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- Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5757
Re: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
Now that CO is over, do the folks organizing this have an idea of when what sets are being played will be finalized?
- Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:37 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Introducing the UQC
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7402
- Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Quizbowl Packet Archive DESPERATELY needs an overhaul.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6127
Re: The Quizbowl Packet Archive DESPERATELY needs an overhaul.
It might in principle be okay to mark older tournaments that were panned by the community as of lower quality since that information can be of use to people looking for practice material who aren't going to be combing through the forums; the DB obviously shouldn't editorialize with current sets but ...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ West, 2/20/21
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4721
Re: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ West, 2/20/21
Why is it that "if you played ACF Winter, you can probably play this tournament" when Winter, like recent EFTs, had no formal or informal eligibility restrictions and was played by a lot of very good players, while the stated difficulty comparisons, PACE NSC and ILLIAC, are respectively a ...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3239
Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata
Mea culpa for not pointing this out when I played the set, but the Versos Sencillos/Guantanamera/Cuba bonus refers to Guantanamera as the national anthem of Cuba, which it isn't.
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7938
Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
Voting has finished. Thank you to the eleven voters in this poll for making these rankings possible: Leo Law, Jonathen Settle, Ryan Humphrey, Bradley McLain, Daniel Hothem, Emmett Laurie, Ryan Rosenberg, Alston Boyd, Rudra Rangnathan, Kai Smith, and Rahul Keyal. The results are as follows: #1: Colum...
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7938
Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
The deadline for this passed last night but I, uh, forgot about that, and I won't have a good chance to finish the calculations and post the results until tomorrow I think, so I am extending the deadline for ballots until midnight Pacific Time tonight (9/26) . If you wanted to vote in this poll but ...
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7938
Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
A reminder that the deadline for voting in this poll is one week away. I know that there was some discussion about rankings in the Discord earlier this week, but if people want to share their thoughts in this thread that may both be edifying and help more people solidify their thoughts for the poll.
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7938
Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
The is the announcement for the preseason poll for collegiate teams (the extent to which it is actually "pre" season is debatable since some closed collegiate events have already happened but whatever). Please do not post ballots in this thread, but email them to eb.wolf@verizon.net by the...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19154
Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
Sorry if this is said somewhere that I am once again not seeing, but do the editors of this set intend to make online mirrors play using video for players (eg via Zoom or Discord video) to discourage cheating?
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 23022
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply that Columbia was doing anything wrong; I just thought that it would be desirable for the LIT editors to put in the LIT global announcement that exemptions from the geographical restrictions are available and will be granted for good reasons so that everybody knows that ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 4:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 23022
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
According to the spreadsheet, Columbia has registered a team for this tournament despite the fact that New York is not one of the states included in the first post of this thread or in the Mid-Atlantic region on the overall LIT announcement. I don't much care whether they play this mirror or the Nor...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
- Replies: 23
- Views: 10882
Re: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
According to conversations in the Quizbowl Discord, the editing team for this has refused to let Joe reveal their identities, which is an extremely concerning sign regarding the likely quality of these sets.
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19154
Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
To clarify something from your previous post from March, will people who graduated from one school in the Spring but who are now enrolled somewhere else for the fall be required to play for their old school rather than their new one?
- Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - THE FINALS!
i can't wait to vote on all the best songs of the 1780s
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - THE FINALS!
Stairway to Heaven vs. Born to Run
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 10:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
- Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Psycho Killer
Lola vs. Ohio
London Calling vs. Wish You Were Here
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Only the Good Die Young
Lola vs. Ohio
London Calling vs. Wish You Were Here
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Only the Good Die Young
- Fri May 22, 2020 6:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Bohemian Rhapsody vs. Riders on the Storm
Psycho Killer vs. Gloria
Bridge Over Troubled Water vs. Ohio
Hotel California vs. Lola
London Calling vs. La Grange
Wish You Were Here vs. Sultans of Swing
War vs. Only the Good Die Young
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Take Me Home, Country Roads
Psycho Killer vs. Gloria
Bridge Over Troubled Water vs. Ohio
Hotel California vs. Lola
London Calling vs. La Grange
Wish You Were Here vs. Sultans of Swing
War vs. Only the Good Die Young
Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Thu May 07, 2020 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals Cancellation Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6529
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
I think one of the options ACF presented in the poll they sent out to teams would be to have regional prelimsat some point in the spring followed by a playoff bracket the day before Nats 21. Relative to what Mike proposed, this would at least give teams who qualified this year and who would be inter...
