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by Corry
Wed May 21, 2014 1:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
Replies: 49
Views: 18524

Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl

When will the set be posted? I was hoping to read it to a couple of my high school friends this week.
by Corry
Tue May 20, 2014 10:41 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Writing MS Sets
Replies: 28
Views: 7370

Re: Writing MS Sets

I mean when I should mark the end of a power in my sets. Also, I would rather do something like: Lit 4/4 History 4/4 Science 4/4 Sports 1/1 Trash 1/1 Fine Arts 2/2 Geography 2/2 Religion 1/1 Philosophy 1/1 Could you guys review my packets here later? I would certainly not recommend 1/1 philosophy e...
by Corry
Sun May 11, 2014 10:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
Replies: 49
Views: 18524

Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl

I will play this. My team will be me and Boyang Jiao.
by Corry
Sun May 11, 2014 2:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
Replies: 49
Views: 18524

Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl

If this is happening on Sunday, I'd also actually be interested in playing.
by Corry
Wed May 07, 2014 12:30 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ANHALT at North Hollywood (5/17)
Replies: 3
Views: 2454

Re: ANHALT at North Hollywood (5/17)

RyuAqua wrote:Does this tournament have a date conflict with this year's Triton Spring?
Nope, Triton Spring was moved one week ahead. http://www.socalquizbowl.org/tournament-schedule/
by Corry
Fri May 02, 2014 9:57 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
Replies: 203
Views: 107589

Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle

Which tournaments have had high schoolers play MUT? http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2186/ (Minn. - EP) http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2225/ (UIUC - "Panda Express") http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2169/ (Claremont - Arcadia) http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournam...
by Corry
Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:22 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT-format submission tournament
Replies: 13
Views: 5525

Re: NAQT-format submission tournament

I know that there is a subset of the quizbowl community that rarely attends anything besides NAQT tournaments, and I think that an event like this would be a good way to get them to play more tournaments besides just SCT I'm pretty sure a main reason teams only go to SCT is that it's not packet sub...
by Corry
Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT-format submission tournament
Replies: 13
Views: 5525

Re: NAQT-format submission tournament

I would definitely do this.
by Corry
Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: How to Study American History
Replies: 21
Views: 9654

Re: How to Study American History

Find a textbook commonly used for APUSH (AP US History), and read it. My high school American History class was essentially just a "read the textbook" class. You guys can easily replicate the experience outside of a classroom environment.
by Corry
Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:14 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Field Set for 2014 National History Bowl / Updated Seeds
Replies: 19
Views: 6751

Re: Field Set for 2014 National History Bowl / Updated Seeds

Will the National History Bowl plan to have double-elimination playoffs on Saturday evening, anytime down the line? I've always felt that the current single-elimination playoff system was rather harsh. The double-elimination system used by HSNCT is noticeably more complicated, but it certainly doesn...
by Corry
Mon Apr 14, 2014 7:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUT Mirror @Claremont Colleges (April 12th)
Replies: 6
Views: 4679

Re: MUT Mirror @Claremont Colleges (April 12th)

nadph wrote:Didn't realize this was happening. How'd it go?
Caltech A won. Still waiting for stats...
by Corry
Tue Apr 08, 2014 3:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: How much do you study?
Replies: 10
Views: 3839

Re: How much do you study?

It depends on the time of the year. For me, if there's a national tournament coming up in a month or so, I would usually study around 10-12 hours a week. Otherwise, maybe half of that.
by Corry
Sun Apr 06, 2014 12:59 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Possible Lexington House Write 2014-15 Season
Replies: 7
Views: 2498

Re: Possible Lexington House Write 2014-15 Season

I'd also recommend against it. To a lot of high school teams, writing their own quizbowl packet set often sounds like a pretty neat idea (I actually tried it myself about a year back). However, the novelty of the idea really wears off after... the 50th tossup or so. And then, you're stuck with a set...
by Corry
Mon Mar 31, 2014 12:32 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Neg Prizes
Replies: 16
Views: 6029

Re: Neg Prizes

Neg prizes have been a thing in the SoCal circuit for as long as I can remember, and everybody has always been pretty cool with them. (I actually can't recall a single time in my last 3 years of high school quiz bowl when the neg prize wasn't won by a tier-1 player.) But it would certainly depend on...
by Corry
Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:03 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: MA Quizbowl Championship @ MIT (4/5/14)
Replies: 10
Views: 5893

