The Quizbowl Resource Center

JackGlerum

Riley is (unfortunately) 100% correct. Graduation usually means nothing to the son/daughter and everything to the (grand) parents. And since you still live under your parent's roofs, you gotta deal with it. My parents came to many of my high school quizbowl tournaments, but made me miss the middle r...

JackGlerum

Furthermore, Solo caters to Chicagoland teams who by and large go to good tournaments (right?). Granted, I wasn't in attendance this year, but this proposed tweak in distribution shouldn't necessarily crank up difficulty and thus won't turn people off.

JackGlerum

To clarify, I don't doubt Mr. Reinstein's work ethic or efficiency, I simply think its silly to put the effort towards what is currently accomplished. Also, I'd rather not nitpick about whose "new" distribution is best. As long as you somewhat follow the norm (for me, that's m ACF ), you'l...

JackGlerum · Re: New Trier Scobol Solo 11/7/09 Yeah, "as a state" was a bad way to put it.

Yeah, "as a state" was a bad way to put it.

JackGlerum

Hello, it's time for my obligatory trip to negative street! Scobol Solo is a very cool event and a blast to play. It is like no other tournament. It is a model of logistical success. Hell, it was the first tournament I ever played in, three years ago. Though, I bring up the "identity crisis&quo...

JackGlerum · Re: New Trier Scobol Solo 11/7/09 Thatta boy Lloyd, thatta boy.

Thatta boy Lloyd, thatta boy.

JackGlerum

mlaird wrote:Still undefeated after 11 rounds: Christian Kreb (LA), Kevin Malis (Stev).
One loss: steve server, Greg d., Isa d, zach b, Lloyd, Ben carbury, deveau, Jeremiah, Ben ch., Quinn r (some of these might have two losses).

!

JackGlerum · Re: New Trier Scobol Solo 11/7/09 soooooooooooooooo

soooooooooooooooo

JackGlerum

I'll play if this happens at NTV.

JackGlerum

Yesterday was lots of fun; thanks to Chicago for hosting. Every time I attend an event at Harper, I continue to be utterly impressed by Chicago's program. Things run smoothly for the most part, from pizza to stats, and all of the moderators were in-house (and good!). I also think that Chicago's larg...

JackGlerum

My ideal buzzers would be rod-like, not boxes or pedals.

JackGlerum

We're bringing a buzzer system.

JackGlerum

Don't listen to these conformist chumps Ben, stick it to the man and write 11-line tossups on the art of Kyrgyzstan.

JackGlerum

There were at least 5 instances of this bonus in DAFT: [10] Something about work ANSWER: Work [10] Something about author of work ANSWER: Author [10] The capital of the author's native country ANSWER: Country To me (and to Mr. Chrzanowski, in this post ), the cross-disciplinary clues were irritating...

JackGlerum · Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: UIUC ABT Earlybird (10/10/2009) How are my protégés doing?

How are my protégés doing?

JackGlerum

Thanks to Illinois for hosting this, we thoroughly enjoyed attending the tournament. It was great to see both old and new faces at such a large turnout.

JackGlerum

To respond to Jack: there are at minimum 20 tossups that decide a game. To single out a particular one is short-sighted. The reason why you saying you happened to lose a game by a particular margin because of the question is not an argument for anything is because it isn't. You very easily could ha...

JackGlerum

I just want to point out that, as the author of the As Nasty As They Wanna Be tossup, if you look, it actually includes two clues about the legal precedents revolving around that album that still have somewhat important repercussions today in legal matters like censorship and determining rights if ...

JackGlerum

I too do not think top tier tournaments should include trash. By that, I mean Nats, ICT, and other stuff where "champions" are crowned. Losing by 10 because you couldn't pull a 2 Live Crew album (a great question, by the way) is brutal (and un-academic, unfair, etc.) Having 1/1 for circuit...

JackGlerum

1 team for us.

JackGlerum

evilmonkey wrote:things about notre dame coming to eft

Is Joe coming?

JackGlerum · Re: Early Fall Tournament IV Midwest at Illinois (10/3/2009) Doubtful.

Doubtful.

JackGlerum

DePauw's bringing 2 squads.

JackGlerum

Dan and Jeff, you guys are saying stupid things. Backing up arguments with results from Avery and Question Bank events and then saying Regardless of questions and Questions aside is unnecessary. Furthermore, the argument about solo vs. balanced is subjective and pointless. Sometimes the one-man team...

JackGlerum

Hey, just wanna throw something out there (re: Bardoe discussion) I am also glad that Latin will go to good stuff this year, but attending Fremd, Homewood-Flossmoor, Masonics sort of counteracts what we've been talking about. If you're going to Masonics for the money, fair enough, but these three to...

JackGlerum

Hey, I was kind of interested in talking about the way people conduct themselves at good collegiate tournaments and how to offer helpful feedback afterwards Re: post tournament feedback What do people think about criticizing specific questions? I have been guilty of venting about individual stuff t...

JackGlerum

Greg quoted Nolan as me accidentally... just wanna clear that up.

JackGlerum

Reinstein is right that Illinois isn't as bad as people say it is; we have good teams who go to good events every weekend. The problem, as I've always said, is the ultimate goal. For all but, say, 1-4 teams, IHSA State is the be-all end-all (those 1-4 try to do their best at nationals). Not saying t...

