A shoutout to Enes Kristo, of course. I, like the rest of us, yearn to become the Count of Monte Kristo, "and understand that divine intervention feels better when you do it yourself."
It was, and always will be, an honor.
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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023-2024 Player Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2251
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1388
Re: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
Case Western cleared the field to win this tournament! Stats can be found here. Thank you all!
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:28 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1388
Re: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
We are still looking to run this tournament, and currently have a field of 6 teams. We invite potential interest from any novice teams looking for an online mirror, and have increased the field cap to 10 teams. Thank you all!
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 5:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1388
Re: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
We are still looking to run this tournament, and are looking for interest in the next week from novice teams.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1388
Re: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
Field (10/10 teams):
Rowan (one team, one staffer)
Ohio State (one team, two staffers)
Case Western (one team)
Arizona State (three teams)
Bryn Mawr (two teams)
Boston University (one team)
Rust College (one team)
Rowan (one team, one staffer)
Ohio State (one team, two staffers)
Case Western (one team)
Arizona State (three teams)
Bryn Mawr (two teams)
Boston University (one team)
Rust College (one team)
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1388
IQBT Novice Online (04/13)
I am pleased to announce that an online mirror of IQBT Novice (an Americanized version of British Novice ) will be taking place April 13, 2024. The opening meeting will begin at 9:45 AM Eastern time and gameplay will begin at 10:00 AM Eastern. I, Young Lee, will be the tournament director. Please di...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2072
Re: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
Registration has closed at 14 teams. I will be in contact with all the registered teams about logistics for Saturday.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2072
Re: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
We're at 14 teams in the field with one team on the waitlist, and registration ends tonight at midnight, so if we don't get another registration tonight, we'll be closing the field at 14 teams for good.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:25 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2072
Re: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
I lied. We're at 14 teams now, and now there's also potential for expansion to 16 teams. But unless we get more team staffers specifically, we wouldn't really want to expand further than that.Dantooine is Big! wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:00 pm We have expanded the field to 12 teams and are unlikely to expand the field further.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2072
Re: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
We have expanded the field to 12 teams and are unlikely to expand the field further.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2072
Re: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
Hi all, we have a full field of 8 teams, 1 team on the waitlist, and enough staffers to expand the field to 10 teams — we're looking for one more team to register for the tournament to expand to 10 teams. The field has filled up quickly, so register soon to save your spot in the field! The field ha...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2072
Re: Booster Shot (Hosted by OSU/OU) 2024-03-09
Field (14/14 teams):
Iowa (1 team)
OSU (1 team)
Ohio U (1 team)
WUSTL (1 team, 1 staffer)
Iowa State (1 team)
Case Western (1 team)
Michigan (3 teams)
Penn State (2 teams, 1 staffer)
Stanford (1 team)
UNC (1 team, 1 staffer)
Vassar (1 team)
Waitlist (1/0 teams):
MSU (1 team)
Iowa (1 team)
OSU (1 team)
Ohio U (1 team)
WUSTL (1 team, 1 staffer)
Iowa State (1 team)
Case Western (1 team)
Michigan (3 teams)
Penn State (2 teams, 1 staffer)
Stanford (1 team)
UNC (1 team, 1 staffer)
Vassar (1 team)
Waitlist (1/0 teams):
MSU (1 team)
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4425
Re: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
I have realized I am an extremely silly individual and I apologize for everything.Cody wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:42 pmis this also a bit??Dantooine is Big! wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:32 pmI feel this is a sufficiently serious suggestion and proposal [...]
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4425
Re: Alternate locations for ACF Nationals
I feel this is a sufficiently serious suggestion and proposal so as to necessitate more substantive criticism than just "did you really do your due diligence?" Obviously, Andrew feels he has — wouldn't it be better to explain why Andrew is wrong, if you believe so?
