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by Protean
Mon Nov 13, 2023 2:41 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7086

Re: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion

Really confused by the Dark Lady not having at a prompt on "(my) mistress," since that's the word that goes in the blanks that are asked for. Was disappointed to be negged on a tossup about poems I have memorized (even saying Dark Lady immediately after filling in those blanks). Hi Jeremy...
by Protean
Sun Nov 05, 2023 1:53 am
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 ACF Winter at the University of Toronto (11/11/2023)
Replies: 2
Views: 1148

Re: 2023 ACF Winter at the University of Toronto (11/11/2023)

Edit: it's late and I meant to edit my original post, oops.
by Protean
Sat Nov 04, 2023 2:11 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 ACF Winter at the University of Toronto (11/11/2023)
Replies: 2
Views: 1148

Re: 2023 ACF Winter at the University of Toronto (11/11/2023)

The announcement post has been updated to reflect our anti-buzzer discount policy to encourage teams to remember to bring their sets. If a club tells us that they will bring a buzzer set and then fails to do so without prior notice (or is not actually functional), it will incur a +$40 penalty per bu...
by Protean
Sat Sep 23, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 ACF Winter at the University of Toronto (11/11/2023)
Replies: 2
Views: 1148

2023 ACF Winter at the University of Toronto (11/11/2023)

I am pleased to announce that the Eastern Canada site of 2023 ACF Winter will be held at the University of Toronto on Saturday, November 11, 2023. The tournament will take place likely at Sidney Smith Hall (to be confirmed). The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9:00 A...
by Protean
Mon May 08, 2023 12:55 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 Canadian Player Poll
Replies: 37
Views: 14086

Re: 2023 Canadian Player Poll

Looks like another year where I won't get the write-up in on time. For now in lieu of a proper one, then, for your consideration here is a list of people that I have ranked in some order on the ballot I submitted to Kevin. Andrew McCowan Milan Fernandez David Snoddon Wenying Wu Liam Kusalik Gabriell...
by Protean
Sat Jun 04, 2022 8:59 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: ACRONYM 15 @ the University of Toronto (June 26, 2022)
Replies: 0
Views: 1453

ACRONYM 15 @ the University of Toronto (June 26, 2022)

Hello world, the University of Toronto is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an in-person mirror of ACRONYM 15 , a low-difficulty pop culture tournament. This event will take place on Sunday June 26, 2022 (the day after the Ontario Hybrid mirror), with games starting at 10:00 AM EDT (EDIT: ...
by Protean
Sun May 22, 2022 12:12 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 28
Views: 14260

Re: 2022 Canadian Circuit Player Poll

All the best ballots are surprise midnight releases a month after the results have already been posted. 1. Lia Rathburn (UBC) . Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by Lia Rathburn. Lia started as a history player and has since become an everything player and I really don’t like...
by Protean
Mon Mar 07, 2022 10:57 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Announcement: Boilermaker Spring Novice (March-April 2022)
Replies: 21
Views: 7101

Re: Announcement: Boilermaker Spring Novice (March-April 2022)

Hello, I'm the president of the quiz bowl team at South Dakota Mines, will there be any hosts in the Mountain West region (or could we play online)? We'd love to participate in this competition, but we're probably not able to travel all the way to Purdue, if they are really the only host for this. ...
by Protean
Wed Feb 02, 2022 6:40 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 25770

Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

16. In this city, the one-eyed Simeon Brown falls in love with the Holocaust survivor Maria in the novel The Stone Face. Life is described as “occurring underwater” in a location in this city with windows painted white in lieu of curtains. A novel set (emphasize) primarily in this city opens with t...
by Protean
Sat Sep 04, 2021 3:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: JAVA Online Canadian Mirror (Sunday, September 12, 2021)
Replies: 0
Views: 670

JAVA Online Canadian Mirror (Sunday, September 12, 2021)

Hello everyone, this is the announcement for the Canadian online mirror of JAVA , a visual tournament written by Jaimie Carlson. This tournament will take place on Sunday, September 12, 2021 , the day after McGill's COOT mirror - apologies for the late notice. I will be directing the tournament and ...
by Protean
Sun May 16, 2021 12:43 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 27
Views: 14348

