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by Majin Buu Roi
Wed Apr 26, 2023 3:28 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 50705

Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion

Regarding Sufi saints: Lal Shahbaz Qalandar was a notable Sufi saint, and you're right that the first line in the tossup refers to a qawwali about him (there are one or two other less notable saints who also have the name Qalandar, but they're less-frequently invoked). Qalandar is, however, just a ...
by Majin Buu Roi
Fri Feb 24, 2023 12:15 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Chicago Open 2023 Matchmaking Thread
Replies: 5
Views: 3099

Re: Chicago Open 2023 Matchmaking Thread

Hullo I cover like 70 percent of the history distro and non-bibble beliefs pretty well, and will periodically get early buzzes and thin-air bonus pulls on other humanities things too. Would love to play with someone that knows science and/or classical music, but that's negotiable.
by Majin Buu Roi
Tue Sep 07, 2021 9:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Favorite Albums
Replies: 29
Views: 4104

Re: Favorite Albums

Can't image, too lazy to learn, still want to post. So leaving aside cast albums from musicals, in no particular order: Dirt -Alice in Chains, Vivid -Living Colour, Strong Persuader -Robert Cray, Somewhere in the Between -Streetlight Manifesto; Appeal to Reason -Rise Against; Are You Experienced , E...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
Replies: 81
Views: 25592

Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)

A suggestion for future versions of this event: I think it would be helpful if packet authors were clearer about the contents of their packet ahead of time. Providing a distribution can be really useful when trying to figure out your tier. i.e. Jason's packet was originally listed as "musical ...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16699

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

In addition to the comments mentioned above about the Italian Hall tossup, the clue itself was very confusing because it implied that "this action" caused the people's deaths, and the people actually died because of a stampede triggered by shouting fire, but that's a causal chain that was...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata

A rather major error (ok, maybe I'm being a tad cartoonishly over-invested in my niche interests here in calling it "major) I noticed was in the religion question on Iran (I think it was a religion question). While I was over the freaking moon to hear a clue on Ibn al-Rawandi/Book of the Emeral...
by Majin Buu Roi
Fri Dec 06, 2019 6:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Errata
Replies: 14
Views: 2351

Re: 2019 Fall Open Errata

From some of the buzzpoints, it's become clear that some folks were unfairly negged for spectacularly knowledge on the "China" religion tossup due to the fact that entirely unrelated "heterodox religious groups generically tarred as 'Shouters'" were also found in Trinidad and Tob...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Nov 17, 2019 9:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 66
Views: 14356

Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion

Just two things off the top of my head: 1. The Troubles are universally acknowledged to have started in the 1960s, so that giveaway should probably be changed to say "the first full decade of the troubles". 2. The "Three Days in the River" part in the Sikhism bonus doesn't reall...
by Majin Buu Roi
Fri Nov 15, 2019 8:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 66
Views: 14356

Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion

The slide guitar tossup seemed to play poorly, from what I heard, although this may be in part because of the failure of at least one of the moderators at the NYU site to give the directed prompt. In any case, I'm not convinced that "instrument" is the most ideal pronoun for the question,...
by Majin Buu Roi
Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Errata
Replies: 14
Views: 2351

Re: 2019 Fall Open Errata

Whoop The Song Dynasty TU: For 10 points, name this dynasty founded by Zhao Guangyin, which repeatedly fought the Jin dynasty until Mongols conquered both of them. This should read Zhao K uangyin (and the pronunciation guide should probably be changed as well) Wikipedia tells me Zhao Guangyin is som...
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Jun 10, 2019 3:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
Replies: 79
Views: 45610

Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University

I don't mean to contradict Will, Rahul, et al here, as I would also somewhat like this spelled out explicitly, but I personally presumed the submission schedule to be saying that any packet submitted between 6/15 and 7/6 would receive a +0. Again, just speaking personally here, I don't think the pen...
by Majin Buu Roi
Thu May 02, 2019 12:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
Replies: 37
Views: 27861

Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)

