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by LeoLaw
Mon Nov 13, 2023 9:24 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7118

Re: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion

I negged the psychology tossup on "prisoners" with "religious people" because of the Good Friday experiment. I was a bit salty, but It is just a skill issue since the Good Friday experiment took place in Boston, not Concord. Maybe Concord can be dropped before Timothy Leary to pr...
by LeoLaw
Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:19 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Top 100 Player Ranking
Replies: 25
Views: 11253

Re: Top 100 Player Ranking

Tracy Mirkin is eligible this season. And I think Sean Farrell, a different Floridan, also belongs somewhere on this list.
by LeoLaw
Fri Aug 20, 2021 1:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
Replies: 47
Views: 18566

Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread

Mahavishnu wrote: Thu Aug 19, 2021 11:09 pm I spent 50 minutes spoiling the ending of a volleyball anime to Jonathen.
Is it Haikyu!!?
by LeoLaw
Wed Mar 10, 2021 2:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Maintaining Player Privacy during the Registration Process
Replies: 5
Views: 2882

Re: Maintaining Player Privacy during the Registration Process

It seem to me that there are three issues here, TDs sending out logistic emails, talking to free agents about potentially teaming up, and the misuse of the informations by the TDs. The first one is easily solved by simply using bcc to send the logistic emails as mentioned in the original post. I thi...
by LeoLaw
Tue Dec 15, 2020 11:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl
Replies: 11
Views: 4820

Re: Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl

I’d argue that it is much easier to enforce a camera pointed at a screen than a raised hand. This is very difficult for people who only use laptop(s) like me. I suppose you can join the zoom/discord call with a phone then point its camera at a screen. I would also argue that in the case where the c...
by LeoLaw
Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:42 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: IKEA Southeast Mirror @ Discord (10/24/2020)
Replies: 5
Views: 3759

Re: IKEA Southeast Mirror @ Discord (10/24/2020)

ramblinwreck wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:37 am The field is currently at 12 teams. We are instituting a hard cap here at 12. In addition, bouncebacks will not be used at this mirror.
Can we have a field update?
by LeoLaw
Tue Oct 13, 2020 1:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 7)
Replies: 20
Views: 14481

Re: 2020 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 7)

Are there any updates on the list of mirrors?
by LeoLaw
Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:15 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Replies: 55
Views: 22863

Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)

As an outsider, I want to add here that TDing and staffing a tournament is a huge time commitment and it does not comes with a lot of "selfish upside". People who volunteer to TD a tournament are doing a great service to their respective circuits. We should treat the TDs and staffers of a ...
by LeoLaw
Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
Replies: 48
Views: 32760

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)

Stinkweed Imp wrote: Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:46 am or just use this one
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I have to make this post to make a point on how happy I am seeing this image.
by LeoLaw
Wed May 20, 2020 6:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
Replies: 35
Views: 10450

Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)

Obviously people who are gonna cheat will find a way to cheat even with a web-cam pointing at their face. There is nothing you can do to make remote mirrors as cheating-proof as in person events. But echoing back to the infamous cheating thread from earlier, the camera will at least be an obstacle a...
by LeoLaw
Wed May 06, 2020 11:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
Replies: 35
Views: 10450

Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)

I've never played a Zoom tournament before, is a webcam required?
by LeoLaw
Mon May 04, 2020 9:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Directing bonus answers in Discord tournaments
Replies: 4
Views: 3108

Directing bonus answers in Discord tournaments

I am happy that we got to play bonus questions for the Workshop mirror on Saturday, specially because of the strict policy of giving an answer within 5 seconds which sped up the tournament by a lot. But there were confusions about directing answers in bonuses that I've observed. In real life tournam...
by LeoLaw
Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 147183

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Free Zoom would actually work fine if people wanted to do a tournament by video. The 40 minute limit is not a big deal because you can do one session after another. Does the timer for the 40 minutes limit counts all the waiting time in between rounds? Even if it doesn't, quizbowl rounds can easily ...
by LeoLaw
Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 147183

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

A possible way to mitigate cheating .... A minimally intrusive* way to prevent cheating is simply to have everyone participating in a tournament have their camera on and pointed at their hands. ..... I think this idea could work pretty well, for a problem that seems to be very hard to solve. I do w...
by LeoLaw
Tue Sep 24, 2019 1:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NASAT Available for Mirroring Starting 6/30
Replies: 21
Views: 11274

