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- Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Archived stats from Taft
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2182
Archived stats from Taft
Hey so I have no idea who might still care about this, but I feel like I should make sure I do this properly so. The former quizbowlpackets.com server is going away, which is where the dump of Taft went when I shut it down. Also the domain was expiring and as I am a recent college grad with no curre...
- Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Shutting down Taft
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1751
Shutting down Taft
My inability to properly respond to Hunter's needs during Prison Bowl this past weekend has made it obvious to me that I've become Taft's absentee landlord, and I don't feel good about this. I haven't done much to improve or promote the code in a long time. Considering the monthly expense of running...
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New VHSL Commissioner and State Tournament Director
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2093
Re: New VHSL Commissioner and State Tournament Director
Hey Fred, welcome to the boards. I'm glad that you've joined, and I hope you'll continue Shawn's excellent record of communicating with VHSL teams and players via the boards and listening to what they have to say. In the years that I played in VHSL Scholastic Bowl events, my sense was that the quest...
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Prelim talk about two Harvard tournaments
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1790
Re: Prelim talk about two Harvard tournaments
I would attend and write a packet for the 12/5 T-Party date. Teams with me on them are packet-required by most reckonings this year, and since I dunno if I'll really have teammates this year yet, anything that spreads my limited packet-writing wherewithal more evenly across the school year is good w...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl is a game that hates being a game?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3017
- Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15479
Re: VCU Open discussion
Dammit, how did I miss this one?Theory Of The Leisure Flask wrote:Any tournament that asks about Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie is a winner in my book.
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
- Replies: 114
- Views: 46637
Re: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
wooooooooooooooooFredMorlan wrote:I am 100% going to this.
- Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
- Replies: 122
- Views: 41834
Re: Writing Music Questions for Music Players
I'm uncomfortable anytime we start saying that people who study things a certain way should be getting tossups over people who study things a different way. Until you can figure out how to reward players who merely listen to a piece, the solutions are somewhat unsatisfactory. Note: this is probably...
- Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
- Replies: 114
- Views: 46637
Re: VCU Open II at VCU - Saturday, August 8
Sweet!Cheynem wrote:Our fourth player is now the legendary George Berry.
- Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Sub Distro within Painting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2980
Re: Sub Distro within Painting
paintingRussian dance music wrote:Smithson, Beuys
- Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Sub Distro within Painting
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2980
Re: Sub Distro within Painting
4/4 abstract expressionism
4/4 post-painterly abstraction/Washington color school/Sol LeWitt
4/4 pop art
4/4 Goya and El Greco
4/4 Edward Hopper
4/4 post-painterly abstraction/Washington color school/Sol LeWitt
4/4 pop art
4/4 Goya and El Greco
4/4 Edward Hopper
- Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 102
- Views: 27786
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
Chris was setting things up and then playing in the tournament itself...some of the best staff on the Maryland team were playing instead As far as I'm concerned, this is poor form. Obviously some sort of a house team was required to prevent byes in the schedule, but it is incumbent on tournament ho...
- Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 102
- Views: 27786
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
Passner's not coming.
- Tue Jul 07, 2009 12:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 102
- Views: 27786
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
I vaguely still intend to come, despite presently having zero teammates. I am going to attempt to rustle some up, however. Are you still without any teammates? Mehdi just bowed out, so we've got an opening. I just did the same, so harry/sarah/will also has an opening. Methinks I shall join this tea...
- Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 102
- Views: 27786
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
I vaguely still intend to come, despite presently having zero teammates. I am going to attempt to rustle some up, however.
- Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '08-'09
- Replies: 1271
- Views: 210381
Re: Illinois '08-'09
THREAD OVER.
- Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 102
- Views: 27786
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
At some point I must have neglected to clarify that Hannah will be playing with me and the Hunters, so we'll be Tabyetkirkins or something similarly awesome (OR PICK YOUR OWN BETTER NAME). I thought she was playing with me and Passner. What treachery is this? (In reality: whatever.) I was? goddammi...
- Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 102
- Views: 27786
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Sun 'n Fun X Mirror (7/11/09) at Maryland
I thought she was playing with me and Passner. What treachery is this?everyday847 wrote:At some point I must have neglected to clarify that Hannah will be playing with me and the Hunters, so we'll be Tabyetkirkins or something similarly awesome (OR PICK YOUR OWN BETTER NAME).
(In reality: whatever.)
- Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 NTAE
- Replies: 57
- Views: 17937
Re: 2009 NTAE
I have never agreed more with you, Chris Ray.DumbJaques wrote:Continuing the casino night is the one thing I recommend retaining from the PAC tournament. Well, that and MD vs. VA chicken fighting.
- Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2008-2009
- Replies: 224
- Views: 43591
Re: Georgia 2008-2009
I spy a 2009-2010 thread!
- Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: North Carolina '08-'09
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14418
Re: North Carolina '08-'09
Hey, there's an '09-'10 thread up there so I'm going to lock this one.
- Sun Jun 14, 2009 10:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl and the curriculum
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3595
Re: Quizbowl and the curriculum
I think an important footnote to the above is that "what high school curricula cover" can indeed be used as a partial metric for difficulty in some areas. Every 9th or 10th grader taking high school chemistry is going to learn what Avogadro's number is. Quizbowl favorites like the Diels-Al...
- Fri Jun 12, 2009 12:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
- Replies: 67
- Views: 23429
Re: CaTO/TaCO at VCU August 9
Whatever you might say, I am going to assume that this tournament will in fact be harder than VCU Open itself.Tower Monarch wrote:(the difficulty section, specifically)
- Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Better Stats
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6783
Re: Better Stats
That's a great plan. As someone who has explored the various options for how to achieve this, my advice is to keep in mind that whatever you do, you have to make it so that people can essentially plug and chug from Word; this is quite difficult to do and I've yet to find an elegant solution for it,...
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of using power matching at NSC
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12724
Re: Discussion of using power matching at NSC
Yeah, I'm pretty sure, based on inspection of cards over the last few years, that the current system has teams seeded into 16-team groups during their first four rounds. If you have card 1+16n after 4 rounds, you have won four games and are the top team in your initial group. After that, things get ...
- Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Better Stats
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6783
Re: Better Stats
cvdwightw wrote: 3. We're waiting forBeESGodot to show up
- Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EuroFest at Mizzou Open
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13850
Re: EuroFest at Mizzou Open
You're doing it wrong!Cheynem wrote:1 (one)
- Fri Jun 05, 2009 6:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournament Dates 2009-2010
- Replies: 79
- Views: 12971
Re: Tournament Dates 2009–2010
Ahem. Don't forget to use the tournament database once this is all hashed out! :-D
- Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 43915
Re: 2009 PACE NSC
I'll start putting the cross-bracket results into this post as I get hold of it and compile it. I don't seem to have any of the championship bracket stuff yet. For now, the straight-up rankings from 17th-64th: 17 - Chattahoochee (Pozzo/Lucky champ) 18 - Rockford Auburn 19- Whitman 20 - Gonzaga 21 - ...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 349
- Views: 103415
Re: 2009 NAQT HSNCT
I sympathize with this position. Decisions are hard and annoying.DumbJaques wrote:Hahaha what?Instead of choosing where I would like to go for lunch and dinner, I would have much preferred having that decided for me.
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 8:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gaddis II Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 9685
Re: Gaddis II Thanks and Discussion
Dang. Maybe I should've played.Ike wrote:Waiting for Godot
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:44 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49904
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Hey, I don't want to derail, and I'm hardly defending egregious trash stuff like "Tenderloin" or "Butthead", but this constant refrain that close games can be "decided" by trash questions, whether by their mere existence in a packet or by their ordinal placement in the ...
- Mon Jun 01, 2009 11:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
- Replies: 262
- Views: 49904
Re: 2009 HSNCT question discussion
Well, I mean, from an entirely economic perspective, it sure is.ClemsonQB wrote:Should NAQT appeal to the bottom 100 teams who have no shot at winning the HSNCT title, or should it appeal to the so-called elite teams who win the tournament every year? I think the answer is pretty obvious.
- Fri May 29, 2009 7:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Missouri Open Mirror (6/06/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 76
- Views: 14699
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Missouri Open Mirror (6/06/09) at Maryland
I may or may not actually be able to staff this.
- Thu May 28, 2009 12:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New National Trash Tournament in 2010?
- Replies: 58
- Views: 13378
Re: New National Trash Tournament in 2010?
Can my cats play in this event?
- Sun May 24, 2009 11:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC 09 question discussion
- Replies: 132
- Views: 24828
Re: NSC 09 question discussion guidelines
By the way, thanks to Aidan and Matt for showing up on Sunday. They were going to keep score, but when we needed them to fill in for a team that had left, they happily jumped in.
