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- Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147182
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
The probability (again assuming that ICT 2011 is a regular difficulty tournament,) of doing that well at both of those tournaments is simply calculated by multiplying those probabilities, which amounts to about 1/500,000. Doesn't this assume that the probabilities are independent? Is that a good as...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147182
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Elsewhere Ike has stated his interest in informing NAQT and ACF of the details of his investigation I would hope there be a formal recommendation on this from perhaps the tournament directors or ACF or...somebody I don't believe this will actually happen, but I would be strongly opposed if ACF make...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147182
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I would hope there be a formal recommendation on this from perhaps the tournament directors or ACF or...somebody, just to get the recommendation formalized and recorded (and to be in place for future incidents). With regard to this recommendation, it should be pointed out that Ike and his associate...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147182
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
My views on this subject accord most closely with Andrew's and Jonathen's, of the views expressed in this thread. I think it is reasonable to describe Michael Zhuang's position as being that cheating is a bad thing done by bad people, and any attempt to differentiate between forms of cheating or int...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147182
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
- I also appreciate that at no point did I see anyone ever make any arguments from reputation i.e. "so-and-so could not possibly have cheated because they have played QB a long time." That's a very democratic perspective, I think, and I wanted to laud the community for that. I disagree. I...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147182
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
One of the parties involved is suspected of having a long history of cheating on Internet packets, and it’s an “open secret” they’re a Googler for Internet packets. Suspected by whom? I have no idea what this is in reference to, despite being an editor of this set and being privy to whatever commun...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1095
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
I voted for Self-Existing (which speaks for itself as the most popular option), Magnetic (in honor of Insane Clown Posse), and Spectral (in honor of ghosts).
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 7:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2020)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13288
Where are you going to college next year? (2020)
If you know that you'll be going to college next year and plan on playing quizbowl, post where you're headed in this thread. As always, only post in this thread if you've decided on a school; don't post in this thread to say that you're thinking about some schools but don't know for sure yet, althou...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54225
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
It doesn't seem like a strawman to me to suggest that one vision being articulated here by a lot of the anti-grad student crowd is making every single tournament above EFT a bunch easier, kicking all the grad students out, and hoping that a bunch of stronger high school players sign on and can repl...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54225
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Speaking as someone who began playing in college, I would personally have found a significantly easier Regionals-Nationals that let good high school players dominate (with little work required to scale up) massively demoralizing, and would likely have stopped playing after freshman year. Starting q...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54225
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Many of the best players in the middle of my career (besides me, obviously), were late UGs and early grad students (Matt Jackson, Matt Bollinger, Jordan Brownstein, Jacob Reed, Will Alston, Auroni Gupta at the time). Your proposed UG championship would also be dominated by a few of these figures, a...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54225
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
I basically disagree with this post. I'm sure other people will chime in as to why, but I'll just speak as someone who didn't play in high school at all but did play college nats to note that this is an incredibly bold claim, particularly coming from someone who has never played a college nationals:...
- Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12576
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
I've been alerted to the fact that I didn't understand Ophir's scale; this set is and has been intended to be regular-difficulty, i.e. Regionals. Sorry for any confusion. Hasn't Regionals always run harder than regular difficulty? There are always more challenging answer lines / deeper hard parts a...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 3:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8063
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
History majors learn much more philosophy than chemistry, so analogizing philosophy and chemistry is fallacious, particularly when Will listed several reasons why qb philosophy should be more heterodox than qb science. For whatever it's worth, I have a history degree from a normal American state un...
- Sun Dec 22, 2019 1:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2323482
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 9:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2323482
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2323482
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing The people love Kanye West, but I'm going to use this space to plug Sky Ferreira's album. 2013 was a year when I was really taken by a lot of new synthpop (Chvrches, Tegan and Sara, The Knife, etc.), but the album from ...
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:49 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Archving the old Yahoo! group
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13651
Re: Archving the old Yahoo! group
I missed this thread earlier, but I actually have the entire Yahoo group (at least through December 7, 2008) saved on my hard drive, as well as archives of the old mailing list. I'll look into how I can disseminate this.
- Fri Dec 13, 2019 1:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2323482
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me I have told this story in various forms to a lot of people, but there's a church-themed bar in Atlanta that I like about as much as it's possible for me to like such an obviously sacrilegious place. On Wednesday nights they have karaoke wi...
