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by Adventure Temple Trail
Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Ancient/Medieval History balance
Replies: 6
Views: 1042

Re: Ancient/Medieval History balance

I see your point on "Early Medieval." I would guess the sticking point, which you touch on, is... those questions are hard to write. There aren't as many sources of note, especially on lower levels, and the time period isn't as widely touched on as modern or classical. Even the course I t...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
Replies: 7
Views: 3886

Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)

What is the field cap, and what's the procedure for waitlist/standby teams and/or expanding the field if it is reached? I understand that room reservations are unlikely to be finalized for a few months, but the field is almost halfway to its eventual final size from last year, and the situation was...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
Replies: 19
Views: 3876

Re: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers

Given that much of the discourse (whether it admits as much or not) is targeted at the school I attend, and at me specifically, it seems only fair that I weigh in. I will give some modest defenses of team-splitting in general, which have been lacking in this thread thus far: There are cases where so...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
Replies: 7
Views: 3886

Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)

What is the field cap, and what's the procedure for waitlist/standby teams and/or expanding the field if it is reached? I understand that room reservations are unlikely to be finalized for a few months, but the field is almost halfway to its eventual final size from last year, and the situation was ...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals at Purdue (01/27/2024)
Replies: 4
Views: 1341

Re: 2024 ACF Regionals at Purdue (01/27/2024)

I'm disappointed that this site did not use MODAQ when many other sites did so. I was also disappointed that this was true of Penn Bowl when Purdue hosted that in the fall. In the future, it'd be good if set logistics directors who want advanced stats get more direct with hosts that MODAQ or similar...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
Replies: 54
Views: 7061

Re: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion

I enjoyed this set. It did a good job of presenting a lot of different cool things and balancing "canonical" and "innovative" approaches. To start things off, here are some small notes I took during the day, sorted by letter designation of packet edited for comprehensibility. Mos...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Packet submission thoughts
Replies: 16
Views: 3329

Re: Packet submission thoughts

The duality of packet-sub: While spectating on my bye-round yesterday, I heard 7 of my submitted questions that more or less made it into the final ACF Regionals set, with one or two more possibly inspiring questions in the packet. This was pleasing to me. That said, I wrote 24 questions for the ear...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:29 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Packet submission thoughts
Replies: 16
Views: 3329

Re: Packet submission thoughts

A semi-recent and pretty comprehensive discussion about this topic was had in the main channel of the Discord on July 28, 2023 (starts here at 10:41am and continues, with occasional digressions, to the day's final comment at 11:06pm). I'd encourage people who have thoughts about this topic to read o...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:02 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: 2024 Carper Award community discussion
Replies: 9
Views: 6981

Re: 2024 Carper Award community discussion

I'm not sure why Guy is deserving; his involvement in quizbowl was fairly short, and I'm not even sure what his contributions were, to be honest. At the risk of very literally Remembering Some Guys: Guy Tabachnick founded the Hunter College High School quizbowl team in 2006, which became a powerhou...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:52 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 British Novice
Replies: 7
Views: 2218

Re: 2023 British Novice

Obviously this set was written with a British audience in mind, and so a few of the questions will be unsuitable for being played across the pond; at least for novices, and so we will provide a list of questions we think may need to be “Atlanticised”, or adapted to fit an American/Canadian audience...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:32 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: How many "cooks" is "too many cooks" (when producing a set)?
Replies: 5
Views: 2860

How many "cooks" is "too many cooks" (when producing a set)?

In January, when CO 2023 did not yet have editors, I posted : Stray observation: It seems like, in recent years, the number of editors per tournament has sharply increased (10+ is now normal) and the typical number of (sub)categories edited per editor has decreased proportionally. Does the fact that...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:22 am
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: LITANY (side event, 2023)
Replies: 3
Views: 2498

Re: LITANY (side event, 2023)

Is this event still happening?
by Adventure Temple Trail
Thu Nov 09, 2023 10:17 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Replies: 18
Views: 8584

Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)

If the list of packets gets long enough, I might advise everyone to write at most 20 tossups or ~160 lines of clue text, so that a large number of people can go within a reasonable timeframe. Longer-than-that experiences can tend to drag. I'd also re-up from a past event of this type -- try to be sp...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:28 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
Replies: 13
Views: 6424

Re: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?

