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- Tue Nov 10, 2020 9:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4185
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
-Cluing the Bridge of the Drina for "Bosnia" felt a little hosey since its written in Serbo-Croatian, which I bet is the only thing most player know about it at least for a lit perspective. My teammate negged with Serbia on this clue and I would have too. I think this specific point is to...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3916
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
For what it's worth I'll extend my praise to the "space" tossup's earlier half. I got it on the second clue, drawing from Kant, and was highly impressed that the question managed to reference this quite convoluted part of Kant in a way that it clearly and directly brought me to the answer....
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DATE + TIME POLL: Online Solo Tournament
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1285
Re: DATE + TIME POLL: Online Solo Tournament
Superpowers and 20 point normal powers! Made my day to read this announcement 

- Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8453
Re: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
To start us off, I'll be heading to Chicago Div to start a 2 year MA in Religious Studies. Last week I thought I was retired, this week I'm less sure, but I'll definitely be around to staff. Congrats and welcome! As for me, the situation is complicated and if you care about the details feel free to...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 6:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Terrapin Open Discord Mirror (3/28 - 3/29)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2818
Re: Terrapin Open Discord Mirror (3/28 - 3/29)
Last second drop from my team, so if you want to sneak in and play this get in touch ASAP!
EDIT: Wonyoung has taken the slot.
EDIT: Wonyoung has taken the slot.
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 16590
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Does all of this not apply to high school quizbowl as well? Yet the high school game seems to be doing just fine while being more accessible to less-skilled players... Maybe because most players probably start going to nationals before becoming elite? I mean PACE NSC is still rewarding to elite pla...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 16590
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
I don't want to spend too much time on this, but I thought I would contribute a point about difficulty. In short, the attitude given in the original post of this thread has always been very confusing to me. I didn't learn about real quizbowl I was a high school upperclassman, and with much effort we...
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: JORDU: A Jazz Side Event (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2684
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 3:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2893
Re: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)
I hate to say this on such short notice, but something has come up such that I am looking for someone willing to staff this in my place - please let me know if you'd be willing and able!
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6071
- Sun Oct 14, 2018 4:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9597
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
I negged with USA when they dropped Argonauts of the Western Pacific because of Malinowski's association with Columbia, only to immediately hear "before he moved to the US." It might have been better to reverse those clauses, in which case the answer would have been unambiguous to those wh...
- Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9236
Re: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
I had a lot of fun playing this set. As with anything, there were some nits that could be picked, but they were seldom. I appreciated the difficulty control and enjoyed getting some really obscure knowledge rewarded by pretty simple answerlines. My team agreed that there seemed like an overabundance...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75611
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
From what I could gather, Harry White reported that Matt said that I know a fair number of TRASH people read this weblog, as do NAQT folk. . Is there any evidence of this being valid? Another point that Harry raised was I know that Dwight has linked to his blog (and presumably read it) ... is there...
- Wed May 30, 2018 2:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75611
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
There are two hypotheses for why Matt Bruce remains an NAQT member at the moment. The first hypothesis is that NAQT does not care or understand why these blog posts are a problem. The second hypothesis is that NAQT intends to remove Matt Bruce but can't do it at instant speed - perhaps they need to...
- Wed May 30, 2018 1:13 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75611
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)
Mike and Alston display great restraint and grace in stating things so calmly. I am far from alone in being outraged that such an openly disgusting individual—whose brazenly well-documented predilections for underaged women were well-known to at least Dwight Kidder—has remained unquestioned in NAQT ...
- Thu May 03, 2018 2:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF should rename its "Division II" classification
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4553
Re: ACF should rename its "Division II" classification
This year's ACF Nats should really be all anyone needs to see that ACF "Division II" is not a very useful category in its present state (congrats to Harvard B!). Having a second division could afford the opportunity to give novice players something to compete for, to give room for success ...
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 4:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50036
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
I would like to sing the praises of this tournament's editors; though I did not play it, this was probably the coolest quizbowl set I saw played in my entire undergraduate career, with the most impressive balance of cool-ness, real-ness, and gettability that I've encountered, at least with respect t...
- Wed Apr 11, 2018 1:05 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF and Powers (POLL)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 22407
Re: ACF and Powers (POLL)
I wanted to note that, right now, the poll seems to be dead split between "no ACF powers at all" and "powers at all levels of ACF." According to the thread right now, what I'm reading is that most people are of the opinion that the attempt to add powers is mainly a "proxy&q...
