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- Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 102012
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
Is there an established start time for this, or is it just going to be "whenever trash ends"? Will there be a break for dinner before, or is trash going to end early enough that we can play through this before a late dinner?
- Sun Jul 18, 2010 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 79387
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
And Bruce is currently in Bosnia, so you might have to wait a little while.dtaylor4 wrote:What I have, I sent to Bruce.
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 102012
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
You've still got me in the free agents list, despite also having me on a team above.
- Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 102012
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
I am now a definite and will be playing this event with Mr. Mukherjee.
- Sat May 29, 2010 3:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 79387
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
Bruce has asked me to post this information: "Spring Offensive will operate as scheduled, starting play one hour after HSNCT matches end, which would place the start time at approximately 7 PM Central. If you want to play, please show up to the elevator lobby in the Hyatt, and please bring any ...
- Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Paul Goodman Memorial Open
- Replies: 157
- Views: 52449
Re: Announcement: Paul Goodman Memorial Open
I'm playing this on a team with Matts Weiner and Lafer as well as Eric Kwartler.
- Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Nationals (4/17/2010)
- Replies: 82
- Views: 34482
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Nationals (4/17/2010)
I'm still only seeing the one through round 2.dtaylor4 wrote:Updated through R4.
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 102012
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Buzzerfest discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7328
Re: Buzzerfest discussion
Did not play, will not play, etc.
- Sun Feb 28, 2010 6:32 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Academic credit
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7136
Re: Academic credit
When I was in high school, it was widespread knowledge* that Ezell-Harding had a class devoted to quizbowl.
*Veracity of knowledge not guaranteed.
*Veracity of knowledge not guaranteed.
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UIC deserves its own thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2754
Re: UIC deserves its own thread
Is it at all possible for NAQT to pay for the transit of a third party who knows what's up to act as a co-TD with the ACUI-ran regions and act as something of a big sibling and as someone prevent things like over-zealousness and the like? I essentially did this for the Knoxville site, but without a...
- Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2010 at UPenn (1/30/10)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 25122
Re: Penn Bowl 2010 at UPenn (1/30/10)
By phone call from Bruce Arthur, here's a short version of what happened at the end: Harvard and Brown were both undefeated heading into the last game of the playoffs; it finished 300-300. Harvard had a protest rejected over a bonus part. Ted gets the tiebreaker. Harvard then went on to win the fina...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6177
Re: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
There was a tossup on Hillel (which I wrote) in last year's RMPFest, and Bruce wanted to avoid asking on the exact same answer lines.Sir Thopas wrote:why not just Hillel?
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:57 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: The quizbowl decades project
- Replies: 123
- Views: 70239
Re: The quizbowl decades project
Magin/Weiner/Jerry/Eric vs. Bentley/Passner/Kwartler/Nagler (not for competitiveness but for the near-grail performance of the Magin team) Magin's team put up 380 against my team... in the first half. That's 380 in a 10-tossup, no-powers half of Chicago freakin' Open. And they scored 610 with a bon...
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:37 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Qbhistory: High school classes & where are they now (<1998)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 54434
Re: Qbhistory: High school classes & where are they now (<1998)
The one I always bring up in this discussion:Cheynem wrote:all-time worst questions
Patrick's Press wrote:China has had many dynasties. I bet you thought this was going to be a history question. For 10 points, spell "dynasties".
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:18 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Qbhistory: High school classes & where are they now (<1998)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 54434
Re: Qbhistory: High school classes & where are they now (<1998)
Brad Rutter was also moderating at the 2004 NAC, which I attended, so that date of 2006 is not entirely accurate.Matt Weiner wrote:[Brad Rutter] returned to the NAC in 2006 as a moderator.
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Bird/Southeastern @ Berry College -- 11/7/09
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3198
Re: Early Bird/Southeastern @ Berry College -- 11/7/09
Shockingly in 2009, there are scanners that exist in your college, and the corresponding software that will allow you to scan to Microsoft Word. It still takes time, but just pointing out that there is another option. I'd never considered it. Not that I don't keep up with new technologies like the ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008-2009 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 87
- Views: 10419
Re: 2008-2009 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
This is a minor point, but there is not much of a difference between mitzvah and commandment. Three of those clues would point towards Commandment as much as or more than Mitzvah. This question is technically correct once rituals are mentioned because rituals are not commandments, but there was a s...
- Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 97251
Re: Bad Negs Again
I have to give some props to Seth Teitler as reader, who didn't bat an eye instead of doing what I would do as reader and collapse into hapless laughter. Obviously, I should have said the last name, but I was concentrating so much on pulling the dude's name that I was like, "Patrick...Roy, tha...
- Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs Again
- Replies: 494
- Views: 97251
Re: Bad Negs Again
As his teammate, I can tell you he said it like "Roy".BG MSL Champs wrote:Did you say this like "Roy" or like "Wa"?Cheynem wrote:From CO Trash:
ME: Patrick Roy
ANSWER: Brandon Roy
- Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: VETO 7/18/2009 in Vancouver, Hamilton, Ottawa
- Replies: 71
- Views: 22255
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: VETO 7/18/2009 in Vancouver, Hamilton, Ottawa
I have no complete results, but Bruce Arthur sent me a text message saying that Toronto D (featuring Bruce) won the Hamilton site.
- Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing science questions for science players
- Replies: 56
- Views: 13680
Re: Writing science questions for science players
LIST OF TEXTBOOKS FOR MATH: -Serge Lang's Algebra, for Abstract Algebra (and I think Galois theory?) -Free Probability textbook yaaay: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html -Silverman's A Friendly Introduction to Number Theory, and the more advance...
- Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Missouri Open discussion
- Replies: 69
- Views: 13145
Re: Missouri Open discussion
I pledged to Auroni to make a post about this after Mizzou Open was completed, because I've been seeing a little increase in a trend of people doing this. Can we agree right now to stop picking numbered UN resolutions, presidential orders, and the like for hard bonus part answers? We had one submit...
- Thu May 28, 2009 6:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
- Replies: 217
- Views: 34787
Re: NAC schedule info/tournament thread
When I was a senior in high school, my team (a first-time NAC competitor) was eliminated from the NAC by a lower-seeded perennial NAC team in a round featuring three questions on the geography and culture of their home area.
- Tue May 26, 2009 6:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 26613
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
Watch your back, Durkos.DumbJaques wrote:Sweet!It's a discount for kidnapping people named Phil.
- Fri May 22, 2009 10:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 53987
Re: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
I won't be at HSNCT and thus will not be playing. I'd otherwise definitely form a team with you, Ted.
- Mon May 04, 2009 6:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2009 NTAE
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15189
Re: 2009 NTAE
There has been one reported death from swine flu in the USA, and it was a small child who also reportedly had several other illnesses. During the last week, roughly a thousand people died of regular influenza.
- Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Call for Science Co-Editor(s) in Mid/Late Fall
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1692
Re: Call for Science Co-Editor(s) in Mid/Late Fall
Fixed.Matt Weiner wrote:First they came for the scientists geographers...
- Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 151
- Views: 25142
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
I missed a question on Tintin? :( One polity featured in this series remembers the fourteenth-century defeat of Baron Staszrvitch with the motto, “Eih bennek, eih blavek.” That place uses Cyrillic orthography but has a language closely resembling the Marols dialect of French. Mineral water near Klo...
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 151
- Views: 25142
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Yeah, my original file for the Hamiltonian cycle tossup has "incomplete" where I clearly meant to type "NP-complete." Kind of inexcusable for me to get that wrong when NP-completeness is what I'm talking about in class this week. And likewise inexcusable for me to miss this upon...
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 151
- Views: 25142
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
As a side note I guess, I might add that this was the editors' replacement for my original math tossup. This was a CS replacement for a math tossup, as we wound up with a math bonus written to fix some distributional problems in your submitted packet (which can be discussed in private, as can the p...
- Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals question thanks/discussion
- Replies: 75
- Views: 12307
Re: ACF Nationals question thanks/discussion
I'd like to thank the following people for helping me finish my portions (math and computer science): Mike Bentley, for writing most of the CS for the editors' packets, and for helping edit the CS. Evan Silberman, for freelancing two CS questions. Alejandro Lopez-Lago and Eric Mukherjee, for playtes...
- Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Survey Results
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1282
Re: Survey Results
I'd just like to know which nine coaches voted that the Driver's Ed distro should be increased. If there were some way to mail them a slap across the face, I'd do it.
- Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Prelim. Announcement: Sun 'n Fun X July 11, 2009
- Replies: 44
- Views: 11545
Re: Prelim. Announcement: Sun 'n Fun X July 11, 2009
Flights to Tampa are so cheap (i.e., cheaper than driving or flying to Maryland) I'm considering this.ValenciaQBowl wrote:Y'all should come down to Tampa for the triple RR with me, two Valencia teams, Billy, and maybe some ragtag UF team. If we're lucky, maybe SC or UGA will come down.