It looks like the consensus is that my suggestions in the first post are unnecessary, which has largely persuaded me of same. The post-overhaul archive seems to do what folks generally want re: giving one-off and specialty packets their own section without gatekeeping based on the size of their orig...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:23 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!
Replies: 28
Views: 20008

Re: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!

For those who've missed it, it seems the overhaul HAS BEEN gotten! Big rounds of applause to Mia, Ganon, Jeffrey Hill, Alejandro, and everyone else who worked to make this happen over many years.
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:22 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game
Replies: 5
Views: 3573

Re: We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game

Seems like we're mostly good here, so I guess round down the first post to a heads-up that a lot of these clauses can now be stress-tested by much more discreet devices, and an encouragement to be vigilant about said devices.
by Adventure Temple Trail
Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:48 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game
Replies: 5
Views: 3573

We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game

"Introducing the New Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses" On October 17, Ray-Ban and Meta released "smart glasses" that can record video and audio. The glasses are also integrated with "Meta AI" and have headphones integrated into the ear parts. While it does not seem super p...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:41 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
Replies: 13
Views: 6424

Re: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?

I am going to assume (perhaps incorrectly) that Matt's message is primarily an attempt at addressing a general issue within the quizbowl community, and not one specifically targeted at me, the author of the set in question. You assume correctly, i.e. it was indeed general -- I really didn't mean an...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:02 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
Replies: 13
Views: 6424

Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?

Recently, "2023 SHAWM Packets" was uploaded to the Collegiate section of the quizbowlpackets archive. As far as I can tell, these packets were not announced publicly on these forums or in the main quizbowl Discord, were not played online in the main quizbowl Discord, and do not have stats ...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: One dot spring semester tournament
Replies: 3
Views: 3538

Re: One dot spring semester tournament

Is the jump from 1 dot to 1.5 dots sufficiently high that CREEK+ and DMA wouldn't meet this need for most interested/eligible players? It seems like most circuits have not yet made plans to mirror both of those sets, which are already produced and ready to go, assuming the mirror window for each run...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:36 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: SUDO
Replies: 19
Views: 8585

Re: SUDO

Might there be other opportunities to play this for folks who are, say, playing Penn Bowl on that date?
by Adventure Temple Trail
Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Trophies vs Plaques
Replies: 11
Views: 5541

Re: Trophies vs Plaques

For Nationals last year, I intentionally decided to order smaller, non-plastic trophies to try to avoid the problems you described. I'd be curious to hear if people liked those or didn't, and what they'd like to see ACF do in the future. I thought the specific items from last year were both pretty ...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:40 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022-23 IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualifier Conversion Data
Replies: 2
Views: 3106

Re: 2022-23 IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualifier Conversion Data

Are these raw conversion numbers rather than percents? If so, I made a "percent-ified" version in this sheet.
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:02 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt
Replies: 7
Views: 16705

Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any attempt at Doing History in possession of large egos, must eventually devolve into disputes over periodization . (When did the Roman Empire start to “decline and fall”? Is there a such thing as the “early modern”? How should we theorize the “long 19th...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:43 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: Seattle Open - NASAT Mirror - 9/2/23
Replies: 5
Views: 2093

Re: Seattle Open - NASAT Mirror - 9/2/23

This was announced very late -- while Seattle is very cool and I might one day consider planning a trip there that involves playing a tournament, there's no way I could have done so with less than four weeks' notice. I imagine I'm not the only one who feels similarly. If you (general audience you) a...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:51 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 41
Views: 19530

Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks

I appreciate that there was not a lot of "note-spelling" in the early clues and it's cool to see a lot of music history incorporated. However, 6 out of 10 non-opera classical tossups were heavily or entirely focused on music history, recordings, performance, and specific ensembles. ...And...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:21 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: How Much to Card
Replies: 3
Views: 3259

