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- Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21303
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
I suspect that from a representation standpoint, we might actually do better by focusing on queer representation within the quizbowl community. As I grew up, I remember being struck by 1: Just how many quizbowl players, and especially good quizbowl players were queer (in fact, it seems like we're d...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21303
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
I think the reasonable middle ground here is to only note the author's sexuality in questions where it's important, but also to not automatically assume it's unimportant. I don't know much about Henry James, perhaps being gay was unimportant to his writing, but there are plenty of cases where an au...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21303
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
I'm not advocating describing a person's sexuality in favor of other clues, but if there's room in the question and doesn't disrupt the focus (which I honestly can't see happening simply by adding "gay" or "bisexual"or "lesbian"), than I don't see the harm of adding it...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21303
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
And I think you missed my point that if there's room for that in a question, there is room for a better, more substantive clue. To address this, I guess I disagree in that adding a word that takes up the same amount of space as "gay" but is also a better, more substantive clue that stays ...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21303
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
I don't really think it's a whole lot to ask for writers to devote 4-10 characters (if possible) to highlight the fact that the subject of their question is a member of a marginalized group. It's also not even fair to just view it as a "4-10 character sap I can't use to write clues" becau...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21303
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
I'm not LGBT, so I won't comment on this specific point, and perhaps my comparative analogies are flawed, but let me try to express why I find the usage of descriptors like "name this gay novelist" somewhat unsatisfactory. I am a Korean American. Putting aside the obvious idea that everyt...
- Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 21303
Re: Acknowledging Marginalized-Group Membership in QB Questi
I don't really think it's a whole lot to ask for writers to devote 4-10 characters (if possible) to highlight the fact that the subject of their question is a member of a marginalized group. It's also not even fair to just view it as a "4-10 character sap I can't use to write clues" becau...
- Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 PACE NSC: Question set discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 38616
Re: 2015 PACE NSC: Question set discussion
This is a really slight error, but the tossup on Nigerian lit that described Purple Hibiscus in the first line incorrectly stated that Kambili was the one who poisoned her father Eugene when in fact it was Eugene's wife.
- Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 PACE NSC: Question set discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 38616
Re: 2015 PACE NSC: Question set discussion
One thing my team noticed was a bit of a difference between auditory and visual art. There were numerous tossups on specific compositions, operas, or other musicals pieces, but very few tossups on paintings, sculptures, and other works of visual art. At the end of the tournament, we could only think...
- Fri Jun 05, 2015 10:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
- Replies: 80
- Views: 30305
Re: Liveblogging my trip to NSC with Max Schindler
8 AM : enter Indiana 9 Am: still entering Indiana. The only redeeming quality of driving across Indiana (something OSU did just about every weekend we weren't going to Michigan) is the plethora of Arby's in that state. False, there are literally zero redeeming qualities to driving through Indiana.
- Thu Jun 04, 2015 11:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: History Bowl/Quizbowl on College Applications
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15471
Re: History Bowl/Quizbowl on College Applications
Speaking as someone who just applied to college last fall and whose application focused heavily on History Bowl and quiz bowl, I'd recommend for you to heavily emphasize those activities in your application. While it's important to list your competition results (I'm sure colleges will be impressed ...
- Thu Jun 04, 2015 3:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 77376
Re: 2015 HSNCT discussion
I'd just like to say that the "dark and stormy night" tossup was very fun and one of my favorite questions ever. Thanks to whoever wrote that!
- Thu May 28, 2015 7:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank All-World Teams
- Replies: 38
- Views: 32740
Re: HSQBRank All-World Teams
I looked at the top teams in the final rankings, and tried to pick out the best players from them, and ranked them as best as I could. The above response wasn't sass. My bad, I (incorrectly) assumed you were using a strictly-numbers formula/process similar to the team rankings for individuals as we...
- Wed May 27, 2015 9:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank All-World Teams
- Replies: 38
- Views: 32740
Re: HSQBRank All-World Teams
What is this supposed to mean? Dave's request was very reasonable and logical, and I'm sure expresses a sentiment that basically anybody looking at these lists shares.Stefan HSQBRankovich wrote:I picked the best players from the best teams as best as I could.
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 8:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going To College Next Year? 2014-15
- Replies: 39
- Views: 24892
Re: Where Are You Going To College Next Year? 2014-15
I'll be going to Cincinnati. Not sure right now if I'll try to start a team or not.
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT 2015 Specific question discussion
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10246
Re: Specific question discussion
Would it be possible to see this question still?blizzard wrote:Could I see the tossup on Belshazzar? I was confused as to why Balthasar was not accepted or even prompted, and protested the question, but it ended up not mattering and was unresolved.
