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- Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: How Much to Card
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3272
Re: How Much to Card
Definitely agree with Andrew here. This is why I personally don't find inheriting cards from other people to be very helpful, as cards tend to be most useful as a retention tool (i.e. not the "learning" tool) for facts that I had already learned to some degree via reading and taking notes....
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Maryland Summer Open (July 22-23)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3583
Re: 2023 Maryland Summer Open (July 22-23)
Random, but if anyone is driving up to UMD from within DC tomorrow for Jordan’s side event, could I hitch a ride with them? I’m also willing to split Ubers.
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 4:17 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: The Last 1023 Years Were Boring Anyway (Pre-1000 History) - Poll
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3145
Re: The Last 1023 Years Were Boring Anyway (Pre-1000 History) - Poll
I think I'll be about 30 minutes late but would like to play. Is there a Discord channel for it?Restitutor27 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 7:03 am Will read on Tuesday 18th July, no change to time. Let me know if you want to play and can't make it
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 4:02 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Best Debut Performances?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8167
Re: Best Debut Performances?
Luke Minton's debut HSNCT performance in his senior year (2016) should be up there. I really think he could have been an elite player if he cared about quiz bowl even a little bit.
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9110
Re: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
If we treat "skill as a three- or four-dot player while still in high school" as a metric something like "most able to scale to arbitrarily high difficulties," Tommy Casalaspi was obviously on a different plane than everyone else when it came to reading, writing, and buzzing on ...
- Mon Mar 21, 2022 12:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - Specific Questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2160
Re: Specific Questions
I acknowledge that the Jacob/Esau kiss is difficult to isolate given the scriptural reference, but I would have to disagree about the Deuteronomy clue. Moses having received the kiss of God at the moment of his death is reasonably well known and seemed suitable for a late power clue. Google searchi...
- Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - Specific Questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2160
Re: Specific Questions
The philosophy tossups in this set felt consistently hard to power. I felt this way about some of the history tossups, but I am careful to bring it up as I'm by no means a very competitive history player at this difficulty level (especially compared to the level of knowledge that JinAh has in philo...
- Tue Mar 01, 2022 8:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - Specific Questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2160
Re: Specific Questions
Can I see the Koreans (Christianity) bonus? First, I thought the Vineyard movement part was worded confusingly (something about the Vineyard movement influencing the vast majority of Korean American Christians? This really threw me off as that has, experientially, not really been the case for me or...
- Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - Specific Questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2160
Re: Specific Questions
Can I see the Koreans (Christianity) bonus? First, I thought the Vineyard movement part was worded confusingly (something about the Vineyard movement influencing the vast majority of Korean American Christians? This really threw me off as that has, experientially, not really been the case for me or ...
- Tue Nov 16, 2021 1:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6313
Re: 2021 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
I just saw the Bahai tossup, which says The book The Dawn-Breakers describes this religion’s eighteen "Letters of the Living." I must admit much of my Bahai knowledge comes from Wikipedia, but it seems like the Letters of the Living refer to the first 18 followers of the Bab, whose religio...
- Tue Nov 16, 2021 11:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11691
Re: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)
I recognize that it's pretty hard to schedule mirrors this semester due to covid , but with mirrors starting in around 5 weeks, do you know if other mirrors are getting scheduled (selfishly, a northeast mirror in particular)? Wanted to bump this, as I wouldn't mind traveling to play this with frien...
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:13 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best sets from the past couple years?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2461
Re: Best sets from the past couple years?
Off the top of my head, without having done serious research, these sets come to mind: High school : 2015 CALI 2016 PACE NSC 2019 BLAST 2018 ACF Fall 2019 ACF Fall College : 2016 Terrapin 2017 ACF Regionals I wouldn't consider myself competitive at the upper level of the collegiate canon, so I can't...
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl: Playtest Discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 406
Re: Playtest Discussion
I missed this during the initial look-through of questions, but I think the original sin TU mentions near FTP that baptism gets rids of original sin. This is to my knowledge primarily a Catholic doctrine not universally shared by other streams of Christianity. I would suggest 1) caveating the clue a...
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7544
Re: Teammate Appreciation Thread
4. Seth Teitler is just such a calm, steady presence. You know like how in Star Trek V, Spock's half-brother can like put a hand on someone's shoulder and calm them down? That's what Seth does on teams. I have to echo this comment about Seth. I've played only one tournament with him, when we were b...
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:24 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49093
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
I'm moving to DC in May to start full-time work and plan on playing open tournaments and staffing events in the area.
