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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 1:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2025 RMP Fest - Call for editors
- Replies: 0
- Views: 387
2025 RMP Fest - Call for editors
Myself, Hasna Karim, and Jaimie Carlson with assistance from Athena Kern are currently working on a revival of RMP Fest, an open-level side event dedicated to religion, mythology, and philosophy. We're currently looking for editors for philosophy and Judeo-Christian religion. We aim to have the set ...
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4976
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks
I want to thank the editing team for welcoming me onto the set late and making it a wonderful experience. I especially appreciated Nick’s wide-ranging and deep expertise in mythology. His suggestions have improved the myth in the set and helped me grow as an editor. Jonathan, Chandler, and Alex also...
- Thu Feb 03, 2022 4:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25803
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
I apologize for the inaccuracy, and thank you for catching it!justinduffy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 3:43 pm The tossup on pomegranates erroneously states that Ascalaphus was turned into a lizard. He was actually turned into an owl; in an unrelated myth, the character Ascalabus is turned into a lizard.
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25803
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Could you post the myth question on Mycenae? - I believe that at the point I buzzed in the first line (Inachos) the TU equally refers to Argos, and in Pausanias, Strabo, and a range of other ancient authors the river/river god/culture hero/mythical king is always associated with Argos and the Argol...
- Sun Aug 15, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7542
Re: Teammate Appreciation Thread
It’s a funny thing to walk away from a year of online quizbowl feeling more connected to the community, so I hope you’ll all excuse this long, sappy, and superlative-laden post. I first want to express my appreciation for the Duke team. Jacob Egol is an incredible music player, with the added bonus ...
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:27 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49073
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
I’ll be starting med school at WUSTL and plan to play as my schedule allows.
- Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARCADIA: Announcement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10596
Re: ARCADIA: Announcement
Update:
We're excited that Caroline Mao and Raymond Wang will also be writing for this set.
We're excited that Caroline Mao and Raymond Wang will also be writing for this set.
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARCADIA: Announcement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10596
ARCADIA: Announcement
I am pleased to announce ARCADIA (A Regs-minus Carolina and Duke Invitational of Academia), a collegiate set for late fall/winter 2021 written by current members and alumni of the Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill Quiz Bowl teams. We would like for tournaments to be held in person, circumstances permitting. ...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 10:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT 2021 Discussion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 532
Re: BHSAT 2021 Discussion
Thanks for all the feedback! To address some of your points: The description of the answerline before the Kahlo self-portraits tossup was useful but I still think that it could just have been a question on either self-portraits or Kahlo. I appreciate the critique, but disagree on this point. As a ge...
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 10:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXX at Duke/UNC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1865
Re: BHSAT XXX at Duke/UNC
Congratulations to DCDS for winning a one-game advantaged final against Chattahoochee A! Thanks to all the teams for playing our tournament, and to Jacob Egol, Vincent Du, Kevin Jiang, Justin Zhang, Eric Gunter, and Jamie Wang for staffing and making sure that a 10 game tournament ran so smoothly (s...
- Sun Feb 28, 2021 2:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXX at Duke/UNC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1865
Re: BHSAT XXX at Duke/UNC
Reminder that there is still room in the field for next Saturday! We'd love to have at least one team playing to eliminate the need for byes.
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 4:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5009
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
I enjoyed playing the myth yesterday! A few notes, which are really more nitpicks than actual issues. I enjoyed the Lilith tu. Probably not a real issue, but I did think it was perhaps hard for there to be other possible answers once it’s clear that it’s a female figure with Judeo-Christian demonic ...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXX at Duke/UNC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1865
BHSAT XXX at Duke/UNC
I am pleased to announce that Duke and UNC are jointly hosting a mirror of BHSAT XXX on Saturday, March 6, 2021. Further set information can be found here . This tournament will be held online, via Discord, with an opening meeting held at 9:45 am EST and gameplay beginning at 10 am EST. Please direc...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15805
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
In the tossup on Jacob Lawrence, unless I'm misremembering the wording, Gwendolyn Knight was mentioned, but only in the context of "she was his wife." I'm really not a fan of reducing female artists to "this [male] artist's wife," and I personally think it would have been better...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15805
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
I’m a little late, but to add to the non-exhaustive list of favorite submissions: Stanford A’s upside-down in myth tu (an idea that I was truly jealous of - loved working with this) MIT A’s myth tu on dreams Princeton A’s bonus on the Navajo Monster Slayer Twins (very creative men and women living s...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 8:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15805
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
The only two minor problems that I can remember standing out over the day were calling Gnosticism 'this movement' which implies a unity which as far as I understand it is not really there across the broad tradition that comprised Gnostic thought, and the line in the bulls TU, which described 'The E...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15805
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
-Matisse/Ernst/Ed Ruscha bonus was strong and well-themed -axis mundi/Louhi/Kalevala was a great bonus; I appreciated the interpretative clues, which made the bonus more interesting to me than Finnish myth just from some Kalevala story. Thanks – I’m very glad to hear you enjoyed the Matisse / Ernst...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15805
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
I was also surprised when my early answer (midway through the description of the America theft) of "readymades" was outright rejected on the "toilets" question. Could I see the question? Maybe one of the first two clues ruled this out. Here is the question: 5. Sophie Matisse bak...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22864
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
My intention is not to distract from the above discussion or inflame things further, but I wanted to add a couple closing thoughts of my own, independent of our club, on the cheating allegations at our mirror and the experience of dealing with them. I’d like to point out how harmful jumping directly...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 10:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22864
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
I want to acknowledge that I handled this incident badly yesterday. My personal convictions aside, I did owe it to everyone involved in this tournament to treat the incident with more diligence. I was not the tournament director, but I was also helping out in the control room and did happen to see m...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22864
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
This tournament really drove home several problems with holding tournaments online. During the tournament, Chase Chiang of Princeton was caught cheating (I have no idea why the final stats don't contain some indication that this occurred). From what I've heard, addressing the cheating situation was...
