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Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

MCTC was actually the highest placing community college in attendance Care to explain how you drew this conclusion about MCTC? It's entirely speculative since MCTC was in a separate division, but the D1 field is significantly more competitive than the D2 field. I mean no disrespect to your team, ho...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I for one think it's tres amusant that somebody who is known for being opposed to side tournaments during the year and big hard open events wanted to write the mother of all subject area side tournaments and attach it to the ICT. Is there any reason this tournament needs to exist at all? As I descri...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

lol christian b. flow

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I'm kind of, uh, weirded out that the people who invented one of the more controversial study methods out there don't actually play quizbowl (It's Ac is not quizbowl).

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So like do you Annandale people play quizbowl?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Oh, whoops. Whatever, point stands.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

That was definitely the BEST tournament Weiner never got around to writing.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Sorry to bump this thread, but what are the arguments for and against the four-quarter format and, if it looks like the general consensus is that it is inferior to the 20-20 format, why does History Bowl continue to use it? So, I don't know what a "one v one" round is and I have a pretty ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Over the course of quizbowl, there has been a lot of discussion and praise heaped on things that are "the best," and lots of threads denouncing tournaments that are the worst, but I have yet to hear about tournaments that were able to really fuck with your head and demonstrate something un...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

This is definitely an attitude to be wary of, whether or not the person is actively advocating for reading trash packets or anything similar. I hate the idea of scaring people away from quizbowl, but at some point you have to wonder if somebody who doesn't consider quizbowl fun has any business bei...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I don't even think it's that. I think trash has the illusion of accessibility because it's about stuff you don't have to read books and take classes to know about, whereas playing an ACF regionals packet beats your face in repeatedly with stuff that seems so esoteric and academic that it feels insur...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Yeah I'm in the going to Pitchfork camp too. Sorry quizbowl, you aren't as awesome as Bjork.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Yeah tell prospective moderators "Sorry, but too many people have cheated that way for it to be an option. You can read the questions during the morning meeting if you need to."

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Yeah, just for clarity's sake now that there are people reporting on NAQT's writeup of the incident, Andy Watkins did access pages where he would have without a doubt seen text from the questions, right? i understand why the writeup is vague because of a mix of covering your ass/not wanting to be bi...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Yeah but why would non-editors need to do that?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So, I want to know why NAQT thought it was a good idea to let people see the first 40 chaaracters of every (or any!) question if they chose to do the right kind of search. What did you expect to happen? Why would such a gaping security flaw even be put into Ginseng in the first place?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

And to drive home just how big a problem Shantanu telling falsehoods is, in the IRC a bunch of peoples' reaction to Henry's conjecture was "I totally wouldn't be shocked if Shantanu did something like that," not "that would never happen." That's how much your brother's done to sh...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Also Joe you're a huge fucking pussy for deleting those facebook posts that made you look really stupid when you complained about other people cheating and I called you on it. What a fucking manchild, have fun spending your early 30s with a Bud light in your hand trying to have sex with college girl...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Here's all you need to know about Joe Brosch: Last year when he was at HSNCT he decided it was cool to get drunk playing a Dragon Ball Z tournament, then go to an afterparty where he bragged to a bunch of quizbowlers about how he "fucks bitches," which is exactly what you'd expect a colleg...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Just because you got sucked into his vortex of insanity and are defending it right now doesn't mean that more unbiased people who are intelligent and rational are going to put up with Shantanu's bullshit. He lied all the fucking time to a bunch of people about a bunch of things, and I think everybod...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Fuck Andy Watkins.

Moved from the high school section to collegiate discussion for language reasons. --Mgmt.

Post here if you have similar sentiments about the recent revelations and no coherent way to work them into a constructive post in the security discussion.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

As I've raised in other venues, the fact that NAQT keeps placing its trust in people who have been rejected by the rest of the quizbowl community for their character issues is a problem that NAQT needs to address. Why NAQT felt it necessary to elevate Andy Watkins to membership given the quizbowl-s...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Out of curiosity, what were the warning signs about Andy that made people suspicious in the first place? As his teammate on one of the ICT teams, I hadn't the faintest idea that he was cheating, but of course by that point I was already mostly out of the quiz bowl loop. His statline at ICT was far ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

This seems relevant, especially after the buzzstrong marketing fad. http://store.theonion.com/p-5397-cheats ... celet.aspx

