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- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Getting better at Music and Literature
- Replies: 6
- Views: 695
Re: Getting better at Music and Literature
SparkNotes should help me with this. Instead of SparkNotes I would use Course Hero, as they have more study guides and even videos. I personally have had a lot of success with Shmoop and Schaum's Outlines. I haven't heard of SparkNotes or Course Hero, but I would imagine those are good resources as...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1987
Re: 2024 Division II ICT and IPNCT: specific question discussion
The IPNCT finals tossup on "solutions" erroneously refers to them as "these substances". Solutions are mixtures, which are composed of substances, but the two terms are definitely different (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_ ... s_mixtures).
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Please Keep Full Stats at Your Tournament
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1526
Re: Please Keep Full Stats at Your Tournament
Sorry to hear that happened to you, Michael. I will add that it is particularly strange to me that so many quiz bowl tournaments operating under the same state organizations that run high school sports for the state (e.g. AGQBA under AAA, Scholastic Bowl under VHSL, etc.) don't retain accurate indiv...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: ACRONYM 17 @ UChicago - 5/4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 392
Re: ACRONYM 17 @ UChicago - 5/4
Would it be possible for an unofficial team formation spreadsheet to be created?
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Is there a ceiling of usefullness of Anki?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3597
Re: Is there a ceiling of usefullness of Anki?
No, it's Turing complete.
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:08 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: The QBC Packet [read]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2875
Re: The QBC Packet [read]
What topic are you referring to?
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: On Buzzer Techniques
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3569
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.
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: A New Protobowl
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3027
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. ...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 12:02 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: How can I approve quickly in the shortest amount of time.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3638
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...
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:29 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: [Cancelled] Halloween Hippopotamus Invitational Online Playtest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3441
Re: Halloween Hippopotamus Invitational Online Playtest
I personally don’t mind either way, but it could be worth making a date poll.
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: [Cancelled] Halloween Hippopotamus Invitational Online Playtest
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3441
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.
- 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: 6092
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...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:32 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: UCF Open Trash 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3947
Re: UCF Open Trash 2023
What day is this tournament?
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19756
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...
- Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2849
- Mon Jun 12, 2023 2:46 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: 2022/23 Post-Season Shoutout Thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15525
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...
- Sat May 20, 2023 3:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8866
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...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 9:11 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022-2023 End of Season Player Poll
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12707
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...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022-2023 Player Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8866
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...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 1:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Top 100 Player Ranking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11407
Re: Top 100 Player Ranking
lmao WHAT???83. Anuttam Ramji
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8238
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...
- 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: 1501
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...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 1:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Festivus 2022 [23 December 2022]
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6452
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?
- Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Setting better guidelines on eligibility exemptions.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1482
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...
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:06 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5458
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 - ...
- Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Winter Closed 2022 - Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1896
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...
- 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: 24154
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...
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet Submission Announcement Timelines
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1403
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 ...
- Sun Apr 17, 2022 10:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021-22 Collegiate Player Poll
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18080
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...
- Tue Apr 12, 2022 7:48 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: On Exactitude in Score Clues
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5391
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...
- Fri Apr 08, 2022 11:46 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Ocean Science Packet
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2661
Re: Ocean Science Packet
I'm super down for an in-person reading.
- Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:40 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 NAQT ICT: Division II specific question discussion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 849
Re: 2022 NAQT ICT: Division II specific question discussion
Could I see the science common-link on "catastrophe"?
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 8:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Summer Duos 2021: Set Information
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2536
Re: Summer Duos 2021: Set Information
Who is writing and editing the trash questions?
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Trash Bowl Alabama
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6714
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!
- 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: 1421
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...
- Sun Aug 29, 2021 12:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7582
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...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 2:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Semi-Serious Charity Tournament (7/31/2021)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7948
Re: A Semi-Serious Charity Tournament (Discord Summer/Fall 2021)
The sign-up spreadsheet appears to be view only.
- Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10473
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/...
- Sat Jun 08, 2019 7:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34335
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...
- Wed May 29, 2019 4:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 144
- Views: 57338
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.
Could I also see the tossup on polonium? I'm just curious as to what clues came after the first one haha.
- Wed May 29, 2019 12:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34335
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...
- Wed May 15, 2019 5:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Help with HSQBRank - 2x check tournament list
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7130
Re: Help with HSQBRank - 2x check tournament list
I believe Georgetown Winter was run on WHAQ III: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5379/
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RMBAT Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2178
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 ...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RMBAT Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2178
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...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 23151
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...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 23151
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...
- Thu Mar 01, 2018 6:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Virginia NASAT 2018?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10521
Re: Virginia NASAT 2018?
I am interested in going and would be open to having tryouts at NAQT States.
- 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: 5701
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?
- 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: 4520
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.
- Wed Jan 10, 2018 8:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2017-2018 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 53
- Views: 34004
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.
EDIT: Never mind, the link is working for me now.