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- Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Why doesn't film come up more?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 8681
Re: Why doesn't film come up more?
Many films are almost certain to be encountered purely as entertainments by the vast majority of people who will play the questions on them. These are films that, in my opinion, people should not presume to write "academic" tossups on unless there's a really interesting and worthwhile rea...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 11:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8712
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
- in general, it seemed like there was a lack of contemporary poetry/drama compared to contemporary long fiction, but Grant was buzzing so early on a lot of it that I didn't have time to figure out if it was contemporary or not Haven't read through the set yet so can't say whether this criticism is...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11716
Re: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. As someone who cares deeply about the integrity of the fields of high school quizbowl tournaments in states I don’t live in, I have to say this is one of the most disappointing displays from a TD I’ve seen in all my time here. Even if Dunbar and [another team] are ...
- Fri May 08, 2020 3:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17315
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Understanding Literature as a Category
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7070
Re: Understanding Literature as a Category
I’m not going to say much about the distribution because I’ve seen these discussions play out a thousand and they usually don’t lead anywhere. Literature is the most “pure” category in terms of fitting the medium of a quizbowl question, and I don’t think there’s much disputing that. I’m sure this is...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19279
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
I will most likely not be playing this set if this Columbia mirror is cancelled, which is a shame since I’m sure it will be a great set. While I wouldn’t advocate for a mirror to remain simply because of my own self-interest, I’ve yet to see a good rationale for its cancellation and doubt there is o...
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 8:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14370
Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
I wasn't the biggest fan of using Book of Laughter and Forgetting as a clue for the books tossup: "In a novel titled for one of these objects, Michelle and Gabrielle agree that the title creature of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros was picked for “comic effect.”" I recognized that the clue about The ...
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2635
Re: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
There were some inconsistencies. Some of the hard parts (literature in particular? e.g. Invention of Morel ) were "quite gettable," while a number verged on "whyyyy" (John Knowles Paine) or "oooof" (science had a bunch of these). Some, e.g. Apollonius+Flaccus or Tepozt...
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 14370
Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetry ... y-gorgeousIain.Carpenter wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2019 3:33 pm In the bonus that mentions Ocean Vuong, it calls "On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous" a poem, when its actually his debut novel.
And here’s what that title’s from!
- Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Literature "Progression"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6060
Re: Literature "Progression"
Also, if you are willing to cash in some money, NAQT's frequency list for literature is a decently complete list of books and their authors. I do not believe there to be plot summaries in the lists though. Please, for the love of god, do not pay money for this. Keep reading the very famous books of...
- Mon May 06, 2019 6:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UPDATE - All the Lit We Cannot See (2020)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4205
Re: Announcement - All the Lit We Cannot See (Winter 2019)
This seems like a fun tournament! Very interested in either writing or playing.
(Autobiography of Red was tossed up at CO 2016, btw)
(Autobiography of Red was tossed up at CO 2016, btw)
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64071
Re: Player Poll 2019
Thank you to those who have given me reps! I wouldn’t advise that you vote for me in the overall poll; my performances at both nationals have not warranted inclusion and I don’t think my uncharacteristically good PIANO statline is enough to do it. Instead, vote for my teammate Eric Xu who led us to ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22275
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion
I know that Matt Weiner, among others, has in the past advocated breaking out Nats into "divisions." As a stopgap, would it be unreasonable to do that even without using two different question sets? (After all, the lowest-placing teams often come to test their mettle against the toughest ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22275
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion
Personally, I care more about the integrity of ACF Nationals as a “players championship” than I do about its expansion. Obviously, I’m not a member of ACF and don’t knows its priorities, but if the field needs to be 40 teams instead of 48 to ensure a full RR in playoffs which is almost unanimously c...
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292305
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Your post had enough other decrees about what is right and wrong about question construction in questions that were absolutely in the range of acceptable that I feel OK saying what I said. Rather than declaring that the Ferrara question "didn't need to exist," or "There's zero reason...