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 53987
Re: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
It's looking less and less likely that I'll make it to HSNCT this year. I'll probably be willing to write some questions, though, maybe for a finals packet. Of course, if I can make it, I'll want a team.
- Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Harvard International - 4/11/09
- Replies: 84
- Views: 23293
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Harvard International - 4/11/09
There's a lot on Church St. off of Harvard Square that's a cash lot, but it's expensive and you can't park yourself. We used it a few times during my first two years. EDIT: Google maps link to the lot: here . Zoom out and you'll get a bearing of where it is in relation to Harvard Square and the camp...
- Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Proposed trash/TRASH guidelines
- Replies: 100
- Views: 14607
Re: Proposed trash/TRASH guidelines
To support what Matt's saying, he made this excellent post with a variety of Nielsen ratings for major sports events. As I have pointed out, though, that was the season after the return from a lockout in a year when the Stanley Cup finals featured the two teams with the least following in the US, s...
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 9:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERRILLA - 4//3/09 or 4/4/09 - Dallas, TX
- Replies: 73
- Views: 8794
Re: GUERRILLA - 4//3/09 or 4/4/09 - Dallas, TX
Did the 20s get listed as 10s?
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Mahfouz Memorial Lit Singles Discussion (MN DO NOT READ)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 13076
Re: Mahfouz Memorial Lit Singles Discussion (MN DO NOT READ)
enagler at gmail
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Weekend of Quizbowl II (3/14 + 3/15/09, Fairfax, VA)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 48160
Re: Weekend of Quizbowl II (3/14 + 3/15/09, Fairfax, VA)
It also allows for the presence of math calculation to appease teams that like that sort of thing. I think it's getting old. In all the games we played on Saturday, nobody on either team ever actually chose a math calculation bonus. All other categories were regularly chosen, however. Did anyone in...
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Gaddis Experiment II
- Replies: 98
- Views: 53603
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Gaddis Experiment II
If I make it to HSNCT, I'll play.
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 9:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE set discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5817
Re: GARBAGE set discussion
In terms of things that were actually repeated in submissions, the most egregious things were getting roughly 10 submissions on the X-men in various forms (seriously, guys? This wasn't the Eric Mukherjee Memorial Trash Open), about five submissions on Kanye West, three on Blink 182 (really?) and may...
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 11:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE set discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 5817
Re: GARBAGE set discussion
I'll address a few of the specific criticisms in the morning when I can actually think, as I've just finished driving back from Atlanta. I appreciate the positive comments and the constructive criticism that most of you have been giving us through the discussion of this event; it's good to hear that...
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 3:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH Archive?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2248
Re: TRASH Archive?
TRASH hasn't released their sets, but I think you can buy them.
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14920
Re: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
am·a·teur n. 1. A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession. Unless there's some secret shadow trash circuit where players make enough money to support themselves playing tournaments, I'd say that every player is an amateur. I agree ...
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14920
Re: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
They're not, strictly speaking.Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:I thought answers weren't cleared for discussion anyway.
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14920
Re: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
[T]o use the Sorice packet as an example again, I think more than half of the tossups were on (or chiefly on) pre-1970s things. I know you don't have the packets yet, but this specific characterization of the Sorice packet is rather inaccurate, as my count is significantly lower than half. The pack...
- Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14920
Re: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
So, this afternoon I noticed that I apparently failed to save the final version of the Mike Bentley packet, which featured a bunch of proofreading fixes plus headers and numbering. Alternately, the final version got saved in the wrong place. Either way, the one that got sent out shouldn't have been ...
- Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14920
Re: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
Also, thanks to everyone who freelanced: Brice Russ Evan Adams (Dan Goff, but he did some editing too, so he's separate) Eric Kwartler Billy Beyer Charles Meigs Trygve Meade (a little extra once he found out he wouldn't be there) Dave Letzler I apologize to the people I've forgotten; I'll add you in...
- Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
- Replies: 71
- Views: 14920
Re: GARBAGE Packet Submission - 2/28/09 & 3/1/09
Packets have now been sent out to all of the hosts. The email they were sent with included both my phone number and Fred's; call one of us if there are any problems.
I hope everyone enjoys the set.
I hope everyone enjoys the set.