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- Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Mich
Alright I've deleted the invisible imposter pretending to be Charles Hang.
- Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Mich
Here are combined stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... ned_stats/
Let me know if there were any errors.
Let me know if there were any errors.
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Mich
Probably because I screwed up somehow, but I'm not sure how to re-add the prelim games to the final standings quickly/efficiently. If anyone would like to help me, please pm me.The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:The people demand combined stats
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 11:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 5:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 3:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 2:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42324
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Mich
Here are the stats through round 5: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... h_round_5/. I'll try to post periodic updates.
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 2:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT Discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 22177
Re: 2014 NASAT Discussion
I'm also told by noted chemistry person Billy Busse that the chemistry of the set was in general awful. To be fair, every chemist says this about every set of chemistry questions not written by themselves. -This reduction potential tossup is the first of several in the chemistry distribution (inclu...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 9:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT Discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 22177
Re: 2014 NASAT Discussion
For a tournament that calls itself the "hardest high school tournament of the year" it sure did use easy clues pretty often and pretty early. I felt this was particularly endemic in the science questions. I'll give some examples: Packet 7: Rudolf Peierls proved that the two-dimensional Isi...
- Sat Jun 21, 2014 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51528
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
In particular; Libo-senpai and his disciplesHMS Audacious wrote:Libo demands Wang et al be renamed Libo et al
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 1:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science Player Poll
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10304
Re: Science Player Poll
Here's my poll with some commentary. 1. Eric M.- Gut feeling because I think he would've destroyed Lederberg and put everyone to shame, but for some reason he didn't play. 2. Steven H. - Top Scorer at any Lederberg mirror, crushing all competition 3. Billy B. - Although only 4th best in P/N ratio at...
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2014: WORD LIFE
- Replies: 58
- Views: 16913
Re: Player Poll 2014: WORD LIFE
Well, to start discussion: I think that the voters slightly overrated top players of second-tier teams at the expense of supporting players on contending teams. To be direct, Tommy and Evan should be higher. It's crazy to me that somebody ranked Tommy at 22nd when he overcame the shadow effect to o...
- Thu Apr 24, 2014 2:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91580
Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
Buzzed in (on the very first clue!) of "synchrotron" and negged with "cyclotron" and later laughingly complaining that he can never tell the two apart That clue was from a graduate-level radiative transfer textbook! A graduate-level radiative transfer textbook that he has clearl...
- Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
- Replies: 169
- Views: 57434
Re: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
P.S. Jerry, it is just plain wrong to claim that you can take a contour integral over any domain. A contour integral is, by definition, a closed line integral in the complex plane (modulo a few conditions on the contour). See, for example, Wolfram MathWorld , Wikipedia (the first sentence cites thr...
- Mon Apr 07, 2014 3:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2 Discussion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12463
Re: Lederberg 2 Discussion
#1) The subdistributions at least for physics and math were heavily skewed. It seemed to heavily focus on stat mech/solid state and QFT in the physics and algebra in the math. The one semi-analysis question (smooth) was even transformed into an algebra problem with its early clues. There were exact...
- Mon Apr 07, 2014 2:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2 Discussion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12463
Re: Lederberg 2 Discussion
The set was pretty great in general. But, I have some complaints. #1) The subdistributions at least for physics and math were heavily skewed. It seemed to heavily focus on stat mech/solid state and QFT in the physics and algebra in the math. The one semi-analysis question (smooth) was even transform...
- Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Revised protest rules
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6527
Re: Revised protest rules
Just a clarification. For the example of "this man won the Battle of Panipat" we could say any of the winners at any of the battles of Panipat right? So if that were the hypothetical first clue we could buzz and answer with Raja Sanghar Ali Khan (Wikipedia says he was at one of them appare...
- Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Suggestions for a new ACF distribution
- Replies: 98
- Views: 34229
Re: Suggestions for a new ACF distribution
I feel the biggest problem with mythology and religion is that quizbowl write questions on those subjects really poorly in terms of answer selection. Why does mythology nearly always become genealogy bowl or questions on obscure and irrelevant dudes from Polynesian myth? The fundamental problem here...
- Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014 ACF Regionals: General Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9431
Re: 2014 ACF Regionals: General Discussion
Well it seems that everyone has had only positive things to say until John, but I'd like to talk about some parts I felt were not so great. Still, I felt that this tournament was solid, at least mechanically. 1) 3rd parts being often very very hard: In one packet I opened we have these kinds of hard...
- Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Crowdsourced Head to Head Rankings
- Replies: 56
- Views: 17490
Re: Crowdsourced Head to Head Rankings
This is lots of fun.
- Mon Feb 24, 2014 2:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Poll: Midseason Edition
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15126
Re: Poll: Midseason Edition
It's not complete though.Charbroil wrote:Regionals information seems to be there as well, just not on the summary page.Excelsior (smack) wrote:Indeed he did: link. It appears to be updated to include everything up to and including SCT.
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12325
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
NASAT is supposed to be as difficult as a regular college set. It intentionally tests for knowledge that high schoolers may not inherently learn in class. Sure, but it is still a high school set. Jonah is arguing that high school sets should not have these kind of lead-ins because "high school...
- Tue Dec 10, 2013 5:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12325
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
Not that I've read this set or anything, but NASAT had a lead-in involving the Hahn-Banach theorem from functional analysis, so presumably the people from Harvard are not alone in having this idea!jonah wrote: I just don't see any high schoolers knowing much functional analysis.
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-Specific Discussion
- Replies: 94
- Views: 19252
Re: Question-Specific Discussion
ANSWER: Tibetan Buddhism [prompt on “Buddhism,” “Mahayana Buddhism,” or “Vajrayana Buddhism”] Tibetan Buddhism is part of Vajrayana, which is totally separate from Mahayana, so "Mahayana Buddhism" should not be promptable. I think "Tantric Buddhism" should be promptable instead,...
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:02 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
- Replies: 14
- Views: 28870
Re: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
For example, let's say you find it mentioned in program note after program note that Violinist X premiered Concerto Y. Before you make that a clue, research Violinist X in connection with premieres. You may find out that Violinist X in fact premiered three or four major concertos of that era. In th...
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8006
Re: Writing Good Music Questions for Musical Novices
For example, let's say you find it mentioned in program note after program note that Violinist X premiered Concerto Y. Before you make that a clue, research Violinist X in connection with premieres. You may find out that Violinist X in fact premiered three or four major concertos of that era. In th...
- Fri Nov 01, 2013 1:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ease of Powers
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8766
Re: Ease of Powers
I think it's a combination of things. Teams have gotten much better and I feel NAQT has become more standardized in their difficulty assessment (at least at the IS level) and not letting in as many outlier questions.
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Science Difficulty
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4108
Re: Science Difficulty
I felt these things in physics were miscategorized: Fine structure, the clues were pretty easy. So, I'd put it at medium. Scattering: I dunno but the question was all on quantum scattering, which I don't think you encounter till you take the second semester of quantum mech. So, I'd put it at medium/...
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25307
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Maybe it's been changed, but I just was glancing over the questions and Tang Taizong was clearly not the person to grant Song Jiang and his buddies amnesty, given that Water Margin was set in the SONG dynasty.
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8455
Re: General Discussion
This tossup is a pretty good example. The first two sentences are really hard. I'm willing to bet a lot of money no one buzzed before Tikbalang, and at most 1 person, if any, buzzed on Tikbalang. The Chinese myth clue is the first place where I can see someone weirdly knowledgeable taking the buzz,...
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
- Replies: 112
- Views: 45005
Re: Discuss the anime rule here
it is, expressly, the quizbowl discussion forum, and as such is a mirror of a real-life activity, not a place to just screw around on the internet. It's the same reason we mandate names and affiliations in signatures. Yes, this forum is meant to mirror real life in quizbowl. But, people in real lif...
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8455
Re: General Discussion
Strangely, unlike everyone else, I felt that this tournament was easier than Penn-ance. Maybe that's just a function of me playing with weaker teammates than before, but I felt like bonuses were fairly convertible and quite a few tossups had easy leadins (for example in Round 5). I too enjoyed some ...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl at UW & on Skype - Sunday, 10/20/13
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5066
Re: Penn Bowl at UW & on Skype - Sunday, 10/20/13
So, UW A and UNC A faced off in a 1 game final after going 8-1 in the round robin. UW A won 260-250 after a protest resolution.
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: West Coast Schedule Discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5950
Re: West Coast Schedule Discussion
Clearly the solution is to play the Skype mirror...right?RyuAqua wrote:How much of a West Coast schedule is even there at all? Are any of Michigan Fall, Penn Bowl, or DRAGOON getting mirrored in either NorCal or SoCal this semester?
