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by Susan
Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Looking to do a PhD combining quizbowl and artificial intelligence?
Replies: 4
Views: 2986

Re: Looking to do a PhD combining quizbowl and artificial intelligence?

I feel like you could put together a really interesting NSF REU or Broadening Participation in Computing grant about this.
by Susan
Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regs 2021: quick thoughts on critical practices
Replies: 3
Views: 2242

Re: ACF Regs 2021: quick thoughts on critical practices

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...
by Susan
Sun Feb 21, 2021 12:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regs 2021: quick thoughts on critical practices
Replies: 3
Views: 2242

ACF Regs 2021: quick thoughts on critical practices

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...
by Susan
Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:31 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Program for Sotheby's
Replies: 3
Views: 690

Re: Program for Sotheby's

This sounds like an awesome opportunity, Raynor! Would it be OK to share this with colleagues (a couple of friends who teach and advise liberal arts college students, many of whom are also interested in the intersection of art and tech)?
by Susan
Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:39 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Notable Buzzers
Replies: 32
Views: 20579

Re: Notable Buzzers

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...
by Susan
Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:50 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Fall at Minnesota (11/02/2019)
Replies: 5
Views: 2979

Re: 2019 ACF Fall at Minnesota (11/02/2019)

Wow--very exciting to see a field where half of the teams are from liberal arts colleges!
by Susan
Wed Oct 09, 2019 4:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: How do you put Quiz Bowl on a resume?
Replies: 9
Views: 8570

Re: How do you put Quiz Bowl on a resume?

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...
by Susan
Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Division II SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 1272

Re: 2019 Division II SCT: specific question discussion

setht wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:58 pm We've changed to accept womp womp, won won, wah wah, and wamp wamp.
Of all the sentences I've ever read in any "specific discussion thread," this one delights me the most.
by Susan
Mon Nov 26, 2018 11:53 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: Matt Duckworth [content warning]
Replies: 0
Views: 13674

Matt Duckworth [content warning]

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 ...
by Susan
Thu Nov 08, 2018 12:24 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
Replies: 19
Views: 10727

Re: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT

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...
by Susan
Tue Aug 21, 2018 3:52 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Expa
Replies: 10
Views: 6930

Re: Expa

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...
by Susan
Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Private discussion group e-mail requests
Replies: 2
Views: 2993

Re: Private discussion group e-mail requests

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...
by Susan
Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Discussion forums for old sets
Replies: 10
Views: 5964

Re: Discussion forums for old sets

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...
by Susan
Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Public discourse, on the forums and elsewhere
Replies: 17
Views: 9383

Re: Public discourse, on the forums and elsewhere

COSIGN. To echo what Alex is saying here, if you think you're winning arguments by doing this, you're probably wrong.
by Susan
Fri Feb 09, 2018 5:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: We Need an Alternative to the Women in Quizbowl Forum
Replies: 35
Views: 18527

Re: We Need an Alternative to the Women in Quizbowl Forum

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...
by Susan
Sat Dec 30, 2017 11:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: On talking about high schoolers
Replies: 14
Views: 10773

Re: On talking about high schoolers

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...
by Susan
Thu Dec 21, 2017 9:53 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Replies: 735
Views: 152847

Re: ROUND ONE, PART ONE: Best Song of the 2000s

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley vs. Machine Gun - Portishead Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day vs. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera SOS - Rihanna vs. Mr. Brightside - The Killers Chop Suey! - System of a Down vs. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson Jesus Walks - Kanye West vs. Clocks - Coldplay Wake Up...
by Susan
Tue Dec 19, 2017 6:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Replies: 735
Views: 152847

Re: ROUND 0 PART 2 VOTING NOW: Best Song of the 2000s Bracke

The Fear – Lily Allen vs. Love Story – Taylor Swift Dashboard – Modest Mouse vs. Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden Move Your Feet – Junior Senior vs. Helicopter – Bloc Party Family Affair – Mary J. Blige vs. Fidelity – Regina Spektor Mykonos – Fleet Foxes vs. American Boy – Estelle feat...
by Susan
Mon Dec 18, 2017 4:53 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Replies: 735
Views: 152847

Re: ROUND 0 PART 1 VOTING NOW: Best Song of the 2000s Bracke

Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson 1234 – Feist vs. Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story) – !!! vs. Do ...
by Susan
Thu Dec 14, 2017 4:46 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Replies: 735
Views: 152847

Re: COMING SOON: Best Song of the 2000s Bracket

Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:
ValenciaQBowl wrote:Hmm, do you enter a Jason Isbell song from his solo career or from when he was in Drive-By Truckers? And how do you limit yourself to just one DBT song??? I mean, I guess "Zip City" came out in 2001, so....
Wanna do a 2nd Isbell/DBT bracket? I'm game.
I'm in.
by Susan
Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:31 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: The Dark History of UChicago Quizbowl
Replies: 5
Views: 16481

Re: The Dark History of UChicago Quizbowl

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'...
by Susan
Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:43 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2017?
Replies: 1
Views: 2739

Re: ACF Fall 2017?

