WAO2 is clear for discussion purposes but isn't uploaded yet as we're doing a close read in the Discord (https://discordapp.com/channels/2752793 ... 8336210944) to help us fix some remaining issues.Victor Prieto wrote:When will WAO 2 be clear?
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- Mon May 07, 2018 10:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31967
Re: Players Choice Awards
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:50 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Midseason poll
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10518
Re: Midseason poll
That's Les Chevaliers de McGill to you
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 4:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Your Favorite Question
- Replies: 45
- Views: 24984
Re: Your Favorite Question
For McGill's year-end awards ceremony these were the three nominees for Best Individual Question Written:






- Wed Feb 21, 2018 10:43 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 15157
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
I don't remember many other specific questions (I suppose I could check my notebook sometime) but I remember that this question set, despite occasionally erratic difficulty, had quite a few answerlines and clues that were Cool Things to hear in a tournament. (On a related note, could I see the toss...
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 12:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 15157
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
"Witness for the Prosecution" Oh boy! Did this tossup get cut, or folded into the Agatha Christie TU? (As a Billy Wilder fanboy, I'd love to see the original version, if anyone wants to post it/PM it to me). I believe Derek folded it into the Agatha Christie tossup. Original tossup: One c...
- Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 15157
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
May I see the tossups on square planar, Cassandra, milk, ravens in myth and Andrew Jackson? May I also see the bonuses on DNA Binding and Greco - Roman Geographers? In Anne Carson’s translation of the work in which this character appears, this character defines words from that work’s original langu...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 4:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Difficulty and General Discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7378
Re: WAO II Difficulty and General Discussion
But the main reason I'm posting is to give kudos to whoever wrote the bonus on "poets who appear in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Endless Poetry ," since I was planning on writing a bonus with that exact theme. Even more kudos for resisting the temptation to make the hard part on the too-hard-fo...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 1:32 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 15157
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
I'm pretty sure this was a subliminal thing from the word backwater in the first clue. Thanks again for pointing this out.CPiGuy wrote:his surname is Backmaker.
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 9:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 15157
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- In the same packet (Mich B I think) that alt history bonus had "winning the civil war for the CSA" as the last part, even though that was mentioned as part of the first book, which made it really confusing. I wrote the original version of this question, and the easy part was originally ...
- Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:54 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 15157
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
The bonus about bronze stuff with an easy part of Boxer at Rest seemed too hard. Chabon / Hornby / Ginsberg -- was Ginsberg the easy part, and if so, are we expected to get him from his song lyrics and the fact that he's a Buddhist? Egan / Cloud Atlas / Joyce Carol Oates -- what the fuck? this was ...
- Thu May 04, 2017 6:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Poll
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7368
Re: Postseason Poll
Not you, with that attitudeAaron Manby (ironmaster) wrote:McGill - honestly I have no idea how good we are, I don't even know which three of us would make the best support for Derek.
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 4:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 47035
Re: 2017 ICT bids
The behavior exhibited by McGill and Chicago makes me really question whether the people making those arguments are willing to maintain a cordial and friendly relationship with other people in the community. My apologies on behalf of McGill for whatever Joe has been saying - he just had a bunch of ...
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SHEIKH and VICO Online (August 29th)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12559
Re: SHEIKH and VICO Online (August 29th)
Is there any chance Sebastian Drake, Sam Baker and myself could play tomorrow from the same computer? (I'm aware that would require a bit of team shuffling - sorry about the late expression of interest but all of us have only just arrived in Montreal.)
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 6:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Chicago Open History discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11104
Re: Chicago Open History discussion
...yeah, that was some pretty terrible (and kind of insensitive) phrasing on my part, sorry. I'm not even sure why I mentioned the western blot in particular; I meant to say "I wouldn't have complete trust in an HIV diagnosis done on stored tissue samples from the sixties", since according...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Chicago Open History discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11104
Re: Chicago Open History discussion
I want to open discussion about the substance of one of the questions: the one about early victims of AIDS. I enjoyed that because I saw "And the Band Played On" a couple of months ago (highly interesting and recommended, though not a great film-as-such, and with a strangely naive anti-se...
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 11:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
- Replies: 95
- Views: 48573
Re: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
I could also staff if I don't get into the event itself (which seems pretty likely).
- Sun Jul 12, 2015 11:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts
- Replies: 131
- Views: 59751
Re: 2015 CO Visual Arts
I think I've been added to the staffers list erroneously since I've never posted in this thread before... but I am actually willing to staff this. Oh shit, sorry dude. I mixed you up with Joe Su, the other guy from your school with a short name. No worries. I only noticed it while coming to check i...
