintroduce a fixed panel of voters rather than rely on open balloting; I will discuss t...
- Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
The final order of events is as follows. I will get the fields updated shortly: Saturday: VCU Open Imaginary Landscape Tricon Sunday: Texas Camp tournament DUST Trash Please continue forming teams for VCUO and Texas Camp and letting me know what they are. Tricon is also a team event but it is gueril...
- Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16189
Re: CO History Discussion
As a person who has actually written and edited several dozen history tournaments, I thought this set was very good and reflected the realities of what you need to do to fill out this subject without getting repetitive or abstruse, and I welcome future flavorful questions.
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 65649
Re: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
The 2015 edition of this tournament will be held on June 13 & 14. It is likely that it will once again be in Columbus. A full announcement is forthcoming.
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 5:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT Discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 22250
Re: 2014 NASAT Discussion
In my opinion, quizbowl never has been and cannot ever be about the classes people take, at any difficulty level. It's about certain askable liberal arts topics, and a good writer has an internal gauge of what's appropriate for a given difficulty level. Appealing to what is or isn't on a syllabus ca...
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 2:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT Discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 22250
Re: 2014 NASAT Discussion
I think there's an erroneous premise here about what NASAT is -- the "intended audience" is "people playing at the level of an ACF Regionals type set." It's a tournament played by high schoolers, but not a "high school tournament" in the way most high school sets are. I...
- Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: North Carolina 2014-2015
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20739
Re: North Carolina 2014-2015
Given that January 31 is already claimed, we will target February 7 for Regionals and February 28 for States as the dates for the NCATA-HSAPQ Quizbowl Championship, pending discussion with NCATA and potential hosts.
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
A word to those planning travel: We are seriously considering running two full tournaments and three side tournaments within the weekend. That's a great value for your quizbowl travel dollars, but it requires that people be realistic about the end time on Sunday -- don't expect to leave at 2 PM, and...
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This year's sets missing from archive
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13173
Re: This year's sets missing from archive
I passed it around to people who asked but held off posting for the mirror -- it's included in my current batch of stuff-to-upload.Wasabi wrote:2014 College History Bowl?
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 1:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This year's sets missing from archive
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13173
This year's sets missing from archive
If you are the responsible editor for one of these sets and it's clear for public distribution, please post it to the HSQB DB or send it to me. If there's a specific reason it hasn't been released yet, I'd appreciate you posting here about it, so I know that someone is paying attention and can follo...
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 12:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17799
Re: Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
However, I raise very strong objections to the question in which people are depicting one of my friends as being murdered gruesomely, for obvious reasons. Brutal murder is not funny, unless you are a sick weirdo who fantasizes about people you don't like getting disembowled. Object as you may to th...
- Fri Jun 27, 2014 11:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33491
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
The first post has been updated with the full announcement of this tournament & a list of side events.
- Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17799
Triacontakaipentagon 2.5: August 2014
This is a revised sequel to the first Triacontakaipentagon. This will be a totally guerilla (that is, 100% unedited, free of charge, and whatever "casual" may mean) tournament. This tournament will require you to write a 35-tossup, no-bonus packet, containing 1 question representing each o...