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by Sylvia Pankhurst
Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:31 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2022)
Replies: 25
Views: 13555

Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2022)

I'll be starting a PhD in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity at Princeton next year. I'd be shocked if I play, but I'll be around to staff things in the tri state area.
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:04 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord
Replies: 17
Views: 10650

Re: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord

Befriending high schoolers for being good at quizbowl has the added effect (implicit in this thread, but perhaps necessary to explicitly state) of incentivizing high school friendships with adults; if you get in with the old people, it means you’re good at quizbowl. That can further cloud minors’ j...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sat Oct 02, 2021 4:38 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord
Replies: 17
Views: 10650

Re: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord

The quizbowl server is meant to be a community server, not a college server. Plenty of other discords I'm part of don't try to impose this sort of barrier (and I can see this furthering the perception of college quizbowl being an exclusionary cabal). There can certainly be some discussion between a...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:09 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord
Replies: 17
Views: 10650

Re: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord

new proposal: you need college eligibility to be on the main discord, kick the geezers off to the "open" server
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:00 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord
Replies: 17
Views: 10650

Re: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord

Also not to be overly harsh, but any adult whose main form of socialization or validation is the Discord is objectively The Problem here. Please make friends your own age and leave hsers and undergrads alone. It's creepy and sad.
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Fri Oct 01, 2021 11:33 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord
Replies: 17
Views: 10650

Re: Boundaries and Being Off-topic on the Discord

This is a good idea. No one should be talking to Old men as much as the discord hsers constantly are. Even if nothing "inappropriate" is mentioned, the idea that you are peers IN ANY CAPACITY is already inappropriate.
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:29 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: The Issue with Apologies
Replies: 1
Views: 6788

The Issue with Apologies

This post is the amalgamation of several posts I made on discord earlier. Repeatedly, after causing harm to others in the community, qb men have decided to make a pages-long forums post to explain away their misconduct by walking the community through their thoughts and feelings; why they did what t...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sat Aug 01, 2020 2:20 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
Replies: 51
Views: 64215

Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community

One thing I would like to stress from Mahria's post is a point which has been repeatedly pointed out: men who perform well are repeatedly forgiven for their outbursts. Forgetting everything that Luke had done in high school, much of which was unknown at the time, how was anyone in club leadership ok...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:49 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
Replies: 51
Views: 64215

Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community

Speaking specifically to HS Coaches, I want to draw attention to the bus to/from tournaments, which, in my experience, is often a den of debauchery. Once, while on the bus back from Urbana, one of my friends licked another up their arm and thanked them in front of the entire bus for sleeping with hi...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Mon Jul 13, 2020 2:22 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
Replies: 51
Views: 64215

Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community

The thing about being a woman in quizbowl is that you're never just a player. You're a woman first and player second. In my high school career, the men who spoke to me were the men who were trying to hit on me. At ACE Camp before my senior year, the only man who regularly spoke to me was someone who...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:55 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
Replies: 51
Views: 64215

Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community

I'm so tired of having this conversation. I'm tired of these fights on the forums that leave me terrified after I post that some man at least 5 years older than me is going to rip my words apart like what happened to Chloe's study two years ago. I'm tired of knowing nothing I say will change anythin...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
Replies: 21
Views: 11691

Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)

To quote the previous years' threads: it's that time of year again where people start to hear back from transfer applications, grad school apps, job offers, landlords, etc. and make plans to go places. Here is a thread in which current college players or members of the college quizbowl community can...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CO Matchmaking
Replies: 14
Views: 4632

Re: CO Matchmaking

I'm debating playing this year. I've always played on teams that were at least half non-men, so I'd like to keep that streak alive. I'm pretty okay at lit, visart, history and RMP
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Dec 24, 2019 3:17 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323482

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

cant believe you're making me vote a kanye song for song of the decade
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:25 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323482

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sat Dec 14, 2019 1:35 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323482

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me I really liked dirty computer two years ago, but when I listened again more recently I fo...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Thu Dec 12, 2019 7:20 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323482

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio ) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Thu Nov 28, 2019 11:10 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323482

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

#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 - Magnolia #15 Future - Mask Off vs. Burial - Come Down to Us #16 Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - ...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sun Jun 02, 2019 11:50 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: High School Quizbowl and You
Replies: 4
Views: 8065

High School Quizbowl and You

Once upon a time I was a high school senior who went to a Chicago practice. While I was there, I made a really dumb neg and was immediately yelled at for acting like a moron. Now, while this was said in what was, in retrospect, a friendly tone, I was completely intimidated, decided to never buzz aga...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7954

