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- Sun Nov 19, 2017 4:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO II Difficulty and General Discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10213
Re: WAO II Difficulty and General Discussion
I actually quite enjoyed this set, especially the lit, VFA and history. The lit and VFA I thought did a really good job of clueing things that people engage with organically and things were generally described well. On the one hand, the lit clueing was perhaps on the hard end. On the other hand, I t...
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 4:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PSA - Don't be a Luddite
- Replies: 62
- Views: 30642
Re: PSA - Don't be a Luddite
We used this at Oxford yesterday and most rooms didn't have two moderators and the tournament ran to schedule. Many people (including me) preferred using this system to paper scoring, and I think it is probably faster. I don't think anyone but me had used it before, and no one looked at how to use i...
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 10:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: There Will Be Stock Clues
- Replies: 31
- Views: 18950
Re: There Will Be Stock Clues
This was the most fun I've had playing a quizbowl tournament. Thank you so much to John and Max for putting it together. I really hope someone else writes another food tournament soon.
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preseason Poll
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20391
Re: Preseason Poll
Cambridge also loses Evan Lynch, who top scored for them at ACF Nationals and BSQC. Evan will be at Southampton for a PhD, making them a threat on the UK circuit.Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: Cambridge gains Jason Golfinos
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: You're Not Laughing Now, Are You? - A British Side Event
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3208
Re: You're Not Laughing Now, Are You? - A British Side Event
I wonder which three post-Blair PMs will be tossed up.
- Wed May 31, 2017 5:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59586
Re: 2017 HSNCT discussion
In 1990 this country's Cighid orphanage became notorious for its terrible conditions. This country banned abortion and contraception in Decree 770. In 1989 mass protests in Timisoara led to the fall of this country's longtime Communist leader, who was (*) executed on television alongside his wife E...
- Tue May 23, 2017 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UK Player Poll 2017: Now With More Tweed
- Replies: 27
- Views: 19230
Re: UK Player Poll 2017: Now With More Tweed
Quite French, actually. He's literally named after the character from Le Chanson de Roland.Muriel Axon wrote:Meanwhile, Americans will be conducting the "most stereotypically British-sounding name" poll, in which Oliver Sweetenham is an early favorite.
- Mon May 22, 2017 9:22 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455661
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Sorry, it got put on the backburner due to finals. I'll write it for early summer.Tornrak wrote:Was this finished? Is anyone else interested in playing this?Short-beaked echidna wrote:I'm writing an extremely hard packet about early church history, available from Sunday.
- Sun May 07, 2017 6:51 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: 2017-18 Tournament Schedule: Planning, Discussion, etc.
- Replies: 40
- Views: 43212
Re: 2017-18 Tournament Schedule: Planning, Discussion, etc.
Am free to write/edit lit/phil/VFA for anything regular difficulty or harder. If you enjoyed my WAO work feel free to PM or FB me to discuss.
- Thu May 04, 2017 3:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Subject-specific player polls
- Replies: 29
- Views: 16588
Re: Subject-specific player polls
The only person who beat George to bio at Nationals this year was Eric, and, as Will said in the player poll thread, we had 26ppb on bio at Nats, so I think George deserves a look-in here. He also got the chemistry tossup in every playoff game except those against Stanford (who have a chemistry PhD ...
- Mon May 01, 2017 5:21 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455661
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I'm writing an extremely hard packet about early church history, available from Sunday.
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 3:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Poll
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8314
Re: Postseason Poll
We came 8th at Nats and Berkeley A came 9th, not the other way around.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts
- Replies: 36
- Views: 23805
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts
Athena Kern and I are teaming up for this.
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 3:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 13298
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime General Discussion
Yeah, the Oates bonus--those are pretty memorable last words but it's very, very hard to pull the exact verbiage. I might have asked for a portion of the words ("Oates said he was just going outside and he may be what?") or given the words and asked for the situation. Amusingly, at the UK...
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 4:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime - 02/25/17
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16101
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime - 02/25/17
Well, I assume they're going to get more specific in the private discussion forum, but I also think that this sort of drive-by mockery isn't exactly productive. I thought the set wasn't perfect, but it was enjoyable and particularly in some areas was really very strong. I agree my comment is unnece...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (T)TIaC: Discussion of language and vulgarity
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5181
2017 (T)TIaC: Discussion of language and vulgarity
Perhaps I'm a prig, but this set's sense of humour seemed to be that of an 11 year old boy. A good way to study would have just to look for instances of the words "cock" or "butt" in various categories. Also, many of us at the UK site felt that there was some racially careless la...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 20299
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
The accordion bonus said it was a wind instrument with a keyboard, and I don't think many people are going to anything other than guess accordion when they hear that description.
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 6:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime - 02/25/17
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16101
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime - 02/25/17
"It will adhere very closely to the difficulty and stylistic feel of last season's critically-acclaimed "stanford housewrite" set."
