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- Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:47 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Quizbowl-"Trivia" Community Relations: What Are They? What Should They Be?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16157
Re: Quizbowl-"Trivia" Community Relations: What Are They? What Should They Be?
This has been an incredibly interesting thread. I’ve played a fair amount of pub quizzes, particularly in the UK, and while they’re good fun, I’ve also sometimes found them less intellectually satisfying. I do not mean with relation to the subject matter being asked about but rather the format of q...
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:54 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Quizbowl-"Trivia" Community Relations: What Are They? What Should They Be?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16157
Re: Quizbowl-"Trivia" Community Relations: What Are They? What Should They Be?
You can sometimes FEEL OQLUSA's quizbowl background pretty intensely in some of the canon we cover in our academic subjects. My whole writing training came from quizbowl, and you can feel a sort of "bonus part" style in my writing which has bled out somewhat into the format. Check out our ...
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Quiz League USA - Demo Game and Interest Post
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1868
Re: Online Quiz League USA - Demo Game and Interest Post
We're running a demo day! Check out our Zoom at 6-9pm eastern on April 18, and we'll find you a team to play with so you can try our format!
https://www.facebook.com/events/3913824988711887
https://www.facebook.com/events/3913824988711887
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Online Quiz League USA - Demo Game and Interest Post
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1868
Online Quiz League USA - Demo Game and Interest Post
The Online Quiz League is a 4-v-4 format played weekly over Zoom. Quite a few current and past QBers have been playing this season, and we want more if there's interest! The distribution is similar to many British quiz companies and is kind of an academic-trash hybrid with a slight academic lean. Ev...
- Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:39 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: I found the creator of Vanderbilt ABC
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10588
Re: I found the creator of Vanderbilt ABC
In 2003 or so, I took over Randy Buehler's fantasy baseball team in a league with Phil Groce and Charlie Steinhice and some other people. I have never met Randy. I do get a little mileage out of that story at Magic events though.
- Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth Teitler Presents: An Intimate Engagement with Trash
- Replies: 75
- Views: 32307
Re: Seth Teitler Presents: An Intimate Engagement with Trash
We've got another spot open on my squad - if anyone wants in, just ask me. Translation: who wants to win CO trash? I have lived my life with one rule and one rule only: to be THE MAN, you have to BEAT the man. And on July 21, 2013, my team and I will be THE MAN at CO Trash. It's true. It's damn tru...
- Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Watkins-gate news media link collection - 19 Total
- Replies: 112
- Views: 183897
Re: Watkins-gate news media link collection - 19 Total
ZERO NEGS. I mean come on.
- Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Watkins-gate news media link collection - 19 Total
- Replies: 112
- Views: 183897
Re: Watkins-gate news media link collection - 19 Total
The publicity is almost certainly good *for* quizbowl, in that it will probably help "recruiting" somewhat and provide more exposure for the activity. That's great! I do not know if it is good for ex-quizbowlers who put the fact that they used to captain a team/founded a student organizati...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 54656
Re: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
I'm not going to wade an inch further into this particular discussion because I don't really understand the interpersonal relationships involved, but it's broadly not cool when people use the word "culture" to generalize phenomena, because the notion of "a culture" is totally unf...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 54656
Re: Venting rage: Cheaters edition
I was thinking about starting a quiz bowl team at Campbell. I still am, but I'm thinking differently about it now. Because quiz bowl should be fun, and this will make a lot less fun for a lot of people. It will be hard to recruit players to the activity if they are competitive souls, because the sus...
- Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Predictions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 26489
Re: ICT Predictions
I predict that the team which does the best job of reading the questions beforehand will win the tournament.
- Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: DAWES - NYU hosted@Columbia (summer 2013)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5375
Re: Announcement: DAWES - NYU hosted@Columbia, tentatively 4/6
So anything on this?
- Thu Jan 31, 2013 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: DAWES - NYU hosted@Columbia (summer 2013)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5375
Re: Announcement: DAWES - NYU hosted@Columbia, tentatively 4/6
I'll bring a team consisting of me, an ex-quizbowler, and assorted randoms if this is on 4/6.
- Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sports Side Event/Tournament Set (Need Writers!)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9885
Re: Sports Side Event/Tournament Set (Need Writers!)
I am mostly kidding about compensation. I just need to be writing questions, and have some reason to do it.
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EPCOTT (all Disney side event)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4389
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EPCOTT (all Disney side event)
35% TV and Other Disney (ABC, DIsney Channel, People, Actors, Place, Videogame, Other) I hope this sneaks in a sports question or two under the principle that Disney owns ESPN. I am THIS close to listing a bunch of answers I could see working. I shall refrain from doing so for obvious reasons.
