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- Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48799
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
If I recall correctly, the answerline of French Resistance was repeated in two games which I played, was this intentional?
- Fri Apr 20, 2018 3:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2018)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 18732
Re: Where are you going to college next year? (2018)
I am going to Case Western and I definitely plan on playing in some capacity.
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2018 Rules Changes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4089
Re: PACE NSC 2018 Rules Changes
Is this limited to content protests or procedural protests as well?Geriatric trauma wrote:Yes, but only within a minute of the end of the game.Cheynem wrote:Sorry if this is obvious, but does this mean you can file a protest on something in the first half after the game is over?
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:52 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Studying History and Art
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13360
Re: Studying History and Art
I'm kinda interested, how much do you guys study per day? On normal days I study probably around 1-2 hours, but on days before tournaments, I study around 3-4. I really enjoy history so even if I'm not studying exclusively for quiz bowl by reading packets etc., I'm reading some book that helps me g...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 4:28 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
- Replies: 64
- Views: 55025
Re: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
Note to moderators: let people have fun playing quiz bowl and encourage their teammates as long as it doesn't get into gloat-y territory. As long as they're not hurting anything or impeding the timely progress of the tournament (which Rishik's team clearly wasn't), don't do any of this. Neither you...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:52 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
- Replies: 64
- Views: 55025
Re: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
A lot of responses on this thread seem to indicate that a large portion of players who are very involved in quiz bowl circuits think that toxicity comes from other quiz bowl players, but this has not been my experience at all. This is likely because the quiz bowl community is centered around the Ill...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Auburn Invitational Tournament-2/17/18 (Auburn, AL) IS-168
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8639
Re: Auburn Invitational Tournament-2/17/18 (Auburn, AL) IS-1
Full field update barring any drops or an unexpected expansion: Varsity will be split into two preliminary brackets of 8, which I will post publicly the week before the tournament so that coaches may let me know if they believe I've made an egregious error. After preliminary rounds (and lunch), tea...
- Mon Jan 01, 2018 8:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Gimmicky Tossups
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6936
Re: Gimmicky Tossups
I played in a tournament at Virginia Tech a few years ago where we had a packet of "Before and After" questions, like the category on Wheel of Fortune For example: Straight Outta Compton Scattering, The Beverly Hill-Billy Joe Armstrong, Bruce Wayne Brady, etc The idea is that you write th...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 2:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On the Predictive Value of HSQBRank + the Poll
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13581
Re: On the Predictive Value of HSQBRank + the Poll
- While I thought, at first, that the poll should be anonymous, I now agree with Gabe that people should be willing to stand by their votes. I was taken to task on FB last year by a player who thought I didn't vote his team high enough, but I shared my reasoning with him... and we both survived the...
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND 0 PART 1 VOTING NOW: Best Song of the 2000s Bracke
Little Lion Man – Mumford and Sons vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson 1234 – Feist vs. Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story) – !!! vs. Do...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 4:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Movies of the year!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1341
Re: Movies of the year!
I thought Hitman's Bodyguard was a good fun movie.
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 10:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2062
Re: Specific question discussion
17. In one of these works, a character has an encounter with Madame Miyagi while actually pursuing her daughter Makiko. Ermes Marana translated several of these works, and Professor Uzzi-Tuzii helps translate one of them from the country of Cimmeria. Silas (*) Flannery writes one of these works, an...
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Difficulty discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 782
Re: Difficulty discussion
Yeah, you're probably right. Like I said, my memory is terrible.Thiccasso's Guernthicca wrote: Also, wasn't the dead parents tossup Round 2? I'm pretty sure I powered that one off of jesa.
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Difficulty discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 782
Re: Difficulty discussion
I didn't get the jury selection tossup, but it was so awesome I'd be opposed to cutting it. I don't really see anything all that non-canonical in that round other than that and the dead parents tossup.
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 5:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2062
Re: Specific question discussion
I also didn't really like the first line of the Peloponnesian war tossup. The Kagan clue is either an easy power for someone who knows it and not useful at all for someone who doesn't. It's not big enough to require a fix - just a note for improvement.
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Difficulty discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 782
Re: Difficulty discussion
I will echo Wonyoung's sentiments by saying that I thought power-marks were very fair and mostly consistent on this set. Like Raynor stated, last year's set was very power stingy. Moving the power mark a little farther forward was very justified and helped balance the difficulty and fairness of the...
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 4:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2062
Re: Specific question discussion
9. A prominent journalist of this ethnicity was killed during a Vietnam War rally when a police tear gas canister struck him in the head. MEChA campaigned for the rights of these people who were discriminated against following the Sleepy Lagoon murder. Immigration from this group was curtailed by O...
