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- Sat Feb 27, 2021 1:01 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ Northeast, 02/27/2021
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1635
Re: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite @ Northeast, 02/27/2021
While I sympathize with the unfortunate circumstances of online quiz bowl, I take issue with the packet limitation reason. College quiz bowl sets generally have at least 13 packets, with many having 15. Granted, this is an online tournament, and there has been some discussion about reducing the num...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1065
Re: Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
We have editors for all subjects now. We could still maybe use a writer or two in history, SS, or philosophy if anyone else is interested. Probably won't have an "official" announcement for the set for a while, but I'll list all of the editors here: Eric Mukherjee (head; bio, chem, physics...
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4513
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
EDIT: mods pls delete i posted in wrong thread
- Sun Feb 14, 2021 10:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4513
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
In the tiebreakers packet, there is a slight error in bonus 15. Dangarembga's The Book of Not was the sequel to Nervous Conditions, and This Mournable Body is the third book in the series. Nevertheless, always good to see Zimbabwean literature come up!
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1065
Re: Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
Another update (also wow there's been a ton of interest in just two days!): Jaimie Carlson will edit the myth for this tournament. At this time, we are still searching for editors and writers in philosophy, social science, and history. Given the large amount of interest from writers, I am going to a...
- Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:01 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1065
Re: Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
quick update: Will Alston will be editing auditory arts for this tournament. I'll be splitting the lit up with Jacob O'Rourke and Henry Atkins. We are still seeking editors in history (all subcategories), myth, phil, and SS. There was a large amount of interest from writers in just one day, so at th...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:32 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1065
Looking for writers/editors for Spring 2022 Medium tournament
Hello everyone, several members of the Vanderbilt club are planning on producing a medium-ish difficulty set (name TBD) in the spring of 2022, probably to be ready around February-March, but that detail can be nailed down later. Specifically, the set will aim to be a bit harder than EFT, while still...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4513
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
I, and at least a few other people I've spoken to, found the Turing tossup confusingly worded. My teammate buzzed and negged with Searle at the same place I would have, shortly before Searle's name was said. I had just studied the Chinese Room thought experiment with what I thought was a reasonable...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:17 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4513
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
In the tossup on Jacob Lawrence, unless I'm misremembering the wording, Gwendolyn Knight was mentioned, but only in the context of "she was his wife." I'm really not a fan of reducing female artists to "this [male] artist's wife," and I personally think it would have been better...
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 12:16 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4513
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
I greatly enjoyed this set as a whole, including a number of individual questions, and hope to maybe come back and give some more thoughts once the packets are posted. Some personal highlights: the Germany tu in other ac that clued the history of higher ed, which might be the only time I'll get poin...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 5:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3073
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier
I think 2 hours should be about right, considering there should be minimal breaks during a team's set of 100 bonuses (maybe like, a small 1 minute break after every 20?). Also presumably the staffing corps for this will be fairly elite. Also, unlike a normal tournament, this qualifier doesn't have t...
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3073
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals Qualifier
This seems pretty reasonable given the circumstances, though I'd like to make one suggestion. As a precaution for the possibility of a lot of demand and not enough slots to try out enough teams, I think it would be a good idea to initially restrict registration for this event to a school's A and B ...
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 6:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: COOT 2021
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2407
Re: COOT 2021
Would love to see a North American mirror of this. Since it would presumably be a large staff commitment, I'm personally willing to pay a higher than usual entry fee to attract more freelance staff. Ditto. I do think this set could perhaps even work on a more regional level, given the difficulty. O...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:56 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7535
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)
I also don't think the supersite contributed to this problem. The Midwest has several schools (including the three you mentioned) that are capable of hosting a tournament without their A team. It's also worth noting that we had the same problem with the Midwest in November and there would not have ...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:00 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: WOOLF (TBD)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1283
Re: WOOLF (TBD)
If slots fill up, I am also interested in a collaborator, particularly someone who likes poetry/wants to write the poetry questions.
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite Global Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9141
Re: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite Global Announcement
Feels worth pointing out that with (at least) 20 packets, you could probably run 2 tournaments of this set in each region. While this might constrain field sizes/format options a little bit, I think most teams don’t really want to play more than 10 rounds online anyways (especially for something wit...