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 6:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1967
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
First, I want to thank all the editors and (especially) the new writers for creating a very enjoyable set! I think overall, I had a better experience on this year's edition than last year. I also really appreciate the passion and the workrate of the new writers, which should not be glossed over. I b...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19327
Re: Specific Question Discussion
I don't think it's right to call "Arirang" the "Korean national anthem" -- there is no unified Korean government and neither North or South Korea's official national anthem is "Arirang." My understanding is that the song is of similar stature to "Lift Every Voice a...
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:58 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Few questions on how to study for quizbowl
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6337
Re: Few questions on how to study for quizbowl
1. What is the best way to study for HSNCT, NHBB Nats and other hard high school tournaments? I am having a hard time right now. I would do a good amount of packet reading + find some way of collecting and retaining information. Perhaps start at HS regular difficulty (WHAQ, CALI, etc.) and then rea...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: JaMES: How well do you know your Bible? (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12280
Re: JaMES: How well do you know your Bible? (Summer 2020)
So far he has not struck me with his rod twice in anger.Kouign Amann wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 11:12 pm so you’re telling us that a guy named moses did most of the work but couldn’t quite see the job through to the end?
hmm
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 10:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: JaMES: How well do you know your Bible? (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12280
Re: JaMES: How well do you know your Bible? (Summer 2020)
Basically, Moses did his share and I am being lazy and experiencing writer burnout.
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19327
Re: Specific Question Discussion
The only question I remember not liking was the tossup on Tlön, because the way it played it out in all instances I was aware involved early recognition of what story was being described (since there's a limited pool of details from which the question could draw), followed by a testing of the playe...
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 11:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3141
Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata
This clue is not uniquely identifying, as emperors abdicated and became cloistered all the way until the 1600s.Round 13 wrote: 4. ... Leaders who retired to monasteries during this period engaged in “cloistered rule”.
ANSWER: Heian <BM, World History>
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 8:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3932
Re: A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
This was very mature of you to post, and I'm sure the people who underwent negative experiences appreciate this statement, but I hope you're not too hard on yourself. Reading this as an unrelated 3rd-party, you were much more responsive and levelheaded than many other people in similar situations i...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 12:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: COOT 2021
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5275
Re: COOT 2021
Will the set have powers?
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 4:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll: RESULTS POSTED
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11485
Re: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll
People shouldn't sleep on Raymond Wang from Ithaca; he's especially killer on literature as I remember from our HFT mirror . Basil Sousonis is also very, very good from personal observation at HFT . I reckon he's top 30. I've never seen Uni Lab play, but the fact that not one, but two high schoolers...
- Wed May 27, 2020 7:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9184
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
I am kind of late to this because I forgot discussion forums were a thing, but I have a few thoughts about some of the questions. I mentioned this to Jacob already, but I really enjoyed the water and peace religion tossups. Early clues of both asked about very popular hymns that I don't think quiz b...
- Tue May 12, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason poll
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4550
Re: Postseason poll
Harvard A While Harvard's teams have changed roster many times this year, I'd like to think Harvard's "real" A team would have either been: Jason Golfinos / Michael Yue / Thomas Gioia / Kelvin Li (which was the EFT team ), or sub out Thomas for Laurence Li or Ricky Li. Kelvin is one of th...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BoPSS: Score Clues for Pop Music
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1318
BoPSS: Score Clues for Pop Music
After being inspired by my inimitable friend Michael Yue and his score clue parsing prowess, I'm excited to announce BoPSS , or Buzz on Popular Song Scores . The packet aims to be something similar to what Michael wrote for the Internet Charity Tournament, but for "pop" music as defined br...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 2:37 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: From Tony Taylorism to Pre-Lew Fordism: Baseball in the Second Half of the 20th Century
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8845
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT XIV Available for Mirrors (2019-20)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8470
Re: HFT XIV Available for Mirrors (2019-20)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all remaining physical mirrors of the set have been cancelled. Instead, we are hosting a closed Discord mirror on May 23, the original planned date of HSNCT. Teams who were planning on playing the set are encouraged to register.
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21133
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
I tried to look into this awhile back and talked with Jonah about it, but is it possible to add citation templates like in Wikipedia? By this I mean when you edit Wikipedia, you can add sources and format them in a specific manner, which will show up in a References or Citations section toward the b...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2614
Re: Specific Question Discussion
I liked the Ideal Gas constant tossup in this set (can I see it?). More of the science in this set felt like you had to have experience in the field in order to get that question early in (à la the time question), which I really liked in comparison to previous sets I've played. 9. Before the 2019 S...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16728
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Can I see the Michael I Romanov tossup?
