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Basing distribution on the platform is as good of an idea as basing a movie distribution on which production company is responsible for it. It was just an idea based on the observation that video game questions skew too heavily towards PC. I like the ideas of splitting by genres too, and a space fo...

4/4 sports - same sub-distribution as above, only with a decreased focus on UFC in the minor sport category 4/4 music - same sub-distrib, as I think pre-1990 music is far easier to access and more culturally significant than movies & TV 3/3 TV - 2/2 for the 90s on, 1/1 pre-90s 3/3 movies - 2/2 ...

So what happened with this? Were all the writers just too busy or somethin'?

I think the actual announcement for BASQUE has been moved to the archives, so I'll post my request for more information about the tournament here. Is it definitely happening? On the weekend of the 4th? If so, would it be possible to get a team list and some sense of which subsidiary tournaments may...

But still though, we need some QB action up here, including some trash only (not piggybacking an academic tourney) tourneys. P.S. Birdofredum Sawin: Why are you in Palo Alto for the summer? You aren't by any chance a future lawyer working at a law firm over the summer are you? I ask because I am a ...

I don't mind having the tournament up north, and most likely UCI will send two teams. But I'd have to request the event be held back a week to August 11-12. I personally cannot leave Southern California the weekend of August 4-5 due to a prior obligation. Can whoever's running the event please post...

I was under the impression that, in the past, there has been a California mirror of the CO and a few of the associated tournaments (e.g. the trash). Is anyone planning such a thing this year? I'll be in Palo Alto this summer, and would love to play a mirror at Stanford or Berkeley. I work in Palo A...

I saw the discussion re TRASHionals, and it just happens to tie into our situation re RC Cola this weekend. Right now we have enough questions to scrape by, but a lot of them are just too hard for half the field we expect (we have 8 or 9 novice teams, including four from high schools.) Anyone who t...

Any chance this might be mirrored in the SF Bay Area? I would able to help with the organizing if needed. Thanks.

Is anyone talking about holding any pure trash tourneys in the SF Bay Area (Stanford, Berkeley, whatever) anytime soon? I don't see too many announcements for these kinds of tourneys in this part of the country. Seems like there are at least some golden mirror opportunity a few times a year. I'd lov...

So I take it this is not going down?

solonqb wrote:Does anyone have any idea whether this is going down? Has Lujan or anyone else talked with Yaphe about it?

Sorry to resurrect an old threat, but is BASQUE '06 still gonna happen?

Am I alone in thinking that Triple H Questions are worthy of Quizbowl? I think you're right too, but I hope in calling for more questions, you won't neglect his days as Terra Ryzin and Jean-Paul Levesque. Who can forget his early feud with "Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright (the one with both a...

Nathan wrote:This is a joke, right?

What is a joke?

Maybe so, because I didn't see the above ratio and I don't know which questions were written by the original packet authors or added by an editor (I know this happened too many times last Saturday). Consider my objections dropped if this ratio is supposed to be in place for NAQT/ACF/etc: 1:1 ratio ...

metsfan001 wrote:So if I'm not a Buddhist or Hinduist, according to your logic, I have no reason to read the Mahabharata or the Koran, either.

I know many Bible thumpers who refuse to read such works.

But I don't know how many of them are/were Quizbowlers?

Should I be poking holes in my own arguments?

Dude, a properly edited tournament set religion has at least about 1:1 ratio of Judeo-Christian/Bible:non-Judeo/Christian religion questions. We all agree that the Mahabharata and Koran are important to know for QB, though admitedly not to the level of depth their religious practitioners know it be...

If you learn about the things of which you complain, you will find yourself at less of a disadvantage, both in matches, and in terms of education. You are missing my point. I suck at Art Questions. I don't complain about it because I can learn about it (and should). I just don't think I should have...

If you know diddly-squat about the Mahabharata or the Qu'Ran or Buddist teachings, you have missed out on a huge chunk of literature, considering that much of literature (particularly the really important/influential stuff) alludes or refers to these and other works in some form. Hence, your literat...

I don't think you're going to get any support for this notion here. You're pretty much 100% offbase in your comments. Like it or not, religion has played a huge part in human culture and history for the past 6,000+ years. To refuse to have questions based around this fact is simply burying our coll...

"Dude..." - M. Sorice Bible questions fall under the rubrick of Religion, of the RMP distribution (Religion, Mythology and Philosophy). Are you seriously arguing that the sources that have influenced culture for 99% of recorded history (for instance, the basis for dogma that could lead to...

Bible questions absolutely belong in Quizbowl. No book has had a larger impact on our society than The Bible. No book in our society has been studied as much as The Bible. So you have no way to appreciate someone like myself coming here and saying that Bible Questions are inherently unfair and do n...

When playing the UCLA mirror of the ESCO, I was reminded of one thing I absolute HATED when I was a HS quizbowler in the 90's: Bible Questions. I think Bible (incl. Old Testament) Questions have NO place in Quizbowl. Simply put, they are not academic. Sure you could study theology in college, but yo...

Now that I have a moment I thought I would share some thoughts about this weekend's tourney and my "comeback." 1.) I remember one pet peeve from long ago about Quizbowl and I had the same feelings Saturday. I'll put a post on it in the theory section, but basically it deals with Bible Ques...

Having attended the UCLA mirror and made it well known here about my "comeback" to quizbowl, I have loads of comments on the subject. But I finally got back home to the SF Bay Area Sunday night after a LONG weekend and I will write more later when I recooperate from the onslaught of quizbo...

I'll go ahead and bite with a serious, explanatory response. My guess is that pappy and I have similar HS backgrounds -- my school (Friendswood HS, Texas) only did the Texaco Star Chip thingy during my freshman and sophomore years, playing only 2-3 games per year before we were eliminated in the TV...

MLafer wrote:Well I for one cannot wait to see Papool's packet for the tournament this weekend

I did not write it NAC style in case you were wondering.

When I was in high school (Northern CA) everyone in these parts played NAC (Chip Beall's thing) style with 2 rounds of short toss ups, bonuses, and one 60 second lightning round. Does anyone regularly host open tournaments playing NAC style? All I seem to see are open ACT/NAQT tourneys. Just curiou...

When I was in high school (Northern CA) everyone in these parts played NAC (Chip Beall's thing) style with 2 rounds of short toss ups, bonuses, and one 60 second lightning round. Does anyone regularly host open tournaments playing NAC style? All I seem to see are open ACT/NAQT tourneys. Just curious...

Thanks for the reply. Your tournament in June sounds cool and I'd love to participate. If I wanted to come, I would just fly down and rent a car, so that isn't a problem. My concern is that I don't exactly have a team. I saw an annoucement for a tournament in the South (UTC) on the same day, and it ...

Hey everyone, my name is Papool and I was a good high school quiz bowler back in my day (HS class of 97), I loved it and ran an annual Quiz Bowl tourney at my school for 3 years. Unfortunately my undergrad school (Univ of the Pacific in Stockton, CA) never had a team and I couldn't get one together....