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Playoff Round Robins
- Replies: 3
- Views: 780
Re: Playoff Round Robins
I think currently this is the fairest way to do things, though I can appreciate the concern. I also think this concern really only exists with a field size of exactly 12*, as 11 rounds is generally considered too much for online quizbowl, and only doing crossovers against the top 3 teams from the ot...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4184
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
I found the Pointillism tossup super confusing given the pronoun "this style." I buzzed on the description of the Portrait of Felix Feneon with the answer portrait, because when I hear the phrase "this style" I think of traditional forms like portraiture, abstraction, history pa...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 1:12 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3907
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
the bonuses themed around rap music in literature (rap/The Hate U Give/Citizen) This was my favorite question in the set by a mile (made me glad I agreed to playing the packet even after 9 very long and tiring games, tbh) and I really like how it asked about YA novel The Hate U Give in a way that e...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3907
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
I greatly enjoyed editing the American Lit and Painting/Sculpture for this set. I plan on making a post about some of the differences between editing for a housewrite/set that doesn't utilize packet sub vs. one that does (so potential editors can evaluate which might be a better fit for them), but t...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4184
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Here are two questions that I wrote down for negative reasons while playing the set. There are a much larger number of questions that I enjoyed, which I might comment on once I see the packets. There was a bonus about Massachusetts in literature that seemed to refer to The Crucible as being set in ...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 6:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2020 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1961
Re: ACF Fall 2020 - Specific Question Discussion
Having two easy parts on Canada in the same packet (C) seems less than ideal
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: ACRO-Demia Online Tournament - 11/15/20
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3109
Re: ACRO-Demia Online Tournament - Weekend of 11/14/20
I too can only play this on Sunday
- Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IKEA Southeast Mirror @ Discord (10/24/2020)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1363
Re: IKEA Southeast Mirror @ Discord (10/24/2020)
<3ramblinwreck wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 9:37 am In addition, bouncebacks will not be used at this mirror.
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 6:26 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4609
Re: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
As a vocal bounceback hater, I would also prefer this tournament didn't use them.
Also, I am searching teammates (that don't have aspirations to win the tournament) for this! I know some amount of lit and vfa.
edit: team found
Also, I am searching teammates (that don't have aspirations to win the tournament) for this! I know some amount of lit and vfa.
edit: team found
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Minnesota Collegiate Novice Invitational (10/3/20)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1155
Re: Minnesota Collegiate Novice Invitational (10/3/20)
Update: Registration is now closed Final Field: Case Western Reserve University (2) Alabama University (1) Amherst College/Area (2) Stony Brook (2) Grinnell College (2) University of Iowa (3) Auburn University (1) Iowa State University (2) Carleton College (2) University of Minnesota (1) FWIW, the ...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11785
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
I'm becoming more convinced that Zoom tournaments need something other than the Zoom chat to handle buzzes. I was trying my hardest to notice buzzes but Zoom's minimalist chat interface makes it really hard to see them without just taking your eye from the packet every few seconds. Yeah, from readi...
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Best Way to learn PSS?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1411
Re: Best Way to learn PSS?
I'm sure the rest of Ethan's post is good, but Malcolm Gladwell is not an academic sociologist and I'm sure anyone who included him in a sociology question would be (rightly) ridiculed.
[he is a compelling speaker though]
[he is a compelling speaker though]
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:31 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How to prepare for College Nationals
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1868
Re: How to prepare for College Nationals
I'm not the most qualified to talk about studying for nats, so I'll just assume the advice given by the other very talented players in this thread is good. I did want to address a similar topic regarding transitioning from high school to college quizbowl (and nationals): mindset/expectations. A comm...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 24121
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Spring 2021)
I'm happy to see this tournament shifted to the fall and look forward to playing it! Given the concerns of the speed of online tournaments, we do not currently plan to use bouncebacks for these events, but we will allow tournament coordinators to make this decision for their own sites. you absolutel...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4747
Re: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
Could teams that played SCT last year be surveyed relatively easily? Or this year as part of the registration process (if sct is able to occur), or ask hosts to distribute and scan in surveys along with scoresheets? That seems like a way to sample a larger portion of NAQT’s collegiate customer base.
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 8:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2020
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2881
Re: Penn Bowl 2020
Does this mean that all of the mirrors are delayed as well, or just the main site?
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:13 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: Announcing the Southeast-Midwest Housewrite, a nationals level set for Winter-Spring 2021
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2238
Re: Announcing the Southeast-Midwest Housewrite, a nationals level set for Winter-Spring 2021
If this is going to be written at PACE difficulty it's probably a good idea to seek collegiate mirrors of the set.
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 10:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Fall 2020)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 24121
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: IKEA (Spring 2021)
In light of recent discussion, we are strongly encouraging hosts - especially more experienced ones - to run this event with steals ("bouncebacks"). The flagship sites at Columbia and GA Tech will be using them. We have adhered strictly to an 800 character limit to tossups and 650 charact...