Re: MA Quizbowl Championship @ MIT (4/5/14)

If a team qualifies for this tournament, how can it register? I don't see any registration options available for this tournament on the maquizbowl website yet.
by Corry
Wed Mar 19, 2014 12:05 am
Forum: Middle school area archives
Topic: Housewriting a MS Set
Replies: 12
Views: 5952

Re: Housewriting a MS Set

Everybody seems outraged at the suggestion that people would run a normal (paid) tournament on practice sets, but as far as I can tell, I don't think that's what Zachary Yan was actually suggesting. Instead, it seems to me that he was talking about free "outreach" tournaments, where teams ...
by Corry
Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:48 am
Forum: Middle school area archives
Topic: Housewriting a MS Set
Replies: 12
Views: 5952

Re: Housewriting a MS Set

I actually tried writing a housewritten middle school set last year (because we had already used up this year's CMST, and we were too cheap to actually pay NAQT for stuff). My main observation from that experience is that housewriting your own middle school set probably isn't worth the effort. Writi...
by Corry
Sun Mar 16, 2014 8:09 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: MA Quizbowl Championship -- Amherst Regional (3/8/14)
Replies: 3
Views: 2482

Re: MA Quizbowl Championship -- Amherst Regional (3/8/14)

RyuAqua wrote:
Corry wrote:Final standings for the tournament: first place went to Northampton High School, while Frontier Regional High School was the runner-up. Both teams will move on to the statewide Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT on April 5.
Were there other schools at this event?
Nope. :P
by Corry
Wed Mar 12, 2014 11:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Roundtable Transcript
Replies: 4
Views: 2262

Re: Roundtable Transcript

That was actually a pretty interesting read. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these in the future.

Just one thing:
John wrote:I did that for Regionals last year by reading every book which was going to make it into the lit distribution as a tossup. It was tough.
Holy crap.
by Corry
Sat Mar 08, 2014 3:12 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: MA Quizbowl Championship -- Amherst Regional (3/8/14)
Replies: 3
Views: 2482

Re: MA Quizbowl Championship -- Amherst Regional (3/8/14)

Final standings for the tournament: first place went to Northampton High School, while Frontier Regional High School was the runner-up. Both teams will move on to the statewide Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT on April 5.
by Corry
Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
Replies: 203
Views: 107589

Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle

But since you have an understanding of Wordpress that may be greater than mine: how do you turn comments on for an individual post? Yeah sure. On the "Edit Post" page for an individual post, click "Screen Options" on the upper right-hand corner, and click "Discussion"....
by Corry
Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
Replies: 203
Views: 107589

Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle

I don't think I can change the background without changing the whole layout. According to the theme page for Adelle , you should be able to use a custom background by going to Appearance->Background in the Wordpress settings. Here's a blue version http://i.imgur.com/LCpdtgH.png Make it happen yo
by Corry
Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:30 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
Replies: 203
Views: 107589

Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle

I would like to argue that the current theme for the rankings page makes it look like you're running a pregnancy blog for your baby girl (jokes, jokes, but not actually). To be fair, I now find the website far more pleasing to read. Though it might help if the pink background was changed to blue or...
by Corry
Mon Mar 03, 2014 1:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2014 BELLOCO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 4105

Re: 2014 BELLOCO Specific Question Discussion

Okay, I looked at the packets again. Here are a few more: Seamounts - Was this ever changed? Because this is an absolutely crazy answer line. I did a quick search through the NAQT database-- "seamounts" has never been an answer line (or even a clue!) for any tossup in NAQT, ever. While it'...
by Corry
Mon Mar 03, 2014 2:54 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2014 BELLOCO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 4105

Re: 2014 BELLOCO Specific Question Discussion

I looked at the tossups in BELLOCO back at the beginning of February, after UCSD hosted the Southern California mirror of the set. There were a few specific tossups that I felt were rather ill-conceived. I know some tossups have been fixed already-- here are a few things I don't think were addressed...
by Corry
Tue Feb 25, 2014 1:08 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Does quizbowl need a public Ginseng-analogue?
Replies: 22
Views: 10303

Re: Does quizbowl need a public Ginseng-analogue?