- Mon May 04, 2020 1:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
communism is good; john lennon is bad
- Mon May 04, 2020 12:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) vs. I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home): No vote No Woman No Cry vs. Fly Like an Eagle: No vote Bang a Gong (Get It On) vs. American Girl: No vote My Sweet Lord vs. Flash Light: No vote Barracuda vs. Just What I Needed: No vote Imagine vs. Southern Man Kodachrome vs....
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 2:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 32874
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Spring 2021)
Since you're explicitly putting physical chemistry in with physics, will biochemistry/"bio-y" chemistry be placed in the biology distribution (ie where it isn't crowding out "core chemistry" in the reduced chemistry distribution)?
- Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Goodbye Stranger vs. Cold as Ice Move On Up vs. The Man with the Child in His Eyes I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home) vs. America The Beautiful (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night vs. More Than a Feeling Smoke on the Water vs. Delta Dawn Pink Moon vs. Garden Party Brass in Pocket vs. I'd Love T...
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Statistics Questions
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4613
Re: Statistics Questions
I'd guess that if this is true it's because of the greater breadth of askable topics in college math combined with the ladder place of mathematics in college distributions, especially compared to state formats like VHSL Scholastic Bowl. Math questions in college can more easily ask about relatively ...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Doctor, My Eyes vs. Roadrunner (Once) : This is a tough matchup but I'm a sucker for singing that's actually just talking. Cherry Bomb vs. Easy: My hatred of Easy is as intense as it is difficult for me to put into words When Will I Be Loved vs. Smiling Faces Sometimes The Shape I'm In vs. The Revol...
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 10:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353552
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Heart Of Glass vs. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight Radio Radio vs. Burning Love Friend of the Devil vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Roxanne vs. Fooled Around and Fell in Love Lust For Life vs. Baker Street Marquee Moon vs. Let Your Love Flow Highway to Hell vs. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) ...
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1607
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
Most of my votes here are inspired by the facts that the French Republican calendar is great and pataphysics is obscurationist and dumb, so I'm always voting for the former and against the latter 3/62: Thermidor v Self-Existing 30/35: Pédale v Frederick 19/46: Absolu v Lilius 14/51: Shakespeare v Mo...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11755
Re: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
I'll be starting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Stanford. If time allows I hope to keep playing.
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1270
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round
40 seed: Thargelion v Anthesterion
49 seed: Gamelion v Metageitnion
52 seed: Sabatu v Abu
58 seed: Addaru v Tisritum
60 seed: 1 Deer v 1 Flower
62 seed: 1 House v 1 Flint
63 seed: Boedromion v Maimakterion
64 seed: Pharmuthi v Mesore
49 seed: Gamelion v Metageitnion
52 seed: Sabatu v Abu
58 seed: Addaru v Tisritum
60 seed: 1 Deer v 1 Flower
62 seed: 1 House v 1 Flint
63 seed: Boedromion v Maimakterion
64 seed: Pharmuthi v Mesore
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 7:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1330
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
i cant in good conscience vote against wayeb' here because i need the sansculottides to win this
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:49 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8762
Re: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
I think in the last match of ACF Nationals 2018, Delaware was playing in the bottom bracket, and one of the last tossups was asking for "this event" in a way that, to my ably frauding ears, really sounded like the assassination of someone from early Islamic history. The most obvious answer...
- Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19488
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
In light of the two physical mirrors of this set that have been cancelled, I hope that this set's editors organize or allow others to organize an online mirror.
