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- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:22 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ESPN @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4958
Re: ESPN @ Columbia (Open)
If we can play the film set as well, that would also be great
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 1:27 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14712
Re: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
There's a few questions that really stood out to me that I greatly enjoyed (Guan Gong, landlords, klezmer, Bachianas Brasileiras, can openers, Lou Reed, Fatboy Slim) and a lot of good fun bonuses (never thought I would be rewarded for thinking Christgau's rebuttal to the "dancing about architec...
- Sat Nov 19, 2022 4:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On November 28th, QuizDB will cease operation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4482
- Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:48 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: TAKETHAT (popular music tournament) open for mirrors
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4301
Re: TAKETHAT (popular music tournament) open for mirrors
This set has a lot of great deep cuts, and is definitely not for the faint of heart. Very fun and satisfying to play!
- Thu May 12, 2022 7:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Maryland Summer Open Interest + Date Poll
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2569
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 5:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11014
Re: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
This was a very difficult but rewarding set, and may be the best "general" trash set I've played in a while. A lot of great creative topics.
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33714
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
So far I'm not convinced Zoom is superior to Discord. It's more about how rooms are structured - Zoom tournaments use the Breakout feature, which requires the TD to manually assign each person to their rooms. Even so, if the previous game ran late, the next team might accidentally come in - I did so...
- Tue Apr 21, 2020 4:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5471
Re: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT
The Buzzword player results screen always shows the complete text of Buzzword questions that you have previously played. (The note about practice questions is there to indicate that after specific Buzzword events conclude, some tossups used in this project will also show up in future collections of...
- Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6993
Re: Ontario Hybrid 2020 Online Mirror (Signup + Poll About Format)
Thank you for running a smooth tournament! Even with a small hiccup, the tournament went on without delay and finished on time.
The set itself was quite fun to play as well.
The set itself was quite fun to play as well.
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25903
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
For such a busy schedule with so many different moving parts, this ran remarkably well! The only complaint I have is probably that people are generally really terrible at judging their own skill levels, but that might be just be the fact each room has a lot of people (like, close to 20 in most cases...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25903
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
Is this be going to run all on the same Discord? I'm assuming that's the case - how will you handle preventing people from seeing other rooms? Assuming this isn't operating on some honor system, you will need to create specific roles with permissions for each room and for each packet, which would b...
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 25 toss ups and five visual packets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2557
Re: 25 toss ups and five visual packets
I can confirm that copy & paste from a powerpoint works for Discord readings, but obviously the backgrounds aren't copied so you need to announce the powermarks in text
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 25903
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
Is this be going to run all on the same Discord? I'm assuming that's the case - how will you handle preventing people from seeing other rooms? Assuming this isn't operating on some honor system, you will need to create specific roles with permissions for each room and for each packet, which would be...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9278
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
I think the Chinese myth bonus about the Milky Way mentioned that the Queen Mother of the West is married to the Jade Emperor - I'm not sure if that's actually a widely accepted position? Really appreciated the Eileen Chang content, though the title drops might be a bit too early. The film was fun -...
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6588
Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Realized I haven't posted here yet but most of the suggestions in regards to music have been implemented (esp. what Cody wrote).
Tango is being kept though.
Tango is being kept though.
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 7:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7587
Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Miscellaneous thoughts on specific questions: There are some questions that had a good concept that felt a bit fraudable - " God is Dead " and bildungsroman come to mind, but both are good ideas. I was confused by the hands tossup, because I was unsure what it was looking for - especially ...
- Sun Sep 29, 2019 5:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12133
Re: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
This was an extremely fun set, thanks for writing!
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BUMPY ii - a visual movie tournament
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8563
Re: BUMPY ii - a visual movie tournament
We played this after the Princeton FST. Harrison Whitaker won with an extremely dominant lead. The set was like last year's, extremely challenging but very rewarding when you get it. Great set of film selection, thanks for writing, and thanks to everyone that played! Harrison Whitaker - 9/47/8 - 565...
