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Sorry for the late reply: yes, the current plan is to run TELEOLOGY after the main tournament has concluded, using the same game rooms. Columbia/the TD won't be organizing anything officially, but players are welcome to run it amongst themselves (and I think at least one Columbia person will be play...

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A reminder that this tournament is still happening! We're about a month out and could use some more signups.

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Category stats leaderboards now exist for each opus! To access these, go to the stats page for an opus and click on the category stats link.

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of Maryland Spring on February 17th, 2024 . The tournament will be held at Columbia University in Hamilton Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu. Gameplay will begin at 9:00 am following an opening meeting at 8:45 am. Rules: This i...

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Not a requirement, just a suggestion - packets uploaded to the question archive be uploaded as a series of individual .pdf files, as well as a .zip file containing .docx versions of all the packets. This year's NASAT is a good example: https://quizbowlpackets.com/3040/ The reasoning is that .pdf fil...

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We're about a month out from the tournament, and we still have room for plenty more teams - get your signups in!

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of ESPN on March 23rd, 2024 . The tournament will be held at Columbia in Hamilton Hall and directed by William Groger . Gameplay will begin at 9:00 am following an opening meeting at 8:45 am. Eligibility: This is an open tourn...

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It might be hard for us to host a tournament on the weekend of March 30th, so based on the results of the poll, we'll be hosting the tournament on March 23rd, 2024. Forum post will be up in a few days.

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Not sure if this idea has been suggested before, but someone should make a version of QBNotify that emails you (or notifies you, or whatever) whenever a new set is posted to https://quizbowlpackets.com/ . (Not me though, I have too many qbreader features to build and control too much quizbowl softwa...

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Columbia is interested in hosting ESPN (in-person) after UG nats - when would people be interested in playing? (See date poll above)

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As a reminder, the registration deadline is two days away - we could use one more team to round out the field!

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of 2023 CREEK+ on October 7th, 2023. The tournament will be held at Columbia in Hamilton Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu. Gameplay will begin at 9:30 am following an opening meeting at 9:15 am. Rules: This is a closed tournam...

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I am pleased to announce that the Upper-Mid Atlantic site of 2023 ACF Winter will be held at Columbia University on Saturday, November 11, 2023.. The tournament will take place at Hamilton Hall . The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 am and gameplay will begin at 9:00. I, Geoffrey Wu, will be the t...

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of 2023 HFT XV on December 2nd, 2023. The tournament will be held at Columbia in Uris Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu. Gameplay will begin at 9:00 am following an opening meeting at 8:45 am. Rules: This is a closed tournament...

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of 2023 CREEK on October 7th, 2023. The tournament will be held at Columbia in Hamilton Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu. Gameplay will begin at 9:00 am following an opening meeting at 8:45 am. Rules: This is a closed tourname...

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Unfortunately, I was unable to figure out what the cause of this bug was. However, I have used a new, more precise method of calculating celerity going forward that should hopefully prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future? (Also will cause everyone's celerity to be slightly better be...

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That's very odd. What browser & operating system were you using? Maybe it's something with that.

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If you’re a free agent for this tournament, please try to form/find a team by end of day Sunday, July 23rd. On Monday, I will automatically assign free agents to teams. Pending any last-minute signups, it looks like we’ll have 8 teams for this tournament.

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Looks like I put the wrong email address on the original forum post (now fixed). Please email me at geoffreywu1000 at gmail dot com to register (and apologies to anyone who has already tried to register).

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qbreader now has a discord: https://discord.gg/5ue7MucTGQ

Use it to discuss geoword, provide feedback, report bugs, etc

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I don't speak for my fellow geoword writers/editors here, but as a specialist myself, I am very open to changing the format (especially the scoring system) and think these are some really good points.

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Venmo is now a payment option, if people prefer that.

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Opus 1 is officially out! Let me know if you have any issues, especially with payment (I won’t be able to get to anything until the evening).

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I would like to clarify that NASAT does not have any power marks

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of 2023 NASAT on July 29th, 2023. The tournament will be held at Columbia University in Pupin Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu. Rules: This tournament will be using ACF’s gameplay rules, including the optional addendum on powe...

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I've fixed the bug causing the division selection not to work on Firefox. If anyone is curious (this may be of help for future web developers), this is effectively what I did: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70780452

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Mike Bentley wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 4:42 pm Also, the sample round doesn't seem to work on Firefox. Works on other browsers though.

