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- Thu May 18, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: HS Quizbowl in the UK- Schools’ Challenge?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3381
Re: HS Quizbowl in the UK- Schools’ Challenge?
When I tried to get my school involved in this, the organisers ignored us.
- Wed Sep 14, 2022 12:31 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
- Replies: 106
- Views: 96311
Re: Introducing YellowFruit.
Extremely minor quibble, but when browsing the "Team Detail" for an event scored with YellowFruit, the playoff legend covers the PPG of the last player on the last team [see picture].
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:58 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: What is the ceiling of QuizDB's usefulness?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7078
Re: What is the ceiling of QuizDB's usefulness?
You would be extremely good if you did that, but it would probably not be very fun or rewarding.
- Thu Feb 03, 2022 7:19 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25968
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Just some quick comments about the first packet. I think the Lili'uokalani tossup conflates the 1881 world tour taken by Kalakaua (during which time she was regent), with her own 1887 trip to London. The latter doesn't seem to have been a world tour, but was a smaller trip largely owing to Victoria'...
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 6:02 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Carper Award community discussion
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8490
Re: 2022 Carper Award community discussion
Edmund Dickinson is the stand-out candidate for a UK Carper nominee. Alongside Kyle Haddad-Fonda, he's the most important person in the early-mid '10s revival in British quizbowl. His chief contribution is probably the many years he spent heading up the arduous Briticisation efforts needed to make ...
- Tue Sep 21, 2021 4:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Anecdote Discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 799
Re: Specific Anecdote Discussion
I buzzed on the VFA TU on Instagram on the clue about Hans Ulrich Obrist's account, which I have long followed. Some quiz friends of mine already know this story, but Obrist is the director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. A couple of years ago, the DJ Yaeji was performing at the Serpentine, and...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 6:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Geography Front - Online Mirror
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1638
Re: The Geography Front - Online Mirror
Awesome, glad to see there's an online mirror of this!
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 5 (Summer 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2436
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 10:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7585
Re: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
Interested to hear that the "one hand up" system has worked effectively in the UK. My initial impression about that is that it's (a) exhausting depending on how you're doing it and (b) likely to lead to a lot of accidental non-compliance which leads to the norm of people not doing it. At ...
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 9:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7585
Re: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
I don't understand why this has not been adopted as standard outside of the UK yet, but there is an incredibly easy way, when cameras are on, to make sure people aren't cheating. Just require players for whom it is possible to do so to keep one hand on screen at all times. You can keep the other han...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 5:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Good Poetry Tossups
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2677
Re: Writing Good Poetry Tossups
I think the same process that goes into "understanding" a poem goes into writing it. It goes without saying that you should read the poem first, but the "reading" of the poem is of course greatly enhanced by getting context, since most readers won't be able to get every allusion...
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 6:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4893
Re: Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl
I wonder if there is much marginal gain from this system over the easy to implement system I prefer. Namely: just require players to have at least one hand visible on their webcam during live questions. It's pretty hard to google stuff quickly typing with one hand, and most players can show a hand w...
- Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Mimir's Well Harvest League (starting August 2)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1487
ANNOUNCEMENT: Mimir's Well Harvest League (starting August 2)
[N.B. This post is not about a quizbowl tournament, but discussion with a forum mod led to the conclusion that this subforum was nevertheless the most appropriate venue for it] Mimir's Well: What is it? Daoud Jackson, George Charlson and I have started an online trivia league, which we think should ...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 5:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11138
Re: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
Will bonuses at this event be able to distinguish teams particularly well? I'm wondering if this would be more appropriate as a tossup-only mirror. For most teams involved, I take it that this is mainly going to be buzzer practice for fun, and most bonuses will get quickly 20d or 30d. I would be in...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8135
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
I really, really enjoyed this set. I thought it broached new ground in the categories I'm qualified to comment on in a very conscientious and controlled way (perhaps sometimes even over-cautious, e.g. the cycling TU dropping Poulidor/Anquetil in the second sentence, or Schiaparelli as a hard part?)....
- Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8481
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
Steyerl/Goldin/Washington : I liked the concept behind this bonus, but both Steyerl and Goldin seem like hard parts. Plus while "Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a taxi, NYC" has come up more in quizbowl, but The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is probably Nan Goldin's most notable work. Cuba/Fran...