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Did anybody from NAQT know that there were a bunch of vague allegations going around in back channels (IRC and the like) that Andy had cheated after the 2010 ICT, or did anybody ever contact NAQT naming names about Andy? If so, can NAQT give an honest answer about whether or not they thought the rep...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I mean, Amit ruined PACE in 2010 due to cheating, there have been many other instances of high schoolers cheating or attempting to cheat at other events (remember Neil Sammader, there have been local tournaments I've been at where people cheated, I'm sure lots of people have lots of stories). The bo...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Aren't there high schoolers who play events on literally every level of quizbowl but D1 ICT? What's the benefit to letting them in to write for one tournament when the payoff is that it makes your organization look way more unprofessional and gets people asking questions about when the next time one...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I would like an explanation of whether or not there is truth to the rumors that Sameer from Bellarmine accidentally accessed the Sectionals tournament before TI, and thus chose to sit out. I frankly think that, at this point, NAQT should stop hiring high schoolers. The system is clearly flawed, lots...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

See, I don't think those CBI teams were real teams that would have met and practiced and competed for more than 1 tournament a year. They had an intramural tournament that picked who represented the school and that was it.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

There was no LASA B team in 2009 - there were only 5 people in the entire program that year, and all 5 played on the A team. The current incarnation of our team started in 2007, and the 2007 HSNCT was our second tournament ever (and the first one I ever coached). There had been an LBJ team (made up...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) · Re: Ottawa Hybrid 2013-March 17, 2012 Were there drugs at this tournament?

Were there drugs at this tournament?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

How many graduate students have played D2, and from what teams?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I agree with you Seth, if you are looking to move a team up into a bracket, that makes perfect sense. I obvioulsy am looking at it for crowning a champion, or final placement at a tournament when it is over and there are no other tiebreakers or matches to be played. Your point is well taken. Thanks...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So, I think the reason Fred's taking the position he's taking is that, for a high school national, where teams are eliminated after round 5, you run a big risk of having a lot of teams consider leaving, or getting frustrated at playing games that don't matter. When PACE did that in 2011 I correctly ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

It's incredibly simple. The tie wouldn't exist in the first place if not for one team beating another, so it makes no sense to break the tie with a result that caused the tie in the first place.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

It sounds like he's talking about Anderson buzzers, which are cheap anyway.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I feel like quizbowl is still in some form of adolescence and am unsure how useful this ranking would be. We're only into the second decade of NAQT and PACE running national championships (and both events look drastically different from where they were a decade ago both in terms of the fields they a...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Yeah, exactly, I read this idea and immediately thought "who in their right mind would pay for that?"

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Not really.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

helping more marginal qualified teams learn more about the quizbowl world So basically your job is to do things that for the most part, all good quizbowl players try (or at least, should) to do; that is, act as an advocate for good quizbowl practices for players, coaches, and teams that probably wo...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

MU's annual Mort Walker Invitational using the GSAC set ran with 24 teams coming from across the state. We used straight up ACF rules (no powers, but yes to negs). Here are the statistics http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1276. Ladue A, i.e. Max Schindler playing solo went undefeated, Ladue B...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I somehow neglected to post a thread for this, but Mizzou ran our annual PACE format tournament on December 1st. Ladue A went undefeated to win the tournament, while Ladue B lost in the advantaged final to place second. Hickman A defeated NKC A in the superplayoffs to take home the third place troph...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I would strongly oppose head to head being a tiebreaker ever, because the head to head result was what created the tie in the first place.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I disagree with that logic. This is a nationwide set and I see nothing wrong with there being a question that inherently favors teams from one area. That just happens sometimes and we shouldn't have to fret about it.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

For some annoying reason nobody in quizbowl realizes that Meditations on First Philosophy should only have "Meditations" be underlined, since it's published not uncommonly with that title - to wit, Penguin publishes it under that title http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Metaphysical-Writing...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

If the matches are timed, it's really easy to miss a bunch of random questions that are in fact in there. NAQT has a truly fixed distribution, and I ran another tournament on this set last month, and despite what it felt like, you're just not correct about what you are saying.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Aren't these the sorts of things you should really ask your school administration? Some of this is sort of a no brainer - if you want to stay in a hotel, book a hotel room, whichever hotel happens to be your preference. But we can't tell you how to handle transportation, or fundraising, or whether y...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) · Re: ACF Fall Northeast @ Harvard (11/03/12) woo go husam

woo go husam

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Given the unusual circumstances with the hurricane, perhaps the tournament could be restructured with a single division? That would make one decent sized event for everybody, and i would imagine most coaches would understand the problems.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I sent you a private message earlier about how your posts suck James, why didn't you listen to my advice?

User was warned for telling other people how to post. --Mgmt.

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