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I actually wasn't mocking your point for its simplicity, Matt (more the fact that you kept repeating a single aspect of it that clearly turns on whether people have different understandings of the scope conditions - though to be fair, at that point you were talking with Marshall and, well, you know)...

Also, it occurs to me that the big counter-argument to my suggestion is that you'd get into situations were the same basic protest X is decided one way by editor Y and another by editor Z. This could surely raise some eyebrows. But, I'd argue that the current system is already set up that way - you'...

I did protest the Plumbers question, but did so because I was under the impression there was a lot more connection between the groups than there actually seems to have been. To be fair, there's certainly a good reason to have that confusion - I've found several sources that describe Operation Gemsto...

If the doubles format holds, I'm playing with Jordan Brownstein.

Of course I will play this John Lawrence tournament.

I know I'm late to the party here, but I'd like to argue for pushing it to having everyone write a full 20/0 packet (for doubles, that's easy!), and having an ideal target be combining 2 packets into one. I think this will give us more variety, more total questions, and allow greater schedule flexib...

I am intrigued at the attempts to wrest 15/15 out of Ottoman history and look forward to your tossup on the Lion of Yannina and common link on drowning people in sacks.

I do wish that U of C had communicated with the Purdue organizers earlier, via email--instead of making a post 4.5 days before the tournament was set to start--so that they could have made an informed decision about whether or not to hold the tournament. Since it seems rather unlikely people all ma...

Chicago is coming to this tournament with at least two teams. Michigan should also come to this tournament, considering they wrote a packet.

EDIT: But it would be ideal if, contra Penn Bowl, more than two people were assembled to staff it.

I missed this thread, so apologies if it's died an appropriately horrific death in IRC in the last two weeks. But seriously, what a waste of everyone's effort to no gain and only potential drawback. Seriously, who is this rule targeting? Like literally who? The last person I know who deliberately sc...

Someone made a comment that (if I heard correctly) the set was simply randomly sorted rather than having tiebreakers placed deliberately, so sometimes a round would not have a physics tossup (since it would be like tossup 21, and the replacement science would be in the main 20). So, heads up just in...

For people who wrote for Tricon: I understand it's fun to include some zany stuff, and that this tournament is free, but you're still creating something other human beings are going to be subjected to. This can be a whole lot of fun - and indeed some tossups were - but more often it was overwhelmed ...

Eh, some of the other religion questions certainly were not super (Bhakti was reportedly four lines long and sounded pretty not-good when playing). But I think Bollinger is making the larger point that a reasonable portion of the set had a bit of a rushed feeling; he's right that bonuses varied WIDE...

I agree with most things in Matt's posts (in the posts by both Matts, actually). While I don't think the people who showed up late to things are in fact the same people who were most disruptive in the unacceptable way Matt outlines, that behavior was really aggravating. I mean, sure, it's Texas HS B...

Can someone post a field update for all days/links to appropriate spreadsheets?

I thought this tournament was very good, and infinitely more enjoyable than last year (though part of that probably has to do with not having to worry about bonus difficulty). In particular, the presence of actual historians and things you read in history class, as Matt brought up, was great. In fac...

I'm looking for a team for Sunday.

Doug Graebner: Liveblog? I need to read this!
Max Schindler: Doug. You're here!

Max Schindler: I had [an HSAPQ check], but I spent it all on hookers and blow.
Eric Mukherjee: Dude, that kind of money will buy you like, 30 minutes.
Max Schindler: That's all I need.

John Lawrence: In my esteemed culinary opinion, that might be on fire.

This was actually a (very poorly explained) post about having Maryland area high school practices at Maryland, which several players expressed a desire to do after their underclassmen found they just weren't getting all that much out of Chicago Open packets. I've unlocked the thread, but it should b...

Cross-posting an announcement from the Misc. boards, since those aren sometimes not checked by college/open people: Maryland, as usual, is hosting open practices for anyone in the DC area this summer. Practices will be Tuesday and Thursday, 5:00 - 8:00 PM, on the first floor of Jimenez Hall at UMD. ...

I will note that many of the edits and suggestions that I made were subsequently deleted or ignored. If I'm correct about the first question you're referring to, when it was first read to me I thought it was kind of a cheesy answerline, but one that was actually an important, influential trend in t...

Firstly, why in the hell are we redacting material from this tournament? Are you people really planning to foist this abomination on future unsuspecting assholes? Come on. The question Ike was discussing was almost certainly on Japanese gay fanfic porn, or however you say that in IWishIWereJapanese....

Yeah, this is a side tournament; I and presumably many other people will not be a part of this if it in any way detracts from the ability to run NSC as efficiently as possible. I will say that ordering food Sunday night to save time makes a whole lot of sense though. And second Matt's call for the c...

Charles Tian, I do not know how to contact you. Nevertheless, I would like to play with you. Please reply if you see this. I believe the traditional method is to bury a plate of jerk chicken at a crossroads at the stroke of midnight, then return a week later. Eh, this actually didn't work for me. E...

Greetings, Steven Hines, you colossal pile of hippopotamus shit, I don't really care that you cheated at this fake online skype tournament .* Yeah, I know, cheating is abhorrent, you're moral bankruptcy approaches Hannah Kirsch levels, etc. etc. I mean, sure, you did take the most beautiful part of ...

