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- Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014 SCT: specific questions
- Replies: 50
- Views: 10950
Re: 2014 SCT: specific questions
Could I see the Racine tossup (DI)?
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8674
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Thanks! "Last major concerto"—makes a lot of sense, and it's a cool fact to know.
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 12:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl: The Esoteric Subjects, Deportment, et al
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15059
Re: Quiz Bowl: The Esoteric Subjects, Deportment, et al
I like a lot of this post, but I will note that I don't think that the "harder topics" argument is at all controversial; numerous discussions in the past have recognized that good high school sets substantially trim back the world lit and philosophy, to pick too examples from last year.
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8674
Re: Question Specific Discussion
EDIT3: On the other hand, stuff like: This 138-measure-long D-flat major piece by the same composer as the Revolutionary Étude is sometimes named after a “little dog” that supposedly inspired its composer. Again, no actual clues about the music (who the fuck memorizes the number of measures in a pi...
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8674
Re: Question Specific Discussion
That was true for me at least; a fair number of these were just "this question was really hard to understand" not "this question was rendered unanswerable altogether."Ukonvasara wrote:I don't think the errors were such that anyone was made unable to convert the bonus parts.
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8674
Re: Question Specific Discussion
The Kingdom of Ayutthaya was not a “dynasty”; the name, like Angkor etc. comes from a city, not some people. Most of the music questions (especially tossups) in this tournament seemed to suffer from problems of wording. An example (Harp): Two of these instruments played in contrasting directions are...
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:54 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific question requests and discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4298
Re: Specific question requests and discussion
Why did "extrema" cease to be acceptable for "maxes and mins" halfway through TU 19 in Round 11? It was prompted - I assumed you were looking for either global or local but then my teammate answered "maxes and mins" and it was taken. The mod said extrema was acceptable...
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7182
Re: Accepting a too specific answer
I think we're discussing two separate scenarios here: 1. Player buzzes on ambiguous or general clue ("this composer wrote a work nicknamed pastorale" or something) that could apply to more than one thing. They get negged, rightly so, if they give an answer that fits none of the above clues...
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 11:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific question requests and discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4298
Re: Specific question requests and discussion
Also, I'm personally not a huge fan of the "USA" answerline trend I've been seeing, even though I understand why it can be useful at "regular" difficulty high school tournaments. It seems to confuse most people and I find it unnecessary most times it is used. What would you have...
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/RyuAqua wrote:Shortly.Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote:Could you post a combined file please?
- Sat Feb 01, 2014 7:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
Stats! http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1983/
Thanks everyone for making this a great tournament!
Thanks everyone for making this a great tournament!
- Mon Jan 27, 2014 7:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
The field is full again.
- Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 8216
Re: General Discussion
As to your subdistributional concerns about English lit, I totaled up the poetry questions and found this: poetry accounted for 7/15 English lit tossups and 6/15 bonuses--out of the packets you heard that's 6/11 and 5/11. It also appears that drama represented roughly 0/1 or 1/0 of every packet acr...
- Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
We're capping the field at 24 for now. Any further registrations will go on a waitlist.
- Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8674
Re: Question Specific Discussion
The KMT question said a Chinese word in the second clue, which seems like a bad idea because it radically condenses the answerspace. According to Matt Jackson and Jacob Reed, the particular Chinese word was an important place in Taiwan, which makes this even more ill-conceived. I am totally fine if...
- Sun Jan 26, 2014 12:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SUBMIT Global Announcement
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19971
Re: SUBMIT Global Announcement
Whoops, thanks!
- Sun Jan 26, 2014 11:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SUBMIT Global Announcement
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19971
Re: SUBMIT Global Announcement
When will the discussion forum for this set open up?
- Wed Jan 22, 2014 7:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44884
Re: Likelihood of NAQT Champion.
I think that's partly because the difference between 24th and 14th isn't all that big compared to, say, 10th to 4th.
- Sun Jan 19, 2014 6:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7182
Re: Accepting a too specific answer
The general principle here is that if a player hasn't buzzed on a clue, we can assume that it meant nothing to them and shouldn't factor into their thought process—so we can't assume that a player would know anything but a specific instance of a specific kind of tree, and it's fine for them to buzz ...
