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by Jack
Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:11 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: A Guide on Club Finances
Replies: 3
Views: 5101

Re: A Guide on Club Finances

I've been wanting to make a post that touches on similar topics to this for a while, and what I have to say could warrant a different thread entirely, but for the sake of contributing I'll include what I had drafted here below. This was going to be a post about ways in which I thought college quiz b...
by Jack
Sun Jan 31, 2021 1:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier
Replies: 19
Views: 11266

Re: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier

Let me apologize to the good folks at Chicago, first. The use of Chicago C was purely a stand-in to make a greater point, which is: "To some extent, it may not be optimal to have a purely first-come first serve basis, and we may want to allow for some team diversity to the extent that ACF Natio...
by Jack
Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier
Replies: 19
Views: 11266

Re: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier

This seems pretty reasonable given the circumstances, though I'd like to make one suggestion. As a precaution for the possibility of a lot of demand and not enough slots to try out enough teams, I think it would be a good idea to initially restrict registration for this event to a school's A and B t...
by Jack
Sat Jan 02, 2021 9:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)
Replies: 16
Views: 11214

Re: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)

Since I think this would be of public interest, I'll ask this question here: should we, the general quiz bowl audience, view the conceptualization and existence of the supersite as an indicator that there is a possibility that ACF Nationals will not be held this academic year? As best I can tell, no...
by Jack
Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:34 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
Replies: 15
Views: 7462

Re: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved

I agree that Zoom is the simpler platform to host a tournament on. It also generally has better audio and video, although it's a relatively small difference and I've anecdotally heard some people having better experience with one vs. the other. I've personally experienced quite a noticeable differe...
by Jack
Sat Nov 14, 2020 9:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
Replies: 15
Views: 7462

Re: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved

When the realization that qb would have to be online first hit, I mostly felt that Discord would be preferable to Zoom for online qb. I now feel the opposite. Having staffed over both Discord and Zoom and having played over Discord, I think at this point Zoom seems to be better in nearly every regar...
by Jack
Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 38
Views: 11717

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks

https://i.imgur.com/48bCgxt.png For some reason, I decided to make a density chart of three tournaments' PPBs that all should roughly have been similar in difficulty -- this tournament, LIT, and EFT 2019. From the looks of it, it's clear to me that this tournament's bonuses were slightly easier tha...
by Jack
Mon Nov 09, 2020 3:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 11497

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the tossup on the 1960s? I believe it was just our moderator accidentally skipping over parts of the question (they stopped and then continued to read during the first line), but, from what they read, the first line seemed to be extremely ambiguous and not uniquely identifying.
by Jack
Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
Replies: 14
Views: 4923

Re: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes

Most of these are good additions to the rules, but there are a couple that seem unnecessarily rigid to me. Specifically, these two: Added Section DX.2.B: "Whether or not a player buzzed before, at, or within less than a syllable after the power mark is a matter of moderator judgment, and is not...
by Jack
Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10359

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

I don't have too much to say but I'll note the following: In accordance with what Will noted above, the tossup on rent control, specifically the Sowell clue, was a bit misleading I thought -- immediately upon hearing the tossup, actually, I think it was pretty transparent that it would have either b...
by Jack
Sun Jul 19, 2020 7:19 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Maintaining Boundaries II (Focus on Social Media)
Replies: 8
Views: 9735

Re: Maintaining Boundaries II (Focus on Social Media)

I pretty much agree with everything suggested by Mike. I remember bringing something similar to this up a looong time ago in the discord (though I think my point was that having the more intimate stuff in #politics, #mental-health, etc., might be off-putting to new qbers who join), and I'm glad to s...
by Jack
Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:54 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Quizbowl Monopolization and its Problems
Replies: 9
Views: 5720

Re: Quizbowl Monopolization and its Problems

I'm a bit late to this party, and perhaps I've misunderstood the exact details of this proposed "monopolization" since I don't have access to any emails (meaning I'm speculating here), but I am a bit confused why people are so dismissive of this post. The concerns raised in the top of the ...
by Jack
Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: -5 for Fighting
Replies: 2
Views: 1792

