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- Tue Aug 04, 2020 4:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MARCATo (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 19924
Re: MARCATo (Summer 2020)
Is there a list of clips for past questions, like there sometimes is for IL? I’d love to see what some of those early clips were!
- Mon Aug 12, 2019 8:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IL5 Online Mirror
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2523
Re: IL5 Online Mirror
I’m excited to play this!
- Thu May 02, 2019 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Guerilla Imaginary Landscape
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14572
Re: Guerilla Imaginary Landscape
Awesome! Yeah, I was curious to see what discussion of questions in this format looked like.
- Thu May 02, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Guerilla Imaginary Landscape
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14572
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26968
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
I don’t want to be That Person, but is there an ETA on the packets being publicly released? Speaking as someone who wrote a packet but ended up not playing (and who may have written the original versions of some of the questions being discussed here?), it would make the discussion easier to follow.
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21669
Re: QANTA League: Human-Computer Open Tournament / Question Writing Competition (15. Dec, 2018, UMD)
Here's a question about the write.qanta interface that I don't think I can figure out without going in and trying it: if I start writing a question, at what point is it submitted to the website? That is, if I start writing a question with the answer "John Doe", am I locked into having a Jo...
- Sat Sep 15, 2018 11:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 4 Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 626
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 4 Discussion
For jazz, in addition to the typical tossups on musicians, I also included some tossups that focus on standards that someone who plays jazz might know (these are some of the "title noun" / "title verb"-type questions). As someone who knows absolutely nothing about jazz, I though...
- Tue Aug 22, 2017 6:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20204
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
I'm leaving academia and going to SUNY Binghamton for the next 2 years or so, doing a Masters in accounting. I guess this means I will technically be eligible to play tournaments, though I don't know how much of that I'll actually do (especially since there doesn't seem to be a club there). If anyon...
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Certamen
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6369
Re: Certamen
I never did Certamen, but from the examples of actual play that I've been able to find, it looks like a perfect illustration of "real knowledge" and "game speed" not mixing well. A valuable cautionary tale. Anyway, I would also support a pyramidal Certamen endeavor if there were ...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 3:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
- Replies: 131
- Views: 57676
Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017
I've been out of the quizbowl scene for a while but was always under the impression you couldn't send teams to more than one SCT. I'll add my two cents here to note that such a rule should be put into place. What about non-resident students, then -- like the person from Maryland who played this ver...
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
- Replies: 131
- Views: 57676
Re: Rocky Mountain Sectionals (Boulder, CO; February 4, 2017
I've been out of the quizbowl scene for a while but was always under the impression you couldn't send teams to more than one SCT. I'll add my two cents here to note that such a rule should be put into place. What about non-resident students, then -- like the person from Maryland who played this ver...
- Mon Nov 28, 2016 12:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 67637
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
For real this time: I will have a short packet of <20 before and after tossups.
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 2:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How to be a Good College History Player + other stuff
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4283
Re: How to be a Good College History Player + other stuff
Generalists will be buzzing in more because they're generalists, but it doesn't mean that you're not good or that you don't pull your weight. As you've alluded to, nothing about bonuses is reflected in individual stats, and if you're the person with the deepest history knowledge, you're probably con...
- Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seinfeld Trash Tournament: Serenity Now, Witty Title Later
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6671
Re: Seinfeld Trash Tournament: Serenity Now, Witty Title Lat
If this were to get read on IRC, I would totally participate.
- Thu Dec 17, 2015 11:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21571
Re: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge
I have about a half-packet's worth of before and after tossups that I wrote for that thing in the summer but didn't finish in time and never sent. I might write a few more between now and then.
- Fri Nov 13, 2015 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT rules revisions 2015
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4007
Re: NAQT rules revisions 2015
Something slightly related I've sometimes wondered about: what about English-language works whose title is in another language? For instance, can you give "It is sweet and fitting" as an answer for Dulce et decorum est when it refers to the Wilfred Owen poem? (As far as I can tell, the ans...
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Resetting [pt. 5 of 6]: How We Treat Each Other
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21957
Re: Resetting [pt. 5 of 6]: How We Treat Each Other
I've been one of these "fringe" members for many years now (more active at some times than at others), and I would agree that it's not easy to break into the community (which I would define, in super-vague terms, as being mutually acquainted with a decent number of quizbowlers who don't go...
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 4:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gauging interest for before-and-after contributions
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7597
Re: Gauging interest for before-and-after contributions
I'd also be interested.