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- Mon Feb 20, 2017 9:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30906
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
There's not much point in saying this, for obvious reasons, but you can impute whatever motivations for that first post you want, but it really had nowt to with demonstrating some weird sense of superiority, whatever that means. The fact that that accusation seemed so off-base to my is why I thought...
- Mon Feb 20, 2017 7:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30906
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
Having had some time to think I'm going to reframe much of what I said. I'll recant all the points about things not being philosophy, or whatever, since that's clearly stylistic and coursework based, and the point about the interdisciplinary nature of the edges of philosophy is a good one. I'll chal...
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30906
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
I haven't seen all the packets so didn't realise there was a narrative TU on a platonic dialogue. Had I known you can rest assured it would have been listed in my syllabus of errors, too.
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30906
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
I'll reply tomorrow to this very mean spirited post, but for now will point out that "Meanwhile, quizbowl (and the rest of the world!) has long treated Taoism as an important branch of Eastern philosophy, and George Santayana is a guy who is famous as fuck, important at least historically, and ...
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30906
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - thanks and general discussion
Philosophy commentary (with assistance from Alston Boyd). The causes of the perception described above here were of a very different and much more explicable sort than in lit and phil, which is why I'll make this post first. I will do my best to read the other categories through soon and try to work...
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 6:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13506
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - thanks and general discussion
I appreciate the points made by you, Andrew and Stephen, and I have no disagreement with you in principle, and while reading your list of clues/answers here it looks reasonable. Nevertheless I cannot shake the sentiment I had (one that was echoed by other players at the site, and apparently other pe...
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 1:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - thanks and general discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 13506
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - thanks and general discussion
I have rather mixed feelings about this tournament. I thought the history, visual OFA, myth and religion were overall well executed, and people at my site seemed to enjoy the chemistry. However, the literature, painting and philosophy did not feel quite up to snuff, perhaps largely for reasons idios...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 11:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 81148
Re: 2017 ICT bids
I extremely do not have a horse in this race, but the replies to John seem to rather miss the mark in ways demonstrated most clearly by Fred's odd post: The onus is on NAQT, not on the teams. If you earn a bid to a tournament, you should be able to accept it without criticism of that action. What is...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: FLOREAT (Global Announcement)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17730
Re: FLOREAT (Global Announcement)
I moderated at the UK site of this tournament and it was an awful lot of fun. The set is filled with a lot of great ideas and whimsy, so I strongly recommend people mirror it!
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
- Replies: 131
- Views: 57345
Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017
Would the St. Louis site not have been twice as near, in that case?Cheynem wrote:Charlie is from Kansas City; I assume he happened to be home when SCT was running. I also have thoughts on this topic, but I'll wait for a full thread.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gauging interest for late spring Oxbridge mirror in NYC
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6983
Re: Gauging interest for late spring Oxbridge mirror in NYC
Are there any significant differences between the Oxford and Cambridge sets? The Oxford one has been entirely written and already used for a tournament, while the Cambridge won't be used for its first mirror for about a month. Edit: Oxford one is 20/20 with 6 line TUs, Cambridge is 24/24 with 5 lin...
- Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3828
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
Yeah, I'm not sure what evidence is being (or could possibly be) adduced for the claim that "middle parts seem to have been chosen with the philosophy that anything that comes up at hard tournaments is fair." Of the things pointed out in my categories, I think a lot more of it is about a m...
- Thu Jan 26, 2017 12:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Joey's stuff (phil, painting, Brit lit, &VisOFA)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2037
Re: Joey's stuff (philosophy, painting & British lit [&VisOF
I noticed there was an usually large amount of ethics tossups. It was an interesting break from the more text-focused or thinker-focused tossups most people write to hear harder questions on things like compatiblism, even if that meant I got less questions or negged (which I did a lot of). Ummm, wh...
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Religion and Other Academic
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3046
Re: 2017 WAO: Religion and Other Academic
The tossup on sausage, which I assume was Geography or Other, did not accept or prompt on "bologna" despite including a clue on Lebanon bologna. The answerline actually said to accept specific types of sausage, so that's down to moderator error. As a very enlightened vegetarian, I did not...
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Religion and Other Academic
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3046
Re: 2017 WAO: Religion and Other Academic
The answerline actually said to accept specific types of sausage, so that's down to moderator error.Adelaide Glaciarium wrote:The tossup on sausage, which I assume was Geography or Other, did not accept or prompt on "bologna" despite including a clue on Lebanon bologna.
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Joey's stuff (phil, painting, Brit lit, &VisOFA)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2037
Re: Joey's stuff (philosophy, painting & British lit [&VisOF
Thanks!cruzeiro wrote:Errata: Tom Thomson died (in 1917) before the Group of Seven "officially" formed in 1920; as such he's only associated with/influenced it, rather than actually being a member.
