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This is the kind of nonsense we lost when AHAN stopped being regularly available. AHAN, much like COVID-19, has been consistently available since March 2020! Anyway, in addition to the obvious concerns about gimmickiness and readability/parseability, another reason you're unlikely to see lots of th...

Not a bad idea! I'm certainly all for making it easier to use the forums; are you thinking something like how the HS comparison/discussion forums are currently set up?

What do others think?

When the deadline states "by Saturday," does that mean the packet needs to be in by 12:01 AM Saturday or just any time that day? I would love to have more time of the weekend to work on the packet if needed. Seconded--traditional deadlines tend to be more along the lines of "11:59 Su...

We have updated the board rules regarding the creation and use of organizational accounts. Please note that only national organizations (and not individual schools, teams, etc.) are eligible to create these accounts, and any organization wishing to create such an account must first request and recei...

guarantees 12 games for every team, [...] Teams in the middle and top brackets play either 13 or 14 games This seems to be moderately to significantly undershooting the number of games I, at least, would expect a CO to provide. Also, 25 teams is an awful number to schedule sensibly--26 and 24 can b...

Cheynem wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 4:14 pm Could there be an announcement at some point (or just tweak this thread to make this the re-announcement)?

Seems reasonable. I'll consult with Carsten, Andrew, and Not Cory Haala and make the necessary changes.

Cheynem wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:17 pm Is this happening in 2022?

That is currently the plan, yes!

Tippy Martinez wrote: ↑Thu Apr 14, 2022 3:59 pm frankly ICT was a pretty shit set this year.

Please feel free to expand upon this in the discussion forum!

matthewspatrick wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 1:29 pm A highly design-qualified 'yes'

Stained Diviner wrote: ↑Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:04 pm It's fixed! Thank you to the person who did it.

You're welcome.

As noted above, please email [email protected] when your set is clear, and we'll endeavor to make the forum public as soon as possible; otherwise, we'll try to do a sweep during the relative slack time each summer.

UPDATE: As suggested by Emmett Laurie and others here , please send a send a second email to hsquizbowl@gmail.com (still with the words "private forum" somewhere in the subject) when your set is clear and you would like its private discussion forum to be made public. This should significan...

I'd like to propose that set owners or head editors ask the admins to make their forums public as soon as a set is clear. I think this makes a lot of sense and I'm not sure why I didn't think of it before. Just sending a second email to hsquizbowl@gmail.com when the set is clear will alert the admi...

The literature in this edition of SCT felt extremely West-focused. Of the ten D2 packets that we heard, there were zero tossups on any Asian (i.e. Japanese, Chinese, Indian) or Latin American lit. By my count, the only lit tossups that weren't European or U.S. were the ones on South Africa , wine ,...

I was discussing this with a teammate, but I don't remember hearing a single question (tossup or bonus) on jazz in the entire first 10 DI packets. We also found there to be a dearth of film/art film content. One thing that did stick out was the (what felt like at least 5/5) video game questions. Wh...

As promised, stats are here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7314/

I'd especially like to thank everyone who came out to staff, but I'd ESPECIALLY like to thank Bernadette Spencer, whose willingness to sit in a room all day doing stats helped the tournament run extremely efficiently.

shar2931 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:01 pm A quick congrats to Joe Kammann for the Herculean stat line of 7/31/34 in the morning

Just wait until you see his full-day stats!

Quick results, from memory:

DI
1. Minnesota A
2. Iowa A
3. Carleton A
4. Iowa State A
5. NMU A
6. Minnesota B

DII
1. Minnesota C
2. Minnesota D
3.-8. others!

Full stats will be up tomorrow.

Any chance the admins could move some of the older private discussion forums to the archives? It's at the point where I need to scroll down 2 screens now to see new posts in this section. I suppose I could leave the user groups, but it's at least theoretically possible I'd want to access these foru...

You all should play this tournament! It's great!

Was a decision made on the Sunday event? As of right now, we aren't planning on running any side events due to lack of interest. If this changes, we're flexible since I've already reserved the rooms in advance. I'll double-check with teams closer to the tournament date. I responded to you via email...

For Minnesota, I'd like to shout-out former Chaska coach Chris Lenius. He was involved with our quiz bowl program for almost three straight decades (1990-2018) and he's the main reason Chaska was so successful in the '90s and 2000s. We have an entire room at the school devoted exclusively to qb tha...

4/4 Fine Arts (John Marvin, Clark Smith, and Wonyoung Jang) - 1/1 Classical Music [Renaissance through contemporary Western art/academic music, including musically focused questions on opera and ballet] - 1/1 Other Music I feel compelled to ask: what, other than jazz, do you foresee going in the se...

