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by dni
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: ACRONYM 17 @ UChicago - 5/4
Replies: 1
Views: 151

Re: ACRONYM 17 @ UChicago - 5/4

Would it be possible for an unofficial team formation spreadsheet to be created?
by dni
Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:12 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Is there a ceiling of usefullness of Anki?
Replies: 2
Views: 3576

Re: Is there a ceiling of usefullness of Anki?

No, it's Turing complete.
by dni
Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:08 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: The QBC Packet [read]
Replies: 2
Views: 2856

Re: The QBC Packet [read]

What topic are you referring to?
by dni
Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:34 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: On Buzzer Techniques
Replies: 7
Views: 3527

Re: On Buzzer Techniques

It is important to keep the cord linking your buzzer to the central hub as straight as possible. This minimizes the distance the electrons have to travel, while also reducing their need to decelerate and change directions along tricky curved segments.
by dni
Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:44 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: A New Protobowl
Replies: 6
Views: 2987

Re: A New Protobowl

There should be an anti-cheating system in order to maintain competitive integrity. Such a system could be implemented using some kind of kernel mode driver players must install in order to compete against other players. I am tired of losing against players like Sinecio in these online tournaments. ...
by dni
Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:02 am
Forum: Theory
Topic: How can I approve quickly in the shortest amount of time.
Replies: 6
Views: 3582

Re: How can I approve quickly in the shortest amount of time.

It helps to associate with other quizbowlers serious about improvement. Iron sharpens iron. For me, Enes Kristo is the steel that sharpened the sword that is my science ability by curating a detailed study regimen, watching over me for months leading up to the 2023 nationals season. Thanks to Enes a...
by dni
Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: [Cancelled] Halloween Hippopotamus Invitational Online Playtest
Replies: 6
Views: 3411

Re: Halloween Hippopotamus Invitational Online Playtest

I personally don’t mind either way, but it could be worth making a date poll.
by dni
Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:44 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: [Cancelled] Halloween Hippopotamus Invitational Online Playtest
Replies: 6
Views: 3411

Re: Halloween Hippopotamus Invitational Online Playtest

Is there any chance the date could be changed so as not to overlap with the ILLIAC II Online Open Playtest? Additionally, I don't appear to be able to access the registration spreadsheet.
by dni
Sat Aug 19, 2023 2:11 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: 2023 Lore Dump 2: More Lore - An Online Tourney [8/19/23]
Replies: 8
Views: 5991

Re: 2023 Lore Dump 2: More Lore - An Online Tourney [8/19/23]

This was a great tournament and an even better set. I will say that the warnings regarding difficulty felt unnecessary, as I personally didn't feel the difficulty was a significant jump from Lore Dump 1. I also think I and many others would've preferred not to wake up early for a relatively short po...
by dni
Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: UCF Open Trash 2023
Replies: 7
Views: 3916

Re: UCF Open Trash 2023

What day is this tournament?
by dni
Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 41
Views: 19579

Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks

I want to thank everyone who worked on the set, as well as all the players and staffers. I also want to thank Enes Kristo, for supporting me so much over the past several months. It is safe to say that I stumbled at least a few times throughout this process, but Enes was always there to catch me whe...
by dni
Mon Jun 12, 2023 2:46 pm
Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
Topic: 2022/23 Post-Season Shoutout Thread
Replies: 17
Views: 15328

Re: 2022/23 Post-Season Shoutout Thread

Everyone is sleeping on King Vidor , the 129 year old American film director and screenwriter. They're also a cracked camp counselor, who found Elliott's glasses, helped blow Maya's balloon, and lent Emmy a towel. After leading the national powerhouse marb to 7th place at Logomachy Online, King burs...
by dni
Sat May 20, 2023 3:19 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread
Replies: 17
Views: 8765

Re: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread

Now that Cornell's exams are finally over, I would like to take the opportunity to recognize my teammates: Geoffrey Wu is everyone's favorite Cornell Quizbowl member and one of the smartest people I know. His crazy Lamb shift first buzz is just one of many examples of things that he (and seemingly o...
by dni
Fri Apr 28, 2023 9:11 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022-2023 End of Season Player Poll
Replies: 22
Views: 12542

Re: 2022-2023 End of Season Player Poll

The Chard Chrain has pulled into the station and now it's Hutto Richard Time. Hope you like beet cultivars, because chard is cooking. The strength of the former Lynbrook scibowl superstar. And his music and literature seemed to match his science in both speed and precision. The strongest and the fas...
by dni
Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:38 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread
Replies: 17
Views: 8765

Re: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread

Thank you, Richard, for your kind words. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my mentor, colleague and hero: Enes Kristo . During a time when my love of the game was waning and I was insecure about myself and unsure about my future, Enes messaged me out of the blue to join his private Disc...
by dni
Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:44 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Top 100 Player Ranking
Replies: 25
Views: 11253

Re: Top 100 Player Ranking

83. Anuttam Ramji
lmao WHAT???
by dni
Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:09 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
Replies: 27
Views: 8129