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts
- Replies: 131
- Views: 59751
Re: 2015 CO Visual Arts
I think I've been added to the staffers list erroneously since I've never posted in this thread before... but I am actually willing to staff this.
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NASAT mirror at uWaterloo (27th June)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13200
Re: NASAT mirror at uWaterloo (27th June)
Another thanks for the tournament and for the very flattering Saturday night shenanigans.
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MÖRE WEIGHT
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18644
Re: MÖRE WEIGHT
Here's the non-painting visual art pack I read. It wasn't originally written for MORE WEIGHT and therefore wasn't written to be ungettable.
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MÖRE WEIGHT
- Replies: 41
- Views: 18644
Re: MÖRE WEIGHT
This was significantly more fun than I was expecting it to be. I would like to thank especially Peter Cordeiro for his packet, and not Joe Su, who keeps going out of his way to remind me about that one time I confused Carl Orff with Hans Zimmer.
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:02 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 329414
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I should really learn not to answer questions about specific poems with the surnames of people who never-to-my-knowledge wrote poetry.
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
- Replies: 95
- Views: 48573
Re: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
I would like to join the newly-emptied waitlist.
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thoughts on Andrew Hart's Deadspin Article
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5460
Re: Thoughts on Andrew Hart's Deadspin Article
Why is quizbowl spelled without a space? Isn't the intent to mirror "[Blank] Bowl" events in college football?bmcke wrote:EDIT: It was also nice that he didn't spell "quizbowl" with a space.
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 12:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thoughts on Andrew Hart's Deadspin Article
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5460
Re: Thoughts on Andrew Hart's Deadspin Article
Agreed. I suggest we spend a couple years staging an epic wrestling-style storyline, except consisting mainly of subtle literary allusions.Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:any quizbowl penetration into the public eye has to be at least partially personality-driven.
- Wed May 20, 2015 4:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Click Here to Become Sad
- Replies: 59
- Views: 29310
Re: your official Canadian cavalry regiment discussion threa
Regardless of who was or wasn't a prime minister, this whole thread makes me think that guy who said political and military history were overrepresented in quiz bowl was on to something.
- Sat May 16, 2015 9:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26633
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
Many people have argued to me on many occasions that they find questions more difficult in general when they don't provide a lot of contextual details. Those are probably the players who, like Jerry, want to feel like they're "moving closer" to the answer as the question progresses - they...
- Fri May 15, 2015 10:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26633
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
Disclaimer: I know very little about art except for the exasperating postmodern stuff that involves shocking people with a frozen-blood sculpture of your own head or getting plastic surgery to look like the Mona Lisa.
- Fri May 15, 2015 9:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26633
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
That's one good example. Another example that may be closer to what I had in mind was my much-maligned-at-the-time tossup on Tony Judt in Nats 2011. While that question may not have been optimal for that particular context, it, and things like it, are actually the kind of stuff that you encounter o...
- Thu May 14, 2015 11:37 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26633
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
I'm not sure what "studying academia" means Sorry - I typed that really fast as I was about to miss a 10:30 meeting. Pretty sure I meant to say something along the lines of "studying the sort of stuff one might expect to learn as a motivated student in whatever academic field, indepe...
- Thu May 14, 2015 10:30 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26633
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
Jarret - that seems to me like that sort of thing that would be used as an individual clue for common answer questions with answer lines like "patricians" (or "women's rights in China", or "the rice industry"...) Ike - my question was not so much about whether people sh...
- Thu May 14, 2015 9:39 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26633
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
You're not wrong, Derek, but this game isn't even close to being a perfect mirror of academia. In practice, there is usually a significant difference between regular "pursuit of academic interests" and specifically trying to get better at this game. The most obvious thing to point out is ...
- Thu May 14, 2015 7:45 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: two styles of writing: a close reading
- Replies: 77
- Views: 26633
Re: two styles of writing: a close reading
When I write for hard events, I am sympathetic to the "career/veteran quizbowl player" who has taken actions specifically to get good at this game....and, conversely, my questions are probably less sympathetic to a player whose knowledge is less derived from a specific/direct attempt to l...