- Wed Jun 17, 2020 1:40 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11046
Re: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
I think you need very strict length control and bonus timing So the latter point is going to be extremely difficult to uniformly enforce across an entire tournament unless every room has a nats caliber reader in it (which most local tournaments definitely do not have!). Bounceback timing is arguabl...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:08 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll: RESULTS POSTED
- Replies: 35
- Views: 5950
Re: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll
Someone who doesn't get nearly enough attention (overlooked region, not online, etc) is Sanjeev Uppaluri from Cambridge. He's basically solo in all the tournaments he plays, and he's definitely t4 in Georgia (worse than us, Hooch, Eastside). Notably, while playing six of the eight best teams in Geo...
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:10 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Neg 5: The Quizbowl Discord Bot
- Replies: 2
- Views: 790
Re: Neg 5: The Quizbowl Discord Bot
It might be best to name this something other than Neg 5, since there is already a quizbowl scorekeeping app with that name (viewtopic.php?f=123&t=18220).
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 10:02 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Laws and Treaties: A Vanity Packet
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1171
Re: Laws and Treaties: A Vanity Packet
I'd like to play this, but acronym league is tomorrow night, starting at 7 central. I can't remember how long it took last time, but I think I would miss out if so. If I'm the only one with this overlap I'll just read it later, so no worries :)
- Mon May 25, 2020 10:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11785
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
I agree with most of what Mike said about the advantages and disadvantages of Zoom. I would like to note that for our team, there were multiple 5-10+ minute waits between rounds, so I think a lot more than 30 minutes was wasted on this throughout the day. I did like being able to see everyone during...
- Mon May 04, 2020 11:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Directing bonus answers in Discord tournaments
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1435
Re: Directing bonus answers in Discord tournaments
This is a good topic to start a conversation about. I've always been of the opinion that due to the persistence of technical issues in discord tournaments, typing being slower than speaking, etc., something more along the lines of 7 seconds per part should be given to players. While this may slow a ...
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: POLL - Cambridge Open Online (May 24th)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2595
Re: POLL - Cambridge Open Online
I'd like to hear the bonuses at this tournament, especially if the intention is to have as many school teams as possible play. I'm personally not much of a fan of bouncebacks.
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:16 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Video-Podcast: College Quizbowl Tiers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2034
Re: Video-Podcast: College Quizbowl Tiers
This was really interesting to listen to, thanks for taking the time to record it, Will. The only part of the analysis I can really comment on is about Florida. They definitely don't exclusively rely on Taylor to answer lit questions, as Tracy and Alex are quite capable at getting buzzes on that cat...
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8452
Re: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
I'll be starting a 2-year masters in higher ed admin at Vanderbilt, and plan to continue playing. Looking forward to joining a talented young team!
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 2:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38162
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Seems worth noting that Will has demonstrably improved a lot over the time span that the data set ranges, whereas other players have had more constant performances.
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4028
Re: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)
Selfishly, I would also like for this to be one day only, mostly so I don't have to get up early on back-to-back days.ryanrosenberg wrote: ↑Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:23 pm I would strongly prefer a one-day tournament; I think tossups-only will be better for that, but wouldn't particularly mind if we included bonuses.
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:20 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 16584
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Some of greatest players of our age got to where they are within the four-year span of an undergraduate degree. I counted the number of players marked UG, DII, or equivalent in the top 10 prelim scorers of several ACF Nationals. Ah yes, the best method for determining who the best players are: PPG.
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:35 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 16584
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Many of the best players in the middle of my career (besides me, obviously), were late UGs and early grad students (Matt Jackson, Matt Bollinger, Jordan Brownstein, Jacob Reed, Will Alston, Auroni Gupta at the time). Your proposed UG championship would also be dominated by a few of these figures, a...
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 11:01 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Schurniverse: It's a Schur Thing (Early Summer 2020)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5216
Re: Schurniverse: It's a Schur Thing (Early Summer 2020)
Are there any updates on this?
Specifically, my teammates and I are hoping to play this at HSNCT!
Specifically, my teammates and I are hoping to play this at HSNCT!
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP at UGA
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1720
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP at UGA
The tournament will follow a round-robin style preliminaries and a consolation-style playoffs bracket. Any updates will be posted to this forum. Not to be rude, but what exactly does this mean? Also, I know it has been a few years since UGA hosted something, so feel free to reach out to me (westcha...
- Fri Feb 21, 2020 2:36 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: FLopen 2020
- Replies: 11
- Views: 16579
Re: FLopen 2020
1.5 Other Arts (Film, Jazz, Opera, Design, Architecture, Photography, World Music, etc) :party: :party: :party: Super cool that y'all are writing this, though I do have some concerns about 22/22 at open difficulty resulting in a super long day (though hopefully this will just be communicated well t...