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 10:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT 2015 Specific question discussion
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10246
Re: Specific question discussion
Could I see the tossup on Belshazzar? I was confused as to why Balthasar was not accepted or even prompted, and protested the question, but it ended up not mattering and was unresolved.
- Sat Dec 13, 2014 9:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQB's Favorite Hit Songs of 2014
- Replies: 48
- Views: 3504
Re: HSQB's Favorite Hit Songs of 2014
I didn't hate enough songs to make a bottom 10, but I liked enough to extend honorable mentions to 25 1. Partition-Beyoncé: Best lines of the year ("I sneezed on the beat and the beat got sicker," Monica Lewinsky), perfectly raunchy, proves Bey's supremacy over us all. 2. Drunk In Love-Bey...
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:47 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The (Under?)representation of LGBT Culture and History in QB
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13839
Re: The (Under?)representation of LGBT Culture and History i
Will mentioned the Russia tossup at NASAT, which I wanted to point out as being a really great current events tossup on LGBT issues without tossing up "gay marriage" or "Proposition 8." Sure, the answer was Russia, but the clues were (I think) exclusively on LGBT issues/events. A...
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2014-15
- Replies: 211
- Views: 131436
Re: HSQBRank 2014-15
It's run by students in the marketing program, but I've never heard of anyone actually using it, even though it's aimed at students.
- Tue Jul 22, 2014 11:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2014-15
- Replies: 211
- Views: 131436
Re: HSQBRank 2014-15
Hey, we've got one of those!Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:In other news: Why does a high school need a branch office of a credit union?!
Also, the Wikipedia notes are wonderful and I hope you continue them (though if they take too much time or whatever, then obviously don't worry).
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 9:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 75723
Re: 2014 HSNCT discussion
Could you post the Joyce Carol Oates, Snapchat, and Pinterest questions (and conversion data)?
- Sun May 11, 2014 10:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Worst Trash Tournament Ever
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12698
Re: The Worst Trash Tournament Ever
A word of caution: the phrase "as read by me in someone's hotel room", in this case, generally implies "to a group of adults who may or may not be drinking", participation in which will not include high schoolers for a whole host of reasons. I, as presumably does Eliza, encourag...
- Fri May 09, 2014 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Worst Trash Tournament Ever
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12698
Re: The Worst Trash Tournament Ever
I would absolutely positively love to play this at HSNCT!
- Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:17 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Starting Quiz Team at the University of Cincinnati
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17988
Re: Starting Quiz Team at the University of Cincinnati
Hey Stuart, I currently have two brothers at UC, one of whom is currently the student body president. If you want, I could put you in contact with him, as I'm sure he would have some ideas for faculty advisors and any other potential tips, ways to get funding, etc. Just let me know! Good luck!
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 7:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BISB Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9883
Re: BISB Specific Question Discussion
I can't speak for Mostafa, as he wrote the Ibsen question, but I wrote a pretty similar tossup on James Joyce, and I think our plan was to reward people who had read the plays by filling them with what we (and Sparknotes) considered memorable quotes. I'm just not sure if these clues really are buzz...
- Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BISB Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9883
Re: BISB Specific Question Discussion
I feel like that math bonus was computation in name only; it dealt with actual knowledge as opposed to doing any calculation, which makes it just like any other math question. This bonus was especially good because it dealt with high school math topics, unlike many math questions that are extremely ...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BISB Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 9883
Re: BISB Specific Question Discussion
Please note that these are just my personal opinions, and I don't mean to insinuate that I am always correct or whatever; this is just what I thought of some of the questions that may be of assistance in editing/improving. -The Ibsen tossup seems fairly unbuzzable for the first half, although I don'...
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BISB General Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2918
Re: BISB General Discussion
I really enjoyed the set. I especially liked the number of common-link tossups; those are some of my favorite types of questions, but they can be hard to make pyramidal, and I felt this set did a really good job of finding hard, medium, and easy clues for a lot of them. Although I am not a science p...
- Sat Oct 05, 2013 11:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What is your opinion?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2318
Re: What is your opinion?
After I buzz, I tend to talk to myself (a lot of "Ok, so this is [answer]" or "I know this I know this, umm, [answer]") which helps me gather my thoughts and confirm my answer. However, I also always make sure I know what format I am playing or how the the moderator times so that...
- Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8762
Re: Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?