- Wed May 13, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals - Ann Arbor, MI, 04/18-19/2015 - main thread
- Replies: 89
- Views: 58868
Re: ACF Nationals - Ann Arbor, MI, 04/18-19/2015 - main thre
I'd like to thank my perfidious teammate Joe for going out of his way to snitch on my grad status and ensure I wouldn't receive any form of undue recognition
- Wed May 13, 2015 5:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
- Replies: 86
- Views: 31226
Re: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
Ha. If I'm on the the top 25 list I will literally eat my shoe.Black Miao wrote:good point, this will certainly put you higher on my player poll
- Wed May 13, 2015 4:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
- Replies: 86
- Views: 31226
Re: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
Jordan and Derek aren't even powering as much as those three at ICT despite way weaker teammates, and their generalism wasn't enough to take their teams very far If you're looking at overall stats, these measures are highly correlated: there's a reason I went from scoring 38% powers before rebracke...
- Wed May 13, 2015 10:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
- Replies: 86
- Views: 31226
Re: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
Jordan and Derek aren't even powering as much as those three at ICT despite way weaker teammates, and their generalism wasn't enough to take their teams very far If you're looking at overall stats, these measures are highly correlated: there's a reason I went from scoring 38% powers before rebracke...
- Fri May 08, 2015 10:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Subject Rankings Thread
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10660
Re: Subject Rankings Thread
is from Alabama, which has apparently seen fit to overlook Neil Young's epic diss track and resume diplomatic relations with usMasked Canadian History Bandit wrote:Stefanie Schoeneman
- Tue May 05, 2015 11:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A quick-and-dirty player ranking stat (I'm not first)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6964
Re: A quick-and-dirty player ranking stat (I'm not first)
All the same, using the Canadian players I actually know... your math ranks my teammate Joe Su over Jordan Palmer and Jay Misuk, both of whom are far better players than he is. A little further down, my other teammate Sebastian Drake (who only buzzes on inorganic chemistry and British military histo...
- Sun May 03, 2015 11:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
- Replies: 86
- Views: 31226
Re: Player Poll 2015: LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS DUFUSES
[Whoops, I didn't see that power/neg ratios were already included in the OP. Please delete this post.]
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 5:09 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your Travel Disaster Stories
- Replies: 51
- Views: 41039
Re: Your Travel Disaster Stories
In terms of state capitals in which to have your Greyhound bus catch on fire, Montpelier's got to be pretty low on the list.
- Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Poll
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11121
Re: Postseason Poll
McGill's history/math/econ/art player, Sam Baker, couldn't play this year because he forgot to apply for his student visa.
We replaced him with Daniel Lovsted (our top DII scorer) for ACF Regionals, but he couldn't make it to Nats.
We replaced him with Daniel Lovsted (our top DII scorer) for ACF Regionals, but he couldn't make it to Nats.
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
- Replies: 227
- Views: 97162
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
I agree with Rob. In addition to the Shakespeare clue (which gave me the unfortunate experience of having "Kenneth Branagh!" shouted into my ear from a distance of several inches) the dentistry scene from Marathon Man is really famous and I actually thought the middle part of the question ...
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
- Replies: 227
- Views: 97162
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
Here's the tossups in Editors' Six: Fifth Column, Candida, Baudolino, malaria, Oberlin College, Black and Tans, Licinius, Abydos, cross section, arrythmia, metric space, coupling reactions, the Seven Sages, Baba Yaga's hut, A System of Logic, Delacroix, concerto grosso, Great Britain, inflection, G...
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
- Replies: 227
- Views: 97162
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
Oh, I don't disagree from an in-game perspective. By "odious" I merely mean "boring, time-consuming and probably not useful outside of quiz bowl".
- Tue Apr 21, 2015 3:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
- Replies: 227
- Views: 97162
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
Well, I agree with Marshall. I'm not a history player, but the notion of "list-based studying" sounds pretty darn odious to me.
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 6:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
- Replies: 227
- Views: 97162
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Discussion
I would just like to point out that Bela Tarr is one of the most lauded directors alive - Satantango even made it into Sight & Sound's poll of the top 50 films ever - and I'm actually quite surprised that multiple people in this thread consider him more obscure than some of the other stuff in th...
- Mon Apr 20, 2015 1:09 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Favorite Quizbowl Experiences
- Replies: 77
- Views: 61097
Re: Favorite Quizbowl Experiences
That moment when you punctuate your last tossup at ACF Nationals by waving a physical copy of Dictionary of the Khazars at the reader.
- Fri Apr 17, 2015 10:06 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your Lowest Point
- Replies: 64
- Views: 49067
Re: Your Lowest Point
15 minutes ago, when I discovered that none of my teammates knows what a fig is.
- Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 25905
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)
Copycat.The Last 20 Stanley Cup Winners wrote:I'm staying at McGill to do a MSc in Human Genetics.