I'd love to see something similar replicated and integrated with a hypothetical suite of software, particularly if it were also browser-accessible. This is getting somewhat off-topic, but I do have software like this almost completed and integrated with Abacus. Features remote statistics upload and...
by Corry
Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:54 pm
Forum: New Collegiate Teams
Topic: Starting Quiz Team at the University of Cincinnati
Replies: 15
Views: 17887

Re: Starting Quiz Team at the University of Cincinnati

Well, one good place to start is to find strong high school players that are now attending Cincinnati. You can find out some relevant information about high school graduates here: http://www.fraughtmachine.com/efcontact/ (The 2013 list is available separately here: http://www.fraughtmachine.com/efco...
by Corry
Sun Feb 23, 2014 1:32 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Appropriate Team Size?
Replies: 1
Views: 3028

Re: Appropriate Team Size?

Back when I was in high school, Arcadia's quiz bowl team had 32 members. Each weekly meeting had about 20 people attend. This is probably an exceptional case (at least in the SoCal circuit), but for particularly large teams where more than 10~ people show up per practice, the easiest thing to do is ...
by Corry
Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:45 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Tournament Attendance Hindered by Coach
Replies: 10
Views: 4120

Re: Tournament Attendance Hindered by Coach

Well, you could always just go independently. A lot of teams in SoCal used to do this. Some teams did so because they were almost wholly student-run, while other teams were just caught in the same situation as you: their coaches simply weren't very enthusiastic about attending more tournaments. Find...
by Corry
Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:36 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2014 SCT: general discussion
Replies: 35
Views: 7282

Re: 2014 SCT: general discussion

The Abbasid leadin probably was easier than most of the history at SCT (it indicated both time and geography pretty quickly). For Louis-Philippe, I think this information is fine for this level: This man's first of two exiles at Twickenham came five years after he deserted the army with Charles-Fra...
by Corry
Sun Feb 09, 2014 6:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2014 SCT: specific questions
Replies: 50
Views: 10950

Re: 2014 SCT: specific questions

Writing a tossup on "Florida" or even "the Florida-Georgia border" would probably have worked better. Would have been suboptimal because of the music bonus in round 3: A. Name that country duo whose other singles include "Get Your Shine On" and "Round Here." ...
by Corry
Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2014 SCT: specific questions
Replies: 50
Views: 10950

Re: 2014 SCT: specific questions

Overall, I really liked the Division II set (although generally, I like pretty much every NAQT set). Off the top of my head, here's a random list of questions that I thought were kind of weird: Sargent Shriver - This seems like an unusually difficult answer line for tossup in a Division II set. I ha...
by Corry
Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
Replies: 39
Views: 7182

Re: Accepting a too specific answer

This argument confounds me. If in your hypothetical tossup someone buzzed in with "Jewish Holidays" after "Diwali" but before "Passover," you would have to give them the points. That's absurd. Yeah, pretty much-- that's a well-recognized flaw in the workaround. Theoret...
by Corry
Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
Replies: 39
Views: 7182

Re: Accepting a too specific answer

Explain to me, please, how this differs from the following situation: A question begins "Diwali, Samhain, Pausha Dashmi, Pesach...". I buzz in at that point and answer "Jewish Holidays." By your logic, I shouldn't be given a neg on this if I didn't recognize the first three holi...
by Corry
Tue Feb 04, 2014 1:16 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
Replies: 39
Views: 7182

Re: Accepting a too specific answer

Assuming that the question is written fairly I suppose this was the main point of contention. When Phil Blessman posed the "Inferno" example, I assumed he was talking about a tossup that didn't sufficiently distinguish whether it was asking for Inferno or The Divine Comedy as a whole. If ...
by Corry
Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
Replies: 39
Views: 7182

Re: Accepting a too specific answer

Buzzing on a Hawthorne tossup that mentions The Marble Faun in the second or third clue doesn't make an answer of William Faulkner, who also wrote a collection known as "The Marble Faun", a right answer (particularly when the prior clues on the Hawthorne tossup are specific to Hawthorne h...
by Corry
Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:10 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
Replies: 39
Views: 7182

Re: Accepting a too specific answer

Edit: Was this actually an issue in this thread? Only pertaining to the other parts? If you buzz in on a clue about Purgatorio and say Inferno, you're 100% wrong with no argument. That argument hasn't actually happened in this thread. The argument is whether or not Inferno should be accepted/prompt...
by Corry
Tue Jan 28, 2014 9:52 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: High School Quizbowl Podcast
Replies: 48
Views: 18337

