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- Fri Dec 30, 2022 7:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Winningest Quizbowl Team of "All Time"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3409
Re: The Winningest Quizbowl Team of "All Time"
I think this is a really interesting project! Great work! Would you have the breakdown of the schools with the highest win percentage by era, by chance? I find it really interesting that UVA, Stanford, and GT are top three in win%!
- Sun Apr 25, 2021 2:38 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New Team at the Virginia Military Institute
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6541
New Team at the Virginia Military Institute
Hi All! I've recently (re)started a new quizbowl team over at VMI. If there are any incoming freshmen who are coming to VMI in the fall and want to play quizbowl, feel free to reach out and send an email. We don't expect to play in any tournaments this academic year (since it's almost over), but we ...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 5:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2895
Re: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
I'm interested in this. If it does happen please let me know.
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:59 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Keeping Score During Practices
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9183
Re: Keeping Score During Practices
At our practices we have always kept score, for the reasons you listed under "pros". Additional reasons why we do so include 1) it trains players for in-game situations (e.g. knowing when to be extremely cautious, knowing when to not buzz no matter what), and 2) by keeping individual stat...
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Set Collaboration Thread-2019-2020 Season
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6372
Re: Set Collaboration Thread-2019-2020 Season
HI am am also available as a writer. I graduated HS in June and have been playing QB for 4 years. I've written several questions independently.
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 10:46 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
- Replies: 177
- Views: 200875
Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things
I once first-lined a tossup about the year 2000 because I saw an SNL skit. The buzzword was "lockbox".Thiccasso's Guernthicca wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:23 pm I think I once first-lined a tossup on axes during practice because I'd watched a Buzzfeed Unsolved episode on the Axeman of New Orleans.
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sniglets: A Packet of Things I Like
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4151
Re: Sniglets: A Packet of Things I Like
are we still reading this?
- Wed Jul 31, 2019 1:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question regarding state policies regarding "playing up"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9530
- Thu Jul 11, 2019 7:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2019-2020
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7468
Re: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2019-2020
The best team in the entire DC metro area will obviously be John Champe. This should be considered consensus in my unbiased opinion. In all honesty, there are some pretty good 5A teams - Tuscarora and Broadrun. I haven't played them in two years, but it seems like Woodgrove (4A) is getting really go...
- Wed Jul 10, 2019 10:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Gender in QuizDB Sets
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6446
Re: Gender in QuizDB Sets
This was very interesting. Thank you for doing this!
- Tue Jul 09, 2019 10:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: CALISTO (Regular HS, 2020)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12892
Re: CALISTO (Regular HS, 2020)
We elected to have a smaller than usual amount of philosophy (.25/.25) because we believe that philosophy is not commonly learned in high school classes and is not a large area of amateur interest among high schoolers. In place of philosophy, we are asking a greater amount of computer science, astr...
- Sun Jun 30, 2019 10:44 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11184
Re: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
So when you say this, do you have like a presentation up on a screen, a bunch of people at each table with like a sheet of paper to write down answers?We play with about 20 tables of roughly 8 people
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:39 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11184
Re: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
Hi all! I really like the suggestion of incorporating some military (even some older military history might be yielding) and Virginia-based "trivia". It was something I was also thinking about. I guess that means I'll have to learn some VMI and Military history (might be good to know consi...
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (Cancelled) FONS V Playtest (College Freshman and Above)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5162
Re: FONS V Playtest (College Freshman and Above)
I'd like to playtest this, depending on the date.
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:21 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11184
Re: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
This is a really good idea! And probably more practical in a college setting than posting a flyer or going from classroom to classroom. I'd be very interested in doing this at VMI. Do you all write the questions yourselves or find them from the internet? If you write the questions what kind of distr...
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Teams on the rise for next year?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3757
Re: Teams on the rise for next year?
I have to say for us, we lost all of our seniors, who were the leading scorers on our team, in addition to our coach. Potential competitiveness isn't really in the cards for us. But who knows.
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Teams on the rise for next year?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3757
Teams on the rise for next year?
What are some underdogs or teams you think could be big 2018-19?
- Thu Dec 15, 2016 8:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 67602
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
How does one take part in this?
- Sat Dec 03, 2016 3:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I have a PS4
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1625
Re: I have a PS4
Mafia III is *lit*. Totally would recommend. Kinda violent/vulgar. Totally worth it. Would love to play with someone who also plays QB
- Wed May 25, 2016 10:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Choosing A or B in HSAPQ Bonuses
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3971
Re: Choosing A or B in HSAPQ Bonuses
Thank you for replying, this there anyone that you personally prefer? For the sake of some strategy.
- Tue May 24, 2016 11:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Up Late with Eric Xu Season 2: Electric Boogaloo
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20711
Re: Up Late with Eric Xu Season 2: Electric Boogaloo
Its too bad that it ended. I really liked the podcasts as they were informative. Is there any hope that they will be brought back?
- Sat May 21, 2016 4:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Choosing A or B in HSAPQ Bonuses
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3971
Choosing A or B in HSAPQ Bonuses
I was wondering if there was any advantage in playing A or B for HSAPQ VHSL Question Sets. I generally have a better time playing B, because I feel as they include more science. If anyone has any advice that would be great!