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- Tue Feb 26, 2013 12:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2013 Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 16497
Re: ACF Regionals 2013 Specific Question Discussion
Was there ever an answer to the resonance protest Cody?
- Sat Dec 15, 2012 1:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18919
Re: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013
any news on this?RyuAqua wrote:Is there a running list of submitted packets somewhere? And who do I contact to register teams for the Penn site?
- Fri Dec 07, 2012 2:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 10054
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Yeah, my main point was about the pronoun. If it called it a "phenomena," or a "process" or something I'd have been less confused than when it called it a "type of problem." Obviously there are scattering problems, but that could also apply to pretty much anything - yo...
- Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT planning
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2343
Re: Western Invitational Tournament (March 2013)
Is UVA still hosting the Mid-Atlantic mirror of this?
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 3:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2013 NAQT SCT host call
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6118
Re: 2013 NAQT SCT host call
Any news on this?
- Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MSU/UD Collaborative Tournament - 10/20, Newark DE
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12509
Re: MSU/UD Collaborative Tournament - 10/20, Newark DE
Just a reminder that this is in two weeks so please keep the registrations coming in!!
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:26 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: 2012/13 Northeast US Middle School Date Claims
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5286
Re: 2012/13 Northeast US Middle School Date Claims
You think the quality will be alright?the return of AHAN wrote:Any chance the Ridgewood house write would be available for mirroring?
Also, Charter will probably hold their middle school tournament sometime in February.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Welcome to a New Year of The National History Bee & Bowl!
- Replies: 47
- Views: 12106
Re: Welcome to a New Year of The National History Bee & Bowl!
Buzzer discount (for Bowl only - limit 3 per school ) - $20 Why is this? I remember last year that we barely had enough buzzers (by like 5, at most) to field everything, and we even had to replace other ones that just weren't working? This sounds like a pretty bad idea. It would be much better to j...
- Sat Sep 01, 2012 11:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IFT Mirror at Maryland (10/14/12)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12135
Re: IFT Mirror at Maryland (10/13/12)
Delaware is interested and would like the 6th, 13th, 27th or a Sunday (which looks like it could be best)
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3439
Re: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
Just wanted people to know that we will be having practice this week on Wednesday instead of tomorrow, in case anyone was interested in attending
- Sat Aug 11, 2012 9:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NHBB Nationals Staff List
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17343
Re: 2013 NHBB Nationals Staff List
Assuming you're right -- why are there "site captains" who are experienced moderators and "readers" who have never moderated a tournament before? If the site captain job is easy, why not give it to the people who haven't moderated before? Oops, should have mentioned that site ca...
- Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/DE/MD/VA Date Claim '12-'13
- Replies: 112
- Views: 58331
Re: DC/DE/MD/VA Date Claim '12-'13
Charter has claimed Nov. 3rd for the Delaware Fall Tournament.
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hey it's time to talk about tone! (LIVE CHAT AUGUST 13)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 42822
Re: Hey it's time to talk about tone!
I don't know if we're getting through, since Reinstein and others insist on pretending that Grant (who, by the way, still posts here and has handled the situation way better than his defenders in the long run) was chastened for announcing a bad tournament rather than for accusing people who don't l...
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hey it's time to talk about tone! (LIVE CHAT AUGUST 13)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 42822
Re: Hey it's time to talk about tone!
I don't know if we're getting through, since Reinstein and others insist on pretending that Grant (who, by the way, still posts here and has handled the situation way better than his defenders in the long run) was chastened for announcing a bad tournament rather than for accusing people who don't l...
- Wed Aug 01, 2012 8:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hey it's time to talk about tone! (LIVE CHAT AUGUST 13)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 42822
Re: Hey it's time to talk about tone!
Teams do well at Chip because Chip unfairly favours them and is willing do numerous amounts of unethical workings to help out teams he likes.Howard wrote:If they were, we wouldn't see the same teams doing well at things like It's Academic year after year.
