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Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

As somebody who co-founded the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance and spent a subsequent 5 years of my life fighting very vigorously to convince teams that the MSHSAA series was a horribly run boondoggle and had to work even harder to force good quizbowl to exist at all in the state in the face of a bunch o...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Given that this is Saturday night, don't bank on me figuring out a schedule that is more than 10 rounds total, everybody.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Hello all, I am going to be your beloved scamp of a tournament director for the Saturday night HSNCT mirror of the Dartmouth team's WIDELY ANTICIPATED Modern World Tournament. Everybody and their mom is staffing the HSNCT, so what better chance to get your face pummelled in at a novelty tournament b...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Note: this is a shoddy reconstruction of a much more eloquent paragraph that was infuriatingly lost when I hit the "submit" button and was told to log in again. In my experience, when this happens on hsqb I've always been able to click back to the page where I wrote the post, and it will ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Well, it seems to me like what needs to happen first and foremost is that coaches need to be found at other schools so that incoming middle schoolers have a team to join, and unfortunately I don't think that you guys are in a great position to do that, given that you are high schoolers who don't go ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Isn't it really the case that Delaware only has about 1 team in high school that is actually what one may call super serious (yours), and a bunch of teams that do a TV thing with a couple who show up to a few tournaments otherwise? That's your problem right there, high school freshmen can't be expec...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

The other campuses though are also on the same website, and all the wording from them, or Wikipedia, or anywhere else I've ever heard describes the university of Illinois Medical college as the "college" that encompasses all four medical campuses, and which are all administered as one inst...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I know this is like 2 months old but I just saw this and am incredibly confused by peoples' reactions here, and see what seems to me to be an incredibly obvious solution and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, so here goes. Kenneth Lan is not a student at the University of Illinois-Chicago, he is in ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

#based

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

If there are 15 packets, why not flip the playoff schedule around and make the top 4 teams do another round robin, and just make the bottom 2 teams play one consolation game and then go home after round 11? Unless people really speak up and say they absolutely want to play those 12th and 13th packet...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Apologies if I get this wrong, but it seems like your team is new to the whole national circuit thing. I am almost always a person who says that you should play your best 4 player combination at all times, BUT I make an exception for this one situation. If you are new to nationals, and you have no r...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I'm on one of the registered teams!

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Register people! I want to play a good field!

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So, there are no actual teams on the spreadsheet. Is this the case for the field as a whole?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

To be honest, any format where two teams of students from one US university can beat the best club teams and individuals in the world is a flawed format testing only a very small cross-section of knowledge, imho.

Because it's impossible that Chicago could just be that much better than your teams.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

--- Round 1 --- -This historians bonus was a cool idea, was difficulty-appropriate, and I think it played fairly well. Props. -This hadith question was extremely transparent/obvious and a three-way buzzer-race occured on "ta'if", which I think was in the second line. --- Round 2 (I think ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Ted Gioia gave me the packets for the Harvard-MIT scrimmage back when it happened, here they are. I don't remember who exactly wrote them, but somebody on their teams did and then they played 3 games as a a scrimmage in the early fall that year.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

My policy is slightly different than the one Andrew advocates and I thought it always worked well. Wait until the end of the question to hear the giveaway, and if you know it, buzz in, and if you don't know it, wait 3 seconds, and then you have permission to buzz in on your own and guess something s...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I have no explanation as to why I'm up there on the signup sheet, other than that the same person who has been registering accounts on the dating website "BBWDesire" is misusing my identity further. That or some idiot thinks it's hilarious to sign people up to tournaments they aren't going...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Who on the Princeton team has directing experience? Has the actual TD run anything in the past? I can't begin to fathom how in over your head you might be if your first or second tournament is 48 teams, as opposed to a much more normal/manageable number like 18-24.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I don't understand why you can't exercise more editorial discretion on the rankings though. If you're going to bother to have a pre-season ranking I would think you would at least want to be able to be satisfied that they really represent a possible top 25, rather than excluding an obviously top-not...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

What was lame about the trash?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I disagree with much of your defense of Willie Nelson because people are not engaging with his music as classical music. I don't believe any of his work belongs in the classical music distribution just like I don't think a film like Star Wars or Jaws belongs in the film distribution because, despit...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

OK but Jacob, does Philip Glass come up all the time in quizbowl music, totally uncontroversially? Yes, he does, because people realize that, whatever flaws his works have, they still are written for a particular kind of setting and aren't intended to be pop music.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Ok so let's talk the Willie Nelson clue, because I actually care about it and it's something that has a little more substance than this annoying diversion. Minuet in G by Bach (or whoever may have actually written it) is undeniably a classical piece which is incredibly famous and recognizable to lot...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

