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I remember brainstorming a bunch of these categories with my own self-interest in mind, so I'm looking for a team for this. No guarantees, though, other than my assurance that I will certainly underperform relative to your expectations.

I'm joining the American exodus to Oxford in the fall, and I'll be staying for the rest of the year too. #shoethetabs?

Has anyone heard of this brand (Rolls) ? I saw a teacher on Donors Choose requesting these today. They look halfway decent, but I've just never heard of anyone using them. If it turns out that they work and hold up decently well, they'd be a pretty cheap option. Definitely encountered these at some...

Quite frankly - the opinions of those who have always kept a wide berth of NHBB (except to critique it, and usually unfairly at that) are not nearly as important to me as those of the top teams and coaches who play NHBB. I mean, do you ever think that maybe you could get more people into that latte...

I SEE YOU REGIONAL #1 Miracle On Ice #2 Go Crazy, Folks #6 Yes, Sir #5 MAY DAY MAY DAY [revenge for beating Secretariat] STOP IT, MIGGY REGIONAL #8 Plano East vs. John Tyler [I done wet my britches when I saw this matchup. Oh well.] #2 Havlicek Stole the Ball #11 The Double #12 Joe Carter COUNTRY ST...

I SEE YOU REGIONAL #1 Miracle On Ice #2 Go Crazy, Folks #3 I Don't Believe What I Just Saw #13 Secretariat #5 MAY DAY MAY DAY #6 Yes, Sir #10 Johnny the Jet Rodgers #9 Holy Roller STOP IT, MIGGY REGIONAL #1 The Giants Win the Pennant #15 Nuts and Bolts, We Got Screwed [had never heard of this one be...

How many Bible questions were in this set? It didn't seem like particularly many.

(But Aidan should really be the one posting in this thread.) (Ask and ye shall receive, but I will say that the person we really need here is Evan—more times than I care to remember, he has reduced me to a sputtering mess of profanities by outbuzzing me on some architectural topic, which he can do ...

If anyone is looking to fill a spot in a hotel room for Saturday night, let me know, and I'll gladly pay my share.

Most Protestant Christian religions really just don't have many practices or rituals in everyday life. On the other hand, Catholic life, depending on how observant you were raised or currently practice, is full of lots of great ritual stuff that hasn't yet been mined too heavily for questions. Quiz...

I think Daniel's post about how easy it is to just contact Madden and set things up is actually a big problem and a perfect example of what I'm talking about: top-down makes the short term easy, but I just don't think it's sustainable. Is Madden personally going to oversee every detail of his empire...

I think something that can help people understand the issues at hand here is to think about the completely opposite ways in which quizbowl and NHBB are organized on a large scale. NHBB is totally top-down. David Madden shows up in 2010 with, as Matt says, "hella money" and starts throwing ...

Jacques Derrida's friend Jeff Kipnis claims to have invented the use of 20 questions as the standard while he was at Georgia Tech. Joe Wells wrote a very interesting post about his interview with Jeff, who teaches at Ohio State now: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=282850#p282850 ED...

Sorry if the answer is here somewhere and I've just missed it, but was there ever a final statement from Mike and Cody about whether or not We Have Ever Been Modern is (1) taking place this summer in general, and whether (2) it is taking place at the Richmond site in particular? If not, do we know w...

These narratives are delightful, and I hope more people make more of them. Matt Jackson would never do that...he sure didn't at NAQT States in 2010. I need a little more edge. I can't say I'm surprised, but it's certainly heartwarming to know that all these years later, that game still motivates the...

The biggest concern here is transportation, since it can be absurdly expensive and we're stumped on how to reduce it. She also insists that van-based or parent-based transport is a liability and the district will have a problem with it (any lawyers out there to refute...?) Can you elaborate for us ...

Hey Nathan, welcome to the forums. Here's a good place to start reading up on NAC's various issues. I'm sure others will jump in to expand as well.

I believe Aidan Mehigan is quite good at lit, as well? As you saw in our game at Nats, I'm pretty good at questions that consist of throwing lines of poetry at the players, because I read and memorize a lot of poetry for fun. SUBMIT had tons of delightful questions of this type, so I did inordinate...

I think a lot of the posts in this thread take this thing way too seriously. This is my opinion. We've been through this, I thought, in thread after thread of player poll results. The player poll is by nature a silly thing with vagaries that will inevitably leave everyone unsatisfied. As John Lawre...

Aw, Max, lighten up. Rob got that my post wasn't really an attempt at substantive argument, but just a taking up of the Marnoldian burden of loudly, grouchily, resignedly advocating for Rafael in the face of the near-certainty that he'll be underrated. Sorry if that was a little obtuse; I lack Marno...

Matthew J wrote:my teammate is really good and you should vote for them or else you are literally damned to two million years of purgatory at minimum

This is actually what I meant to say.

Hilariously none of Columbia had been even mentioned yet. Yeah, just a little heads-up: if you don't vote for Rafael in this poll you have garbage quizbowl opinions and should feel bad. He's obviously subject to the "doesn't post and therefore is underrated" effect, but let's try not to c...

Haha look at this guy and his incomplete posts FZ pls I'm leaving this here to punish you for that 8000 word post that teases a bunch of stories but tells none of them. I've texted Jacob about the urgency of this situation—hopefully he'll fill everyone in shortly. This is truly a tale not to be mis...