- Sun Dec 21, 2014 5:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt J's Stuff (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5810
Re: Matt J's Stuff (2014 Penn Bowl)
I did exactly that and buzzed on "polished up the handle".
(On the other hand, I'm completely unfamiliar with the stage version of West Side Story and had no idea that "Somewhere" was even a ballet.)
(On the other hand, I'm completely unfamiliar with the stage version of West Side Story and had no idea that "Somewhere" was even a ballet.)
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Will's Questions (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10662
Re: Will's Questions
For what it's worth, I (and at least one other person in my room) recognised the rope thing but couldn't remember the name of the character, at the time.
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014 Penn Bowl - Cody's Qs
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3246
Re: 2014 Penn Bowl - Cody's Qs
Personally, I'm inclined to think that record labels just aren't notable enough to be answer lines, but I could be wrong about that.vinteuil wrote:I do have to wonder if the Jews/Decca/Korngold bonus wasn't pretty rough on most teams, though—I'd be interested to hear what people thought about that.
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Will's Questions (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10662
Re: Will's Questions
I realized that might be an issue while writing the question, but I never got around to fixing it. What would y'all suggest I use to link the two pieces that the tossup clues from? That's a hard question, but maybe something that emphasizes that this is what these pieces are "called" woul...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11681
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
Right -- my point was that I know German, but neither of those pieces.
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11681
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
The "requiems" tossup also had a quote which I assume must be from Brahms' German Requiem (something about "die, die in dem Herrn sterben"), which gave me a "wait, wait, it couldn't just be THAT?" moment.
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Will's Questions (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10662
Re: Will's Questions
I found the "rhapsodies" question confusing, actually -- I negged with something stupid, but then thought it was "piano concertos" until the end of the question (so almost surely would have otherwise negged with that). I forget what exactly the pronoun was, but I think it was jus...
- Thu Oct 02, 2014 9:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The place of zoology in the bio distribution
- Replies: 53
- Views: 31024
Re: Writing Prizes
Probably just about every science tossup I've ever buzzed in on since finishing high school (in practices, at least, and maybe I have even answered a science question or two in competition?) has been on either an animal or a disease. Maybe questions on such things are just more frequently fraudable/...
- Sat Aug 09, 2014 12:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 27,000 HSAPQ answer lines
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13000
Re: 27,000 HSAPQ answer lines
This might have something to do with the Google Docs/Drive thing -- I have it in my "list of documents shared with me" (by virtue of having opened it while logged in?), and I can still get to it from there.
- Sat Aug 09, 2014 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2867
Re: Packets
Oh, cool!
- Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packets
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2867
Re: Packets
Me too: nutbeam at MIT dot exactly-what-you'd-expect.
- Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Global Announce: Introductory Collaborative Collegiate Set
- Replies: 37
- Views: 23623
Re: Global Announce: Introductory Collaborative Collegiate S
I could do some lit. Is "extra lit" like a "your choice"-type subcategory?Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:I am an experienced writer. How can I help you?
Email me at [email protected] or post in this thread, expressing interest in whichever portion of the distribution you're interested in.
- Fri May 30, 2014 8:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: community question clinic
- Replies: 95
- Views: 93269
Re: community question clinic
I've done a similar thing with commas before, but without explicit instructions: This piece was originally conceived as the overture to a choral work called The Four Elements . In this work’s 12/8 “Andante maestoso” sections, the upper woodwinds and trumpets twice play a first-inversion minor arpegg...
- Mon May 05, 2014 1:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: community question clinic
- Replies: 95
- Views: 93269
Re: community question clinic
The Schubert Arpeggione sonata is played quite frequently on the cello (same deal, it's always a good idea to google). And the flute, even. Good music written for obsolete instruments tends to be fair game for lots of transcriptions. :lol: I don't think there was any discussion of the music from Fe...
- Fri Dec 06, 2013 3:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Triacontakaipentagonline (12/21/13)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7033
Re: Triacontakaipentagonline (12/21/13)
Sure!tejasraje wrote:Miriam, we're collaborating on a packet, you want to work on it as well?
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Triacontakaipentagonline (12/21/13)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7033
Re: Triacontakaipentagonline (12/21/13)
Likewise, I just saw this thread and would be interested in participating, especially if I could find a collaborator who likes writing history, science, and architecture.
- Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd: 11/23/13 @ CMU
- Replies: 110
- Views: 46897
Re: Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd: 11/23/13 @ CMU
Are the packets posted somewhere?
