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- Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Texas Area MRNA II Online (26 - March)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3322
Re: Texas Area MRNA II Online (26 - March)
This event happened! Texas A won, going 11-0 with Arizona State, WUSTL, Houston, and Oklahoma rounding out the top 5. The top scorers of the event were: Vedul Palavajjhala- WUSTL - 100 ppg Brad McLain - Texas A- 69.09 John Luke Broussard - Houston - 65 Bryan Ugaz - Arizona State - 61.36 Tim Reynolds...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Texas Area MRNA II Online (26 - March)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3322
Re: Texas Area MRNA II Online (26 - March)
The range for this tournament has been expanded to include Arkansas and Mississippi - if teams are wanting to attend should sign up soon so we can confirm we have a field to host this!
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Texas Area MRNA II Online (26 - March)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3322
Texas Area MRNA II Online (26 - March)
Hello everyone! I am pleased to announce an online mirror of MRNA II , a medium difficulty set (easier than ACF Regionals, harder than ACF Fall). Basic Information The tournament will be hosted using Zoom and BuzzIn Live rooms, with a Google sheet hub. To accommodate the spread in time zones, all ti...
- Sat Aug 27, 2022 7:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
- Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
This happened. Auribus teneo noobum (Matt Bollinger, Alex Damisch, Matt Jackson, and Andrew Wang) cleared the field to win. Sicc buzz, gloria mundi (Jason Golfinos, John Lawrence, Moses Kitakule, and Mike Yue) took second AQAB: All Quizbowlers Are Buzzers (Mike Cheyne, Eric Mukherjee, M. Robert Lars...
- Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
Final(?) logistics email should be coming out soon.
The (?) is because we are at 10 teams but if 2 more teams want to sign up any time between now and Friday night we will adjust the field accordingly. So if you are thinking of playing, join in the fun!
The (?) is because we are at 10 teams but if 2 more teams want to sign up any time between now and Friday night we will adjust the field accordingly. So if you are thinking of playing, join in the fun!
- Tue Aug 23, 2022 2:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
In my experience, buzzin.live has tended to have issues with making the sound consistently. If that is resolved then I am happy to implement it for this. I am unfamiliar with the Buzzman and would welcome additional information on it.
- Tue Aug 23, 2022 12:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
Just a heads up, we will be capping the field tomorrow aside from any teams whose joining would improve the schedule. We plan to host another online mirror if there is interest so please keep an eye out for that if you have interest in playing! Additionally, the start time is going to be 7AM Pacific...
- Tue Aug 23, 2022 1:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
We still have several team slots available! We’d love to end up with any number of teams but 9 so if you want to play the set we’d love to have y’all!
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
A discussion forum for this set has been created. This includes a copy of the questions as played on 8/21.
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 12:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
There are still several team slots and individual roster slots available!
Also if you have put your team on the sheet but not emailed me yet please do so as soon as you can to lock in your spot in the field!
Also if you have put your team on the sheet but not emailed me yet please do so as soon as you can to lock in your spot in the field!
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 4:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4162
MUSES III: First Online Mirror (August 27th)
Hello everyone! I am pleased to announce that we have a date for the first online mirror of MUSES III: Select Difficulty ! The event will be hosted on Saturday, August 27th at a TBD time (if you have strong feelings about the start time please feel free to let me know and I will take that into consi...
- Fri Jul 29, 2022 3:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror Date Poll
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1206
Re: MUSES III: First Online Mirror Date Poll
Going to let this run through the weekend then make the date official so get your votes in before then if you want a say in it!
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: MUSES III: First Online Mirror Date Poll
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1206
MUSES III: First Online Mirror Date Poll
Hello everyone! We are going to be hosting an online mirror of MUSES III . Please indicate which dates you would be able to attend such an online mirror. In the event that there is enough interest, we will schedule a second mirror later in the year as well. EDIT: To clarify, this is intended to be r...
- Wed Jul 27, 2022 12:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: Select Difficulty
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2664
Re: MUSES III: Select Difficulty
A somewhat late update on this: the set is nearing completion and will be ready for mirrors starting August 13th. We have elected to utilize "superpowers" in the set and will be utilizing a 30/20/10/-5 scoring system (ie 30 points for a superpower, 20 for a power, and 10 for a typical get,...
- Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:50 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021-22 Collegiate Player Poll
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18041
Re: 2021-22 Collegiate Player Poll
Hey everyone! I just wanted to do a quick write up of the main Texas scorers for your consideration as well as one or two people who I imagine most people are not aware of but who absolutely should be on your radar. First for Texas B: Ashwath Seetharaman: A very solid generalist with strengths in my...