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIX at Duke
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2836
Re: BHSAT XXIX at Duke
Thanks to everyone who came to play BHSAT XXIX at Duke today! Congratulations to Miami Valley, who defeated DCC A in a two game final. Stats are now available here.
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 4:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIX at Duke
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2836
Re: BHSAT XXIX at Duke
Update: We will be expanding the field cap to 20 teams, with potential for more with enough interest and staffers.
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 1:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIX at Duke
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2836
Re: BHSAT XXIX at Duke
Field Updates (Teams/buzzers/staffers):
East Chapel Hill (2/0/0)
Raleigh Charter (4/3-4/0)
Early College at Guilford (2/0/0)
Miami Valley School (1/0/0)
Enloe (2/2/1)
Detroit Catholic Central (2/1/0)
NCSSM (1/3/0)
Christ School (1/1/0)
Panther Creek (2/0/0)
Total (17/10/1)
East Chapel Hill (2/0/0)
Raleigh Charter (4/3-4/0)
Early College at Guilford (2/0/0)
Miami Valley School (1/0/0)
Enloe (2/2/1)
Detroit Catholic Central (2/1/0)
NCSSM (1/3/0)
Christ School (1/1/0)
Panther Creek (2/0/0)
Total (17/10/1)
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BHSAT XXIX at Duke
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2836
BHSAT XXIX at Duke
Duke Quiz Bowl is pleased to announce a mirror of BHSAT XXIX on February 29, 2020. I will be tournament director and can be contacted at ary14@duke.edu with any questions. See this thread for further set details. Location and Time: This tournament will be held in the Classroom Building on Duke Unive...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: North Carolina 2019 - 2020
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8934
Re: North Carolina 2019 - 2020
Duke will host a mirror of BHSAT XXIX on February 29 (see this thread for further details). We hope to see you there!
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Fall at Duke (11/02/2019)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4832
Re: 2019 ACF Fall at Duke (11/02/2019)
Thanks to everyone who came to ACF Fall at Duke! Tournament stats are now posted (https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5901/). Congratulations to our overall and undergraduate winner, UNC A, and our second place overall and undergraduate winner, USC. Congratulations also to our DII first and second...
- Fri Sep 20, 2019 12:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Fall at Duke (11/02/2019)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4832
Re: 2019 ACF Fall at Duke (11/02/2019)
Field Update (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers)
Virginia Tech: 2/2/1
Liberty: 3/2/0
Duke: 2/2/?
VCU: 1/4/1
UNC: 3/2/4
Wofford: 1/0/0
East Tennessee: 1/1/0
Elon: 1/1/0
Virginia Tech: 2/2/1
Liberty: 3/2/0
Duke: 2/2/?
VCU: 1/4/1
UNC: 3/2/4
Wofford: 1/0/0
East Tennessee: 1/1/0
Elon: 1/1/0
- Mon Aug 26, 2019 7:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Fall at Duke (11/02/2019)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4832
2019 ACF Fall at Duke (11/02/2019)
I am pleased to announce that the Lower Mid-Atlantic site of 2019 ACF Fall will be held at Duke on Saturday, November 2, 2019. The tournament will take place at the Classroom Building on Duke's East Campus, with team check-in beginning at 8:30 am in Room 137 and gameplay beginning at 9 am. I will be...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 12:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals @ Duke (1/26/19)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3737
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals @ Duke (1/26/19)
Congratulations to all teams for a tournament well played. UNC A won overall, with NC State A in second. NC State A was also our undergraduate champion, and UNC B was our DII winner. Thanks for coming, and see the link below for the posted statistics. http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5586/stats/...
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals @ Duke (1/26/19)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3737
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals @ Duke (1/26/19)
Field: (teams/buzzers/staffers)
Liberty (3/2/0)
NC State (2/1/0)
UNC (2/1/0)
VCU (1/3/1)
Virginia Tech (1/1/0)
Liberty (3/2/0)
NC State (2/1/0)
UNC (2/1/0)
VCU (1/3/1)
Virginia Tech (1/1/0)
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals @ Duke (1/26/19)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3737
2019 ACF Regionals @ Duke (1/26/19)
Duke Quiz Bowl is pleased to host the Southeast (North) site of the 2019 ACF Regionals on January 26. Registration: Email ary14@duke.edu with your school, number of teams, and buzzer set information. In addition, fill out the official ACF registration form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLS...