This. Definitely got to say I've had a great time playing quizbowl, though.Jeremy Gibbs-Marangoni Effect wrote:I'm graduating from Missouri State and don't plan on getting another degree.
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- Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year
- Replies: 64
- Views: 24062
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Trash in Academic Tournaments
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6550
Re: Trash in Academic Tournaments
but as per pyramidality, someone who's played a game will always have an advantage As it should be! And read a book or seen a play or listened to an opera. Oh no opera questions are unfair because not everyone listens to Wagner. I'm not arguing against pyramidality. My intent was to suggest that, u...
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Trash in Academic Tournaments
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6550
Re: Trash in Academic Tournaments
I'm not sure about video games in Trash. What bothers me is that the games themselves, the primary source material one can go to in order to best prepare for answering the questions, are a lot more expensive to gain access to than materials for other categories. You don't have to get a first-edition...
- Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tips on How to Get Better on Quizbowl
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4390
Re: Tips on How to Get Better on Quizbowl
This tip also gets tossed around quite a bit, but that's because it's good advice: write questions. In many cases, researching and placing clues in questions you submit makes you more likely to remember those clues when they come up than if you just read them in a packet. Any time I manage to get so...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15447
Re: VCU Open discussion
I also enjoyed this set, particularly the film tossups (Renoir and To Catch a Thief, especially) and felt it had really solid lit as well. I accept responsibility for the history in my packet, which included the ill-conceived Carlowitz and Kamakura tossups, as well as responsibility for Tagus river ...
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Anouncement: Missouri Open (06/06/2009)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 30612
Re: Anouncement: Missouri Open (06/06/2009)
Check your e-mail; I just sent our packet to you.
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 151
- Views: 31202
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Phil: as a statkeeper and a quasi-assistant TD (I was effectively in charge of the part of the tournament in Seigle), I feel that I did my job as well as I could. I agree, especially on the stats part. Being able to check stats on my teammate's iPhone on the drive back was awesome. During the buzze...
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 151
- Views: 31202
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
I'd like to state that I enjoyed not only this tournament, but my entire first-year ACF/NAQT experience. It's a great feeling to discover exactly how much I don't know, and I've met and played against a lot of awesome people. I think, also, that it's important for me to mention that this was my firs...
- Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Midwest @ Truman State (11-8-08)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 12013
Re: ACF Fall Midwest @ Truman State (11-8-08)
I'd like to add my thanks to the pile: to Truman State for hosting, and to all the staffers and moderators for being very nice and professional and contributing to what, for me, was a good first experience with ACF. It was a bit longer than I'd imagined, but no big deal. No complaints to register, b...
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 85
- Views: 12763
I'm the captain of Missouri State's CBI regional team. At the moment, I'm not aware of any attempts, current or past, to send teams to any of the other formats. I think that's the lack of knowledge factor over anything else--I didn't even know ACF or NAQT existed until I happened upon you guys about...