- Tue Apr 05, 2022 4:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Upsets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2261
Re: Upsets
I also really enjoy this piece, thanks for putting all of the time and effort needed to pull it together Ryan! As a side note, I do wonder if there is any way of accounting for the fact that strong teams tend to not play easy sets, making potentially comparing the rates of upsets between easy and ha...
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2056
Re: General Discussion and Thanks
On the other hand, I thought the previously-mentioned-in-this-thread imbalance in the social science distribution and the quality issues with the few econ questions were worse problems. Across the full 13 packets, there was one econ tossup (misery index) and I think one econ bonus, which seems like...
- Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4654
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
I disagree on conflict theory - it's one of the schools of sociology that's discussed in intro classes and the information given is basically all that you should need. I don't necessarily disagree with the reasoning here but I do strongly believe that classroom significance is not enough to establi...
- Thu Mar 10, 2022 7:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5564
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
In general I enjoyed this set and am very grateful for the continued effort from the WORKSHOP team but I found myself consistently frustrated by some issues that were mentioned from older comments. I found a lot of the set to have rough prose that was hard to parse at game speed. I also thought that...
- Thu Mar 10, 2022 7:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4654
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
I know that list comments like this rarely go addressed but I figured I'd give y'all this in the off chance you want to act on it. Positive Things: Packet 1: Loved the light pollution tossup Unfortunately did not get to play the animals in Islamic philosophy bonus but I thought it was a very cool wa...
- Tue Feb 08, 2022 12:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 NAQT SCT: Division I question-specific discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2260
Re: 2022 NAQT SCT: Division I question-specific discussion
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. With the Shapiro clue, the only way to get to the correct answer is to know a previous clue. But if I, the player, knew that previous clue then I would have buzzed at that previous clue! All clues should uniquely point to a single correct answer and that Shap...
- Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2403
Re: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
Congrats to Texas Orange for clearing the field at 8-1! Here are the stats. Thank you Ian, Nathaniel, Ben, and Karan for staffing and making this event possible!
- Sat Dec 04, 2021 11:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2403
- Mon Nov 29, 2021 7:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2403
Re: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
After the tournament, there will be a mirror of Teleology. A tab in the interest form is above to indicate if you would be interested in playing. The format will be determined by how many people intend to play.
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 5:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: Select Difficulty
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2664
MUSES III: Select Difficulty
Hello everyone! I am extremely excited to officially announce MUSES III: Select Difficulty. This set is the latest sequel in the ongoing MUSES franchise and we aim to continue to implement whimsy and novelty in high difficulty and high quality questions. We are currently planning for this to be fini...
- Wed Nov 10, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2403
Re: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
A new tab has been added to the interest sheet to indicate interest in playing Teleology
- Sun Nov 07, 2021 2:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4876
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
Won't complain too much since it got me a power but the Messinian salinity crisis clue felt really out of place in a history tossup that otherwise focused on political disputes so you’re saying natural history isn’t history? :razz: Not necessarily, it just felt out of place and possibly more scienc...
- Fri Nov 05, 2021 11:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2403
Illinois Open at UT Austin 12/4
Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce a mirror of Illinois Open at UT Austin on December 4th! More information on the set can be found here . This is an open tournament so anyone can play with anyone regardless of school enrollment or affiliation. Registration : To register for this tournament,...
- Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4876
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
Sorry in advance for the long ass post - just figured I'd do it all at once rather than piecemeal Rd1 Loved the species tossup - the wording on the Dennett clue was a bit hard to parse in real time but that might be a me issue Black Hills giveaway felt brutal compared to other questions The corrupti...
- Tue Nov 02, 2021 9:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4876
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
I believe that bonus should accept the Billow Maidens for the last part as well
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: THE ISLAND CUP III RETURNS IN-PERSON (LI/NY/NJ/CT) [NO REGION RESTRICTIONS]
- Replies: 43
- Views: 16797
Re: THE ISLAND CUP III RETURNS IN-PERSON (LI/NY/NJ/CT) [NO REGION RESTRICTIONS]
Also putting the onus on literal children to object to the irresponsible behavior of adults is manifestly insane - it’s on adults to make sure we behave responsibly to protect kids
- Mon Oct 18, 2021 12:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7742
Re: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
The packets have been posted. If you spot any errors please let me know and keep your eyes open for any exciting things on the horizon
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 5:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Fall at UT Austin (10/16/2021)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1476
Re: 2021 ACF Fall at UT Austin (10/16/2021)
Congratulations to Oklahoma A for clearing the field at 8-0! Texas took 2nd at 6-2 and Texas A&M took 3rd at 4-4! The top four scorers were: Oliver Wu (Oklahoma) - 73.75 ppg Raul Passement (Texas) - 40.63 ppg Ben Gordon (Texas) - 36.25 Daniel Neylon (Texas A&M) - 33.75 Full results can be fo...