Guess what, I will also be looking forward to being a foot soldier of the Evil Empire :twisted: while working on a J.D. at UChica- Just kidding. Pahk da cah in Hahvahd (Lah School) Yahd. Look forward to being as involved there as allowed by studies and by the state of affairs of life ambitions being...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2019
Replies: 92
Views: 63842

Re: Player Poll 2019

Eric Wolfsberg Vote for Emmett for nicest person, but don’t vote for me in this poll. I can’t scale worth :capybara: . Leaving aside the Emmett for nicest person comment, this is by far the dumbest thing I've ever heard Eric say. He's definitely very good, and definitely scales. Should definitely b...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Apr 20, 2019 2:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2019
Replies: 92
Views: 63842

Re: Player Poll 2019

People worth considering from this side of the pond, some of whom didn't get much exposure in virtue of not playing Nats this year: Joseph Krol -- strong on lit, fine arts, maths and basically everything else. Extremely conservative on the buzzer, but that doesn't stop him from buzzing a lot (betwe...
by Majin Buu Roi
Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292280

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

My teammates would also like to see the Almohavid tossup. You mean this tossup, right? 11. This dynasty’s founder allegedly restored morale after a brutal loss by burying some of his troops on the battlefield with breathing straws, having them tell his other troops how nice heaven is, and then cove...
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Mar 11, 2019 5:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)
Replies: 6
Views: 4263

Re: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)

Thank you so much to everybody who played yesterday. I hope you enjoyed yourself and felt you got your money's worth, especially given the relatively loose scheduling that developed and that only 9 packets were played. Both of those things were purely a result of my comical underestimation of how lo...
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Mar 11, 2019 4:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292280

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

I'd question this leadin at CO. I highly doubt anyone who plays the set buzzes on it. I literally searched "In the Train story Egypt" and it took me 7 links to get to one about the Taymurs, and even then it was nested deep into a Britannica page about Egyptian literature. My apologies for...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Mar 09, 2019 7:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)
Replies: 6
Views: 4263

Re: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)

The team formation spreadsheet now contains a link to the discord server. Also, Derek So has graciously agreed to help out for parts of the day, as have Katherine Lei and Shubham Sengar, so we should be alright now moderator-wise. There are also two spots still open for any free agents, but otherwis...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Mar 09, 2019 3:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292280

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

To start with briefly, the tossup on "Incan Emperors" has been changed to a tossup on just "Incas" to avoid some protest situations I've been made aware of. No actual clues have changed, but the pronouns have and hopefully this will reward the same knowledge better.
by Majin Buu Roi
Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)
Replies: 6
Views: 4263

Re: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)

Owing to the fact that a sixth team has just registered, I am closing the field except in the event that two further teams sign up at once. There are, however, a handful of free agent spots still open.
by Majin Buu Roi
Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)
Replies: 6
Views: 4263

Re: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)

The above post now comes with an exciting new feature called "a functioning link to the team formation spreadsheet."
by Majin Buu Roi
Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll
Replies: 3
Views: 1845

Re: PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll

The online mirror will, barring extreme changes of plan, will take place on Sunday, 3/10. The poll will technically remain open for one more day, simply because I did not know how close polls at first, but further votes will not affect the date unless the preference changes by an overwhelming margin...
by Majin Buu Roi
Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
Replies: 89
Views: 49338

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open

Barring extreme circumstances, I will be holding the discord mirror on the date most favored by a significant margin in the date poll, 3/10. Here is a link to the announcement http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22449 . Again, please attend an in-person mirror if it is remotely feas...
by Majin Buu Roi
Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)
Replies: 6
Views: 4263

PIANO Online Discord Mirror (3/10/19)

I am please to (finally) announce an online mirror of PIANO (main announcement thread: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21685 ) to take place on discord on Sunday, 3/10/19 . The precise schedule and soft field caps are still being determined, and this post will change to reflect ...
by Majin Buu Roi
Tue Feb 26, 2019 4:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll
Replies: 3
Views: 1845

Re: PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll

I'll be keeping this poll open until I post an actual announcement some time tomorrow. Unless the trends drastically change in that time, the date I plan on announcing should be fairly obvious.
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:02 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll
Replies: 3
Views: 1845