Re: High School Quizbowl Podcast

Apologies for the unedited part, that has been taken care of now and the podcast can be found here! Comments are very very welcome. https://soundcloud.com/xkcdlover1/high-school-quizbowl-podcast-1 Pretty neat! However, listening to your first section, it sounds like you guys will probably need a So...
by Corry
Sun Jan 19, 2014 9:17 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Accepting a too specific answer
Replies: 39
Views: 7182

Re: Accepting a too specific answer

The way I've always seen it, common-link questions like this should always accept specific answers. That's just how pyramidality works: the fact that I'm buzzing at a certain clue in the question implies that I didn't know any of the earlier clues before it. Otherwise, I would have buzzed at those e...
by Corry
Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:35 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Question about Qualification
Replies: 3
Views: 1998

Re: Question about Qualification

As far as I know, when you qualify for History Bowl nationals, you're just qualifying the teams themselves, not specific players. The varsity and junior varsity teams that Arcadia sent to nationals last year looked nothing like the teams we had at regionals. So technically, I guess you don't actuall...
by Corry
Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:26 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Current Events?
Replies: 3
Views: 2164

Re: Current Events?

Personally, I don't really "study" for current events. I just enjoy reading the news, and I probably spend 5-6 hours a week doing it willingly (so time management-wise, we're actually in the same boat). That being said, if you're just doing it for the studying, there may be ways to save yo...
by Corry
Mon Jan 13, 2014 1:33 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Funding in High School Quiz Bowl
Replies: 10
Views: 3653

Re: Funding in High School Quiz Bowl

Has anymore run a QB team vs. Teacher game during school as a fundraiser? If so, do you have any tips on to plan such an event and please feel free to share your experiences. Thank you! I ran one of these events for Arcadia's history bowl team last year. We sold about 100+ tickets at $2 apiece, and...
by Corry
Fri Jan 10, 2014 12:37 am
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search
Replies: 131
Views: 121175

Re: Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search

The search feature has gotten a lot less effective recently: when I search for something like "James I", it gives me every result in existence with the words "james" and the letter "i" in it, instead of just questions about James I. Was this change intentional?
by Corry
Wed Jan 08, 2014 2:31 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: HSNCT first-timer advice?
Replies: 3
Views: 3894

Re: HSNCT first-timer advice?

I'd agree: http://quizbowlpackets.com is probably your best shot for this kind of scenario. From there, you can download essentially every non-NAQT and non-HSAPQ quiz bowl packet written in the last 4+ years, for free (you can also download HSAPQ packets for free from here ). However, the packets av...
by Corry
Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:49 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ProtoBowl
Replies: 367
Views: 183798

Re: ProtoBowl

when he was intentionally playing terribly So not only is insulting people obviously a bad idea, but having features that encourage people to play badly on purpose is not helping this site's case. I'm not going to defend this "feature" of Protobowl because it's obviously indefensible. I'm...
by Corry
Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ProtoBowl
Replies: 367
Views: 183798

Re: ProtoBowl

Wow, my favorite feature is totally the thing where if you miss too many questions Protobowl sends you an automated message that says (and I am not making this up) you suck like seriously you suck. you are a turd. Jesus H. Christ (the H stands for "high school section"), why on earth woul...
by Corry
Tue Nov 19, 2013 8:49 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Funding in High School Quiz Bowl
Replies: 10
Views: 3653

Re: Funding in High School Quiz Bowl

Did Arcadia do any sort of fundraising? Yes, we ran two quiz bowl tournaments and I ended up selling fruit snacks (fundraising ugh) twice that year, for both the quiz bowl and history bowl team. We probably raised about $3000 total for the two teams last year, though I would have to check with my c...
by Corry
Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:31 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Funding in High School Quiz Bowl
Replies: 10
Views: 3653

Re: Funding in High School Quiz Bowl

I probably paid $1500 total to attend History Bowl Nationals, HSNCT, and about 11 regular-season tournaments last year. This is probably not a normal example, but yeah, my high school definitely did not give us enough money.
by Corry
Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:39 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
Replies: 203
Views: 107589

Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle

2. Arcadia A (CA) (20) – 26.24, 25.14, 24.04
what
by Corry
Wed Nov 13, 2013 9:58 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Young adult literature
Replies: 39
Views: 10072

Re: Distribution

In the IS-A tournament I moderated for this weekend. 6 out of the 11 rounds used contained a Young Adult "Lit" tossup. Of these 6, the conversion stats: 2/6 0/7 0/8 8/8 5/5 5/5 Leaving aside the discussion of whether NAQT should use YA "Lit", if the goal is conversion, then 3 ou...