Congratulations to What IS Quizness School? (Will Alston, Vivian Malouf, Andrew Wang, and Kevin Wang) for going undefeated, and thus winning the tournament.
Thanks to everyone who came out to play. Stats may be found here.
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- Sun Aug 25, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3250
- Fri Aug 23, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3250
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
I have just sent out a logistics e-mail to all teams. If you are your team's contact person and didn't receive it, please let me know. Additionally, there are a few teams on the spreadsheet that have not chosen at team name. I have instructed those teams to choose one by 8 PM ET, at which point I ...
- Mon Aug 12, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3250
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
We now have registrations from twelve teams. The field is closed. However, six of the teams appear to have spots available for free agents. I encourage free agents to contact those teams, so they can join up.
- Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2025 Playtesting
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2643
ACF Nationals 2025 Playtesting
Playtesting for ACF Nationals 2025 will begin soon (possibly the end of next week, but definitely by the week of 08/19). If you would like to participate, please PM me and I'll add you to the Discord server. All further scheduling will take place there.
- Wed Aug 07, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3250
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
Eight teams have registered. The field is now temporarily closed. Please e-mail me to be added to the waitlist. (If you have just put your name on the spreadsheet, that does not mean you are on the actual waitlist.) Once there are four registrations on the waitlist, I will add those teams to the ...
- Sat Aug 03, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3250
IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (08/24/2024)
The second online mirror of this year's IQBT Undergraduate Championship set will be on August 24th. It will be held over Zoom. I’ll be serving as TD. This is an open mirror. Anyone who did not write for or playtest the set or who did not play or staff the championship is welcome to play this mirror. ...
- Thu Aug 01, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Signs That Your Questions Might Play "Too Hard"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5425
Re: Signs That Your Questions Might Play "Too Hard"
Thanks to JinAh and Jordan for their responses. As both of them rightly note, my posts are meant to function, in part, as catalysts for further conversation about these matters (and for further “theoretical” discourse in general, since that has sadly declined, as JinAh mentions in the opening par ...
- Wed Jul 31, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Signs That Your Questions Might Play "Too Hard"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5425
Re: Signs That Your Questions Might Play "Too Hard"
Bonuses This is, in some way, the more pressing and the simpler of the two problems. It is unambiguously the case that bonus easy parts with poor conversion have failed at their stated purpose. One can’t make the kinds of excuses for them that one can make for tossups (e.g. that “creativity” ju ...
- Wed Jul 31, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Signs That Your Questions Might Play "Too Hard"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5425
Signs That Your Questions Might Play "Too Hard"
Introduction I’ve been meaning to make a post like this for a while. I often feel like advanced stats are underused in informing “quizbowl theory,” and this is my attempt to make a contribution to this conversation—specifically, a timely contribution, in light of what I think are some instances of c ...
- Tue Jul 30, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Superteams Discussion, Again 10 Years Later
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2998
Re: Superteams Discussion, Again 10 Years Later
I like the spirit of these ideas. But draft is ultimately going to be impractical, though, as has been noted. And prior gentlemen’s agreements have been too subjectively defined to have any regulative force. Here’s my suggestion: how about a gentlemen’s agreement not to form teams that have more than ...
- Sat Jun 22, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2822
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
Congratulations to I Review Your Cards A (Michał Gerasimiuk, Omkar Marathe, Sinecio Morales, and Owen Riley) for going undefeated, and thus winning the tournament. Stats may be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8978/ Keep your eyes open for our mirror of the second part of the set, ...
- Thu Jun 20, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2822
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
I just sent out a preliminary logistics e-mail to the contact person for each team. If your team didn't receive one, please let me know.
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2822
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
A 12th team has registered. The field is now closed.
- Sun Jun 09, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2822
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
Update: The eighth spot has been filled. Please e-mail me to secure a spot on the waitlist.
- Sun Jun 09, 2024 12:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2822
Re: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
Seven of the eight spots in the field have been claimed. Once I receive an eighth registration, I will temporarily close the field until we reach ten registrations. Then, I will temporarily close the field again until we reach twelve registrations. Twelve is the hard cap for the final field.
- Tue Jun 04, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2822
IQBT UG Championship 2024 Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (06/22/2024)
The first online mirror of this year's IQBT Undergraduate Championship set will be on June 22nd. It will be held over Zoom. I’ll be serving as TD. This is an open mirror. Anyone who did not write for or playtest the set or who did not play or staff the championship is welcome to play this mirror. ...