- Thu Nov 28, 2019 7:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324259
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia #15 Future - Mask Off vs. Burial - Come Down to Us #16 Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - O...
- Tue Nov 26, 2019 6:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2669
Re: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
As much as it probably benefits me to have more geographic questions on literature, I do think Andrew's right about a few of the geographic lit tossups being excessive. The New Orleans question immediately comes to mind, as does the tossup on Trinidad cluing Miguel Street - not that it's super hard...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 8:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14469
Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
I thought the "bridges" TU in art was a bit odd, since it clued from both Japanese and Chinese art in a way that seemed slightly arbitrary to me. Also, the bridge in Guo Xi's Early Spring is super hard to see (unless the clue was about another work with the same name?) I was also not entir...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 5:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Lenscapes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3432
- Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Difficulty Metrics
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6850
Difficulty Metrics
Assessing difficulty of questions is notoriously difficult, especially when the material covered is novel or under-asked. Even if the thing being asked about has come up before, without combing over tournament discussion or making use of only recently available advanced stats, it can still be hard t...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 5:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 32017
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
I really liked this tournament, and don't have much to say by way of overarching criticism beyond two little things. I think this did echo some of the PIANO complaints where tossups may have been made a little bit worse by the drive to improve convertibility. One that immediately comes to mind (I di...
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Scattergories 3 discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1118
Re: 2019 Scattergories 3 discussion
My main complaint about this tournament is that it made me sad I didn't get to play the previous two.
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 2:24 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: The Deep Bench Format
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11082
Re: The Deep Bench Format
I think it is basically just, under the influence of Kyle Haddad-Fonda, the UK circuit that has much interest in the Deep Bench format. He likely introduced it at as a way to make up for the fact that at most tournaments Oxford comprised about 1/4 of the teams, so finding a format where the balance ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2019 3:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC Online 5/4 (Small Field / Trad. Open Audience)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4160
Re: ILLIAC Online 5/4 (Small Field / Trad. Open Audience)
What time is this likely to start/end? Am interested in playing, but being 5-8 hours ahead means my window of availability is shifted.
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 1:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 65099
Re: Player Poll 2019
People worth considering from this side of the pond, some of whom didn't get much exposure in virtue of not playing Nats this year: Joseph Krol -- strong on lit, fine arts, maths and basically everything else. Extremely conservative on the buzzer, but that doesn't stop him from buzzing a lot (betwee...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8266
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
The claim in the Finals 2 packet that in Dominion cards that let you draw are called cantrips is incorrect. Cantrips let you draw + give you an additional action.
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8113
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5:JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimite...
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 12:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8113
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #7: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance #3: Beach House - 7 vs. #6: Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. #5: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel #1: Kids See Gho...
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 4:13 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Articles about quiz bowl
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3917
Re: Articles about quiz bowl
Your typo got me very excited to find out how Agnes Martin did on College Bowl.Mike Bentley wrote:Here's a new one from Slate on the Agnes Martin College Bowl upset: https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/agnes ... aps_bottom
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:51 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26358
Re: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
Stock Clues remains the best quizbowl tournament.
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17467
Re: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
I want to elaborate on two main goals that I wanted to achieve while editing the tournament. First, I wanted to align CO, an emblem of the very highest level of quizbowl, with the conversations that have been taking place throughout this year about how to make the game more inclusive and welcoming ...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Best Film Player
- Replies: 44
- Views: 28133
Re: Best Film Player
Yogesh is obviously the best, but we have several very good players in the UK. The top three are probably Oliver Sweetenham, Charlie Clegg and Jonathan Gibson, but Mark Grant and Tris Cole are also really good.
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 6:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Oxford Open - Question Feedback
- Replies: 8
- Views: 790
Re: Question Feedback
Hakkapeliitta was dropped a bit early in the Gustavus Adolphus question, iirc. Likewise perhaps Toledo cut to the chase rather quickly by telling you its Arab connections. Khrushchev also seemed to give away the game with "this is a major world figure's wacky adventures in the US" quickly.
- Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Oxford Open - Question Feedback
- Replies: 8
- Views: 790
Re: Question Feedback
Despite being pre-warned about the gender-neutral clueing I had forgotten about it on the day and did not notice it during play, so I guess that worked well.