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 1:26 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: 5th of March Incident
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9921
Re: 5th of March Incident
(This post is not directed at Emily in particular. It’s also pretty cranky.) Can we stop obsessing and mythologizing over this crap? All of the good stories have been told a zillion times by now, and you can read the anecdotes off of an overlong/injoke-y QBWiki page. There are so many other good qu...
- Fri Feb 28, 2020 6:42 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (see new announcement thread for 2022)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13289
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (July 19, 2020)
When the staffer recruitment form asks if you're "comfortable" reading or staffing a room by yourself does that just mean "Are you familiar and proficient enough with quizbowl to do this" or is a target time limit per round implied, and if so what would you want?
- Thu Feb 20, 2020 5:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 NAQT SCT: February 8
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8174
Re: 2020 NAQT SCT: February 8
In 2017, Penn applied for and was denied a wildcard bid for ICT, despite the fact that Eric Mukherjee was unable to make it to SCT but obviously would have qualified if he had been able to play. This made many in the community believe that it was completely impossible to have a wildcard bid for ICT ...
- Wed Feb 19, 2020 7:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ideal Host Cities for a Nationals Event
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5217
Re: Ideal Host Cities for a Nationals Event
hosting national tournaments on the west coast is a bad idea because then it will be substantially more expensive to get there for the majority of teams, which are not on the west coast.
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9604
Re: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
My memory of playing in high school (mostly in NYC+New Jersey and Boston-area events) is that being given five seconds to answer tossups was typical, even on IS-sets.
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16856
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
I got this off the Beckett clues and didn't notice that that was what was going on; could the text of this be posted?100% Clean Comedian Dan Nainan wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:12 pm I was very bewildered by the tossup linking Avengers: Endgame and the Beckett play, which was perhaps the worst idea for a tossup I have seen in a long time.
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7630
Re: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
Is Washington taking their host bid in DII (which is the situation that would obviate this)? I assumed that they'd take it in DI since they have DII-ineligible players. In any event that doesn't change the central issue here, which is something that's going to keep happening as long as there are the...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7630
Re: A Modest Proposal Regarding D2 ICT Qualification
I figure it behooves me to necro this thread since it seems likely that this situation will happen again. The combined-field Northwest SCT site was won by Washington B, a DII team, but since the only other DII teams at that site were all from Boise State there were only DII teams from two schools, t...
- Fri Jan 31, 2020 1:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Guardian article on quizzing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1700
Re: Guardian article on quizzing
In the US, the more academic style of Quiz Bowl was supplemented in the late 1990s by Trash tournaments Makes sense to me. I could imagine that it's more like the broader/British quizzing community diverged from academic quizbowl at that time due to the development of more modern/pyramidal question...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5377
Re: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)
Could a field update be provided? Thanks.
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25631
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
The tossup on auroras (which generally described them as "this phenomenon") had a sentence that I remember saying something to the effect of "Homer used the phrase 'rosy-fingered' to describe a god whose Roman equivalent names these phenomena." This seems like a not insubstantial...
- Wed Jan 22, 2020 1:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12654
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
Are there any plans for a collegiate mirror of this set in the Northeast/upper Mid-Atlantic (the NYU mirror being high-school-only, which one might also regard as a questionable decision but nevermind that)?
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 2:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Call for Editors - MAGIC (2020 HS Set) [Suspended Indefinitely]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3533
Re: Call for Editors - MAGIC (2020 HS Set)
Also, is there a rationale behind the very small philosophy/social science distribution? I don't mean to defend any of the other decisions being made in this distribution, but 1/1 combined Philosophy+SS is almost certainly a good upper bound for regular difficulty HS sets and is present in nearly e...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4677
Re: CO Matchmaking
I'd like to play CO for the first time this year but am not actually good at anything. I probably have the closest thing to specialist knowledge in bio and chem but knowing random stuff in other categories will likely make up most of my few tossup conversions.
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 6:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324259
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 1:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3573
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
Also, considering that it is very nearly January, is there an idea of whether such an online mirror will or will not happen, or when that determination will be made?
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 3:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324259
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
i cant wait to make this data way more noisy with my bizarre, terrible, and inconsistent taste #15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magn...