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF and Powers (POLL)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 22407
Re: ACF and Powers (POLL)
I think it's worth taking a moment to consider the response to Charles's post, which has been quite positive, but which I am willing to wager is received as it was because of a confirmation bias of sorts. Obviously, I believe Charles: he has worked hard to develop a team and speaks clearly and confi...
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 9:16 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF and Powers (POLL)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 22407
ACF and Powers (POLL)
I realized a big flaw with my last post on this topic, namely that it had no poll, and the only way to voice one's opinion was verbally and publicly. So, now I'm taking this opportunity to ask: should ACF start using powers? I have left five options, based on the opinions raised in the last discussi...
- Sun Apr 08, 2018 11:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: a completely innocuous ict/nats prediction thread
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6538
Re: Steven Pinker's Rational, Scientific Nationals Barrel
real serious mathematically supported predictions: even after the tournament has run its course, nobody is sure whether Berkeley is better than the top east coast / midwest teams OSU loses a game it really shouldnt have because of negs archaeology tossup on turkey another archaeology tossup, not abo...
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 10:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16486
Re: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
A Jacques Derrida book about a certain virtue closes by comparing the story of this place with a similar episode on the hill of Ephraim in Judges. Stories of this place, such as people being mutilated to fit uniformly-sized beds and a girl being executed by a swarm of bees for helping a beggar, are...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:33 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 35410
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
I've also heard that some people don't like neg prizes, but I'm ambivalent about those, they can sometimes be too meme-y / political, but other times seem to have been received very humorously. I've always thought conditional neg prizes were a reasonable and fun thing to have, ie. if the player wit...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 7:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF and Powers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7470
Re: ACF and Powers
My main purpose in wading into this thread was just, I see, given actual life in Sameer's post. What I was going to say in slightly longer form, and will now say in brief, is that people should not assume that their own feelings about powers are somehow imputed to other "new players," jus...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:09 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 35410
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
The only problem is, more people are playing pyramidal quiz bowl these days than ten years ago, so given a single tournament, question difficulty might never find a happy medium between an upper echelon of more familiar and studious teams and the vast majority of everyone else. Personally, I think ...
- Fri Mar 30, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF and Powers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7470
ACF and Powers
I think it's high time we reconsider the purist structure of ACF rules and acknowledge the many benefits of power marking for player experience, especially for new players. Many will recall moments where a novice player from their club came out of a hard tournament with a good experience because of ...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 1:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2018)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17624
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2018)
Assuming no big surprises, I'll be at Chicago for the next two to (ideally, up to) ten years, and I plan to play the whole time. I'm hoping to transition to my true calling as a fourth-scoring religion/philosophy/jazz/literature-that-I've-read/architecture specialist and quit acting as generalist-by...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9920
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
I'm in American Studies, not sociology, but yes they are important and worth-knowing. Glad to hear it; thanks for responding! Another thing on the already-too-long reading list. So I want to clarify that my original post focused on the perceived difficulty of the Bukowski/Sherman packet (Northweste...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9920
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
It's somewhat late, but here are my thoughts on the set: 1) Shoutouts to whichever player or editor read my post on religion and then wrote Talal Asad into the Geertz question. Asad's critique of Geertz is probably more academically relevant than Geertz's own work at this point, to stretch trends so...
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 4:10 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Nathan Freeburg
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14114
Re: Nathan Freeburg
no sibling of 'mountain "cracker barrel" laurel' kirk-davidoff would ever be caught dead signing their life away to the Empire Maintenance Organization that is the US military
but in any case, i really resonate with those statlines
but in any case, i really resonate with those statlines
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10573
Re: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
For the "Eastern Orthodox" tossup, prompting on specific patriarchates doesn't seem like the right thing to do. If you're not going to accept one patriarchate outright, you should probably anti-prompt, as e.g. "Greek Orthodoxy" is a specific subset of Eastern Orthodoxy. Yeah, th...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 12:41 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: we should be doing religion better
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10215
Re: we should be doing religion better
As with many critiques of this sort, some (though certainly not all!) of it can be attributed to relatively narrow personal experience, since Karl Barth comes up all the dang time . Altizer I admit I've never previously heard of, though Death of God theology came up as recently as Crime. Thanks for...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: we should be doing religion better
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10215
Re: we should be doing religion better
Also, I don't mean to be rude, but could you use capital letters? my shift key is broken But seriously, I apologize if I've caused anyone's eyes undue stress. I was in one of those post-tournament "still thinking about quizbowl" moods and decided to finally get this post I'd had on the ba...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: we should be doing religion better
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10215
Re: we should be doing religion better
People with academic credentials in specific fields often ask that we test for knowledge of current academic scholarship in those fields. Usually I'm very skeptical that anyone interested in the subject outside the confines of academia would or should care about that scholarship. Is there any parti...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: we should be doing religion better
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10215
we should be doing religion better
EDIT: my intended title, "the FIRST BLAST of the TRUMPET against the Monstrous Regimen of Religion Distribution Problems" was too long, so you'll have to settle for the above this post has been brewing and stewing for almost five years now, and as i’m entering the last year in my quest for...
