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- Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Call for Proposals for new PACE Members
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3781
Call for Proposals for new PACE Members
It's that time of year again, quizbowlers! The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is again seeking nominations for new members! Nominations are due to secretary Michael Hundley at secretary@pace-nsc.org by July 1 at 11:59 PM Eastern time. PACE has many objectives, which include: • to pr...
- Tue Oct 03, 2017 12:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TOEJAMANDEARL: Global Announcement (Video Game Tournament)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 20896
Re: TOEJAMANDEARL: Global Announcement (Video Game Tournamen
How many packets?
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Side Event Weekend - 8/5/2017
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17548
Re: VCU Side Event Weekend - 8/5/2017
Coupled with the fact that this changed into an overnight trip, the lack of guaranteed NASAT makes my interest much lower.
- Mon Jan 09, 2017 7:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MRI-5 at New Kent High School, VA (1/7/17) [IS-161a]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3448
Re: MRI-5 at New Kent High School, VA (1/7/17) [IS-161a]
Did this happen?
- Mon Dec 26, 2016 6:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Quizbowl Question of 2016
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2722
Re: Best Quizbowl Question of 2016
I quite liked the tossup on Bohemian Rhapsody at Penn Bowl that was written like a classical music tossup -- complete with score clues! I hadn't seen this, till now. I thought this tossup was pretty cool, however, I'm wondering where the Cavalleria Rusticana clue came from. I can't seem to find any...
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 6:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Collegiate Novice @ Virginia (9/10) (IS-158C)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4122
Re: NAQT Collegiate Novice @ Virginia (9/10) (IS-158C)
Congratulations to all teams who attended, and to Duke, who beat Virginia A after a two-game advantaged final! Teams played a 9-game round robin, followed by another round for placement purposes (except for the top two teams who obviously played two). I hope that everybody had a good time at this e...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: CSI XI (11/19/16) @ Cave Spring HS (Roanoke, VA)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6575
Re: CSI XI (11/19/16) @ Cave Spring HS (Roanoke, VA)
Vt'll send some staffers
- Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:02 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: "Best" First Buzzer System?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12412
Re: "Best" First Buzzer System?
You might want to take a look at PACEBuzz: viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18407&p=313451&hi ... zz#p313451
- Sat Jan 30, 2016 10:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
- Replies: 175
- Views: 167258
Re: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
So far, at VT winter, everything is running smoothly.
Has a way to re-order players been implemented yet?
Has a way to re-order players been implemented yet?
- Sun Jan 17, 2016 2:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
- Replies: 175
- Views: 167258
Re: Neg 5 : Quizbowl for the Cloud
Move the dead tossup button above the scoresheet; it currently requires scrolling.
At BHAI this weekend, we had problems with scoresheet submission. Click submit, and then the button stopped working and nothing happened.
At BHAI this weekend, we had problems with scoresheet submission. Click submit, and then the button stopped working and nothing happened.
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is the NHBB website working?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4885
Re: Is the NHBB website working?
No problems here.
- Mon Sep 07, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hinsdale Central Quizbowl presents: TEAMS [September 5th]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8745
Re: Hinsdale Central Quizbowl presents: TEAMS [September 5th
If you have any comments about the set, there is a private forum set up. You can apply to join from your user control panel.
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10253
Re: 2014-15 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
To be fair, "divine wind" is not a word and so would be wrong. It could easily be considered a compound word in English. It refers to a specific thing (kamikaze) that doesn't take its meaning from its constituent parts; it's similar to the type of meeting called a "round table."
- Sat Jul 25, 2015 9:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Could High-Level College Quizbowl Stand to be Easier?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10932
Re: Could High-Level College Quizbowl Stand to be Easier?
I think everything's fine as it is in terms of what ACF and NAQT sets are at. The notion of "regular" difficulty should be easier, and there should be more tournaments at this easier "regular difficulty". That being said, Division 1 SCT and ACF Regionals should stay the same. It...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The State of Good Quizbowl, State-by-State
- Replies: 61
- Views: 51740
Re: The State of Good Quizbowl, State-by-State
There are multiple issues with VA and VHSL that kept me from giving it a higher grade. First, I had a very hard time finding results from anything less than state in VHSL, where it looked like there were very small pools that actually determined the championships and didn't seem to necessarily indi...