Ike informed me that The Fifth Column tossup was written by Zeke and was kept because it amused the editors. This is not a good justification for having a question, especially not at a Nationals tournament, especially not during the last stages of the playoff rounds where every tossup in every game...

Second, I do agree that the answer space is wider for architecture, but I think clue space is not actually much wider. Architecture questions tend to rely on quick physical descriptions of a building followed by its name or clues about what objects by other artists are located in which buildings. I...

Re: STIMPY at Yale (4/4/15) WLH? The shitty building Fall was at?

WLH? The shitty building Fall was at?

For your amusement: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/

This tournament mostly happened and then slowly dissolved. Results and stats to come tomorrow.

Update: this tournament is hard.

Grace wrote:Yale does have space on its teams, but we're a little loath to pay the "open team" registration fee. How would taking on a free agent work, payment-wise, Aidan?

If the team doesn't all go to the same school, that's an open team, as far as I know.

historical pun wrote:I'm in the area and might be interested in playing this on Saturday... any update on what teams look like or if there's space for a (bad) free agent?

As far as I know, all teams currently have four players, though feel free to ask around.

Our train leaves at 7pm, so if the tournament runs late, running Eyes after wouldn't be great. Any chance we could run at least part of it during lunch and order pizza or something? I have the feeling that trying to run Eyes during lunch might be the thing that makes the tournament run late, though...

Ok, seems like we have a good enough handful of people interested in doing this. Because we should be able to run Eyes fairly quickly, with a small number of people in a single room, I will advocate for powering through without a dinner break. Unless interest expands significantly, let's plan on run...

What is the interest level in playing Eyes at this site?

Results: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/

Penn A cleared the field to win DI, Yale A was the UG champ, and MIT B won DII. Thanks to everyone for coming out!

As someone who also went to a public elementary school Virginia, I don't think I've ever heard of this, though Fairfax County is far from rural. Hey MattBo or TJ kids, we didn't have this, right?

At some point, could someone familiar with Ann Arbor post a little travel guide for the rest of us? I'm sure there are teams who are wondering about the best way to get to campus from the airport and the easiest places to stay nearby. Options that don't involve renting a car, if they exist, would be...

For the Columbia team's end-of-semester party, I wrote a packet on architectural trash that I could read for this. If you enjoyed my architecture tournament's tossups on _Luigi's Mansion_ or the _House of Usher_, you may enjoy this packet.

FIELD:

Alston+Yetman+Chip Horton
Yale x2 (2 buzzers)
Harvard (3 buzzers)
Rutgers (1 buzzer)
Alex Nero
NYU old-timers
Actual NYU

The quizbowl team of Columbia University is pleased to invite you to the northeast site of George Oppen. This tournament will take place in Hamilton Hall on February 21st, 2015. Please be there by 8:30; rounds will begin at 9:00 and we would like to start as promptly as possible. Please e-mail me at...

The quizbowl team of Columbia University is pleased to invite you to the northeast site (or one of the northeast sites) of this year's NAQT SCT. This tournament will take place in Hamilton Hall on February 7th, 2015. Please be there by 8:30; rounds will begin at nine and we would like to start as pr...

Unfortunately, our request for additional rooms was denied, so we will be unable to expand the field significantly. We may be able to expand the field to 30 teams if we determine that we can run an efficient tournament without using the 15th room as a dedicated control room, and a final decision wi...

But even in the preceding week, both the junior and the "captain" refused to let me describe my duties for the team as captain on a college application, which I feel is only fair for a person who is performing all duties not only as a player, but as a captain and coach. I have a solution,...

Is it safe to assume that this tournament, as is usual for Yale tournaments of recent vintage, will start somewhat after 9:00 in order to allow teams to take the MetroNorth train that arrives at 9:07 and still make it to the tournament on time? This seems particularly relevant if this tournament is ...

The real bedrock of mathematics and mathematical understanding isn't computation it's the theorems. It's infinitely more important for a budding mathematician to be able to connect concepts and prove theorems than it is to be able to quickly compute integrals, derivatives, etc.. The only reason mat...

Thus far, I have received one bid from a potential site in the Northeast and one from a potential site in the Mid-Atlantic. I'm going to leave bids open until Monday, August 11th. At that point, any bids I have received that are the only ones in their regions, will be awarded the site for their reg...

Columbia would like to claim December 6th for a BISB mirror. Announcement forthcoming. Edit: and since Bloomfield is hosting that first week of March, I guess we'll tentatively shoot for having our spring high school event on February 28th, though if Bloomfield falls through again I think we'd like ...

Cheynem wrote:My suggestion might be for clubs to run informal or intramural mirrors of older sets that their younger players haven't played.

I'll second this recommendation. Columbia ran an intramural tournament two or three weeks into last year, and it definitely helped retention.

When you look at history, its the moments that stand the test of time. Leaving aside the rest of your questionable argument about the merit of studying sports in an academic context, this sentiment is a pretty unsophisticated way of approaching history. All sorts of history (including a lot of inte...

Finally, the tournament always concluded with everyone going to the Maryland student union bowling alley, where the Maryland players of that era (who all, mysteriously, appeared to have taken a college course on bowling) displayed their impeccable form. To build a tangent off a tangent, here's anot...

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