Re: -5 for Fighting

Thank you. Thank you for this. I don't know if I'll be able to play, but I'm sure reading it will be just as awesome. (as an aside, I hope you're not counting the great players Jacob Ardown and Olly Postanin as "meme" content.)
by Jack
Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146926

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and presume a healthy majority of people currently involved in college quiz bowl don't know that "biking" means some form of cheating, and even fewer know it specifically refers to what "Player Y" did. Just say "googling tossups." The statistica...
by Jack
Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146926

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

While the Zoom idea is cool and interesting, almost certainly the biggest problem with it is that unless someone was paying for Zoom (which is relatively cheap, but still requires a fee, unlike discord) then you would have serious limits on what you are able to do on the platform. You could maybe d...
by Jack
Fri Apr 03, 2020 7:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146926

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

This has been brought up already, but you have to have somebody monitoring all of these feeds. Staff are already scarce. My idea is not that staff are monitoring it live (sorry if I wasn't clear about this), but that the recording exists, so that, in the case there are accusations of cheating, you ...
by Jack
Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146926

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

A possible way to mitigate cheating In the era of Zoom University, why should we stop with just school and work for uses of Zoom? Here is how Zoom could potentially be used to mitigate online quiz bowl cheating. *disclaimer: I have never played nor staffed an online tournament, so if I'm wildly off...
by Jack
Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
Replies: 37
Views: 9475

Re: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion

I think I speak for everyone at Princeton when I say we would all favor 3 seconds instead of 2. All the points Will brought up, especially about inconsistent timing rules being applied by mods who just feel bad negging after 2 seconds, seem to suggest that 3 would be a constructive and welcome change.
by Jack
Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:10 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16698

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

FWIW one of the players on one of the Boise State teams who didn't have many buzzes was all over this bonus in DII. Not to say that it was difficulty appropriate but was at least playing to some knowledge. Yeah, I'm not really sure what to think about the bonus. I guess I don't think it was "t...
by Jack
Sun Feb 09, 2020 4:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
Replies: 38
Views: 6383

Re: 2020 SCT general discussion

I don't think anyone would really disagree with Jack regarding baseball--I don't think this was like an ideological decision to value baseball more than the other sports (it certainly wasn't on my end). It was just a (very unfortunate) error regarding sub-distributions--I don't offer this is an exc...
by Jack
Sun Feb 09, 2020 4:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
Replies: 38
Views: 6383

Re: 2020 SCT general discussion

I want to echo the comment about too much baseball: There was too much baseball. Although it's true that baseball is still probably the second-most popular sport in the US, it's also true that it's more popular with older people (e.g. people not of quiz bowl age). If you don't actually like sports (...
by Jack
Sun Feb 09, 2020 3:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16698

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

I think others have mentioned this, but the "Roberts Rules of Order" bonus felt very hard in comparison to the rest of the set. As the other team UMD was playing when this bonus was read, I agree. In my high school, we ostensibly used Robert's Rules in student council, and it was discusse...
by Jack
Tue Dec 24, 2019 2:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Replies: 43
Views: 19221

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)

We were seriously considering reinstating the Columbia mirror, perhaps under some conditions or expectations, given the understandable backlash to our decision, but since we learned that Will threatened to steal our question set, we decided that we are unwilling to do so. Given that this tournament...
by Jack
Mon Dec 23, 2019 4:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Replies: 43
Views: 19221

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)

Although today I can't say whether or not Princeton will play this tournament, it is definitely a lot less likely that we will play (at College Park) if the Columbia mirror really is cancelled.
by Jack
Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Survey
Replies: 13
Views: 3579

Re: ACF Survey

I would hope ACF would re-publish or re-release this survey after Regionals and/or Nationals, as I assume a lot of the questions might have different or more complete answers following those 2020 tournaments. I agree with this. Also, part of the reason that I suggest sending this survey directly to...
by Jack
Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:08 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Survey
Replies: 13
Views: 3579

