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- Sat Nov 18, 2017 12:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2017 at Northwestern (11/18/17)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4358
Re: Delta Burke 2017 at Northwestern (11/18/17)
I hear there will be live-ish stats, anybody got a link?
- Tue Nov 14, 2017 11:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 21101
Re: Festivus (Dec 23rd, 2017)
I had so much fun last year reading my academic/trash mashups packet that I'm pleased to say I have another ~20 answer lines for "Trashups Packet 2: Electric Switcheroo." The trash will be mostly music and TV, the academics will roughly follow a standard ACF-ish distro (except maybe 2/0 ma...
- Fri Nov 10, 2017 4:33 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: A, B, C teams
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7324
Re: A, B, C teams
While I don't know why any teams actually want to do this, it only causes problems when rosters aren't used/carefully scrutinized or whatnot and it leads to improper seeding. The solution is to require rosters if you're going to be creating brackets. Not denying that rosters are a good thing to hav...
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 10:28 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: A, B, C teams
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7324
Re: A, B, C teams
While I don't know why any teams actually want to do this, it only causes problems when rosters aren't used/carefully scrutinized or whatnot and it leads to improper seeding. The solution is to require rosters if you're going to be creating brackets. Not denying that rosters are a good thing to hav...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 at UMN (11/4/17)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1780
Re: ACF Fall 2017 at UMN (11/4/17)
St. Olaf won this tournament 11-0. Staaaaaaaaaats were posted the very same day (I know, right?).
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10477
Re: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
I really enjoyed playing this set; thank you, editors! For the "Eastern Orthodox" tossup, prompting on specific patriarchates doesn't seem like the right thing to do. If you're not going to accept one patriarchate outright, you should probably anti-prompt, as e.g. "Greek Orthodoxy&quo...
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 2:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2017 @ UChicago (10/28)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4823
Re: Penn Bowl 2017 @ UChicago (10/28)
A third shout-out to Jason and Samir––this tournament went a bit long, and some of the seeding was a little unwise. However, when we had a "circle of death" situation in the B bracket, Jason took input from the teams involved without being a doormat, and he and Samir re-did the playoffs sc...
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 1:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7922
Re: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
I2. In packet 8, bonus 4, part 2, the underlining should be " Weber 's law," not " Weber's law ," and going by Wikipedia, " Weber -Fechner law" should also be on the answerline. I know this is obvious to most experienced mods, but our reader was tripped up when I just ...
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:53 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments
- Replies: 35
- Views: 11967
Re: Open high school teams playing collegiate tournaments
My only possible addendum worth discussing is to bring up the practice (which is infinitely more widespread through much of the high school circuit) of finding out that some team dropped an hour before the tournament and then making a call for extra players who are at the tournament to come togethe...
- Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT and ICT policies for 2018
- Replies: 43
- Views: 19054
Re: SCT and ICT policies for 2018
Hi Jeff, Last year about two weeks before ICT, you emailed my team asking if our D2 team could attend ICT. Due to the short notice, we declined the invitation, and also due to the short notice, we were informed that the players on the D2 SCT team would not have their D2 eligibility revoked had we p...
- Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New Collegiate Writers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4393
New Collegiate Writers
In recent months, there has been a bit of hand-wringing about the lack of spring open/non-nationals tournaments, and with that the lack of new collegiate writers. Will Alston has already said plenty of great things on that and other current issues facing the community. As a new collegiate writer mys...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
- Replies: 104
- Views: 42990
Re: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
Or Celebs, for that matter.Cheynem wrote:Where are zee super acronym playoff stats
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 3:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19645
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts
Personal apology to those of you negatively affected by the insanely delayed pizza order--Papa John's was a nightmare to work with, including calling a number different than the one I asked specified, claiming they made calls to the correct number that I mysteriously never received, and at one point...
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
- Replies: 104
- Views: 42990
Re: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
Consider me for your Celebs team! Résumé includes--7 years of experience as an actual teenage girl, and 22 years as a piece of trash.
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: AARDVARK: An Arthur MiniTournament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9425
Re: AARDVARK: An Arthur MiniTournament
Unfortunately, I don't believe I will be able to host tonight. If possible, I'd like to reschedule for next weekend. Let me know if this is an issue Uh...Chicago Open? EDIT: I would much prefer to postpone for an hour or something until you're available and just do it tonight, because it's harder t...
- Wed May 31, 2017 4:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 105
- Views: 51988
Re: 2017 HSNCT discussion
How different was the Peron question from this year compared to last year (when it was in Round 17)? The answer line could easily be Argentina with Peron being an acceptable answer line early in the question. I don't really see that this would have helped much That was my bad. I was adding up the s...
- Thu May 25, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Theses on the Transitioning Quizbowl Community
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5130
Re: Theses on the Transitioning Quizbowl Community
The other thing I might suggest is for more experienced writers to post "guides" on general principles of question-writing/potential pitfalls/useful sources. Every tournament I work on I go back to the notes on question-writing that Seth and Auroni sent out to PADAWAN writers. Similarly, ...