Re: NASAT Available for Mirroring Starting 6/30

AKKOLADE wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 7:00 pm
wolfram wrote: Mon Aug 26, 2019 12:52 pm Are there still any plans for an online mirror?
Someone told me they were interested in hosting an online mirror and then ghosted on me. I'm hoping that he'll decide to get in contact with me again.
Since an online mirror seems unlikely at this point, when will packets be released?
by LeoLaw
Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
Replies: 23
Views: 15119

Re: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards

What were the details behind the "Lil Wayne" wrong answer? 11. This artist recorded the first LP to sell one million copies; that album by this man features seven songs written at least in part by Lord Burgess and concludes with a song that asserts “ever since the world began / woman was ...
by LeoLaw
Fri Jul 12, 2019 7:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
Replies: 23
Views: 15119

Re: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards

What were the details behind the "Lil Wayne" wrong answer?
by LeoLaw
Thu May 02, 2019 2:40 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 22
Views: 11233

Re: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll

Also, just for funsy, I have some opinions about Florida players awards partially inspired by NBA that my insomniac brain came up with: MVP(Most valuable player): Taylor Harvey Taylor is the Steph Curry of Florida quizbowl, enough said. Taylor is the kind of player who powers a tossup on your favori...
by LeoLaw
Thu May 02, 2019 2:00 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Replies: 59
Views: 30545

Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?

I think cutting other categories to add 1/1 Math is an overreaction to this last ACF Nationals. I am not very good at most categories at the ACF Nationals level, usually when I play tournaments at that level I look forward to the Math questions. While I understand the editors' vision of blurting th...
by LeoLaw
Thu May 02, 2019 1:53 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 22
Views: 11233

Re: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll

13. David Honsinger David never fails to impress me with his early buzzes, usually on extra-canonical topics that make me wonder "how did he know that?" David's specialty seems to be "stuff you've never heard of" and that stuff scales all the way to nats. 14. Katia Diamond Like ...
by LeoLaw
Tue Apr 30, 2019 3:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Replies: 59
Views: 30545

Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?

I think cutting other categories to add 1/1 Math is an overreaction to this last ACF Nationals. I am not very good at most categories at the ACF Nationals level, usually when I play tournaments at that level I look forward to the Math questions. While I understand the editors' vision of blurting the...
by LeoLaw
Tue Apr 16, 2019 11:03 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Replies: 59
Views: 30545

Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?

I support more math in quizbowl, though I am not sure about 1/1 every packet (even though I would love that for selfish reasons). I think certain arguments against more math in quizbowl in the form of "group theory and tensors already comes up in Physics" is missing the point. It might not...
by LeoLaw
Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
Replies: 19
Views: 10752

Re: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT

Would this require some changes at the level of the college/department as well? Our quizbowl club didn't have a faculty adviser kind of thing, but a large part of why we were able to exist for the last four years was the support from the school in general. We are pretty well-funded. There may be an...
by LeoLaw
Tue Feb 05, 2019 2:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
Replies: 19
Views: 10752

Re: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT

As someone who is the president of a quizbowl club at a LAC with a population of about 850, I have a lot to say about this. Beside our school being extremely tiny, our club is pretty unique in that we are the southernmost active college quizbowl team that I know of, but I think other small colleges ...
by LeoLaw
Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:36 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
Replies: 16
Views: 7215

Re: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)

First of all, an important fact here is that the teams involved are New College and UF B, not UCF. Also, the TD might have made a mistake, but I think it is unfair to say that he “shouldn’t be running a meaningful tournament for awhile.” If ACF had a clear guideline for situations like this one, at ...
by LeoLaw
Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Sun God Invitational @ New College of Florida (11/10/18)
Replies: 1
Views: 4868

Re: Sun God Invitational @ New College of Florida (11/10/18)

field update:
NCF: 1 team
UF: 3 teams
UCF: 1 team
spoiler: 1 team
by LeoLaw
Thu Oct 25, 2018 3:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Sun God Invitational @ New College of Florida (11/10/18)
Replies: 1
Views: 4868

Sun God Invitational @ New College of Florida (11/10/18)

