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- Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I have a PS4
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1625
Re: I have a PS4
Guilty Gear
- Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8935
Re: Question-specific discussion
In the architecture distribution in general or just the college one?Cody wrote:Zaha Hadid is a staple of the architecture distribution.Shangdevin wrote:please correct me if I'm wrong but the only female architect that has ever been tossed up is Maya Lin.
- Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 27th Annual BISB - Brookwood H.S., Snellville, GA 11/22/14
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6439
Re: 27th Annual BISB - Brookwood H.S., Snellville, GA 11/22/
I believe so.Mavis Beacon wrote:Were bouncebacks utilized at this tournament?
- Tue Nov 25, 2014 1:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3908
Re: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
This film’s villain enters a parking garage in a Pacific Courier truck, but gets rammed by a limousine when he’s trying to escape in an ambulance. During a discussion of a Lakers game in this film, a villain shoots a security guard, while another shouts, “Boom! Two points!” This movie’s protagonist...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 27th Annual BISB - Brookwood H.S., Snellville, GA 11/22/14
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6439
Re: 27th Annual BISB - Brookwood H.S., Snellville, GA 11/22/
Chattahoochee A took first, while Ezell-Harding took second.Joshua Rutsky wrote:We enjoyed our visit to Brookwood, as usual. I would love to know how this event turned out, however, as we got knocked out in the round of 8 and had to run back to Birmingham. Anyone know who won?
Thanks again to the staff at BISB.
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3908
Re: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
PDEs solved using separation of variables assume that each side of the equation is equal to one of these terms. These terms make up the kernel of the linear differential operator. The difference between all the solutions plotted on a direction field is one of these terms. These terms appear in the ...
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:52 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How does a team play under a pseudonym?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6611
Re: How does a team play under a pseudonym?
I've seen individuals/teams go under pseudonyms, so I'd say yes.czheng0708 wrote:Does anyone know if this holds true for NHBB Nationals as well?
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-2015 BISB General Discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 963
Re: 2014-2015 BISB General Discussion
I'm just a little surprised that the bonuses turned out to be a problem that way, but looking back at some of the packets I can see where you're coming from. Guess we never really thought about that over the summer.
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 5:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-2015 BISB General Discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 963
Re: 2014-2015 BISB General Discussion
You didn't.Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:Every bonus part doesn't have to be two-lines long. Did I say this last year?
Sorry!Either way, stop it! It's bad!
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 4:13 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How does a team play under a pseudonym?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6611
Re: How does a team play under a pseudonym?
Yes.Snoopy wrote:One thing, though: this this work for nationals, like the NSC or HSNCT? That's one of my bigger problems (along with the 'recruit teammates' part.)
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 12:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: General discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2629
Re: General discussion
Not sure where else this should go so I'll just post here. This is another small problem I had with the set, though I guess it's not that really a problem: A lot of the jokes made were clunkers. The one that I specifically remember was the one about birth control that opened up with something along ...
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 3:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Southeast HFT mirror @ Marist School (GA) 11/15
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12521
Re: Southeast HFT mirror @ Marist School (GA) 11/15
The lack of individual stats was probably just a precaution. Was it a necessary precaution? Maybe, maybe not. From what I can tell they'll be implemented at the next Marist tournament without any issues so things are looking up on that front.
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Southeast HFT mirror @ Marist School (GA) 11/15
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12521
Re: Southeast HFT mirror @ Marist School (GA) 11/15
Just want to make a note of this, in case some people missed this.
wareagle wrote:We will be keeping individual stats at our tournament in February, WIT, which will mirror BHSAT.
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 3:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 68183
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
I think that once everyone sees the question set for themselves, they can then decide if the questions were or were not too difficult. Also, when we see the tournament stats from the teams who attended we can then draw some conclusions, which, until then, are being drawn out of thin air. There are ...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 5:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Errata (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1994
Re: Errata
As a reader at the Marist tournament, I did not have access to this email, having a paper copy. I remember this one being confusing when I read the answer, because the teams didn't expect the answer to be altruism. I think he meant readers at just the Harvard site, since they were planning to have ...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3908
Re: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
At a battle in this war, the winning general used a pincer movement from a crescent of alternating Spanish and French soldiers, which retreated and reversed orientation. The Fabian strategy originated during this conflict. A siege of the Spanish city of Saguntum triggered this war. Flaminius was am...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Southeast HFT mirror @ Marist School (GA) 11/15
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12521
Re: Southeast HFT mirror @ Marist School (GA) 11/15
Both.Matthew Jackson wrote:Were the teams at this tournament divided into brackets/pools for the preliminary or playoff phases, or both?