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TrashMasters @ UTC 7/12
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5522
Re: TrashMasters @ UTC 7/12
Are you going to have enough material to not need to pull from publicly posted sets?OliverSpringsQuizBowl wrote:We're good to go. We're looking for somewhere in the area of 8-10 teams.
- Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: A thought on outreach
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2178
A thought on outreach
Bad quizbowl people have reasons to defend their formats, even if they are not good ones. It could be fiscal, personal emotional investment in questions they themselves wrote, bureaucratic, or whatever. They're likely to see us as a threat, just the way we see them as a threat. This is not to say w...
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 8:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TrashMasters @ UTC 7/12
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5522
Re: TrashMasters @ UTC 7/12
What's going on with this?
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 5:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: VTACO 2015 Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 346
Re: VTACO 2015 Question-Specific Discussion
I suspect you're overestimating our target difficulty. This was intended to match the difficulty of an IS set. As an example, NSC 2013 has "Anitra's dance" as the first clue out of power, and I think that that's a reasonable spot for our earlier clues to be coming from. Don't get me wrong ...
- Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Resetting [pt. 4 of 6]: The Quizbowl-NHBB Relationship
- Replies: 46
- Views: 26167
Re: Resetting [pt. 4 of 6]: The Quizbowl-NHBB Relationship
It should be noted that Rice was one of maybe two or three out of the 90 or so tournaments we had last year that was not a school that was also playing with up to six teams in the bowl for free. I think that you'd have better run events if you paid more and did not encourage host schools to field 6...
- Fri May 22, 2015 8:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
- Replies: 99
- Views: 55998
Re: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
I'm not at HSNCT. So, I'm out.
- Sat May 09, 2015 7:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015-16 Schedule, Discussion
- Replies: 79
- Views: 46694
Re: 2015-16 Schedule, Discussion
I am also interested.
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:29 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your Travel Disaster Stories
- Replies: 51
- Views: 72838
Re: Your Travel Disaster Stories
I was on my way to Martinsville High School to meet the bus to go to VHSL Regionals in 2004. At the time, I lived about 25 miles from school. It was late February, and to get to Martinsville, my parents would have to drive along US 58 through here. As we crested this hill, my dad touched the brakes,...
- Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
- Replies: 53
- Views: 72548
Re: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
I'm interested in playing, if some team will have me. I know some chemistry and physics.
- Sun Apr 05, 2015 1:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT at VCU (04/04/2015)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8277
Re: MUT at VCU (04/04/2015)
Did UVA not play USC?
- Mon Mar 23, 2015 2:30 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Feynman's BONGOS: A Side Event (for PACE and maybe HSNCT)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 45815
Re: Feynman's BONGOS: A Side Event (for PACE and maybe HSNCT
Depending on my requirements at NSC, I'd like to play.
- Sat Mar 21, 2015 1:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Excel quiz bowl scoresheets
- Replies: 64
- Views: 70588
Re: Excel quiz bowl scoresheets
We have adopted Google everything in Darien. At the last tournament I ran, we used Google Sheets and Google Docs in conjunction with SQBS to aid with scoring. The system was efficient and precise. If you would like me to share the files with you, just email me (kromeo@darienps.org). Could you just ...
- Thu Feb 05, 2015 6:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: VTACO 2015: Science
- Replies: 0
- Views: 159
VTACO 2015: Science
I edited it. What did you think?
- Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: VTACO at Virginia Tech (1/31/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5702
Re: VTACO at Virginia Tech (1/31/15)
A private forum for discussion of VTACO had been set up. You can access it from your user control panel.
- Tue Jan 13, 2015 1:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Reform ACF Payment
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6167
Re: Reform ACF Payment
I don't have a good justification other than it adds an extra 2 week delay to ACF getting paid..
I see no other arguments, personally.