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 2:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292305
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Since you've honed in on my word choice in criticizing the set, Charlie, I'll just say: a) I said the tossup was "a bit of an abortion," which it was. I clearly wasn't trying to impugn the writers of the set by criticizing this single out-of-place tossup. b) That tossup was changed for new...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 49473
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
This is slightly late, but I've finally played all the packets and I have to say that this set is not as hard as some people are making it out to be. The answerlines are mostly very reasonable (I'd say moreso than recent spring opens) and there was a lot of great early cluing. If you're playing on t...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 1:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292305
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
I wrote this because Ferrara is in fact integral to both works in terms of the history being evoked (Browning) and the school of painting (Smith). Regardless, I didn't think having genre-crossing "misc. lit" is particularly controversial and why should it be? Would a geographically divers...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 12:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292305
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Common links I didn't like: -Polish literature: There's zero reason for this not to be a tossup on Stanislaw Lem. It was literally all Lem works and he's a reasonable answerline at this difficulty. This adds nothing to the accessibility of the set. -Ferrara: Maybe my least favorite tossup in the set...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin @ UMD (3/2/2019)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5180
Re: Terrapin @ UMD (3/2/2019)
Combined stats have games double-posted, btw.
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:10 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455677
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Jack Mehr and I are each writing a packet of hard (ranging from Nats to CO+), literature common links to be read sometime in mid-January on Discord. If this sounds interesting to you, indicate your availability on the following poll (times are EST). We'll be reading this in the discord tomorrow nig...
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Preparing From Benet's and Masterpieces of World Literature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7150
Re: Preparing From Benet's and Masterpieces of World Literature
I bought a set of Masterplots for my house so I know a bit about the encyclopedia grind. My best piece of advice is to be the most thorough on the outer portions of the canon, and to largely ignore the most important works in the canon. Studying Great Expectations or Moby Dick from these books won’t...
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to Approach Literature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7645
Re: How to Approach Literature
I'll echo Jakob and say that reading literary criticism at this point isn't going to help you very much. I don't know your current level of play, but you're going to want to start by just amassing a lot of "author-work", "work-character", and "work-plot point" knowledge...
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational General Discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8101
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational General Discussion
Thanks for pointing that out, Ryan. As one of the only psych majors in QB, I’ve basically just stopped expecting the category to really be asked about in a way that reflects classroom knowledge. Since it’s such a relatively small part of the distro, there’s usually not a whole lot to point out acros...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational General Discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8101
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational General Discussion
http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=11885&p=223874&hilit=Artificial+common+links#p223874 ^This is one of the better tournament discussions on common links ever so I suggest reading it. I’m not as much as a hardliner as Ted is here, but I think his critiques of “artificial c...
- Mon Oct 22, 2018 9:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2298
Re: General Discussion Thread
The names in bonuses were a bit much at times, but less so than the last Penn Bowl I played. Bonus parts on Laurel McKelva and Undine Spragg just really don't need to exist and are fairly uninteresting. For that Wharton bonus, you can easily just make the hard part Custom of the Country and not drop...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 48323
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Can I see the tossup on “In the Penal Colony“?
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:16 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26059
Re: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
TTIAC and Stanford Housewrite were both better than CMST.
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:11 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455677
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
On Wednesday at 9 PM EST, I will be reading a 20 TU very hard short fiction packet in the discord. Every tossup answerline will be a character from a short story. I'll be doing a second reading of this at the same time on Thursday for people who can't make it Wednesday. These happened! Wednesday Sc...
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: META - Summer 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7508
Re: META - Summer 2019
My favorite types of short fiction are poetry and non-fiction essays! (this sounds cool, though, I like these types of tournaments)
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 11:22 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455677
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I'll be doing a second reading of this at the same time on Thursday for people who can't make it Wednesday.Banana Stand wrote:On Wednesday at 9 PM EST, I will be reading a 20 TU very hard short fiction packet in the discord. Every tossup answerline will be a character from a short story.
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:55 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455677
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
On Wednesday at 9 PM EST, I will be reading a 20 TU very hard short fiction packet in the discord. Every tossup answerline will be a character from a short story.
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Women in Sets
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14420
Re: Women in Sets
On the flipside, a tossup on Martin Guerre on the surface is just “some tossup on a French dude from 500 years ago” but I’d guess that a decent percentage(probably not quite a majority?) would have encountered him while reading/reading about Natalie Zemon Davis and her view of the case through a fem...
- Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Top five college teams for 2017–18
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13281
Re: Top five college teams for 2017–18
Ditto on Cambridge, and I don't even think it's much of a hot take. Anyone who has played with/against Golfinos knows he's legit, and give him some teammates that can cover his weaknesses? Spooky. #7 seems a bit low, tbh.