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8005
Re: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
perhaps this is really just faulting myself for not playing optimally, or presuming that some pieces of information are more widely-known than they actually are, but there were a few questions where a clue which i thought was too obvious to be placed early convinced me that the tossup couldn't possi...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 3:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8876
Re: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
wheres the theology
...but seriously:
...but seriously:
The Stately Rhododendron wrote:fun!
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 10:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 ACF Fall general discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 20532
Re: 2016 ACF Fall general discussion
Perhaps it merits mention, in defense of it and its large canyon, that Corry Wang knew the Yarlung Tsangpo.Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:...some Tibetan river that I suspect almost nobody converted (I bet almost nobody at ACF Nationals would know the latter thing either, for what it's worth)...
- Sun Oct 30, 2016 11:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB2016: Will's Questions (Painting, Religion, Music, etc.)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2304
Re: Will's Questions (Painting, Religion, Music, some others
Could I see the tossup on 'magi'?
- Sun Oct 30, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 13833
Re: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
I can affirm that putting smoldering so early for combustion was an oversight. I am bad at science and was able to get that tossup early without much knowledge, and did so not even convinced of my answer (since, because it was so early, I had half a mind to think "smoldering" must be some ...
- Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:52 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Map of Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15992
Re: Map of Quiz Bowl
Brandeis, Northeastern, and Wellesley all have teams that show up to things around once a year.
- Sat May 16, 2015 8:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Practices?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3772
Boston Summer Practices?
Since I'll be living in Boston for most of the summer, I thought it'd be worth seeing if there's sufficient interest to have summer practices in the area like in Chicago or Maryland. Between Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, myself, any students returning home to the Boston area, and perhaps even precocio...
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 Regionals: Specific question requests and discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12065
Re: 2015 Regionals: Specific question requests and discussio
Could I see the tossup on "students?" My teammate buzzed in on the first clue with "members of the White Rose movement," and ended up marking the answer for protest (with MIT A's support, I believe), and it may be worth editing the answerline to accept at that point, depending on...
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 Regionals: Specific question requests and discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 12065
Re: 2015 Regionals: General non-specific thoughts and discus
This was mistakenly posted here, and was actually intended to go in the specific questions thread.
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 12:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open tournaments and team-building
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17415
Re: Open tournaments and team-building
What we WERE objecting to was Kenneth's ideas that somehow quizbowl puts up "barriers to entry," making it nigh impossible for people to even play tournaments without a great deal of effort. This is not true. It certainly wasn't true for Boston College, which has played at least recently ...
- Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open tournaments and team-building
- Replies: 38
- Views: 17415
Re: Open tournaments and team-building
As someone attempting the "team-building" thing right now, I can attest to its difficulty; even at a school wherein most are quite affluent it's difficult to get people out to events, and even more difficult to retain them. The trouble is usually less "getting people to spend 20$ and ...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:23 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5498
Re: Question-specific discussion
The tossup was almost certainly too hard, even for this set (How many people actually know what happens in that book well enough to even power that question?). I had read The Master and Margarita in high school just for fun, and I was far from what one would call a "literature specialist"...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Errata (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1328
Re: Errata
There was a bonus that I think was in packet 6, but I'm not sure. The word "altruism" came up in the second part of the bonus, then was the answer to the third part. My teammate sitting next to me said "I think it's altruism". I replied to him with, "But they just said altr...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Skype/G+Bowl NE
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7966
Re: Skype/G+Bowl NE
I would be down to read, or to play on any of the harder question sets, if you're okay with a post-high-school participant.
- Thu Jun 26, 2014 2:20 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 328515
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I'm left with a hole in my heart now, having missed what will probably be the only Pianos Become the Teeth lead-in in quizbowl history. But seriously, that was an awesome trash packet- the depth and variety in the music was amazing and I hope I don't miss any future packets like this. If anyone is i...