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- Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 27962
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
Conor 110 I... didn't play this, and don't know of any other Conors in quizbowl who spell their name the way I do, so you've either misspelt someone's name or you're mistaken about someone's Discord handle. Or there's another Conor I don't know about, which is also a possibility. Yeah that's a typo...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Discussion forums for old sets
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5040
Re: Discussion forums for old sets
As someone who was never part of the (now since deleted) usergroup, the threads are definitely there and publically accessible, so there is no real way to undo this since anyone could have viewed the threads. While I didn't do any of the usergroup/subforum pruning, I'd like to apologize that this ha...
- Tue May 22, 2018 11:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOUNDTRACK at HSNCT - Saturday
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4724
Re: SOUNDTRACK at HSNCT - Saturday
Hey, as someone interested in playing this but is worried about potential conflicts with other events going on on Saturday evening, have you set a time for when this will take place?
- Mon May 21, 2018 1:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14875
Re: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
Having missed this last year because of a panic attack and being unable to figure out where it was being held, I am very much looking forward to actually playing this year. Also looking for teammate.
How many packets will there be?
How many packets will there be?
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 10:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
- Replies: 66
- Views: 28586
Re: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
It's there now.aseem.keyal wrote:Uploaded a zip of the docx packets on the packet archive, it's currently pending.
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6548
Re: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
I have watched 0 games of collegiate quizbowl this year and don't know any of the rosters but I figured it would help generate discussion if I made predictions anyway. Here's DI ICT: 1. Yale A 2. Penn A 3. UC Berkeley A 4. Chicago A 5. Columbia 6. Ohio State 7. Minnesota A 8. Michigan A 9. Northwest...
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 1:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 1995 ACF Nationals program
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5217
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:51 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 35593
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
FWIW I voted "regular difficulty is too hard," "too insular," and "lack of outreach." When I was at UTK I made a conscious effort to call regular-difficulty tournaments "regionals difficulty" because I felt like the term "regular difficulty" might be...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2018 @ UIUC
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5040
Re: ACF Regionals 2018 @ UIUC
I'm assuming that in this case the lack of a regionals champion won't matter in terms of getting a bid to ACF Nationals, but if it had mattered, who would be getting the automatic bid?
- Mon May 22, 2017 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Geography Monstrosity IX — May 26, Atlanta
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10487
Re: Geography Monstrosity IX — May 26, Atlanta
While I'd like to play this, if there's a need for staffers (as it currently seems) I'll gladly do so.
- Mon May 22, 2017 2:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: João - Myth Shootout (HSNCT)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27867
Re: João - Myth Shootout (HSNCT)
I'll play the questions, even though I don't have a hat :(
- Tue May 09, 2017 5:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16744
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
I will be transferring within the University of Tennessee system, but from the Knoxville campus to the Health Science Center (in Memphis) and continue grad school there. Am very curious about my eligibility to play under "Tennessee" or not (if not, it would highly limit my chances of conti...
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 3:00 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANCELED: Oxford American Tournament @ UTK 4/15/17
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1832
Re: Oxford American Tournament @ UTK 4/15/17
I'm canceling this tournament. May host it sometime during the summer, but not sure on that at the moment.
- Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 17904
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
I don't know how many questions I'll end up having but I'll write a packet and email it (won't be at ICT).
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 9:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANCELED: Oxford American Tournament @ UTK 4/15/17
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1832
CANCELED: Oxford American Tournament @ UTK 4/15/17
Hello everyone, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville will be hosting a mirror of the Oxford American Tournament on April 15, 2017. See this thread for more details on the set. This will be an open tournament but I will almost certainly need outside staffers to help run it, so please let me know if ...
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 47019
Re: 2017 ICT bids
Wouldn't the increased number of autobids handed out be more justifiable if the ICT field were larger?
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:11 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Saving the IRC
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13925
Re: Saving the IRC
I definitely agree that using a more accessible platform might help in attracting people to such a chat room, and that more Festivus-like events would also be great! The latter was basically the only reason I ever got on the IRC in the past year or so, other than when important events such as nation...
- Fri Dec 23, 2016 2:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 54412
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I'm going to miss this because of travel :( Rob, will you be posting the questions on the archives? Similarly, did you ever post last year's set on the archives? I remember you emailing (or posting, maybe?) last year's somewhere, but if it would be annoying to format for the archives, I'll happily ...
- Thu Dec 22, 2016 8:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 54412
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I have a non-zero number of Clickhole Clickventure TUs that I could read for this. I have 20 tossups ready, plus a few bonuses I had already written if they're of interest. Due to a request, a significant number of these questions are very difficult, but there should be some that are gettable by th...