Re: ACF Survey

] Chiming in as the person who put this together: This was done to ensure anonymity and allow staffers, observers, and members of the wider quizbowl community a chance to weigh in. We’ve also shared it across all of our social media platforms and public spaces dedicated to quizbowl discussion. We’l...
by Jack
Tue Dec 03, 2019 2:34 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Survey
Replies: 13
Views: 3579

Re: ACF Survey

I'm very happy to see that ACF is trying to get feedback, but I would like to humbly suggest this survey be re-released by being emailed to college clubs directly (assuming the club contact list is complete) rather than being just left on a forum post where anyone on the site can give feedback. I th...
by Jack
Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Abolish packet submission for ACF Fall
Replies: 29
Views: 8462

Re: Abolish packet submission for ACF Fall

1. Decrease the size of submissions. For a team of new writers, 12/12 is a lot ... the burden could be significantly lessened by reducing the submission size to 6/6 (or even 4/4). I can't add much to add to the overall discussion, but I wanted to say this seems like a great idea. There certainly mu...
by Jack
Sun Nov 03, 2019 3:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)
Replies: 13
Views: 5327

Re: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)

Agreed, Swarthmore will not be able to play if this is moved before Regionals and would love to attend. I should have just clarified that by "strongly prefer" I really mean to say what Rebecca is saying. We also can't come if it's before Regionals because of our final exam & study per...
by Jack
Sun Nov 03, 2019 8:37 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)
Replies: 13
Views: 5327

Re: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)

Although the 15th is fine for us, if the date is moved, we would very strongly prefer that it be moved to a later date, and not early January before Regionals.
by Jack
Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:11 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
Replies: 26
Views: 3626

Re: General Discussion Thread

As a whole, I think everyone at Princeton really liked Penn Bowl, as usual. The one observation we all mostly agreed on was that the Philosophy was too hard. Both of our teams saw a few answerlines go dead/negged, then go dead. Looking at the advanced stats at the Penn site, it seems that Philosophy...
by Jack
Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:48 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019
Replies: 10
Views: 9349

Re: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019

A few people pointed out some errors in the final stats. These all should be fixed now, and I have sent NAQT the new stats. If there are any other name/spelling errors, please let me know and I will fix them.

Thanks for coming everyone, hope to see you next year!
by Jack
Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019
Replies: 10
Views: 9349

Re: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019

Congratulations to Hunter College HS A for winning the tournament, amassing a 10-1 record, and defeating High Tech A in a one game final -- only losing once to Manheim Township. In the third place game, Millburn A beat East Brunswick A, and in the fifth place game, Manheim Township A defeated Robert...
by Jack
Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:21 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019
Replies: 10
Views: 9349

Re: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019

Stats are uploaded here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5789/
We may be a bit behind uploading the stats, as Yellowfruit crashed on us midway through round 2. We're working to get live stats up ASAP!

Thanks to Brian Lu from Rutgers for offering to stats for us today!
by Jack
Wed Sep 04, 2019 11:39 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019
Replies: 10
Views: 9349

Re: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019

We've expanded the field to 30 teams based on room and staffer availability. We hope to get to 36 in the coming days. I've also just submitted our PACE certification request, so expect to hear about this soon. We anticipate the highest level (Platinum, I believe) being applied to the tournament, as ...
by Jack
Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019
Replies: 10
Views: 9349

Re: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019

An update: Unfortunately, Princeton still has yet to give me any information about our room reservation and event registration, and the online system still says it's "awaiting initial confirmation." Because of this, I can't expand the waitlist yet. I apologize for everyone waiting. This we...
by Jack
Thu May 16, 2019 8:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019
Replies: 10
Views: 9349

Princeton High School Academic Tournament XXVII (PHSAT XXVII) at Princeton University, 09/28/2019

The Princeton University Quiz Bowl club will host the 27th Princeton High School Academic Tournament, PHSAT XXVII, tentatively on Saturday, September 28, 2019. We will be using NAQT IS-186, which is standard high school difficulty. The tournament will be structured as a series of bracketed, round-ro...
by Jack
Thu May 16, 2019 10:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Borderlands/Skyrim Niche Packets
Replies: 2
Views: 4333

