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- Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 17788
Re: ICT Discussion
I'm proposing only that choosing a Sandra Bullock movie from, say, the last ten years might give me some reasonable chance of getting 10 points. I don't care about 30; I just want a chance at 10. As a college-age male, you have a moral imperative to be able to answer any and all questions on Demoli...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 17788
Re: ICT Discussion
There have been a few comments about the trash (bonuses) being inordinately hard--I'm curious which ones people had in mind. In the rounds I read (in DII and then in the bottom bracket of DI) my impression is that the trash was getting converted somewhat better than the academic stuff.
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 17788
Re: ICT Discussion
Let me restate this flatly and unconditionally:
yoda4554 wrote: I'll happily admit my error and let the discussion move on.
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 17788
Re: ICT Discussion
I don't want to get caught up in the technicalities either (there's a lot of the set yet to discuss). My impression, from both my own studies and from what I checked up while writing, was that anyone who'd actually studied this stuff would naturally respond with Zorn, because it just makes more sens...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 17788
Re: ICT Discussion
[Zorn's lemma, the axiom of choice, and the well-ordering principle] aren't quite the same... I disagree. In ZF, those things are, in fact, exactly the same (equivalent, to be exact; c.f. this .) By definition, that means that literally any result you can prove with one, you can prove with the othe...
- Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Discussion
- Replies: 102
- Views: 17788
Re: ICT Discussion
Writing a tossup on Zorn's lemma and not accepting, at the minimum, the axiom of choice or the well-ordering principle, is kind of silly. I wrote that one, and "axiom of choice" was promptable; well-ordering wasn't, and perhaps it should've been, but I don't think any of the clues actuall...
- Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Metro Quizbowl League
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1915
Re: NY/NJ Metro Quizbowl League
As I think I've mentioned in the past, there are seriously over 60 teams on LI alone (see here: http://www.regionalquizbowl.org ; there's also a TV show and a Nassau league that add more to this) who play local league type stuff. I think the thing to focus on is getting them into some more stuff lik...
- Tue Mar 25, 2008 1:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Trash?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1572
Re: CO Trash?
It would seem to me that having Matt's tournament at CO would be the most efficient way to recompense the people who didn't get to play last time, but obviously I'll yield to whatever Matt's wishes are on that front. I'd also be happy to contribute to Matt's tournament, though if his sense of ethics...
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Trash?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1572
CO Trash?
I mentioned I'd be interested in chipping in for writing this in the general CO thread, but as the other side tournaments are making their own threads, I suppose this should have its own, too. Is there interest in it happening at all? Has a general editor come forward? If not, are there several peop...
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2008: call for head editor, side events
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1987
Re: Chicago Open 2008: call for head editor, side events
I'm happy to chip in writing the trash tournament, as I don't plan on being at the Open, so long as there are a couple other people in on it as well.
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Experimental tournament during HSNCT
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5734
Re: Experimental tournament during HSNCT
If I can dig up a competent sciences partner, I'm in too.
- Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Wanted: ACFN Coauthor
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1029
Re: Wanted: ACFN Coauthor
If you've gotten no bites on this yet, I may as well offer my hand, since that looks like a pretty nice distribution for my interests. Email me at dletzler [at] temple dot edu and we'll work things out.
- Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
Re: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
Brief results: Though Hunter went 11-0 in the prelims, in the advantaged final, Wilmington Charter A, whose only loss had been to Hunter, won two straight games (290-240, 400-275) to take the tournament. Stuyvesant, Moravian A, and Charter B were tied in third with 8-3 records through the prelims. H...
- Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
Re: UPDATES--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
The final email is out. See everyone tomorrow.
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Untimed NAQT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1251
Re: Untimed NAQT
I prefer untimed rounds, as I am sure many do, but there is a problem with untimed NAQT tournaments. NAQT states that if not enough clocks are available a round should be played in two halves of 10 questions. An NAQT packet is 24 questions, not 20 questions. Playing only the top 20 questions may pu...
- Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: ACF Regionals at Delaware (02/16/08)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5040
Incidentally, for those who care: The setup was that Delaware and Maryland broke their teams into two for an 8-team round robin, after which they recombined for a 6 team round-robin (with the exception of Charles, who joined a lonely Trevor Davis to fill out CMU's team). Out of this muck, Maryland's...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
Bump for field update. We've got a field of at least ten, without all of the question marks added in. And may I say that it's impressively cosmopolitan: we've got at least four states represented (Bergen from NJ, Stuy from NY, William Tennet from PA, and Charter Wilmington from DE), with a possible ...
- Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cardinal Classic Discussion
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7845
Bonuses on more niche things like indie music should be much more lenient with how they bash you over the head with the answer than canonical things. Like, from Penn Bowl...if you're going to write on shoe designers, make sure there's a part that people only cursorily aware of shoe designers can ge...
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Private Sectionals Discussion Forum Signup and Access
- Replies: 94
- Views: 13836
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT Discussion
- Replies: 89
- Views: 14680
- Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
My apologies for not responding to these yet: I've had assorted college qb and administrative issues to deal with. Updates: First, UPenn will probably be helping us staff--they have my thanks. The tournament will likely take place in Anderson Hall, which is at 11th St. and Berks Ave. in North Philad...
- Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: NAQT Northeast SCT at Brown (2/9/2007)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5169
I doubt it will end up mattering, but a point of curiosity on behalf of my alma mater: since it seems like there were more than four UG teams, and since Maryland had a grad student, there should have been a separate UG champion declared, who would receive an automatic Nationals bid. Princeton seems ...
- Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: NAQT Northeast SCT at Brown (2/9/2007)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5169
I doubt it will end up mattering, but a point of curiosity on behalf of my alma mater: since it seems like there were more than four UG teams, and since Maryland had a grad student, there should have been a separate UG champion declared, who would receive an automatic Nationals bid. Princeton seems ...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: ACF Regionals at Delaware (02/16/08)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5040
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2008 Penn Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4529
Also, there were some bonuses that were very easy. I'd put forth my bonus on integration as one that was made very easy; I had Riemann (easy) / Stieltjes (hard) / Lebesgue (medium) as my three answers, but this got turned into integration (easy) / Riemann (medium) / Lebesgue (hard). Perhaps the way...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2008 Penn Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4529
My feelings on the set was mixed: it certainly wasn't a bad set (it was certainly better-written overall than, say, TRASH Regionals), but there were more irritating things in it than I would've liked. The good: I was happy that people wrote a lot on non-program pieces of music, and that they general...
- Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Improving
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2982
I think in terms of basic effectiveness for qb, I tend to agree with Ryan. Particularly in the humanities, having more than cursory knowledge of a topic requires reading a book, listening to a symphony, spending a long time lingering on a painting/building, etc. etc., and doing enough of that to rea...
- Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
Ok--actual information now: Temple University Quiz Bowl, in the heart of North Philadelphia, will host THS 1138 for high school teams on Saturday, March 1st, 2008. This tournament will use NAQT's IS-74 for questions. Here is the fee structure: +$80 first team from a school +$50 each subsequent team ...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Advanced Question Writing Seminar
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5574
A comment toward all of the people who have suggested that six-line tossups are insufficient to really delineate successfully between teams at a typical invitational. I've just looked over the packets of Titanomachy, a six-line tossup invitational I played last fall where my team ended up toward the...
- Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: playing against the packet
- Replies: 55
- Views: 15174
Just for clarity, the point I was trying to make about the Milton tossup is precisely the one Jerry makes here, not that the tossup was transparent (I think it's quite good) nor that transparency is never a problem. My comparison for that was with questions like the Michael Vick one, which also requ...
- Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TTGT 11 Discussion
- Replies: 87
- Views: 24099
Look, your logic is astoundingly ridiculous. We can define transparency outside of games between various people in the state of Maryland, and suggesting that the game outcomes of whoever played there somehow affect that definition is outlandish. Only joining in this in response to the invective. Th...
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
- Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
- Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6642
RESULTS--THS 1138 (3/1/08), Philadelphia PA
For teams in the Mid-Atlantic, we at the newly-born Temple qb team would like to hold an NAQT IS tourney for you all at some point at the start of our spring semester, likely in early February. A) Is there interest, and if so how much?. B) Is there a particular weekend that would work best? You can ...
- Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Titanomachy thanks & discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5292
Even third parts of bonuses should be plausibly gettable They should be, and they were, since many were converted by the most knowledgable people at the tournament: there were multiple people at the Maryland site that did indeed remember the name of the carnival. Similarly, I think there are enough...
- Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Titanomachy thanks & discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5292
- Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18800
Critique of Pure Reason is Kant's title (in translation), no? There's a pretty clear authority to that, and I'm perfectly fine with the convention that author's titles should be accepted exactly. I don't believe (I may be wrong) that Nichomachean Ethics is Aristotle's title--my memory from my freshm...
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2007 TRASH Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19100
I also thought this was better than the last TRASH I attended, ~3 years back, which is not to say that I thought it was an eminently good set. I would like to second Bill's point about verbiage: people on this board tend to define question depth in terms of line-length, but that should be shorthand ...
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18800
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Discussion
- Replies: 76
- Views: 18800
- Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Talk about lit singles
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3895
- Sun Nov 11, 2007 12:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lit. distribution
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1848
Lit. distribution
A couple observations from having worked on the CO and IO Lit. tournaments. I don't hold positions either way on this, but just to bring them up... ACF/mACF tourneys typically request that no more than 3 of the 10 lit. qs in a packet be from a single century. Without having done stat crunches on thi...
- Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Nobel in Lit to Doris Lessing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1237
Nobel in Lit to Doris Lessing
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/world ... ?ref=world
Everyone get to work on those Canopus in Argos tossups...
Everyone get to work on those Canopus in Argos tossups...
- Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Greatest American Rock Band?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 22188
- Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Greatest American Rock Band?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 22188
- Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Lit Singles Discussion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4933
I'm also glad people enjoyed the tournament, and want to cheer Jonathan's competence as a solid chief editor who I believe spent an ungodly amount of time doing last-minute editing over the past week. For curiosity's sake, I was wondering what the people playing thought: of the lit. crit. tossups, w...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Trash or Lit?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8417
- Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Interest in literature singles alongside the Chicago Open?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5511
- Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Format discussion - round 204
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14529
I certainly agree with the Matts, and have some vaguely similar experiences in being made aware of stuff I hadn't known about previously through quiz bowl--in fact, my own experience with Ibsen is similar to, if less extensive than, Weiner's. But I would think the part to be emphasized in terms of &...