Re: PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll

Oh, quick clarification, in the unlikely case this confused anybody in this respect, but try fill out this poll as individuals, please. If you are on/representing a team that wants their voices heard regarding the online mirror date, please have your teammates answer this poll separately if possible...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll
Replies: 3
Views: 1845

PIANO Online Mirror Date Poll

The following is a date poll for the online mirror of PIANO, to be run on discord by yours truly. Each person is allowed to give 4 responses, and the options include Sundays as well as Saturdays. Please give the 4 dates you would PREFER that the online mirror fall on, if you are available to (and of...
by Majin Buu Roi
Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: SCT placement policies
Replies: 15
Views: 8884

Re: SCT placement policies

I would second Conor's post, and add that NAQT is placing an enormous, entirely unnecessary burden on teams playing and ESPECIALLY on teams hosting SCT by not taking the very, very, simple step of explicitly telling at the very least their SCT hosts clearly and precisely how they want placement (and...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Feb 10, 2019 6:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
Replies: 89
Views: 49338

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open

Online: date TBD Just so folks know, I'll be running this on discord at some point if demand is there for it even after people play the in-person mirrors (though do not take that statement to mean that the online mirror will necessarily be held at a date later than all of the in-person mirrors). Th...
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
Replies: 26
Views: 12520

Re: ACF Regionals playtesting

hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:44 pm hey, can the jason who filled out the doodle poll email me for the IRC info? don't want to invite the wrong person.
Just emailed you.
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NASAT Online Mirror
Replies: 27
Views: 10903

Re: NASAT Online Mirror

Also would be interested in an August date.
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon May 21, 2018 9:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Mirroring British Tournaments
Replies: 6
Views: 4475

Re: Mirroring British Tournaments

Hello! Over the past couple of months, the Canadian circuit has been trying to set our summer tournament schedule. We've been hoping to host a mirror of either this year's Oxford Open or Cambridge Open, since they have not yet been played in Canada. However, we have been completely unable to get in...
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon May 07, 2018 9:28 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
Replies: 76
Views: 41339

Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish

Like Aseem, I'm also super-late to this, but I definitely thought that this unnecessarily rigorous discussion could use more good old-fashioned "you should vote for my teammates" posts. So if you're still filling out your ballot, you should definitely vote for my teammates. Like, all of th...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Apr 28, 2018 4:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Players Choice Awards
Replies: 52
Views: 37590

Re: Players Choice Awards

I'm going to admit to possessing a certain amount of bias here, but I think Warwick A's 310-215 win over Cambridge A (Jason, Ewan, Ellie and Ephraim) at ACF Regionals should be in contention for Upset of the Year. One of those teams finished 5th at Nats whereas the other team didn't even finish in ...
by Majin Buu Roi
Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Postseason poll
Replies: 19
Views: 9761

Re: Postseason poll

I appear to be mostly writing pro-British posts at the moment, but Oxford should 1) come higher on your ballots now then they did before and 2) be noted as only missing out on the top bracket by (iirc) 20 points in their tiebreaker game. It's also worth noting that their top of second bracket finis...
by Majin Buu Roi
Fri Apr 13, 2018 12:36 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2018)
Replies: 27
Views: 20012

Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2018)

I’m headed to the University of Arizona for an MS in medical physics. I may try and see if I can revive the team there, and I’d be happy to staff whatever high school stuff exists there, time permitting. As person who was born in Arizona (but has not been there since I was six months old), I kind o...
by Majin Buu Roi
Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:39 pm
Forum: Best of the Best
Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
Replies: 68
Views: 60526

Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to

Have you considered not reserving rooms on behalf of NHBB if they continue to run bad tournaments? It seems like they are reflecting badly on your club, even if you aren't associated with them. Basically, NHBB could reserve rooms anyway without us helping (and since David Madden is an alum '00 of P...
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Midseason poll
Replies: 16
Views: 11642

