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Shahar S.

I'm sure nothing will go wrong this time around... 1. Matt Jackson 2. Matthew Lehmann 3. Caleb Kendrick 4. Raymond Wang 5. Andrew Wang 6. Natan Holtzman 7. Amogh Kulkarni 8. Vincent Du 9. Tim Morrison 10. Eve Fleisig 11. Michal Gerasimiuk 12. Geoffrey Chen 13. Jason Hong 14. Ethan Strombeck 15. Andr...

Shahar S.

Before I get into specifics, I want to say thanks to the whole team who worked on regionals this year. This was my first time editing a collegiate set (let alone an ACF set), and so far this has been the smoothest experience working on any quizbowl project so far. A lot of praise goes to Eve for thi...

Shahar S.

Does the A-value on quizbowlstats.com take strength of schedule into account?

Shahar S.

I am pleased to announce that the West Coast site of 2024 ACF Regionals will be held at UC Berkeley on Saturday, January 27, 2024. The tournament will take place at the Social Sciences building (formerly Barrows Hall). The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9:00 AM. I, ...

Shahar S.

We now have an interest sheet up for this tournament.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Shahar S.

I am pleased to announce that UC Berkeley will be hosting a mirror of 2023 Arcadia on 12/2/23. Information about the set can be found at this link: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26984 . Similar to the Penn Bowl mirror on 10/28, the tournament will take place at the Social Sciences bu...

Shahar S.

Would it be possible to pin this announcement in place of last year's nats thread?

Shahar S.

I'm pleased to announce that UC Berkeley will be hosting the NorCal mirror of 2023 Penn Bowl on Saturday, October 28th, 2023. Location: Social Sciences building, formerly Barrows Hall (tentative). The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9:00 AM. Details about the set can...

Shahar S.

I am pleased to announce that the Norther California site of 2023 ACF Winter will be held at UC Berkeley on Saturday, November 11, 2023.. The tournament will take place at the Social Sciences building (formerly Barrows Hall) at Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45...

Shahar S.

We are pleased to announce that the Northern California site of 2023 ACF Fall will be held at UC Berkeley on Saturday, October 14, 2023. The tournament will take place at the Social Sciences building (formerly Barrows Hall), which can be found at Barrows Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720. The opening meeting...

Shahar S.

The Quiz Bowl Club at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that the Northern California site of CREEK+ will be held at UC Berkeley on Saturday, September 30th, 2023. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM PT and gameplay will begin at 9:00 AM PT. Our current plan is to host this tournament at the S...

Shahar S.

I made a quick list of everyone I've played who I think should be a good deal higher than they are on this ranking Matt Bollinger Chris Ray Eric Wolfsberg Jack Lewis Eric Bobrow (somehow underrated despite not being eligible) Justin Chen Alex Schmidt Vivek Sasse Shahar Schwartz (biased for obvious r...

Shahar S.

The logistics email has just been sent out! (still waiting on a contact email for Egol et al. but they'll get theirs soon too). I've only sent it to one person per team so make sure to forward it to your teammates if you were the one who sent the registration email to me initially. See y'all on Satu...

Shahar S.

Quick logistics clarification: our current plan is to begin this tournament at 10 AM eastern (7 AM pacific). Also, I plan on sending out logistics emails on January 5th, so if you are planning on attending this competition and have a team in mind you want to participate with, please send me an email...

Shahar S.

Some quick logistics updates: First and foremost, registration. Any teams who want to register for this event should email me at shahar@berkeley.edu with your team name and your roster. In case you missed it, a team formation sheet can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nfXCwOSHH...

Shahar S.

Stanford was unfortunately also unable to procure rooms for Dec 17th. Because we want to avoid burnout from trying to host CMST on the weekend before Regionals and SCT the week following that, I'm converting this tournament to an online competition to be hosted on Jan 7th (pushing it back to give mo...

Shahar S.

TLDR: Hosting CMST at Berkeley on the proposed date has become complicated and we're looking to implement alternatives. Unfortunately, as of a few days ago, we were made aware that UC Berkeley is not allowing us to rent rooms on December 17th. This is immensely frustrating, but we're looking for alt...

Shahar S.

Due to the difficulties of hosting two tournaments back to back right before finals, and due to a combination of interest from Berkeley students and other local players, we've elected to host this tournament on Saturday, December the 17th. Fees: Tournament fees/discounts are the following: +$140 per...

Shahar S.

I am pleased to announce that Berkeley will be holding an open mirror of CMST II, a 3.5 dot college tournament. I (Shahar Schwartz) will be TDing the event, and information about the set can be found at this link: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25364 . We know that we'd like to host t...

Shahar S.

Huge shoutout to the staff of this tournament. They managed to get us through 10 rounds of really hard questions in under 9 hours including a lunch break, not an easy feat when you're playing online.

Shahar S.

I made a list of players who I think have a pretty good argument for top 15 in science for those looking to make a list in that category (I did not put these in any particular order and there are more of them than 15). If you feel like someone you know should be on this list and isn't, by all means ...

Shahar S.

As someone who was mostly paying attention to the science, I don't have much to say other than that I really enjoyed playing it and nearly everything I heard within biology, chemistry, and other science was executed really well.

Shahar S.

Wow, it's so cool that half the field will be back at action at next year's nats

Shahar S.