- Fri May 31, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: UG Nats Part 1 Online Mirror Date Poll
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1650
UG Nats Part 1 Online Mirror Date Poll
As per the tradition established last year, we will be holding a two-part open mirror of this year’s Undergraduate Championship set over the summer. Each part will use exactly half of the tournament’s packets, so that all packets in the set can get played. The first part, which will be before CO, wi ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: The Rooming Problem (And How To Fix It)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5749
Re: The Rooming Problem (And How To Fix It)
One thing that struck me about Joy’s otherwise excellent post is that it addresses only national tournaments and opens. This is certainly understandable, since national tournaments and opens are where this problem would be particularly prevalent. And of course, even if this problem could be a ...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Before & After Packet 2023
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3273
Re: Before & After Packet 2023
This is a reminder that I'm going to be reading this in the Discord tonight at 9 PM ET.
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Before & After Packet 2023
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3273
Before & After Packet 2023
Next week, I'm going to do one more reading of my most recent Before & After packet (from Festivus 2023), before I post it on the archive. This is most likely going to be on Wednesday, 01/10 at around 9 PM ET.
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2702
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
Congratulations to Panic at the Discord (Eric Bobrow, Jason Golfinos, Nick Jensen, and Alex Li), who beat Champ (Chris Manners, Tim Morrison, Shahar Schwartz, and Tejas Raje) 395-335 in the final to win the tournament! Stats are already up for the prelims. Stats from the playoffs will up ere long ...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2702
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
A logistics e-mail has been sent to the contact person for each team. Please let me know if you did not receive it.
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 3:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2702
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
We're going to run an eight-team tournament. It appears that three teams still have rooms for free agents, so don't hesitate to reach out to players if you're considering playing.
The tournament will start at 10 AM ET. I'll send a logistics e-mail tonight.
The tournament will start at 10 AM ET. I'll send a logistics e-mail tonight.
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:56 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2702
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
There are three teams officially registered, and three teams that have expressed interest in playing. This adds up to six teams, which is an excellent amount for this mirror, so I'm going to close the field, until/unless we get to eight teams. On those six teams, there's a total of four free agent ...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2702
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
Right now, including the one fully registered team of four players, the two partly formed but not registered teams of three, and the five free agents, we have fifteen people signed up, which is enough to fill out four teams (plus one spare spot). This would be excellent, as we'd be able to run a ...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 25497
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Thanks to the editors for this tournament. I want to particularly commend Caleb for what I thought was a very fine set of Philosophy questions. This post is about the Literature questions. On an individual level, I feel like most of the tossups in these categories were well-executed. (Like Andrew, I ...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2702
IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 2 (09/02/2023)
Our online mirror of the second part of the IQBT Undergraduate Championship set will be on September 2nd. It will be held over Zoom. I’ll be serving as TD. This is an open mirror. Anyone who did not write for or playtest the set or who did not play or staff the championship is welcome to play. The t ...
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 11:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3520
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
Attached are the first nine packets of the set, which were the questions played at this mirror. We're releasing them publicly in part because there might be people who didn't play the first part of the tournament, but wish to play the second; and it seems odd to say that only the people who played ...
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 11:12 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: COLONIAL @ CO (8/6)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4144
Re: COLONIAL @ CO (8/6)
I'm confused. Are you closing registration after only three teams have registered? Or is the spreadsheet not updated?
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: CLEAN(Literature Side Event) Online Mirror, 8/12
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3665
Re: CLEAN(Literature Side Event) Online Mirror, 8/12
Is this still happening?
- Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3520
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
Congratulations to Nothing, Nowhere, Consecutively (Chris Manners, Tim Morrison, Shahar Schwartz, and Tejas Raje), who beat Leste Is Timor (Jason Golfinos, Nick Jensen, Chinmay Kinsara, and Kevin Ye) in the final to win the tournament! Stats are already up for the prelims, playoffs, and crossover ...
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3520
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
I've finalized teams, assigned remaining free agents to each team.
I just sent a logistics e-mail to the person who registered for each team. If you are that person and haven't received it, please let me know right away.
I just sent a logistics e-mail to the person who registered for each team. If you are that person and haven't received it, please let me know right away.
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3520
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
This tournament will start at 10 AM ET / 7 AM PT. I'll send out a logistical e-mail tonight, once the field is finalized. I'm currently trying to move around some free agents among teams to get the field to a workable number.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 4:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3520
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
The tournament is this Saturday. It looks like we may have four total teams, in which case registration is just a matter of figuring out which of the current free agents are banding together to start a fourth team, and which are joining Jason and Nick's team.
- Thu Jul 20, 2023 10:11 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3520
Re: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
This tournament is a little more than a week away. Two teams have registered but there are enough free agents listed to fill out two more teams, and thus meet our minimum field of four teams. We'd be very happy too, of course, with a field of six teams, should more players wish to join!