Re: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion

I thought this set was quite good overall and had lots of interesting ideas! Difficulty seemed to be slightly uneven among categories, but the content being asked about was cool. I’d like to point out a trend that I’ve noticed when writing score clues in music questions. I think that score clues, wh...
by dni
Wed Jan 25, 2023 1:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MRNA II: The Second Dose Playtest Mirror [19 February 2023]
Replies: 3
Views: 1490

Re: MRNA II: The Second Dose Playtest Mirror [19 February 2023]

...as well as to any closed collegiate teams from MRNA II: The Second Dose host schools comprised of players who will staff or otherwise not play said institutions’ mirrors of MRNA II: The Second Dose. We anticipate having collegiate mirrors throughout the United States, Canada, and the United King...
by dni
Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Festivus 2022 [23 December 2022]
Replies: 23
Views: 6374

Re: Festivus 2022

Is there a form like last year where we can express interest in writing a packet and/or see what others have planned? 👀
by dni
Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:15 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Setting better guidelines on eligibility exemptions.
Replies: 3
Views: 1468

Re: Setting better guidelines on eligibility exemptions.

Changing the eligibility requirements themselves is an entirely different discussion, but I agree with Logan's main point that the wording in the ACF Fall announcements do not make it clear that exemptions are a possibility. I don't want to scrutinize every word of those sentences, but I think the v...
by dni
Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:06 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 5387

Re: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion

To add onto Jeremy’s post, a few more sparse errata about the score clues in Winter: the aforementioned inaccuracy in the Butterfly Lovers score clue, saying “A” instead of the “B-flat” (between the Ds) in the swan-call motif from Sibelius’s 5th symphony, and an A-major transcription (E - C-sharp - ...
by dni
Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:47 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Winter Closed 2022 - Question-Specific Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 1863

Re: Winter Closed 2022 - Question-Specific Discussion

I enjoyed the XOR and intermediates tossups. The alkyl halides tossup was also very well-executed. I made the same neg as David on the competition tossup. I also think using the indicator "these interactions" from the very beginning narrowed down the answer space way too much. I personally...
by dni
Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2021-22 High School Postseason Poll/Player Poll/Player Appreciation Thread - Results posted?
Replies: 41
Views: 24034

Re: 2021-22 High School Postseason Poll/Player Poll/Player Appreciation Thread - Results posted?

Everyone is sleeping on Sinecio Morales , the 17 year old biking prodigy from Illinois. He's also a cracked DUOS II editor, who removed Judaism from the religion distribution following complaints of too much bible in the distro from Katy Yang . After leading the national powerhouse Sinecio Morales t...
by dni
Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:28 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Packet Submission Announcement Timelines
Replies: 1
Views: 1395

Re: Packet Submission Announcement Timelines

I will add that because multiple teams from the same school cannot see one another's questions, clubs also need to decide on teams prior to starting work on their submission, which further eats into the already condensed timeline. This is particularly challenging given that the host sites and their ...
by dni
Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:40 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2021-22 Collegiate Player Poll
Replies: 37
Views: 18012

Re: 2021-22 Collegiate Player Poll

Everyone is sleeping on Richard Niu , the 18 year old AFA prodigy from California. He's also a cracked Science Bowl player, who would've made USNCO Camp his senior year if he didn't throw on Part I. After leading the national powerhouse Lynbrook High School to Top 32 at NSB, Richard burst onto the c...
by dni
Tue Apr 12, 2022 7:48 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: On Exactitude in Score Clues
Replies: 3
Views: 5361

On Exactitude in Score Clues

I would like to preface this post by clarifying that I have no intention whatsoever of calling out writers and editors whose questions are referenced here. Their work has been consistently excellent across the sets these questions appeared in, and have been a real joy to read and play. That being sa...
by dni
Fri Apr 08, 2022 11:46 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: Ocean Science Packet
Replies: 8
Views: 2635

Re: Ocean Science Packet

I'm super down for an in-person reading.
by dni
Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:40 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 NAQT ICT: Division II specific question discussion
Replies: 7
Views: 829

Re: 2022 NAQT ICT: Division II specific question discussion

Could I see the science common-link on "catastrophe"?
by dni
Sat Feb 19, 2022 8:20 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Summer Duos 2021: Set Information
Replies: 4
Views: 2506

Re: Summer Duos 2021: Set Information

Who is writing and editing the trash questions?
by dni
Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:57 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Trash Bowl Alabama
Replies: 12
Views: 6665

Re: Trash Bowl Alabama

I am also a big fan of this set and would love to know if there will be a second iteration!
by dni
Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 NAQT SCT at Cornell University (Online; 2/5/2022)
Replies: 3
Views: 1399

2022 NAQT SCT at Cornell University (Online; 2/5/2022)

I am pleased to announce that Cornell Quiz Bowl will host the New York site of the 2022 NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament on Saturday, February 5th, 2022. This tournament will take place online using Discord and buzzin.live, with games beginning at 9:00 AM ET. Nathan Zhang will be serving as to...
by dni
Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:55 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
Replies: 19
Views: 7541