- Tue Jan 31, 2012 6:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sports Side Event/Tournament Set (Need Writers!)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 9885
Re: Sports Side Event/Tournament Set (Need Writers!)
Hi. I like sports. I am also an experienced QBer/Trash player and I want to write some questions for you while my team is on hiatus due to me having a baby. You should have me write some stuff for you. EDIT: What is being offered in exchange for questions? Goodwill? ANOTHER EDIT: My wife gave birth ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 11:44 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: idle curiosity
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6714
Re: idle curiosity
It's kinda sad that the DTs get associated with defense since they were really about translating all stats to a common context. He was the first person to implement a full system of translations.
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:02 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: idle curiosity
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6714
Re: idle curiosity
Clay Davenport of Baseball Prospectus (who never became an "it guy" like Nate Silver or Joe Sheehan but did stuff like invent EqA) was a quizbowler.
Edit: Also a UVA person.
Edit: Also a UVA person.
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Definitive Greatest Players List: Revisited
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20375
Re: Definitive Greatest Players List: Revisited
PS--I can't help but smugly note that the 2003 Chicago Open saw a team of Yaphe, Zeke, Paul Litvak, and Ben Heller lose a close final to a team of Kelly Mckenzie, Raj Dhuwalia, Seth Kendall, and myself. This was during the peak of the Fabers' powers, so I feel even better about being part of that (...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU OPEN TRASH (8/14)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14470
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU OPEN TRASH (8/14
Want to play with us?TheHumanPaperweight wrote:I would like to be a free agent for this. My strengths consist of being overshadowed by Neeraj Vijay at every trash tournament I've played to date.
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU OPEN TRASH (8/14)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14470
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: VCU OPEN TRASH (8/14)
NC Wesleyan needs a teammate, yo. We were half-decent enough to be middle-of-the-pack at CULT nationals, and this is the same team. We are nice people!
EDIT: This at least refers to Jacqie and Chandra.
EDIT: This at least refers to Jacqie and Chandra.
- Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournament by the Sea VIII (Mar 20, 2011)- PBT mirror
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3216
Re: Tournament by the Sea VIII (Mar 20, 2011)- PBT mirror
@Greg: Definitely interested, thanks. I'd also consider playing solo, depending on how the field was looking/number of teams/etc.
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournament by the Sea VIII (Mar 20, 2011)- PBT mirror
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3216
Re: Tournament by the Sea VIII (Mar 20, 2011)- PBT mirror
I'm taking a look at coming to this one. I'll be in touch early March.
- Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Guerrilla RPG Event @ Minn O 11/21
- Replies: 37
- Views: 6975
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Guerrilla RPG Event @ Minn O 11/21
I will write a packet on BioWare RPGs if anyone is interested.
- Tue Sep 07, 2010 6:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at Duke (9/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7223
Re: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at Duke (9/18)
We've gotten eligibility for the relevant players; NC Wesleyan is bringing a 3-4 person team.
- Wed Sep 01, 2010 6:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at Duke (9/18)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7223
Re: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice Tournament at Duke (9/18)
We just started our QB team last year with a bunch of people who hadn't played QB before. The names of people I would think fall below the threshold of "quizbowl success" necessary to play but who do not meet the "time in college" requirement are (so you can look at stats): Jacqi...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Future of CULT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2179
Re: The Future of CULT
Depending on whether I would be able to attend (I just don't get to play that much!) I am more than willing to write if the tourney is somewhere I won't be able to get to. My interests are fairly diverse but my main strengths are probably baseball/basketball/"other sports" besides hockey; ...
- Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Difficulty
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1335
Re: Difficulty
The only bonus I felt hazy about in the academic-vs-trash regard was that one that had the Camus answer. I think it's because I distinguish between clues and answers being academic...but it wasn't like a huge problem or anything.
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Music Discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1296
Re: Music Discussion
There was not much country if I recall correctly. I am not personally sad about that, but it's really popular or something.
I think rap/hip-hop is culturally important and well-represented in radio airplay and easily merits being 20% of the asked-about music, which it appears to have been.
I think rap/hip-hop is culturally important and well-represented in radio airplay and easily merits being 20% of the asked-about music, which it appears to have been.
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Future of CULT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2179
Re: The Future of CULT
I think "National Pop Culture Bowl" or something of the like might be a better name for this tournament anyway since it broke a bit more highbrow/relevant than the word "trash" might indicate. Not always (thank God) but often enough. It's still Trash in the quiz bowl sense, but n...
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Lots of Questions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 685
Re: Writing Lots of Questions
I don't have a problem with doing that in tossups, but some of the bonuses were probably converted more than you might have wished because you sometimes gave a very large number of different clues for various answers, which occasionally felt like overkill.
