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starting a PhD in history at Princeton next year; will probably play the occasional set!

Those points make sense—I can see how it could be difficult to make the jump from buzzing with a specific speech impediment (even though the clue was describing the category of "residual speech errors" more generally) to a broader categorical answer that itself isn't incredibly well-defined. I don't...

I'm also not sure what the best solution is. On one hand, these answer lines do have a sort of unity in the real world: I could easily see a class on, I don't know, sociology of work, assigning both Ehrenreich and Hochschild, and I can see those authors recognizing their respective objects of study...

there was also a corpus linguistics bonus—maybe you didn't hear that?

hey, can the jason who filled out the doodle poll email me for the IRC info? don't want to invite the wrong person.

I'm hoping to playtest painting, philosophy, and social science on Monday and/or Wednesday evening this coming week, probably in the IRC. If you're interested, fill out this Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/xmewy3iisrqqgwq2 —indicate in the name box if you're only interested in one or two of th...

I'm hoping to playtest painting, philosophy, and social science on Monday and/or Wednesday evening this coming week, probably in the IRC. If you're interested, fill out this Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/xmewy3iisrqqgwq2 —indicate in the name box if you're only interested in one or two of the...

Of tournaments not yet mentioned, Cane Ridge Revival was an excellent set with innovative and interesting humanities and social science questions (with the caveat that I don't remember the science and wouldn't be able to comment on it even if I could). That more than any other set influenced how I ...

Just wanted to say that it was a blast to work on this set—I learned a ton from reading the submissions and the other editors' questions. Thanks to everyone who helped out with it, and who came out to play!

This thinker’s major work targets writers who used logical sciences as “evidentiary proof for the truth of their metaphysical sciences” A minor quibble, but I’m not sure it makes sense to call The Incoherence of the Philosophers al-Ghazali’s single “major work.” It’s his best-known work in quizbowl...

Tornrak wrote:Could I see the tossup on Al-Ghazali? I’m curious as to where the first sentence is from.

It's from the Revival of the Religious Sciences.

yes!!

...A fuck-the-classroom approach often leads to tossups that on material that is more obscure and which fewer people in the field have engaged with (e.g., that goofy tossup at ACF Nats on "primal scream therapy"). I'm not familiar with the specific tossup, but I don't think that social science writ...

vinteuil wrote:
hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:jacob, now we don't have to write VIICO
that'll be the all lit crit/art theory/historiography complement to this set, duh

VIICO: Make Heteroglossia Great Again

jacob, now we don't have to write VIICO

I thought this set was excellent—the history was especially superb, and aside from the aforementioned issues with the econ questions, the social science/thought was great. Thanks for writing it!

From emails I got back in November, it seems like a bunch of schools in the Northeast (including Harvard) have already declined to host a physical mirror. So, if one of those schools—or another in the Northeast—decided that they'd be fine with hosting, would Stanford still be okay with that?

I have a themed packet of music tossups that's been sitting on my computer for a while, so I guess I can read that.

I also still stand by what I wrote in that thread—if you're interested in science, taking AP science courses, and can bring yourself to overlook the stupid format quirks, Science Bowl is an intellectually rewarding activity. I'd encourage you to give it a try!

hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:I don't think any of the mirrors got to them, so I'll be reading the final two packets of VICO tonight at 10pm ET in #vico.

This happened. Eric scored a lot of points. I'll try to get the set uploaded to the archive within the next week.

I don't think any of the mirrors got to them, so I'll be reading the final two packets of VICO tonight at 10pm ET in #vico, minus the questions Jacob talked about in the discussion forum. I'll read some of my favorite questions from the set afterwards if anyone who didn't get to play the set/read it...

My one complaint is that the first two sentences of the Lyanna Stark tossup aren't actually about Lyanna Stark, but different people, and then the third sentence opens with something like "one theory about this person uses a blue rose..." which was where I buzzed with "Jon Snow" and got negged. The...

There will be an online mirror of VICO after the online mirror of SHEIKH. Signup information available in the SHEIKH online thread: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17553

There will be an online mirror of VICO in tandem with this. You can sign up for it in the second tab of the SHEIKH spreadsheet. It'll be $5/player, and team size will depend on staffing availability.