Re: Teammate Appreciation Thread

Everyone is sleeping on Coby Tran , the 18 year old VFA prodigy from Oregon. He's also a cracked Science Bowl player, who beat Conor Thompson on the Putnam when he mocked it at home. After leading the national powerhouse Westview High School to 27th place at ONCT, Coby burst onto the collegiate scen...
by dni
Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:56 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A Semi-Serious Charity Tournament (7/31/2021)
Replies: 19
Views: 7897

Re: A Semi-Serious Charity Tournament (Discord Summer/Fall 2021)

The sign-up spreadsheet appears to be view only.
by dni
Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:40 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10385

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

[10] When measuring the impact of bubbles on the flow of an air-water system, it is important to account for this statistic that measures the amount of the system occupied by gas molecules. For two-phase flow, this quantity may be described as either “volumetric” or “cross-sectional”. ANSWER: mean/...
by dni
Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Replies: 61
Views: 34063

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)

If you want this to run at PACE, please let me know ASAP. My team just finished our tiebreaker but there’s a protest pending we’re waiting on. I’m definitely down to play this still, though... if other people are interested too—just let me know what room it’ll be in and I’ll go there right after we...
by dni
Wed May 29, 2019 4:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2019 HSNCT discussion
Replies: 144
Views: 56927

Re: 2019 HSNCT discussion

Could I see the tossup on regression? I negged it with "machine learning" after the first clause of the first clue, which I believe mentioned L2 regularization.
Could I also see the tossup on polonium? I'm just curious as to what clues came after the first one haha.
by dni
Wed May 29, 2019 12:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Replies: 61
Views: 34063

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)

2. I'm more than willing to mirror this tournament (for the same fee, 15$/player) at HSNCT, PACE, and/or online (after NSC), depending on the amount of interest. I've had some requests to mirror it at HSNCT in particular. I've added tabs to the spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1w...
by dni
Wed May 15, 2019 5:45 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Help with HSQBRank - 2x check tournament list
Replies: 10
Views: 7098

Re: Help with HSQBRank - 2x check tournament list

Rocket21 wrote: Wed May 15, 2019 11:23 am Is Georgetown Winter the same thing as the Georgetown Spring Tournament run on BHSAT?
I believe Georgetown Winter was run on WHAQ III: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5379/
by dni
Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:02 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: RMBAT Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 33
Views: 2130

Re: RMBAT Specific Question Discussion

Attempts to account for this concept are classified as theodicies, a name that comes from a Gottfried Leibniz work that Voltaire satirizes in Candide with the recurring line “this is the best of all possible worlds!” In On the Free Choice of the Will, St. Augustine identifies the existence of this ...
by dni
Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: RMBAT Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 33
Views: 2130

Re: RMBAT Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the tossups on "Aristotle" and "evil"? Also, my teammate on our B team negged the "Stanford" tossup with "California" after the first clue. If I recall correctly, the first line referred to the answer as "this location." If that's the cas...
by dni
Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 81
Views: 22905

Re: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion

Damn, that's some detailed notetaking right there Haha thanks :) Lewy’s example is an equation involving this mathematical operation that has no solution. A chain rule sometimes named for Euler multiplies three applications of this operation to get negative one. The commutativity of applying this o...
by dni
Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 81
Views: 22905

Re: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion

Thanks to everyone who worked on this set! I played the JHU mirror this weekend and had a great time doing so. Could I see the questions and answerlines for the partial differentiation (#8 in Round 4), heat (#7 in Round 5), surfactant (#10 in Round 8), and even (#5 in Round 9) tossups? I remember be...
by dni
Thu Mar 01, 2018 6:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Virginia NASAT 2018?
Replies: 27
Views: 10452

Re: Virginia NASAT 2018?

I am interested in going and would be open to having tryouts at NAQT States.
by dni
Fri Feb 16, 2018 4:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: VTACO "Winter" at Virginia Tech (3/3/18) [HFT XII]
Replies: 6
Views: 5672

Re: VTACO "Winter" at Virginia Tech (3/3/18) [HFT XII]

Can we get a field update or are we actually the only school sending any teams at the moment?
by dni
Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:51 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: MVGS Open II in Warrenton, Va 1-27-18
Replies: 4
Views: 4497

Re: MVGS Open II in Warrenton, Va 1-27-18

Could we get a field update? Langley registered 1 team, 2 buzzers, and 1 moderator a few weeks ago but I don't see us listed.
by dni
Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
Replies: 53
Views: 33851

Re: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread

I can't seem to find the post for the MVGS Open anymore. Is the tournament cancelled or something?

EDIT: Never mind, the link is working for me now.
by dni
Mon Oct 02, 2017 1:44 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSAPQ and NAQT Joint Announcement
Replies: 18
Views: 11285

Re: HSAPQ and NAQT Joint Announcement

Which IS sets will be used at the regular season, regional, super-regional, and state VHSL events? Can a school send separate teams to both out-of-state and VHSL events that use the same set?
by dni
Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2017 HSNCT discussion
Replies: 105
Views: 59564

Re: 2017 HSNCT discussion

Late but, can I see the tossups on Debye and Hamiltonian?

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