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- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14693
Re: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
And while I remember most of the "trick" questions Matt J alluded to in the other thread being pretty amusing and playing out ok, there were a lot of them--probably a few too many, given that the set also had a decent number of less jokey questions with somewhat obfuscatory indicators/fra...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4108
Re: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
I was very happy to get the USA tossup in the finals (and even happier to not get negged for saying Puerto Rico), since I’m extremely bad at recent pop music and only knew the answer from reading people on the internet argue about whether or not it was a red flag for guys to say YHLQMDLG in their on...
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Logomachy (side event, late 2022)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5013
Re: Logomachy (side event, late 2022)
This set is very good and has what feels like a little something for everyone, whether you identify as someone who is “into words” or very much do not. It’s also definitely easier than Scattergories while still being both entertaining and edifying.
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: August 6, 2022 @ Evanston, IL
- Replies: 98
- Views: 48616
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: August 6, 2022 @ Evanston, IL
As someone who is fully vaccinated, boosted, and still caught COVID in Chicago a few weeks ago (after avoiding it for two years), I strongly agree with Chris. “You must wear masks unless actively moderating, making tournament announcements, or eating/drinking” is already a pretty lax mask policy, an...
- Thu May 12, 2022 1:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 IQBT Undergraduate Championship - Congratulations Chicago A!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16657
Re: IQBT Undergraduate Championship - March 4, 2023
MRNA II will serve as a qualifier for the IQBT Undergraduate Championship. More details about the IQBT Undergraduate Championship can be found here . Posting in this thread since I think my questions are more specifically about this tournament. Can you clarify what this means? Given Em said “a qual...
- Sun Apr 17, 2022 8:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1367
Re: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
Please note I’ve adjusted writing teams to allow groups of three, given the level of initial interest. If you’d like to write a packet in case people drop, please let me know (currently, there are two writing teams on the waitlist).
- Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1367
Re: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
These are the people/teams who signed up to write for WOOLF when initially announced. While you will have precedence for signing up this time around, please confirm with me via email, messenger, discord, comment, or forums PM if you still plan to write. If you do not confirm with me by 4/30, I will ...
- Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1367
WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
This is a re-post of the original thread for WOOLF. With Auroni stepping back from this, she’s given me and Alex Damisch permission to take over the event, given the strong interest. This post is largely copied from Auroni’s original, with slight changes. I’m pleased to announce (the revival of) WOO...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 9:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2068
Re: General Discussion and Thanks
[As a note, this post references both the 3/12 set, which I played, and the 2/26 set, which is the most recent listed on the forums.] First, I had a fun time playing this set! In particular, the bonuses felt both interesting and accessible; in addition to the “dog kings” bonus Jordan mentioned, I re...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 9:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - Specific Questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2206
Re: Specific Questions
The philosophy tossups in this set felt consistently hard to power. Additionally, it felt like a lot of the clues were merely suggestive, rather than being specifically notable or memorable. I think that’s particularly an issue for tossups, because the potential penalty for being wrong disincentiviz...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Anecdote Discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 788
Re: Specific Anecdote Discussion
I’ll start: this Christmas, I got Jordan the short story collection Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino , and he got me, among other things, Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi and a novel by Charles Yu. I was slightly dismayed to open the docs a while later and find that Mike had claimed tossups cluing th...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Anecdote Discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 788
Specific Anecdote Discussion
As a bit of an experiment, I’m starting a thread for people to post anecdotes about their experience playing the set, even if it’s not particularly notable or worth “discussion.” I loved seeing these questions played, saw some excellent buzzes and amusing negs, and would love to hear about more.
- Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
- Replies: 84
- Views: 33328
Re: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
Is the order of side events final? If not, it appears to me that MUSES II is shorter than Scattergories (8 packets vs 10, 20 TU vs 24), which makes it seem like MUSES II might work better in the first slot — less variability as to end time, plus leading off with a shorter event means people are sitt...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 5:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8763
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
For what it's worth, I tried to include a mixture of economics questions to cover subjects of both contemporary and historical interest. Although every question can't be to everyone's taste, and I'm sure that you could achieve a fair result with a radically different mix of subjects, I think the su...
- Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8763
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
Crossposting from the other thread: A figure like Albert Hirschman is of fairly marginal importance to the field nowadays - I had actually never heard of him before (in my experience, his name is usually dropped from the Herfindahl index) and after looking up some of his work, it sounds very much li...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: August 7-8, Northwestern
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9634
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: August 7-8, Northwestern
Hello! Now that the site is decided, we were wondering if you've made any hotel plans or if we should look for a place to stay by ourselves. Thanks! We are looking into the possibility but do not expect to reserve a hotel block, so our suggestion is to seek alternative accommodations. If we do rese...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5141
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
(Let me know if this should go in general discussion) I edited the philosophy for this set. I’d be particularly interested in hearing in specific question discussion about: Clues people thought were hard to parse or didn’t seem informative Answerlines that were hard to pull together based on the clu...
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19422
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the tossup on justice (from one of the earlier rounds)? A paper by David Sachs claims that an earlier thinker committed the fallacy of irrelevance by equivocation of this concept with possession of a “balanced soul.” After forbidding all ordinary definitions of this concept in frustrati...
- Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19422
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the tossup on justice (from one of the earlier rounds)?
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2020 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5286
Re: ACF Fall 2020 - Thanks and General Discussion
I noticed that several questions used "them" as a gender-neutral pronoun instead of "he" or "she," but this was not consistent. Was this the result of specific writers, or some specific packet submission? Is this something writers might consider for the future? (Was th...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:42 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: On HS Teams Without Coaches
- Replies: 68
- Views: 48731
Re: On HS Teams Without Coaches
Full offense, but frankly, I do not care about whether measures taken to curb misconduct, harassment, and assault in quizbowl partially set back the pushes to replace "bad quizbowl" with "good quizbowl." If the ability for people to play pyramidal quizbowl in opposition to "...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:07 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Men of Quizbowl, We Should Talk.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16537
Re: Men of Quizbowl, We Should Talk.
On the broader topic of "people who are not marginalized by specific issue, what should you do": men and white people, while it is good to reflect on your own shortcomings and mistakes, keep in mind who you are helping when you discuss these with other people. As Athena referred to in thei...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 64587
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
On the topic of actionable steps that can be taken, it might be valuable to revisit Alex Damisch’s excellent guide to addressing minor misconduct as a TD and expand it to specifically discuss online tournaments. Given that most if not all tournaments for the next several months will be virtual, the ...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Children’s trash packet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2178
Re: Children’s trash packet
This happened; there were unfortunately no powers, as people's power rates would have been very good. I'll post it to the archive this week or so unless anyone wants another reading. Scores: Finn 35 Michelle 30 Allison 30 Nick 15 Moses 10 Pranav 10 Alistair 10 Sam 10 Olivia 10 Morgan 5 Jackson 5 Tim...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Children’s trash packet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2178
Re: Children’s trash packet
I have been reminded that Passover begins tomorrow, so I’ll bump this to 9:30 ET per someone’s request. I’ll also upload the packet when I’m done so people are welcome to read themselves if that doesn’t work for them, or I’m happy to do another reading later next week if anyone cares strongly.
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Children’s trash packet
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2178
Children’s trash packet
I have 20 short trash questions of varying difficulty (generally, easy) on various works of media typically enjoyed by children*, or enjoyed specifically by me as a child. If people are interested, I’m planning on reading these at 9:30pm EST either Wednesday or Thursday; if you would like to hear th...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54587
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
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 not and I didn't feel like cross-referencing the results), not to mention the many other teams (including several overall champions) that ha...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54587
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Speaking as someone who began playing in college, I would personally have found a significantly easier Regionals-Nationals that let good high school players dominate (with little work required to scale up) massively demoralizing, and would likely have stopped playing after freshman year. Starting qu...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8130
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
Compared to other Anglo-American institutions, Chicago has an extremely odd department with very nonstandard course offerings. I don't think your experience is generalizable. You're right! That's precisely my point; taking my experience to be the norm would be quite foolish, just as taking yours to...
