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- Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10369
Re: VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)
The field cap has been removed because we got additional rooms
- Sat Jan 05, 2013 12:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QuAC IV at Penn (1/26/2013)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8387
Re: QuAC IV at Penn (1/26/2013)
Our room reservations require us to cap the field at 40 teams. The original post will be updated to reflect this new information.
- Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18838
Re: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013
MeRyuAqua wrote:who do I contact to register teams for the Penn site?
Full post at viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13896
- Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10369
VCU Closed: Penn Mirror (February 2, 2013)
This is the official post for information regarding the Penn mirror of VCU Closed. This tournament is taking place on February 2nd, 2013. For information regarding the questions for this set, please see http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12678. This is a packet submission tournamen...
- Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12616
Re: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
Wow this was a major mistake on my part. You are absolutely correct, and I will fix this for the next mirror. I apologize for the mistake
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12616
Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
Any question specific discussion should take place in this thread. We would appreciate your comments to polish the set for future mirrors.
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2030
Penn-ance General Discussion
First, I would like to thank everyone who playtested the set. Personally, I received a lot of help from, in no specific order, John Lawrence, Jonathan Magin, Mike Cheyne, Susan Ferrari, and Auroni Gupta. Eric also got a lot of help from various people whom I'm sure he will thank once he gets on the ...
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 9:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance Discussion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1201
Penn-ance Discussion
There is a private discussion forum for this set. You can request access in your user control panel. Please keep specific discussion to the private forum as this set is not cleared. Thank you.
- Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8009
Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
We are currently in our lunch break. We plan to start round 6 by 2 PM
- Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8009
Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
This field is now closed at 16 teams. The final email to team contacts will go out shortly.
- Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8009
Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
There has been a slight change in the logistics for this tournament. We will be meeting in Williams in the morning, not Irvine. I will send out a final email detailing the logistics for this tournament in the next 48 hours.
- Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12327
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
80% written, ~60% edited. Eric will post a progress bar at some point
- Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8009
Re: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
Hey so this tournament is happening in 11 days. Sign up!
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 1:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8009
Penn-ance: Penn Mirror (10/20)
This is the official post for information regarding the Penn mirror of Penn-ance. This tournament is taking place on October 20th, 2012. For information regarding the questions for this set, please see http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=13055 Registration Fees: Base fee: $120 per t...
- Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12327
- Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QuAC IV at Penn (Spring Semester)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1294
Re: QuAC IV at Penn (November 10th)
We were not initially aware of the conflict with HFT when we selected this date. However, we actually were not able to reserve rooms for this date, so we will reschedule to the Spring semester. Hopefully this will allow more teams to attend.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12327
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
This is the appropriate thread to indicate interest, but we will need official registrations sent to me at [email protected]
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 5:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QUARK 9/29
- Replies: 30
- Views: 19691
Re: QUARK 9/29
Is there an east coast mirror for this?
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QuAC IV at Penn (Spring Semester)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1294
QuAC IV at Penn (Spring Semester)
This is the announcement for the 4th iteration of the Quaker Academic Competition at the University of Pennsylvania. The tournament will take place during the spring semester of the 12-13 school year. Questions and Tournament Format We plan to use one of HSAPQ’s ACF style sets for this tournament. T...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12327
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
There hasn't been much progress since the last update, but we will be writing a lot in the coming two weeks (orientation and syllabus week). We have also gone back and edited a lot of the questions that we had written previously.
- Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12327
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance (10/20/2012)
We are still looking for mirrors in the following regions:
West Coast
Lower Midwest
Southeast
Florida
UK
Canada
Feel free to contact me or Eric if you are interested.
West Coast
Lower Midwest
Southeast
Florida
UK
Canada
Feel free to contact me or Eric if you are interested.
- Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30475
Re: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
My team needs a new science player if anyone is interested
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012
- Replies: 131
- Views: 55473
Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012
I'll staff this tomorrow
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer systems
- Replies: 52
- Views: 33388
Re: Buzzer systems
I have used wireless buzzers at many HS practices. All of my HS practices were on Zeecraft buzzers. Having said that, The wireless Zeecraft buzzers suck. Sometimes they are slow, sometimes they are unresponsive, and sometimes they buzz without touching them. On top of all of that, they cost a ton. O...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF editors and dates for 2012-2013
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9121
Re: ACF editors and dates for 2012-2013
I would be interested to see what people think about moving back to March, given that the tournament is during or immediately before finals for many schools. I would definitely prefer a March date.
- Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7224
Re: CO Matchmaking
My team (me, Jasper Lee, Ashvin Srivatsa) needs a new history player as ours had to drop out. Let me know if you're interested
- Wed May 30, 2012 9:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
- Replies: 62
- Views: 31082
Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
Having heard the sad news that fellow Bengali quizbowler Eric Mukherjee will not be playing this tournament, I have no prospect for vicarious glory and thus will unfortunately not be attending
- Mon May 28, 2012 12:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experimental Literature Doubles)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 22268
Re: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experimental Literature Doubles)
I will be playing with Mike Bentley
- Mon May 21, 2012 12:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event Wrangling
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10503
Re: CO Side Event Wrangling
My lit tournament is postponed for a later event
- Sat May 12, 2012 1:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experimental Literature Doubles)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 22268
Re: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experiment Literature Doubles)
I'll join someone to play this. Be aware that I'm not good at hard questions.
