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- Tue Feb 19, 2013 6:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21651
Re: ACF Regionals at Brown University (2/23/13)
If you're sticking around Saturday night, you should definitely come to the ACF Regionals afterparty! Hosted by Dan Klein and Allison Smith with special guest Jerry Vinokurov.
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QUARK @ Brown (12/1/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5001
Re: QUARK @ Brown (12/1/12)
Yes. Isn't it awesome?RyuAqua wrote:(Just to make sure I'm reading right: Does "[email protected]", no last name, redirect to your email too?)
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes That Do Not See IV @ Minnesota Open 2012
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11439
Re: Eyes That Do Not See IV @ Minnesota Open 2012
Yeah, I'd love for us to be able to do this.gyre and gimble wrote:These just straight-up are, by far, my favorite events every year. Speaking of which, I'd like to mirror it at the next New England tournament, which may or may not be QUARK on Dec. 1.
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QUARK @ Brown (12/1/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5001
QUARK @ Brown (12/1/12)
Brown will be hosting a delayed mirror of U Mich's QUARK tournament on Saturday, December 1, 2012. The tournament will be held in J. Walter Wilson (NOT Wilson Hall). Registration will begin at 8:30, and we'll aim to start the tournament around 9:15. To register, please email me: my first name at bro...
- Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How far can a blitz/creator-creation answer go?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2535
Re: How far can a blitz/creator-creation answer go?
As long as all that information's correct, I see no problem with that.
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is QuizBowl an inherent "con" of knowledge?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18627
Re: Is QuizBowl an inherent "con" of knowledge?
On the other hand, if you spend an hour writing an excellent, well-research, pyramidal tossup by consulting several sources, then not only will you know the clues that you use, you will also know stuff about the wider context of why the thing in question is worth asking. You don't have to /get/ the...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is QuizBowl an inherent "con" of knowledge?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18627
Re: Is QuizBowl an inherent "con" of knowledge?
On the other hand, if you spend an hour writing an excellent, well-research, pyramidal tossup by consulting several sources, then not only will you know the clues that you use, you will also know stuff about the wider context of why the thing in question is worth asking. You don't have to /get/ the...
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 12:47 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is QuizBowl an inherent "con" of knowledge?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18627
Re: Is QuizBowl an inherent "con" of knowledge?
You'll learn stuff for quizbowl and you'll follow your own deep intellectual pursuits. You'll soon realize that each isn't all that helpful for the other. Also: people who have deep knowledge of things can tell when they're speaking to people who have shallow knowledge of things. Don't sweat it.
- Tue Apr 10, 2012 6:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Free Disney Vanity Packet
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3028
Re: Free Disney Vanity Packet
Whoa, I had no idea That Darn Cat! was a remake.
- Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10541
Re: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
No, just who the hell is out of school by May 14th?grapesmoker wrote:Does this date hold some special significance I'm not aware of?Sir Thopas wrote:May 14th?!
- Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10541
Re: Quizbowl internship for summer 2012
May 14th?!
- Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Peaceful Resolution Discussion
- Replies: 210
- Views: 73598
Re: Peaceful Resolution Discussion
Act of Union - I don't know a ton about this, but I was not anywhere close until the giveaway. I'd have to see the tossup to offer more precise criticism. There was a clue in the middle about how it was partially caused by the failure of the Darién Scheme, which I thought was a good clue (in its ow...
- Sun Mar 04, 2012 3:53 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beyond the canon...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 18120
Re: Beyond the canon...
Speak for yourself!Ulster Clay Pigeon Shooting Association wrote:But Byzantine history is something that I doubt anyone has a burning desire to learn more about anyways.
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Peaceful Resolution Mirror at Harvard (3/3/2012)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7426
Re: Peaceful Resolution Mirror at Harvard (3/3/2012)
Brown will probably send a team to this.
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
aaaaaaaagh, please stop using "wom{a,e}n" as an adjective The construction "women NOUNs" appears 1484 times in the British National Corpus, about 5% of all uses of the word "women". It's perfectly cromulent. Yes, but that doesn't make it not awkward-sounding, or not a ...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
aaaaaaaagh, please stop using "wom{a,e}n" as an adjective The construction "women NOUNs" appears 1484 times in the British National Corpus, about 5% of all uses of the word "women". It's perfectly cromulent. Yes, but that doesn't make it not awkward-sounding, or not a ...
- Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
The construction "women NOUNs" appears 1484 times in the British National Corpus, about 5% of all uses of the word "women". It's perfectly cromulent.Ukonvasara wrote:aaaaaaaagh, please stop using "wom{a,e}n" as an adjective
- Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
Okay, this is admittedly way better than what I originally submitted (in my defense, it was like the 10th question I'd written ever), but the lead-in seems to me to be a little transparent/fraudable. (I didn't write that clue, I wrote most of the stuff from "this body" on). If you know a ...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
I got the strange impression while playing this tournament that there was a significant excess of tossups on people in categories like philosophy/SS than there were on works or concepts; I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though. In the same vein, there seemed to be a very reduced number of common-li...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Repeated Toss-Up Answer Lines in a Set
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5240
Re: Repeated Toss-Up Answer Lines in a Set
Ah--so the Alexander questions were of different categories (like one was, what--art? Or literature?). I didn't see that specified in the ACF Regionals thread. However, a quick re-scan shows that one of the Alex questions was a bonus part, so I already have no beef. Again, I was just curious that i...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 2:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
Because it's an expectation that exists in the field? Like, maybe we should just do more to disabuse people of that assumption, but we shouldn't just say "FUCK THEM IF THEY DON'T KNOW HOW ACF WORKS," because that's not a strategy that will get a lot of new teams coming back. Not that I'm ...
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
Again, I don't see why that's an assumption that needs catering to.What is it like to be a Batman? wrote:But having two questions on the Macedonian ruler and military leader Alexander in the same set seems like it might confuse people with an expectation that things are going to be asked about once.
- Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46787
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
There were weird things that came about due to the head editor not removing duplicate answer lines, like two tossups on "time" in consecutive rounds (one in computer science and one in philosophy), plus another physics TU on "time reversal" later. I see absolutely nothing wrong ...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT individual question discussion
- Replies: 114
- Views: 24556
Re: talk about individual questions here
At ASU, we only played the first 9 packets. Three tossups stick out in my mind from the SCT set: 1) "Indo-European" (language family) really screwed with the minds of both ASU teams, we were all sitting there thinking "it can't be that easy? surely at this level 'language family' *do...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT individual question discussion
- Replies: 114
- Views: 24556
Re: talk about individual questions here
At ASU, we only played the first 9 packets. Three tossups stick out in my mind from the SCT set: 1) "Indo-European" (language family) really screwed with the minds of both ASU teams, we were all sitting there thinking "it can't be that easy? surely at this level 'language family' *do...
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT individual question discussion
- Replies: 114
- Views: 24556
Re: talk about individual questions here
The Indo-European question would probably benefit from some kind of prompt/anti-prompt, as well as one of those little explanations you sometimes get in answer lines. The first answer given in my room was either "Slavic" or "Balto-Slavic"; I forget which. I hesitated because I t...
- Wed Aug 24, 2011 2:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7977
Re: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
Other lists of neglected books that I found interesting are critic James Wood's list of the best books since 1945 (http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2009/02/james-woods-best-books-since-1945-circa-1994.html) and the New York Review of Books' Classics (http://www.nybooks.com/books/imprints/classic...
- Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preseason Predictions Thread
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7100
Re: Preseason Predictions Thread
Dan will still be there, although the loss of Aaron will certainly hit us hard.Cheynem wrote:I was ranking Harvard on the low end mainly because I didn't take into account incoming freshmen in many cases. I was probably overestimating Brown as well (I thought Dan Klein was still there also).
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2011 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7261
Re: Chicago Open 2011 Discussion Thread
I'm just wondering, since it seems that linguistics is the category that whooshes over players' heads the most, if there are simpler concepts from the field that could usher in knowledge of important things like optimality theory? In other words, does that theory inform some larger concept that cou...
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2011 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7261
Re: Chicago Open 2011 Discussion Thread
No problem. I don't think anyone actually got it, sadly, but It's Important! (TM)women, fire and dangerous things wrote:Thanks, Guy Tabachnick (presumably), for that tossup on OT constraints!
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5922
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
That's not odd at all; he's Important in the real world!Blanford's Fringe-fingered Lizard wrote:Oddly enough, I've encountered Salonen outside of quizbowl before, since NPR seems to love plsying him.
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: transportation tomorrow
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1227
Re: transportation tomorrow
If I may piggyback on this: I'll be staying in Streeterville, and I'd greatly appreciate it if I could get a ride back at night (and possibly even in the morning, although this is less of a concern) if it's not too far out of the way for someone. I would gladly trade such service for, say, lunch on ...
- Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 54
- Views: 13710
Re: CO Matchmaking
Not sure if this is a good thread for this, but I'm looking for a trash team to join or assemble.
