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- Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Game Management System
- Replies: 2
- Views: 716
Re: Game Management System
Is this a contracted, payment-on-delivery/benchmark offer, or is it salaried? It seems the former, but I ask mainly because the post implies that multiple devs will be hired together, and it's slightly odd to hire devs who don't know each other but deliver payment to each together. Can the expected ...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:45 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Writing Good Poetry Tossups
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1010
Re: Writing Good Poetry Tossups
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 requir...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2133
Re: A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
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...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 60266
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
Thanks for the catch, fixed!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!
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 7:38 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 60266
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
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...
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:54 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11806
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
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...
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:17 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: A Century of Teammates
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2457
Re: A Century of Teammates
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 :/)
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 4:26 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: A Century of Teammates
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2457
Re: A Century of Teammates
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...
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 8:07 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: GPT3 for Quizbowl
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1731
Re: GPT3 for Quizbowl
-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...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:41 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11045
Re: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
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 "...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 2:28 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11045
Re: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
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...
- Wed May 27, 2020 1:01 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11045
Re: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
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...
- Sun May 17, 2020 9:41 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 60266
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
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...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38161
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
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 ...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10012
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
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).
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10012
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
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...
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 2:20 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 60266
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
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.
- Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:57 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 60266
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
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...
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10012
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
And I guess I'd play the Open as well, too, if it helps Reel get run.
- Thu Oct 10, 2019 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10012
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
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. ...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Plea for No More Excuses
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5836
Re: A Plea for No More Excuses
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 ...
- Mon Aug 26, 2019 10:12 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: SPEEDRUN 1 (2019): Packet announcement
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4641
Re: SPEEDRUN 1 (2019): Packet announcement
im hella mad this wasn't called "SPEEDURN"
- Mon Aug 26, 2019 2:49 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Difficulty Metrics
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5364
Re: Difficulty Metrics
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...
- Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:42 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: SCREEN TEST (Visual Film) - Available for mirrors
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4342
Re: SCREEN TEST (Visual Film) - Available for mirrors
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?
- Sat Aug 10, 2019 6:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Guerilla NASAT @ Columbia
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4411
Re: Guerilla NASAT @ Rutgers
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 ...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Best Practices for Running a Discord Tournament
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10414
Re: Best Practices for Running a Discord Tournament
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&quo...
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4598
Re: MUSES Online 8/17
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!
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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...
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 12:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9468
Re: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
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.
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 12:54 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 27896
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
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
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 12:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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...
- Sat Jul 27, 2019 6:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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 em...
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 1:19 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: TAPIR Set Available for 2020 Mirrors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7665
Re: TAPIR Set Available for 2020 Mirrors
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...
- Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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...
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:49 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19245
Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
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...
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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...
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 12:55 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 60266
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- 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...
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 11:29 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 60266
Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
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...
- Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:39 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Does every quizbowl organization need its own blog?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5999
Re: Does every quizbowl organization need its own blog?
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...
- Fri Jul 19, 2019 10:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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.
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Should be a little after 9. I'll send an email with more details later today or tomorrow.nycaqb1999 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 1:32 pm Is there an approximate start time planned for Sunday side events?
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 11:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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 o...
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 7:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Tournament Atlantic Mirrors 2019
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2848
Re: Oxford Open Tournament Atlantic Mirrors 2019
This got handled, I just misplaced the original reply! Thanks for the set!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!
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 6:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open Tournament Atlantic Mirrors 2019
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2848
Re: Oxford Open Tournament Atlantic Mirrors 2019
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!
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 5:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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....
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9468
Re: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
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.)
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Thanks! I've modified your entry on the spreadsheet.
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12551
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
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.