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4766
Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
What is the field cap, and what's the procedure for waitlist/standby teams and/or expanding the field if it is reached? I understand that room reservations are unlikely to be finalized for a few months, but the field is almost halfway to its eventual final size from last year, and the situation was...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Rein Otsason
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1776
Re: Rein Otsason
This is heartbreaking. My condolences to his loved ones. I hadn't had a ton of experiences talking to Rein, but I have a very distinct memory of the times I saw him around, which was probably when I'm guessing most others in the US quizbowl community met him: at Chicago Open, which is when I saw him...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
To reiterate some info I sent out through the Festivus Discord server and the email list accumulated through the Google forms I sent out for initial interest polling: I am now collecting donations that will be sent to Palestine Red Crescent Society via the Venmo handle @Hokwang-Lee and the PayPal a...
- Sun Dec 24, 2023 12:31 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Hi all, I'm pleased to say Festivus has finished up, with 27 packets total read throughout the day. To reiterate some info I sent out through the Festivus Discord server and the email list accumulated through the Google forms I sent out for initial interest polling: I am now collecting donations tha...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Here is the big logistics update for Festivus on Saturday, December 23rd. Thank you to everyone who has signed up to write a packet or otherwise expressed interest in playing packets on Festivus. I have drafted up a finalized schedule here . The actual schedule for up to four concurrent rooms of pla...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:39 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: MEKONS: a rock music audio tournament (online, 12/17/23)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4108
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 7:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Hi all, just wanted to announce that I'll be trying to set up scheduling for packets in the coming week. If you are authoring a packet for Festivus, and your packet listing on the public spreadsheet does not have a checkmark in the first column, please fill out the author Google form for Festivus so...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Can a mod clean this thread up a bit? I feel a lot of the above posts are inappropriate in an announcement thread as well as disrespectful.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:25 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
I would also like to announce that I will be collecting donations for Palestine Red Crescent Society as part of participation in Festivus after the event.
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Hi all, I'm beginning to solidify scheduling and planning for this event. If you are authoring a packet for Festivus, please fill out this Google form . Importantly, if you listed a packet on the public spreadsheet but, for whatever reason, the packet will not be played on Festivus, please either al...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:49 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: MEKONS: a rock music audio tournament (online, 12/17/23)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4108
Re: MEKONS: a rock music audio tournament
For what it's worth, I'm super excited to play these questions, and would also much prefer a teams format / some sort of actual tournament format over the singles format you outlined. I'm figuring the questions are generally 2 minutes long, as opposed to the more typical (given previous audio questi...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Hey, I copied over all of the Google form responses into a publicly editable Google spreadsheet so everyone can see what people are planning on writing packets about. Feel free to continue adding your packet ideas here.
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8700
2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
Hey all, in the absence of anyone else announcing any Festivus related events (I think?) for this holiday season, I'd like to say I'd be happy to organize a Festivus event this year in line with the tradition from previous years . I welcome suggestions on what we should do this year, and aim to soli...
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 5:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2543
Re: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
We just wrapped up the tournament. Congratulations to I thought this was a Counter-Strike themed tournament (Albert Zhang, Andrew Szeto, and Geoffrey Wu) and Why does ACF have electrons do its work? (Michał Gerasimiuk, Stephen Eltinge, and Olivia Murton) for tying in playoff record (4-1) at the end ...
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2543
Re: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
Stat reports for the day are being uploaded at this link.
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2543
Re: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
A detailed logistics email has been sent out with all relevant details (Discord server link, etc.) so let me know if you did not receive said information.
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 4:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2543
Re: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
Hi all, I sent out a logistics email to email contacts last night - we'll be starting at 10am pacific / 1pm eastern tomorrow. Schedule and Discord/Zoom links will be all sent out ASAP. Thanks!
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2543
Re: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
With the tournament coming up next weekend, we're going to set the field cap at 12 teams, with 10 teams currently listed on the team formation spreadsheet. We welcome last minute signups, and hope to fill out the field.
- Mon Sep 18, 2023 10:44 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Geoword Offseason
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4436
Re: Geoword Offseason
Yes… yes…
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:20 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBReader Generated Answerline Lists
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2788
QBReader Generated Answerline Lists
Hi all. In high school, when Quinterest and QuizDB were still around, I used their APIs (I think actually only QuizDB had an API for this?) to download all the question data and mined them for answerlines sorted by category, which I then put into alphabetized lists. I didn't account for repeats / di...