Given this tournament's success, I'm thinking of writing a set on the model of this one (except with a slightly different distribution and a good bit lower difficulty) to be played as a side event at the open tournament Stanford is writing for next year. Also, I hope this happens! One piece of advi...

There were also some goofy ideas, like calling Prince Charles a thinker... Those clues were intended to be a little whimsical, but not totally illegitimate—if I remember correctly, Terry Eagleton actually reviewed "Harmony" when it came out (not that he had anything nice to say about it, but still)...

A private discussion forum for VICO has been set up!

Happening at WHRB tonight at the usual time!

Leaving aside whether it's the best format for determining the best literature player (it seemed to do a decent enough job of that), I think, for a couple of reasons, it results in a significantly less fun playing experience than the traditional format. (Apologies if I'm repeating criticisms of las...

I enjoyed the set on the whole! My main criticism of the question content is that some of the "canon expansion" resulted in pretty steep pyramids—the set hasn't been released yet, so I can't point to any specific examples, but there seemed to be several instances of new-to-quizbowl/"extra-canonical"...

Yeah, I know this is a year late, but playing this head-to-head against my brother was probably one of the most enjoyable competitive experiences I've ever had. I think we actually tied (we wouldn't have if my mom wouldn't have butted in to get a good "Tapestry" buzz). If only I could play it for t...

The flip-side of the submissions was that, in about half the cases, they were just too damn hard. There were things like the mentioned-by-me-in-another-thread tossup on "The Main Currents of Marxism." Am I the only one who thinks "Kolakowski" is actually a tougher answerline? I sat through the last...

I wrote that question, and it never occurred to me to put that alternate answerline in--as (other) Will said above, that's how I've seen most "this election" questions labeled. I would've accepted Mike's answer because it's unique, but I'm not a huge fan of the alternate answerline acrobatics instit...

This tournament was fantastic. As others have said, it should definitely be used as a guide by future open side event writers. More specifically, I'd say that it also can and should be a model for how to write questions on modern and contemporary art, even at lower difficulties. For example, I reall...

I'll be playtesting some questions today from 6-8pm—PM or email me if you want to do that and haven't already let me know.

Update: This tournament is going to have eight rounds, and is a little over two-thirds written. Jacob and I would like to playtest some/all of the written questions soon, so if you're not planning to play the set this summer and are interested in doing that, shoot me a PM/email.

Harvard would like November 14 for HFT.

I'd play this as well.

I'd upload it, but I don't have the finalized version of the set. Stephen probably does, though!

I'm playing for sure!

It's been posted!

It's being used at Oxford for an event today, but I'll upload it tomorrow!

A bunch of people on the Harvard team are around this summer, so we'll definitely be running open practices. Will post with an update once we get a regular room.

I do write history in a very traditional quizbowl way, a throwback style that is very anti-Marshall Steinbaum (i.e. it rejects a social science-derived approach to history, in favor of focusing on the hard facts of increasingly deep names and events and people). Leaving the question of this style's...

3) When you leave a tournament, you automatically forfeit all future games you might play during the day. For example, Harvard left the Northeast site of George Oppen with one playoff game to go and one loss. What should have/what "actually" happened at that event is they forfeited their last playo...

I'm playing this with Jacob Reed.

I really liked the Warren Zevon bonus. Could you post the Searchers tossup? I watched it a couple months ago but wasn't able to buzz on any of the early clues—they didn't feel super-evocative.

hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:Sriram and I are looking for teammates.

Jacob Reed has joined this team.

1. The first is that if a critical mass of people have booked flights and non refundable hotel rooms to play the set on Sunday, then I think they, at a minimum, should have a say in this. Not sure what a critical mass is, but say maybe at least 3-4 teams or so. On the other hand, Weiner was handlin...

I am loath to suggest anything that would distract collegiate teams from completing and submitting their ACF Nationals packets (HINT HINT) but perhaps some sort of guerrilla tournament could be run after ICT? I'd be pretty satisfied even just having the day to hang out in Atlanta, but if people wan...

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