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- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4237
Re: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
Another huge problem you're neglecting--you really can't block off outdoor spots from noises or other people. Do you really want an ACF Nationals match having to be played at a picnic table next to another group of campers who are playing music or frisbee? To be fair, that's no worse than that time...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:10 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: Looking for a Packet Writer?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1490
Re: Looking for a Packet Writer?
I am no longer a forums moderator, so I cannot technically tell you how to post. I have not been actively involved in writing quiz bowl questions for several years, so I cannot tell you what the current economy and mechanics of the writing process are. But I can tell you that you are a seventh-grade...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: Northeast Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: All-Northeast Master Calendar 2023-24
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4960
Re: All-Northeast Master Calendar 2023-24
Can you clarify what the color is meant to indicate for each event?
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Questions about Answering & the "New High School Package" of Questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4953
Re: Questions about Answering & the "New High School Package" of Questions
Welcome to the Quiz Bowl community! You may also find this primer from PACE, another national quiz bowl organization, helpful in learning some of the jargon that you'd see and hear.
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Middle School Quizbowl Announcements & Discussion
- Topic: Brooklyn Bridge Battle Tournament (RESCHEDULED to 6/24/23) (HS Regs Minus)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8773
Re: Brooklyn Bridge Battle Tournament
Am I misreading this or are you announcing this tournament today to run one week from now?
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 10:21 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: What's the purpose of an advantaged final?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6132
Re: What's the purpose of an advantaged final?
The purpose of an advantage final is to balance the benefit of a final that provides public display of the best teams and the crowning moment against the detriment of a team going X-0 all day, then losing a one-off final to a team that went (X-1)-1 who they had beaten earlier in the day. And if the...
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 3:47 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: What's the purpose of an advantaged final?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6132
Re: What's the purpose of an advantaged final?
The purpose of an advantage final is to balance the benefit of a final that provides public display of the best teams and the crowning moment against the detriment of a team going X-0 all day, then losing a one-off final to a team that went (X-1)-1 who they had beaten earlier in the day. Well, the *...
- Mon Nov 28, 2022 9:59 am
- Forum: Single-Subject Events
- Topic: Geography Circuit GeoBee
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4118
Re: Geography Circuit GeoBee
Is there a registration fee? Could you provide a brief description of game and tournament format for anyone who's not familiar with the no-longer operating NatGeo Geography Bee?
- Mon Oct 10, 2022 6:56 pm
- Forum: Northeast Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Calendar 2022-2023
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12897
Re: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Calendar 2022-2023
It was posted a few days ago.a Joe wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:10 pmI might just be blind, but I'm not seeing anything. Can you link it?x'x(-1)x'y wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:42 pm Berwick would like to claim December 3rd for an in-person tournament in Eastern Pennsylvania. Announcment is in the tournament forum.
- Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:06 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago - Congratulations Lambert!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12981
Re: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago - Congratulations Lambert!
From what I can tell, here are performances that enter the top ten of PACE's modern statistical records page. I plan to review the last few years of NSC and make sure all the top-ten lists on this page are updated early this summer. Team powers in a single game - 12 Lambert, Round 2 vs Richard Montg...
- Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:02 am
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago - Congratulations Lambert!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12981
Re: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago
Lambert, Richard Montgomery, Kinkaid, and Thomas Jefferson enter the elite eight championship bracket with a win, while Hunter, Great Valley, Barrington, and Strake Jesuit carry forward a defeat. These teams will face off tomorrow to determine this year's PACE NSC champion!
- Sat Jun 11, 2022 12:16 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago - Congratulations Lambert!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12981
Re: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago
And Harry White's live-updating stats page is up and running.PACE Announcements wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 12:13 pm You can view the website (with schedules, stats, and the program) here!
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:17 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Introducing the UQC
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7344
Re: Introducing the UQC
I was informed after the fact by an acquaintance that there is an “Ultimate Quizzing Championships” event in Europe—I apologize for any confusion this may cause. My company is legally registered in the state of Minnesota, and I am assured there is no issue with the name. As I’m mostly operating in ...
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2022 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10533
Re: 2022 HSNCT discussion
(I haven't worked on the HSNCT schedule in several years, and even when I did it was prelims rather than playoffs.) Keep in mind that before the tournament NAQT does not know exactly how many teams will be in the top bracket and the bottom bracket when playoffs begin. That number depends on the out...
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2022 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10533
Re: 2022 HSNCT discussion
C. NFT owners are commonly mocked by people "taking ownership" of their NFTs by performing this simple action. A lambasted viral tweet compared the "mentality" of people who do this to people who make Salt Bae's meals at home. answer: right-click ing (and saving) (accept right-c...
- Fri May 20, 2022 10:04 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Yoda-Style Questions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6876
Re: Yoda-Style Questions
This is the kind of nonsense we lost when AHAN stopped being regularly available.
Each person can decide for themselves what my (and their) opinion of that is.
Each person can decide for themselves what my (and their) opinion of that is.
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 8:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maroon Bowl III @ Ridgewood (3/26/22)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3027
Re: Maroon Bowl III @ Ridgewood (3/26/22)
I trust that full logistic details will be emailed out in the coming days, but could you let us know when the tournament starts so we can plan when to arrive?
- Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:01 pm
- Forum: Single-Subject Events
- Topic: Prometheus Science Bowl
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5690
Re: Prometheus Science Bowl
At the very least, the website looks more put-together than the s c i e n c e c h a m p i o n s h i p was. But "for legal reasons, no, you can't know our sponsors" is... off-putting.
- Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:22 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: Vaccination Policy for NAQT's 2022 In-Person Championships
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9793
Re: Vaccination Policy for NAQT's 2022 In-Person Championships
Right now, boosters are not required to count as fully vaccinated under the CDC's definition, which is the definition we will use for our 2022 in-person national championships. We think it's reasonably likely that by March 1 (the "policy as-of" date we're using) boosters will be required ...
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Name Changes
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3535
Re: Name Changes
Current practice: The following are generally acceptable: surnames, family names, nicknames that are nearly universally known (e.g., LBJ but not Landslide Lyndon), pseudonyms, birth names, unmarried or married names, and regnal names. If a person's family name changed over the course of his or her l...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 10:48 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Notable Buzzers
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20677
Re: Notable Buzzers
The second, far less well known buzzer I want to discuss is something that the MIT team had in its possession circa 2008-2009, and brought to at least a few tournaments. This was a homemade system, I think, and the notable thing about it is that the noise it made when somebody buzzed in was a "...
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18576
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
long time lurker, first time poster the perfect complement to mob-rule is travelmapping , the much more exclusive (and obsessive) club of people who track the highway segments they’ve driven i added 795.96 miles and 24 counties for 2021 acf nationals, including 5.8% of US30 (much of which was forme...
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18576
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
Y'all.
Please don't die driving to a quiz bowl tournament. Get some goddamn sleep before day-long roadtrips.
Please don't die driving to a quiz bowl tournament. Get some goddamn sleep before day-long roadtrips.
- Sun Jun 20, 2021 10:56 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2021 IQBT NASAT - Congratulations Illinois Blue!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 33352
Re: 2021 IQBT NASAT - Congratulations Illinois Blue!
The final version of the championship bracket.
- Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2021 PACE NSC Discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6469
Re: 2021 PACE NSC Discussion
I think it's also fine to have an occasional use of the pre-question note Look over the answer line before reading this question.
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSNCT and its Problems
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16387
Re: HSNCT and its Problems
Does anyone else get uncomfortable when we start having conversations about what "elite teams" are deciding should and should not be done as part of a national tournament, and when the threat that the elite teams will cease attending the event because it does not meet their standards is p...
- Fri Mar 05, 2021 2:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSNCT and its Problems
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16387
Re: HSNCT and its Problems
2. Cost/Structure. HSNCT is far too expensive, and it is far too short. [...] In general, HSNCT's format is incredibly outdated. Very few other tournaments use double elimination. Most, including the two other national tournaments set to run this year, use a rebracketing format. Why does HSNCT not ...
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 7:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [SEMIFINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/2]
Billie Jean
Fast Car
Fast Car
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 2:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [QUARTERFINALS, SUBMIT BY 12/30]
Fast Car
When Doves Cry
Billie Jean
Once in a Lifetime
When Doves Cry
Billie Jean
Once in a Lifetime
- Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT video seminars about online tournaments
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2532
Re: NAQT video seminars about online tournaments
Have these recordings been posted yet?Important Bird Area wrote: ↑Sat Dec 05, 2020 10:45 pmWe will also make recordings of the seminars available to the community afterward.
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [ROUND OF SIXTEEN, PART TWO: SUBMIT BY 12/26]
Free Fallin'
no opinion
Once in a Lifetime
Craaaaaaaaaaaazy Traaaaaaaaaaaaaain
no opinion
Once in a Lifetime
Craaaaaaaaaaaazy Traaaaaaaaaaaaaain
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [ROUND TWO, PART TWO: SUBMIT BY 12/19]
80s BRACKET ROUND OF 16: LEFT BRACKET SUBMIT VOTES BY 11:59 PM PST 12/23 We're down to sixteen, so we'll do batches of four matchups this round. 1 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" vs. 5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" 6 Nena, "99 Luftballons" vs. 7 Dexy'...
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [PLAY-IN ROUND TWO; SUBMIT BY 11/11]
19. The Head That Talks Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime” Talking Heads, “Burning Down the House” 20. Pick ‘em: U2 (“With or Without You” is untouchable) U2, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" U2, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” U2, “Pride (In the Name of Love)” 21. Calling The Police ...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [Starting 11/5]
PLAY-INS, SLATE ONE PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR VOTES BY MIDNIGHT PST 11/8 1. Clash of the Clash The Clash, “Should I Stay or Should I Go” , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN1WwnEDWAM The Clash, “Rock the Casbah”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ 2. Country Crossover Corner Willie Nelson, “Alway...