Re: Borderlands/Skyrim Niche Packets

I think one could write some great bonuses in the Skyrim packet. Do you plan to upload the packets online afterwards?
by Jack
Thu May 02, 2019 1:21 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Florida Spring Tournament General Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 924

Re: 2019 Florida Spring Tournament General Discussion

Although at first I figured the 24/24 nature of the set was part of the reason our mirror took about an hour longer than I would have liked, after discussing with the moderators, I think we came to the conclusion that the length of bonuses was one of the reasons matches took longer than we anticipat...
by Jack
Sun Apr 28, 2019 7:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
Replies: 13
Views: 7149

Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19

Congratulations to Nitin Rao and Will DiGrande of Penn A, who won the tournament. Wilmington Charter took second place. There were a ton of competitive matches throughout the day, with many close wins and upsets. Stats can be found here. I'd also like to thank Eric Wolfsberg and Rahul Rao-Pothuraju ...
by Jack
Sat Apr 20, 2019 11:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
Replies: 13
Views: 7149

Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19

If there are any teams interested in registering at the last minute, please do so by Tuesday evening at the latest. Thank you!

Stats will also be available here, and I will try to upload the files at the end of each round people can follow along.
by Jack
Thu Apr 18, 2019 3:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
Replies: 13
Views: 7149

Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19

We are currently considering hosting the BUMPY II visual movie packet as a side event during this tournament. It is my understanding that the fee is $5 per person, so if you're interested, please let me know (staffers welcome to play!). JJ (or someone else from Rutgers) will be the point man for col...
by Jack
Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Michigan Winter Tournament (Winter 2020)
Replies: 16
Views: 13257

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Michigan Winter Tournament (Winter 2020)

CPiGuy wrote: Wed Apr 03, 2019 2:11 pm Ugh, I knew I'd missed something.

The tournament will have powers.
:party: :party: :party:
by Jack
Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Michigan Winter Tournament (Winter 2020)
Replies: 16
Views: 13257

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Michigan Winter Tournament (Winter 2020)

The distribution, difficulty, and length of tossups of this tournament together look very appealing. Looking forward to playing this at Rutgers next year! Will this tournament be powermarked, or is it 10's and negs only?
by Jack
Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:44 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
Replies: 13
Views: 7149

Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19

Our mirror of FST is now taking place on Sunday, and we have once again raised the field limit to 16. Get your registrations in! :grin:
by Jack
Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:52 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/28/19
Replies: 13
Views: 7149

Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) at Princeton University, 4/27/19

I want to let everyone know that our FST mirror may be moved to Sunday, April 28th . Unfortunately, our scheduling office has decided that Mock Trial will be granted precedence over contested claims to rooms. What this means is that, unless we move the tournament, our new field cap is ten . That sai...
by Jack
Wed Mar 27, 2019 1:53 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2019 EB Bears Pre-Nationals Tournament @ East Brunswick NJ
Replies: 17
Views: 7367

Re: 2019 EB Bears Pre-Nationals Tournament @ East Brunswick NJ

For what it's worth, some of the schools in NJ I emailed this year about coming to good qb tournaments had told me that one of the reasons they stopped coming to events was that they found the matches too difficult (i.e. the other teams were far better than they were comparatively, not that the cont...
by Jack
Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ILLIAC @ JHU (3/31/19)
Replies: 14
Views: 6661

Re: 2019 ILLIAC @ JHU (3/31/19)

ansonberns wrote: Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:49 pm Just commenting to say that it is in fact accurate that Blair is bringing 2 teams despite them being listed separately.
If that's the case, given what Nitin said, then there are actually 19 teams registered for this tournament, I believe, unless another team was not fully updated.
by Jack
Tue Mar 26, 2019 11:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ILLIAC @ JHU (3/31/19)
Replies: 14
Views: 6661

Re: 2019 ILLIAC @ JHU (3/31/19)

I believe I emailed about this, but seeing as we are still listed with two teams, I want to clarify that Princeton is only bringing one team, one buzzer, and no staffers. I apologize for any confusion and I hope this hasn't prevented another team from registering. Edit: Also, I believe you have incl...