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
We are indeed Platinum affiliated with PACE, meaning that the top 25% of teams in the field will qualify for the 2014 PACE NSC.
- Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:42 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Improving and Expanding my Team
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6517
Re: Improving and Expanding my Team
My goal is to hit 20 by the end of the year. Honestly, I would say that 20PPB is too low of a goal for a team that can get 18.2PPB already—it'll be easier than you think to get there! And the higher you set your goal, the more you're likely to improve. Is it better to force myself to learn the topi...
- Mon Jan 06, 2014 7:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall UK 2013 at Oxford
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3996
Re: ACF Fall UK 2013 at Oxford
Any progress on these?Ewan MacAulay wrote: Stats to follow.
- Wed Jan 01, 2014 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014 NAQT SCT: February 8-9
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12766
Re: 2014 NAQT SCT: February 8-9
Will there be a New England site?
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
Sure, and we've added it.
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
The field for BHSAT XXIII is now more than half full!
- Sun Dec 15, 2013 3:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
Re: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
Hey everyone, sorry to keep you all waiting like this, but between finals and, well, finals, I haven't been able to get my act together to put together BHSAT registration—so that will now open on this Tuesday, 17 December. Sorry again!
Edit: the form can be found here and will open at midnight.
Edit: the form can be found here and will open at midnight.
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Young adult literature
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10072
Re: Young adult literature
I think a lot of the problem here is that NAQT writers are using any best-selling YA author or title as an answerline instead of looking at the (extremely! limited) canon and using clues from that like they do with other literature—i.e. slightly deeper questions on the Hunger Games, Harry Potter, Tw...
- Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9536
BHSAT XXIII at Yale (1 February 2014, New Haven, CT)
Hi! I'm happy to announce the 23rd iteration of the Bulldog High School Academic Tournament (BHSAT XXIII), on 1 February 2014 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut! As usual, BHSAT will be a high-quality tournament with a competitive field. As per tradition, BHSAT will be house-written by mem...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Musical theatre in quiz bowl
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5475
Re: Musical theatre in quiz bowl
What was the conversion rate on this, Jeff?Lawrence Simon wrote:Actually, come to think of it there was an Elphaba tossup at HSNCT 2013.
- Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Regarding Studying and Practicing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1580
Re: Regarding Studying and Practicing
I have a few quick questions that I was hoping someone could help me with. 1. I don't really understand the purpose of studying NAQT "You Gotta Know" articles or reading Wikipedia. What is the purpose for doing either of these things if you can simply read question packets or practice on ...
- Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 94
- Views: 19175
Re: Question-Specific Discussion
A joke clue like "this French guitarist" (he was better at flute anyways—and he could actually be described accurately as a conductor or music critic) for Berlioz doesn't really help anyone, and, for all I know, could have confused some teams. How is this clue a joke? All the information ...
- Wed Nov 20, 2013 3:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 94
- Views: 19175
Re: Question-Specific Discussion
I thought this tournament, aside from the aforementioned issues with pronouns and sometimes problematic grammar, was pretty good, including most of the music—I will say that some of the questions were vague or hard to process. Examples: The period instrument ensemble Il Giardino Armonico has receive...
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:48 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search
- Replies: 131
- Views: 121247
Re: Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search
Notably difficulty-completely-appropriate tournaments HFT 2008 and 2009 are up there...KnicksRule wrote:I meant from previous years.
Sarcasm aside: why these specifically? There is quite a bit up there already.
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:43 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28777
Re: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
This is a fantastic, readable, usable guide. I would also like to echo John by emphasizing the fact that these clues have to be unique and thus are usually extremely unusual—this is particularly difficult to do while writing about solos (although the tossup on trumpets does a great job of avoiding t...
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8000
Re: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
This is a fantastic, readable, usable guide. I would also like to echo John by emphasizing the fact that these clues have to be unique and thus are usually extremely unusual—this is particularly difficult to do while writing about solos (although the tossup on trumpets does a great job of avoiding t...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 1:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3686
Re: General Discussion
I felt like the music in this tournament was often not really sensitive to the fact that composers often do the same things (e.g. Paganini Variations).