The New College Quizbowl Team is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of Sun God on November 10th, 2018. Unfortunately, the 17th is a day when a football game, birthday of an important figure, and a college tour happens at different schools in Florida, thus I can only do it on Novemb...
by LeoLaw
Mon Sep 03, 2018 1:30 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
Replies: 38
Views: 36495

Re: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018

Will there be a Florida mirror? Ideally at either UF or UCF? The first packet submission deadline is next week and I would prefer not to submit a pack without the knowledge that we can attend this tournament. The turn out for the Florida mirror last year was very good and there is no reason not the ...
by LeoLaw
Sat Aug 04, 2018 6:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Small Circuits, High Schools Teams, and ACF Fall
Replies: 14
Views: 8535

Re: Small Circuits, High Schools Teams, and ACF Fall

Have you tried asking the tournament head editor for exemption privately before? I have found that they are usually okay with it as long as it makes the field better.
by LeoLaw
Mon Apr 30, 2018 11:51 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 3385

Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) Specific Question Discus

- There was a bonus about functions whose squares are integrable, but it didn't have a note to accept things like "L2 integrable" or "in L2," which is the more formal way of talking about those functions (as opposed to "square integrable.") I agree, L2 integrable shoul...
by LeoLaw
Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Your Favorite Question
Replies: 45
Views: 30845

Re: Your Favorite Question

I don't have access to the tossup but someone wrote a tossup on "action" from physics at D2 ICT last year, I was very delighted.
by LeoLaw
Thu Jan 18, 2018 5:21 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
Replies: 37
Views: 26066

Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read

I'd really like to reject this idea that there are parts of the literature canon "worth the time to read." Everyone has different tastes in literature, and saying that certain books or authors aren't worth the time to read is just beyond silly. Agree. Dostoevsky is my favorite author but ...
by LeoLaw
Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Mons Mathstrosity II: Even Primes Redux [Announcement]
Replies: 29
Views: 12689

Re: Mons Mathstrosity II: Even Primes Redux [Announcement]

Very happy to see this happening. I didn't play the first Math Monstrosity because I can only do it on Skype and I am not the biggest fan of Skype bowl. But I did play/read through all the packets. While I am not a big fan of the fact that my reader was struggling to read the nicely complied Latex M...
by LeoLaw
Wed Sep 13, 2017 12:56 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn Bowl at New College of Florida on October 28th, 2017
Replies: 0
Views: 1793

Penn Bowl at New College of Florida on October 28th, 2017

New College of Florida will be hosting a mirror of 2017 Penn Bowl on October 28th, here is the link to the original post: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19987 . Location and Schedule: While the tournament is set to be on the New College campus, we have yet to finalize the e...
by LeoLaw
Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:54 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Nationalities of Title Winners
Replies: 8
Views: 16231

Re: Nationalities of Title Winners

I remember someone telling me that Matt Bollinger is from Hong Kong, that doesn't necessarily mean he is a citizen of HK though, non-Chinese don't usually have it.
by LeoLaw
Thu Aug 03, 2017 7:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2017?
Replies: 1
Views: 2743

ACF Fall 2017?

The Fall semester is near and there is still no post about ACF Fall this coming semester. I was wondering if ACF Fall is taking a hiatus or possibly not existing anymore. This is based on the fact that there is a lot of possibly more desirable tournaments coming up.
by LeoLaw
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NASAT Weekend at Valencia College (August 19th)
Replies: 34
Views: 18364

Re: NASAT Weekend at Valencia College (August 19th)

TDing a tournament was a stressful burden to my experience. If anyone is willing to take the burden to make the n-many teams who play to tournament happy, I don't think people with such pure intention would be cheating. Down here in the southeast we all know each other very well, it is hard to cheat...
by LeoLaw
Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Tournament is a Crime @ New College of Florida (4/1/17)
Replies: 1
Views: 1921

Re: This Tournament is a Crime @ New College of Florida (4/1

The price and location of the tournament was adjusted.
by LeoLaw
Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Tournament is a Crime @ New College of Florida (4/1/17)
Replies: 1
Views: 1921

This Tournament is a Crime @ New College of Florida (4/1/17)

Hello all: I am happy to announce that New College of Florida will be mirroring (This) Tournament is a Crime on April 1st. This is an open tournament. Location and time The tournament will be held at New College, in the Academic center, which is number 18 on this map (https://newcollege.smugmug.com/...