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 54656
Re: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
Speaking of Josh Alman... Josh Alman is really really good Man do I feel like a dunce now. Honestly, I'm not really angry about the whole Josh Alman dealio (which is the only one that personally affected me), particularly given that it seems to have spurred NAQT to look into the Watkins/etc cases. ...
- Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12718
Re: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
When I read this, I (and some players) noticed that the answer to the third bonus part had sometimes been given or at least mentioned elsewhere (in the leadin or as part of another clue): the Croatian fascists bonus asked for "fascism" as the third part but had basically mentioned that the...
- Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Peaceful Resolution Discussion
- Replies: 210
- Views: 74647
Re: Peaceful Resolution Discussion
Am I the only one who felt as though the rounds got progressively harder; and if not, was this intentional?
- Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Peaceful Resolution Discussion
- Replies: 210
- Views: 74647
Re: Peaceful Resolution Discussion
On the megaliths question, the other team negged fairly early and I was sitting there thinking "OK, when this tossup is over, I'm going to buzz and say 'dolmens'…oh, hey, the question just said 'dolmens'." But n=1 and I don't actually know anything about dolmens. I enjoyed the music in thi...
- Wed Feb 29, 2012 1:09 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How can we explain the rules more clearly?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10160
Re: How can we explain the rules more clearly?
[L]et's say it was a tossup on "dogs", which specified to prompt on "beagles" because of some super-famous clue in the middle. If the player says "beagles" but doesn't know what "prompt" means, asking them to be "more specific" is misleading, and as...
- Tue Feb 28, 2012 5:58 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How can we explain the rules more clearly?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10160
Re: How can we explain the rules more clearly?
While I was reading for MIT's high school tournament the other day, several times I found myself saying "You may not confer; one of you may buzz"… :lol: Explaining to people what exactly is meant when a moderator utters the word "prompt" is probably also a good idea. In the bad h...
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 SCT individual question discussion
- Replies: 114
- Views: 25064
Re: talk about individual questions here
The Indo-European question would probably benefit from some kind of prompt/anti-prompt, as well as one of those little explanations you sometimes get in answer lines. The first answer given in my room was either "Slavic" or "Balto-Slavic"; I forget which. I hesitated because I th...
- Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VI (11/12/11)
- Replies: 164
- Views: 69118
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VI (11/12/11)
Looking back at my previous comment (which was actually in the other thread), I think I can say something a bit more helpful than I did before. One typo I would definitely fix if I were the editors of this set is "lead" for "led"; this happened quite a lot and I managed to get tr...
- Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT liveblog
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12268
Re: HFT liveblog
Yeah, there were some typos in this set that will be fixed for future mirrors. But they may have added some extra flavor such as my favorite typo, "This is largest country in Portugal." I had trouble keeping a straight face while reading that question…another was the tossup on a noted Sha...
- Tue Nov 01, 2011 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MAGNI Question Discussion
- Replies: 138
- Views: 30790
Re: Individual Question Requests and Discussion
In Packet 1, I'm wondering about dropping "Asa Heshel" so early in a common-link tossup on "Yiddish". At that point in the tossup, you've had two lines and already you've been given "New York" and "religion"... I'm buzzing at Heshel at that point on pure frau...
- Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rule Amendment Proposal: Eliminate Blitz Rules
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3660
Re: Rule Amendment Proposal: Eliminate Blitz Rules
What's the solution? It's fairly obvious to me. Get rid of the creator/creation rule altogether. It's obsolete. Modern question-writing standards are such that the ambiguities it was designed to address no longer exist. Pretty much all author tossups say "this author" in the first few wor...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5936
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
I don't think Miriam has ever edited a category for a tournament before You're right, and I've been quite relieved over the past 48 hours or so that nobody has said "I loved this tournament, except for the fact that the music was absolute crap" or anything like that. tossups on stuff like...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5936
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
I don't know how inherently academic "having been the conductor of the LA Phil" is, but at least it means people know his name.Der Rosenbergkavalier wrote:I don't know if anyone's done Tovio Kuula, although there has been at least one question on Esa-Pekka Salonen.
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5936
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
I'm afraid I'm to blame for introducing Rautavaara into the canon as a hard part at the Emergency back in '09... and you know what - I don't regret it. He'll come up once a year or so at the hardest-difficulty tournaments, and if someone tries to write a tossup on him (or Saariaho or Magnus Lindber...
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5936
Re: Stop using so many goddamn clues about Finnish composers
I was waiting to open a music discussion thread until there was also a main one, but I guess this is as good a place as any to discuss the CO music in general. I got to read or otherwise hear everything except the two finals packets, so if there were any issues with the music questions there, please...