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by jinah
Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:34 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
Replies: 35
Views: 14529

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...
by jinah
Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:03 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
Replies: 21
Views: 4028

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...
by jinah
Wed Aug 03, 2022 9:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Logomachy (side event, late 2022)
Replies: 13
Views: 4980

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.
by jinah
Tue Aug 02, 2022 3:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: August 6, 2022 @ Evanston, IL
Replies: 98
Views: 48318

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...
by jinah
Thu May 12, 2022 1:53 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 IQBT Undergraduate Championship - Congratulations Chicago A!
Replies: 41
Views: 16493

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...
by jinah
Sun Apr 17, 2022 8:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
Replies: 2
Views: 1349

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).
by jinah
Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
Replies: 2
Views: 1349

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 ...
by jinah
Sat Apr 16, 2022 3:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: WOOLF (2022/3) [reviv/sed]
Replies: 2
Views: 1349

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...
by jinah
Mon Mar 14, 2022 9:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 12
Views: 2036

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...
by jinah
Mon Mar 14, 2022 9:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - Specific Questions
Replies: 16
Views: 2149

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...
by jinah
Mon Aug 23, 2021 10:09 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Specific Anecdote Discussion
Replies: 9
Views: 766

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...
by jinah
Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Specific Anecdote Discussion
Replies: 9
Views: 766

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.
by jinah
Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
Replies: 84
Views: 33044

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...
by jinah
Thu Aug 12, 2021 5:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 35
Views: 8705

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...
by jinah
Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 35
Views: 8705

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...
by jinah
Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: August 7-8, Northwestern
Replies: 22
Views: 9558

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...
by jinah
Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 4991

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...
by jinah
Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 55
Views: 19265

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...
by jinah
Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 55
Views: 19265

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the tossup on justice (from one of the earlier rounds)?
by jinah
Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2020 - Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 5222

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...
by jinah
Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:42 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: On HS Teams Without Coaches
Replies: 68
Views: 48437

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 "...
by jinah
Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:07 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Men of Quizbowl, We Should Talk.
Replies: 14
Views: 16409

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...
by jinah
Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:34 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
Replies: 51
Views: 64112

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 ...
by jinah
Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Children’s trash packet
Replies: 3
Views: 2158

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...
by jinah
Tue Apr 07, 2020 9:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Children’s trash packet
Replies: 3
Views: 2158

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.
by jinah
Tue Apr 07, 2020 8:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Children’s trash packet
Replies: 3
Views: 2158

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...
by jinah
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54059

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...
by jinah
Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54059

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...
by jinah
Sun Mar 01, 2020 9:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 8054

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...
by jinah
Mon Feb 24, 2020 8:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 50
Views: 8399

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...
by jinah
Sun Feb 09, 2020 11:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 SCT general discussion
Replies: 38
Views: 6383

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 ...
by jinah
Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7819

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

Packets are now available on the archive. The zip file contains Word documents of each packet.
by jinah
Mon Jan 27, 2020 9:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

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...
by jinah
Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:38 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7819

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...
by jinah
Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

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...
by jinah
Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

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...
by jinah
Sun Jan 26, 2020 8:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

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...
by jinah
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

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...
by jinah
Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

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.
by jinah
Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 66
Views: 25363

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.
by jinah
Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7819

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...
by jinah
Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020

A final reminder that registration closes today!
by jinah
Sun Jan 12, 2020 2:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

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.
by jinah
Mon Jan 06, 2020 3:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

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.
by jinah
Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

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.
by jinah
Sun Dec 29, 2019 11:34 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

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...
by jinah
Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:52 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020

A reminder that the +$25 deadline is tomorrow, December 22!
by jinah
Tue Dec 10, 2019 8:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

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...
by jinah
Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:19 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

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.
by jinah
Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
Replies: 31
Views: 20370

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...