Re: How Much to Card

I'd add: If you are doing card stuff to a point that it doesn't feel enjoyable anymore, or the rewards that come from it don't feel worth the stress, there's no shame in scaling back or changing it up to other study methods that you find more fulfilling.
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:46 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 41
Views: 19530

Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks

Thanks for the candid reflections, Arya. All in all, your work on this set represents an outstanding debut for an editor at this difficulty level, and I really hope you write and edit for more things at various difficulties in the coming years. (Future editing teams: recruit this person! Thanks) Two...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:11 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 17
Views: 7885

Re: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion

With the exception of "Marguerite" (which I stand by, both because it's in the title of an Arnold poem, and because I think it is only respectful to remember the actual names of the ""muses"" of notable male authors) I think this could have played better if it didn't g...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:03 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 17
Views: 7885

Re: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion

Marie-Denise Villers has never come up in quizbowl before, at least based on a quick search on QBReader. She's definitely someone who could, based on growing recognition -- she, e.g., has a chapter in art museum gift shop book Broad Strokes: 15 Women who Changed Art and History (In That Order) . Th...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:35 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 41
Views: 19530

Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks

If I'm understanding correctly, Andrew's notion of a question "being 'about' something" (or a notion quite similar to it) has previously been discussed using the term "tightly themed" . I lean more toward Jordan's view than Andrew's, stressing that the "best" place on t...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:22 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
Replies: 9
Views: 2793

Re: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)

We do intend on playtesting - that is something I meant to add to the original post. The ideal date would be mid-late September for a playtest, and we would sincerely appreciate any interest in being part of a playtest. That's great to hear! I'm not sure what my own availability looks like, but I i...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Aug 06, 2023 3:39 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: EMACS CO Weekend Mirror
Replies: 6
Views: 2304

Re: EMACS CO Weekend Mirror

This set was inventive, whimsical, accessible, thoughtful in its approach to underasked but undeniably Important/Well-Known topics, and extremely fun. It's an achievement Anderson should be extremely proud of. I heartily recommend more mirrors, including online, for those who couldn't make this firs...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
Replies: 44
Views: 25812

Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)

As much as I'd like to play both EMACS and COLONIAL, and as excited as I was to hear that that might be possible, it seems extremely late in the game to make a schedule change, and it's probably best for that reason alone to keep things as is. (A lot of the field is in transit to CO right now!) I'm ...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:07 am
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
Replies: 9
Views: 2793

Re: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)

Does anyone on the team that produced this set have any prior experience writing or editing for sets with an interscholastic audience? Either way, do you have plans to playtest this set with experienced writers/editors/players before running it? 6/6 pop culture per packet at the expense of the usual...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Wed Aug 02, 2023 5:53 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
Replies: 44
Views: 25812

Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)

What time should teams arrive by on Saturday morning? Is there an opening meeting or will teams proceed immediately to Round 1?

(General reminder to all -- set out for the tournament early, taking into account potential Lolla-induced delays!)
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sat Jul 29, 2023 12:40 am
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: EMACS (computer science side event, 2023)
Replies: 14
Views: 5792

Re: EMACS (computer science side event, 2023)

There are a bunch of unteamed free agents still on the field sheet, with six duos and three staffers registered -- any thought of expanding to triples?
by Adventure Temple Trail
Mon Jul 10, 2023 12:07 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
Replies: 30
Views: 12507

Re: Should ACF tossups be shorter?

I'm curious where the range of length fits into this. From casual empiricism, if the cap is eight lines, there are unlikely to be many that are five lines, even though that's not a crazy number in an absolute sense. Players and writers have come to expect now that there will be variation in difficu...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Jul 02, 2023 1:58 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Open Call for Penn Bowl 2023 Editors
Replies: 1
Views: 4044

Re: Open Call for Penn Bowl 2023 Editors

Is there an update on this? Are editors still needed for any categories?

