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- Sat Mar 26, 2022 4:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Using clustering to look at college quizbowl circuits
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1623
Re: Using clustering to look at college quizbowl circuits
Neat! this is pretty interesting, I'm surprised that UT and CO circuits cluster with the PNW circuit and the Idaho circuit and not the KS/OK circuit (and that the Idaho circuit doesn't extend into WY/MT/the Dakotas)
- Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:53 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Myths about Westphalia
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7579
Re: Myths about Westphalia
Ah, but Luxembourg would be vastly improved if it had more pickled herring in it.Sima Guang Hater wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 4:08 am Just wanted to post this, having seen it today and remembering this thread https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-WO73Dh7rY
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 11:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fictional streets used multiple times
- Replies: 3
- Views: 633
Re: Fictional streets used multiple times
Sure, I suppose that does count. I guess it's all a judgment call just because, any time an author puts effort into building a world of some kind, people will inevitably say that one book is a sequel of the other or somesuch. In this case, while the street is fictional, the city of Tunis is very mu...
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 12:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The majority of high school tossups on the Mali Empire are terrible.
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9635
Re: The majority of high school tossups on the Mali Empire are terrible.
I'm not particularly well-read on the archaeology here either, admittedly, but outside of an occasional lead-in that is probably a bridge too far at this level. Also, I kinda get the sense that most of what's "well-known in the public Western eye" about African archaeology is pretty cente...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16850
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
RE: Anais Nin's diaries, could the question just be reworded by dropping "erotic" in the question (i.e. "Anais Nin's erotic ones of these")? That would seem to disambiguate what you want nicely,
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1745
Re: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
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- Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4297
Re: A Bedside Companion to the History of Quizbowl Art
I am glad that this is happening in time for my temporary crawl out of retirement.
- Tue Dec 22, 2015 10:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7738
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Thanks! I hope you like it.Auks Ran Ova wrote:I got a copy of the Oxford History of Art's Art in China from Doug Graebner. Thanks Doug!
- Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7738
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Just got a mystery copy of At Least we Can Apologize , which I assume is from one of you unless there is some secret club dedicated to randomly mailing people avant-garde Korean novels. This was from me. I read a review where it sounded interesting. Hopefully it will be enjoyable and keep you out i...
- Sat Dec 19, 2015 6:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7738
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
Just got a mystery copy of At Least we Can Apologize, which I assume is from one of you unless there is some secret club dedicated to randomly mailing people avant-garde Korean novels.
- Thu Nov 19, 2015 4:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - Send your gifts!
- Replies: 100
- Views: 7738
Re: SMV 2015: HSQB's Secret Santa - 11/29 Deadline
1. [email protected]
2. Books, surprise me please.
3. A scarf; I could use one or two more.
4. A poster of some kind, preferably of art.
2. Books, surprise me please.
3. A scarf; I could use one or two more.
4. A poster of some kind, preferably of art.
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 32843
Re: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15)
Same here.Kouign Amann wrote:If anyone is looking to fill a spot in a hotel room for Saturday night, let me know, and I'll gladly pay my share.
- Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4566
Re: Discussion Thread
Fair enough. And I still don't know if the word "mosaic" was part of the required answer line. In any case, you knew it first! Yea, I'd only ever heard it called the Alexander Mosaic before-maybe this is one of those " what people put down in the captions" versus "what it g...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 4:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: "This Things I Believe"
- Replies: 44
- Views: 20188
Re: "This Things I Believe"
If TDs had to resolve every protest that gets lodged irrespective of whether it'd affect the outcome of a game, and players knew this to be true, control rooms would be utterly swamped with frivolous and score-padding protests, and would have to waste a lot of effort looking into all kinds of issue...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Weekend Length
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7110
Re: Chicago Open Weekend Length
(or a weekend in which lots of various tournaments are played). I still like my idea of a sort of "three-appetizer plate" of various side events, although this would obviously only work if the subjects were well-balanced. Another possibility would be to anchor the weekend with a shorter e...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 2:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: questions about Judaism
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8850
Re: questions about Judaism
Split from the 2015 CO thread --Mgmt. We should at some point have a thread about Judaism questions - perhaps this post which in no way related to CO will cause the admins to create one via thread split. As a frequent Religion editor/writer back in the day, I found Judaism questions extremely chall...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 4:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: questions about Judaism
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8850
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
Grammatical clarity aside, though, I was really impressed by this submission: it was actually a good high-level question on a Jewish holiday. Rather than just spitting out names of songs for leadins like run-of-the-mill Jewish holiday tossups, this one tested knowledge of liturgical customs, so it'...
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21307
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
I suspect that from a representation standpoint, we might actually do better by focusing on queer representation within the quizbowl community. As I grew up, I remember being struck by 1: Just how many quizbowl players, and especially good quizbowl players were queer (in fact, it seems like we're d...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21307
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
First, I don't think micropolitics has a role in quizbowl, insofar as quizbowl is accurately representing academic study of academic topics as they exist in the current academic world. (If quizbowl isn't being true to how much academic treatment certain topics receive, then that's something to be f...
- Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2014 Set Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 19564
Re: Delta Burke 2014 Set Discussion
The buzz was not optimal because it came before a concrete, uniquely identifying clue. The question was not optimal because it encouraged buzzing before a concrete, uniquely identifying clue. Ideally, questions would be better and this situation would not occur. But in this particular instance, the...
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Resetting [pt. 5 of 6]: How We Treat Each Other
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21966
Re: Resetting [pt. 5 of 6]: How We Treat Each Other
I actually completely disagree with Will. The difference may by "only five years", but those are an important five years. It is because those five years are important that we must be especially careful in how we treat each other across gaps. I find that a lot of problems develop when high...
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 7:09 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Advice on Studying Fine Arts
- Replies: 13
- Views: 16321
Re: Advice on Studying Fine Arts
For high school, a good textbook should honestly cover most of your starting bases-Gardner's Art through the Ages or Janson's History of Art are both pretty standard. If you want more detailed studies of specific topics, the Pelican History of Art* or Oxford History of Art series is probably going t...
- Tue Jun 30, 2015 5:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Nonfiction Books in the Distribution
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3946
Re: Nonfiction Books in the Distrobution
So this question might have an obvious answer, but where do books like "The Columbian Exchange" by Alfred Crosby or books like "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" fit in the distribution. I am just wondering because I just finished reading the latter and thought both due to the mate...
- Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Resetting [pt. 2 of 6]: How Much Quizbowl Does a Man Need?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 14402
Re: Resetting [pt. 2 of 6]: How Much Quizbowl Does a Man Nee
So I've thought about this a little bit, and I have brainstormed some potential solutions, some or none of which may be useful: To the issue of "too many announced housewrites, too few played housewrites": having PACE set up a national "Independent Series" distribution network b...
- Sun Jun 21, 2015 5:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Resetting [pt. 6 of 6]: Lessons Worth Recording
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8746
Re: Resetting [pt. 6 of 6]: Lessons Worth Recording
Also-learn your way around a new city/campus/whatever really well the first time or two you go; if you play college quizbowl you'll probably wind up going to tournaments in the same places a bunch of times so once you know your way around Wherever U. and its environs fairly well said knowledge stays...
- Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College quizbowl payroll service
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8283
Re: College quizbowl payroll service
Out of honest curiosity, why wouldn't the logical outcome of this just be something like a quizbowl gemach? At least if the intent is to not have quizbowl money effectively flowing at the rate of the slowest team to pay registration or mirror fees(or perhaps the slowest school reimbursement office).
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 12:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: writing a charity trivia quiz
- Replies: 6
- Views: 775
Re: writing a charity trivia quiz
I've been in synagogues that would skew either way honestly(some that would pretty much not want to do anything _tooooo_ religious in a pub quiz and some where you could get away with asking which books of the tanakh have special cantillation or other detailed scripture/rabbinics/"name this hol...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 5:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Accurate Timing during Tournaments
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11342
Re: Accurate Timing during Tournaments
So I've both played at a variety of tournaments, and moderated a couple, and have come across the same issue multiple times: a lack of accurate timing for answering tossups and bonuses. As far as I am aware, no tournament format (excluding Academic League) requires a clock to be used to determine t...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 5:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17112
Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
UPDATE: If there is interest, I will figure out how to host a mirror of VICO in DC on August 15th, 22nd, or 29th. It would have to have a field cap of like eight teams, unless one of the UMD players can get us rooms there or something. Please post here if you would be interested in that. If this so...
- Sun Jun 07, 2015 9:04 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How hard would it be to start a team at my high school?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9424
Re: How hard would it be to start a team at my high school?
One worthwhile piece of information which might help folks here answer this question, if you're willing to share, is where your high school is located -- there are many people on these boards who are active in organizing local, regional, and state circuits, and knowing which specific existing tourn...
- Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30318
Re: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?" It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23) Given the minimum dimensions of a sukkah and the requirement that at least part of the roof should be permeable to the rain*, this would seem rather difficult. *The oft-cited claim that one must be able...
- Fri Jun 05, 2015 7:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30318
Re: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
"Have you ever hotboxed a sukkah?" It's not really Sukkot if you don't! (Leviticus 23) Given the minimum dimensions of a sukkah and the requirement that at least part of the roof should be permeable to the rain*, this would seem rather difficult. *The oft-cited claim that one must be able...
- Fri May 29, 2015 1:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SNL Top 50 Sketches, 2010-2015
- Replies: 5
- Views: 556
Re: SNL Top 50 Sketches, 2010-2015
This inspired me to watch "The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders" and I was amused.