Tested it on Firefox on a Mac and it worked for me—do you know what specifically didn’t work? (Was the audio not playing, or was something else not working, etc.)

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Starting next week, the QBReader website will have a new functionality called Geoword. Similar to Beterword, Geoword is an online, single-person event in which a player may test their skills on a packet of original tossups. A free-to-play sample is available on the website linked here. New packets w...

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This is very cool!

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I agree with Ben here.

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Votre Kickstarter Est Nul wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:43 pm I will politely (and annoyingly) plead to one of the NYC schools to host something fun this summer (though I'm ofc also excited to trip on down to the lower mid atlantic for some stuff)

We’ll try to see what we can do

Edit: I checked and not much can be done

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This tournament has been canceled. It may or may not be held in the fall.

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of 2023 HFT XV on May 6th, 2023. The tournament will be held at Columbia in Hamilton Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu. Registration will begin at 9:00 am, and gameplay will begin at 9:30 am following an opening meeting at 9:20...

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A while ago, I wrote a script to generate per-question conversion data from TJ sheets, and I'm realizing now that many people would find it useful. Instructions are included in the README. The python script generates a single excel file with two tabs, one for tossups and one for bonuses. Script is h...

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Using the last two months of qbreader data, I've generated a report showing the most popular subjects per difficulty played on qbreader. The results can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DPjMcd0JVtLWL8omse1Jhh-w8JmA1XjZpNJaf9FgzSA/edit#gid=1255227481 The %-of-difficulty tab show...

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of MRNA II on March 25th, 2023. The tournament will be held at Columbia in Hamilton Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu. Gameplay will begin at 9:00 am following an opening meeting at 8:45 am. Rules: This tournament will be using...

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A reminder that the registration deadline is in a week. We're currently at 5 teams and would love to have more.

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Looks cool, glad to see that the question database is being put to good use. (Also lets me close a longstanding Github issue heh)

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Ah, good catch—new packets shouldn't have this issue, and I'll go back and fix the ~11 instances I could find.

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Luckily, I just made a replacement. See viewtopic.php?t=26495

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I am proud to announce that I have built qbreader.org/db , a quizdb-like search page built on top of the qbreader database. I will be monitoring the discords and website traffic closely today to make sure things are running smoothly and the server doesn't crash. If there's too much traffic, I will c...

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I am pleased to announce that Columbia Quiz Bowl will be hosting a mirror of 2022 C++ on February 25th, 2023. The tournament will be held at Columbia in Hamilton Hall and directed by Geoffrey Wu and William Groger. Gameplay will begin at 9:30 am following an opening meeting at 9:15. Rules: This tour...

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Always nice to see my work get outdated haha.

On a serious note, very impressive and I really like the clean interface! Perhaps some competition will inspire me to finally clean up the QBReader UI a little bit and work on the outstanding issues for the site a little bit more.

thedoge

Awesome tool! Works pretty well based on my preliminary usage on C++ questions. Are there any plans to make this into a Google Workspace Marketplace add-on? Not sure how complicated it would be, but I'm thinking it would make it easier to install / use across multiple google docs.

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Hello everyone, I'm excited to announce qbreader.org/multiplayer , a multiplayer version of the qbreader you know and love. It's very similar to protobowl, if protobowl was better, had much newer questions, had the option to choose specific subcategories, and had the option to play a set (instead of...

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Just stumbled upon this thread—I categorized a bunch of sets by difficulty and put them into this spreadsheet for the qbreader website. Could be useful to expedite the process / if anyone finds the data useful for studying purposes.

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I've added a litany of new features since 8 months ago, but the main ones include: - Much better support for mobile - the site was basically unusable on mobile before and category selection didn't work - Reading speed is more natural and based on word length - Site stores your selected categories/su...

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After a month and a half of sporadically working on the reader, I'm proud to announce the following features and changes that I have made: - added celerity for tossups - added 14 new packets - show buzzpoint - fixed issues with dead tossups (previously wouldn't be counted as heard + counted as negs)...

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I currently do not have plans to add such a feature (to mix up the order of questions from one packet). If you want random questions from a variety of packets, then I would recommend using https://quizbug2.karangurazada.com/.

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I am proud to present the quizbowl packet reader ( https://www.qbreader.org/ ), a quizbug/protobowl/tkbot where you can input a packet. Other features include support for bonuses and the ability to filter by category. This project was the brainchild of some people talking about this idea on discord ...

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