EDIT: Just saw the new announcement. Thanks!
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:23 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: How should we approach async writing and scoring?
Replies: 3
Views: 4025

Re: How should we approach async writing and scoring?

Yet more options might include: Introducing some point multiplier that is inversely related to a question's conversion rate, i.e. make questions worth more if fewer people get them at the end offer players some chance to choose questions that could be worth more, e.g. a limited number of "doubl...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Jun 18, 2023 2:39 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: Geoword
Replies: 29
Views: 11334

Re: Geoword

What is the writing/editing team for this event?
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri Jun 16, 2023 10:52 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: European Drama Packet
Replies: 2
Views: 3257

Re: European Drama Packet

Interested and available after June 30th or so
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sun Jun 04, 2023 6:11 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
Replies: 15
Views: 9031

Re: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever

If we treat "skill as a three- or four-dot player while still in high school" as a metric something like "most able to scale to arbitrarily high difficulties," Tommy Casalaspi was obviously on a different plane than everyone else when it came to reading, writing, and buzzing on a...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Fri May 19, 2023 11:33 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
Replies: 15
Views: 9031

Re: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever

In the era before mine (I started playing high school in 2007), the consensus was that Jacob Mikanowski was the best player of what passed as "good" quizbowl, or at least the best player for whom attestable records were kept by reputable organizations. (Dude was a champion of all four of t...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Wed May 17, 2023 12:56 am
Forum: Trash
Topic: I've Heard That Song Before: A Musical Theatre Audio Set
Replies: 7
Views: 4033

Re: I've Heard That Song Before: A Musical Theatre Audio Set

1) Extremely yes, 2) as many packets as you feel capable of, 3) whenever you're ready -- don't rush if you need time to finish the set to your satisfaction, 4) yeah probably an online setup would get the widest and most competitive audience; in-person mirrors of audio tournaments tend to be pretty s...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Tue May 16, 2023 4:49 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022-2023 End of Season Player Poll
Replies: 22
Views: 12494

Re: 2022-2023 End of Season Player Poll

DavidB256 wrote: Tue May 16, 2023 10:46 am Belvedere Torso at ICT off of painting knowledge.
As I recall the Cambyses buzz was a second line and he 10d this but yeah he good
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sat May 13, 2023 2:42 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!
Replies: 28
Views: 20008

Re: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!

Glad to hear that this is moving. Thanks to all who are working on it! Amid some discussion of the archive on Discord earlier this week, I made a point I'd like to restate here: It might be good to raise the threshold for approving sets/packets for posting. E.g.: Add a checkbox for "These quest...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Thu May 11, 2023 6:56 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: Thu, 5/4/23 and 5/11/23: Unused Nats submissions readings ("Festival of Rejects")
Replies: 4
Views: 4103

Re: Thu, 5/4/23 and 5/11/23: Unused Nats submissions readings ("Festival of Rejects")

Round two of the Festival of Rejects: ACF Nationals 2023 Edition will start a little after 8 ET/7 CT with unused questions from Chicago A, followed by Yale A. I've also been authorized to read from the unused submissions by Chicago B and C, which may happen later in the evening.
by Adventure Temple Trail
Sat May 06, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!
Replies: 28
Views: 20008

Re: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!

Almost a year later, is there any update on this project? If not, is there at least a bare-minimum change that can be made from now forward , so that the major sections of the archive doesn't keep getting flooded with one-off vanity packets? Creating a "Standalone Packets" or "Vanity&...
by Adventure Temple Trail
Thu May 04, 2023 6:49 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: Thu, 5/4/23 and 5/11/23: Unused Nats submissions readings ("Festival of Rejects")
Replies: 4
Views: 4103

Re: Thu, 5/4/23 and 5/11/23: Unused Nats submissions readings ("Festival of Rejects")

Tonight's installment of the "Festival of Rejects" will begin at 8 Eastern / 7 Central, with Mazin reading unused submissions from Harvard. After that, my hope is that people from other schools who are around tonight will queue up to read stuff.