- Fri Jul 07, 2023 10:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3520
IQBT UG Championship Online Open Mirror, Part 1 (07/29/2023)
Apologies for the delays, everyone. Our online mirror of the IQBT Undergraduate Championship set will be on July 29th, as Fred previously announced. It will be held over Zoom. I’ll be serving as TD. This is an open mirror. Anyone who did not write for or playtest the set or who did not play or staff ...
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 11:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16404
Re: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
Andrew, I'm utterly baffled at how you derived basically most of that long post from what I said. Perhaps the rest of this discussion is best had in another medium? I responded briefly and directly to two quotations from you, plus one summary that I would think is unobjectionable (that a benefit of ...
- Sat Jun 24, 2023 12:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16404
Re: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
I'm having trouble following part of Andrew's argument, in as much as I feel that he has articulated a strong premise for the opposing side, while drawing the opposite conclusion. In his first post, he says: In any event, almost any eight-line tossup can be edited down to seven while keeping all of ...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 9:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 26517
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
Here’s a counterpart to Andrew’s. Instead of squaring Team PPG and Max team PPG without any logical justification whatsoever, I raised them to the 1.5 power without any logical justification whatsoever. The results are similarly revelatory.
- Thu Apr 20, 2023 12:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2022 Recordings
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2267
ACF Nationals 2022 Recordings
At long last—but before ACF Nationals 2023, as promised!— here are all 52 (!) audio recordings of ACF Nationals 2022 matches. This is possibly their temporary home, as these may be migrated, in due course, to ACF’s official website. There may also be some re-editing in future. (On a few of these, I m ...
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6296
Re: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
Thank you for the lead-in to the Lucy poems tossup, my favorite buzz. This is a great literary theory/criticism clue, because it's so much more memorable than some critic's random quip about a particular work. Speaking of quips, though, I loved the bonus parts on "dancing about architecture" (which ...
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 9:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Addressing a common moderator error
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5010
Re: Addressing a common moderator error
Suggestion: the reader counts down from five on their fingers and calls time when they're all down. That way, players always have a warning for when they need to say an answer, but it's not a distraction that interrupts the thought process. This is a hassle for the moderator. Please do not require ...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:11 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 2021 Before & After Packet Redux
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4042
Re: 2021 Before & After Packet Redux
This has been moved to Friday. Stay tuned for further updates about the time.
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 12:13 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 2021 Before & After Packet Redux
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4042
Re: 2021 Before & After Packet Redux
For those who missed my Festivus packet this year, which was also Before & After, I'm tentatively planning to do another reading tonight (12/26) at 8:30 PM ET.
- Thu Dec 22, 2022 11:11 am
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 2021 Before & After Packet Redux
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4042
2021 Before & After Packet Redux
I never posted my Before & After packet from last year, because I was planning another reading that never materialized. As a preview of tomorrow's Festivus packet, I'm going to read last year's tonight (12/22) at 9 PM ET in the Discord. If you're not sure whether you played it last year, err on the ...
- Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:49 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10057
Re: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
My, what a busy thread! And one I’m glad to see attracting so many posts. As those of you who are older may know, I spent the first half of my quizbowl career vigorously lobbying for the inclusion of “score clues” (broadly defined) and for the reform of how we wrote them, to make them describe less o ...
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 3:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: We Need to Make Up Our Minds About Trash
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11110
Re: We Need to Make Up Our Minds About Trash
However, if we take popular music for example, there is no corresponding academic field nearly as established as film studies , so (I believe) writers will attempt to use magazines like Rolling Stone and Pitchfork or online scoring sites like RateYourMusic and Metacritic to determine what is ...
- Sun Oct 09, 2022 12:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eminent Victorians (a 19th century side event)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5623
Re: Eminent Victorians (a 19th century side event)
This set is great. It contains a judicious mix of standard quizbowl fare and stuff you could not easily ask about in a run-of-the-mill tournament (because the clues cut across too many disciplines or belong to categories somewhat outside the mACF distribution). The stuff I didn’t know about sounded i ...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 7:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 14815
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
Tl;dr: Everyone should resist the urge to write philosophy as if it were literature (that's why it has its own 1/1 guys!) Rather, I think the recipes people use to write hard lit questions (like, find hard guy, find more obscure works by hard guy) really don't make for good hard philosophy (or, for ...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:46 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Stop giving your sets cutesy names—they have real-world consequences.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3528
Re: Stop giving your sets cutesy names—they have real-world consequences.
When something like this happens, the tournament's original namers are not to blame. If the possibility of this sort of confusion exists, it is the responsibility of the person sending the check or filing the reimbursement form to be sensible and avoid such a confusion. (By Karan's logic, we should ...