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- Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2836
Re: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest
I'm interested.
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2658
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
Initial post updated with our full set of collegiate mirrors.
I'm also planning on running a mirror for competitive trivia players (drawing mostly from the excellent Online Quiz League USA) -- let me know if you're interested in staffing!
I'm also planning on running a mirror for competitive trivia players (drawing mostly from the excellent Online Quiz League USA) -- let me know if you're interested in staffing!
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals Invitational (1/30/2021)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3150
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 4:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite Global Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8980
Re: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite Global Announcement
Playtesting The Southeast-Midwest Housewrite is seeking playtesters. We will be playtesting the first 14 packets' worth of content in January and early February. We will playtest another 6 packets in April. Keep in mind that there will be several college and open mirrors so only register if you do ...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2658
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
I've updated the original post with a list of our confirmed mirrors. We're still looking for hosts in some regions, particularly the Northeast, Great Plains/South, and UK; please send an email to [email protected] if you'd be interested in hosting.
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Misconduct Reporting Committee Statement on Protobowl
- Replies: 0
- Views: 707
Misconduct Reporting Committee Statement on Protobowl
The Misconduct Reporting Committee has received a complaint regarding the online quiz bowl site called Protobowl and the site owner's ongoing tolerance of racist, misogynist, homophobic, and other offensive content on this site. We have received screenshots documenting the use of horrendous racial e...
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2658
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
The announcement has been updated with the tournament's writers. Question production is underway and I'm excited to help bring this set to you all!
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2658
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
I'm excited to announce that Katherine Lei has joined the team as our science editor!
There's also still a couple of days left to apply to write for this set -- we've already gotten some applications from new writers, but there's still plenty of room, definitely apply if you're considering it!
There's also still a couple of days left to apply to write for this set -- we've already gotten some applications from new writers, but there's still plenty of room, definitely apply if you're considering it!
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Spring Novice writer application
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1807
Re: Spring Novice writer application
Tuesday is the deadline to apply! Please make sure to get your applications in by 11:59 Pacific time, or PM me here or email at [email protected] if you need some more time.
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Spring Novice writer application
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1807
Re: Spring Novice writer application
Reminder that the deadline for this is in two weeks!
- Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3817
Re: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
I liked the in-game experience of Zoom + buzzer app more than Discord, although I agree with Mike that not having a good way of communicating rapidly with everyone detracted from the experience. A Zoom tournament utilizing a Discord server for communication might be the best way to go.
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4178
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
John said everything I would've, except I haven't been to Andrić's house.
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2658
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
We are looking for at least one host in the following regions: Northeast (NY, CT, VT, NH, RI, MA, ME) Mid-Atlantic (NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, VA) South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY, LA, TX) Great Lakes (MI, OH, IN) Midwest (IL, WI) Great Plains and Rockies (MN, IA, MO, OK, TX, CO, UT, MT, ID, AZ) West...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Spring Novice writer application
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1807
Spring Novice writer application
I am pleased to announce that the Spring Novice set is accepting applications for writers. I am particularly looking for applications for new and less-experienced writers who would like more opportunities to write questions and receive feedback. Application The application asks for a brief summary o...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 6:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2658
Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
I am pleased to announce Spring Novice, a tournament designed to introduce new players to college quizbowl. I will be head editing, with assistance from Katherine Lei (MIT), Alex Damisch (formerly of Lawrence and DePaul), and Chris Chiego (formerly of UGA, UCSD, and Penn). The tournament will be wri...
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2306
Re: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
ACF has updated the gameplay rules to specify that TDs can choose a different phrase (such as "directed" or "final") that teams can prepend to their answer to direct it.
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2306
Re: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
Not speaking officially for ACF here, but my personal thought is that the only way to have certainty about when a buzz occurred is to mark it when the moderator stops reading. The rule should be in Section D instead of Section DX then. To be clear, ACF hasn't decided on the rule here yet; that's ju...
