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- Mon Jun 08, 2009 5:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21168
Re: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
All right so I am already at 6/6 regarding History, Geography, and RMP. Is this what I am limited to in subject writing, or can I write on more subjects? I also would like to know if I could write more then 20/20 because I want some of my questions to be in the tournament. I can do like 30/30 Sweet...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
- Replies: 80
- Views: 12695
Re: VETO 2009 SW ONTARIO MIRROR
My signature is an actually a real VETO question I have to admit, I'm really confused--was the question wrong (about the escaping to England in 1848 part) or is there some King of France I'm not getting? It's a terrible, no good, awful question with Jerry's name subbed in for the answer. What's not...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49314
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
...I disagree tha ... the NHL bonus was difficult... That bonus was very, very hard. MaS PS: Hay guys, don't spend so much time talking about the sports questions from an academic tournament! Wait, what's that you say? 7% of the distribution? Oh, carry on, then! PPS: In case you didn't pick up on w...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
- Replies: 287
- Views: 133908
Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
Every weekend from the beginning of March until the middle of June will have conflicts. Get over it. Pick something that you can change to criticize, like question quality.
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 7:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49314
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
That tennis bonus was actively really, really easy. If you want an absurdly hard trash bonus, take a look at Days Go By/INXS/702. That was nuts! Did anyone actually get 702 from anything other than knowing what Las Vegas's area code is? The Madden curse bonus seemed pretty easy, too, or is Shaun Ale...
- Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12577
Re: ANNOUNCING the Fall Novice Tournament available for mirrors
Chris - who's writing this tournament? I might be interested in mirroring it in Wisconsin. This tournament is being written by a rather large group of current high school students and ultra recent graduates (class of '09). It is being edited by Zhao Zhang, Sarah Angelo, and myself. A small group of...
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49314
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
By the way, has anyone noticed the seeming plethora of Laplace based clues? This reminds me. This tournament had 150000 questions on Chicago or Chicago things. Haymarket Square was referenced at least 3 times. I realize that Chicago is damn important, but it's not that important and it got frustrat...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The John Adams Rule
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8819
Re: The John Adams Rule
Isn't there some sort of general guideline regarding pronunciation that says something to the effect of "if the pronunciation is believable if the answerer has never heard the name said, it is acceptable" (for example, GOTH instead of Gurt-UH)? Couldn't that be applied to compound last nam...
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49314
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
I'd certainly agree that a lot of the lit was a bit too hard. Lawrence Sterne is one of those things that really good teams will snap up but bad teams will be befuddled by. Same deal with, like, Benet, The Luciads, and Le Cid. Ras the Exhorter seemed a bit unduly hard for the 3rd part of an Invisibl...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 2:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49314
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
On a positive note, I really liked some of the tossups. Stephen Vincent Benet was pretty cool, because he's awesome. I also really enjoyed the Draft Riots tossup. Gross Clinic was well done, as was Great Northern War. I'll never turn down a tossup on Evelyn Waugh, though it sort of seemed rather eas...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 349
- Views: 102569
Re: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
This tournament wasn't so good. Let me count the ways: 1. Even if you ignore the wildly huge amounts of trash, CE, geography, and "general knowledge", the distribution still sucked hard. There just were no arts nor social sciences. Basically, you were tremendously lucky if you happened to ...
- Mon May 25, 2009 10:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC 09 question discussion
- Replies: 132
- Views: 24588
Re: NSC 09 question discussion
This tournament was memorably awesome. I had a super time and I'd like to thank everyone who had a part in this weekend. The questions were mostly really good. There was a boatload of music, though. Also, there were a few tossups that were absurdly hard (Albrecht Altdorfer comes to mind). The IRA to...
- Mon May 11, 2009 10:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maryland Spring Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5650
Re: Maryland Spring Tournament Discussion
Man U/Bayern Munich/Borussia Dortmund This bonus was far from impossible. If you have heard of soccer, you'll get 10. Man U is one of the world's 2 or 3 most popular teams and Cristiano Ronaldo is very, very famous. If you've heard of German soccer, you'll get 20, as Bayern is far and away the most...
- Mon May 11, 2009 12:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
- Replies: 79
- Views: 17402
Re: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
There is an irreconcilable difference here. I believe Sports can be a worthy academic pursuit, while the rest of this particular message board doesn't. That's OK, but while I can't convince you to even consider my point, I will not accept yours either. You remain wrong. May I suggest this website f...
- Sun May 10, 2009 7:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: University of Minnesota Nationals Warmup, 5/9 at the U of M
- Replies: 53
- Views: 11647
Re: University of Minnesota Nationals Warmup, 5/9 at the U of M
Spite has made me the player I am today. That and a passion for looking at pretty pictures and hearing pretty words. I guess I like learning things too, or something.