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 214
- Views: 50884
Re: 2011 HSNCT discussion
Much of this nation's southern border lies along the Panj River. Khorugh, the capital of its autonomous province of Gorno-Badakhshan, lies on the (*) Pamir Highway, and the Anzob Tunnel connects its second-most populous city, Khujand, with its capital. The western end of the Ferghana Valley lies in...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 23485
Re: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
other people in PACE are insisting, crazily enough, that everything went fine and that the tournament only ran twelve minutes late Dude, nobody said this. However, what will really keep teams from returning to this tournament in the future is the crazy lack of seriousness demonstrated by things lik...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC Question Set Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 18833
Re: 2011 NSC Question Set Discussion
I edited (and wrote a fair amount of) the arts for this tournament, based on the following distribution: PAINTING 6/6 before 1550 6/6 1550—1750 5/5 1750—1900 3/3 after 1900 5/5 leeway MUSIC 3/3 before 1750 7/7 1750—1880 7/7 1880—1940 3/3 after 1940 5/5 leeway OTHER ARTS 7/7 opera 2/2 jazz 2/2 dance ...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 PACE NSC Tournament Format
- Replies: 96
- Views: 22667
Re: 2011 PACE NSC Tournament Format
Given that we sat in a room for like 45 minutes waiting for our game to start, after the tournament had already started round 1 incredibly late, and given that our prelim bracket basically got a whole round behind off the bat in round 1, leading the ridiculously long lunchbreak and tiebreaker to go...
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 10:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 PACE NSC Tournament Format
- Replies: 96
- Views: 22667
Re: 2011 PACE NSC Tournament Format
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is going to result in a disaster. Assuming as it seems that the preliminary stage is ten groups of six, with top 2 plus 4 wildcards moving on to the top tier, you have the not-at-all-unlikely possibility of a team playing two minigames to determine their p...
- Mon May 23, 2011 8:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 at HSNCT
- Replies: 69
- Views: 20726
Re: Imaginary Landscape no. 1 at HSNCT
Here's a quick field update: 1) Charlie Dees 2) Saul Hankin 3) Adil Khan 4) Max Schindler 5) Zev Kane 6) Haohang Xu. I know more people want to play this, so let me know if you do by emailing me or posting in this thread. If you would like to moderate, please also email me or post here. Also, since...
- Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: American History Packet
- Replies: 41
- Views: 11062
Re: American History Packet
Sure, I'll take it, thanks.
- Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2011 thanks and discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 34813
Re: ACF Nationals 2011 thanks and discussion
I'd appreciate any feedback on the linguistics, which I wrote/edited. Might as well jump into the arcana nobody cares about. I thought the linguistics was spread out nicely among various subfields (not counting the unused pragmatics tossup I wrote, I can think of one phonology, one syntax, one hist...
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30663
Re: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
We didn't hear the other linguistics tossup (bilingualism), but if we had I might have negged it with diglossia on the first clue. Fishman is known for his writings on diglossia, which he indeed characterizes in terms of domains. Not possible; this tossup had an "accept diglossia early" c...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: comment on my work
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6843
Re: comment on my work
I think there are much better clues for Cauchy than your choice for the second clue. I've never heard of Cours d'Analyse , I don't think it's mentioned much if at all in a standard mathematics curriculum. That book's super-duper important, I've read it was a standard textbook for like a century and...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 165
- Views: 68246
Re: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
This would surprise me somewhat.DarkMatter wrote: The teams may have known about the tiebreaker in advance though
- Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
- Replies: 165
- Views: 68246
Re: MUT Mirror 4/2 @ NGCSU
I really do wish to see how our stat is made-up nonsense. Since it's a round robin, every team plays all the same opponents, excepting itself. Should a team be rewarded for playing an opponent who played better than they normally did? I don't see why. Should a team be rewarded for playing worse tha...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Discussion
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23946
Re: Illinois Open Discussion
You're correct, of course, but it shouldn't matter because names in either order should always be accepted no matter the culture.minusfive wrote:Also, my understanding is that Hungarian names are surname first, which does not appear to have been done.
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: More variety in tournaments?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1716
Re: More variety in tournaments?
Why can't we write on good new things that people know instead of bad new things that people don't know?
- Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Discussion
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23946
Re: Illinois Open Discussion
Ferenc Deak's first name is concealed to prevent linguistic fraud, which is ok, but the problem is that I'm almost certain that every moderator read that as "Deek" and not "Dee-ak" so now I'm trying to come up with some dude named Deek who only has one name? Yeah. A side note: t...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 10:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Quizbowl Style Guide
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4770
Re: A Quizbowl Style Guide
Hey let's spend infinity time arguing about pointless bullshit which is how these threads always progress because apparently people can't live with someone using one synonym rather than another synonym. Here's a piece of metacritique: stop passing off your preferences as objective fact. You like th...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 9:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Quizbowl Style Guide
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4770
Re: A Quizbowl Style Guide
I really have no idea what advantages there are to using "identify" over "name." Jerry mentions that it gives players an extra beat, but you're almost always using it the form "For 10 points, name/identify this [category of person or thing] that [giveaway clue]." The w...