- Sat May 05, 2012 5:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11480
Re: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
On the contrary, there is something wrong with the Penn tournament, which is that the Penn team has proven over and over again that it is not capable of writing a tournament. When Eric agreed to do VCU Closed instead of Penn Bowl, I foolishly did not assume that Penn would be creating a whole other...
- Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11480
Re: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
Sarah, we plan to run our site on 10/20, but we were assuming that, like October 2011, there would be two tournaments in the month with two weeks per tournament for mirrors
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- Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
- Replies: 52
- Views: 11480
Re: Fall 2012 schedule discussion
We would like the Oct 20/27 dates for our housewrite and its mirrors
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2011-2012 Season
- Replies: 63
- Views: 32186
Re: Player Poll 2011-2012 Season
The way I am ranking players is by my perceived value in adding them to a team looking to win nationals. My ballot: 1. Eric Mukherjee: Eric can be added to any team and make it a national contender, as everyone saw with 2010 Penn. 2. Matt Bollinger: Matt can probably do the same, but unfortunately i...
- Mon Apr 09, 2012 1:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
- Replies: 62
- Views: 31082
Re: YMIR- Mythology tournament- 6/9/12 at PACE
I'd like to read for this
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 8849
Re: Chicago Open?
I will have an all tossup lit tournament done by late July if people want to play it
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Statistics for 2012
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3112
Re: Statistics for 2012
I think there needs to be a point where we assume that the statistics approximate a full A team
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:30 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Brush Invitational ( 3/10/12) Lyndhurst, Ohio
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1527
Re: Brush Invitational ( 3/10/12) Lyndhurst, Ohio
1. Hawken (10-0)
2. Warren G. Harding (8-2, won tiebreaker half packet)
3. Beachwood (8-2, lost tiebreaker half packet)
Beyond this, I believe Solon and Copley tied for 4th and Firestone got 6th.
Michael Coates (Warren G. Harding) was top scorer followed by Scott Remer (Beachwood).
2. Warren G. Harding (8-2, won tiebreaker half packet)
3. Beachwood (8-2, lost tiebreaker half packet)
Beyond this, I believe Solon and Copley tied for 4th and Firestone got 6th.
Michael Coates (Warren G. Harding) was top scorer followed by Scott Remer (Beachwood).
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 1:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46158
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
I was disappointed to see that a couple of my questions were actually made incorrect through editing. I don't know if people edit without fact-checking that often, but I would like to emphasize that editors probably should not try to correct factual errors in submitted questions without the source m...
- Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at GWU
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12756
Re: ACF Regionals at GWU
1 team, 0 discounts
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals at GWU
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12756
Re: ACF Regionals at GWU
Penn is going to this
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12323
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
Stats are up through the round robin, minus the last round for the bottom 7 teams.
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12323
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
We are running our HS tournament in the winter. More specifically, it will probably be in February, but I'm not making any promises.
- Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open IV (Nov. 19-20)
- Replies: 72
- Views: 25518
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open IV (Nov. 19-20)
I'll try to make sure this happens tonightMagister Ludi wrote:Is there any update about an announcement for the Penn mirror for MO?
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Excelsior Rankings (dead forever)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 38182
Re: Excelsior Rankings
Of course, if you feel that Copley A at SAT/ACT was more of a B team than an A team, you could let me know, in which case I'd alter that in my data, and the next time I updated my rankings, you'd see the SAT/ACT listed under tournaments played by Copley B and C rather than Copley A and B. I'd say i...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Excelsior Rankings (dead forever)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 38182
Re: Excelsior Rankings
Is there a way for me to see what our ranking would be if SAT/ACT wasn't included? Just curious to see what it says for the tournaments I played.
- Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
- Replies: 82
- Views: 31351
Re: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
Will team rosters be posted for the remaining 8 teams?
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 9:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Class of 2011 High School Set (Interest Check)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7902
Re: Class of 2011 High School Set (Interest Check)
I'm definitely interested in helping out with this, though we would have to make sure to set up a system of deadlines like George did for FNT in order to make sure that it gets done close to whatever deadline is decided upon
- Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: OAC Talk
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6972
Re: On-going season rankings
2nd quote - What are the odds that out of 6 tossups and corresponding bonuses that it's going to fulfill the 10 categories (or however many there are in OAC)? Even without bonus conversion, a theoretical team could win 10-0 in a 20 tossup game with only one tossup answered (doubt this will ever hap...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PSAT/NMSQT Mirror at Case - 3/5/2011
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3352
Re: PSAT/NMSQT Mirror at Case - 3/5/2011
Live stats at http://results.scobo.net/CHS/satact Finals stats at http://results.scobo.net/CHS/satact2 Quick recap: Solon was 9-0 after the round robin, and DCC B was 8-1 after the round robin. Solon won the second game of an advantaged final to win 1st place. Copley minus me went 7-2 for third plac...