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8935
Re: Question-specific discussion
I didn't mention most of the others because I didn't remember those at all. The two questions I mentioned were the only ones I happened to remember.
Though I did think Fences was easier than Master and Margarita. I guess I'm in the minority here, though.
Though I did think Fences was easier than Master and Margarita. I guess I'm in the minority here, though.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8935
Re: Question-specific discussion
Well darn, I guess I have no Master and Margarita knowledge at all.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 2:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8935
Re: Question-specific discussion
I wasn't saying there was harm in more difficult answerlines, I'm just saying that in this case I think Harvard overshot their mark.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8935
Re: Question-specific discussion
You can read that as "How many high schoolers would have even read that book?", then.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8935
Re: Question-specific discussion
Could I see the TU on The Master and Margarita and the bonus that went Franklin/Speak, Memory/Dahl? I thought the set was decent for the most part but both of those questions were not very good ideas. The tossup was almost certainly too hard, even for this set (How many people actually know what hap...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 3:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3908
Re: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
I'll let Adam respond to your comments, but in the meantime, here are the TUs. The Nice model explains the migration of these objects. The Chamblerin-Moulton hypothesis explained the formation of these objects from “infinitesimals” after a molecular cloud collapses into their namesake “proto” accret...
- Fri Nov 14, 2014 1:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament IX Available For Mirrors
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10031
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament IX Available For Mirrors
Will a private usergroup be set up soon?
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 1:52 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: What defines a team captain?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 21173
Re: What defines a team captain?
If you guys think I was trying to define anything then you missed the point of what I was trying to say.
This was great advice.
This was great advice.
Joshua Rutsky wrote:Do your best, keep a positive attitude, and represent your team well, and you will be regarded as a leader by those around you.
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 11:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: attn: forum renamer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 557
Re: attn: forum renamer
yo anime
- Thu Oct 30, 2014 12:56 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: What defines a team captain?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 21173
Re: What defines a team captain?
I'm not totally sure what this thread is about anymore (College issues? Building a lasting team culture?) but in regards to the question asked in the title, I can't give you a nice, clear definition but I can tell you what doesn't necessary define a captain: being the leading scorer and being the gu...
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: individual stats and Georgia tournaments
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8083
Re: individual stats and Georgia tournaments
Workers would still be an issue but that's a much better suggestion.
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: individual stats and Georgia tournaments
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8083
Re: individual stats and Georgia tournaments
13-14 game schedules sound nice and all but when there aren't too many good readers/moderators around (in Georgia there aren't, they're probably easier to get in states with bigger scenes though), that's a disaster waiting to happen. I had trouble finding 9 when I ran a BHSAT mirror back in the spri...
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: individual stats and Georgia tournaments
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8083
Re: individual stats and Georgia tournaments
I don't disagree with the initial post, but how would you fairly rebracket 42 teams? Or in BISB's case, 70+ teams?
- Sat Oct 04, 2014 10:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3908
Re: 2014-2015 BISB Specific Questions Discussion
I'll just list the stuff that I wrote. Thoughts on any of them (if you want to say stuff like "It was good", "It was bad", "It was easy", etc. then I'd like to hear why) would be appreciated. 1: X-Files/Doctor Who/River Tam 2: Carroll/Walrus and the Carpenter/acrostic 3...
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:41 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: The Big Vision: [2] The "Sales Pitch": Talking Up Quizbowl
- Replies: 45
- Views: 47982
Re: The Big Vision: [2] The "Sales Pitch": Talking Up Quizbo
I really hope you're not implying that their lack of a QB team has something to do with the name.Mark Wolfsberg wrote:BTW Los Alamos High School, despite having a strong, music, drama, speech and debate, and science bowl programs has no Quiz Bowl Team.....