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been announce
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14449
Re: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been anno
There are literally not enough weekends in the year to accommodate half of these. Imo, there are two major reasons for the use of housewrites. The first is for a team acquire revenue, and the second is that producing the housewrite will help with the development of their players since it forces you...
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 4:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
- Replies: 37
- Views: 26076
Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
Fun books that seldom come up in QB: "The Monk" by Matthew Lewis (a Gothic classic; the nuttiest book you will ever read) "McTeague" by Frank Norris (also wild) Fun books that never come up in QB: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Choderlos de Laclos (probably my favorite ...
- Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
- Replies: 37
- Views: 26076
Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
Heart of Darkness is so good, what is going on in here? Moby-Dick is worth a read, too. Fundamental part of U.S Lit that comes up all the time and is a really awesome experience(I think the cetology parts catch too much flak from people who claim to dislike it). Beloved is also really good. Kafka an...
- Sat May 20, 2017 5:01 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
- Replies: 56
- Views: 73630
Re: The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranki
I think the basketball analogy works well here, if we view MattBo as Kobe and Jordan as Lebron(lol). Both are obviously insanely competitive people, but Kobe almost always seemed to "need" the win more than Lebron, and went to psychotic lengths to get it. Lebron is more reserved and only k...
- Sun May 14, 2017 6:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14106
Re: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
armitage wrote:This is in abysmally bad taste
- Wed May 10, 2017 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Modern Age - A Lit/VisArts Side Event
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8583
Re: The Modern Age - A Lit/VisArts Side Event
This is also going to be 7 packets, not the 8 from the original announcement. There's a lot of side events going around and we figure 8 packets probably won't be played at any site. I'll echo Eric's sentiment that we're happy people are interested!
- Mon May 08, 2017 10:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 33483
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
I'm down(to staff)!
- Mon May 08, 2017 9:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories (February 2017)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12359
Re: Scattergories (February 2017)
This was very fun to read through. The annotations are a sweet idea. I would've gladly first line-negged Sonmi-451, forgetting the full name of the section. That priming tossup is also cool since the spreading activation effect should come up more. Wish I could've played!
- Thu May 04, 2017 12:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Poll
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8314
Re: Postseason Poll
I can't imagine a team that doesn't do better or worse depending on their mood and how much sleep they got. Berkeley B's top bracket run looks very compelling - knocking off Northwestern after their cinderella run and Penn for good measure, wish I had a chance to do that at my first Nats. Seems lik...
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Difficulty Consistency in Finals Packets
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10600
Re: Difficulty Consistency in Finals Packets
This is a good thread. Despite not coming anywhere near a spot in Nats finals, I've thought about this a lot since I noticed it watching/reading last year's finals(and 2015's). First, I'll say that as a spectator, it adds a bit of excitement to the matches. "Damn, this packet is really pushing ...
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 3:29 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Activities Outside of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3050
Re: Activities Outside of Quiz Bowl
Poker is my main hobby that I've put a ton of time into outside of quizbowl, and alternates back and forth with it as the activity where I actively focus on improving on a daily basis. I also write short fiction and have gotten published a couple times, and I'd be happy to exchange writings with peo...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts
- Replies: 36
- Views: 23806
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts
Eric Xu and I are going to be playing this.
- Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42456
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
The literature in this set was really really good. It was very accessible across the board while offering a great challenge on interesting hard parts and early-middle clues. Common links probing core works of famous authors including the ones on teachers and the beach(which I unfortunately negged wi...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 32830
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
This 'ol Cracker Barrel is tumblin' on, but don' mind me, I'm just passin' by before I get to my there destination in the ol' Big Apple. Yessir, New York City for some good ol' fashioned bowlin'.
I'm hammered and I hope Jordan wins.
I'm hammered and I hope Jordan wins.
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Documenting plagiarism
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11199
Re: Documenting plagiarism
A bit of self-plagiarism never hurt: Delta Burke 2012 Question: This author wrote of an "Arhat who sought Heaven under a mountain of stone" before claiming "humility is beatness before the absolute world" in "Sakyamuni Coming Out from the Mountain". This author asked, &...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Documenting plagiarism
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11199
Documenting plagiarism
I sometimes come across plagiarism in old sets and just brush it off since most were written a decent amount of time ago, but I feel like having a thread to document egregious examples would be fun. This is not meant to be witch-hunty since most of the offenders probably aren't even active anymore; ...