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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...

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...

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?

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?

aseem.keyal wrote:Uploaded a zip of the docx packets on the packet archive, it's currently pending.

It's there now.

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...

Fun fact: I managed to get their son to play a tournament a few years ago

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...

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?

While I'd like to play this, if there's a need for staffers (as it currently seems) I'll gladly do so.

I'll play the questions, even though I don't have a hat :(

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...

I'm canceling this tournament. May host it sometime during the summer, but not sure on that at the moment.

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).

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 ...

Wouldn't the increased number of autobids handed out be more justifiable if the ICT field were larger?

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...

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 ...

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...

Once packets are uploaded, it just requires admin approval before they're made public.

I have a non-zero number of Clickhole Clickventure TUs that I could read for this.

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 ...

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...

Hey guys,

Let's meet up by 6:45 pm EST on the IRC in channel #eternalskypenata. We'll organize the tournament from there.

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.

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...

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.

I don't know if Anderson can, but I don't know how to make a Skype mirror work from my end, unfortunately.

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...

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...

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?

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...

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.

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...

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.

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 ...

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!

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...

The set is now on the packet archive.

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...

--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...

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).

Oh sweet, this means I might finally be able to play one of these things. Looking forward to it!

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...

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...

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.

I just approved the packet upload, so they should show up now.

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...

I'll staff this.

I'll most definitely be at CO, and am still looking for a teammate!

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