- Sat Oct 16, 2021 12:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Fall at UT Austin (10/16/2021)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1476
Re: 2021 ACF Fall at UT Austin (10/16/2021)
Stats will be updated throughout the day here
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online Packet Reading (10/17)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1580
Re: MUSES II Online Packet Reading (10/17)
Let’s plan on doing this at 4 central
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online Packet Reading (10/17)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1580
MUSES II Online Packet Reading (10/17)
Hey everyone! We will be reading the MUSES II packets in the mainqb discord on Sunday 10/17. This will be done shootout style and anyone who did not play the set can play (anyone who played part of the set is welcome to play on the packets they did not play). If you are interested please post in the...
- Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:02 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Notable Buzzers
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20684
Re: Notable Buzzers
Last I knew SIUE had a wooden buzzer set - no idea if it’s the same model or maker however
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:54 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10656
Re: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord
For context I voted that I approve of this among these options but hold a "nuance" stance As I mentioned a few times on the discord, I am of the opinion that channels like food and pet photos are not an inherently inappropriate place for these sorts of interactions but that they need to ha...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 1:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online II Interest Gauging
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1305
Re: MUSES II Online II Interest Gauging
Only one person signed up so far - if the number doesn’t go up a bit we’ll see about doing an informal reading in the discord packet channel sometime and post the packets afterward so if you’d like to play in a more formal setting make sure to fill out the sheet to let us know!
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online II Interest Gauging
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1305
MUSES II Online II Interest Gauging
Hey Everyone!
Just posting here to gauge interest in a second online mirror of MUSES II.
Depending on the level of interest, we would run this as a shootout or as a team event.
If you are interested in playing this, please put your information on this spreadsheet.
Just posting here to gauge interest in a second online mirror of MUSES II.
Depending on the level of interest, we would run this as a shootout or as a team event.
If you are interested in playing this, please put your information on this spreadsheet.
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7742
Re: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
With the online mirror finished that is the last scheduled mirror of the set. If enough folks would like to host a mirror this semester (or would like a second online mirror to play) we will arrange for that to happen. Otherwise the set will be posted to the archives in the next week or so.
- Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 MUSES II - Packets
- Replies: 1
- Views: 141
Re: Packets
Attached are the packets as played at the online mirror with minor revisions based on feedback and formatting corrections
- Sun Sep 26, 2021 9:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1625
Re: MUSES II Online
Congrats to One thing I know, that I know nothing. That is the source of my statline. (Joseph Kroll, Jisoo Yoo, Vedul Palavajjhala, & Brandon Jones) for winning the tournament by clearing the field with a 6-1 record! Banned from 2023 BHSAT (Grace Liu, Arthur Delot-Vilain, Nathan Sheffield, &...
- Fri Sep 24, 2021 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1625
Re: MUSES II Online
Free agents have been assigned to teams and the field is now full. Free agents are free to arrange to move to a different team if they so please - preferably before Sunday. A logistics email is forthcoming.
- Fri Sep 24, 2021 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1625
Re: MUSES II Online
There's room for 1 more person. Free agents who have not joined a team will be assigned to one tonight.
Barring a sudden surge in interest to get us to 12 teams we are going to keep the field at 8 teams.
Barring a sudden surge in interest to get us to 12 teams we are going to keep the field at 8 teams.
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:51 am
- Forum: Illinois Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: 2021-22 Illinois Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9940
Re: 2021-22 Illinois Discussion
Earlybird may or may not happen this year. If we're able to secure the date soon, it will be on October 30. The issue is that we weren't able to register the date until late in the summer and the university also has new requirements regarding events featuring minors. I'll confirm the status of Earl...
- Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1625
MUSES II Online
September 26th won the poll so it will be the day of MUSES II Online - starting at 2pm Eastern/11am Pacific. Iain Carpenter will serve as tournament director. To sign up please put your team name and contact info on this sign up sheet . This event will be hosted using discord for audio and buzzin.li...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES II Online Mirror Date Poll
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1515
Re: MUSES II Online Mirror Date Poll
The 26th has seemingly won the poll by a solid % and will be the date of this event.
While awaiting a complete announcement, please see this sign up/team formation sheet
While awaiting a complete announcement, please see this sign up/team formation sheet
- Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl and the Idea of Constantly Being Online
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2028
Re: Quizbowl and the Idea of Constantly Being Online
I'd like to add the further point that even if someone is online, they don't have an obligation to respond right away. If I am working on homework/research/grading/any other real-world important thing and see a message come through about quiz bowl, I am likely not going to respond right away unless ...