- Sun Mar 31, 2019 2:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9935
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
This was definitely one of my favorite sets this year alongside Sun God. There feels like a noticeable amount of statistics, which is great because it does not get enough love and also keeps me on my toes - it was satisfying getting the R tossup based on things actually done in class. The world lit ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ Yale (3/30/19)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7830
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ Yale (3/30/19)
emmett emmett lama sabachthaniThe Billiards Fool wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:49 pm James Hadley and I are currently playing this as a double and we’d appreciate some teammates (especially if you know science/rmpss). Message me if you’re interested in getting whallopped alongside us!
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Detailed Stats
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3789
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Detailed Stats
What do the .5 in the Heard column of the Categories tab mean?
EDIT: Ophir told me, thanks
EDIT: Ophir told me, thanks
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13956
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
I think this was a great set - people from our A team to D team all seem to enjoy it a lot, and I read some very creative tossups that was difficulty appropriate but still fun to hear. Off the top of my head I really liked the questions on Lisbon from Voltaire, flutes in myths, and wine from Chinese...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 10521
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
The Tzigane bonus seems to have said violin in the first part, then ask for violin in the third part. The MLK/Tet Offensive thing was hilarious, but probably should be fixed before the next mirror. Can I see the Mozart piano sonata tossup? I know there was something like "it's not chopin" ...
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9626
Re: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
Likely no practice this week, and probably not next week unless there's demand and/or people are free.
- Mon Aug 13, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects General Discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 348
Re: Words and Objects General Discussion
I found this tournament to be very enjoyable. Personally I found the specific object tossups to be much more fun (like the American Gothic pitchfork or Kon-Tiki), but all in all it was very entertaining. I do agree that there are certain transparency issues, probably the most obvious being the Jenki...
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9626
Re: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
We will have practice tomorrow (Thursday) at 8:30 in the Academic Building on College Ave campus
EDIT: room 1170
EDIT: room 1170
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RAPTURE - A religion side event [Summer 2018]
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13273
Re: RAPTURE - A religion side event [Summer 2018]
This was very fun and well written, but not overly hard - it's suitable for people that are very knowledgeable in religious matters and amateurs alike. Anyone who has any interest in religion should play this set.
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WORLDSTAR errata/specific question discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 524
Re: WORLDSTAR errata/specific question discussion
I really enjoyed this set - the deep cuts on Adunis, festivals around Kyoto, Keiko Fujimori and Chinese folk court cases are fresh but important things. There are certain misplacement of clues though - certain things like Salva Kiir's cowboy hat or Tsai Ing Wen's cats are really quite famous, or wei...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 6:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 31037
Re: Boston Summer Open I
The main event and side events went swimmingly, and this was extremely fun and well-run even with so many side events. Thank you for organizing this Raynor!
- Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9626
Re: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
Emmett is busy so I will be hosting today; we will meet in room 1170.
- Fri Jun 15, 2018 7:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9626
Re: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
We are discussing the possibility of hosting a NASAT mirror - if are interested in helping out, or playing, please post or PM us.
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BUMPY ii - a visual movie tournament
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8563
Re: BUMPY ii - a visual movie tournament
The previous iteration was deliciously difficult, but not obscenely so, and the “themed” tossups are incredibly fun. Looking forward to this.
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 1:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 31037
Re: Boston Summer Open I
fwiw I don’t mind the date, but if it was moved earlier it might be better for me (but not really a big deal)
I would also not mind if it goes for 2 day event so people can do things/run more side events
I would also not mind if it goes for 2 day event so people can do things/run more side events
- Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2018 General Discussion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2870
Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2018 General Discussion
While there are some suspicious early clue drops (" ____ in the Bardo ", "Mandarin has four of these", " Falling Man "), the set is generally solid. Enjoyed playing it immensely, but there are some random bursts of difficulty - the bonuses on various regiments and one o...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 3:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The end of the match
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14475
Re: The end of the match
Right now, when teams shake hands at the end of quizbowl games, it is mostly a shitshow where people are throwing their hands into a massive disorganized pile-on of players. This reeks of quizbowl. It would be better if teams stayed in the order they were sitting, faced each other, stood in lines, ...