My knowledge of biology and genetics isn't the best, but can I ask what the reasoning was behind having "this phenotype" as the indicator for the death tossup? A lot of people I talked to at our site were really confused by that question, since it seemed like a fairly obtuse way to ask fo...

Shahar S.

In my region and many others, despite conditions which would allow us to host in-person competitions without significant threat of COVID transmission, we are still defaulting to online competition. On the surface, it makes sense. Many schools have extremely tight restrictions preventing them from ho...

Shahar S.

I want to praise how tightly edited the science on this set was in terms of difficulty. This was the first set I played this year where I felt like the science was engaging without being inaccessible. It made my experience playing this set as a developing science player really enjoyable, so thank you.

Shahar S.

Could I see the sexual selection tossup? It was a cool idea but I got led on a spiral of prompts on the lek clue and wanted to read the question before commenting further. Sorry, didn't realize packets were posted elsewhere when I posted this. After reading it over I personally feel like the answer...

Shahar S.

Could I see the sexual selection tossup? It was a cool idea but I got led on a spiral of prompts on the lek clue and wanted to read the question before commenting further.

Shahar S.

CPiGuy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:43 am
Also while I'm at it, not the point of my post, but Aadit is in fact a sophomore, not a freshman. It doesn't really take away from your general point though.

Yep, my mistake, addition is hard.

Shahar S.

I feel like I should ask why a high school freshman and sophomore were chosen to TD the high school mirror of this set. It's not that you guys aren't responsible enough, but I'm worried that not having someone with more tournament directing experience could cause a lot of problems very quickly on an...

Shahar S.

To echo off of Chandler and Casey's posts a bit, I think the reason there is frustration among strong high school players has less to do with "I'm not good enough" and more to do with "I don't know how to become good enough" if that makes sense. Both of you make valid points abou...

Shahar S.

It has been brought to my attention this would fit better elsewhere on the forums. If a moderator could please move this to the "collegiate discussion" subthread, that would be much appreciated.

Done --Mgmt.

Shahar S.

As many of you may remember, a while ago the forums exploded with a huge discussion on the difficulty of college nationals. However, while that discussion fostered many arguments for why national competitions have the difficulty they do, very little was actually spent discussing what actually distin...

Shahar S.

Well if that's the case, great! Let's run some summer discord tournaments with video and see if any issues arise. If not, maybe we can start implementing discord's video feature more often.

Shahar S.

If we're going to have to play regional tournaments online next fall (which, as Alistair pointed out, is looking increasingly likely), I think we should consider zoom as a platform as opposed to discord. Obviously zoom tournaments would be more complicated from a logistical standpoint, but there is ...

Shahar S.

In an unexpected twist of events, I intend to go to Bowdoin in the fall and will be quizbowlling there. This aged fantastically. I will be going to Pomona in the fall. Given that I know zero things about the QB situation there, I'd have to say the chances of me playing have gone down. For what it's...

Shahar S.

I'll be playing QB at Berkeley next year

Shahar S.

Clearly I vastly misjudged the amount of work and money people have put into this. Thanks for opening my eyes to that. I sincerely apologize for my idiotic statements. They were totally uncalled for.

Shahar S.

Frankly I think you'd get very, very few sign ups for anything resembling this idea, including from my team. The whole point of nationals is to play against other people in real time. Your suggested format would allow for none of that. Also with regards to national organizations saving their sets fo...

Shahar S.

Others in this thread have used EFT as an example of a set that has a good balance between accessible and challenging content, and I would agree with that. The problem is that EFT is the only set that consistently hits that balance. This year alone, LIT and MWT were both also at this difficulty, no...

Shahar S.

I think the discussion here wouldn't be as one sided if we had a few more current high school players contributing to the conversation. The transition between high school and college QB right now is absolutely brutal. I don't think there's an issue with that. High level college players deserve a com...

Shahar S.

Hello all. I think it's safe to say that the string of national competition cancellations in the past two weeks have been devastating to everyone in the Quizbowl community. Obviously, it would be great if we didn't have to deal with the worst pandemic in a century right now and just run everything s...

Shahar S.

Just out of curiosity, when NAQT writes HSNCT questions, what is the target power/ten/neg ratio supposed to look like? If there is an ideal ration, is it more important that there's a level of consistency when it comes to the conversion for each question or is it more a matter of making sure the ent...

Shahar S.

As shown from Groger Ranks adjustments for the 2018-19 season, last year's HFT overshot its difficulty in tossups (specifically, power rate), and was just about right in bonus difficulty. As such, I made a conscious effort to have more generous powermarking in this set while maintaining a similar l...

Shahar S.

The entire Liberty MS squad that went 4th at the 2019 MSNCT all join James Clemens this year. Expect Ethan Xu (History), Yuti Das (Literature), Austen Wyche (FA, USH), and Joshua Wang (Science) to all seamlessly scale up and be a seriously balanced roster. They are definitely Top-25 caliber. I thin...

Shahar S.

The 2018-19 season is just around the corner, and as such, we must continue the proud tradition of obsessing about our teams' rankings. We've been used to previous years' superteams like 2017 Westview or 2018 CCA making most tournaments a race for second, but it doesn't look like the 2019 season wil...

Shahar S.

It has been a while since anyone last posted a comparison on this page, so I guess I might as well. In a vain attempt to make my updated rankings semi-useful to anybody who might be reading, I've decided to rank teams on NAQT and the limited house-writes so far separately, because it seems like ther...

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