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Hip-Hop Tournament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6340
Re: Hip-Hop Tournament
I enjoy history much more than the next guy, but I'd prefer to see this tournament focus on hip-hop from eras when the people likely to play it were actually alive and listening to music. I actually listen to more rap from the 90s more than anything else primarily. I think that people listen to pre...
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer systems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 33710
Re: Buzzer systems
The wireless (Zeecraft) buzzer has had numerous problems like what's been mentioned above, but they also will interfere with each other if you use multiple wireless buzzers around each other. I really like the Anderson and the one that looks like police lights (QuizPro? I think)
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANFORTAS - Myth Tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11047
Re: ANFORTAS - Myth Tournament
YESSSS, THE RETURN OF POODLE DEE POODLE DOO On a more important note, if I have time, I will write some monster packets, although I find when I start to research this topic, I get very scared and have trouble sleeping. Toss up the demons that invade your dreams? Not even Rob Carson could get those!...
- Thu Jun 28, 2012 1:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Looking for a good housewrite to mirror in November
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4364
Re: Looking for a good housewrite to mirror in November
Sean and Jacob said they were interested in using the UD/MSU housewrite for tournaments in Missouri, so that would be open to you
- Tue Jun 26, 2012 1:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What Happens to DC-Area Quizbowl Next Year?
- Replies: 158
- Views: 99571
Re: What Happens to DC-Area Quizbowl Next Year?
They lose Bohan, but she didn't do much studying this year like the rest of them. The A team next year will probably be Ravi, George, Seth, and Jamie, who I believe all did decent at HSNCTWillmune Sof Burrghtenstein wrote:Charter- I know nothing about Charter.
- Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/DE/MD/VA Date Claim '12-'13
- Replies: 112
- Views: 58331
DC/DE/MD/VA Date Claim '12-'13
Since this hasn't been started yet, I thought I would start this now and update it as needed for the coming year Calendar Tournaments: Green VHSL: Orange Nationals: Purple Test Dates: Red Other: Blue September 8: [ACT] September 15: September 22: September 29: October 6: [SAT] Richard Montgomery Aut...
- Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 3 Day Ridgewood Summer Invitational: July 6-8, Ridgewood, NJ
- Replies: 168
- Views: 83542
Re: 3 Day Ridgewood Summer Invitational: July 6-8, Ridgewood, NJ
lol what? Are we automatically entered or something?nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote: *** U Delaware
- Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KABO/other august 4-5 events mirror in DC area?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4189
Re: KABO/other august 4-5 events mirror in DC area?
Delaware would be able to host this if people thought that this was a convenient location enough for everyone, seeing as how UVA and VCU were having problems obtaining space. We'd be more than willing to defer to say Maryland or Penn though,
- Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3439
Re: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
Hey Joe, How will practices be set up? Will it be broken up by players' skills/level, tournament-style team play, regular team play (like HS practice) or solo play? And I was also wondering what kinds of sets you'll be running (HS, College, etc.)? Sounds like an awesome opportunity to not get rusty...
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3439
Re: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
We will be meeting in Memorial 113. The best place to park would be at Kent(lot 28) and walk over to Memorial hall. You shouldn't park in the Perkins or Trabant Garages, as they are super expensive and unnecessary after 5PM That's a free lot? I thought that was one of the ones you can be ticketed f...
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3439
Open Summer Practices at the University of Delaware
I am pleased to announce that the University of Delaware will be hosting open summer practices on Tuesdays at 7PM for the rest of the summer. Everyone is welcome to come and participate in this, whether you are in college or high school. We will read whatever people want to hear, so you should not b...
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:46 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10425
Re: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
The textbook my AP Lit class last year used had "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" in it, and that only listed his name as Marquez, even though his last name is Garcia Marquez. It's not surprising that this is going to confuse some people, and I think we should be as lenient as possible ...
- Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10425
Re: Questions about answer acceptance regarding last names
Second; when it comes to Japanese authors, what is the best way to say the answer and receive credit for it? Are both names ultimately necessary? I also noticed some inconsistencies with answerlines when I looked up Yasunari Kawabata (or Kawabata Yasunari? I'm going off what Wiki has him as), there...
- Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Summer tournament(s) at Ridgewood HS, Ridgewood, NJ
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10889
Re: Summer tournament(s) at Ridgewood HS, Ridgewood, NJ
Quizbowlers actually carry around a magic bottle that they open up and sleep inside when traveling to distant lands.
- Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Taking VCU Open's Spot in August
- Replies: 76
- Views: 17585
Re: Taking VCU Open's Spot in August
I am suddenly interested in VCU Open/Kurtis's Backyard Open/whatever this thing winds up being called. I'm supposed to be in Delaware for two weeks in August, but which two weeks has not yet been determined and is only partially up to me. I will be very pleased if this blob of events lands on a wee...
- Thu May 31, 2012 11:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 173
- Views: 81909
Re: 2012 HSNCT discussion
I don't know what NAQT's plan is, but I would be interested in getting a summary report of my evaluations. I'm always willing to hear feedback and improve my performance. This would be nice, but for the 20 or so rooms (including mine) that had people trading off reading this may not yield accurate ...
- Wed May 30, 2012 1:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Never Say Never: Anything Goes (5/4 - 5/27)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6493
Re: Never Say Never: Anything Goes (11/18/12)
This might be the first trash tournament I would absolutely want to playeliza.grames wrote: Music from Another One Bites the Dust to Genie in a Bottle
Music from Bye Bye Bye to Pokerface
Music from S&M to Moves Like Jagger
Movies that are so bad they're funny
- Tue May 29, 2012 2:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 173
- Views: 81909
Re: 2012 HSNCT discussion
I wrote:
Mad King Ludwig (3)
Tiber/Lucretia/Brutus (18)
Bleach/Yu-Gi-Oh/Death Note (22)
Freyja (26)
I would like to here what people thought of these, particularly the Mad King Ludwig, because I think that it might have been to hard after hearing it play.
Mad King Ludwig (3)
Tiber/Lucretia/Brutus (18)
Bleach/Yu-Gi-Oh/Death Note (22)
Freyja (26)
I would like to here what people thought of these, particularly the Mad King Ludwig, because I think that it might have been to hard after hearing it play.
- Sun May 20, 2012 6:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MSU/UD Housewrite available for mirrors
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12012
Re: MSU/UD Housewrite available for mirrors
No we plan on using this for a fall tournament at some point. Blue Hen will still take place in March and use an NAQT IS setWillmune Sof Burrghtenstein wrote:I take it this will be used at Blue Hen next year?
- Fri May 18, 2012 12:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Geography Monstrosity 4 (June 8th, St. Louis)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 25006
Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)
So, I actually won't be at this, but would be keenly interested in playing via skype from halfway around the world. Is that possible? You'd lose all your buzzer races due to delay Not if I'm second lining Anticosti Island as I did in 2009. Want to take me on, Teevens? It's not fine arts so he'll lo...
- Fri May 11, 2012 1:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fixing NHBB Nationals
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9925
Re: Fixing NHBB Nationals
donenationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:If someone can add them here in the meantime, let me know.
- Thu May 10, 2012 1:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC-area tournament size and split field discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12335
Re: DC-area tournament size and split field discussion
I agree with Matt here, dumbing down the questions so every team can get 20 ppb is not the answer, that'll just lead to a decrease in competition in the long run. What I have seen that has worked is having a novice set run at the same time as the regular set. For example, the Culver tournament had ...
- Tue May 08, 2012 2:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MSNCT/HSNCT bonus difficulty discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8867
Re: 2012 NAQT MSNCT: April 21-22, Chicago
Now you're just imagining thingsWilliam Crotch wrote:Nick wrote:It could be more complex than this
- Tue May 08, 2012 12:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Final Results/Stats
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7631
Re: Final Results/Stats
If there happen to be any mistakes in the Bee results there for either division, could you please let me know ASAP.
