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I believe Jacob Reed has written on the subject as well before (no idea where those posts are off the top of my head), but personally, I hate "quote it" bowl where you just pyramidally paste in a bunch of lines from a poem. As previous posters mentioned, I think writing about a poem requires underst...

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This was very mature of you to post, and I'm sure the people who underwent negative experiences appreciate this statement, but I hope you're not too hard on yourself. Reading this as an unrelated 3rd-party, you were much more responsive and levelheaded than many other people in similar situations in...

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king_crimson wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:55 am Just curious,

Wasn't 2020 Terrapin PIANO difficulty? It's classified under College Regs (7) right now.

Thanks!

Thanks for the catch, fixed!

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Just updated QuizDB with the following sets: [...] The above, but with the following sets: 2019 BHSAT 2020 Oxford Open 2020 HFT XIV 2019 Chicago Open 2020 CALISTO 2020 Terrapin 2019 ACF Fall 2019 Early Fall Tournament And as I always do, a reminder that I can only use Word packets -- I'm especially...

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All the cheating discussion aside, as someone who also had an awful time getting blasted on the forums after a poorly run tournament, I would like to re-emphasize the point some of the other posters made in this thread about the power dynamics between community members and generally being a nicer a...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:30 pm Did you mean to quote John?

Ah, no -- I forgot to add on, this is exactly how I felt when John asked if I wanted to be a teammate, haha. I still remember being pretty happy to be on that team! (With Richard as well, I believe, and a fourth teammate I don't quite remember anymore, I'm sorry :/)

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That said, it's still pretty thrilling when people I perceive as really good ask if I want to play with them I'm pretty honored to be mentioned, since I think our team-up was like, forever ago, I was sick the day of and I don't think I was particularly good even as a fourth scorer (too much classic...

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-Classifying questions into categories (may also be useful, especially for something like QuizDB). I would happily implement this if someone can get this working (it's currently using a naive Bayesian filter with ~85% accuracy, though I didn't really crosstest that). I would offer the use of my tra...

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It doesn't take much longer because steals have to be answered pretty much immediately after the other team has missed a part; I don't give them five seconds to deliberate. I don't know if that's an option in actual tournaments, and I've never been involved in an official competition in which "boun...

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I've seen the term "steal" used a lot in local format shows, and it seems pretty intuitive there. That said, the number of times I've seen a team zone out because they're getting destroyed, then completely not realize there's even a bounceback available when it finally comes around to them (and subs...

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I think it's desirable not to have specific subcategories go to themselves, like biology --> biology or philosophy --> philosophy. If you mess up on a tossup in a subcategory then you shouldn't forfeit your chance to hear that subcategory's bonus as well. I think this should happen in approximately...

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Just updated QuizDB with the following sets: 2018 RAPTURE 2019 Spartan Housewrite 2018 Sun God Invitational 2019 ILLIAC 2018 Scattergories 2 2019 LOGIC 2019 Prison Bowl If you're a developer, the latest DB dump in the bucket has been updated as well. My planning doc (where I annotate which sets I've...

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Wanted to quickly chime in to say: - I liked Ryan and Justin/e's posts, in that they had clear action items, and if a type of "tribunal" is ever former (or moderators want to have response playbooks), they are useful action items to discuss. I'll especially parrot the one about talking to the accuse...

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Finals aside, I thought the tournament was well run and all the staff were really cool. I also appreciated the chance to play Reel Knowledge a lot (even if I negged myself into oblivion and had to leave early).

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We'll be mirroring Reel Knowledge , an academic film set, after the conclusion of Fall Open. Format will *probably* be a one- or two-room shootout, but this could change depending on how many people want to participate. Express interest here: https://forms.gle/j9fREezsZ4h8SBXt9 . There will be no c...

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Around 9 this morning, QuizDB started receiving very heavy load, which caused it to go down for everyone. Again, as this is a free site, I can't exactly just pay for massive servers, so if this is you, please stop, until I have to disable it temporarily for everyone.

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More sets: 2018 ACF Fall 2019 PIANO 2019 PACE NSC 2019 The Unanswered Question 2019 NASAT 2019 Richard Montgomery Blair Academic Tournament On my todo list: 2018 RAPTURE 2018 Sun God Invitational 2018 Scattergories 2 2019 Scattergories 3 2018 MKULTRA 4 2018 Fantastic Feasts and Where to Find Them Se...

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And I guess I'd play the Open as well, too, if it helps Reel get run.

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Would anyone who is playing/staffing this tournament be interested in playing Reel Knowledge (the academic film set) as a side event? I'm looking at traveling to New York around the time of this tournament. If I am in New York, I would probably look at staffing (or, god forbid, playing) Fall Open. ...

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I think some of the nuance in this issue is that not only are people reluctant to admit to their editor they can't finish questions on time, they're reluctant to admit it to themselves, too ("It's fine, I'll just sit down this weekend, crack open a beer, and write them all," which we know won't happ...

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im hella mad this wasn't called "SPEEDURN"

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This one goes without saying, but for completeness's sake (and because everyone basically does it): just searching up the answerline on QuizDB / asseemDB and seeing at what difficulties it's been mentioned before. A less technical equivalent is also asking people well-versed in the field / subject h...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Tue Aug 13, 2019 11:52 am This would be cool if someone were to organize an online mirror (one that kept field sizes to an acceptable amount, as well).

On that note, is Mike Bentley's Microsoft Teams strat the official best way to run these, or have people found success with another presentation method?

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Honestly, and I don't mean to be rude regarding what seems like a very large amount of logistical effort (I can sympathize), but there is very, very low chance I'd come play, even though I'm in NYC. CONVERSELY, there is a very, very high chance I'd play if this if it were an online mirror. Is there ...