Re: 2021 Canadian Circuit Player Poll

Community poll most important poll. 1. Aaron dos Remedios (ex-Waterloo, Toronto-ish) The true fixture of the circuit. Does everything, is everywhere. He staffs pretty much every tournament and is damn good at it: great reader, infallible scorekeeper, strong understanding of the rules, and (especiall...
by Protean
Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2021 ONQBA Winter Online (February 20, 2021)
Replies: 1
Views: 1122

Re: 2021 ONQBA Winter Online (February 20, 2021)

The initial post has been edited to reflect several updates:
- the question set used will be NAQT IS-200A
- ONQBA Winter's status as national qualifier(s)
- Code of Conduct requirements
- the current field
by Protean
Mon Feb 01, 2021 6:07 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2021 ONQBA Winter Online (February 20, 2021)
Replies: 1
Views: 1122

2021 ONQBA Winter Online (February 20, 2021)

Hello! The Ontario Quizbowl Association is pleased to announce ONQBA Winter, a quizbowl tournament that aims to be accessible to teams that are new to quizbowl while still providing a meaningful experience to those already familiar with the game. This tournament will use the NAQT IS-200A question se...
by Protean
Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
Replies: 8
Views: 7247

Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)

We are looking for at least one host in the following regions: Northeast (NY, CT, VT, NH, RI, MA, ME) Mid-Atlantic (NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, VA) South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, TN, KY, LA, TX) Great Lakes (MI, OH, IN) Midwest (IL, WI) Great Plains and Rockies (MN, IA, MO, OK, TX, CO, UT, MT, ID, AZ) West...
by Protean
Sat May 09, 2020 9:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Canadian Circuit Player Poll
Replies: 21
Views: 10150

Re: 2020 Canadian Circuit Player Poll

I spent way too long on this. I'm aware that as the years go by my write-up has become more and more self-indulgent but let me have my fun. Rankings generally with regular difficulty in mind, though this breaks down a bit in the latter half. Like all the other ballots, probably contains a healthy am...
by Protean
Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 60
Views: 6387

Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata

12.11. "RNA interference" - I negged on this question because of confusion resulting from the identifier of "this pathway." Based on my knowledge and a cursory Google search, RNAi seems to be more commonly referred to as a gene-silencing "mechanism" or "process,&q...
by Protean
Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 60
Views: 6387

Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata

I’m not a particularly critical player, I just listen to questions and don’t really think about them, but I also usually don’t play such an early mirror so I thought I’d put down some thoughts. I’m also really bad at judging difficulty and what people know so comments on difficulty may be entirely u...
by Protean
Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:44 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Toronto Fall Tournament (November 9, 2019)
Replies: 0
Views: 4364

Toronto Fall Tournament (November 9, 2019)

The Ontario Quizbowl Association is pleased to announce the Toronto Fall Tournament, our first high school tournament of the school year. This tournament aims to be accessible to teams that are new to quizbowl while still providing a meaningful experience to those already familiar with the game. We ...
by Protean
Tue Jul 30, 2019 1:25 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NASAT Open Mirron @ Carleton (20-21 July 2019)
Replies: 6
Views: 2853

Re: NASAT Open Mirron @ Carleton (20-21 July 2019)

A belated thanks to Carleton for running another fun quizbowl weekend! It was great to see a lot of old and new faces alike, the readers were good, things ran pretty smoothly and on time, and the buffet was a pleasure as always. However, as I believe there will be a lot of turnover in the leadership...
by Protean
Mon May 20, 2019 11:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
Replies: 44
Views: 24074

Re: 2019 Canadian Player Poll

Some life stuff got in the way so my list this year is much more qualitative than last year, but here it is. Guideline was performance at regular difficulty, with a bonus for being able to scale up. As always, please direct any complaints to my former president, Meghan Torchia. 1. Derek So . Literal...
by Protean
Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:20 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Canadian Player Poll
Replies: 44
Views: 24074

Re: 2019 Canadian Player Poll

Chris has provided an excellent summary of the underlying spirit of the eligibility rules, but since there seems to be some confusion about their "nuances", I wanted to just quickly address why PNW players this year aren't in consideration under the letter of the eligibility rules as they ...
by Protean
Wed Dec 05, 2018 5:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Detailed Stats
Replies: 17
Views: 3722

Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Detailed Stats

I went in a different direction and wrote code to simulate games based upon two team's buzzpoint distribution, Neg Rate, and PPBs. After UO Finals, I hope to update the Sun God BPA as well as this round robin with the UK and California mirror stats. Longer term, I'd like to see how robust advance s...
by Protean
Mon May 28, 2018 4:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament
Replies: 10
Views: 7424

