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- Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On talking about high schoolers
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10907
Re: On talking about high schoolers
Does NAQT plan on sharing this information with the quizbowl community (or, more conservatively, with other organizations that run competitions for high-schoolers)? If the people involved have committed offenses that merit their banning from NAQT events, it seems like they probably ought not to be ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
- Replies: 102
- Views: 50932
Re: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
At least from my perspective, it was almost entirely aimed at male members of the community, given that I personally haven't seen any quizbowl-playing women with bad facial hair or highly questionable apparel choicessuch). I didn't actually know where to start with you, so I quoted a random part of...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
- Replies: 102
- Views: 50932
Re: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
Here's what I meant: I'm enjoying hesitantly and timorously pushing the boundaries on the binary because I want to. Makeup is the latest step in that, and because QuizBowl is largely the entirety of my social life, SCT was a big step for me. I was nervous about it, and my defence mechanism was to b...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
- Replies: 102
- Views: 50932
Re: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
or perhaps we should all shut up and pretend that excess sugar consumption isn't a top of America's health problems no matter what your gender is Yes, I'm sure that addressing "excess sugar consumption" will immediately resolve quiz bowl's gender gap. I, for one, am extremely concerned ab...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
- Replies: 102
- Views: 50932
Re: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
cut down on your sucrose consumption Oh I'm sorry, (straight) men of quiz bowl, are you grossed out by men who don't cut down on their sucrose consumption? Are overweight teammates something that would cause you to not play quiz bowl? I think we can all agree showering is a universally nice thing a...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155101
Re: IT IS THE FINALS: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
- Replies: 102
- Views: 50932
Re: Quizbowl men, get a haircut
And honestly, I do think it could do a lot for improving the game's gender balance. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? You honestly think that this is why women play quiz bowl? That we're just bimbos who are here to stare at men who play quiz bowl, and not because, oh, I dunno, we like playing quiz bowl o...
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 7:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournaments need staff in order to run
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4544
Re: Tournaments need staff in order to run
None of the blame here should fall on Yale. That's, uh, exactly my point. Yale has plenty of internal staffers to host a tournament with a reasonable field size. When tons of unanticipated teams register, then you end up with a staffing problem. This means that teams who want to play the tournament...
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155101
Re: FINAL FOUR: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside
Hey Ya!
Hey Ya!
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournaments need staff in order to run
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4544
Tournaments need staff in order to run
After two staff-frustrated tournaments in a row, I wanted to get the quizbowl community's input on a suggestion to require a minimum number of team staffers offered per team that attends a tournament. Caveat: This proposal only applies to teams that aren't brand new and have been around for a few ye...
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preseason Poll
- Replies: 37
- Views: 20661
Re: Preseason Poll
Auroni said he'll get the Northeast stats up tonight, so hopefully it's easy enough to add them in after the fact.Victor Prieto wrote:I made a spreadsheet compiling all stats from Penn Bowl and ACF Regionals, excepting Connecticut and the UK mirrors.
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155101
Re: ELITE EIGHT: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Toxic by Britney Spears
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
How has American Boy made it this far???????
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
How has American Boy made it this far???????
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155101
Re: SWEET SIXTEEN: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Mr. Brightside by The Killers Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Toxic by Britney Spears 99 Problems by Jay-Z vs. Paper Planes by M.I.A. Ignition (Remix) by R. Kelly vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 1:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals @ University of Connecticut (1/20/18)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2949
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals @ University of Connecticut (1/20/18)
Just kidding - Yale D is blind to packets, so they're taking the spot of the house team since it won't disrupt the schedule at all.
- Thu Jan 04, 2018 11:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155101
Re: ROUND TWO, PART TWO: Best Song of the 2000s
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Time to Pretend by MGMT One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs. Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine Lose Yourself by Eminem vs. Rehab by Amy Winehouse Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Feel Good Inc. by Goril...
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 12:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155101
Re: ROUND TWO, PART ONE: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day "Crazy" is one of the worst songs of all time and I would vote for literally any song over it. Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Wake Up by Arcade Fire ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155101
Re: ROUND ONE, PART FOUR: Best Song of the 2000s
Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Fidelity by Regina Spektor These are not good choices. Maps by Yeah Yeahs Yeahs vs. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz Yeah! by Usher featuring Ludacris vs. Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake Idioteque by Radiohead vs. American Boy by Estelle WTF? Fallin' by Alic...
