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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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I've increased the field size to 12. I would really like to avoid field sizes of 13, as it is particular ugly, and 14 and 15 are not great either. If you are a free agent, or in an undersized team not yet in the field, I would encourage you to either recruit your friends so that we can get new teams...

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That's actually one of my reasons for putting it last--if we play it first, I have to guess to see whether we should play fewer packets or not (at the risk of severely delaying the other events). If we play it last, there's always the option to play the full 12 packets. (And, yes, there is a chance ...

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https://www.quizdb.org/reader

This isn't admitting defeat, it's just...acknowledging setbacks. Thanks to Ashwin for his great website, and I hope people keep using the QuizDB API to make these great 3rd-party clients.

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I have increased the field size to 10 teams, and edited the sheet accordingly. I expect the field size to increase further. However, please note that, after some consideration, I am probably going to hard cap the field size at 16 entirely, because of concerns I have about managing anything larger th...

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Anyone traveling from the Boston area, I plan on driving to NYC that Friday night. Feel free to DM me if you would like to carpool or share a hotel, it would be great if we could lower everyone’s costs. You are free to make whatever calculated decisions you'd like--and I'm really only repeating thi...

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I'm interested in staffing* (seeing that staff constraints seem to be the main impediment to increasing field size), however, I need to know that I will not be out of pocket at the end of the weekend after my travel and food expenses. In other words, I need a concrete number, not a vague promise of...

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Aaron's Rod wrote: ↑
Sat Jun 15, 2019 10:53 pm
Yikes.

(Any of you who have the means should just come to Illinois. If you can find your way to Chicago, you can probably get a ride. And it's not hard for them to get rooms.)

I heartily endorse this!

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I'd like to suggest expanding the field to 9 teams and at worst committing to run a 9 team round robin. That will, for now, solve the demand issue while also guaranteeing enough staffers to run the event. If more staffers sign up, then we can readjust. If not, we've at least got 50% more people pla...

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If you are a full team and contact me first, and I can successfully contact/commit your associated staffer, you will be taken off the waitlist first when full team spots open up. If you are a free agent, you will get priority when I start forcing people to join existing teams. This is actually a goo...

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Perhaps this is because I'm not super interested in a ton of the side events, but is there a reason side events are prioritized over a full main event? (I don't remember the poll, so maybe it was a question on the poll?). I'd personally prefer not to abbreviate the main event, but obviously whateve...

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Demand for the main event seems like it's far outstripping the six teams. The current method of allocating spots based on who happened to be online and saw this thread first seems incredibly unfair to me, given how drawn out this scheduling process has been. I would be very annoyed if I don't get t...

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I have posted the official tournament logistics thread here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22827

Please post in there moving forward.

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This is a separate post to increase visibility of the signup sheet, which, again, is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 2109749004

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