Re: YANKOVIC: The Young Adult Fiction Tournament

This sounds like a lot of fun! Do you have an idea of what the format will be (e.g. doubles)?
by Protean
Sat May 12, 2018 9:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Canadian Player Poll 2018
Replies: 27
Views: 16619

Re: Canadian Player Poll 2018

This ballot is probably very Insular and likely contains some (Toronto B)ias as well as a lot of advanced stats. I didn’t specifically set a difficulty level in mind but looking back it can probably be loosely described as “regular, with bonuses for those who do well at harder levels”. There’s also ...
by Protean
Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 Division II ICT: specific question discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 1717

Re: 2018 Division II ICT: specific question discussion

Common restriction enzymes used in cloning include this one, which cuts at a GAATTC recognition sequence and leaves a 5' sticky end. answer: EcoRI I guess this was supposed to be the hard part (with DNA ligase and topoisomerases being easy and medium, respectively) but I thought that this was fairl...
by Protean
Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 Division II ICT: specific question discussion
Replies: 14
Views: 1717

Re: 2018 Division II ICT: specific question discussion

Common restriction enzymes used in cloning include this one, which cuts at a GAATTC recognition sequence and leaves a 5' sticky end. answer: EcoRI I guess this was supposed to be the hard part (with DNA ligase and topoisomerases being easy and medium, respectively) but I thought that this was fairl...
by Protean
Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: How to make college quizbowl less insular
Replies: 22
Views: 12793

Re: How to make college quizbowl less insular

Not to bring up a certain sore topic, but evoking private messages from "quizbowl luminaries" in order to malign people that disagree with you in collegiate discussion does not help quizbowl's case against insularity or being unprofessional. It is not a good look for quizbowl to give off t...
by Protean
Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:25 am
Forum: Best of the Best
Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
Replies: 68
Views: 60525

Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to

It's really hard to compare two universities that tend to get massive bumper crops of high school players each year to other schools that don't. But it does highlight one issue in college quizbowl--there's a lot of funneling of talent into the top few programs every year that can compound the diffi...
by Protean
Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:20 pm
Forum: Best of the Best
Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
Replies: 68
Views: 60525

Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to

I think the biggest reason is just that in high school it's a lot easier to do a lot more things -- for example in high school I played three sports and did debate, math team, chess, and science bowl. I'm doing exactly one of those things in college (if you count science bowl -> quiz bowl). So, if ...
by Protean
Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:53 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CMST: Errata
Replies: 18
Views: 5583

Re: CMST: Errata

Could I see the tossup on artemisinin? Is there a particular reason that it doesn't seem to accept or at least prompt on qinghaosu?
by Protean
Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: WAO II Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 88
Views: 22081

Re: WAO II Specific Question Discussion

The tossup on “KD’s alternate twitter accounts” was the best thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. If I were to rewrite the tossup, I would have just written on Kevin _Durant_ (accept snake) to allow for more clues. I read through both of the Reddit threads and so...
by Protean
Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Delta Burke @ McMaster (Nov. 27, 2016)
Replies: 9
Views: 5832

Delta Burke @ McMaster (Nov. 27, 2016)

McMaster University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting an open mirror of Delta Burke on November 27, 2016 (this is the day after our Terrapin mirror, the announcement for which can be found here ). The tournament will likely be held in the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC). We ar...
by Protean
Mon Aug 22, 2016 12:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: MacIntro II @ McMaster (Oct. 22nd, 2016)
Replies: 3
Views: 3220

MacIntro II @ McMaster (Oct. 22nd, 2016)

McMaster is pleased to announce the return of our high school tournament MacIntro on Oct. 22, 2016. Continuing the tradition of last year, this tournament is intended to be an introduction for new players and teams in the region to the format of Quizbowl. We will be using the SCOP Novice 7 set. We a...
by Protean
Tue Aug 16, 2016 12:58 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Terrapin XXIX @ McMaster (Nov. 26, 2016)
Replies: 11
Views: 6933

Terrapin XXIX @ McMaster (Nov. 26, 2016)

McMaster University is pleased to announce that we are hosting a mirror of Terrapin XXIX on Saturday, November 26th, 2016. The tournament will likely be held in the McMaster University Student Centre (MUSC). We are planning to start at 9:00am so try to arrive for 8:30am so we can start in a timely f...