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16728
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
This tossup provides another piece of evidence why the 2-second rule really isn't compatible with the clues NAQT is often using: In one poem, a husband of Hrodr who is said to be this god's father catches two whales before cutting a fishing line baited with an ox's head. This clue was very hard to ...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6403
Re: 2020 SCT general discussion
Relatively minor, but there was one round with three straight Russia-related tossups: Red Square, Sholokhov, and Michael I.
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16728
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Can I see the exact wording of the "wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia" bonus part? From what I heard, the question said something along the lines of " During this event, Caeneus died..." I answered with Centauromachy, which was neither accepted or prompted. If the question actu...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 3:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25427
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
I was very sad to realize that I did not get to play the Joseon tossup. The leadin to the tossup says: 1. An admiral of this kingdom was said to have tightened iron ropes between enemy fleet groups during a battle that he had prepared his soldiers for by saying that “those who seek death shall live;...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25427
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Could you please post the question on "healing"? Aside from the eyeroll-y content, I wasn't able to deduce from the question until quite late that it didn't want some much more specific answer. I would very much like to second this request. I think one of the earlier clues mentioned 1 Cor...
- Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:56 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Tournament (Regular HS, 2020-2021 Season)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10514
Re: Matt Cvijanovich Memorial Tournament (Regular HS, 2020-2021 Season) - Call for Editors
Out of curiosity, what does this mean?ganman0305 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:55 pm and Sean Philips is editing Trash and Law. We still need editors for the following subjects:
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 3:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament @ MSU (11/23)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5040
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament @ MSU (11/23)
Thank you to everyone who played HFT at MSU! We hope you enjoyed the set. A private discussion forum for the set has been created; please considering leaving feedback there, as it helps us improve the set. To join, please click on your Username -> User Control Panel -> Usergroups and then request to...
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2614
Re: Specific Question Discussion
When I was moderating, I had to stare at this bonus part and figure out that you were saying Greece was fighting for its independence from this country. This is another reason why last minute should be avoided and playtesting is an unambiguous good! Asking moderators to figure out your grammar for ...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Difficulty Discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 478
Re: Difficulty Discussion
This could just be me, but one of the moderators we brought agreed with me that bonus turnover seemed lower than at other tournaments we've played. Hopefully the bonus conversion was in-line with a regs+ difficulty set - the numbers we saw from Triton Fall were roughly what we were expecting from a...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2614
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Hello, this is my first time in a discussion group, so apologies if I'm not up-to-date on standard etiquette and procedure for these things. I'd like to preface my questions by simply saying that I had a great time on HFT this year and my teammates all thought it was pretty fun and mostly fair. Tha...
- Sun Nov 10, 2019 11:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Triton Fall @ UCSD [11-9-2019]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3073
Re: Triton Fall @ UCSD [11-9-2019]
Thank you to everyone who played HFT at Triton Fall! We hope you had an enjoyable experience. A private discussion forum for the set has been created. To join, click on your Username (top-right hand corner of the page) -> User Control Panel -> Usergroups -> request to join 2019 HFT Discussion. We wi...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Difficulty Discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 478
Difficulty Discussion
Please discuss the difficulty of the set here. In particular, discuss the consistency and selection of 1) general difficulty 2) answerline difficulty 3) bonus difficulty. All feedback is welcome.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2614
Re: Specific Question Discussion
In terms of question variety, we tried to deliver a healthy mix of canonical answerlines and more "experimental" ones, all the while keeping accessibility in mind. In terms of history, for which I wrote the majority of the questions, answerlines like "ships" (World history), &quo...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 10:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: General Set Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 711
Re: General Set Discussion
This is my second and (probably) last time head editing HFT. I wrote the majority of history and religion, along with a good deal of visual art and mythology. I also wrote a few questions in literature, science, and social science (In total, I wrote about 30% of the set). Michael Yue wrote much of t...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2614
Specific Question Discussion
Please discuss specific questions here. Requests for the text of questions, and compliments/complaints/comments about specific questions should go here.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 9:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: General Set Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 711
General Set Discussion
Similar to years before, please discuss the overall quality of the set here, such as overarching successes/problems. Difficulty and specific question discussion should go in their corresponding threads.
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 12:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How do you put Quiz Bowl on a resume?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8605
Re: How do you put Quiz Bowl on a resume?
I think you can tailor your quiz bowl experience to the job you want to apply to. For example, I'm mostly looking at management consulting jobs right now, so the advice I got from Career Services was to highlight the work I've done by using numbers and data (this advice goes for anything on your res...