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Difficulty
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1335
Re: Difficulty
Some of the bonuses felt easy on the 'hard part' for a "nationals-level" tournament, such as Blink-182's "I Miss You."
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Future of CULT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2179
Re: The Future of CULT
I can tell you the reverse: I didn't join a team for TRASHionals just because I was busy during the weekend of regionals. I would have been happy to play both.
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Videogames and Misc. Topics Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1112
Re: Videogames and Misc. Topics Discussion
I wondered whether Killzone 2 was a particularly good tossup answer choice given that recent games tended not to show up much anyway. I wonder if the problem you mention would have benefitted (like most non-submission tournaments probably would) from a tournament-wide distro where you followed "...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Official Announcement: Early Autumn Collegiate Novice
- Replies: 56
- Views: 39001
Re: ACF-sponsored Early Autumn Collegiate Novice to run in Sept.
I am very excited about this. I'm assuming that most of my current and new-in-2010 players other than Adam Nyborg here at NCWC would fall into the "eligible" category for this tournament, since they all started quiz bowl last year and did not fall into the "very good players" cat...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Videogames and Misc. Topics Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1112
Re: Videogames and Misc. Topics Discussion
Could you post a list of the Videogames questions like you did for the sports questions, so I can see if one thing I thought was in fact accurate?
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Movies Discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 835
Re: Movies Discussion
I wished I had seen more of the movies asked about in this tournament, but the fact that I was never able to buzz early on a movie title I hadn't seen means these were clued well.
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sports Discussion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1375
Re: Sports Discussion
I am not particularly good on past-5-years football since I've started caring about other sports, but I would put Chris Simms as a borderline tossup answer. It's fine to have him in there and I don't think he's too hard, but it seems more interesting to have a tossup on someone more notable. I would...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PRELIMARY ANNOUNCEMENT: All-TV Set
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9506
Re: PRELIMARY ANNOUNCEMENT: All-TV Set
Probably that's just the way it goes when the questions are about such wide-ranging and amazing topics.
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 10:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PRELIMARY ANNOUNCEMENT: All-TV Set
- Replies: 41
- Views: 9506
Re: PRELIMARY ANNOUNCEMENT: All-TV Set
I totally blew goats on that last 100. :shakes fist: Nah, in all seriousness that room was a rollicking good time. Enjoyed the hell out of this.
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Summer tournaments at UTC
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1336
Re: Summer tournaments at UTC
More people should sign up for this because the questions are impeccable.
- Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
- Replies: 107
- Views: 24160
Re: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
This was, pretty much throughout, a great example of a trash tournament that was a legitimate test of pop-culture knowledge. It rarely played like "guy-stuff bowl" or "geek bowl," like some trash tournaments and/or submission packets are wont to do. I have some constructive comme...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
- Replies: 107
- Views: 24160
Re: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
I vote for PPG because of the common opponents and the presence of powers.
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
- Replies: 107
- Views: 24160
Re: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
Sorry about the double post! It looks right now like NC Wesleyan's team is going to be 1 person short. Currently our team consists of me and 2 of my players, Jacqie and Chandra. If you're interested, let me know. What is the likelihood that people are going to show up as stray free agents at this to...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
- Replies: 107
- Views: 24160
Re: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
I agree with all of these things.
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
- Replies: 107
- Views: 24160
Re: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
There will not be lames. Learn the trash canon. As long as the questions are written fairly (unlike most trash tournaments) so that getting 10 is usually possible for a decent team, there is no problem with this. They introduced trash laming for a reason, though. EDIT: What's with throwing that ran...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
- Replies: 107
- Views: 24160
Re: CULT Nationals - VCU - 6/26/10-6/27/10
You should add lames too.
- Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DOKTRINE-University of Pittsburgh-4/10
- Replies: 75
- Views: 16342
Re: DOKTRINE-University of Pittsburgh-4/10
I didn't go, but I helped to write the Delaware A packet. If anyone has feedback, I'd like to hear it. I'm being nitpicky again, because I am feeding the feedback monkey that lives in my duodenum right now. I ended up just doing tossups. 1. Tobey Maguire - "Describe before you name." Ther...
- Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DOKTRINE-University of Pittsburgh-4/10
- Replies: 75
- Views: 16342
Re: DOKTRINE-University of Pittsburgh-4/10
Sentiments echoed. I've been much happier with my packets since I tried to stop doing this.
- Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DOKTRINE-University of Pittsburgh-4/10
- Replies: 75
- Views: 16342
Re: DOKTRINE-University of Pittsburgh-4/10
7. (rugby) I know a lot about Friends but I think Friends and Meaning of Life as the first two clues are going to lead to a lot of powers here. A lot of people would remember Ross playing rugby, I'd think. Also the use of "first filmed" after Matt Damon makes that piece easier than you pr...