It's still a single negative review from one guy's website. I'm not saying it's disreputable, I'm aware that that site is pretty big, but that doesn't change that in classical music there is no single tastemaker and you were insisting based on that single review that the piece was panned into oblivi...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I'm only aware of David Hurwitz's negative review on ClassicsToday (which is certainly the classical review site I trust the most, despite some of Hurwitz's foibles). Perhaps my perception is unduly influenced by the negative reactions (by people I respect) on the forum I read, but I stand by my pr...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I'm not missing the point - Olafur Arnalds is a 25 year old techno artist, and Eluvium is an electronic ambient musician. It may entirely be the case that sooner or later they will start writing music that is more squarely in the tradition of classical music and deserve to come up, but right now the...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I don't understand why sonata is the "only" form of music I could ask about here. I would think concerti and symphonies both would be at least as accessible tossup answers. Comically, the "sol" in The Sound of Music is an F. They never say that C is do in the song, given that the...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

The Four Seasons—was this supposed to be academic? Max Richter??? Is there a problem with Max Richter? He's a currently active classical composer who is one of the more well known living composers, and the clue I used is about a piece he wrote for a string ensemble that has been performed in regula...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I'm also obviously particularly interested in what musicians thought about those questions of course, so you guys in particular, please drop in.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

As mentioned by Itamar, I wrote the trash tossup on fairies, along with all of the auditory fine arts questions. These are the answers I wrote on: 13/13 Music Mozart's Requiem Israel conductor The Four Seasons Franz Liszt Franz Schubert George Handel the note G Felix Mendelssohn Johannes Brahms oboe...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Oh, right, my side event. The mystery theme is that it's vanity as fuck and all about music on my laptop's hard drive, except some of you may know my laptop stopped working soon after I started to work on the tournament, making it rather difficult to write. I got my laptop back to working within the...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Uh, heads up to the Illinois site i guess, but I'm not the editor of the set, Itamar has been from the get go.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Also, I want to give shouts out to Ohio. At a tournament like NASAT I think it takes a lot of skill to really figure out how to select a team that comes together to be more than the sum of its parts, and every year it seems like Ohio does a really good job of combining good, not great players, many ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Well, but like I said, as long as you separate those things to make sure that there aren't more questions about Texas or Missouri in the same packet, we should be all cool.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

It was "General Knowledge." Chess is a bit more intellectual and academic than those other games, so I'm okay with limited amounts of chess questions, especially in the nebulous "GK" category (this is independent of the actual question's quality, which I can't judge). I agree th...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Maybe you should have messaged Mr. Powers with this info or been a person who actually knows this for sure before outing a team playing under a pseudonym on a public website?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

And that doesn't even begin to touch on how ridiculous the organizers of both PACE and HSNCT should see that argument.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

To say that the NAC runs well because the "rounds run on time" is to miss the issue completely. This is about the only thing I disagree with in the whole post, and at that only because it's a matter of individual/team opinion what facets of the tournament are the most important. Maybe the...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I don't think this was announced on this forum, but Prison Bowl is being mirrored right now at Hickman High School, who took over as the host of the annual Pre-Nationals tournament in Columbia, Missouri. Here are the prelim stats - http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1493/stats/preliminary_roun...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

OK, well then doesn't that undermine your entire point?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

David, what difficulty should everything be played at? Would you like us to run ACF Nationals packets for you every Saturday?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I was ready to make a post praising the fact that NHBB seemed to have finally run a high quality national championship and saying that if in a year it runs well again I will gladly get on board with promoting history bowl, but the ridiculousness of this thread derailed that for now. Do you have the ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

The only discussions to be had here are "Why is NAQT, the company that is still reeling from the biggest quizbowl cheating scandal, which included a high schooler, giving high schoolers carte blanche to cheat at tournaments by having a public thread about, especially when they can just make a s...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Is 256 the number, or is there discussion of further expansion?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Thank you Mrs. Doll. Not only do I agree with her that this is a format that is needlessly complex, and that your arguments against the standard pool format are lacking*, but what really made my jaw drop is how hilariously bad your customer service was. If a coach is complaining to you about a bad f...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

What are you even talking about? You clearly have no idea how anything works and I would beg you to stop imposing your own half baked theories about the game on unsuspecting teams in your area when, you know, teams from that sparsely active region should be getting as much exposure to normal quizbow...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

While I can appreciate this, I would remind you that Mannheim A got absolutely destroyed in their first match-up against State College A, while they managed to beat State College A in the other two matches they played (thus likely would've been relegated to 3rd place at best). While I understand th...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I'd like to thank all of the teams that came, and I'd like to thank the coaches for their patience considering most of the tournament was organized by our underclassmen. We did an interesting combination of Swiss followed by double elimination which, in my opinion, worked almost exactly as I had im...

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