The Quizbowl Resource Center

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Quizbowl's self hatred has really gone to some interesting places this year.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Maybe this should be in the main Fall thread but it fits here too, I think. This year's Fall was the first tournament I read for in a few years, and it was also the first tournament I've ever staffed where the majority of games in my room were competitive and almost every question was answered. I ca...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Marshall Steinbaum is an old, old British man.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I don't currently have a reliable internet access, so I won't be able to make it tonight. Please feel free to find a replacement player.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Auks Ran Ova wrote:
Rufous-capped Thornbill wrote:Quizbowl serves an important function in The Day After Tomorrow.
That's Academic Decathlon, you heathen.

Quizbowl's dark cousin...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Quizbowl serves an important function in The Day After Tomorrow.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I've got several thoughts about this topic floating around, so I hope this post communicates them in a meaningful manner. I think the distinction is that private schools generally have some form of selective admissions policies which not all charter schools have. Private schools can say things like ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I agree with a lot of what has been said in this thread. The way to increase quality of submissions not only at CO but at every event that takes them is through things like PADAWAN, ACF Fall editing and the (sadly underutilized, I think) ACF feedback program, not strange discounting schemes that wil...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Can anyone from NYU confirm if the tournament will be on the 1st or the 8th?

Rufous-capped Thornbill

The film was generally good and even great (the tossup on Norma Desmond's mansion was inspired), but why did Charles Band's film studio have to be tossed up? I knew stuff about Band, but having to remember one of his various companies (granted, his most famous) was really annoying. Thanks for the k...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I'm gonna briefly hijack Fred's (excellent!) thread to declare that the best way to make sure your team risks forfeiting a match, regardless of what tournament you are at, is to get pizza for lunch. It is very hard to get pizza in less than an hour, and in my TD experience, the teams that were late ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

So what do you all think happened to cause you to miss your difficulty goal? I can only accurately speak for myself and my own work on the set, but I don't think it was any specific thing we did, just a general tendency to choose the interesting or creative choice (which usually drift towards the d...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

On behalf of PACE, I am extremely pleased to announce that the winners of the 2016 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Award are Sheryl and Michael Cvijanovich of Matt's Buzzers. The Cvijanoviches are being recognized for their selfless and generous role in the quizbowl community, granting buzzer se...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

For some position in the rankings, I nominate Ming-Ho Yee, currently of Waterloo, soon-to-be of Northeastern. In addition to putting in a respectable performance at as many tournaments as he could make time to attend, he was also one of the most helpful senior members of the club. He constantly ass...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I definitely agree with other folks in this thread who have said that preparing with HSNCT timing and pace is more important than preparing with HSNCT packets. One thing I will add, however, is that NAQT has much more trash, current events and geography in its distribution than mACF style tournament...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

AKKOLADE wrote:Naming brackets after serial killer suspects and Ted Cruz sure was a decision.

Naming brackets is the only fun that a TD is allowed to have and we should support them no matter what.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

The nomination period is now closed. Thank you to everyone who submitted them.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

The nomination process closes this Friday, April 1st. If there is someone in your life that you feel is deserving of being nominated for a Cooper, please nominate that person!

Rufous-capped Thornbill

With a month to go before the April 1st deadline, we have only received one nomination. If there is someone or someones who you feel have made significant contributions to quizbowl in some way, please send nominations to cooperawards@pace-nsc.org.

Thank you.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is pleased to announce that it is accepting nominations for the 2016 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Awards. The awards, which recognize those who contribute to the “spirit and honor of quizbowl competition,” will be presented at the 2016 PACE ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Guroni Aunta

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I want to thank the folks from Yale for a really well-run, enjoyable tournament. We had a very good time playing a lot of very close games. Thank you.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I'd encourage people who are looking for teams to play on to contact people who are already registered to see if they have extra room on their teams and if they're willing to let them join. Open teams only have a $20 higher entry fee, which I would imagine would be a reasonable price to pay in orde...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

For the off chance that some room opens up, can you please add Vermont to the wait list? Thanks.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Vermont will be playing things, though I probably won't have any teammates with me.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

And I think you missed my point that if there's room for that in a question, there is room for a better, more substantive clue. Yeah, I think this is right. If someone's racial or sexual (or any other) identity informs their work, a well-written question on them will make note of this, or at least ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