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
- Replies: 112
- Views: 45005
Re: Discuss the anime rule here
It doesn't look like that thread was closed down at all. First, it was around for about 1 year and 3 months. Second, it is located in "Off topic archives", which means it was archived (moved there after some suitable period of no response). You'll notice that all the current topics in Off...
- Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
- Replies: 112
- Views: 45005
Re: Discuss the anime rule here
Yeah, why was this thread closed down: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... 22&t=10965Inkana7 wrote:what about manga
It wasn't at all disruptive and many people found it amusing.
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 6:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
- Replies: 112
- Views: 45005
Re: State of the board discussion thread
I am okay with the anime thing in a way to prevent terrible posts (like that ghastly Raynell Revolution a few years ago that I discovered while waiting in a Holiday Inn Express lobby for my shuttle to pick me up). I do think it gets sort of overzealously implemented--like let the dude post his Drag...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 1:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: State of the board discussion thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19243
Re: State of the board discussion thread
Here's a question I have: How come the Andy Watkins thing wasn't dealt with the same way that the board dealt with the Andrew Chrzanowski thing? That is announced and then just shut down. Except perhaps for a discussion how NAQT could improve their question security etc. I ask this because I don't s...
- Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General discussion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4605
Re: General discussion
The seeming absence of length control was pretty noticeable as a moderator - I'm not sure why a set like this needed to be based largely around 8-line, 8.5-line, and 9-line tossups, and I think that a slightly more judicious process of cutting excess verbiage could have reduced tossups to a more un...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 30590
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
Thanks again to the staffing team for a smoothly run tournament and to Matt and his co-editors for an enjoyable set. In particular I would praise the science which seemed to be suitable hard but accessible and of real significance. I'd be interested to hear the kibitz on the "contact" tos...
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 30590
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
Hey, I enjoyed this set. Thanks to Matt and his co-editors for the hard work. One nice thing about this set was that the science was generally of pretty high quality, but I had the feeling that about a third of the physics/other tossups were sort of unreasonably demanding in their answer lines. Lik...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 30590
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
So, I edited the physics and if anyone has any comments about those questions, I'd like to hear them. I'd also like to apologize for the tossup on contact. I originally wrote that question as a replacement for a repeat and the idea seemed interesting and real, but it seems to have played very poorly...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16330
Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
Tossups: Warwick As far as I'm aware, Robert Dudley was never Earl of Warwick, but rather Earl of Leicester. Uh, what I meant to have written was John Dudley, his father, and the clues earlier do all apply to him. So, that's entirely my bad in making a brain fart. Sadly, Marshall did not manage to ...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16330
Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
According to the spreadsheet here are the questions I was responsible for that made it into the set: Tossups: Warwick, Tipu Sultan, green, Ottoman, Joseon (edited), Emperor Wu (tiebreaker), Harold Macmillan (tiebreaker) Bonuses: Picts/Kenneth MacAlpin/Constantine II, Metz/Napoleon III/Bourbaki, vech...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16330
Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
EDIT: After posting a question it occurred to me this may not be clear yet. Is it? I'm pretty sure there are no other mirrors, so it should be clear. That being said, it may be wise to err on the side of caution. I'll post what questions I was responsible for after Marshall gives the all clear so e...
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 4:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2014 qualifying system
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16629
Re: ACF Nationals 2014 qualifying system
My proposal would be as follows: *The remaining spots (at least 19 and probably many more) are awarded based on Regionals performance. With all the top contenders already auto-qualified, this is an immense amount of wildcards that should make sure the difficult decisions of the last one or two team...
- Tue May 21, 2013 6:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: National History Bowl - 2013 College Nationals: Sun. Apr. 14
- Replies: 62
- Views: 16815
Re: National History Bowl - 2013 College Nationals: Sun. Apr. 14
Has this been done yet?Charbroil wrote:Is there a projected date for the rescheduled version of this (and, presumably, VCU Open)?
- Wed May 01, 2013 2:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13
- Replies: 56
- Views: 24251
Re: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13
I'm going to the University of Washington next year where I will try not to suck and play some quizbowl.
- Wed May 01, 2013 12:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 36487
Re: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
This was a problem not only in a couple religion tossups but also in history; the tossup on comfort women required that exact term, but the tossup on atomic bomb survivors didn't require Hibakusha. "Comfort women" is the term that is used (though the protest on this was denied on simple f...