The Quizbowl Resource Center

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It would seem very helpful to me if sets stopped creating discussion servers after a tournament and instead insisted on forums posts. By even introducing the option of a quickpost in a server, the set is bound to receive less forums criticism. It seems needlessly difficult to try and reshift set dis...

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Do you know yet what time this is running and when you’d assume it would end?

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This is late, but, thanks to Penn/Nitin for having me hop on board for the US/World History. Thanks to my co-editors who helped me with alot comments and playtesting, the proofreaders, and to Ophir and Aseem for the buzzpoint data and static visualizations that made editing in between mirrors much e...

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Black Hills giveaway felt brutal compared to other questions This seems fair. I spent the time in between mirrors seeing if I could make sure nothing was too negbaity (still may have failed!), but even though I saw the conversion percentage was a bit low, this thought didn't cross my mind. There's ...

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Can the tossups on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the exile of Juan Peron be posted here as well if possible? The Czechoslovakia tossup gave a prompt on the Prague Spring close to the end when it seemed like that answer didn't fit with the clues at that point. The Peron tossup led to a n...

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On the "Black Hills" tossup, I was very confused. The tossup seemed to clue the Fetterman Fight, which happened in Wyoming (and not very close to the Black Hills based on some maps I looked at), but my answer of "Wyoming" was ruled incorrect. From what I heard, this tossup seeme...

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-I probably sound like an old cranky white guy, but the U.S. history seemed to contain almost no political history. I appreciate the attempts at asking about underrepresented topics or groups, yet this seemed very skewed to the social history of the U.S. I think thats completely fair. In the home s...

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I'll be in the Nantes region (city tbd) next year; I'll probably try and stop by Britain to play some open tourneys!

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EDIT: I doubt this qualifier format will happen again, but if it does, maybe four tiers of bonus part difficulty could be worth it / four-part bonuses? Or perhaps two-part bonuses to cover a wider spectrum of topics? Not sure how people feel about this, but could be worth discussing. I also enjoyed...

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I don't believe I saw this mentioned in the video, apologies if it was. Will the moderators be counting the seconds after the buzz themselves or using the buzzin.live counter? And if they're using the buzzin.live counter, will we be expected to just say the answer if we are first (timer starts righ...

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You bring up price, but seeing as the normal price to attend a regular season collegiate qb tournament is often in the $120-$140 range, so its not true that this is the same you'd pay for a full in-person event. Other events have also dropped their prices for online qb, but I still often see someth...

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I don't mean to be overly confrontational, but I suppose I'll reraise the unaddressed issue of no advantaged final here. The email indicated there will be no advantaged final here. I still think is a quizbowl norm, and any set being presented (and charged for) as a full quizbowl tournament should co...

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At the risk of making a bigger deal of this than need be, the issue seems less "advantaged final vs. no advantaged final" and more "should quizbowl sets adhere to important norms." One such norm is that a set be complete, i.e. a full and good tournament can be run on it, includin...

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Yes, I do have that kind of data but I won’t reveal specific numbers due to certain constraints (at this time, I don’t believe the data will be made available to non-editors/writers). Literature was on average powered more than other categories (tied for the highest power percentage out of all cate...

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response to above post that I'm too lazy to do the effort of breaking down into bit by bit. I mostly agree with what you've said. On the Florida point I still mostly feel that the importance of Eatonville (I know nothing of Hurston, so I'm arguing from a point of ignorance which I'm happy to have d...

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8. A fictional leader of this town describes the “Sun-Maker” while unveiling a street lamp. In a story set in this town, Joe stops tossing silver dollars at his wife after he discovers her cheating on him with the owner of an ice cream parlor. The protagonist of a novel is forced to keep her hair c...

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I don't have a ton to say that isn't sorta sussed out in my specific questions post, but I'll try and add something. First, as others have already said, thanks for the fun set! Despite playing with just Darren, and therefore combining to punt a bunch of stuff, I was never really irritated, downtrodd...

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I'm just flipping through my notebook to give some scattered thoughts, hopefully it is of some use. I had a good time yesterday, so thanks for the set! Also some of my comments may come on topics I'm not super well informed on so sorry if any of the comments seem dumb, they may well be (though I'll ...

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I'm sorry if any of this has been addressed elsewhere (discord, etc.) since I'm not plugged in, but what is the rationale behind barring people who qualified for DII ICT last year and who are still at those schools to play DII ICT this year? I get the rationale normally (can't have a year with two w...

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This tournament concluded with the following winners: Overall: Columbia A defeated Columbia in an advantaged final to win the site. UG: Columbia B , finishing second overall, was the highest finishing UG team. DII: Lehigh (i.e. Will Yaeger playing solo), was the highest finishing DII team. Our top f...

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I am pleased to announce that the Upper Mid-Atlantic site of 2020 ACF Winter will be held at Rutgers, New Brunswick on Saturday, November 7, 2020. The tournament will take place virtually on Discord. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9 AM. I, Emmett Laurie, will be...

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I'm sorry if any of this gets any facts about the tournament wrong. But: this tournament seemed to me a pretty good reason to make sure hosts of tournaments are schools, not individuals. Having a group of people you can guarantee will staff the tournament seems like it can go a long way toward avoid...

