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- Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 54565
Re: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
At the same time... "lol joke's on you for taking quizbowl seriously" is a fucking pisspoor response to anything. What's the total cost of airfare, hotel rooms, and entry fees for players and staffers at the three ICTs that Andy ruined? Like in the neighborhood of half a million dollars? ...
- Tue Feb 12, 2013 6:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DI specific question discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9294
Re: DI specific question discussion
Eric's extensive constructive criticism The LV tossup was mine. According to one of my physio texts, Eisenmenger's refers to (among other findings) the shunt reversal due to an uncorrected VSD... and that book is a first-edition from 1998 that I got for like fifty cents and should have thought twic...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VI (11/12/11)
- Replies: 164
- Views: 68392
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VI (11/12/11)
It seems like the self-evident response to point 3 is simply the opinions of all the coaches and players who've posted on here so far saying that all their players enjoyed themselves, even those who had PPBs that Yoda would only need one hand to count...
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MAGNI Question Discussion
- Replies: 138
- Views: 30765
Re: Individual Question Requests and Discussion
As far as recent studies go, the ones that show that [insert vitamin or mineral here] is protective against [insert disease name here] come out frequently, are frequently hyped in the news, and in the end don't usually make a big difference in medical care or elucidate something particularly novel a...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Human Bio
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7325
Re: Human Bio
Now, if you're talking about physiology questions (the close and far-more-relevant cousin of anatomy), then that's a different story. These questions show up all the time at lower levels and, I guess, are not as noticeable at the higher levels because all the cool lead-in clues and a good number of...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 11:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5924
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
Oddly enough, I've encountered Salonen outside of quizbowl before, since NPR seems to love plsying him. That's not odd at all; he's Important in the real world! Indeed, it's far from odd; and as long as we're talking about who should come up, more Important conductors/educators should come up, like...
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5924
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
Not to go all music mafia on you, but while Saariaho obviously shouldn't be coming up at regionals, why shouldn't she happen as a bonus part at CO (or Nats, if you're being a little mean, I guess)? She's actually important to electronic music, and to the development of a (still regrettably small) c...
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5924
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
Not to go all music mafia on you, but while Saariaho obviously shouldn't be coming up at regionals, why shouldn't she happen as a bonus part at CO (or Nats, if you're being a little mean, I guess)? She's actually important to electronic music, and to the development of a (still regrettably small) co...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How to Become a Good Science Player
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11904
Re: How to Become a Good Science Player
If your school grants access to it, uptodate.com is a great source of biology information; it's mostly a medical site, but there are good descriptions of cell bio processes as well. Writing and studying off there will give you accurate and in-depth information to learn from.
- Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE membership changes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2097
Re: PACE membership changes
Jonathan Magin has also resigned from PACE. Thank you for your work as a member, Jonathan; we are also sorry to see you go.
- Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:44 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE membership changes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2097
PACE membership changes
PACE would like to welcome the following to its membership: Matt Bollinger, Matt Weiner, Colin McNamara, Chris Greenwood, Julie Gittings, and Isaac Hirsch. Thank you for accepting your invitations, and we look forward to having you contribute further to our organization! PACE would also like to bid ...
- Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2011: Quick recap and Thanks
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17006
Re: PACE NSC 2011: Quick recap and Thanks
So is the NSC set never going to be posted, or is Andy Watkins still watching Gordon Heyward stream Starcraft II games and going to get around to those formatting problems any minute now? I can't speak to why the set hasn't been posted, but I can tell you that Andy is on vacation with his family an...
- Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 23497
Re: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
Thanks! </thread derail>Wurzel-Flummery wrote:I might take a stab at the carrot cake cupcakes, those look really good!Not That Kind of Christian!! wrote: (Incidentally, though, thanks for the blog traffic.)
- Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 23497
Re: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
My apologies; the reason I haven't posted yet is a poor one, namely that this is an academically intense time in my life and I got very distracted by some things that were going on in that arena. You get graded for maintaining http://bakingbored.blogspot.com/? Charlie, I'd appreciate it if you'd re...
- Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 23497
Re: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
Hey, Dr. Prince, we have reached conclusions on a number of things to fix and agreed several days ago that Hannah Kirsch was going to post here about them. She's the Communications VP and as such is the person qualified to speak for PACE. I really don't know why she hasn't posted yet, but hopefully...
- Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 23497
Re: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
My apologies; the reason I haven't posted yet is a poor one, namely that this is an academically intense time in my life and I got very distracted by some things that were going on in that arena. In any case, I can assure you that the only "secret cabal" working on these issues is the enti...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC Question Set Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 18928
Re: 2011 NSC Question Set Discussion
I edited and wrote all the biology, and wrote some questions for the rest of the set besides.