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8474
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
The thought at this tournament was probably my favorite of any tournament I have played and was almost uniformly a delight to hear, in particular because virtually all of it save some of the historical content was on things I read or discussed in class. I do think the questions that were not 20th/21...
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 6449
Re: 2020 SCT general discussion
As a moderator, I appreciated the intent of the complicated answer line warning, but I found that putting it at the very top of the pack meant that in practice, I completely forgot about where the complicated answer actually was and to pay extra attention to it once I got into reading the pack. So ...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7892
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Packets are now available on the archive. The zip file contains Word documents of each packet.
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25550
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
I don't know anything about opera, but my teammate who does says that the tossup on Parsifal had a misplaced clue about transformation songs. He told me to post this on his behalf. Also, the consensus among Purdue's players was that the editors' packets were noticeably less difficult than the submi...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7892
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Thanks to the editors for this tournament. I agree with Jacob Reed on the difficulty; I thought it was very well managed. There were a few instances where a healthy chunk of the question was really hard, and the difficulty was "saved" by the answer line being the type of thing that most p...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25550
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
I'd have to see the tossup to comment more fully, but I was annoyed to neg government spending with "taxes", especially since Ricardian Equivalence is a result much more strongly associated with taxes than government spending in my experience. I'm sure the clue did point to government spe...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25550
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
First, an error on my end: Packet D’s authors should have included Michigan A. This error will be fixed in the version of the packets uploaded to the archive. Vikshar from Washington (who also submitted their packet late) said on Discord that he had a similar concern about, I think, the Octavio Paz...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 8:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25550
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
There were two questions I heard during my games that were very similar to questions I submitted. They were the tossup on Portuguese poetry in packet L, and the bonus that went Brian Mulroney/Quebec/Joe Turner in Packet J. In general, I believe the customary (and best) practice in this situation is...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25550
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Considerable confusion was caused at the British site by mentioning the "Canterbury Plain" as a clue on the Stonehenge bonus part. Stonehenge is located on the Salisbury Plain. (On a sidenote, does anyone know when the packets will be available online?) This error was caught during one of...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25550
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
First, an error on my end: Packet D’s authors should have included Michigan A. This error will be fixed in the version of the packets uploaded to the archive.
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 25550
2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
This thread is for discussing specific questions and errata for 2020 ACF Regionals. General discussion of the set should go here.
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7892
2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
This post is for general discussion of 2020 ACF Regionals; specific question discussion and errata will go in another thread. First, thank you to everyone who made this set possible. In particular, thank you to Alex Damisch, ACF’s mirror coordinator, who was in charge of the massive logistical chall...
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
A final reminder that registration closes today!
- Sun Jan 12, 2020 2:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
A final reminder that all packet-required teams who have not submitted a packet by today, January 12 will be dropped from the tournament. Please note that registration for ACF Regionals will close on January 20.
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Please note that registration for ACF Regionals 2020 will close in two weeks, on January 20.
Additionally, a reminder that teams that are required to submit a packet but who have not done so by January 12 will be dropped from the tournament.
Additionally, a reminder that teams that are required to submit a packet but who have not done so by January 12 will be dropped from the tournament.
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
The main post has been updated with all present packets submitted; if you do not see yours listed, please let me know ASAP.
- Sun Dec 29, 2019 11:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
The final packet deadline is today, December 29, 2019, by 11:59PM Pacific Time. After December 29, 2019, teams will be required to pay an additional $10 per day their packet is late. Teams that have not submitted a packet by January 12, 2020, will be dropped from the tournament. The post has been up...
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
A reminder that the +$25 deadline is tomorrow, December 22!
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
The post has been updated with all packets received by the no-penalty deadline. Please note that optional packets have been grouped according to the date they were submitted, not the actual discount they received (e.g. a team that submitted an optional packet on 12/8 would be listed under "no-p...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
A reminder that the no-penalty deadline for packet submission is this Sunday, December 8! Packets should be submitted by 11:59PM Pacific time.
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 20471
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
A note on optional packets: in line with ACF's host guidelines (regarding discounts as a result of optional packets submitted by host/house teams), any team that writes an acceptable optional half-packet by the no-penalty deadline is eligible for a $50 discount. The post has been updated with a clar...