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And a quick follow-up, since I always worry that comments like this are going to be misread as "being nice is important!"--I've never considered myself an unusually kind or gentle critic, but I think I've come around to being a fairly pragmatic one (and this is a big difference from the re...

In the 2021 ACF Regs discussion thread... In addition to players asking editors about questions, we also wanted to give editors a chance to shout out some of their favorite submissions! We were blown away by the creativity and range of the questions submitted, and encourage teams who enjoyed submitt...

It has occurred to me that it's been a really long time since I've seen "The Knot". It was a 16-player buzzer system, obstinately for four teams of four, but with all 16 cables coming out of a central console. The cables naturally became tangled up in a way that seemed to defy 3-dimension...

Wow--very exciting to see a field where half of the teams are from liberal arts colleges!

I'll echo the good advice that others have posted here. I put quizbowl on my resume during the time when I was transitioning out of academia and looking for other jobs in higher ed (in fields like career development, admissions, fundraising, academic affairs, and--where I ended up--grants/research a...

WWBT (New Kent) : New Kent teacher charged with crimes involving children Due to the nature of these charges, Matt Duckworth has been banned from the hsquizbowl forums. The board staff would like to request that there be no further discussion of this story on hsquizbowl. In particular, speculation ...

Thanks to Matt Mitchell for giving me a heads-up about this thread. I don't have a direct answer to Max's question, but as someone who works in an admin role at a LAC, I have a couple of thoughts that may also be relevant: The majority of elite LACs (and lots of other types of institutions) are expe...

Hi, Ethan, It looks like Yuti edited her original post in a way that changed its meaning (possibly in an attempt to respond to the thread), which is against the forum rules. A board staff member disapproved this post because of the rule violation, encouraging her instead to put her thoughts in a sep...

This issue should now be resolved; sounds like it was an issue with our email server that resulted in emails getting held and not send out, so folks should be receiving them (including the backlogged ones, so you might get a bunch!) now. Thanks to Dan Goff for fixing it; he made a post in the announ...

I've started cleaning some of these up (moving the threads to College Area Archives and deleting the subforums). One thing I'll note is that I would be very grateful if, as we move forward, private forum administrators would begin all of their thread titles with a tournament-specific identifier (e.g...

COSIGN. To echo what Alex is saying here, if you think you're winning arguments by doing this, you're probably wrong.

While Athena is right to point out that putting the work on women isn't necessarily fair, I am willing to do some work as both a woman and a board staffer here. In such a forum or the existing one, I would like to propose something like "Dear Prudence," which I would run, possibly along w...

Update on this situation: in reaction to the comments made on the Periscope video, NAQT has banned one individual from staffing our national championships, and prepared a second ban should we discover the identity of a commenter who is presently pseudonymous. Our thanks go out to the community memb...

I don't know how much weird white supremacist stuff is coming from within classics, but classicists are certainly having to put up with some nonsense (where by "nonsense" I mean "death threats") from the white supremacist general public these days; see the reaction to Sarah Bond'...

Hi, Leo, ACF definitely plans on running ACF Fall this year and is currently working on assembling an editing team. Announcement to follow.

One thing that I'd like to see (and that I hope is already happening!) is for folks who are recruiting writers/editors (NAQT, ACF, HSAPQ, etc., but also people organizing collaboratively-written tournaments) to proactively reach out to women and encourage them to apply/participate. I don't have a gr...

Everything should be added now. Please feel free to continue to suggest threads, though.

I'd second Andrew's suggestion to post threads you'd like to see in the Best of the Best subforum in this thread. It looks like we had a few posts submitted via the board's report function; since we try to reserve that for posts that need some kind of disciplinary action, I'm going to close those re...

There have actually been quite a few threads on gender and quizbowl in the history of the boards. Unfortunately, many of them were awful. In addition to the ones Corry pointed out, here's some of the less awful ones (note that most of these are in the college section and may contain adult language):...

I'm curious which of the solutions people are proposing the NAQT folks consider feasible. I'm a little curious about how requiring teams to play their SCT lineups at ICT would go; this is more restrictive than anything I can remember a college tournament ever doing*, and I'm not sure how much effort...

I'd really love to hear more about NAQT's general rationale behind its bid allocation, as well as how it decides what size the ICT field should remain. I'm sympathetic to the pressures NAQT is under--getting people to bid to host the February tournaments (Regionals and SCT) has gotten markedly harde...

One other thing to think about--you may want to investigate what kind of teleconferencing resources your institution has (beyond Skype), because it may be possible to get A/V help from your institution if you're using the product that your IT department supports. We're a GoToMeeting campus and, desp...

Would it be worth trying one of the Claremont Colleges? They hosted SCT this year (Jeff Hoppes probably has more info).

I'm somewhat skeptical that any hotel deal would be cheaper than what teams would get if they shopped around/used Priceline or a similar service (based on my general sense of hotel deals and my specific experience of beating the group rate the last time I attended an ACF Nats that used a hotel deal).

Really excited to see my alma mater (Benet Academy) played this tournament--I was not aware they had a team!

A tailor (you don't have a tailor? Get a tailor. Seriously, it's a good investment.) can take in or let out the hem of your pants a little bit I don't know a ton of people who "have a tailor," but finding a dry cleaner that does alterations/repairs (or a storefront/mall tailoring business...

