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- Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Does quizbowl need a public Ginseng-analogue?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10307
Re: Does quizbowl need a public Ginseng-analogue?
you lack the ability to do things like search for repeats This is huge. Right now Garuda does not do this, and it has created minor problems for Raleigh Charter's tournaments after the packets have been generated. I envision having something like what you see on StackOverflow's question submission ...
- Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Does quizbowl need a public Ginseng-analogue?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10307
Re: Does quizbowl need a public Ginseng-analogue?
The basic idea here would be to develop something that is like Ginseng, but tailored for groups of people writing one-off tournaments - i.e. most college and high school independent tournaments, which do not need structured support for question banks, privilege/role management, and similar features...
- Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: An End to Slapbowl
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2980
Re: An End to Slapbowl
Just curious; has anyone given this a try by themselves and/or with other QBers? (Summer Vacation notwithstanding )
If so, I'd enjoy knowing how it went, particularly if it didn't seem to work very well or was clunky. Thanks!
If so, I'd enjoy knowing how it went, particularly if it didn't seem to work very well or was clunky. Thanks!
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5543
Re: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
Well, the Quizbowl DB has been down for 3 weeks now. Is there any chance of getting this project revived? I'll certainly put it on my TODO list! When I made this, I had no intent of providing a strong viable alternative to QBDB, but if these sorts of outages seem to continue, I'll put in more work ...
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: An End to Slapbowl
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2980
An End to Slapbowl
It's summer again, the time of year where I spend above-average periods of time working on QB-related projects. With that, I bring to you a revolution in buzzer technology: an internet-based mobile buzzer system called Buzzr . The motivation for this was, as the title indicates, a need to play pick-...
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowldb Search not functioning
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6868
Re: Quizbowldb Search not functioning
http://www.skalon.com/untitled does not have this problem, though you can only look at one question at a time and the source of the question is not revealed. I'm probably going to do some work to make this like what QBDB used to be before the dramatic style change. Watch for updates on the main thr...
- Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5543
Re: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
Well, the Quizbowl DB has been down for 3 weeks now. Is there any chance of getting this project revived? I'll certainly put it on my TODO list! When I made this, I had no intent of providing a strong viable alternative to QBDB, but if these sorts of outages seem to continue, I'll put in more work ...
- Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 183939
Re: ProtoBowl
And there's that new answer checker which relies on the question bolding rather than magic voodoo. The prompt system is really cool, as is everything Protobowl in general, but the current bolding that exists seems somewhat arbitrary; from what I can gather, bolded words are most non-particulate wor...
- Sun Apr 21, 2013 1:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournament Writing Software
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2323
Tournament Writing Software
In the past, my school, like many others, has written and hosted quiz bowl tournaments at both the Middle and High School levels. This was often a tedious process: Everyone would be assigned to write X questions on subjects A, B, and C, which, assuming this nebulous responsibility was not neglected,...
- Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5543
Re: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
Looks pretty cool. I would suggest having a feature that enables users to look at multiple questions at a time, like Quizbowl DB does. I'm certainly considering this. Thanks for the suggestion! BTW, Quizbowl DB is right back up again. That means I don't plan to devote much time to this in the short...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5543
Re: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
It took a while to figure out that the search bar was that green bar below all the text. It's fine to eschew the default styling, I think that's a rather nice way to keep search subtle, but I'd suggest that you put some placeholder text so that people can discover that they're actually supposed to ...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Search Engine
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5543
Quiz Bowl Search Engine
So it appears that finding stop-gap measures for Quizbowl DB has become my new hobby. With that, I present to you Untitled: A Quiz Bowl Search Engine. Since QBDB has been down for a while now, it's become hard to research tossups and study for tournaments, and I figured something to suffice until QB...
- Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 183939
Re: ProtoBowl
I'm not terribly interested in setting up an API because the server resources are already at this moment quite limited. It's essentially based on the same database as QuizbowlDB. However, there are category mis-labels which are getting fixed. Right now they're at a pretty usable state (the past day...
- Sat Nov 17, 2012 12:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 183939
Re: ProtoBowl
Also, the site's been hacked. Yeah, the admin page is relatively obvious in the source code for people who are just poking (I'll be the first to admit that I was peeping around). From what I've seen of the admin page, it's pretty powerful; I just banned myself for fun once or twice, but not everyon...
- Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 183939
Re: ProtoBowl
Protobowl looks really cool -- definitely a lot prettier than the crude multiplayer QB game I smacked together over the summer. Just wondering, do you have any sort of API that I can query to grab questions? I have a few miscellaneous QB related projects (including a QB-playing Watson-style robot) t...
- Sat Oct 27, 2012 11:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5048
Re: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
I get 404 for the Composite stats. Congratulations to Raleigh Charter for a very well-run (on time!) tournament. Thank you on behalf of Raleigh Charter, and congrats on your win today! Composite stats should be up relatively soon, I'm hoping. To everyone in general, thanks to all the teams which ca...
- Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5048
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 8:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Some of my team mates were curious if there was a way for Qub to have an alternative source of questions, for when Sharad's program doesn't work. Is this possible? Not until ... approximately five minutes ago. As it happens, I had a personal database of about 700 questions, which I was able to conn...