JackGlerum

What coach, besides those who wrote the Mid Suburban League code, would object to freshmen and sophomores playing varsity AND F/S? "Moving to varsity is a one-way street"...many coaches feel that once a player is good enough to move up to the big leagues, playing them in the f/s circuit i...

JackGlerum

Is it even that common for parents or to accompany high-school aged offspring at college tournaments? I've only been to a few college tournaments,but my impression is that it's not the most common thing in the world. For what it's worth, last year, my dad drove my team to ACF Winter (and watched) a...

JackGlerum

Inspired by Fred’s recent undertaking and my incessant reading of ranking-infused fantasy football magazines, I’ll post my top ten. Because I CAN. 1. Auburn Certainly won’t be as good as last year, but neither will anybody else in the state. No doubt Lloyd will emerge as a star, and Abid is learning...

JackGlerum

Like most people, I play so that I can satisfy my competitive drive in an academic environment. This is my reason--and seemingly most people's. I actually joined the quizbowl team when I got cut from the sophomore basketball team and needed something to do in the winter months. Working on my jumper...

JackGlerum

Hello, Given the circumstances, I thought this turned out pretty well. Further editing and more rounds would have been nice, but we would have started round one of trash after the lit finals if we had the thirteen rounds we originally planned. I wrote tossups on Ray Bradbury, Sometimes a Great Natio...

JackGlerum

You don't need to see his identifaction.

We don't need to see his identification.

These aren't the droids you're looking for.

These aren't the droids we're looking for.

JackGlerum

Squads Auroni Gupta & Mike Cheyne Graham Moyer & Ike Jose Greg Peterson & Donald Taylor Evan Adams & Will Butler Tommy Casalaspi & Guy Tabachnick Eric Kwartler & Chris Ray Brendan Byrne & Jacob Durst Rom Masrour & Tim Hartman Jonathan Magin Chris Borglum & Ahmad ...

JackGlerum

I'll second the Benet's recommendation. It seems to have a bad reputation in quizbowl because you can't get any depth from it (justifiably so), but breadth isn't a bad thing either, especially at high school levels. If we're talking about art textbooks, I had the mother of all books when I took AP A...

JackGlerum

Squads Auroni Gupta & Mike Cheyne Graham Moyer & Ike Jose Greg Peterson & Donald Taylor Evan Adams & Will Butler Tommy Casalaspi & Guy Tabachnick Eric Kwartler & Chris Ray Brendan Byrne & Jacob Durst Rom Masrour & Tim Hartman Jonathan Magin Chris Borglum & Ahmad ...

JackGlerum

If you were to write a 20/20 packet of only painting, what would the distribution look like? For whatever reason I was thinking about it and couldn't come up with anything that make sense. You could go about it in many different ways, and am curious what people think.

JackGlerum

Squads Auroni Gupta & Mike Cheyne Graham Moyer & Ike Jose Greg Peterson & Donald Taylor Evan Adams & Will Butler Tommy Casalaspi & Guy Tabachnick Eric Kwartler & Chris Ray Brendan Byrne & Jacob Durst Rom Masrour & Tim Hartman Jonathan Magin Chris Borglum & Ahmad ...

JackGlerum

Squads Auroni Gupta & Mike Cheyne Graham Moyer & Ike Jose Greg Peterson & Donald Taylor Evan Adams & Will Butler Tommy Casalaspi & Guy Tabachnick Eric Kwartler & Chris Ray Brendan Byrne & Jacob Durst Rom Masrour & Tim Hartman Jonathan Magin Chris Borglum & Ahmad ...

JackGlerum

If I have any advice to you up-and-coming players, it's to aim not for being competitive in Illinois but for being competitive nationally. We're going to need something of an arms race to catch up to the rest of the country, and the only way to do that is to aim high and learn hard stuff as soon as...

JackGlerum

I'm surprised nobody has opposed this yet, but I'll say it: it is a bad idea to blacklist teams for Fall Novice, especially if the Illinois mirror will be early in the season. Being a "top team/player in Illinois", doesn't mean you are "too good" for a "novice" tourname...

JackGlerum

the infamous: Though the full title of this work limits its scope to 1660 to 1783, its introduction refers to common histories of Scipio and Wellington that fail to mention the main factor leading to their victories. This work advocates building coaling stations at choke points and prompted (*) Theo...

JackGlerum

FredMorlan wrote:38th - Paul M. Dorman High School's third team

Sick.

JackGlerum

I ended up not going back to the NAC because, well, I had better things to do. Also because it's somewhat soul-crushing for a regular quizbowler to watch those games.

Sorry for those who expected a vid.

JackGlerum

Like most pyramidal questions, the number of potential answers here diminishes as more clues are revealed. All clues used should uniquely identify one possible answer, not multiple answers. Clues that could lead to multiple answers are vague, useless, and anti-pyramidal. You're misreading Nick, I t...

JackGlerum

update:

I'm taking a day off but I'm thinking about going back tomorrow to get a Chip-read playoff game on film because it should be documented for hsquizbowl to see.

JackGlerum

It's lunch time, and I'm peacing out.

JackGlerum

"Richard Wright wrote Native Son. Which other African-American author wrote Notes on a Native Son?"

lol

JackGlerum

queensbury is destroying the other team

Search found 510 matches