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 2062
Re: Specific question discussion
Can I see the question with the answerline "Mexican" please?
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 10:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2017-2018
- Replies: 38
- Views: 21156
Re: Alabama 2017-2018
There was a singular fine arts question on the *redacted* but that's it.AKKOLADE wrote:Is it true this set didn't have any fine arts in it at all?quizbowllee wrote:SMART III: The SMART Knight Rises at West Point will officially be on Sept. 30.
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- Sun Oct 15, 2017 5:00 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Flashcard Resources
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15039
Re: Flashcard Resources
Does anyone get this error when importing? An error occurred in an add-on. Please post on the add-on forum: https://anki.tenderapp.com/discussions/add-ons Traceback (most recent call last): File "aqt\main.py", line 764, in onImport File "aqt\importing.py", line 272, in onImport F...
- Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 110
- Views: 113462
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
I wrote a little script that takes the json output from QuizDB bonuses and imports them into Anki (so long as you use the Anki Json Importer plugin available at https://github.com/fxxing/anki-json-importer). If anyone's interested i can get this converted into something consumable. That would be an...
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:05 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: New Alabama Quiz Bowl Team
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10675
Re: New Alabama Quiz Bowl Team
http://home.hiwaay.net/~asca/invitationals.html Here is the tourney list on the official ASCA website, this will include tournaments which don't run on NAQT questions (NAQT is the biggest provider of quiz bowl questions). The SMART III tournament (about 3 hours away from you) appears to have a larg...
- Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:49 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: New site for practice with quiz generator
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7024
Re: New site for practice with quiz generator
I'm just going to point out that you did lose that 1.the return of AHAN wrote:Give me one Betmay on the under. Too much value to pass. Kind of like if someone offer 10,000 to 1 on McGregor (vs. Mayweather). Kind of have to throw something on that. You know?
- Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:31 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: New site for practice with quiz generator
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7024
Re: New site for practice with quiz generator
This is almost useless unless you want to study for NAC. People playing actually pyramidal quiz bowl will not benefit from knowing "In what decade did Josef Stalin die?"
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59980
Re: 2017 HSNCT discussion
If you don't mind me asking, what was the most powered and most negged question?
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 12:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 105
- Views: 59980
Re: 2017 HSNCT discussion
What was the conversion on the Peron tossup in the second playoff round? I feel like every team that made it that far should have powered that one.
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
- Replies: 37
- Views: 26254
Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
Great Expectations, on the other hand, is not so great. Can confirm, horrible book, probably the worst I've had to read for school. It's really long and slow-moving. I thought Great Expectations was alright. I definitely needed some time to really think about it before I understood it. I guess I ca...
- Fri May 26, 2017 12:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: An update on the state of the Discord
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8168
Re: An update on the state of the Discord
Is this discord intended for college players only or are there plans to integrate high school players into this?
- Fri May 12, 2017 4:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2016-2017
- Replies: 84
- Views: 43321
Re: Alabama 2016-2017
Nationals is almost here! With that comes another player poll. https://goo.gl/forms/jaASKxzLW7L6CDkc2 Please rank teams in the region and not just the state so these results will be actually useful when they are compiled later.
- Wed May 10, 2017 9:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Great Quizometrical Survey
- Replies: 37
- Views: 27373
Re: Great Quizometrical Survey
I'm down for a round two if you want me back.
- Thu May 04, 2017 8:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Articles about quiz bowl
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3917
Re: Articles about quiz bowl
This is honestly how I describe quiz bowl to anyone who asks.Sit Room Guy wrote: "It's like Jeopardy, but in teams"
-Penn Online
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Great Quizometrical Survey
- Replies: 37
- Views: 27373
Re: Great Quizometrical Survey
I noticed that no Louisiana teams got votes in here, which isn't surprising because the circuit there is pretty insular (though some Texan teams have started coming to our tournaments). Jesuit A and ESA A (I know, I'm biased) are pretty good teams. Unlike Florida, I don't think LA should get its ow...
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 1:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2016-2017
- Replies: 84
- Views: 43321
Re: Alabama 2016-2017
Yep, I'm a little late on the ball.
https://goo.gl/forms/KbIOEnQyt7lfx2OY2
This is the ballot that I am using for the Alabama area. Anyone who is a current or recently graduated player is welcome to fill it out.
https://goo.gl/forms/KbIOEnQyt7lfx2OY2
This is the ballot that I am using for the Alabama area. Anyone who is a current or recently graduated player is welcome to fill it out.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 11:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Midseason Poll
- Replies: 64
- Views: 44410
Re: Midseason Poll
I don't like free time so sign me up too!