- Sat May 09, 2009 10:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of NAQT's future
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2030
Re: Virginia NAQT Championship May 9 (Richmond)
lots of stuff You do realize that NAQT is not the only group capable of producing a bajillion questions, right? Another group, similar to NAQT in structure, could easy organize and do the exact same thing. You are probably right that NAQT is the only current organization with that sort of capabilit...
- Thu May 07, 2009 12:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bouncebacks?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7025
Re: Bouncebacks?
We should never, ever base anything off of OAC. What a terrible format.quantumfootball wrote:I'm a fan of the reduced-value bounceback just because the answer (or answers in OAC) that one team gave can often narrow down the answer space for the other team.
- Mon May 04, 2009 4:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bouncebacks?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7025
Re: Bouncebacks?
On the one hand, quiz bowl is, as designed, a combination of speed and depth of knowledge, and awarding bonus opportunities to only the team that wins the toss-up rewards this. On the other hand, if depth of knowledge is important, then giving the team that may not be as quick to the buzzer a chanc...
- Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF distribution
- Replies: 200
- Views: 36440
Re: ACF distribution
I am currently studying for the AP Human Geography exam. There is a whole ton of cool, more social science-y geography related stuff that isn't just "FTP name this mountain" available, just from the syllabus of this course. Also, at least some of this stuff would be askable on the Fall lev...
- Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Another Great Aukassion (Spring 2009 KMO)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1897
Re: Another Great Aukassion (Spring 2009 KMO)
I want to say we had 1519, but I'm not sure. This could not have been more frustrating.
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21168
Re: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
I'd really like to edit a tiny portion of the history distribution. Any sort but ancient history. I could also possibly do things like visual arts or American Literature.
EDIT: I have absolutely no experience editing, but I'd sure like to get some!
EDIT: I have absolutely no experience editing, but I'd sure like to get some!
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: HI Mirror at CMU (4/11/09)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3364
Re: HI Mirror at CMU (4/11/09)
Is this happening?
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21168
Re: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
As far a social science goes, I think that you can just really broaden the definition of it. In addition to "real" social science (ex. economics, sociology, anthropology, etc.), you can add in stuff like government (I believe most people take Civics in 8th grade, so this should be rather b...
- Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 21168
Re: Fall High School Novice Tournament?
As far as distribution goes: 4/4 History 4/4 Lit 4/4 Science 2/2 Art 2/2 Social Science 2/2 RMP 1/1 Trash/CE/General Knowledge/What-have-you 1/1 Geography Thoughts? I think, if anything, Soc. Sci. might be a little high. However, I don't know where the extra question(s) would go. Also, I'd be pretty...
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: WorldQuest?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1233
Re: WorldQuest?
This.BGSO wrote:What's worldQuest?
- Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: WorldQuest?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1233
WorldQuest?
So, Academic WorldQuest Nationals are this weekend, and, due to magic, Shady Side qualified. Will anyone else be there?
- Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Proposed trash/TRASH guidelines
- Replies: 100
- Views: 18656
Re: Proposed trash/TRASH guidelines
Could someone outline why album tossups are so bad? I just don't see it. Obviously, you don't want to tossup How Does Your Garden Grow? , but you could easily tossup Born in the USA . Just conform to difficulty standards. Just like how in academic quizbowl, no one tosses up Put Out More Flags ; inst...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What To Do With No-Shows
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2353
Re: What To Do With No-Shows
Has anyone ever had a team show up without notice? I'm pretty sure this happened at a CMU tournament this year. Trevor/Dan/CMU folks: can you confirm that Sewickley did indeed just arrive at Mellon Bowl without notice?
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Judging difficulty.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1792
Re: Judging difficulty.
High school difficulty is a wildly different beast than college difficulty. Due to the wide variation in high school "quality"*, the "guaranteed" knowledge base is actually rather small, whereas, in college, I would contend that this "guaranteed" base is much wider, dee...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pennsylvania '08-'09
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6135
Re: Pennsylvania '08-'09
Hey Walker,
Is Shady Side among those 26? I don't know if Dr. Malone ever registered, and, since I won't be able to make it, I'm rather out of the loop.
Thanks.
Is Shady Side among those 26? I don't know if Dr. Malone ever registered, and, since I won't be able to make it, I'm rather out of the loop.
Thanks.
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 349
- Views: 102569
Re: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
Just out of curiosity. According to the field update, State College has not registered for the HSNCT. I was hoping Ben or Graham can answer why they have'nt? They will be plotting insurrection against Tyrant Rendell with me and Barry Liu. Duh. Can I get in on this? Content: We've got 3 months to th...
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA regional assignments
- Replies: 73
- Views: 15134
Re: IHSA regional assignments
A question:
Who is this Sister John, and is she at all qualified to head-edit a state championship?
Who is this Sister John, and is she at all qualified to head-edit a state championship?
- Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 114004
Re: Bad Negs Again
Bingo, except he waited about half a line after that, which made it more ridiculous.AlphaQuizBowler wrote:Let me guess, off the Six Degrees of Separation clue.la2pgh wrote:From Prison Bowl:
Given: Kevin Bacon
Correct: Stanley Milgram
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 114004
Re: Bad Negs Again
From Prison Bowl:
Given: Kevin Bacon
Correct: Stanley Milgram
Given: Kevin Bacon
Correct: Stanley Milgram
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: HI Mirror at CMU (4/11/09)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3364
Re: HI Mirror at CMU (4/18/09)
So, I'd like to play this, since it is literally 5 blocks from my house, but I'm surely not doing it alone, so if you have any interest in teaming up, fire me an email at la2pgh03 AT gmail.com .
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11140
Re: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
With that said, I still think most high school tournaments (Prison Bowl, too) are too difficult. After seeing the performance of our(very, very inexperienced) B-team, I am inclined to agree with you that most tournaments are too difficult for the lower-tier teams. My new theory is that part of this...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11140
Re: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
Everything Andrew said about writing high school questions is right. That's how I want my questions written. One thing that I found especially pertinent was his mention of answer choice. I would contend that a question can only be as easy as its answer. For example, a tossup on Ernest Hemingway woul...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:38 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11140
Re: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
I am detecting something quite dangerous in this thread: the idea that every tossup has to include something that very few people know. On one level, that is a true statement, because it's a bad idea to lead that Great Gatsby tossup off with something about good ol' TJ Eckleburg. But writers of high...
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11690
Re: Prison Bowl Discussion
I'm not sure about Harte, I guess. It seemed hard at the time, but that's a pretty easy tossup, considering the answer.
Speaking of round 7, the paper cut outs clue came way too early for Matisse. I was under the impression that his use of collage was very famous.
Speaking of round 7, the paper cut outs clue came way too early for Matisse. I was under the impression that his use of collage was very famous.
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 5:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11690
Re: Prison Bowl Discussion
Though the length is excessive, those are both very good bonuses. Very accessible to scrubs like me who glean all their linguistic knowledge from the blathering of linguistics obsessed former teammates. I like the first one especially, though, for some reason, we didn't hear it.
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11690
Re: Prison Bowl Discussion
I WONDER WHO WROTE THIS BONUSCheynem wrote:The only time I can recall which featured a flagrant presentation of "too many clues" was the linguistics bonus which basically give like a lecture on linguistics and then asked for some pretty simple stuff.
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11690
Re: Prison Bowl Discussion
As much as I like having copious clues, there is a point where it becomes ridiculous. I'd say that the ACF suggestion of clues shorter than 2 lines is a worthy ideal.
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11140
Re: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
It's also limiting in knowledge expansion. If all that's going to be asked are the titles and summaries of an author's most/moderately famous works, a high schooler would have no reason to research more deeply in to Saul Bellow, and learn the plot summaries/titles of works like The Dean's December ...
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11690
Re: Prison Bowl Discussion
This was a really sweet set. I suppose the bonuses trended easy, but that's not really a problem at all. I was especially smitten by the literature, though The Maltese Falcon seemed transparent. Ares mentioned his companions way too early, and, as Chris said, the cows tossup was a tad antipyramidal....
- Sat Feb 21, 2009 4:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
- Replies: 76
- Views: 11140
Re: Dropping Titles in Literature Questions
It's also limiting in knowledge expansion. If all that's going to be asked are the titles and summaries of an author's most/moderately famous works, a high schooler would have no reason to research more deeply in to Saul Bellow, and learn the plot summaries/titles of works like The Dean's December ...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Improving my Team
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1890
Re: Improving my Team
I'm going to go ahead and assume that you guys are decent, not terrible, not great, and you just need some help to get over the bump from decent to good. If you guys weren't good at all, my advice would be a different. First, attend tournaments. As many as possible, with as many teams as possible. I...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open
- Replies: 67
- Views: 12681
Re: Chicago Open
In an attempt to avoid derailment: anyone besides Guy have any luck convincing their parents to let them go to this? I would love advice from multiple people as I try to talk my mother into this...hopefully something will work. I would also appreciate some sort of advice or help in talking my mothe...
- Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:54 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Southern California 08-09
- Replies: 307
- Views: 53417
Re: Southern California 08-09
Hey SoCal people,
Does North Hollywood have a real team, and, if so, are they any good?
Thanks.
Does North Hollywood have a real team, and, if so, are they any good?
Thanks.
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cardinal Classic discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 16528
Re: Cardinal Classic discussion
Gentium is really awesome, though I find that TNR is probably the best of the standard fonts. Sans serif fonts are mostly hideous.
- Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open
- Replies: 67
- Views: 12681
Re: Chicago Open
Casting my ballot for any date but July 25th.
I really want to come...
I really want to come...