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- Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:00 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Qwiz presents the 1st Annual National Quizbowl Conference!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 657
Re: Qwiz presents the 1st Annual National Quizbowl Conference!
For those of us who will be at work that day, will there be recordings of the conference posted anywhere?
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 5:05 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5262
Re: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
Just bumping this because it's the start of a new season, new players have had the chance to attend a tournament or two, and I think this could help a lot of teams.
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:29 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: How to build "stamina"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9863
Re: How to build "stamina"
I posted this in the Collegiate Discussion section about how to stay focused during long tournaments like ACF Nats. There's really no secret shortcut to building stamina. It's more useful to just keep a healthier lifestyle, which would help with your schoolwork as well. My advice would be: 1. Get su...
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Stamina during Nationals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3203
Re: Stamina during Nationals
This may have been posted before, but this thought kind of floated in my mind while playing Fall Open yesterday. How did/do you guys get through 18 rounds of 14+ rounds of ACF Nationals/ICT without becoming extremely exhausted and losing focus in important games? Even after playing ~8 or 9 rounds o...
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4678
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I edited physics. Initial playtesting suggested the tossups were too easy, so for most of them, I removed a sentence of easy clues and put in a tough opening sentence. Hopefully, people found the first half of the tossups sufficiently challenging. There was indeed a lot of applied stuff- we had many...
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:41 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3290
Re: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
Sure- feel free to repost. Or, once we figure out the differences, it should be easy enough to modify this post. Thanks for pointing out that in places with underdeveloped circuits, there might not be more than 2-3 tournaments. In that case, coaches should definitely make it to all of them. For stud...
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:59 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3290
Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
I’ve taken a job that prevents me from coaching this year, but I thought this might be useful to new (and even some experienced) teams, especially ones with an inexperienced coach. I feel like this post is still a bit disorganized, but I just wanted to put it up before the HS season starts. My Backg...
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5262
Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
I recently got permission from Matt Weiner to post the files to his excellent "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation. He intended it as a resource for new college teams and new coaches, and made it nearly plug-and-play by providing slides as well as a Word file to read from while showing the...
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 11:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: High School Player Poll
- Replies: 42
- Views: 23859
Re: High School Player Poll
That's completely absurd. I think it's fair to say he's the best specialist in hsqb. Seriously. I think Geoffrey's complete absence from any of the teams was arguably the biggest mistake with the All-World selections this year. I'd put it slightly ahead of leaving Grant Li off any of the teams. I t...
- Wed May 02, 2018 4:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50025
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Once Sam mentioned it, I do think that I should've included a prompt on "sphere-packing problem" even if I mention "this statement"- it just didn't occur to me that people would buzz with that. If I had to re-edit, I would've rephrased it to say Toth developed a method to try to ...
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50025
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
I edited the math submissions and wrote the following questions: TUs on the core, sigma algebra, and Grothendieck. I had one other tossup that I don’t think has been posted yet, but has possibly been spoiled for next year and might get posted. I’ll talk about that one if Andrew clears it, since I th...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '17-'18
- Replies: 154
- Views: 57900
Re: Illinois '17-'18
I was looking at the state tournament schedule at http://www.ihsa.org/data/scores/scb28r16.htm and was wondering if anyone knew how IHSA splits teams into pools. Is it seeded, random draw, geographic, or what?
- Sat May 27, 2017 8:12 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Liveblogging the humans vs. QANTA match.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2327
Liveblogging the humans vs. QANTA match.
Assuming the Internet access in here holds up, it'll be here: http://hsquizbowl.org/blog/
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17846
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
Mike, we should just get our packets done in time for NSC. We can do this again and see how well the young'uns do on stuff that came out about the time they were born.Cheynem wrote:I'm super sick so my packet will be late or MIA.
- Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:56 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7402
Re: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog
Does anybody have any idea what is going to happen with the blog or the link to it? Well, assuming that the Internet at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare isn't completely hosed, and that a couple things that seem to be wonky with Wordpress get fixed, I'll be putting live updates from ICT's afternoon top bra...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:04 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Monetizing my Madness: a PACE Fundraiser
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7678
Re: Monetizing my Madness: a PACE Fundraiser
I'm in for 50 cents an hour, with a cap of $50. Fred, make sure to find me at one of the nationals this year.
- Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4929
Re: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
What seems more fair would be to use advantaged-final-style playoffs for these cross-tier matches. Teams in the top tier should still be afforded some advantage by virtue of doing better in the preliminary rounds. I think that teams in the top tier were already afforded an advantage- they had the a...
- Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4929
NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
Mods- I’m not sure whether this should be here or in Theory, but since there’s only one tournament affected, I put it here. Please move if necessary. A quick summary of the problem: We currently have a format in which there are 12 preliminary pools of 8 teams to start. These sort into four playoff t...
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 9:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 62205
Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion
The version that was used at HSNCT is as follows: The saponification of animal fats to form soaps is an example of this class of reaction. For 10 points each-- A. In what class of reactions does water break apart a chemical bond? answer: hydrolysis or hydrolytic reaction (accept hydrolyzing or hydr...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 62205
Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion
Can you post the condensation reaction bonus from the final game? Thanks.
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 38293
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
Well the last one was the least important, anyway. For the first two: I am nigh-literally floored that either of those things were floated as ideas, much less BOTH, much less either happened, much less BOTH happened. There is no universe in which either of those are good ideas. Most importantly (no...
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2015-16 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 52
- Views: 28192
Re: DC Metro 2015-16 Date Claim Thread
TJ would like to claim Sunday, 12/13 as the date for a middle school tournament on NAQT MS-15.
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24754
Re: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread
TJ would like to claim 2/14 for hosting a mirror of HFT.
- Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:17 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On the Clock, and how to play with it
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10807
Re: On the Clock, and how to play with it
Madden's Clock Theory So, here's a controversial notion, but one that I think has some statistical validity to it. I posit that not only towards the end of the game, but at any point, where a team takes a lead, they should then kill the clock as much as possible on bonuses (and if possible, even by...
- Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 25893
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
Hey, this is Dennis from the UVA team. I edited the "other science" and welcome feedback and suggestions about those questions. In general, my edits to math tossups were based on the following ideas: If the answer is a theorem, add early clues about methods of proving that theorem. If the ...