- Tue Sep 30, 2014 9:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Big Vision: [2] The "Sales Pitch": Talking Up Quizbowl
- Replies: 45
- Views: 34330
Re: The Big Vision: [2] The "Sales Pitch": Talking Up Quizbo
I really hope you're not implying that their lack of a QB team has something to do with the name.Mark Wolfsberg wrote:BTW Los Alamos High School, despite having a strong, music, drama, speech and debate, and science bowl programs has no Quiz Bowl Team.....
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ezell-Harding Academic Tournament - Nashville, TN (9/20/14)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10269
Re: Ezell-Harding Academic Tournament - Nashville, TN (9/20/
Did stats happen?
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:43 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational Mathematics
- Replies: 56
- Views: 28633
Re: Computational Mathematics
2 isn't real
- Mon Sep 08, 2014 11:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 High School Pre-Season Poll
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13220
Re: 2014-15 High School Pre-Season Poll
The Wilmington Charter ballots are so very obviously suspect, and nothing was done about them?
- Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: We Trivia Now
- Replies: 2
- Views: 625
Re: We Trivia Now
Next time someone can write about Axe's 60-second 4-stock against SilentWolf
- Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2014-15
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6949
Re: Georgia 2014-15
No BHSAT mirror has been planned/announced so far, but I wouldn't be surprised if one pops up later.
- Thu Aug 28, 2014 8:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2014-15
- Replies: 211
- Views: 131588
Re: HSQBRank 2014-15
Technically, they did. Just not the one from New Jersey.Great Bustard wrote:Ridgewood didn't go to HSNCT last year (hence why they missed the playoffs).
- Wed Aug 27, 2014 1:25 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2014-15
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6949
Re: Georgia 2014-15
Yeah, you guys weren't on my radar primarily due to a lack of tournament attendance. Hopefully that changes this year!
- Tue Aug 26, 2014 10:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2014-15
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6949
Re: Georgia 2014-15
I don't know.
- Sun Aug 17, 2014 11:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preseason Poll
- Replies: 108
- Views: 82687
Re: Preseason Poll
Brian Owen is staying at home instead of coming to GT this year, if anyone cares.
- Thu Aug 14, 2014 10:38 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Turning Away from Bad Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5105
Re: Turning Away from Bad Quiz Bowl
Even if you do get forced into High Q (which is what a lot of GA high schools end up being forced into do anyway), remember that it's a 32-team single elim bracket. Assuming you get all the way to the finals, that's only five tapings max. No way going to tapings is going to eat up your money, and yo...
- Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:31 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Red Tape
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5950
Re: Red Tape
Pretty much everything Vasa said. I'm 99% sure GATA and every other tournament in Georgia would be willing to let you guys play under fake team names, so no worries about no affilition. (Not sure how that would affect what division you guys get put in for state, though.) Just make sure that the fake...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013-14 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13273
Re: 2013-14 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
One of the A sets had a Neruda TU whose giveaway was "Name this poet whose first name is Pablo", while another (A?) set had a Homer (or some other artist) TU whose giveaway was "Name this artist whose first name is Winslow". If you (the people who wrote those) couldn't come up wi...
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2014-15
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6949
Re: Georgia 2014-15
Teams to watch: Chattahoochee - Going to be the best in the state again, no question. James and Julia graduate and Rountree is leaving to teach/coach elsewhere, which is big, but Nirav returns, and Sahrudh gets to not be an A-team sub. Amith has stepped up his science knowledge, which is big since t...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
- Replies: 99
- Views: 56108
Re: ACFNATIONALS - A JRPG tournament
Sounds cool.
- Sat Jun 14, 2014 6:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: LaTeX tournament schedules
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3330
Re: LaTeX tournament schedules
This is really great stuff. Thanks for making this!
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 12:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Preparing for NAC format
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5241
Re: Preparing for NAC format
Explains this, given the infighting that seems to go on with the team.
- Fri May 30, 2014 1:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
- Replies: 169
- Views: 57688
Re: ACF Nationals congratulations, thanks, and discussion
It's probably pointless to ask about this now, but in the Chinese lit bonus in packet 4 (the second one from Ohio State's packet) is it really OK to just accept just "xiaoshuo" for the third part? I'm not familiar with the term/genre but, by itself, "xiaoshuo" just means "fi...