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2306
Re: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
Most of these are good additions to the rules, but there are a couple that seem unnecessarily rigid to me. Specifically, these two: Added Section DX.2.B: "Whether or not a player buzzed before, at, or within less than a syllable after the power mark is a matter of moderator judgment, and is no...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: TAUTOLOGY - Summer 2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2555
Re: TAUTOLOGY - Summer 2020
I assume this tournament is being delayed until in-person mirrors can be held? Playing a speedcheck tournament online sounds unfun.
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 6:41 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: GPT3 for Quizbowl
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1726
Re: GPT3 for Quizbowl
For me at least, generating pronunciation guides seems to be GPT3's killer app for quizbowl. I am *the worst* at writing these guides. GPT3 seems to do a pretty good job on these. It's not necessarily perfect (that first example invents syllables that don't exist) but I'm pretty sure it outperforms...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 3:53 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1749
Re: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
Should be fixed now, I got my index pages mixed up.
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 3:41 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1749
Re: Archive of Maryland's MAQT website as of 1999
Ryan Rosenberg has volunteered to host it somewhere on the ACF website. More details from him to follow. The 1999 ACF archive can be found here. The MAQT archive from a similar time can be found here. Dave also included the likely-not-seen-in-20-years 1995 ACF Nationals program, which is up here. H...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How to prepare for College Nationals
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1864
Re: How to prepare for College Nationals
There are a couple of general tracks to studying for hard college and open tournaments. Because I'm a data scientist, I'll call them supervised learning and unsupervised learning . These don't actually correspond to the machine learning categories but they're a cute way to divide it up. Supervised l...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:19 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Men of Quizbowl, We Should Talk.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4806
Re: Men of Quizbowl, We Should Talk.
Finally, as an older member of the community with a wide variety of trainings and experiences, I'll offer myself as a resource for younger male members of this community who are having issues navigating interpersonal relationships or recognizing uncomfortable situations. My DMs are open, as is my e...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:32 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: General Misconduct Discussion (TW: sexual harassment)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5995
Re: [TW: Sexual Harassment] Harassment in the THAT Online Quizbowl Discord
A standard code of conduct like Heather proposes is a good first step towards developing better norms of behavior in the community. Not speaking officially for PACE or ACF here, but I certainly imagine that if the community developed a code of conduct PACE and ACF would integrate it into their rules...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:27 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: General Misconduct Discussion (TW: sexual harassment)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5995
Re: [TW: Sexual Harassment] Harassment in the THAT Online Quizbowl Discord
Not related to this specific incident, but I think that PACE, NAQT, and ACF should do more outreach about the misconduct form. I think that all NAQT tournaments, ACF tournaments, and PACE qualifiers (as well as pretty much every other tournament) should require the hosts to inform all players and c...
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Vanity Insanity: A Guerrilla Secret Santa Event for Charity
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4407
Re: Vanity Insanity: A Guerrilla Secret Santa Event for Charity
Are submissions still due next Sunday?
- Fri May 08, 2020 4:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scotbowl 2020
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1947
Re: Scotbowl 2020
What's the estimated timeline for this set? Some teams are looking for packets for a season-ending event.
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Punishment for cheating in online quizbowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2297
Punishment for cheating in online quizbowl
There's been a lot of discussion in the cheating warning thread about how people should think about punishment for Eric Mukherjee's cheating, and I wanted to start a separate thread to discuss more generally how the community should deal with cheating in online tournaments. To my mind, there are two...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:45 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38028
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Contra Vasa, I don't think the statistical evidence presented in the thread is exonerating. Chris had an extremely good performance at Terrapin Open Online, even for his normally high level of performance. Other players have had performances of similar outlierness, but those players have had skill l...
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15968
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern
2020 ACF Nationals has been rescheduled to August 8-9 at Northwestern University. The feasibility of this rescheduled date is still tentative due to the ongoing pandemic, and teams and staff have been instructed to not make concrete plans for attending ACF Nationals on this weekend until the prospec...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4018
Re: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)
I would strongly prefer a one-day tournament; I think tossups-only will be better for that, but wouldn't particularly mind if we included bonuses.