- Mon May 07, 2012 11:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Natl. History Bee & Bowl Nationals - 4/28-29 in DC
- Replies: 145
- Views: 66057
Re: 2012 Natl. History Bee & Bowl Nationals - 4/28-29 in DC
This may have been brought up, but in the future, the buzzers need to actually be checked to see if they work. Multiple times throughout the 2 days I ended up playing slap bowl because nobody had bothered to see if the all the buzzers actually worked before they set them up. It's a small criticism,...
- Mon May 07, 2012 9:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Metro areas without enough good high school quizbowl
- Replies: 55
- Views: 17433
Re: Metro areas without enough good high school quizbowl
This does exist. They have a local league and Delaware and Charter normally get some teams at our tournaments from the areaHorned Screamer wrote:Lancaster PA area
- Mon May 07, 2012 1:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 Natl. History Bee & Bowl Nationals - 4/28-29 in DC
- Replies: 145
- Views: 66057
Re: 2012 Natl. History Bee & Bowl Nationals - 4/28-29 in DC
Andrew Chrzanowski suggested earlier in this thread that an alternate source of volunteers would be preferable. I'm curious what he has in mind. If quizbowl experience is necessary, and if you remove from the pool all the coaches of teams that are playing at the event and who would prefer to stay w...
- Sun May 06, 2012 8:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Final Results/Stats
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7631
Re: Final Results/Stats
I had no way of posting anything to the NHBB site so I couldn't upload them. Daniel Galitsky was the 21st person on the Varsity list. I didn't do the JV stats, so I can't really tell you much about them
- Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl III - April 21st, 2012 - HSAPQ #23
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25866
Re: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl III - April 21st, 2012 - HSAPQ #23
A couple schools, namely Haverford, i have not heard from in a month or two. Please respond or expect me to track down a phone number at your school and bug you Friday, especially Haverford as you signed up for the Blue Hen Invitational and did not show up to that tournament in March. And notably a...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC Playtesting
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4855
Re: PACE NSC Playtesting
Hey all, I should be finished with editing RMP for the PACE NSC over ACF Nats weekend, so I will be playtesting my questions over the course of three days next week (4/24-4/26). We will be meeting at #nsc on slashnet.org at 7:30 PM PST (message me if you would like to be there and don't know how to...
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Proposed Alternative to the Neg Prize
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2404
Re: Proposed Alternative to the Neg Prize
i.e. Dave Madden's cookieswhitesoxfan wrote:Something that I've seen moderators do before (Brad Fischer, Kristin Strey, Chris Romero) is have candy in their rooms, and give it out at their discretion for buzzes. Maybe something as simple as that would work.
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl III - April 21st, 2012 - HSAPQ #23
- Replies: 46
- Views: 25866
Re: Caesar Rodney Rider Bowl III - April 21st, 2012 - HSAPQ #23
We may need moderator help at this tournament by the way. I counted on at least somebody bringing a competent moderator but literally no teams are bringing any coach who has volunteered to do this. Why is that, by the way? I volunteer at every tournament we ever attend, and i would do it without an...
- Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:36 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How is my Question?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4236
Re: How is my Question?
The best of the best section and the ACF site are best places to lookjessbowen wrote:Is there a guideline for writing questions anywhere?
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 11:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing for SCT/ICT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15771
Re: Writing for SCT/ICT
The problem arises when this happens after you have already cut 50 characters off and it's still 2 characters too long. It's incredibly frustrating, and makes you just not want to write (at least that's what happens to me). But...don't write a 477-character tossup if the character limit is 425. Ins...
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing for SCT/ICT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 15771
Re: Writing for SCT/ICT
This is probably the #1 thing that's made me write very little for NAQT. It's the most annoying thing in the world to write a good tossup and then get a message that it's 2 characters over the limit and have to spend a while figuring out how to fix it without completely rewriting the question or ta...