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
If you tried to use Qub earlier today, it was down because QBDB changed their API. I've got it running again, and if you haven't tried it recently, it's super stable now and rarely if ever glitches. Of course, there's also Protobowl and QBDB Multiplayer, but I think mine is the most colorful .
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5048
Re: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
Bonfire is proud to announce that we are now affiliated with PACE. This means that the top 15% of the tournament field will qualify for the PACE National Scholastic Championship, to be held sometime in 2013. Please visit the PACE website for more details about the NSC and the qualification process.
- Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5048
Re: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
Final Field Update: Carrboro - 2 Teams Richmond Senior - 1 Team St. Mary's - 1 or 2 Teams East Chapel Hill - 3 Teams TJ Classical - 1 Team JC Middle College - 2 Teams Millbrook - 1 Team Enloe - 2 Teams TBA From Guilford - 4 Teams Green Hope - 1 or 2 Teams Hoggard - 0 or 1 Team Early College Academy ...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: North Carolina 2012-2013
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18628
Re: North Carolina 2012-2013
It's finalized! Raleigh Charter will host the Bonfire of the Manatees on October 27; please see our announcement from the main forum. Thanks!
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5048
RCHS Bonfire of the Manatees (Raleigh, NC - 10/27/12)
This is the full announcement for Bonfire of the Manatees on 10/27/2012. Raleigh Charter High School is pleased to announce that we will host the 5th Annual Bonfire of the Manatees on Saturday, October 27, 2012. This is a high school Quiz Bowl tournament that will take place from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:17 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
I used this earlier this evening, and it worked fine. But when I got on now I got through the prompts up until I had to type in "next", in which this appeared in blue text: Question Category: Question Source: Tournament Year: I can't type in the text box, hit enter or anything. Any ideas?...
- Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
But, if it's not too much of a pain in the ass, it'd be nice to have rooms with different difficulties. Certainly not; in fact, I just coded up and uploaded this feature in the last 45 minutes. If anyone tries this out and finds a bug, please let me know. BTW, I changed all of the quoted commands i...
- Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
I was curious if this only uses high school questions or if some college packets are incorporated as well. Right now there are only high school questions on there, but if you or anyone would like, I can definitely make it use college sets; just let me know. Ideally, I'll eventually have options for...
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 1:43 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Cool! Seems like I've gotten it at least semi-stablemsbg360 wrote:Thanks Sanjay the program seems to be working really well.
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
I have the newest version of Chrome,and whenever I get on, it says offline. I have tried this for the past week or so and every time it says it is offline. i am not sure what (if anything) I can do to try and fix it. Try Firefox, or a different computer if you can. Alternately, the problem may be t...
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Is there a way to start a private bowl room? Not yet, but if I'm feeling particularly motivated, I might add it tonight. Otherwise it shouldn't be too long before I do. Done! BTW, right now there's a server limit of 10 games total, and 5 private games. This is because I don't yet know how my server...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Not yet, but if I'm feeling particularly motivated, I might add it tonight. Otherwise it shouldn't be too long before I do.merv1618 wrote:Is there a way to start a private bowl room?
- Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
I love this interface but I'm noticing that it's very easy and common to get "locked out" when trying to join. You should never be permanently locked out of a game. The join command will do different things based on what stage the game is in. If players haven't typed next yet, it'll give ...
- Fri Jul 06, 2012 11:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Also, many people have been asking for a variety of features, and I'll eventually get around to implementing some of them. However, I doubt I'll do any more work on this for at least two weeks, because I have a bunch of other things going on in the coming week and then ACE QB Camp the week after tha...
- Thu Jul 05, 2012 4:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Try headers. In game rooms it'll display who's there; in the lobby it'll display the number of users.Olivaceous Siskin wrote:Some kind of /who function would be great, too.
- Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
EDIT: I like it a lot, but it's a tiny bit clunky. In particular, the 15-second no-chat delay is a little irritating. That reminds me; I liked the old system of typing buzz and then typing the answer better—this is a typing speed contest too, which is hard under pressure. Done and done! Tell me if ...
- Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
EDIT: I like it a lot, but it's a tiny bit clunky. In particular, the 15-second no-chat delay is a little irritating. That reminds me; I liked the old system of typing buzz and then typing the answer better—this is a typing speed contest too, which is hard under pressure. Done and done! Tell me if ...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
EDIT: I like it a lot, but it's a tiny bit clunky. In particular, the 15-second no-chat delay is a little irritating. For the synchronization between users to occur properly, I need this delay. However, it can be as long or short as I want. Would you rather a 3 or 5 second delay? That's something I...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Re: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Recruit some others to come try it out! Looking at the server records, if people come on when nobody else is online, they seem to leave pretty quickly (d'oh). So I guess you just have to find that critical mass of three or four people to get some good games going. Also, if this was glitching a bunch...
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21480
Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
Hi everyone! I've had this account for a while, but nothing meaningful to post. Anyways, I've been an avid user of the quizbowldb site, and in my lack of patience for the soon-to-come fancy multiplayer feature, I coded up something semi-crude to be used in the meantime. Bear in mind that what will e...