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 4:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: [REDACTED] - A Conspiracy Theory Side Event
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6831
Re: [REDACTED] - A Conspiracy Theory Side Event
Once packets are uploaded, it just requires admin approval before they're made public.
- Mon Nov 28, 2016 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 54412
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I have a non-zero number of Clickhole Clickventure TUs that I could read for this.
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:44 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
- Replies: 64
- Views: 48180
Re: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
The biggest single-game upset I've witnessed was us beating Chicago A in the prelims of ACF Nationals 2011 . That was the one win that got us into the upper half of the field in the first playoff stage, and we didn't win a single match past afterwards while Chicago A contended for the title. We had ...
- Sun Aug 28, 2016 11:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eternal Sonata Skype Mirror (Sunday, 8/28/16)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3185
Re: Eternal Sonata Skype Mirror (Sunday, 8/28/16)
This tournament ran into all the technical issues one can expect from a Skype mirror, and the resulting problems led to only Rounds 2-5 being counted and played in a shootout format. These were the scores following that: Jason Thompson 200 Jake Sundberg 110 Billy Busse 80 Victor Prieto 80 Tejas Raje...
- Sun Aug 28, 2016 5:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eternal Sonata Skype Mirror (Sunday, 8/28/16)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3185
Re: Eternal Sonata Skype Mirror (Sunday, 8/28/16)
Hey guys,
Let's meet up by 6:45 pm EST on the IRC in channel #eternalskypenata. We'll organize the tournament from there.
Let's meet up by 6:45 pm EST on the IRC in channel #eternalskypenata. We'll organize the tournament from there.
- Sun Aug 21, 2016 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARTSEE Online (August 21)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4730
Re: ARTSEE Online (August 21)
Will appears to have gotten some food: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/3863/
This was fun to play; congrats to Jordan and Chris for winning, and thanks to the writers for producing this and Will, Jason Cheng, and Jason Golfinos for staffing.
This was fun to play; congrats to Jordan and Chris for winning, and thanks to the writers for producing this and Will, Jason Cheng, and Jason Golfinos for staffing.
- Sun Jul 24, 2016 3:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO "History Bee" (2018)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6862
Re: CO "History Bee" (2018)
It would be kind of cool to straight-up do whatever schedule format the high school National History Bee does, with minimal modification. I think that involves quasi-randomly seeded prelim rooms of equal size for several rounds, then elimination rounds which slowly whittle the field down. THREE WAY...
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eternal Sonata (video game music)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9491
Re: Eternal Sonata (video game music)
Don't worry guys, I'd very much like to help run a Skype mirror (seeing as I won't be attending any physical sites), so I'll do my best to work these things out by the playtesting stage.
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 10:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eternal Sonata (video game music)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9491
Re: Eternal Sonata (video game music)
I don't know if Anderson can, but I don't know how to make a Skype mirror work from my end, unfortunately.
- Sun Jun 12, 2016 3:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB for Middle and Elementary Levels (Chicago, IL 6/9-6/12)
- Replies: 86
- Views: 38703
Re: NHBB for Middle and Elementary Levels (Chicago, IL 6/9-6
IHBB Asian Championships (which included to the best of my knowledge, the largest ever pyramidal all-subject quiz bowl tournament outside North America on Friday, our Academic Bowl of Asia in which 23 teams competed). To the best of my knowledge, the previous record is 14 teams at the 2015 Concordi...
- Sun Jun 05, 2016 11:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7813
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
Even as someone who did predictably terribly, this was a mostly-enjoyable experience. I liked one of my students saying (more than once), "Oh, so that's what that sounds like" or "I wrote a tossup on that piece without ever having actually heard it". One question: Round 1, Tossu...
- Mon May 30, 2016 8:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 62333
Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion
As a reader, while I definitely did notice the replacement of "the" for "this" in the giveaways and bonus parts, I was so used to saying "this" that I kept doing so throughout the weekend anyway. Did anyone else do the same?
- Mon May 30, 2016 1:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7813
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 3 Discussion
This was awesome to play! Thanks for running it, Eddie, and big thanks to you, Jonathan, and Rebecca for writing it. I kinda wish I was writing down things while playing the tournament so I'd have more thoughts, but here were some things I remember discussing post-tournament/my own observations, whi...
- Mon May 16, 2016 12:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM IX @ HSNCT - May 29, 2016
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23275
Re: ACRONYM IX @ HSNCT - May 29, 2016
I see I'm mentioned here (probably due to my joke of a post upthread) but I can't play this tournament as I'm flying back Sunday evening, sorry.