- Wed May 27, 2015 11:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Click Here to Become Sad
- Replies: 59
- Views: 34230
Re: Click Here to Become Sad
For most Canadians (or at least for Ontario, where most Canadian quizbowlers are from), anything before the First World War is consigned to middle school classes taken nearly a decade before their collegiate careers. Unless someone went out of their way to learn more about topics like Louis Riel, J...
- Tue May 19, 2015 2:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Click Here to Become Sad
- Replies: 59
- Views: 34230
Re: your official Canadian cavalry regiment discussion threa
So does someone actually have a good introductory book to Canadian history that is not A) awful whig history, B) duller than cottage cheese, or C) by Desmond Morton(which I have tried to read only to find it painfully, painfully boring)?
- Fri May 15, 2015 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 31999
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
I fail to see why "plebian secession" (a specific historical term with a well-defined meaning that seems to routinely come up in books on Roman history) is a confusing or ambiguous answer.
- Thu May 14, 2015 8:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 31999
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
I'm not sure what "studying academia" means Sorry - I typed that really fast as I was about to miss a 10:30 meeting. Pretty sure I meant to say something along the lines of "studying the sort of stuff one might expect to learn as a motivated student in whatever academic field, indepe...
- Thu May 14, 2015 1:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 31999
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
I'm not sure what "studying academia" means Sorry - I typed that really fast as I was about to miss a 10:30 meeting. Pretty sure I meant to say something along the lines of "studying the sort of stuff one might expect to learn as a motivated student in whatever academic field, indepe...
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 6:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
- Replies: 227
- Views: 111185
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
Also, the arbitrariness of this bolding is hilarious. "The Anxiety of Influence" is "noticeably difficult", but "pataphysics" isn't? Ditto for, e.g., "My Kinsman Major Molineux" v. "Elizabeth Loftus"--I literally cannot imagine a reasoned basis on w...
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 Regionals: Specific question requests and discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 22440
Re: 2015 Regionals: Specific question requests and discussio
Zero in linguistics: I indeed misheard this clue, sorry! [Sidebar: I'm sure this is a real thing in linguistics, but I learned the "to be" construction as "noun sentence"; I'm not sure anyone learning the language would learn this name for it—and I'm sure that's not a valid crit...
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: George Oppen at U. Maryland (21 Feb. 2015)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 42689
Re: George Oppen at U. Maryland (21 Feb. 2015)
Currently a free agent seeking a team barring unforseen circumstances.
- Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6796
Re: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
Thanks for Payalisan's history of Armenia!Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:I bought a copy of my gift for myself as well (since it looked cool) and it arrived yesterday, so hopefully my Secret Santa gift will arrive soon.
- Sat Dec 06, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is copying answerlines also plagiarism?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5466
Re: Is copying answerlines also plagiarism?
(Note: for NAQT questions, please don't bother listing the 50 names of Marduk.) -Seth You do realize it is now my mission to write a question that finds a way to require listing the 50 names of Marduk, right? :P There was a question in CO 2013 on "Names of Marduk", which is probably the c...
- Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6796
Re: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
My gift is brought and shipped; it should arrive at its destination in the next week or two.
- Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What Happens to DC-Area Quizbowl Next Year?
- Replies: 158
- Views: 99423
Re: What Happens to DC-Area Quizbowl Next Year?
Walt Whitman . Given that Shantanu and his teammates won NSC and the team was active regionally and went to at least one national fairly consistently and perfromed at least somewhat well from 2006-12(I was on the team for a considerable part of these years), they certainly have a pretty extensive q...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 68117
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Given that it is reasonable to assume that most students at Harvard own computers Reasonable. and that at least a few tournament attendees probably had brought laptops with them, wouldn't it have made more sense to see if someone could loan her a laptop for the duration of the tournament Not so muc...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 68117
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
I wasn't at this tournament and can't comment on the circumstances that resulted in a random parent reading in a room and repeatedly reading the wrong packet, but I am amazed that Harvard thought, in 2014, that it was a good idea to just give staffers all the packets and trust them to do the right ...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6796
Re: SMV 2014: press x to send and receive presents
Name: Douglas Graebner email: dgraebner1@gmail.com Requests: 1. A book, preferably on art history, mesoamerica, ancient history, or late antiquity. 2. A nice poster 3. A surprise, if you happen to be someone who knows me enough to think of something else I might like. Holiday story: I am torn betwee...
- Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Suzhou, China
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1168
Re: Suzhou, China
1. Take care of your belongings. Thieves are widespread and are shameless in their pursuit of your wallet. To put this in perspective: My grandmother was robbed while praying in church. In particular, I'd be careful around beggars. Many often fake injuries to attract unwary victims. I'm sure there'...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: General Discussion (Maryland Spring 2014)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6616
Re: General Discussion
Becoming hyperfocused on minute PPB differences is just plain silly; 23.5 to 21.5 is...not quite "random fluctuation" but certainly a small enough change that it doesn't really tell you a lot about how hard a set was that just looking over the set and noting "This seems really hard an...