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 23309
Re: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
Can I see the tossups on Taiwan, crossroads, hanging, racing, and (probably my favorite) “Call me Ishmael”?
The myth in this set was very fun to play, the common links especially so.
The myth in this set was very fun to play, the common links especially so.
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 2:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 20228
Re: CMST: Specific question discussion
There are eyewitness accounts that Queen Myeongseong was still alive when they set her on fire. Thus her immolation was the finishing blow, though she was stabbed first. I think the most agreed upon version of events detail how 50 Japanese assassins killed her, alongside several handmaidens; after ...
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 20228
Re: CMST: Specific question discussion
In the Ito Hirobumi tossup, it mentions how (I'm assuming) An Jung-geun blames him for the death of (I'm assuming) Queen Min by immolation. I'm pretty sure she was stabbed then her body was burned, not death by immolation - don't mess up your various Japanese war crimes!
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 3:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 20228
Re: CMST: Specific question discussion
Can I see the tossup on Vmax?
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 20228
Re: CMST: Specific question discussion
Here's the "flowers" tossup. It does look like the question used "these objects" throughout the tossup, so assuming there weren't any moderator hiccups, you should have been able to choose between the two. 2. These objects are referred to in the original title of a novel in whic...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 20228
Re: CMST: Specific question discussion
I was half asleep so I played like shit all day, but in my mind a lot of the answerlines were strangely tricky - there is a lot of opportunities to neg, especially in art. The tossups on The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and Saint-Remy stood out as neg bait. It was pr...
- Thu Feb 22, 2018 3:17 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 459416
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
tfw u negmerv1618 wrote:Brotherssetophaga wrote: Itamar Naveh-Benjamin -5
Jeremy Tsai -5
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- Mon Feb 05, 2018 4:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 SCT general discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1910
Re: 2018 SCT general discussion
First off, I want to say thank you to everyone who contributed questions to the set, and to Jacob for editing it; I enjoyed reading this year's set. I do have one big question though: where was the African literature? Maybe I missed it, but at least in the DI set I couldn't find it at all in the no...
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 4:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33497
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
I predict that out of all the science subcategories, physics has the latest average buzz point and biology the earliest, but the average PPB will be pretty close.
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14268
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
Echoing the sentiment that while some answerlines lean a bit hard (Rebecca Solnit, Richard Posner, Nicolas Malebranche), a lot of answerlines are creative riffs on well-known topics (proofs of God by Aquinas, pure land, body of Osiris, jade, skeletons) or deeper cuts (modern art through fashion, Gen...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19285
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Can I see the tossup on freezing? The cryo-EM clue was a little confusing but the rest of the clues seemed to be fine. Also interested in seeing the bonus on perfect numbers, because I thought I heard the word "perfect" in the question. Also, maybe I'm remembering wrong, or just missed it ...
- Mon Nov 20, 2017 3:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 22628
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
The Sartre tossup seemed to have a difficulty cliff on "Estelle" -- I recall a six-way buzzer race on that word. 8. One of this author’s characters claims that his ancestor “cleared a whole forest” and “killed seventeen indians with his bare hands” while reciting the history of his family...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO II Difficulty and General Discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10323
Re: WAO II Difficulty and General Discussion
I'm glad you enjoyed the trash. I wrote and edited some of the high trash--but not all of it. The chess bonus I wrote in one of the Editor's packets was actually supposed to be Other Academic but I'm pleased to hear that stuff like that would be petty cool. Did anyone get to hear the tossup on Robe...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BUMPY - a visual movie tournament
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6036
Re: BUMPY - a visual movie tournament
We played this at Princeton. This set was difficult at times but very rewarding when you know the answer - really enjoyed some of the "themed" tossups too, clearly a lot of heart was put into this. Thank you for creating this set.
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 22628
Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
On the first line of the election of 1988 tossup, there was a mention of "hymietown" and Jesse Jackson, which happened during the 1984 election and lead to an unnecessary neg.