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 PACE NSC
- Replies: 114
- Views: 175432
Re: 2011 PACE NSC
As you may have heard, State College beat Hunter College High School A in a one-game final to win this year's NSC. Thank you to all teams who participated, both for your hard work and for your patience with Saturday's logistical difficulties.
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 12:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC 2011
- Replies: 149
- Views: 38959
Re: NAC 2011
Probably out of a sense of professionalism.Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote:Why don't you tell this person she is a phenomenal idiot then? Because you're scared?
- Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VETO?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16478
Re: VETO?
Working on VETO last time was kind of fun. I'd be willing to edit some bio and/or music for this.
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30668
Re: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
I don't have the set with me so I might be completely wrong in saying this, but while playing, there seemed to be a dearth in biology questions (particularly tossups) in the DII set. A lot of the biology that did come up seemed a bit difficult, too (tossups on beta oxidation of fatty acids and home...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT/ICT Distribution
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2237
Re: SCT/ICT Distribution
I felt the mixed pure academic stuff wasn't THAT bad, although I guess you can quibble if knowledge of a movie version of The Children's Hour should ever get points over someone who has read the work (for what it's worth, I would argue that it's not like the movie versions are trash but semi-reason...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30668
Re: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
I think someone pointed out on Saturday that I should have put in directions to accept "crown ethers" on early buzzes. I hope this didn't cause any problems for people. This happened in my room; I think it may have been Aaron Cohen who said "crown ethers," actually. Though I kno...
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 150
- Views: 30668
Re: 2011 ICT Question-specific discussion
The very first bonus in the DII finals packet was also a not-so-awesome throwback.
- Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 PACE NSC Tournament Format
- Replies: 96
- Views: 22683
Re: 2011 PACE NSC Tournament Format
Why not write a few more questions to allow full bracket tiebreakers? Speaking as someone heavily involved in writing last year's and this year's NSCs, this is not a trivial task. Editors have been striving for better difficulty control than the NSC has had in previous years. While I think there's ...
- Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:00 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Discussion
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23948
Re: Illinois Open Discussion
Is this person distinct from Mohandas Gandhi, or is this an error?Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote:[10]Mohammed Gandhi
- Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Improving productivity as a writer
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4870
Re: Improving productivity as a writer
Not that I'm at the apogee of question-writing, but I can churn them out pretty quickly. After I pick my answer line, I write ideas for clues on separate lines so that I have a clear plan that I just have to flesh out, e.g.: Clue about an aria from Idomeneo Musical clue from Cosi fan tutte Less obvi...
- Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE staffing funds
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1881
Re: PACE staffing funds
The application form for staffer travel reimbursement can now be found here. Questions about the form or reimbursement in general should be directed to Donald Taylor at donaldtaylor dot pace at gmail dot com.
- Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prompts and Protests
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2753
Re: Prompts and Protests
Well, unless the answer was something like John Quincy Adams, where a player has to make it extremely clear (I think there's even a thing about this in the NAQT and/or ACF rules) that they don't mean the other President John Adams (whose wiki page you get if you just type in "John Adams")...
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 11:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 PACE NSC
- Replies: 114
- Views: 175432
Re: 2011 PACE NSC
PACE is very excited to announce that for this year's NSC, we will expand the field to 72 teams. This represents the all-time largest field size for the NSC. Thank you in advance to the teams for their interest and staffers for their commitment to helping the tournament grow.
- Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE staffing funds
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1881
PACE staffing funds
In order to promote community participation in high school events and help alleviate personal financial burden, PACE will be making money available to community members who often pay out of pocket to attend and staff high school tournaments. Up to $100 per staffer and $1500 total can be dispensed to...
- Sat Nov 20, 2010 4:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open III (11.20.10-11.21.10)
- Replies: 125
- Views: 38301
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open III (11.20.10-11.21.10)
MO 2010: best team names out there.
- Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Some thoughts on the distribution and regular difficulty
- Replies: 42
- Views: 16310
Re: Some thoughts on the distribution and regular difficulty
Maybe we can't expect the degree of cultural understanding that we have been expecting--that is, a degree to the tune of 1/1 philosophy, 1/1 world lit, and so on--but one of the points of playing quizbowl is to expand one's cultural understanding. A one-to-one correspondence between quizbowl cultura...
- Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Mirror at Georgia Tech 10/23/2010
- Replies: 74
- Views: 21765
Re: EFT Mirror at Georgia Tech 10/23/2010
Perhaps just some Kontakte information.grapesmoker wrote:Come on guys, it's Stockhausen. How much more identification could he possibly need?Karlheinz Stockhausen wrote:User was warned for lacking a signature.
- Sun Oct 10, 2010 3:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LSU Academic Challenge -- Jan 15
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4674
Re: LSU Academic Challenge -- Jan 15
Scott, is it feasible for you to consider using HSAPQ questions for this tournament? Sets of a similar difficulty level and a more reputable production process are surely going to be available.
- Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eligibility
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8172
Re: Eligibility
This fascination with insulating new players is fairly recent. At the first ACF Fall I attended (October 2004), there were teams led by Andrew Yaphe, Seth Teitler, and Zeke. If you're really concerned with insulating new players, look at the great stats some of the more accomplished high school pla...
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 10:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcement regarding the chief administrator
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9161
Re: Announcement regarding the chief administrator
I don't think you're going to be the target of flaming, but I would (not as a member of the exec board, just as myself) like to say a word about privacy (noting that I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "double standard," so my apologies if I misinterpret). To say "the quizbowl commu...
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcement regarding the chief administrator
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9161
Re: Announcement regarding the chief administrator
The following is PACE's official statement in response to Matt's post and in summation of our resolution of the complaints against Trygve: PACE has already resolved this matter internally, as was mentioned above, through a multi-step process. We apologize for the delay, which was due to exhaustive d...
- Sun Aug 29, 2010 4:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 PACE NSC
- Replies: 114
- Views: 175432
2011 PACE NSC
PACE is pleased to announce that the 2011 NSC will be held at Northwestern University on June 4 and 5. Tournament directors Andrew Hart and Gautam Kandlikar will soon post with a list of some convenient nearby hotels. Also, please note that Northwestern is accessible from O'Hare Airport by both publ...
- Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcement regarding the chief administrator
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9161
Announcement regarding the chief administrator
It has recently been brought to the attention of the board that PACE president Trygve Meade, while acting as Chief Administrator of the hsquizbowl.org discussion boards and prior to his election as PACE president, used his permissions to view a private HSAPQ forum hosted on the PACE-owned discussion...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't more teams bid to host SCT?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4692
Re: Why don't more teams bid to host SCT?
On a side note- I dont really understand how the clock prevents established programs from hosting the SCT moreso than tournaments they host without the clock. I understand that rooms need to be staffed with two people (so that the reader doesn't lose time keeping score), but that second person can ...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 4:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE elections results announcement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2611
Re: PACE elections results announcement
After the resignation of Matt Weiner for personal reasons, Gautam Kandlikar has been elected vice president of tournament direction. Gautam and Andrew Hart will serve as co-tournament directors for this year's NSC. PACE congratulates Gautam and Andrew, and we look forward to their excellent work wi...
- Tue Aug 03, 2010 3:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston/ NE/ Something summer practices
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3260
Re: Boston/ NE/ Something summer practices
Why don't we all meet outside the Harvard science center at 5:30? There are definitely free classrooms there, one of which we could take over. I'm making cookies.
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 10:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston/ NE/ Something summer practices
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3260
Re: Boston/ NE/ Something summer practices
I'll be in Boston next week. Would it be okay to see what the world of college quizbowl is like? Well, I think Andy and I are the only two quizbowlers in Boston at the moment, so as of next week, the world of college quizbowl will be mostly "Andy goes to lab" and "Hannah packets for ...
- Mon Aug 02, 2010 6:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston/ NE/ Something summer practices
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3260
Re: Boston/ NE/ Something summer practices
Andy and I are in. Is anyone else around?bt_green_warbler wrote:So, I'm in Boston this week. Anyone interested in some quizbowl?
- Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 36885
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
truly major authors such as Borges, Garcia-Marquez, Soyinka, Kawabata, Mishima or Rushdie Just out of curiosity, how did you select these names as the most egregious of the missing authors? Are you suggesting they are more or less important to include than, say, Pamuk, Achebe, Lessing, Wang Wei, Da...
- Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 36885
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
Given what I saw in answer selection from submitted packets, that's a great credit to him. A note on this: I'm not going to stamp my foot and refuse to acknowledge the overdifficulty of some questions in this tournament, but while most of the people who are posting with difficulty objections submit...
- Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 36885
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussions
Sorry to crash this chain with more music stuff, but I found some more mistakes while reading through the packets today. One is small (round 4, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertos: I think the anecdote is really talking about Nikloai Rubenstein, and not Anton). The others are larger and are in the tossup...
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
- Replies: 122
- Views: 41673
Re: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
There are some pieces for which neither theory nor key signature clues will be helpful, because neither of these features are significant or unusual for that piece. trigger/confirmation Also, yeah, I know that the association of keys with things extends beyond Baroque (I mentioned Grétry, who is mi...
- Wed Jul 28, 2010 2:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Two Part Answers to Questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1663
Re: Two Part Answers to Questions
Putting a "Warning: Two answers required!" clause at the beginning of questions suffices. However, be sure that asking about this two-part answer is more valuable than picking one of those two parts before endeavoring to write the question at all.