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by Stinkweed Imp
Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:44 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
Replies: 19
Views: 3921

Re: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers

I'm pretty strongly opposed to teams splitting at Regionals in order to qualify more teams (or any other reason). ACF Nationals is a highly exclusive tournament for a reason, and for newer programs or players even qualifying for it should be considered a significant accomplishment. An established sc...
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:09 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Replies: 18
Views: 8617

Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)

I would hate to see a forum argument derail a good cause so I'll happily make a donation on Dan's behalf if he decides to not play this tournament.
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Aug 21, 2023 7:43 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: Ahead by a Century: A History Side Event
Replies: 5
Views: 2353

Re: Ahead by a Century: A History Side Event

ErikC wrote: Tue Jul 11, 2023 5:34 pm packages
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Aug 16, 2021 3:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Favorite Albums
Replies: 29
Views: 4120

Re: Favorite Albums

too many things i like for a top 40, not quite enough for a top 100
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by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Nov 08, 2020 2:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
Replies: 420
Views: 2144814

Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [PLAY-IN ROUND ONE; SUBMIT BY 11/8]

1. Clash of the Clash The Clash, “Should I Stay or Should I Go” The Clash, “Rock the Casbah” 2. Country Crossover Corner Willie Nelson, “Always on My Mind” Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, “Islands in the Stream" 3. Disco Holdouts (Pick One) Rick James, “Super Freak” Lipps., Inc, “Funkytown” Kool...
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Oct 26, 2020 4:58 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Names of People in Quizbowl
Replies: 1
Views: 1702

Re: Names of People in Quizbowl

1. If you are writing an answerline on a person who shares their last name with another person who is reasonably "canonical" (i.e. Alma Mahler and Gustav Mahler), require their first name or initial consistently, or only require last name consistently (the latter would probably be prefera...
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Packet Submission discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 10372

Re: Packet Submission discussion

1. Packet submission increases the cost to play quizbowl. This is true. Is this true? The questions used for ACF fall have to come from somewhere, and if they don't come from packet submissions ACF will have to pay people to write them. This would increase tournament costs, which have been previous...
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:46 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
Replies: 48
Views: 32764

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)

or just use this one
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by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:29 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15820

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

Under the ACF rules, such protests should only be filed during the first 10 tossups of the game , and changing such protests retroactively seems to violate the spirit of the rule in this situation. The spirit of this rule appears to me to be to prevent teams from holding up a tournament by declarin...
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
Replies: 788
Views: 1351930

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) ...
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:47 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 147202

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Contra my esteemed colleague Prof. Boyd, I think this is a reasonable middle ground when there's suspicion but no concrete proof... Saying "someone at TO online cheated" is really saying "someone on this list of people cheated." Rather than throwing suspicion on one person, you'...
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54238

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

One could easily make the same argument about this forum - that many high school students have quite reasonably decided that forum discourse is inane and not worth engaging with, and this means that there is nobody to rebut "git gud" ideology. I don't actually have any solution, but perha...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54238

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

Didn't these people all join Quizbowl about 8-10 years ago? Surely the effects of difficulty inflation would be much harder to overcome now than it was back then. I wasn't around back then so I wouldn't know, please correct me if I'm wrong. If anything, there has been difficulty deflation in the pa...
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54238

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

A team of four decent freshman who play semi-regularly and then study hard their junior and senior years should be nationally competitive. Is this not already true? A UG team has finished in the top bracket of Nationals every year since 2009 (at which point the stats don't list if a team is UG or n...
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54238

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

I think this further proves Justine's point because, despite their hard work, it took them so long to get to this upper echelon of play. Certainly it isn't impossible for undergraduates to get good, or even dominate, but it requires a considerable amount of effort on the part of such undergraduates...
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54238

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

I want to clarify the point about graduate students. I don't think many people have a problem with graduate students playing because they're graduate students, but rather the problem is because they've been playing for so long. Experience is a pathway to many advantages some consider to be unfair: ...
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:10 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl Detailed Stats
Replies: 3
Views: 2152

Re: 2019 Penn Bowl Detailed Stats

Here are hastily-calculated bpas for the first round of mirrors. A few sites had incomplete buzzpoint data, so these values should be considered approximate at best.