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Joey's stuff (phil, painting, Brit lit, &VisOFA)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2037
2017 WAO: Joey's stuff (phil, painting, Brit lit, &VisOFA)
This is my first time editing a widely played set to completion (apologies for previous flakes) and I had a few ideas I wanted to stick to, some common across the categories, others more specific to one category. Painting --- I aimed to ask about trends, painters and movements, not specific painting...
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Brief Wondrous Tournament of WAO (January 21st-after)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 23740
Re: The Brief Wondrous Tournament of WAO (January 21st-after
The discussion forum has now been created.
- Mon Jan 23, 2017 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Midseason Poll
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7278
Re: Midseason Poll
Also the UK mirror of EFT: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... ete_stats/
- Sat Jan 21, 2017 4:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO @ Oxford
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2694
Re: WAO @ Oxford
Congratulations to Oxford A for going 10-0 to win the tournament outright. Congratulations also to the Duck Walk Krew for going 6-4 to claim second place. The race for top scorer was incredibly close, with the top four being within 2.5PPG, so congrats to: 1) Ian Bayley, 4-45-13, 44.50ppg 2) Spence W...
- Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6055
Re: Best Albums of 2016
thisThe Hilarious House of Frightenstein wrote:Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper
Malibu by Anderson .Paak
Blonde by Frank Ocean
We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service by A Tribe Called Quest
- Sat Dec 31, 2016 5:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6055
Re: Best Albums of 2016
Chicago Regional #1 Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper #6 Wildflower by The Avalanches Oxford Regional #1 A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead #3 Malibu by Anderson .Paak Los Angeles Regional #1 Blonde by Frank Ocean #2 Blackstar by David Bowie Queens Regional #1 We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your ...
- Thu Dec 29, 2016 8:40 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: How to Study Quiz Bowl at the College Level
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11610
Re: How to Study Quiz Bowl at the College Level
The basic cycle for getting good at a knowledge based activity is, yeah, assemble information -> remember information. Your method, assuming you've found it successful so far, should continue to be effective. Make sure you also read books as part of the "assemble information" step.
- Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6055
Re: Best Albums of 2016
Chicago Regional #1 Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper #5 untitled unmastered. by Kendrick Lamar #2 22, A Million by Bon Iver #6 Wildflower by The Avalanches Oxford Regional #1 A Moon Shaped Pool by Radiohead #5 Puberty 2 by Mitski #2 Teens of Denial by Car Seat Headrest #3 Malibu by Anderson .Paak...
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 12:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6055
Re: Best Albums of 2016
Chicago Regional #1 Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper #9 HEAVN by Jamila Woods #4 A Seat At The Table by Solange #5 untitled unmastered. by Kendrick Lamar #3 You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen #6 Wildflower by The Avalanches #2 22, A Million by Bon Iver #7 Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks by ...
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 8:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Books You Read in 2016
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1272
Re: Best Books You Read in 2016
I had a think about fiction and here's a list of some really amazing books I read this year that I probably cannot ask about at any level: Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina Brett Easton Ellis and Other Dogs by Lina Wolff Nocilla Dream by Agustín Fernández Mallo Playthings by Alex Pheby Feeding Tim...
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 8:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6055
Re: Best Albums of 2016
Schmilco, Masterpiece, The Colour in Anything and Views.
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 6:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Books You Read in 2016
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1272
Re: Best Books You Read in 2016
Fancy Desserts by Brooks Headley is probably the best book I read this year. It's a totally game-changing approach to the cookbook.
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 8:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO @ Oxford
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2694
WAO @ Oxford
http://i.imgur.com/44U6WjZ.png Oxford will be hosting a mirror of WAO somewhere, hopefully in Magdalen College, but this is TBD. Information about the set can be found here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19306 Registration Message me on facebook or email me at d [dot] joey [d...
- Sun Nov 27, 2016 3:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016 @ Oxford 11/26
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2307
Re: EFT 2016 @ Oxford 10/26
This happened yesterday. We played a 10 team RR and split 4/3/3 for the playoffs. Oxford A and B went into the top bracket with 1 loss each, while Cambridge A and B made it with 2 losses each. Oxford A won all their games, while B only lost to A, so A took an advantage into the finals which they won...
- Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 Terrapin Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 71
- Views: 36531
Re: 2016 Terrapin Specific Question Discussion and Errata
The (excellent) tossup on Dickinson's 'graves' misquotes "I died for beauty, but was scarce" as saying "as kinsmen met at night" when it should be "as kinsmen met a night"
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 11:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 Terrapin General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7531
Re: 2016 Terrapin General Discussion
I really enjoyed this set. It hit the difficulty target right on the nose and strikes me as a very good model of what regular should look like if the goal of easing it up marginally is carried forward.