(An amusing side note: I've found that quizbowl has been invaluable to me in my post-circuit-retirement career as an academic historian. Being able to instantly contextualize just about anything I encountered or read about is really helpful, as is having enough background knowledge about just about...

This group of proteins typically forms 13-fold symmetric structures that can be severed by katanin and exhibit (*) dynamic instability; I mean, it seems to me that the tossup was saying that the proteins that are the answer (tubulins) form larger structures (microtubules), which exhibit dynamic ins...

Mewto55555 wrote:I greatly approve of the bracket names.

I see the yellow, but where are the pigs?

My favorite ghost of quizbowl past, as I'm sure I've mentioned in other similar threads, is the Deep Bench format. How this worked is that each school would field one team of eight people; this team would play half the tournament as two teams of four and the other half as three teams of two and two ...

It's CRAZY that we're talking about banning part-time and dual-enrolled students (i.e., a subclass of actual students) from quizbowl, but waving our hands at letting fictitiously enrolled people play for colleges they are not actually attending at all. To the best of my knowledge, no one is trying ...

There's definitely some things to mine in this thread on hosting tournaments. I'd add to what's already been said here that tournament directors should make no assumptions about their staff--that is, don't assume that people will just show up without copious reminders, and don't assume that people w...

Anecdotally, the percentage of HS players who are female is way higher than the percentage of college players who are, and I'd guess that's true across pretty much any metric you could come up with (% of players in top whatever percent of the field, % of teams with at least one female player, % of t...

I spent some time a while ago amassing some similar data (looking at slightly different ways of calculating player performance, and also measuring stuff like the number of teams with any female players vs. those without plus a sort of abortive attempt to look at engagement in the broader quizbowl co...

I also worry to a certain extent that quizbowl at the college level is becoming increasingly insular - we're not retaining the players who have some real knowledge but no valid experience, because they don't find it competitively worthwhile to stick around after the first couple of months. Dwight i...

I also worry to a certain extent that quizbowl at the college level is becoming increasingly insular - we're not retaining the players who have some real knowledge but no valid experience, because they don't find it competitively worthwhile to stick around after the first couple of months. Dwight i...

I haven't been at any HSNCTs in a while (something I'm hoping to rectify next year), so maybe NAQT's already on top of this and I don't know about it, but would it make sense to make it very clear at the moderator meeting that someone who's getting through 21 tossups per game while reading clearly, ...

GEORGIA: Adam Silverman (Centennial), Tom Waters (I don't know), Don Windham (I don't know). I actually don't know if Tom and Don went to high school in Georgia, but they are from that state. The old and the young. Looks like Tom and Don did indeed go to HS in Georgia. KENTUCKY: Richard Mason (?). ...

A New York team of John Lawrence, Richard Yu, Doug Yetman, and Guy Tabachnik would be good, although probably not on CA/VA/MD level. Obviously, a tournament composed of these teams is impractical, but if the rumored NASAT online mirror happens, it might be fun to have people form state teams for it...

Obviously this is up to the PACE powers that be, but if I were running the NSC I'd be really unenthusiastic about staffers playing a side event where the plan was to finish at midnight on Saturday (especially given how wildly long side events tend to run).

They can be viewed here.

I would love to keep this as Quizbowl Storytime for a long while and deal with the voting way down the road, if ever.

If I'm remembering this Chicago Open correctly (we're talking about 2003, right?) it was the one where Ed Cohn, Matt Reece, and I were thrilled to defeat Kelly/Seth/Raj/Chris, Andrew/Ezequiel/Paul/Ben, and R/Tom Waters/Eric Hillemann (although, somewhat less thrillingly, we ended up in fourth place ...

Would it be possible/would it make sense to pay someone to help Jeff (and whoever else is handling stuff like ICT rosters) out during Nats season? Getting everyone's rosters sorted is one of those tasks that always takes way longer than it seems like it should (unlike some of the people complaining ...

The practice I'd be most interested in seeing a justification of is "If one team has an advantage, it will need to win one game while the other team will need to win two", which in theory could produce even stranger final outcomes than the 2005 D2 situation (e.g., if the first-place team s...

vcuEvan wrote:
quantumfootball wrote:My internet connection crashed tonight around the time that I was filling out Wright State's registration form, and so I just wanted to make sure that you got it.
Your registration was received.

And it should be showing up on the spreadsheet linked in the Michigan site announcement.

I'll just have to agree with Auroni here, since I, too, literally just found out by reading this thread, without which I might have screwed up the tournament planning Vicky and I were doing just now. Hi, Jason-- This morning at 9:05AM (Central), I emailed [email protected].com (the address listed in the...

I always find it interesting how closely these sorts of discussions (whether it's 2014 Oxford Open, 2009 VETO, or late 1990s/early 2000s US quizbowl growing pains) tend to mimic each other. Of course there are going to be common themes, but some of these are so specific--Deb Fuller lives again in th...

If I'm understanding you correctly, Aaron, this should be fine; the ACF rules say: For collegiate tournaments, players must be taking classes for credit (or doing equivalent undergraduate or graduate work) in a degree program, during the academic year in which the tournament takes place, under the a...

The list of teams who have registered for this tournament may be found here.

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