We have indeed changed the name, and to limit confusion have posted a new thread, which can be found here.

Our intent wasn't to "rip on BHSAT", and we're sorry it came off that way! We chose the name in reference to CMST , which also shared its name with an existing but wildly different tournament, since BHSU-associated people had been joking since that tournament that if we produced a set we'd...

I am likely to have more after I look through the (delightful, as always) set, but the one that I remember most involves the round 1 tossup on architecture/architectural photography, which I got a delightful early buzz on that is a good illustration of how my memory works. Cast your mind back to 201...

Let's all make sure to stay relatively civil and on-topic, please.

Staff note: I don't mind flippant jokes or exaggerating things to make a point, but do try to keep things civil. I also don't really have an objection to the thread generating some more in-depth discussions based on people's critiques (it's certainly more interesting to read than a list of contentle...

I've redacted all uses of the name of a team playing this tournament under a pseudonym, at that team's request.

Berniecrat wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:39 pm
Abdon Ubidia wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:37 pm 508350_68ca.jpg
I wish there was a like/dislike system on the forums

Simply use your words, friend!

No subtweeting on the forums. You can use this thread to post cute marsupials; you can use the on-topic forums to post, among other things, meaningful and serious accusations of cheating (though I hope you won't have to).

If such an experiment cannot produce negative evidence, it side-steps the point of such an experiment. It can only serve to either kick the can down the road indefinitely or exonerate him. Are you suggesting that evidence is only useful if it can be used to prove Chase's guilt? If so, I find that a...

If such an experiment cannot produce negative evidence, it side-steps the point of such an experiment. It can only serve to either kick the can down the road indefinitely or exonerate him. Are you suggesting that evidence is only useful if it can be used to prove Chase's guilt? If so, I find that a...

Would very much prefer this not be September 27th, which would overlap with one of the open IKEA mirrors (specifically, the one I'm playing).

Thanks so much to all the writers and staffers! This tournament ran really well and was a blast to play.

Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:08 pm

I was right!

Without questioning Nick's particular skills or abilities: why is a high schooler directing this college tournament? Did we not just have several discussions about appropriate boundaries?

For me at least, generating pronunciation guides seems to be GPT3's killer app for quizbowl. I am *the worst* at writing these guides. GPT3 seems to do a pretty good job on these. It's not necessarily perfect (that first example invents syllables that don't exist) but I'm pretty sure it outperforms...

This was a great set, as always. I was also perfectly happy with how things ran on Discord (other than my esteemed teammate Mike's technical issues, which seemed to be primarily client-side)! Also, the private discussion forum for this set is now open; please request to join it through your User Con...

Hey everyone. In the past I've engaged in some boundary-crossing behavior that I sincerely regret. I've apologized privately, and have been working both to achieve restitution and to consider the nature and causes of my behavior so that I can adjust it for the future.

Thanks.

I also agree with this sentiment, especially the idea of normalizing asking stuff like "I've never heard of that -- can you tell me more?" We often say stuff like "quizbowl is about learning", and this is a great way to put that idea into practice while also decreasing the aliena...

100% of the video games questions will be on broadly popular games since 2010 (there will be no "classic gaming" or niche JRPG content in this tournament). Why are culturally-significant video games from before 2010 unworthy of being asked about in the same way as culturally significant T...

just posting memes/image macros is technically against the rules, so you'll have to start accusing each other of cowardice/posting extreme cringe the old-fashioned way

This is cool!

Brandons42 wrote: ↑Tue May 19, 2020 1:12 am suggestions for improvements

"quizbowlers".

I have fixed it for you, since I am a loving and caring admin (eventually).

All too obvious which one is better at BBCode, though.

naan/steak-holding toll wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:31 pmof course it's not incumbent upon Chicago to accept but they should be prepared for the memes to come...

You're gonna need to cut a much better promo than this if you really want to generate some heat and get over with the fans.

naan/steak-holding toll wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 1:21 pm Is it not feasible to attempt to reschedule this in a state that is following less strict guidelines, i.e. Florida or Georgia?

I keep rereading this line and it's starting to make sparks and smoke come out of my brain.

BenWeiner27 wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 1:22 am
Ehtna wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 12:24 am I'm heading to University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), hoping to keep up with qb as much as possible!
Ditto.

Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 12:39 am You simply love to see it.

Ehtna wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 12:24 am I'm heading to University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), hoping to keep up with qb as much as possible!

You simply love to see it.

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