- Fri May 19, 2017 3:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WUSTL Mirror of 2017 NASAT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2827
Re: WUSTL Mirror of 2017 NASAT
The Google doc says you need to be given access.
- Thu May 18, 2017 9:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25226
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
By ACRONYM, do we mean ACRONYM or Super ACRONYM? I feel like a lot of people will have already played ACRONYM, right? CCCT, Crime, UConn, and HSNCT especially.
Edit: I see that the link goes to Super ACRONYM, it just says "ACRONYM," my bad.
Edit: I see that the link goes to Super ACRONYM, it just says "ACRONYM," my bad.
- Tue May 16, 2017 11:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Reading old Imaginary Landscape packets in the QB Discord
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5334
Re: Reading old Imaginary Landscape packets in the QB Discor
We laughed, we cried, we buzzed late on opera, and the Lawrence alumni came out swinging from the woodwork. Thanks so much to Ophir and the writers! It was a lot of fun!
- Mon May 15, 2017 2:49 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Theses on the Transitioning Quizbowl Community
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5130
Re: Theses on the Transitioning Quizbowl Community
2. Better mentoring. This is hard, especially when time is of a premium, but experienced editors working with quasi-experienced writers or editors I think can produce good results. I learned so much as a writer from the folks at Minnesota and even from last year's CO, working with Matt Jackson. One...
- Wed May 10, 2017 12:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Math Monstrosity at HSNCT and MSNCT
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10610
Re: Math Monstrosity at HSNCT and MSNCT
So, some specific details about the MSNCT edition of this: We will meet between 6:30 and 6:45, finalize team formation and scheduling, and then play the tournament. We'll use the Dennard, Matthews, and Wentzel rooms, which are apparently on the upper level. After the tournament has finished, I will...
- Tue May 09, 2017 5:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16605
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
I will be transferring within the University of Tennessee system, but from the Knoxville campus to the Health Science Center (in Memphis) and continue grad school there. Am very curious about my eligibility to play under "Tennessee" or not (if not, it would highly limit my chances of cont...
- Mon May 08, 2017 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25226
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
Not entirely sure if I'd staff or play, but I'd do at least one of those things for at least one day. If I staff there's a possibility I could bring someone to scorekeep for me.
- Tue May 02, 2017 1:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Monetization
- Replies: 128
- Views: 48334
Re: The Barbarism of Monetization
No, the SCT and ICT sets get used for different things at later dates. EDIT: Jeff beat me. The problem right now, illustrated by packet-trading that resulted in cheating scandals in the not-so-distant past, is that there are more and more uses of the same questions around the country resulting in g...
- Mon May 01, 2017 6:56 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 326931
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Tornrak wrote:Short-beaked echidna wrote:I'm writing an extremely hard packet about early church history, available from Sunday.Me, in the announcement thread for OCTAVIAN wrote:I'd be really interested in getting no questions correct on this
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 1:28 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Nationalities of Title Winners
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10739
Re: Nationalities of Title Winners
Will Nediger is Canadian.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament (EMT) at UChicago – 5/13/17
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4080
Re: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament (EMT) at UChicago – 5/13/
Because of the late date of the tournament, the number of area teams (including UChicago) that have attended other EMT mirrors, and UChicago's desire to field house teams conflicting with potential IL high school teams, this mirror can't run as-is. I've sent out emails to >100 different contacts, bo...
- Sat Apr 22, 2017 9:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 28456
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
I was hoping to get something stupid out of IKD, but this works too.grapesmoker wrote:it's badAaron's Rod wrote:what does the cracker barrel have to say about the buzzer situation at nats
- Sat Apr 22, 2017 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 28456
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
what does the cracker barrel have to say about the buzzer situation at nats
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Travel Liveblog- Featuring Max (and Kai)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19131
Re: ACF Nationals Travel Liveblog- Featuring Max (and Kai)
But it feels true.heterodyne wrote:This is... not true.15.366 wrote:I hassled them for the liveblog, Alex. Until this started happening, I didn't believe they would actually do it.Aaron's Rod wrote:Since [email protected] has infinity dollars, how much of the decision to drive one way was "for the liveblog"?
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Travel Liveblog- Featuring Max (and Kai)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19131
Re: ACF Nationals Travel Liveblog- Featuring Max (and Kai)
Since [email protected] has infinity dollars, how much of the decision to drive one way was "for the liveblog"?
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 5:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Travel Liveblog- Featuring Max (and Kai)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19131
Re: ACF Nationals Travel Liveblog- Featuring Max (and Kai)
Really did not need that much information, Kai.Oo-kamakiri wrote:Not pictured: Alston's Giant Slim Jim™
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 12:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Monetization
- Replies: 128
- Views: 48334
Re: The Barbarism of Monetization
The problem right now, illustrated by packet-trading that resulted in cheating scandals in the not-so-distant past, is that there are more and more uses of the same questions around the country resulting in greater challenges for question security. The fewer packets floating around out there electr...