Re: Midseason poll

PSA: Don't forget Johns Hopkins this time! And I'd say this about Johns Hopkins prior to Robert Chu joining them. Also Oxford this year is sneaky good and should probably be ranked a little higher than in the pre-season poll. Daoud Jackson has the scariest metagaming proficiency I've seen by anybod...
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Feb 12, 2018 9:06 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open: American Editors Required
Replies: 5
Views: 4227

Re: Oxford Open: American Editors Required

In my capacity as "American who played the British version of this set." I will completely back up Daoud's assessment. There are a few cases of unnecessarily confusing wordings, but I'll bet Daoud is or has already taken care of those. OOT 2018 was a tremendously fun set whose Americanizat...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)
Replies: 48
Views: 35958

Re: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)

I took scores on my 19-tossup musicals packet for some reason, which came out as follows:

John Lawrence: 110
Greg Peterson: 100
Alston Boyd: 55
Dakota (?): 45
Alex Damisch: 10
Erik Christensen: -5
Adam Sperber: -10
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)
Replies: 48
Views: 35958

Re: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)

As I've already mentioned on the discord (but in case people don't see it there) my musicals packet will almost certainly not quite be a full packet, but it will have at least 15 tossups that range in answer-line difficulty from "harder than anything that comes up in SCT/IS packets but still re...
by Majin Buu Roi
Fri Dec 22, 2017 7:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)
Replies: 48
Views: 35958

Re: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)

I may have a musical theater packet for this that will be harder than last year's (though not abusively so, I just want to see if I can avoid having every question get powered this time). We'll see exactly how much I get done after a family dinner tonight/tomorrow morning, but this will happen and ...
by Majin Buu Roi
Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)
Replies: 48
Views: 35958

Re: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)

I may have a musical theater packet for this that will be harder than last year's (though not abusively so, I just want to see if I can avoid having every question get powered this time).
by Majin Buu Roi
Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:53 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: I'm bored so let's suggest music
Replies: 43
Views: 4194

Re: I'm bored so let's suggest music

I'm suggesting, in honor of a good quiz bowl player who has chosen to end her quiz bowl career for the time being, a band called Streetlight Manifesto. It's ska-punk and it's super great to head bash to. Singing along is easy too because the lead singer's voice is kinda raspy so it'll drown out any...
by Majin Buu Roi
Sat Aug 26, 2017 12:34 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Thought Monstrosity on Skype (August 26th, 2017)
Replies: 9
Views: 5188

Re: Thought Monstrosity on Skype (August 26th, 2017)

ahuff wrote:Is it to late to join a team?
Young's final call, obviously, but half of the teams have a spot open, so I doubt it.
by Majin Buu Roi
Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Summer practices at Columbia
Replies: 9
Views: 6048

Re: Summer practices at Columbia

Sorry for the short notice folks, but practice is off tonight owing to most of the regulars' being unable to make it. We should still have practices through next week, though.
by Majin Buu Roi
Fri Aug 11, 2017 2:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Naveed Bork Online (8/12)
Replies: 19
Views: 9139

Re: Naveed Bork Online (8/12)

Please add me (and Ophir and Jakob and Will) on Skype if you have not done so already. My handle's the very tacky jasoniusg.
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Jul 30, 2017 11:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Summer practices at Columbia
Replies: 9
Views: 6048

Re: Summer practices at Columbia

CPiGuy wrote:Will these still be happening the first week of August (so, the 1st and/or the 3rd)? I'll be in the general area that week and would love to come at least once.
Yup! Be warned, with the partial exception of Rafael Krichevsky, we're extremely goofy.
by Majin Buu Roi
Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Summer practices at Columbia
Replies: 9
Views: 6048

Re: Summer practices at Columbia

We've set up shop in Hamilton 303 tonight on account of people in 309. We may move back to 309 later tonight, and this does not affect any practice other than tonight's (I think).
by Majin Buu Roi
Sun Jul 02, 2017 4:39 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: How to attract new members
Replies: 11
Views: 18068

Re: How to attract new members

Hi, I am now working at La Salle Academy in NYC and want to start a quiz bowl team. I am open to suggestions but want to know if there are any leagues in or near the City with regular tournaments. Thanks Johann Yay, more teams in NYC! One bit of advice following up on Michael's is that tournaments ...