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 9:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [Starting 11/5]
The whole album is tributes/homages to older sounds, so that's understandable.
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 12:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2144912
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [Starting 11/5]
I was raised on Billy Joel, and I do like the song, but is "We Didn't Start the Fire" really the best we can do for him in the 1980's? I feel like half of An Innocent Man could be chosen; if you twisted my arm to pick one, I'd say "Uptown Girl" or "Keeping the Faith". F...
- Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Clarke Fall II on 11/07
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4385
Re: Clarke Fall II on 11/07
Just as a suggestion, I recommend you keep the field update outside of the first post, because as a new account, when you edit a post, it goes away until it's approved. And if you're editing the first post, the entire thread goes away until a mod approves the post.
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 5:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10814
Re: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
Something I'm frustrated by, which I think I brought up a few months ago when LIQBA started announcing their spring online series, is the registration fee. Much like what has happened with NHBB regional tournaments, you're charging a registration fee which is very similar to the going rate and offer...
- Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT rules changes for 2020-2021
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3083
Re: NAQT rules changes for 2020-2021
No player may, during the same competition year, compete for multiple homeschool co-ops, multiple online schools, or a combination of non-online (i.e., in-person) schools and homeschool co-ops and/or online schools, regardless of established affiliation. In other words, during a single competition ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:26 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Maintaining Boundaries II (Focus on Social Media)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9765
Re: Maintaining Boundaries II (Focus on Social Media)
I also agree with much of what's said in this thread. My school district has a specific policy that we are not to accept friend requests from students at our school (even if they are not in our class), and that online conversations should be conducted via our school email addresses, rather than pers...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Events
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2838
Re: Online Events
There have been a few threads scattered throughout the forums, but I think most of the discussion there has been about organizing and running online tournaments, so it's good to have a thread about how it operates for players (and coaches), what they have to do in advance and on game-day, what the e...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 4:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Vulching (Continued)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5083
Re: Vulching (Continued)
What is "vulching"? That's totally new to me. A tossup the other team has already negged has sometimes been called a "sitting duck" tossup or any of a number of other slang terms meant to imply it's sitting their, ripe for the taking. To swoop in greedily and grab the tossup and...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:17 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64312
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
One difficulty that I sometimes feel when these conversations come up is trying to find the fine line between, on the one side, repeating platitudes that don't necessarily add anything to the discussion, and on the other side, speaking over the voices of women and non-binary people. And given my ten...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 12:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1352141
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
I wanna know if love is wild, I wanna know is love is real!
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 3:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1352141
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - THE FINALS!
Someday girl, I don't know when, we're gonna get to that place where we really wanna go and we'll walk in the sun
But til then, tramps like us, baby we were BORN TO RUN
But til then, tramps like us, baby we were BORN TO RUN
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 2:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1352141
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Final Four!
In terms of selecting four artists as the potentially greatest of the '70s, this is a pretty good group. It certainly leaves out punk and disco, so there are historical issues, but in terms of what you'd actually hear on the radio in that decade, this is spot on. I mean, it also leaves out any wome...
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 11:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1352141
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Elite Eight!
Wish You Were Here vs. Ohio
Let It Be vs. Stairway to Heaven
Born to Run vs. Long Train Runnin’ - THE HIGHWAY'S JAMMED WITH BROKEN HEROES ON A LAST CHANCE POWER DRIVE
Superstition vs. What’s Going On
Let It Be vs. Stairway to Heaven
Born to Run vs. Long Train Runnin’ - THE HIGHWAY'S JAMMED WITH BROKEN HEROES ON A LAST CHANCE POWER DRIVE
Superstition vs. What’s Going On
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: National Charity QB Tournament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5321
Re: National Charity QB Tournament
The notion that you're going to write a set in a month and then hold a 48-team Discord tournament over two days, without needing any outside staffers, seems like a series of choices that are each individually questionable and together seem extremely reckless, probably because of not realizing how mu...
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Laws and Treaties: A Vanity Packet
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2992
Re: Laws and Treaties: A Vanity Packet
I'd like to play this, but acronym league is tomorrow night, starting at 7 central. I can't remember how long it took last time, but I think I would miss out if so. If I'm the only one with this overlap I'll just read it later, so no worries :) Both weeks that I played, it seemed the three games go...
- Tue Jun 02, 2020 10:00 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Retroactive name changes in tournament results
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10935
Re: Retroactive name changes in tournament results
As someone who has run stats at tournaments, I believe the chances of anyone whatsoever still having SQBS files on their computer from random tournaments five years ago are remote. I'll call around and see what I can do about the nationals I went to. But not zero. More importantly, the hsqbdb allow...