EDIT: added teams
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 56
Views: 7468

Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata

Overall, I really liked this set. The questions (at least in the categories I know about) did a good job of balancing accessibility with interesting hard clues. A few questions I remember having (minor) problems with: The painting tossup on Matthew was good, but the depiction of Matthew writing with...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sat Oct 05, 2019 1:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Announcement: 2019-20 Fantasy Quizbowl
Replies: 73
Views: 7218

Re: Announcement: 2019-20 Fantasy Quizbowl

DROP Aseem Keyal
ADD Jeffrey Qiu
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Announcement: 2019-20 Fantasy Quizbowl
Replies: 73
Views: 7218

Re: Announcement: 2019-20 Fantasy Quizbowl

You get the team that you played. If you played "Texas A" and they are outperformed by "Texas B" you still get "Texas A"s points. If no "Texas A" plays, then you get no points. So, if Chicago labeled their top 3 teams for a tournament X, Y, and Z, fantasy tea...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Sep 22, 2019 11:23 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Running Club Meetings
Replies: 10
Views: 16947

Re: Running Club Meetings

If your team members are not dedicated, I honestly found that just delivering the hammer was the only way to get things done, and I ended up kicking out half the team last year due to how little they seemed to care and after months of consistent lackadaisical behavior. this strikes me as a bad idea
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
Replies: 21
Views: 17422

Re: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019

ACF will not delay the discussion or public availability of ACF Fall questions after the weekend of November 2. High school sites are welcome to express interest in holding mirrors on other dates, but they do so at their own question security risk. Does this include possible mirrors after November ...
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Jun 11, 2019 11:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
Replies: 6
Views: 6672

Re: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll

When will the results from this be posted?
by Stinkweed Imp
Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
Replies: 105
Views: 82854

Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania

If PPG is so robust, then surely it should be acceptable for the top bracket as well. Clearly, ACF is giving top bracket teams priority. In many cases, this is perfectly reasonable— the difference between first and second place, or even between seventh and eighth place, is far more significant than...
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Dec 25, 2018 2:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7961

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimite...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sat Oct 20, 2018 10:36 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 2: Penn Bowl
Replies: 10
Views: 823

Re: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 2: Penn Bowl

Aseem Keyal
Evan Suttell
Rohin Devanathan
MSU A
by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Announcement: Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-19
Replies: 51
Views: 4902

Re: Announcement: Fantasy Quizbowl 2018-19

DROP Max Schindler
ADD Aseem Keyal
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Oct 01, 2018 10:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Who Would Win In A Fight?
Replies: 12
Views: 1982

Re: Who Would Win In A Fight?

Though I don't want to say numerical advantage would be the absolute deciding factor, Colorado's six-person ICT team from last year definitely deserves a mention
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Cobalt II @ La Jolla High School (4/22/17)
Replies: 2
Views: 2263

Re: Cobalt II @ La Jolla High School (4/22/17)

bird bird bird bird bird wrote:This event is actually scheduled to use IS #164
That is correct. Edited accordingly.
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Cobalt II @ La Jolla High School (4/22/17)
Replies: 2
Views: 2263

Cobalt II @ La Jolla High School (4/22/17)

La Jolla High School is pleased to announce Cobalt II, a regular-difficulty high school tournament. DATE/TIME: The tournament will take place on Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Check-in will take place from 8:00 am to 9:00 am and matches will begin at 9:15 am. LOCATION: PII Invitational will take place ...
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:24 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PII Invitational @ La Jolla High School (3/26/16)
Replies: 3
Views: 3538

Re: PII Invitational @ La Jolla High School (3/26/16)

This is now being moved to Saturday, March 26. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:31 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PII Invitational @ La Jolla High School (3/26/16)
Replies: 3
Views: 3538

Re: PII Invitational

Field (as of 3/24):
1. Arcadia A
2. Arcadia B
3. Canyon Crest A
4. Canyon Crest B
5. Canyon Crest C
6. Del Norte A
7. Del Norte C
8. Diamond Bar
9. Irvine
10. Madison
11. Rancho Bernardo
12. Scripps Ranch
13. Westview A
14. Westview B
15. Westview C
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:29 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: PII Invitational @ La Jolla High School (3/26/16)
Replies: 3
Views: 3538

PII Invitational @ La Jolla High School (3/26/16)

La Jolla High School is pleased to announce its PII Invitational, a regular-difficulty high school tournament. DATE/TIME: The tournament will take place on Saturday, March 26th, 2016. Check-in will take place from 8:00 am to 9:00 am and matches will begin at 9:15 am. LOCATION: PII Invitational will ...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:28 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8228

Re: Best Albums of 2015

Carrie and Lowell
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Jan 04, 2016 6:35 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8228

Re: Best Albums of 2015

TPAB
Hamilton
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Art Angels (though I'll probably regret this choice pretty soon)
by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: A New Quizbowl Podcast
Replies: 3
Views: 4302

Re: A New Quizbowl Podcast

Part two is now finished. The next episode should be out in October, recapping the first few tournaments of the year. Thanks to Keith Mattix, Ted Gan, Ryan Bilger, Will Overman, and Colin Cantwell for appearing on this episode. http://yourlisten.com/qbpodcast/quizbowl-podcast-episode-1-part-2-the-east
by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:58 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2015-16
Replies: 76
Views: 78012