Hi, Leo, ACF definitely plans on running ACF Fall this year and is currently working on assembling an editing team. Announcement to follow.
by Susan
Tue Jul 25, 2017 12:25 pm
Forum: Best of the Best
Topic: Women in Quizbowl 2017 Edition
Replies: 28
Views: 34968

Re: Women in Quizbowl 2017 Edition

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...
by Susan
Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Suggest new threads for the Best of the Best subforum
Replies: 14
Views: 6511

Re: Suggest new threads for the Best of the Best subforum

Everything should be added now. Please feel free to continue to suggest threads, though.
by Susan
Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: extremely good pet pictures
Replies: 24
Views: 1886

Re: extremely good pet pictures

dtaylor4 wrote:
Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:Image
Post pics of Seth or GTFO
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Here you go.
by Susan
Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:42 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Suggest new threads for the Best of the Best subforum
Replies: 14
Views: 6511

Re: Suggest new threads for the Best of the Best subforum

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...
by Susan
Thu Feb 23, 2017 6:28 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Gender & Quiz Bowl
Replies: 6
Views: 5500

Re: Gender & Quiz Bowl

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):...
by Susan
Wed Feb 15, 2017 4:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2017 ICT bids
Replies: 157
Views: 80918

Re: 2017 ICT bids

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...
by Susan
Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2017 ICT bids
Replies: 157
Views: 80918

Re: 2017 ICT bids

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...
by Susan
Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running a Tournament/Practice Using Skype
Replies: 6
Views: 4033

Re: Running a Tournament/Practice Using Skype

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...
by Susan
Fri Apr 08, 2016 4:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Open Human-Computer Tournament in Socal, Early June
Replies: 14
Views: 8345

Re: Open Human-Computer Tournament in Socal, Early June

Would it be worth trying one of the Claremont Colleges? They hosted SCT this year (Jeff Hoppes probably has more info).
by Susan
Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:51 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals - University of Michigan, 04.16-17.2016
Replies: 104
Views: 60726

Re: ACF Nationals - University of Michigan, 04.16-17.2016

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).
by Susan
Mon Jan 04, 2016 3:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: New Trier Varsity, IL (12/19/15) (Missouri Open & SMART)
Replies: 16
Views: 10043

Re: New Trier Varsity, IL (12/19/15) (Missouri Open & SMART)

Really excited to see my alma mater (Benet Academy) played this tournament--I was not aware they had a team!
by Susan
Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:17 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Interview Question: Why do you do Quizbowl? etc.
Replies: 9
Views: 1062

Re: Interview Question: Why do you do Quizbowl? etc.

Regardless of what your actual reasons for liking quizbowl are, you should tailor your response to this question based on who exactly is asking you and what you want from them. Agreed--and while it's hard to know for sure without context, I'm guessing an interviewer is going to be more interested i...
by Susan
Tue Nov 10, 2015 10:14 pm
Forum: Best of the Best
Topic: Just what is "business casual" dress, and how do I wear it?
Replies: 52
Views: 53721

Re: How to find clothes that fit

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...
by Susan
Fri Jul 17, 2015 12:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: quizbowl and academic careers
Replies: 6
Views: 4731

Re: History Player

(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...
by Susan
Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:11 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Question-specific discussion: 2015 Division I ICT
Replies: 27
Views: 7566

Re: Question-specific discussion: 2015 Division I ICT

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...
by Susan
Fri Mar 27, 2015 5:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2015 NAQT ICT: March 28, Atlanta
Replies: 73
Views: 47005

Re: 2015 NAQT ICT: March 28, Atlanta

Mewto55555 wrote:I greatly approve of the bracket names.
I see the yellow, but where are the pigs?
by Susan
Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:22 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Ghosts of Quiz Bowl's Past that You (sorta) Miss....
Replies: 28
Views: 18273

Re: Ghosts of Quiz Bowl's Past that You (sorta) Miss....

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 ...
by Susan
Wed Oct 15, 2014 10:20 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: A proposal to simplify eligibility rules
Replies: 43
Views: 15002

Re: A proposal to simplify eligibility rules

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 ...
by Susan
Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:20 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Things that make a good tournament
Replies: 15
Views: 10750

Re: Things that make a good tournament

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...
by Susan
Mon Sep 22, 2014 3:15 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discussion)
Replies: 14
Views: 16844

Re: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discuss

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...
by Susan
Mon Sep 22, 2014 11:42 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discussion)
Replies: 14
Views: 16844

Re: Stats on women's participation at ICTs (open for discuss

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...
by Susan
Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:17 pm
Forum: Best of the Best
Topic: The Big Vision: [7] MS, College, & International Opportunity
Replies: 5
Views: 12952

Re: The Big Vision: [7] MS, College, & International Opportu

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...
by Susan
Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:17 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The Big Vision: [7] MS, College, & International Opportunity
Replies: 5
Views: 5220

Re: The Big Vision: [7] MS, College, & International Opportu

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...
by Susan
Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:42 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Moderators at HSNCT
Replies: 36
Views: 11954

Re: Moderators at HSNCT

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, ...
by Susan
Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:03 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: All-time all-state teams
Replies: 61
Views: 53301

Re: All-time all-state teams

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 (?). ...
by Susan
Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:44 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: All-time all-state teams
Replies: 61
Views: 53301

Re: All-time all-state teams

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...
by Susan
Tue May 20, 2014 1:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror
Replies: 135
Views: 63845

Re: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror

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).
by Susan
Tue May 06, 2014 4:53 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
Replies: 169
Views: 139103

Re: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg

They can be viewed here.