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:35 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2323482
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
This is the hardest quadrant. There are four songs out of these sixteen on albums that I love enough that I have downloaded and regularly listen to the whole album, which is more than the other three quadrants put together. #1 Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. #16 IDLES - Danny Nedelko Remember...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2323482
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness Daft Punk is generally not really my thing, but out of the three Pharrell songs that were inescapable in 2013, this was the one that was actually good. Lucy Dacus is the best member of boyg...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7468
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
I think that one could reasonably prompt on South Africa but not accept outright. I agree that Cape Colony is too hard an answerline for this level. I don't think that there's a way to make this question playable at this difficulty without "this modern-day country" being the pronoun, altho...
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7468
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
I had serious misgivings about the South Africa tossup when I read Packet 12 at the Auburn site, and looking back at the set I find that those concerns were well-founded. It is not possible to substitute "this colony" for "this modern-day country" in the context of South Africa, ...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 5:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7468
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
The Flight 93 question was an okay idea poorly executed. Using "this vehicle" (rather than say "this specific vehicle" or something like it) clouded what the question was looking for, and it was frustrating to watch someone buzz on "Let's Roll" and not know you're look...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Schurniverse: It's a Schur Thing (Nationals Season 2022)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9725
Re: Schurniverse: It's a Schur Thing (Early Summer 2020)
Yeah, I don't think I can play this without a dedicated Murray Chass section of the distribution.
- Sun Oct 06, 2019 8:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7468
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
A couple errors I noticed: The first clue of Tossup 20 in Packet 5, on Polish-Americans, refers to Roman Hruska as a Nebraska senator of this ethnicity. Hruska is a Czech name, and while it may be that Hruska had Polish ancestry, I find a number of sources online that refer to him as Czech, which me...
- Sun Oct 06, 2019 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3534
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
The egregious examples have already been pointed out (the 69 bonus attracted a lot of comment at my site, none of it positive), but more generally there were too many questions in this set that strained to be funny. Examples of this include the bonus in Packet 2 on "shitty modern art" and ...
- Sun Sep 08, 2019 7:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Daylight time is different from standard time
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5688
Daylight time is different from standard time
I'm putting this thread on this board because it's germane to every post on this board, but if there's a better place for it then please move it, mods. Currently by fiat of our respective governments we are in daylight time, and we will be until November. This means that every post that announces ti...
- Sun Sep 08, 2019 1:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17420
Re: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
Why do teams playing all other mirrors of ACF Fall have to pay $20 more than teams playing the Los Angeles mirror? The Southern California circuit petitioned us for a discount, providing an explanation of why their circuit had particular needs that other circuits did not. What is the process for su...
- Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17420
Re: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
Why do teams playing all other mirrors of ACF Fall have to pay $20 more than teams playing the Los Angeles mirror?
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Changes to ACF Hosting Guidelines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6524
Re: Changes to ACF Hosting Guidelines
The ACF Fall announcement has been posted and ACF's list of regions has not been changed, which is to say that the concerns that I presented have not been addressed in any way. Given that the list of regions was linked in the tournament announcement, this leaves two possibilities: 1) ACF's list of r...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall "Gentlemen's Agreements"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5354
Re: ACF Fall "Gentlemen's Agreements"
I don't really know about that. 1) I think that if your circuit wants to have a "gentleman's agreement" rule and the Midwest wants to knock each others' brains out on easy questions, why do you care what they do? That might sound a little bit snarky, but I mean it as a genuine question. I...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Changes to ACF Hosting Guidelines
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6524
Re: Changes to ACF Hosting Guidelines
I am not sure why Maryland is placed in the same region as New York and a different region from Virginia. By way of illustration, Maryland and Virginia attended the same site of ACF Regionals (either as a participant or host) in 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 (this tournament was, if memory serves, hoste...
- Mon May 06, 2019 1:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Triton Pre-Nats @ UCSD (5/18)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3152
Re: Triton Pre-Nats @ UCSD (5/18)
Why is an open tournament being run on a novice-oriented set?