Re: HSQBRank 2015-16

Stephen will be a sophmore
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Aug 21, 2015 11:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2015-16
Replies: 76
Views: 78012

Re: HSQBRank 2015-16

Canyon Crest A: Johnatan Luck and Keshav Tadimeti graduate
North Hollywood A: Sam Winikow and Hailang Liou graduate
Rancho Bernardo A: no graduations
Torrey Pines A: Emily Sun and Kevin Jiang graduate
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:59 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: A New Quizbowl Podcast
Replies: 3
Views: 4302

Re: A New Quizbowl Podcast

Episode One is Here! Featuring preseason previews from the western United States. The second half, covering the East Coast, has been recorded and will be posted within a few days. Thanks to Anthony DiCarlo, Charlie Mann, Andy Huff and Ali Saeed for appearing on this episode. http://yourlisten.com/qb...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sat Aug 01, 2015 3:39 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: A New Quizbowl Podcast
Replies: 3
Views: 4302

Re: A New Quizbowl Podcast

I now have guests from SoCal, NorCal, NY, New England, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Canada and Illinois. The spots for Texas and Tennessee are still open.

EDIT: All spots are now full. The first episode should be released by the end of the month.
by Stinkweed Imp
Thu Jul 30, 2015 4:43 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: A New Quizbowl Podcast
Replies: 3
Views: 4302

A New Quizbowl Podcast

Inspired both by the recent "Quizbowl in Social Media" thread and the end of Up Late with Eric Xu, I'm planning on starting a new podcast to replace it. The first episode(s) will be previews of the upcoming year, hopefully to be released in early September. I am looking for people with kno...
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Jun 09, 2015 1:17 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California (CA) 2015 - 2016 Discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 6849

Re: Southern California (CA) 2015 - 2016 Discussion

I decided to try to find some stats that resemble next years teams. Of course, most of these are based on aPPB throughout the year, so they probably won't be terribly accurate, especially because you can never really predict who will improve the most over the summer, but they should provide a genera...
by Stinkweed Imp
Tue Jun 09, 2015 12:22 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: San Diego Academic League
Replies: 19
Views: 12446

Re: San Diego Academic League

I know that previous attempts at change have failed, but I am still hopeful. At least according to my coach, many of the other coaches have either realized the superiority of pyramidal quizbowl or are just fed up with Academic League's terribleness and are also trying to change the question source t...
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Jun 08, 2015 11:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: San Diego Academic League
Replies: 19
Views: 12446

Re: San Diego Academic League

"A heroine tells one story each night to a king in the Arabian Nights . Name that heroine." "The Kulturkampf was promoted by Otto von Bismarck. Which state has Bismarck as its capital?" "The Big Dipper contains two "pointer stars" indicating the position of Polari...
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Jun 08, 2015 1:14 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: San Diego Academic League
Replies: 19
Views: 12446

Re: San Diego Academic League

I just remembered another atrocity committed by the San Diego Academic League. In our final novice game of the season, against our perennial rivals Bishop's, SDAL reached new heights in question recycling. The match used the same questions, repeated verbatim, in the same order and with the same bonu...
by Stinkweed Imp
Mon Jun 08, 2015 12:51 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Southern California (CA) 2015 - 2016 Discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 6849

Re: Southern California (CA) 2015 - 2016 Discussion

My (likely incorrect) predictions for next year. I'll include the members of each team (from HSNCT/PACE rosters + other people I know about) that are returning next year, but if I get somebody's grade wrong please correct me. Arcadia Retains: Matt Forster, Hamlin Liu, David Zhang, Xiaoke Ying, Jacob...
by Stinkweed Imp
Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:02 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: What is your definition of a good Quiz Bowl player?
Replies: 5
Views: 4695

Re: What is your definition of a good Quiz Bowl player?

A team of specialists is usually better because no one can know everything and a team of good specialsists will usually beat a generalist who could easily beat every individual on the team. A good generalist can beat an team of average players, but at higher levels of competition where questions are...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sun Apr 05, 2015 2:31 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
Replies: 177
Views: 198586

Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things

Also because of TMBG I got a pretty good buzz on a James K Polk tossup, even though I really suck at history. Listening to that song probably has the highest points to time ratio of any of the unusual knowledge sources I have. I now refuse to learn anything else about Polk that isn't presented in s...
by Stinkweed Imp
Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:53 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: San Diego Academic League
Replies: 19
Views: 12446

San Diego Academic League

With the 2015 San Diego Academic Leauge season coming to a close in a few weeks, I think we should all take the opportunity to mock it as relentlessly as possible. The quality of questions has begun to improve slightly, but are still almost entirely terrible, and often wrong. The best strategy seems...