I'm going to UChicago for an IR Master's program. I will be entering the John Lawrence Reeducation Camp for Troubled Youngsters.

So are there 9 teams in Division I right now? Why wouldn't Virginia Tech instead use the house team in that division, to avoid byes? This year byes seem particularly problematic, since so few teams will qualify for at-large bids and minimizing variability across sites is paramount. Not to mention by...

Where Egypt "belongs" in the distribution is an interesting question. Classical Egypt had a tendency of being otherized/orientalized in a way that downplays the continuity it forms with other nearby classical culture areas (most notably Greece). I almost don't want to legitimize this post...

I thought this was a pretty solid tournament, though definitely a touch too hard for regular difficulty. If that's the worst thing you can say about a team of editors doing their first unsupervised job, they've done well. From what I could see, Brian McPeak, Chris Manners, Isaac Hirsch, Jordan Brown...

I don't really know if the rules really logically imply we should prompt for answers on tossups (as it seems some people are suggesting), but I certainly don't think there's a clear reason not to. Most of the arguments in favor of changing that rule seem to stem from a personal preference stanpoint,...

Stats are available at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1658/stats/combined_stats/ . Thanks to the (few) teams who made it out for this event. I was pretty disappointed not to see a number of area teams - GW, Mason, Penn, Penn State, Princeton, etc. etc. - though I gather at least Mason is p...

minusfive wrote:According to my reading of the children's drawing, we now play ourselves, with gumballs.

Dude no, it's a gobstopper! How in the world can you not know your own history better than Tim Hortons-less Americans? Someone call the Masked Canadian History Bandit.

he's dragging rule reforms we can use into some absurd vendetta against Matt/ACF/whoever. That is false. It never happened. No, I'm saying this is the RESULT of what you're doing. You are making a series of crappy rules arguments in favor of the protest, in the midst of what seems more centrally to...

Before yesterday I only knew the basic facts of the protest (somebody said Providence, and was negged). Since I think we need rules that in a vacuum would trigger an anti-prompt in this situation, I actually came into this thread on Marshall's side, so to speak. I have since been entirely disabused ...

Since it currently says that the 2015 ICT will be confined to Saturday, does that mean that NAQT is also not contemplating the expanded schedule for that year as well?

Alternatively, CO-style midnight games!

The Maryland Academic Quiz Team will be hosting a mirror of the Collegiate Novice tournament on Saturday, September 28, 2013. This tournament is specifically geared for players new to quizbowl, or new to collegiate quizbowl. Please note the key differences in procedure/fee structure/elligibility out...

No time for full reaction post now, so will just yell at Libo! This was a problem not only in a couple religion tossups but also in history; the tossup on comfort women required that exact term, but the tossup on atomic bomb survivors didn't require Hibakusha. "Comfort women" is the term t...

Although I've recently discovered Maryland wasn't officially registered for this event, I'd expressed our intention to play to Dave and had been very much looking forward to playing. I'm not, for the moment at least, going to get into the cancellation thing. Re: Rescheduling - here are the options I...

that was mentioned because this laziness in statskeeping (Gary had 30+ minutes to put in 3 scoresheets; these mistakes should not happen at that pace) is symptomatic of Maryland's entire method of running tournaments. A single transposed statline is symptomatic of Maryland's entire method of runnin...

For a tournament whose subtitle called out the rest of the circuit for its poor use of language, this tournament sure had a lot of titulars, sentences without pronouns (or worse, with pronouns referring to things that are not the answer), unrelated clues needlessly strung together with "and,&q...

If it's so tremendously important, you can always hold your tryout the same weekend as the tournament. Because that's always a viable option. Oh, boo hoo! I mean, I do get where Fred's coming from and all, but it's not like ACF Regionals (or like, the other 3-5 sets one could use for this purpose e...

I liked playing this year's Regionals - it was a solid tournament full of solid questions on a range of asked and not-so-asked things - and the people who note that it's the hardest Regionals since 2007 are obviously correct. It seems like the regular difficulty "umbrella" or "bell c...

This set seemed kind of hastily edited, resulting in a lot of missing words (and questions!), packets with varying fonts and formats, and the aforementioned unevenness of the bonuses. I enjoyed many questions in this set, but, for example, when Ike asked me what my favorite tossup of the day was, I...

I felt like this set overestimated the knowledge that the field had. History in particular seemed to go into "Are you an expert in this time period/field of history? No? Too bad." way too often in the bonuses. I agree with the first sentence to a slight degree, though I don't think in the...

Oh, and last but definitely not least: I am so, so happy to give you feedback on your stuff for this set. Seriously, I really like doing this and believe in it as a quizbowl practice. So email me, tell me what you wrote (preferably include the questions in line, for ease of response), and I will tel...

I'd like to thank everyone who came out and joined us for ACF Regionals. I'll respond to some of the posts in a moment, but first will give a tournament wrap-up/share my impressions. Thanks: First off, thanks to John Lawrence, Rob Carson, and Cody Voight, who all worked very hard on this project. I ...

There is no need whatsoever to make this discussion private; Rob (or any other admin), please go ahead and open it up. My actual post about the set can be found in the already-extant discussion thread. Re: NASAT tryout hemming/hawing - there are tons of sets out there that you can use for a tryout. ...

Hey, they should be there - I sent you a confirmation text, but please call me ASAP at 240 672 1140 if you still don't have them.

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