It's really good that you're committing to pleasure-reading, even during the school semester. Were that habit not deeply ingrained in me too, I would have suffered significant drop-off once I transitioned from being an English major in college to being a grad student in a non-literature subject; lu...
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 10:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8762
Favorite Books or Other Works of Literature?
So I really like reading books (mostly fiction), especially when it gets me points (seriously there's no better feeling than getting a toss up on a book you've read and really enjoyed), and I am always looking for new books to read. Ironically, now that the summer is almost over, I will have more ti...
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15392
Re: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
Obviously not everyone agree with me, but you have to draw the line between trash and general knowledge somewhere, and I would put chess on the trash side, along with the pretzels tossup. In regards to the academic questions, I really liked the set. The lit questions were really fun and were definit...
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 8:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15392
Re: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
What category was the rook question considered? Chess is a board game, and therefore I think it deserves to be considered trash, just like asking questions about Monopoly or Sorry or any other board games would be considered trash.
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT: June 15-16 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19981
Re: 2013 NASAT: June 15-16 at Ohio State
so we will use the same 13-team schedule as last year. A full update went out to registered teams last week. Last year there were only two or three rounds on Sunday, right? I'm not sure what time we ended on Saturday, but I remember feeling like those games could have easily been done on Saturday i...
- Mon May 27, 2013 2:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49389
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
I really enjoyed this tournament. I thought the questions were really fun and interesting, and I would love to do something like this again.
- Mon May 20, 2013 11:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13818
Re: Question-specific discussion
Could you also post the Ezra Pound and Alexander II questions?
- Mon May 20, 2013 6:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 13818
Re: Question-specific discussion
Could you post the Bradbury tossup? Thanks.
- Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
- Replies: 177
- Views: 201537
Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things
I got the VCU Closed question on saving Jews during the Holocaust thanks to my obsessively deep knowledge of Hark, A Vagrant! : http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=144 Argh! That may be the only Hark! A Vagrant I haven't read, and as a result I watched helplessly as Richard Yu powered that tossup ...
- Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49389
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
I'd be interested in playing.
- Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
- Replies: 138
- Views: 150324
Re: HSQBRank 2012-2013: No, I do not mean HSA Bank
You're doing so much for this already, I don't think it would kill anyone to have to do a little of the work themselves. This is not a big deal at all, and if it makes your job easier, I would do it.
- Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: OSPL 2012-2013 EXPERT - Official Sign Up Post for August
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8771
Re: OSPL 2012-2013 EXPERT - Official Sign Up Post for August
I'll play, though I won't be able to make it the first week.
- Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '12-'13
- Replies: 153
- Views: 82305
Re: Illinois '12-'13
I am pretty sure that we went to 32 tournaments this past year, though I may be off by a couple.
EDIT: I think we were doing something 32 weekends, but not all were academic tournaments that everyone went to. Some were JV tournaments, a trash tournament, a couple TV takings, those kinds of things.
EDIT: I think we were doing something 32 weekends, but not all were academic tournaments that everyone went to. Some were JV tournaments, a trash tournament, a couple TV takings, those kinds of things.
- Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qub - A Multiplayer Quiz Bowl Reader
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21548
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.
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Some Thoughts Concerning Studying Methods
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5453
Re: Some Thoughts Concerning Studying Methods
I think this is a really good guide for learning how to study. However, I disagree with saying that practicing is not a good way to study. I think that depends on the individual person. For me, practicing Is the best way to learn new topics/clues. I find a lot easier to remember a clue if I have hea...
- Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:06 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
- Replies: 177
- Views: 201537
Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things
Watching The Amazing Race has helped me get geography questions. The song "Say You'll Go" by Janelle Monae first taught me what samsara is. Also, the cover of The Archandroid, also by Janelle Monae, led me to having a brief understanding of the plot of the film Metropolis. The Thursday Nex...
- Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 173
- Views: 81566
Re: 2012 HSNCT discussion
Could someone post the US-Canada border tossup? Thanks. Some things I noticed were the repeats in some of the literature questions. In two different rounds there were bonuses on Henry James works that did not overlap, and two tossups on different Oscar Wilde plays. Was this done purposefully because...
- Wed May 30, 2012 5:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Skype Summer Practices
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6955
Re: Open Skype Summer Practices
When do you think you will start these?
- Wed May 30, 2012 1:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Open Skype Summer Practices
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6955
Re: Open Skype Summer Practices
My skype name is sam.blizzard
- Thu May 24, 2012 7:17 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - Herp Derp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 108159
Re: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - so is this where i complain?
The Waylon Jennings Memorial Tournament at Ohio State used RAVE, not D2 SCT.