- Wed Dec 13, 2017 7:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals @ University of Connecticut (1/20/18)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2949
2018 ACF Regionals @ University of Connecticut (1/20/18)
UConn is hosting the Northeast mirror of 2018 ACF Regionals on January 20th, 2018. I will co-TD the tournament with Ben Watson. Packet Submission Any team with at least one person on it who played a regular, collegiate, academic quizbowl tournament (either as a college student or as a high school st...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
- Replies: 104
- Views: 56692
- Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRICON 5: COMING SUMMER 2017
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18659
Re: TRICON 5: COMING SUMMER 2017
I wrote an unbelievably bad packet for this, so, uh, do the opposite of get excited for it.
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 It's Lit: Discussion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4065
Re: Discussion
In the ancient quizbowl tradition, I do have one nitpick: a tossup on Hartley Coleridge is a great idea, but if you're going to accept a descriptive answer like "Coleridge's son"--which I absolutely agree you should do!--you need to alert players to that fact, which as far as I could tell...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 It's Lit: Discussion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4065
Re: Discussion
In the ancient quizbowl tradition, I do have one nitpick: a tossup on Hartley Coleridge is a great idea, but if you're going to accept a descriptive answer like "Coleridge's son"--which I absolutely agree you should do!--you need to alert players to that fact, which as far as I could tell...
- Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On Trash Writing Absofuckinglutely NOT Considered a Fine Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4804
Re: On Trash Writing Absofuckinglutely NOT Considered a Fine
Ending with clips from Will It Blend, of course.Borel hierarchy wrote:this could have been an audio tu
Uh, have you played an Eliza trash tournament? Because that's all I do.ErikC wrote:How often do you do thisThe genesis of this tossup was that I googled "worst bands ever"
- Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: On Trash Writing Absofuckinglutely NOT Considered a Fine Art
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4804
On Trash Writing Absofuckinglutely NOT Considered a Fine Art
(a sample of rejected titles: "I guess I pictured the word 'definitely' being in there somewhere" - Auroni") This post is my attempt to reproduce my lack of thought process during the writing of a single tossup for The Celebs Are At It Again. I did not take notes while writing the tos...
- Sat Jun 17, 2017 4:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
- Replies: 104
- Views: 56692
Re: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
Celebs will be done in time for this and I can run it, assuming there is interest to play it.
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Celebs Are At It Again
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6847
Re: The Celebs Are At It Again
This thread is now a trainwreck of changed plans, but... The Celebs ARE At It Again. This set is now back in production and the estimated completion date is the end of July so it should be available for the second summer open and whatever is happening in Canada. Sorry for getting derailed by working...
- Tue May 23, 2017 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: João - Myth Shootout (HSNCT)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 49954
Re: João - Myth Shootout (HSNCT)
Of course!Eddie wrote:Since João won't take longer than fifteen (15) minutes, I want to run it right after Saturday rounds so people have time to transition to other side events, etc.
Depends - are you wearing it on your head?eliza.grames wrote:Also, do silly bows count as hats?
- Mon May 22, 2017 11:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: João - Myth Shootout (HSNCT)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 49954
Re: João - Myth Shootout (HSNCT)
Depending on when this is run, I want to play and would prefer that it be on Saturday night. Also, do silly bows count as hats?
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Activities Outside of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3120
Re: Activities Outside of Quiz Bowl
Finally another quizbowl-cheerleader!! We can form a two person squad.Auks Ran Ova wrote:paging Eliza GramesLaurenJernstadt wrote:I don't know of any other quiz bowlers who are also cheerleaders
- Sat Apr 08, 2017 8:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20932
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
Here is a link to a folder of the packets that I've received so far. I'll update it when other people send me new stuff.
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 8:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20932
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
Since there are at least 10+ packets "promised" plus the fact probably even more people want to play, some logistics might be helpful, even if they aren't posted until Friday. We (probably?) don't need a team-based schedule format for this, but a full-on shootout might be improbable as we...
- Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM At UConn, March 25th, 2017
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5200
- Tue Mar 21, 2017 10:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRONYM At UConn, March 25th, 2017
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5200
Re: ACRONYM At UConn, March 25th, 2017
Ben said that Northeastern and RPI are also coming, so I'll bug him to update the post. UConn can also field some teams.Steeve Ho You Fat wrote:Does this have sufficient field to happen?
- Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament at Princeton - April 15
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11546
Re: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament at Princeton - Date TBD
There's a chance I can bring the UConn team to this if it's on 4/15, but definitely not if it's 5/6.
- Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20932
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
No clue.CPiGuy wrote:When at ICT is this going to take place?
- Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20932
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
1) The day before ICT, I suppose, and 2) however many questions you end up writing.SpanishSpy wrote:When would you want this in advance? I'm not going to be at ICT but I might be able to rig something. Is there a particular packet length you want?
- Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20932
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
Only if you won't be there to read it yourself. I do want them all at some point though so I can distribute them for the enjoyment of people who won't be at ICT.sonstige wrote:Fwiw, I graduated in 2004.
Eliza---do you want the finished packets in advance?
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20932
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
Yes, just TUs.sonstige wrote:I'm tentatively going to sign up to throw something together for this. Just TUs, yes?
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation Guides in College
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5646
Re: Pronunciation Guides in College
Tangentially related to pronunciation since it's about making things readable and writing them out: 1) People should stop using the abbreviated form of units in science questions because it trips people up (or at least it does for me). At CO last year I had to double check with teams that Hz meant h...
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 2:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20932
Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
In the interest of having silly things to read the weekend of ICT, everyone should write a packet of (hopefully embarrassing) pop culture things that they liked in high school or that remind them of junior high/high school even if they didn't like them. There's no distribution, but try to keep thing...
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 10:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 67720
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I'll have some myth packets (or maybe just one big packet of ~50 questions) ranging from regular difficulty to "why would you write that" without all that Greco-Roman crap. Sorry to add to the disappointment of promised questions that didn't actually get *completely* done, but I only have...
- Sun Nov 27, 2016 4:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 67720
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I'll have some myth packets (or maybe just one big packet of ~50 questions) ranging from regular difficulty to "why would you write that" without all that Greco-Roman crap.
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 Terrapin General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7629
Re: 2016 Terrapin General Discussion
Overall I really liked the set and was pleasantly surprised with the difficulty level. I may be biased though because I finally got to power a question based on knowing something about zebu farming which made my day. This may not be worth fixing, but the pronouns could have been clearer and stated m...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 11:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall packet submission reform
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9299
Re: ACF Fall packet submission reform
A revise-and-resubmit approach might address this problem since it places the burden of work back onto the teams instead of on the editors 100% agree! This was my first time writing a packet, and I would love feedback or criticism or whatever the kids give these days. To clarify, this is not at all...
- Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall packet submission reform
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9299
Re: ACF Fall packet submission reform
I think part of the reason teams submit bad packets is because there's an expectation that the editors aren't going to use submissions anyways. A revise-and-resubmit approach might address this problem since it places the burden of work back onto the teams instead of on the editors. If a team submit...
- Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 ACF Fall New England at Brown (November 5, 2016)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5490
Re: 2016 ACF Fall New England at Brown (November 5, 2016)
I'm staffing for UConn so we should be 2/0/1.Team B.A.D. wrote: School / Teams / Buzzers / Staffers
Uconn / 2 / 0 / 0
- Sun Oct 30, 2016 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Celebs Are At It Again
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6847
Re: The Celebs Are At It Again
This tournament is now getting transformed into an effort to instruct UConn players on how to be better question writers, so the writers are now myself, Ian Drayer, Prayush Singh, Ben Watson, Chris Choi, and Jay Cizeski with possibly more folks joining us. I guess I'm "head editing" the se...
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Collegiate Novice at University of Connecticut (10/22)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2863
Re: NAQT Collegiate Novice at University of Connecticut (10/
UConn C beat Olin B in the first game of an advantaged final. Stats are posted at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /combined/
- Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12737
Re: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
...are you going to post it? You can't deprive the quizbowl community of my bad shark movie questions forever.Cheynem wrote:No.
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England Date Claims 16-17
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13392
Re: New England Date Claims 16-17
The WGBH auditions for High School Quiz Show are being held on November 13th, Super Sunday at the Boston studios. Many Mass teams do this, so it's probably a good idea to have it on the date claim calendar. I also think this could be an outreach opportunity to attract teams/schools new to the QB wo...