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Could I see the tossup on ceiling frescoes? I (probably incorrectly but I have looked much) was prompted with "where" or "in what location" (something along those lines) for saying friezes on the Tiepolo clues and said in a Palace, which Wurzburg is, and was negged. My instinct i...

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Any chance we could get a field update?

Thanks!

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We are fully Pyramidal. We have an excellent team of editors and writers; the samples will be coming very soon, and I will post a link to them when they do; I would encourage lots of suggestions. They did not want to reveal themselves, not because they lack confidence in their work, but primarily s...

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I’m all for discouraging cheating, but writing a few bad questions to catch potential cheaters seems unproductive. Actually, this has worked in the past (although inadvertently). A question clued an artist who doesn't exist except as metadata on an obscure image on wikipedia, and a middle schooler ...

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I’m all for discouraging cheating, but writing a few bad questions to catch potential cheaters seems unproductive. Screen tracking is also probably not worthwhile; I can’t speak for others but I can’t imagine I’m the only person that does other things during tournaments, not to mention google things...

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I'm chiming in to express interest in an online mirror of this set. I'm especially interested in hearing tossups and bonuses. Depending upon what readers are available, I would love to play another two-day tournament like TO online. Maybe something in mid- or late-May can be arranged? I second this

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1992 in spaceflight wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:21 am I've never been more excited for a packet in my life.

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I staffed, and didn't play, so maybe others have different thoughts, but I thought a 2 day tournament with bonuses was enjoyable and given the relative lack of things to do nowadays a nice time

EDIT: I should be clear TO Online is what I'm referring to

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I'll be doing a fifth year at Rutgers, so I'll be around for a bit longer it appears

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In addition (I don't know the validity of this), I think the Netherlands tossup (3.2) should also accept Dutch Republic or Dutch (among the United Provinces's names) since as far as I know the clues in the tossup corresponded to the time of the Dutch Republic (from 1581-1795). Yeah this is correct,...

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Rutgers has closed for the semester. As such, the state championship is now canceled.

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this is great

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We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation. I am not entirely sure what is going to happen. The school has closed most things until ~April 15. We'll keep y'all posted.

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Rutgers University-New Brunswick will be hosting the New Jersey State Championships on May 2, 2020. It will be run on NAQT SCT-20DII. I, Emmett Laurie, will be serving as Tournament Director. Any questions you have can be addressed to me in forums PMs or at rutgersacademicteam@gmail.com Field Size: ...

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Is there going to be a state championship this year? April 18 at Rutgers has been on the calendar here and at NAQT.com since early in the year, but that's ACF Nationals weekend, so I don't know how likely that is. Hey Jon, Sorry about the delay with announcing states. It is going to be moved to May...

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Just wanted to offer thoughts about some lit questions that I felt stood out in suboptimal ways: The South: I think this tossup was very well written, but the answerline felt sort of fraudable. I didn't get it until late, but I was ready to buzz on the South early on. This would probably work bette...

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Deleuze showed up twice: in the Spinoza tossup and in the tossup on Schizophrenia which both seem reasonable. Unfortunately, the Spinoza tossup was written before the CO tossup on Ethics which mentioned the same clue or else I wouldn't have mentioned the Deleuze work. It's quite concerning to me th...

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I should probably have been clearer, but our William G. is William Golden not William Grossman

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My memory of playing in high school (mostly in NYC+New Jersey and Boston-area events) is that being given five seconds to answer tossups was typical, even on IS-sets. I played at this time in this region (and host tournaments there now) and this is also my experience. Also, with respect to the &quo...

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Not sure this is the right thread for this, but having a Poe bonus in round one (Gold Bug), a Poe TU in round two (angels), and a Poe mention in round three (in a bonus I don't recall) seems like a bit much.

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William G
Caleb
Alston

Team: texas A

Alt: Sharath

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Coincidentally, I was thinking about this set earlier today. Im very excited for this Im glad to hear its happening!

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I don't have much to say—I did stats all day and haven't read through a ton of the set yet—but a few questions I remember thinking were very cool (of the maybe two packets I saw or internalized at all): the makeup/drag bonus, the India fashion TU, and the Chicago Tribune TU all had very cool clues.

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Congratulations to Columbia A (Will Alston, Rafael Krichevsky, Harrison Whittaker, and Noah Chen) for clearing the field, going 11-0, and taking the overall title. Maryland and Columbia B tied for second place, the trophy for which went to Columbia B. Princeton A took the second game of an advantage...

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Caleb Kendrick
Jon Settle
William Golden

Texas A

Alt: Nitin Rao

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It's been mirrored, so I suppose it's time for a little post. I hope this tournament is enjoyable! It's still not entirely complete (as in there is much editing to still do based on first mirror comments, I assume. The tournament is in fact complete lol). I don't really have anything to say about my...

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Round 1: I agree Greg of Tours is namedropped too early, my bad. 1972 too hard: for what it's worth, Humphrey was converted in 4/5 rooms. I think Muskie serving as Humphrey's VP candidate in 1968 is fine for a middle. Round 2: WWI: big old mea culpa on my part for the early drop of They Shall Not G...

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