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2543
Re: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
Hi, we took a look at the date poll and have decided on a date of Sunday, October 1st for this tournament. All logistics info relevant at this time can be found in the OP. Thank you all!
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11117
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
Compiling and adding detailed stats Adding more tournaments (tournaments pre-2011, open tournaments) Creating and adding a player/team strength metric An Immaculate Grid-like game If you have opinions on what should/shouldn't be on this list and in what order, let me know. The first one seems like ...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2543
EMACS Online Mirror (October 1st)
Hello all, this is an announcement thread for an online EMACS mirror. I'm TDing this mirror. Information about the set can be found here . This tournament will take place on Sunday, October 1st . The format of this tournament will be triples; a format will be finalized closer to September as registr...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
With COLONIAL, EMACS, and On Cinema at the Buzzer completing for the day, and CANONINFLATION in progress as we speak, the weekend is wrapping up. I found an Iron Flask tumbler in the control room at the end of the day yesterday (Saturday), and as Alex Fregeau noted in the thread for COLONIAL, someon...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: On Cinema at the Buzzer @ Chicago Open (August 6, Northwestern)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2451
Re: On Cinema at the Buzzer @ Chicago Open (August 6, Northwestern)
Stats are being uploaded after each round here.
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS CO Weekend Mirror
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2352
Re: EMACS CO Weekend Mirror
Stats are being updated here.
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 12:30 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
After playoffs, The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club (Jordan Brownstein, Matt Jackson, Will Nediger, Geoffrey Chen) had an undefeated 7-0 playoff record, with The Catastrophic Implosion of Packet Sub (Tracy Mirkin, Aseem Keyal, Nick Jensen, Adam Fine) second i...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
Hi all, thank you for your help and thoughts on the Sunday side event schedule. After discussing with the other side event organizers, we decided to stick with the current schedule - running EMACS and COLONIAL concurrently in the morning before lunch, and running On Cinema at the Buzzer after lunch....
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
It has come to my attention (i.e., I finally read all the threads closely enough to connect all these facts) that CO Sunday is scheduled to feature an 8-round tossups-only tournament, a 5-round tossups-only tournament, a 10-round tossups only tournament, and a 6-packet shootout. For some reason the...
- Tue Jul 11, 2023 10:29 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
Hello all, if you're a free agent still interested in playing CO and I have not already contacted you, please contact me directly ASAP — this is probably your last chance to potentially play.
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:08 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Regarding BBB and Community Norms
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7110
Regarding BBB and Community Norms
The primary context required for this post is this thread . I think I had a strong desire to post something really aggressive on the forum thread for BBB for a while. I decided not to because I just looked at the situation externally and felt it would both seem and be pretty silly for some grad stud...
- Thu Jun 22, 2023 7:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
Hi all, we at CO are pleased to announce we have confirmed room reservations in the Tech building on Northwestern campus for both Saturday's main CO event and Sunday's side events. Upon confirmation of the room reservations, we were informed that the Tech building does not have any gender neutral ba...
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS CO Weekend Mirror
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2352
EMACS CO Weekend Mirror
Hello all, this is an announcement thread for the EMACS mirror being held CO weekend on Sunday, August 6th. I'm TDing this mirror. Information about the set can be found here . The format of this tournament will be doubles, but may change to triples depending on staff availability and field size. He...
- Thu Jun 15, 2023 5:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
I am pleased to announce that the schedule for the side events on Sunday has been finalized. We will begin on Sunday at 8am at the same venue as the CO main event running history side event COLONIAL concurrently with the computer science side event EMACS . When both events have ended, we will have a...
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 6:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
I have sent everyone whose names and email addresses are on the team formation spreadsheet marked under "Staffer" an email. If you are interested in staffing this tournament, or know anyone else who is, please reach out to me directly via either forum DM or email (youngflee99 at gmail dot ...
- Fri May 26, 2023 9:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26092
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
This is an announcement that we will tentatively set the field cap at 20 teams pending availability. We currently have 19 teams registered, so any teams that register beyond a 20th will be placed on a waitlist.