I see no other arguments, personally.
- Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Reform ACF Payment
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6167
Re: Reform ACF Payment
One possible problem is that it might add delays in hosts actually getting paid.
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9442
Re: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:TU on the Endor Holocaust Theory, please.
I ... there are not words for how happy that would make me.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67912
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
I'm confused as to why one person didn't have all the scoresheets in their possession at the end of the tournament.
- Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCOP Novice at Virginia Tech
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3619
- Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICCS at Virginia Tech (9/21/14)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3241
Re: ICCS at Virginia Tech (9/21/14)
233. Final email coming out shortly.
- Wed Sep 17, 2014 5:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 41
- Views: 27374
Re: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread
Virginia tech claims 10/25 for SCOP Novice.
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl 2014 (10/18/2014)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 20793
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl 2014 (10/18/2014)
Ditto for Virginia Tech. I emailed requesting an invoice and never heard back.
- Thu Sep 04, 2014 11:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICCS at Virginia Tech (9/21/14)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3241
Re: ICCS at Virginia Tech (9/21/14)
Field and tournament location update.
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:52 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your Lowest Point
- Replies: 64
- Views: 54278
Re: Your Lowest Point
Losing at VHSL regionals by 5 because our captain refused to give an answer to a directed question. Eliminated us from the tournament, and kept us out of VHSL States. Of course, this was in 2004. I'd been in a car wreck on the way there. It was a terrible day.
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 10:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PADAWAN at VCU (Richmond, VA) - 10/04/2014
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5572
Re: PADAWAN at VCU (Richmond, VA) - 10/04/2014
Virginia Tech intends to be there in some capacity.
- Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICCS at Virginia Tech (9/21/14)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3241
ICCS at Virginia Tech (9/21/14)
Virginia Tech will be hosting a mirror of the ICCS tournament in Blacksburg, VA on Sunday, September 21. Registration will start at 9:30AM. We will be on the second floor of McBryde Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. This tournament is designed as an introduction to quiz bowl where novice players can...
- Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014 ICT survey results
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3635
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE Membership Changes 2014-15
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3347
PACE Membership Changes 2014-15
We would like to welcome our new members:
Cody Voight
Ben Zhang
Dan Puma
Nathan Weiser
Marianna Zhang
Jason Cheng
We also bid farewell to Brian Mongilio and Isaac Hirsch. We'd like to thank them for their contributions.
Cody Voight
Ben Zhang
Dan Puma
Nathan Weiser
Marianna Zhang
Jason Cheng
We also bid farewell to Brian Mongilio and Isaac Hirsch. We'd like to thank them for their contributions.
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
- Replies: 99
- Views: 55998
Re: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
I''m thoroughly interested.
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 4:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open Summer Practices at Virginia Tech
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2018
Re: Open Summer Practices at Virginia Tech
The plan is all summer. I don't have rooms for July yet.trulaman wrote:How long with these practices be going on ? All summer ? I'm a highschool graduate that will be attending the Summer Academy and this seems like a really good opportunity.
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open Summer Practices at Virginia Tech
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2018
Open Summer Practices at Virginia Tech
Wednesdays 5-7 PM in Major Williams 532.
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE seeking nominations for new members
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2625
Re: PACE seeking nominations for new members
Just a reminder that tonight is the deadline for PACE nominations.
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On the Clock, and how to play with it
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12432
Re: On the Clock, and how to play with it
Bonuses are separated because they are not linked to the tossup, currently.
- Wed May 14, 2014 11:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Discussion of the purpose of Collegiate Novice
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10083
Re: Discussion of the purpose of Collegiate Novice
I'm of the opinion that no matter how good they were, if they've never played a collegiate tournament before, letting them play is a good idea.
If they are an excellent player, maybe restricting team size?
If they are an excellent player, maybe restricting team size?
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 2:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Praise Song
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15125
Re: Praise Song
Dan Goff. He took a languishing Virginia Tech team, and provided the vision necessary for Mongilio and I to really turn the club around. He's definitely provided a huge benefit to southwest Virginia quizbowl.