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- Sun Oct 22, 2017 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl and Mental Health
- Replies: 30
- Views: 25082
Re: Quizbowl and Mental Health
At the start of playing university, my team and I were made pariahs for playing the Division II ICT twice, which I think that most of us believed was, if anybody's fault, NAQT's. I only ended up playing college quizbowl for a total of 4 years (3 under, 1 grad), and I probably spent too much of my ti...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 5:14 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Becoming Part of the Community
- Replies: 43
- Views: 43393
Re: Becoming Part of the Community
I will follow Jonathan Magin. My father was a smart man who had a good job at Boeing. We lived in Bellevue, WA, and things seemed fine. I could read at birth, write, do maths at a level ten years ahead of all my "children peers." I memorized the sphere that is known as Planet Earth. I star...
- Thu Mar 12, 2015 11:39 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Favorite Quizbowl Experiences
- Replies: 77
- Views: 68728
Re: Favorite Quizbowl Experiences
It may very well have been a Meyvis of the Nate-ish variety, sounds about right.
- Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:50 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Praise Song Part II
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24411
Re: Praise Song Part II
I've spent so much of my life outside of the United States, where even the Americans present tend to be against the pastimes of the motherland (in my experience, this is quite different than Britons, who flock to pubs to watch EPL and rugby and seem desperately sad outside of their very tight-knit e...
- Thu Mar 12, 2015 5:49 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Favorite Quizbowl Experiences
- Replies: 77
- Views: 68728
Re: Favorite Quizbowl Experiences
Referring to Dwight's comment about that ICT. It was a pretty lousy ICT. Jerry - who if I'm not mistaken was playing solo, was in a bit of a sour mode. Brown had made the top bracket, but I believe they did poorly. Brown was playing its round robin game against UCLA, and UCLA was winning. At various...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 2:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 23326
Re: 2011 NSC: Tournament Logistic Discussion (not the set)
I did not attend this tournament. If you ever attend my funeral, it will probably be around two or three weeks later than it should have been. I thank the expensiveness of flight costs for that and not being in a situation in which I probably would have had temper issues, as this tournament seems li...
- Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl
- Replies: 98
- Views: 25719
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl
It won't fall under my purview, since I doubt I'll be at HSNCT, but I'll see if I can at least get a few West Coast people on board for this, and maybe get them to talk to the Arizona teams. As well, there's one high school from Las Vegas, NV and Grand Junction also has two teams. UNLV and Arizona w...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl
- Replies: 98
- Views: 25719
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl
One thing that might be wise, and I don't know if there are that many efforts to do so, is to just befriend a Southeast quizbowl player at HSNCT or ICT or whatever habitat you might get a chance to spot one. I'll give an example; I met Chris Chiego through odd circumstances (we were both in the Midd...
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU is a terrible school
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3694
VCU is a terrible school
Nick Polk said it once and I and you can certainly agree with the sentiment. We are about to face two more national tournaments in which this abomination of quizbowl teams is allowed to compete based on fraudulent, lousy reasons such as them being better than most of the teams or they actually quali...
- Sat Dec 11, 2010 6:52 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
- Replies: 49
- Views: 64300
A Moderator's Guide to Pronunciating Foreign Words
Hey, So, I remember talking about this project a while ago, but drunkenly I decided to work on it tonight and get started on it. Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is getting a guide out there that's reader-friendly and not too wacky on the linguistic terms and down to earth and whatnot about p...
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13909
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
As a person whose vocation it is to approach languages from a practical perspective and speak them without worrying much about linguistics and a scientific approach, I would be glad to help with this. I certainly have spent some time in the past helping experienced moderators fumble around eastern E...
- Mon Feb 22, 2010 11:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New "Team" Needs help studying
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3243
Re: New "Team" Needs help studying
Hey, I'm a former member of the UCLA quizbowl team who has also participated in various events that might be more similar to what this "Greek Week" competition entails. At UCLA, we have a competition between dorm houses at which the level of questions might be similar to what "Greek W...
- Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:35 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Best Subject Teams/Players
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27639
Re: Best Subject Teams/Players
Having played Jeff a number of times on the West Coast, I would give him the edge over me in general. The problem with history is that it could be split into a number of specialties-I certainly know Jeff would dominate me on English and probably Western European history, but I might know more about ...
- Thu Feb 18, 2010 9:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year
- Replies: 64
- Views: 23993
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year
Dwight, While this is off-topic...it's a very weird subject which would have to be answered by NAQT or ACF. One problem that you would face in any attempt to do this is the long history of the UC-Irvine club. Now, I know this history and I know it's been ruled by utterly dysfunctional people in turn...
- Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Million Argument March
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2006
Re: The Million Argument March
Laos tossup: Plain of Jars, not a giveaway. Louangprabang, probably not a giveaway. Kingdom of Lan Xang, not a giveaway. Golden Triangle, just before the giveaway. These are middle clues. My memory of actual temple names is foggy on Louangprabang, but quick research shows that the distinct temple of...
- Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Million Argument March
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2006
The Million Argument March
Hello, geography haters. Our dear friend Matt Weiner has claimed, "i have presented a million well formed arguments and you are just giving a slightly more erudite version of "no"" as to why geography tossups are bad. Well, I want my million arguments. We can either leave this ta...
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On Geography at ACF Nationals
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10679
Re: On Geography at ACF Nationals
Thanks, Sorice. I wasn't going for cohesion or brilliance, you pretty much nailed it.
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On Geography at ACF Nationals
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10679
Re: On Geography at ACF Nationals
I will make the confession that I was unaware that the distribution had changed prior to the 2008/09 season and apologize for conclusions I've made based on this. While not off my meds, I am out of the country and am completely hazy about what the distribution was and have not followed the board ver...
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 1:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On Geography at ACF Nationals
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10679
Re: On Geography at ACF Nationals
Charles, I don't know if you're off your meds or what, but calm down. There are just as many "leaders" of ACF defending geography as attacking it...and the result of the endless polls and posts has generally been to confirm that a significant segment of people think geography should stick...
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On Geography at ACF Nationals
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10679
On Geography at ACF Nationals
I haven't paid very much attention to these various threads and they seem to be an unproductive continuation of an ever-growing trend towards cutting geography out. I would like to point to three people, who as it so happens, are the current leaders of ACF: Matt, Seth, and Jerry. All three of you cr...
- Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Recruitment and Retention
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7874
Re: Recruitment and Retention
Eh, I'm convinced that that email did absolutely zero to affect how many people we retained. Your principles are right; that's in no way an effective way to retain people. I just can say with a fair degree of certainty that it wasn't too poorly targeted. The people who were going to drop away alrea...
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Recruitment and Retention
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7874
Re: Recruitment and Retention
Let me appreciate very much that my use of the word s-n-i-g-g-e-r-e-d, a perfectly acceptable English word, was censored by this board.
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 8:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Recruitment and Retention
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7874
Re: Recruitment and Retention
Well, to focus more on recruitment and retention, these are my ideas. RECRUITMENT: 1.) When I recruit for quizbowl, I try to emphasize less on what quizbowl actually is. Yes, I'll bring up Jeopardy, or lame Chip Beall-like competitions, because it's in the average person's field of knowledge. You're...
- Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Recruitment and Retention
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7874
Re: Recruitment and Retention
One thing I think this can be attributed to, Dwight, is our status as West Coasters. For my first three years of college (in which I only played one and a half year), I was perfectly content living in a wonderful bubble outside of this wacky East Coast circuit that I only knew through a forum I neve...
- Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VETO discussion
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30571
Re: VETO discussion
To sum up my argument: I think that it's within reason that some of the motivation lying within doing this "great deed" lies in a many year struggle against bad quizbowl that manifests itself in periodic outbursts against Canada and the South. The VETO brass made a mistake accepting to do ...
- Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VETO discussion
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30571
Re: VETO discussion
Man, this is utterly formulaic. I've mentioned to a couple editors, in joking terms and more serious ones that this idea was one of the worst dreamed up in quizbowl. All this effort, and look, people, we knew what was going to happen. Two months ago, any reasonable person could have figured out, hey...
- Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 59840
Re: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
Possibly, this is the two liter bottle of Montenegrin beer talking. Be warned, and geography nerd alert: Would anybody be interested in a post-Geography Monstrosity freehand cartography event? No atlases, no resources, we just get a random country, city, historical region, alternative historical reg...
- Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Interest check: experimental all-geography tournament
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4988
Re: Interest check: experimental all-geography tournament
Jeff, I just sent you a message on Facebook, but wasn't aware of the existence of this thread. Have you come up with a distribution yet-I'm very curious to see it. That being said, I'm going to try my darnedest to get some vacation time that would allow me to spend a couple of weeks in California an...
- Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gauging Interest: Fantasy Quizbowl League
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8514
Re: Gauging Interest: Fantasy Quizbowl League
Sign me up for this. Sit on the injured reserve and take it, #1 draft pick CHRIS RAY.
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF nationals discussion
- Replies: 89
- Views: 18519
Re: ACF nationals discussion
I will agree with Dwight that the whole prelims were effectively made a waste of time. There was absolutely no incentive for Maryland to go 6-0. We could have just taken a siesta against Stanford, Minnesota, and Florida State, let them blow us out as we get some much needed sleep, cranked it up to 7...
- Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2008 NAQT ICT to be held in St. Louis
- Replies: 29
- Views: 15117
Re: 2008 NAQT ICT to be held in St. Louis
NO! ERIC MUKHERJEE COME HERE! CHARLOTTE, YOU'RE SO LUCKY! ICT SUCKS WITHOUT YOU!
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 1:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MCMNT 2008 Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 14393
Re: MCMNT 2008 Discussion
In Arabic, the book's title translates most literally to Guide of the Perplexed (or Baffled or Bewildered), since it's an idaafa (construct state) and therefore the word "Guide" is in the "nominative" (marfu') and perplexed is in the "genitive" (majrur) [there is no dat...
- Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation question
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6263
Re: Pronunciation question
Within the Altaic language family, Kazakhstan's name is pronounced Qozoqistan (or other spelling variants) in the Oghuz (Turkmen, Azeri, Turkish) and Karluk (Uzbek, etc.) groups. Therefore saying it as four syllables should be perfectly fine-as a Turkish speaker I'm inclined personally to add in the...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Official ICT Hotel
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3121
HKirsch said: If I go to ICT, I'll be the only Brandeis person there, and I'll be going on my own funding. With that in mind, is there anyone who might like to split a hotel room? So, wait a minute, from what I hear, you're a GIRL, right? Deal. You're buying the liquor, though. Oh, and I'm choosing ...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cardinal Classic Predictions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2041
Cardinal Classic Predictions
All right, these are my Cardinal Classic predictions. Feel free to comment if you want, or make your own. Actually, please make your own-don\'t let this fine tradition die. 1.) Rom-Just because Eric Smith is being a cock and isn’t granting certain people permission to visit Stanford University doesn...
- Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: COTKU discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5873
ROAR Jonathan Magin angry at your misplaced best friendship forever that has not been placed in he who is BFF to all. The sky over Maryland and Magin's hall of plenty the South Campus Commons looms red as if Bruce Arthur were drawn and quartered by Fra Filippo Lippi and Lippi ascended to the heavens...
- Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Predictions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5107
Chicago Open Predictions
Make predictions in this thread. Mine are below: First: Weiner/Sorice/Potru/Ullsperger Jerry’s lazy decision to let Ray Luo write another misguided India theme packet gives Sudheer a 17/0 round and the team a much needed win against Kemezis et al. Second: Westbrook/Luo/Lafer/Vinokurov Manage to be...
- Tue May 22, 2007 1:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Guns of August: CO History Doubles
- Replies: 42
- Views: 25519
- Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Movement/Retirement Thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 17369
Since my efforts to use my wusta to get flights from London to Sana'a cancelled are doing nothing to ruin Jordan Boyd-Graber's weekends, I'm going to probably go to the University of Maryland to be better positioned for scheming to disrupt the weekends of Princeton college bowl personnel. I'll proba...
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Consolidated College Bowl results thread
- Replies: 96
- Views: 45225
Wow, congrats on the triple digits figure. Could I trouble you to drop Mjollnir long enough to airmail a lock of your divine Nordic hair to Sana'a to highlight my great moments in CBI history shrine? It'll go great between my copy of William Shatner theatrically reciting Richard's Reid famous Auburn...
- Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MASQUE III -- University of Minnesota
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3783
Wow, if anybody starts up one of those high school threads about Minnesota Comparisons ’06-’07 and I don’t happen to post, chalk up my vote for Stanford College Bowl as the odds-on favorite to dominate the circuit. Let’s just hope an ill-timed baby delivering doesn’t derail them from an ap...
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Some constructive ECSO criticism
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9124
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33578
- Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Western Teams
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4551
I would guess that the bulk of members on this board from the West are from California, which has two rather thriving circuits in Southern California (LA, Orange, and San Diego counties) and Northern California (SF Bay Area). Although, like many here, I don't know that much about other states in the...
- Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cardinal Classic XVI at UCLA: 6/24/06
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1957
Cardinal Classic XVI at UCLA: 6/24/06
The UCLA College Bowl Club is pleased to announce Cardinal Classic XVI: Fugitive from the Stanford Campus Police on June 24, 2006. This tournament will be a mirror of the tournament held in Pittsburgh under the auspices of former Berkeley quiz bowl player Jerry Vinokurov. N.B. Though we're calling t...
- Thu May 25, 2006 9:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Are there really "Masters" tourneys?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3068
There are usually several events throughout the year in the West Coast that are open to any players. For the summer, there will possibly be two events held. I'm trying to host a mirror (at UCLA) of an East Coast tournament that would likely be hosted in late June (June 24th is the probable date as o...
- Sun May 14, 2006 2:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: UCLA HS Tournament May 13
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4495
I checked Stanford college bowl's website beforehand-they had a field listed for the Menlo tournament and Edison was listed on the field. Brief results from the tournament: San Dieguito defeated Arcadia A to win the overall title. Rancho Bernardo finished third, and Torrey Pines finished fourth. Aft...
- Thu May 04, 2006 9:41 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Underwhelmed
- Replies: 141
- Views: 154580
Matt Weiner writes: Let this be a lesson in why democracy doesn't work. What is the interest of the 90% of teams who have no realistic chance of winning any tournament where the best teams in the country compete on good packets and rules? It's to make the tournament less fair by making questions sp...
- Mon May 01, 2006 1:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: UCLA HS Tournament May 13
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4495
UCLA HS Tournament May 13
I suppose some people from my state now actually read this board, so I'll belatedly announce this tournament here. Field Update: Arcadia (3) Foothill (1) Los Altos (1) Pasadena Poly (2) Rancho Bernardo (1) San Dieguito (2) Torrey Pines (1) Troy (1) Tustin (2) Charles Meigs The UCLA College Bowl Club...
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals Results
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7355
CBI Nationals Results
This was mentioned in another thread, but was glossed over, so here is a more detailed synopsis of CBI Nationals for the couple of people who care. In the round robin, the four best teams actually managed to escape alive, clearly separating themselves from the pack with Illinois getting the #1 seed,...