- Mon May 02, 2016 11:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MUT: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 13377
Re: Specific question discussion
Time integral tossup: So at the mirror I ran back in April, I actually had a game-deciding protest on this question about the exact same issue people are bringing up (that integrating the Dirac delta function isn't specific to any particular variable). I remember talking briefly about it to Rob, the...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM IX @ HSNCT - May 29, 2016
- Replies: 45
- Views: 23275
Re: ACRONYM IX @ HSNCT - May 29, 2016
If you either: 1.) need a sports and video game player, or 2.) are Joe Nutter, You should PM me. I am fairly good at both of these subjects, although my super modern baseball and hockey knowledge is lacking, and I hate NASCAR. I almost read this as saying your Joe Nutter knowledge was fairly good.
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 12:09 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Starting a new Quizbowl Team
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9410
Re: Starting a new Quizbowl Team
So I'm not sure what's going on here, as Lexington clearly has had a quizbowl team for years and I'd be amazed that someone attending the school wouldn't be aware of its existence, but of these forums. Michael, if this is actually you and you are interested in quizbowl, you have all the information ...
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT at UTK (3/26/16)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2213
Re: MUT at UTK (3/26/16)
I've updated my first post with the location of the tournament plus the current field. I'd like to see more teams sign up!
- Fri Mar 04, 2016 8:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 2015-2016
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13060
Re: Tennessee 2015-2016
Oh hey, I'm glad someone is taking the initiative to getting quizbowl back up and running in East Tennessee again! I recently revived UTK's quizbowl team this school year, although I haven't been able to spend time doing much outreach thus far (I really wanted to host a tournament this semester, but...
- Wed Feb 17, 2016 8:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Global Announcement: ACF Regionals 2016 (01/30/2016)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 27016
Re: Global Announcement: ACF Regionals 2016 (01/30/2016)
The set is now on the packet archive.
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT at UTK (3/26/16)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2213
MUT at UTK (3/26/16)
This is the announcement for the Univeristy of Tennessee (at Knoxville)'s mirror of the Minnesota Undergraduate Tournament , to be held on Saturday, March 26th, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Information about the questions can be found here . UPDATE: Capping the field at 16 teams. Location and directions...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 10:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2016 General Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13071
Re: ACF Regionals 2016 General Discussion
--The "Turning into a rhinoceros" and "seance" questions were good ideas and well-thought questions. I'm glad to hear people enjoyed the "turning into a rhinoceros" question! The idea came to me as I was reading the play last summer and I initially wrote it out of amus...
- Mon Feb 01, 2016 1:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeast ACF Regional 2016 at Vanderbilt (1/30/16)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5896
Re: Southeast ACF Regional 2016 at Vanderbilt (1/30/16)
It's not just those, it's literally all of the games that carried over from prelims to playoffs (UGA A, UTK, and Kentucky A in one bracket, Georgia Tech A, Louisville, and UGA B in the other).
- Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 3: audio music event at HSNCT, NSC
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20408
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 3: An audio music tournament
Oh sweet, this means I might finally be able to play one of these things. Looking forward to it!
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl at UT-Knoxville
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2027
Re: Quiz Bowl at UT-Knoxville
The information is very, very recent, as I actually put that in just last week! I've been working on getting quizbowl going at UTK this semester, and so far it's going well, so you'll definitely be joining an active club when you get here! So yeah, feel free to ask me any questions you have regardin...
- Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Vanderbilt S.P.O.O.K.Y. Tournament '15 (10/31/15)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9148
Re: Vanderbilt S.P.O.O.K.Y. Tournament '15 (10/31/15)
So I've been watching this thread, since as a freshly arrived Tennessee resident I've been curious as to what role Vanderbilt's quizbowl team has in the overall circuit (both HS and college). I've been hoping to play against Vandy at tournaments and maybe establish a friendly rivalry or something. A...
- Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preseason Poll
- Replies: 43
- Views: 36172
Re: Preseason Poll
I should be able to assemble a team at Tennessee soon, but even if that doesn't happen for whatever reason I'll still play tournaments.
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17998
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
I just approved the packet upload, so they should show up now.
- Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tennessee 2015-2016
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13060
Re: Tennessee 2015-2016
I'll end by talking a bit about what I know about things around Tennessee. In East Tennessee, quizbowl has taken a pretty big hit recently because of a decreasing number of tournaments. The biggest problem has been that there aren't really tournaments for JV kids, so many of them lose interest, mea...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
- Replies: 95
- Views: 48558
Re: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
I'll staff this.
- Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts
- Replies: 131
- Views: 59726
Re: 2015 CO Visual Arts
I'll most definitely be at CO, and am still looking for a teammate!