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

Mitski
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7954

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

mitski
earl
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sun Dec 30, 2018 4:41 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7954

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Snail Mail - Lush
#1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #2: Pusha-T - Daytona

#1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #7: Lucy Dacus - Historian
#1: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer vs. #2: Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Wed Dec 26, 2018 12:39 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7954

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 Sylvia Pankhurst
Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Replies: 102
Views: 7954

Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket

#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #7: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance #3: Beach House - 7 vs. #6: Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. #5: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel #1: Kids See Gho...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
Replies: 18
Views: 13592

Re: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago

One thing that I would love NAQT to consider for future years is how the late announcement of SCT sites can affect schools. For example, Kenyon's budget for next semester was due this past weekend. I have to include the expected travel distance and location of the competition when requesting funds, ...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:55 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
Replies: 50
Views: 10339

Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread

Can i see the Weber and Ovary tossups? They both seemed to have very steep cliffs at "traditional, legal, and charismatic" and "polycystic"
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:31 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Boston Latin Tournament (BLT) I (Scobol Solo/SCOP 9 Mirror) 10/27/18
Replies: 25
Views: 11876

Re: Boston Latin Tournament (BLT) I (Scobol Solo/SCOP 9 Mirror) 10/27/18

In addition to everything that Jakob brought up, the inclusion of the “women’s final” mentioned above really needs to be addressed. While I understand that the intentions of the TD were likely to recognize the skill of female players, women are not the JV of quizbowl and should not be treated as suc...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sun Sep 30, 2018 8:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Replies: 10
Views: 6511

Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)

Overall this tournament was really fun and ran smoothly. The decision to have teams stick with the same reader all day ended up working out well for us, as Asher was great. It was the first tournament for about half of the players Kenyon brought, and all seemed to enjoy the experience. Unfortunately...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:20 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: How to be Better at Being an Ally
Replies: 11
Views: 15105

How to be Better at Being an Ally

Dear Men of Quizbowl, Let’s discuss how we, as a community, discuss issues pertaining to women. First of all, this is not a post meant to accuse anyone. It’s understood that everything you’re doing is out of a genuine place to create change and move the community forward. However, when your allyship...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Wed May 30, 2018 3:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110723

Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)

One question that I think the community has for NAQT, however, is why exactly we should trust the organization going forward. It's great that you are now looking into everything--I don't mean that to come off as sarcastic. But why did it fall to members of the community to find these abhorrent blog ...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Wed May 30, 2018 11:50 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110723

Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)

All those who read his blog and said nothing, revel in your complicity.

If Matt Bruce is so essential that NAQT cannot function without him, burn it the hell down. It's built on rot.
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue May 15, 2018 7:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
Replies: 33
Views: 23433

Re: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together

The idea of resigning this to a whisper network makes me sick to my stomach. I understand why doing anything more when something might just be 'this person is creepy and did x that isn't a crime but was bad" is also not the best way to approach things, but if we leave this to a whisper network ...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sat Apr 07, 2018 1:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: How to make college quizbowl less insular
Replies: 22
Views: 12811

Re: How to make college quizbowl less insular

One thing that no one has discussed is that Quizbowl is already quite insular by the time you get to college. Most of my earliest memories of quizbowl are standing outside of the circle of "elite" Illinois players while they talked to my better teammates and I and whatever other 4th scorer...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:41 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA 2016
Replies: 36
Views: 14214

Re: IHSA 2016

The stradian bonus comes to mind, although I'm not a math player so I don't know if that's notable. Quinterest has no entries. I also think the lead-in to the Set tossup could have been better. I totally agree about the Set tossup. That and the Atalanta question reminded me of Brancusi lead in of &...
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:17 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSA 2016
Replies: 36
Views: 14214

Re: IHSA 2016

That horse bonus was a fantastic way to start the day
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Fri Jan 08, 2016 4:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8228

Re: Best Albums of 2015

Carrie and Lowell
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Tue Jan 05, 2016 8:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Albums of 2015
Replies: 171
Views: 8228

Re: Best Albums of 2015

Hamilton
Carrie and Lowell
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: IHSSBCA Kickoff at Homewood-Flossmoor, Saturday, 11-21-15
Replies: 2
Views: 2445

Re: IHSSBCA Kickoff at Homewood-Flossmoor, Saturday, 11-21-1

Any update on when stats are likely to be posted?
by Sylvia Pankhurst
Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:03 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '15 - '16
Replies: 64
Views: 47141

Re: Illinois '15 - '16

You should be able to. That's how we qualified sophomore year.