(An amusing side note: I've found that quizbowl has been invaluable to me in my post-circuit-retirement career as an academic historian. Being able to instantly contextualize just about anything I encountered or read about is really helpful, as is having enough background knowledge about just about...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I may be moving to Vermont later than originally planned, in which case I want to play this. I should know for sure in a few days.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Black Miao wrote:Don't know about foreign language mumbo jumbo but I think science words should do more of the thing where there's an interpunct in between parts of the word. I feel like it'd make it harder to up the pronunciation
I'm looking at you car·bo·cat·ions!

yes please.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Congratulations to Team California, a very deserving team who proved their worth in one of the muddiest fields I can remember. I was very impressed with the quality of play and number of impressive buzzes I saw from teams at both ends of the field. NASAT was my favorite playing experience in high sc...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

A different type of discussion, but what did the readers at this year's NSC think of the formatting and style of answer line in the set? The choice of font for the set appears to be similar, if not the same, as the font used for the past two ACF Nationals, and I thought it was rather easier on the ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Kouign Amann wrote: Oh man, I had to read some Kipnis stuff this semester and didn't connect the two at all. For the curious, his writing totally blows.

Inkana7 wrote:Jacques Derrida's friend

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Jacques Derrida's friend Jeff Kipnis claims to have invented the use of 20 questions as the standard while he was at Georgia Tech. Joe Wells wrote a very interesting post about his interview with Jeff, who teaches at Ohio State now: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=282850#p282850 EDI...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

8 AM : enter Indiana 9 Am: still entering Indiana. The only redeeming quality of driving across Indiana (something OSU did just about every weekend we weren't going to Michigan) is the plethora of Arby's in that state. False, there are literally zero redeeming qualities to driving through Indiana. ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Black Miao wrote:8 AM : enter Indiana
9 Am: still entering Indiana.

The only redeeming quality of driving across Indiana (something OSU did just about every weekend we weren't going to Michigan) is the plethora of Arby's in that state.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I actually don't think too much of his work, but he's well associated with China. A description involving his work would have served the same purpose. That being said, it wasn't an egregious mishap or anything. I don't really agree that merely hearing "Thomas Friedman wrote an article about this pl...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Ok, so I want to make two broad points in this thread, one about specialization and one about studying at a high level. Most coaches, players and teams these days seem to understand that specialization is the most efficient and effective team-building model for quizbowl. It makes sense; the daunting...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote: Joe Nutter, former player for Walnut Hills High School and Ohio State University
[/b]

Joe wishes he could have played for OSU, when he attended Michigan State.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

A long time ago Grosse Pointe North had the fearsome duo of (Jamie) Ding and (Peter) Dong.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

To the best of my knowledge, no practitioners have explored n -headed generalizations of this format. There's some low-hanging fruit for you, enterprising quizbowlologists! From what I hear the UChicago team (and possibly many others) has a long tradition of playing "Designate Bowl," where effectiv...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

To the best of my knowledge, no practitioners have explored n -headed generalizations of this format. There's some low-hanging fruit for you, enterprising quizbowlologists! From what I hear the UChicago team (and possibly many others) has a long tradition of playing "Designate Bowl," where effectiv...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I'm ok with risking a ban for meta posting to declare that this thread is horrible and filled with really bizarre opinions. Let's all read some Canadian history books instead of continuing the march into the Forbidden Zone.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I would argue that the reason we ask about the Battle of Milvian Bridge instead of recent scholarship on "just how withdrawn from public life Roman elites in the 4th century were" is because it is unfair and maybe even not possible to expect enough people to have the appropriate academic background ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

blizzard wrote:I'll be going to Cincinnati. Not sure right now if I'll try to start a team or not.

do it do it do it

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Dartmouth submitted a pretty interesting tossup on the history of the Turkey for WIT a few years back. Food can be asked about in a variety of places within the distribution as long as a writer is smart and not too whimsical or indulgent about it. Food, after all, is probably the single most importa...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Sing, Ashvin, contined songs of Danila, for they cause me to roar with delight

Rufous-capped Thornbill

And mine.

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I don't know if this is still the place to post stuff like this, but I see no point in making a new thread. I would like to work on something this year, but I don't know yet how busy I will be come autumn, so I would like to work on something small so that I don't end up biting off more than I can c...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

Thank you for posting this, Jerry. Not only does it provide a more nuanced analysis of the topics being discussed in the Nats discussion thread, but I think it will remind readers (certainly me) that good tournaments require good questions, and good questions take both time and a questioning of just...

Rufous-capped Thornbill

I have more comprehensive thoughts on this tournament that I may or may not ever post, but as someone who actually has read The Fifth Column, I can say that it, like much of Hemingway's work, frankly, is bad and important only in that it is his only play (at least in my opinion. By the time I got ar...

Search found 519 matches