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I, for one, really enjoyed hearing Mike's kitty in the background. I'd also: - get someone to post question numbers after each cycle (beyond keep tracking, it makes it easier to scan for answers if your eyes have to move between questions and chat) - make a specific note for people to keep cross"tal...

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I'd happily play on someone's team for this, but my availability may be spotty and I might randomly dip in the middle of games. I know some random myth though!

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Oh, I also wanted to publicly thank the many staffers who helped read throughout the weekend, Harry White for collecting stats, the various writing teams that produced content we were able to mirror, and Columbia (+ ex-Columbia) affiliates for helping me arrange the site after other options fell thr...

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This was a really fun set. I think something like, 6 out of the 8 games my team played were decided by a single question, which is IMO a pretty good measure of a well-written, competitive set. The painting and conceptual art was especially fun to play, so props to whoever wrote a lot of that.

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This was a really great set. I think the Final Boss questions ended up being...as advertised (lol), but I really appreciated the lip service paid to both classic and modern gaming throughout. Well, OK, there was a decent chunk of JRPG content, but we were warned :P

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Just sent out thank you emails and mirror fee followups. If you know I mirrored your event, but you haven't received something yet, let me know. As I mentioned in one of my thank you emails, I'm going to donate all the money I personally made to the Trevor Project. (Inspired by Jason Thompson, who s...

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Raw stats are publicly available, but I will try and soon directly post the summarized stats here (and Daniel Hothem has graciously volunteered to summarize the CANONEXPANSION and Unanswered Question stats). Apologies if it takes 2 or 3 days. Do these raw stats include the GLOBEZ shootout/where mig...

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Hi, thank you to everyone for coming, hopefully quality was up to standard. I will have more detailed thanks in a direct email to you all, and also thank you for bearing with any of the difficulties / stress inducing events over the weekend (it has also given me valuable lessons for the future if th...

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This happened. "Columbia" took first place with a 10-1 record, and "The Death of Cringehoffer" took second with a 9-2 record. You can find full stats at the link Harry posted above. Side events are being run today, and will continue to be run tomorrow. Please continue to check emails for all schedul...

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The $10 mirror fee norm is a holdover from quite a long time ago, and really should have gone up to $15 by now. If you believe that sets should be cheaper than that, you either believe that producing good questions doesn't deserve even remotely fair compensation, or you don't believe that sets need...

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When is this running until on sunday? This is entirely dependent on 1) how willing people are to compromise on the format in which we run MUSES 2) whether or not the building forces our hand by kicking us out (actually unlikely, i think) 3) when MUSES begins (probably 2:30 to 3:30 range, based on s...

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Um, not to tell people how to post, but just returning to the original topic because it was insightful and I did want to offer hopefully helpful personal insight-- As someone who does a lot of QB stuff (well, I like to think QuizDB is important anyways, with all the bugs I tend to give it, you may c...

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What time is this starting on Saturday? Hamilton Hall doors unlock at 8 AM*. I encourage you to arrive as soon as possible, and as long as you're not actively bothering anyone setting up, your presence will only help us squat in rooms (I may in fact ask you to distribute yourselves to accommodate t...

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- added a feature to hide question answers; you can enable this by default for all questions if you go to the settings page (this setting is itself off by default). Note that, like all settings, this is only locally saved (so it's device specific) This was broken for the last day and a half b/c I s...

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Some changes: - updated QuizDB's Resources page with some yet more 3rd-party QuizDB-sourced apps - added a feature written by Noah Bresler that auto-updates the page URL when searching, and will auto-search if you navigate to a URL with a recognizable search params (it'll make more sense when you do...

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Does anyone have a list of what QB blogs exist currently? This might just be a 1-to-1 mapping of regions to their websites, but it would be cool to know what sites are currently maintained. This might even include FB group pages. (If I do get a list, I'll probably sticky it inside of QuizDB somewher...

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We're still stuck at nine teams, and if we remain stuck, then we have no choice but to play with some ugly bye systems. If you're a free agent, please form a team sooner rather than later.

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nycaqb1999 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:32 pm Is there an approximate start time planned for Sunday side events?

Should be a little after 9. I'll send an email with more details later today or tomorrow.

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This is two weeks away, and we have a very conspicuous empty team slot, and 8 free agents (albeit many "probably" FAs). Please take that team slot now if you can! I have decided it will be *very* unlikely that I'll increase the field cap further, so... Meanwhile, I'll probably be sending out the fir...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:13 pm Hi, would love to mirror this event and have some questions about it. I've emailed but haven't received a response yet. Could someone let me know what the best contact info would be to get those questions answered? Thanks!

This got handled, I just misplaced the original reply! Thanks for the set!

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Hi, would love to mirror this event and have some questions about it. I've emailed but haven't received a response yet. Could someone let me know what the best contact info would be to get those questions answered? Thanks!

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The team of me, Anson, and Steven are no longer able to go, so I've removed our names from the spreadsheet. If this applies to your side event participation, just please remember to remove yourself from that as well. In response to this drop, I have moved a team off the waitlist and into the field....

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Is there an email address I can contact for further questions about the set / eventually getting packets when they're ready? Feel free to PM me. (I'd much prefer email over forum communication.)

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Thanks! I've modified your entry on the spreadsheet.

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Also--it looks like buzzers have charged back into the fray as another cap on field size. We're probably going to have to lock the field at 12 until I can get at least another buzzer, but I'd prefer two.

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Also, Dogeville West & East, please add your contact emails, there is no reason to not have done so yet. I'll start emailing teams prelim. info this week, and if I don't have your emails by then, I'll move you out of the field. (Consider this a warning to a warning.)

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