- Sun May 24, 2009 9:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 43915
Re: 2009 PACE NSC
And, is there anywhere we can find out placements for teams #5-#64---all played a game 15 with their paired opposite in the other 8 team bracket within each set of 16 teams, did they not? They did indeed. I will be compiling this information and posting it in some form within the next few days, as ...
- Sun May 24, 2009 1:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 43915
Re: 2009 PACE NSC
The 2009 PACE National Scholastics Championship finals will be played by the Charter School of Wilmington's A team and State College Area High School's A team. Our live coverage will include question content this time since the finals will be the only game going on. We expect the finals round to beg...
- Sat May 23, 2009 5:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 43915
Re: 2009 PACE NSC
Your playoff brackets: Championship playoffs Didi Brookwood Dorman A Georgetown Day School A James Monroe Rancho Bernardo Southside A State College A Stow Munroe Falls Gogo Chaska Detroit Catholic Central Hunter A Maggie Walker A Thomas Jefferson A Walter Johnson Walton Wilmington Charter A Consolat...
- Sat May 23, 2009 7:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 PACE NSC
- Replies: 59
- Views: 43915
- Wed May 20, 2009 2:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2009: Tournament Format
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10565
Re: PACE NSC 2009: Tournament Format
The two playoff bracket champions will meet in an overall final to determine the 2009 PACE national champion. This will be a one-game final, with the exception of the case in which the two teams previously played in the tournament (that is, were in the same preliminary bracket). If that scenario oc...
- Mon May 18, 2009 9:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 51861
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Chicago Open (Weekend of July 25th, 2009)
I am tentatively coming to this fine event in the Weiner Party Van, and I plan on moderating most of the events again, if not all this time.
- Mon May 18, 2009 9:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 114957
Re: Bad Negs Again
"After HSNCT" is indeed when public discussion of NAQT IS-sets is allowed.dtaylor4 wrote:I believe he's referring to public discussion, i.e. what we do in this thread.hwhite wrote:NAQT never publicly releases their sets, unfortunately.jonpin wrote:Just wondering, when do NAQT sets become live? After HSNCT?
- Wed May 13, 2009 8:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Power matching genrator
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1871
Re: Power matching genrator
How about instead of deleting this, you post a link to what you were looking for, for the edification of others?BGSO wrote:Never mind found what I was looking for, mods please delete.
- Tue May 12, 2009 4:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2009: Tournament Format
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10565
Re: PACE NSC 2009: Tournament Format
Does prelim record matter for the purpose of ranking within the playoff bracket? For instance, if one team goes 6-1 in prelims and 7-0 in playoffs, is that team tied or advantaged against a team that goes 7-0 in prelims and 6-1 in playoffs? Advantaged. There will be no overlap between prelim oppone...
- Tue May 12, 2009 9:51 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC 2009: Tournament Format
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10565
Re: PACE NSC 2009: Tournament Format
The first tossup of Round 11 will be read at 9:00 AM on Sunday. Round 15, which is the last round that all teams will play, will finish no later than 4 PM on Sunday. Not that we're in a big hurry, but why do these 5 games take so long to play on Sunday? Just trying to plan our itinerary around the ...
- Mon May 11, 2009 10:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: University of Minnesota Nationals Warmup, 5/9 at the U of M
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12049
Re: University of Minnesota Nationals Warmup, 5/9 at the U of M
I guess I meant more along the lines of some modern-era quizbowler playing with their child some years down the line.
- Mon May 11, 2009 10:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
- Replies: 79
- Views: 17526
Re: The Relative Importance of Art and Sports
Thank god this outlandish thread is over.
- Sun May 10, 2009 8:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: University of Minnesota Nationals Warmup, 5/9 at the U of M
- Replies: 53
- Views: 12049
Re: University of Minnesota Nationals Warmup, 5/9 at the U of M
Mike, I think you got it backwards. The true key to quizbowl success lies in making sure that your family, friends, and co-religionists are studying the fourth, sixth, and seventh-most important Jewett works, so your team can dominate the entire Jewett-related answer space. Don't wait until it's to...
- Fri May 08, 2009 11:38 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Becoming a Good Social studies Player
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2226
Re: Becoming a Good Social studies Player
All of them? Seriously?King Solomon's Bling wrote:I already read the Stanford and the High School packet archives.
Edit: oh, maybe you mean "read" present and not "read" preterite.