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 1:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
- Sun Jan 14, 2018 6:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: SWEET SIXTEEN: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy
Jesus Walks
Paper Planes
Chicago
Hey Ya!
Take Me Out
Feel Good Inc.
Hurt
Jesus Walks
Paper Planes
Chicago
Hey Ya!
Take Me Out
Feel Good Inc.
Hurt
- Fri Jan 05, 2018 8:43 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND TWO, PART TWO: Best Song of the 2000s
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Time to Pretend by MGMT One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs. Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine Lose Yourself by Eminem vs. Rehab by Amy Winehous e Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Feel Good Inc. by Gori...
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND TWO, PART ONE: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson Jesus Walks by Kanye Wes t vs. Wake Up by Arcade Fire Toxic by Britney Spears vs. Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott 99 Problems by Jay-z vs. Hips Don't Lie by...
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13133
2018 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
It is an honour to announce the renewal of the Early Fall Tournament for autumn 2018 . I shall be head-editing the tournament, with subject assistance from Alex Damisch, Ewan MacAulay, Dylan Minarik, Tejas Raje, Ramapriya Rangaraju and Ryan Rosenberg. Will Alston and Rob Carson will be providing an ...
- Sat Dec 30, 2017 5:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND ONE, PART FOUR: Best Song of the 2000s
Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Fidelity by Regina Spektor Maps by Yeah Yeahs Yeahs vs. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz Yeah! by Usher featuring Ludacris vs. Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake Idioteque by Radiohead vs. American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West Fallin' by Alicia Keys vs. D...
- Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND ONE, PART THREE: Best Song of the 2000s
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Blind by Hercules and Love Affair Time to Pretend by MGMT vs. The Funeral by Band of Horses Wow, I've heard "The Funeral" hundreds of times without having the foggiest idea what it was called or it who it was by. One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Independent Women Part...
- Sun Dec 24, 2017 12:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND ONE, PART TWO: Best Song of the 2000s
99 Problems by Jay-Z vs. Helicopter by Bloc Party Hips Don't Lie by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean vs. One Armed Scissor by At the Drive-In Relationship of Command is a great album and this is one of the best songs on it. No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age vs. Supermassive Black Hole by Muse Ug...
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 11:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND ONE, PART ONE: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley vs. Machine Gun - Portishead Wake Me Up When September - Green Day vs. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera SOS - Rihanna vs. Mr. Brightside - The Killers Chop Suey! - System of a Down vs. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson Jesus Walks - Kanye West vs. Clocks - Coldplay Wake Up - A...
- Thu Dec 21, 2017 10:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: VENTING TIME: Best Song of the 2000s
how is "Blind by the Lights" or, heck, anything from A Grand Don't Come for Free missing. stupid america.
- Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND 0 PART 2 VOTING NOW: Best Song of the 2000s Bracke
The Fear – Lily Allen vs. Love Story – Taylor Swift Dashboard – Modest Mouse vs. Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden Move Your Feet – Junior Senior vs. Helicopter – Bloc Party Family Affair – Mary J. Blige vs. Fidelity – Regina Spektor Mykonos – Fleet Foxes vs. American Boy – Estelle feat...
- Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154804
Re: ROUND 0 PART 1 VOTING NOW: Best Song of the 2000s Bracke
Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson 1234 – Feist vs. Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story) – !!! vs. Do ...
- Mon Dec 11, 2017 10:12 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I'm bored so let's suggest music
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4288
Re: I'm bored so let's suggest music
Lol, I went to school with half of this band. Can confirm they are good.mazinomer wrote:My favorite band right now is probably Palm. Listen to their albums Trading Basics and Shadow Expert if you're into math rock.
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 22628
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
that bonus on artists from some poet writing about them (Vermeer / Reubens / Breugel the Elder) was bad, and very very hard. Contrary to this I thought this bonus was a lot of fun and a nice way to ask the questions, and wasn't at all out of place difficulty wise. The Vermeer part included a full d...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 4:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 22628
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
The string TU's answer line should probably have something to say about how to deal with someone buzzing and saying "bracelet". I was delighted to hear Harry Frankfurt's super excellent book on Descartes clued in the 'Meditations' tossup, but that clue, because of the title, really lends i...