Also, titles in literature questions were often dropped very early.
Also, titles in literature questions were often dropped very early.
- Thu Oct 31, 2013 12:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Roundtable: Call for Topics/Participants
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16429
Re: Quizbowl Roundtable: Call for Topics/Participants
more niche topics like "how to select relevant visual clues for paintings" or "how to select relevant audio clues for music." I would also appreciate seeing some discussion of these things, and also math and science clues, which are the other major victims of terminological abus...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 7:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25182
Re: Question Specific Discussion
One work by this composer begins with single tone eighth notes before adding a second, third, and fourth tone to the eighth notes on the bass clef; that piece starts with an Allegro vivace (quasi presto) section in 3/8. Unbuzzable gobbledygook. It took my looking at the beginning of every piece men...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 2:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25182
Re: Question Specific Discussion
There's also a clear academic and a clear trash way to write a tossup on each of them. Honestly, I think this should tell you what you need to know: great, you can write two different tossups on either side of the academic/trash line on these. You simply cannot write an academic tossup on Les Mis ,...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Books with Info
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2920
Re: Books with Info
I have heard that a good classical symphonic music source is Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music , although I cannot speak authoritatively on this matter. This is far too much depth and length (6 volumes!!) for quizbowl music, although, if you do read this, i'd love to talk 15th century chan...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 9:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25182
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Could I see the question on "Also Sprach Zarathustra" ? A 3/4-time section of this work begins with clarinets and flutes alternately playing groups of sixteenth notes over another theme that alternates between the trumpet and violin parts; that section features a prominent violin solo. Th...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 8:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25182
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Could I see the question on "Also Sprach Zarathustra"?
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25182
Re: Question Specific Discussion
The question on Messiah included a lengthy description of the first section of a generic french overture, which basically just says "this piece is a large baroque piece"—not incredibly helpful (maybe more helpful with the word "Sinfony" or something). It did, in fact, say that w...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25182
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Dominica - This went dead between us and Yale. I'm sure there is a good number of normal regular difficulty things for which that might happen but I don't think this is one of them. At least give the capital? You know, instead of saying it's famous for being beautiful. Yeah, I've heard the "ga...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8446
Re: General Discussion
This set definitely seemed pretty hard to me, and it also seemed to get harder as the day went on (although perhaps some combination of sleep deprivation and other external factors might explain why it felt like that to me). I also remember a lot of bonuses seeming to have structures like "easy...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25182
Re: Question Specific Discussion
The question on Messiah included a lengthy description of the first section of a generic french overture, which basically just says "this piece is a large baroque piece"—not incredibly helpful (maybe more helpful with the word "Sinfony" or something). Could I see the Rachmaninoff...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 3:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Is there any widely-accepted definition of classical music?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2589
Re: Is there any widely-accepted definition of classical music?
Is there any widely-accepted coherent definition of classical music (for the purposes of quizbowl distributions that delineate classical music, ex: ACF)? It seems to get somewhat dicey and nuanced when it comes to 20th century works in the orchestral tradition. A mixture of google + HSquizbowl foru...
- Fri Oct 18, 2013 11:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Is there any widely-accepted definition of classical music?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2589
Re: Is there any widely-accepted definition of classical music?
I think that the short answer to this is that nobody has such a definition—people have been arguing about this distinction for ages now.
- Sat Oct 12, 2013 5:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Young adult literature
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10072
Re: Distribution
Where could one find the current distribution for A-Sets? I think I noticed substantially more than 2/2 children's lit in the set I was reading today.
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 4:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Split thread: "Venting and vituperation" and sexism
- Replies: 83
- Views: 24365
Re: State of the board discussion thread
There is way, way too much venting and vituperation [in] here Did we not all just agree that this is a huge problem on these forums?? I see absolutely no reason why these sentiments/threads can't go somewhere else (IRC? Email?), because they aren't really contributing anything to the quizbowl commu...