- Sat Mar 28, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Wisdom Extracted Hybrid (4/3 @ 9 PM EST on Discord)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1213
Re: Wisdom Extracted Hybrid (TENTATIVE: 4/3 @ 9 PM EST on Discord)
Possibly interested, depending on format.
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 3:32 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10196
Re: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
As someone who writes MS questions a lot, this overall feels like a pretty accessible distribution and one i'd feel good about as an introduction to the game. If anything, I feel like there might be room to expand basic literature just a little bit more. Most myth questions will feel literature-y, ...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 16543
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
300 teams know who's gonna dominate HSNCT and that it's not them; a solid 200+ of them still have "fight for 6-4" as a legitimate aspiration, and I think a lot of the kids in the neighborhood that Dylan's quoting are among those 200 teams. There's nothing for those kids in college nats; t...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 16543
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Creating subsidiary titles is a very cheap and logistically easy way to give lots of teams something tangible to play for at a nationals. I'm not qualified to weigh in on this thread as a whole (having played little college quiz bowl and never been very serious about it as a player), but I do want ...
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15968
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota
A reminder that teams that initially qualified have until 11:59pm Central on Saturday, February 15th to accept or decline their bids to ACF Nationals. After that deadline, all bids will be automatically declined and released to the waitlist. Additionally, I've added ACF's policy on late drops from A...
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4675
Re: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
For the purposes of A-value, teams are ranked using all games against teams in their playoff bracket, first by winning percentage and then by PPG. This differs from ACF Nationals standings because the purpose of A-values is to determine team strength for Nationals qualification, whereas the purpose...
- Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4675
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15968
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota
I've edited the announcement with a link that teams can use to book hotel rooms in ACF's group block at the Hampton Inn & Suites Minneapolis University Area
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- Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4675
Re: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
First, it seems like teams with the same record were ranked in Order of Finish by (playoff) PPG. I thought that it was tradition that teams with the same playoff record are officially recorded as having tied for the position (ex. here ). For the purposes of A-value, teams are ranked using all games...
- Wed Jan 29, 2020 1:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4675
Re: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
I ran a few numbers and it seems like a team's strength of schedule was calculated counting opponents' games against the team itself, when the website says that SOS should only be counting opponents' other games. If opponents' games against the team are taken out, it would boost the A-values of str...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4675
Re: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
What are the procedures for applying for the waitlist? I don't see any instructions on the waitlist section of the A-value page, although I definitely could be missing something. EDIT: I found that it is under the bid form, my mistake. I've added clearer instructions (as well as instructions for si...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4675
Re: 2020 ACF Nationals A-Values
Any team that wins an ACF Regionals tournament at which at least four total teams from at least two total schools are present will receive an automatic bid. Is there a reason that the winners of the Florida and British Columbia sites are not listed as receiving an invitation to Nationals? Sorry, th...
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should quizbowl reform the three-part bonus?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3060
Re: Should quizbowl reform the three-part bonus?
I'm intrigued, but I think this would realistically only work if there's two-part bonuses.Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Mon Jan 13, 2020 4:00 pm Would people be interested in having CO with bouncebacks? If we stick to our planned length caps then I think it will be feasible.
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 11:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15968
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota
The editing structure for ACF Nationals has changed slightly; it will now be co-head edited by Ryan Westbrook and Matthew Bollinger.
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15968
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota
I've updated the first post with a link to the ACF distribution page, which contains the distribution teams should be referencing when writing packets.
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:38 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: ACF Statistics Database
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2794
Re: ACF Statistics Database
This has been fixed.Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:09 pm Minor thing - the statistics seem to be counting tiebreaker games as full games for PPG purposes (i.e. Columbia 2019 is counted as playing 17 games, but it played only 16 games worth of tossups).
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15968
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota
Finalized tossups for 2020 ACF Nationals will be capped at 8 lines in 10 point Times New Roman. However, this cap does not apply to submissions; submitting teams are allowed and encouraged to submit longer tossups.
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 4:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open @ UIUC (11/16/2019)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3880
Re: Fall Open @ UIUC (11/16/2019)
Right now the field appears to be at 15 teams, which is not an ideal number. Is there a possibility of another house team (or another outside team) to avoid byes?