- Tue Apr 18, 2017 1:09 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Monetization
- Replies: 128
- Views: 48334
Re: The Barbarism of Monetization
The problem right now, illustrated by packet-trading that resulted in cheating scandals in the not-so-distant past, is that there are more and more uses of the same questions around the country resulting in greater challenges for question security. The fewer packets floating around out there electr...
- Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Help with HSQBRank & 2x check this tournament list please!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18158
Re: Annual call for help with HSQBRank!
High schools also played EMT at UMN (Wayzata) and the University of Washington (Westview, OR?).gettysburg11 wrote:High Tech A and B and Ithaca played EMT at Princeton yesterday. Stats here. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/
- Mon Apr 17, 2017 6:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Monetization
- Replies: 128
- Views: 48334
Re: The Barbarism of Monetization
Chris makes a ton of great points. First and foremost, this impact is that the teams who get the packets are the teams who can afford to pay for them. Now, they're relatively cheap (more on that in a minute), but still, college teams run on thin margins; the poorer teams are the ones who don't go an...
- Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament (EMT) at UMN – 4/15/17
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2604
Re: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament (EMT) at UMN – 4/15/17
Minnesota took first place in this tournament, going 10-0. Wayzata took second, and Lawrence A and B tied in third place. Thanks so much to Sam Bailey, Carsten Gehring, Bernadette Spencer, and Rob Carson for staffing and for good advice in making everything run smoothly. Staaaaaaaaats are forthcomin...
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8575
Re: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
Also: I felt there was a ton of sculpture in the visual fine arts for this set and there were some pretty hard answerlines. I knew Canova but I think he is not a gimme answerline for this difficulty level (I may be wrong though). There was someone else who was pretty hard as well in this set. Was i...
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 3:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5642
Re: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Following one of these events on an episode of Frasier , the title character found himself babysitting the daughter of a model named Kristina. On another sitcom, one of these events led to Buster's relationship with Lucille Austero. Andy interrupts a state senator and offers to adopt twelve dogs du...
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8575
Re: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
I don't think the Revolutionary War question should've dropped that Boston Massacre woodcut clue so early. Same with search algorithms and breadth-first. The chiaroscuro bonus seems pretty easily 30'd for anyone who's taken a high school art course. I agree that Law of Large Numbers was a good idea...
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 NAQT ICT: Chicago, April 8
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16725
Re: 2017 NAQT ICT: Chicago, April 8
There's also a DII mirror at Mizzou.Father Comstock wrote:There are definitely more mirrors. I know at least that Northmont, OH is mirroring it on May 20.
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Hype Videos
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4315
Re: Hype Videos
In case someone hasn't seen the Amherst video, it's here (now with subtitles, thankfully). I loved it and am really looking forward to the Chicago drop in a short hour!
- Wed Apr 05, 2017 6:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8575
Re: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
I probably only can comment on the music, but I found that most of the tossups I heard were definitely appropriate difficulty. Some clues were dropped fairly early in the question (e.g. Verdi for requiem) but otherwise the tossups seemed to contain good and rewarding clues. The bonuses were also fa...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Second Summer Open?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8040
Re: The Second Summer Open?
[I can't read calendars, please delete]
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Second Summer Open?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8040
Re: The Second Summer Open?
I would be all for another all-side-event monstrosity, though I also wouldn't mind an Americanized Cambridge Open. Count me in as another vote for Side Event-Palooza: I had a lot more fun getting a taste of a bunch of different sets than having to sit through another regular old academic tournament...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 11:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8575
Re: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
David This question is also in need of some more early and middle clues - the words carved into the rocks in Napoleon Crossing the Alps is extremely well known, especially in quiz bowl, so it probably shouldn't be as early as it ended up being. So funny--someone else also mentioned this to me priva...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8575
Re: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
EDITED 4/5/17: All of the questions mentioned in this post were edited quite a bit before the 3/25 or 4/1 mirrors. The arts, or at least the ones I know some things about, seemed to be a bit scattered in difficulty, though it trended towards being quite hard. The painting questions generally used go...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 5:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8575
2017 EMT: Alex's Stuff (Fine Arts, some OSci/Religion)
Hey all, here's my stuff. I did: - Math: All - Computer Science: search algorithms, Turing/P=NP/Fortran, string/concatenation/dictionaries, classification/trees/KNN - Painting: David, Raphael, allegory, Watteau, Velasquez, Revolutionary War, Garden of Earthly Delights, PRB, Magritte, Jesus/Van Eyck/...
- Mon Mar 20, 2017 4:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT General Discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8739
Re: 2017 EMT General Discussion
The religion also seemed fairly solid as well - the latter seemed biased towards the Bible and Christian practice, but I think that's better than having too many minor religions or something like that at a tournament of this level. The mythology seemed a bit hard and top-heavy on clues in general. ...