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
- Replies: 44
- Views: 24139
Re: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
I suppose I could amend the description to make it absolutely clear that the "Canadian" here refers to the circuit and not the country overall, but no one (to my knowledge) has ever actually interpreted the poll this way until you started posting--indeed, if you actually took the name lit...
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 11:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
- Replies: 44
- Views: 24139
Re: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
It's truly bizarre that anyone could take "Canada" to mean "the country of Canada" instead of its obvious plain meaning, "the area around Lake Ontario".
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 12:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30544
Why don't we have 1/1 math?
When it comes to the standard quizbowl distribution, a lot of the reasoning behind why things are the way they are is because of tradition. The reason that 20/20 is the standard round length boils down to tradition, although it has turned out to work pretty well; I imagine that's the same reason we ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45306
Re: ICT format and seeding discussion
I, uh, forgot to run it, which is on me, but none of you people bothered to remind me, which is on you!Benin Rebirth Party wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:44 am Did the pre-nationals poll even happen this year?
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45306
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
Without touching questions of tone and whatnot (and also without discussing carrying over losses against non-common opponents, since that has been talked to death), it seems that the issue is that Division I ICT is a 36-team tournament where teams are limited to 13 games before finals, not counting ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2019 12:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292304
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
I don't have a lot to say generally, but this was a very fun tournament to play. I enjoyed the feeling of interdisciplinarity; much like last year's Chicago Open, it felt like this tournament rewarded general intellectual curiosity. (I, at least, was excited to hear a reference to the Digenes Akrite...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:17 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 26415
Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
As Charlie has so elegantly pointed out, not all of us are cool enough to live in New York and we live less fulfilling lives as a result. Maybe because I live in the provinces, personally I've found quizbowl very rewarding from a social standpoint; there's no aspect of my life that's worse off as a ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5019
Re: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
R4 -Munich Massacre may need expanded answerline. Player on UGA B buzzes and basically describes Munich Massacre in a sentence but is negged because he doesn’t say whatever is in answerline. Could ‘Munich” be answerline instead? This is not an attempt to refute the point being made here, but for wh...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 11:30 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 8: PIANO
- Replies: 8
- Views: 517
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 8: PIANO
Chris Ray
Jordan Brownstein
Kai Smith
Johns Hopkins A
Alternate: Aayush Rajasekaran
Jordan Brownstein
Kai Smith
Johns Hopkins A
Alternate: Aayush Rajasekaran
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 3:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8142
Re: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
Aayush Rajasekaran has been playing collegiate quizbowl since 2011 . Jay Misuk has been playing collegiate quizbowl since 2006 , when a current college freshman would have been five years old. There's no adequate analogy to convey how pathetic it is that these people would travel any distance (let a...
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 1:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 9: Terrapin Invitational
- Replies: 5
- Views: 410
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 9: Terrapin Invitational
Chris Ray
Jacob Reed
Kai Smith
Yale A
Alternate: Lauren Onel
Jacob Reed
Kai Smith
Yale A
Alternate: Lauren Onel
- Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys II: Let's Remember Some More Guys (HSNCT)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14686
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10751
Re: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
Should ICT recognize small colleges like NSC recognizes small high schools? Yes. (In my dream world, there is an SSNCT for college, an idea that no one will ever implement because it would be wildly unprofitable. In my slightly-less-insane dream world, there are a divisions of large and/or national...
- Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 7: NAQT SCT
- Replies: 9
- Views: 722
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 7: NAQT SCT
Chris Ray
Kai Smith
Tejas Santanam
Johns Hopkins A
Alternate: Aayush Rajasekaran
Kai Smith
Tejas Santanam
Johns Hopkins A
Alternate: Aayush Rajasekaran
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 6: ACF Regionals
- Replies: 9
- Views: 572
Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 6: ACF Regionals
Chris Ray
Kai Smith
Jacob Reed
Yale A
Alternate: Aayush Rajasekaran
Kai Smith
Jacob Reed
Yale A
Alternate: Aayush Rajasekaran
- Thu Jan 24, 2019 9:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8183
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
Bonus 4 - Xhosa, if you aren't doing a click, is pronounced with a hard k, not an h. Alright, I didn't actually know the standard for this (I actually produce the click but obviously don't expect the mods to do so). Thanks! Here is a blog post on the subject. So, summing up, the best tentative rule...