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- Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7954
Re: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
Score clues are easier than I think many people give them credit for. I’ve noticed this most prominently when reading trash questions with score clues, where my generally non-musical teammates can get very good buzzes from a string of pitches. I would be shocked if at a typical trash tournament (wh...
- Fri Nov 04, 2022 9:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Online Moderators - Please Use an External Mic
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1841
Online Moderators - Please Use an External Mic
In 2020, there was lots of discussion about how to best run online tournaments. One thing that I think has gotten a little buried is that it really needs to be a hard requirement for any moderator to have an external microphone. I've played a few online tournaments recently where this isn't the case...
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2022 ARCADIA Playtest Mirror (10/30/22)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1618
Re: 2022 ARCADIA Playtest Mirror (10/30/22)
Not the TD but looks like there are 7ish teams right now which is not usually a good number. Bumping to remind people this mirror exists this weekend.
- Thu Oct 13, 2022 2:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST II @ Maryland (12/3/22)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3060
Re: CMST II @ Maryland (12/3/22)
I'm looking for teammates for this.
- Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1816
Re: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
Here's a link to the packets: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ag6r4laHo3wdkLNNAWq ... Q?e=xnDKbs
I'll work on getting these linked from the question archive soon (along with some of the older sets not on there).
I'll work on getting these linked from the question archive soon (along with some of the older sets not on there).
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1816
Re: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
If you are interested in mirroring this set, please contact me this week. Otherwise, I'll be releasing it publicly.
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 4:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1600
Re: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
Congrats to Jordan and Daniel for clearing the field. Prelim, Combined and Combined with Crossover stats are here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7632/
Thanks to everyone who played and big thanks to the moderators for making this event happen!
Thanks to everyone who played and big thanks to the moderators for making this event happen!
- Mon Sep 05, 2022 8:23 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
- Replies: 106
- Views: 96774
Re: Introducing YellowFruit.
A few tournaments (including mine) recently have used the 20/15/10/-5 point structure. As far as I can tell, this isn't natively supported by YellowFruit. Any chance this can be added?
- Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:56 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: CO Trash online mirror (Sunday, October 9)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6227
Re: CO Trash online mirror interest poll
Is it intentional that "what weekends won't work for you" is single select?
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 4:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1600
Re: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
Looks like we have enough staff and interest to get to 10 teams. I'll be assigning free agents by tomorrow. Assuming we end up with 10 teams, we'll split into 2 brackets for 4 prelim games + 1 cross-bracket game. Top 3 teams from each bracket will play the top 3 teams from the other bracket for 7 gu...
- Sat Aug 27, 2022 2:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1600
Re: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
The tournament is about a week away. I'm going to close registration on Monday. Right now, we're at 8ish teams, which works well for the number of packets we have. We could potentially expand to 10 but that will require a few more sign ups and at least 1 more moderator. If we stay around the current...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 9:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5757
Re: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
Thanks Ryan for organizing this, it was a lot of fun!
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1816
Re: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
Here's a link to a Discord discussion server: https://discord.gg/2yhH9HbN
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 12:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5757
Re: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
For Eyes, we split into two rooms. Scores for the top bracket: Stephen Liu / 12 / 28 / 20 / 25 / 735 Aseem Keyal / 5 / 9 / 13 / 10 / 315 Natan Holtzman / 8 / 4 / 11 / 13 / 265 Taylor Harvey / 5 / 6 / 6 / 7 / 215 Tim Morrison / 1 / 2 / 6 / 7 / 75 Tejas Raje / 1 / 2 / 5 / 6 / 70 PC / / 1 / / 2 / 5 Bot...
- Mon Aug 22, 2022 12:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eminent Victorians (a 19th century side event)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5029
Re: Eminent Victorians (a 19th century side event)
Yeah, this was fun. I can't remember how hard FLopen was but this did seem like a pretty challenging set, more so than I remember an open tournament being. Still worth playing but keep in mind that there's some stuff that's going to be pretty tough.
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12537
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
The tossups on specific historical moments (e.g. the Draft Eisenhower movement, the funeral of Napoleon , the crossing of the Rhine ) were very entertaining, but I'd be surprised if the field had the depth of knowledge tested by some of them. I liked these questions. To me, at least, it's easier to...
- Sun Aug 14, 2022 6:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1816
Re: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
The set is now mostly done. There are 8 packets of 20 tossups, plus some tiebreakers. This year's set has both super powers (20 points) and regular powers (15 points).
- Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4697
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
Can I see the Corsica question? That was one of those questions that seemed to have a somewhat questionable protest resolution in our game.
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12537
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
I also think that requiring teams on bye to staff would have been the right move. That would have ensured full double-staffing (since 3 teams on bye, those 3 staffers can pair with the remaining single staffers). I do think this has the potential for slowing down rooms as you deal with people switc...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 4:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12537
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
The tournament also made a lot of kind of weird and imo bad distributional choices. For example, it's already questionable to have two Indian philosophy tossups, but it's wayyy more questionable to have two Indian phil tossups on the same exact time period in back-to-back rounds. Another glaring ex...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 9:11 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12537
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
Overall, this was a fun set that exceeded my expectations. I enjoyed the slightly lower difficulty and would like future COs to stay around this level. Thanks to all the editors for their hard work! The CS tossups were nice and straightfoward enough that even I could track what was going on througho...
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1600
Re: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
Tournament will take place on Monday, September 5th (Labor Day).
- Thu Aug 04, 2022 3:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: August 6, 2022 @ Evanston, IL
- Replies: 98
- Views: 48771
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: August 6, 2022 @ Evanston, IL
My team is now looking for a fourth player.
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1600
Re: Eyes XI Online Mirror - Date Poll
Also, if you already want to register, you can do so by emailing me at [email protected].
- Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1600
Eyes XI Online Mirror - 9/5/22 (Labor Day)
I will be holding an online mirror of Eyes That Do Not See XI (see https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26094 for details) on MONDAY September 5th, 2022. Note that this is Labor Day so hopefully most players will have the day off. The tournament will start around 12 PM Eastern. Will probabl...
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 12:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5757
Re: NorCal Summer Side Event Weekend (Stanford, August 20-21)
Any chance you can nail down the events earlier than August 5th? I'm theoretically interested in attending this but it's heavily dependent on what events get scheduled and when they're run. Two weeks isn't a ton of runway for booking a flight.
- Sat Jul 16, 2022 4:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1816
Re: Eyes XI - Format poll
Online doubles is the clear winner.
I should have the set ready by late August. I'll post a date poll soon.
I should have the set ready by late August. I'll post a date poll soon.
- Sun Jul 10, 2022 4:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes XI - Summer 2022
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1816
Eyes XI - Summer 2022
After a few years off, I'm working on another Eyes That Do Not See. This is a visual tournament on visual arts, meaning you'll see the clues in a PowerPoint presentation. Traditionally, this tournament has been a shootout on 100 tossups. After playing JAVA last year, I'm a little more inclined to go...
- Sun Jul 10, 2022 12:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: MRNA II: The Second Dose (Spring 2023, Medium/2 Dot)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11667
Re: Announcement: MRNA II: The Second Dose (Spring 2023, Medium/2 Dot)
Any reason you all are targeting 15 packets? That seems a recipe for like 90 percent of teams not hearing at least 4 of them except at practice or in a shootout. Why is the fact that most teams don't play them a relevant point? This is guaranteed to happen to 2 packets with an advantaged final, no ...
- Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: MRNA II: The Second Dose (Spring 2023, Medium/2 Dot)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11667
Re: Announcement: MRNA II: The Second Dose (Spring 2023, Medium/2 Dot)
Any reason you all are targeting 15 packets? That seems a recipe for like 90 percent of teams not hearing at least 4 of them except at practice or in a shootout.
- Sat Jun 25, 2022 8:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2920
Re: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
Rahul's team cleared the field to win the tournament. Stats are here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/7556/.
There's a discussion forum you can join that will have a link to the packets (although I think this is the last mirror so they will eventually be posted publicly).
There's a discussion forum you can join that will have a link to the packets (although I think this is the last mirror so they will eventually be posted publicly).
- Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2920
Re: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
There's one open spot for a free agent on Kurtis's team tomorrow. If you're interested, let me know.
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:41 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6663
Re: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
In the interest of getting some more formal discussion, I've created a Discord discussion server: https://discord.gg/eFhK5hYK
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2920
Re: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
By the way, we could still use a couple more staffers. Email me at [email protected] if you're available. Thanks!
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2920
Re: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
Reminder this is happening next weekend. We have 7 teams signed up and enough free agents for an 8th team. We probably won't expand beyond 8 teams unless there's a lot of interest between now and Sunday when I'll at least tentatively lock down the field.
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 7:18 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6663
Re: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
Thanks Ryan! Regarding "adaptation clues," you do see from this data that some of the literature questions that leaned heavily into that had poor power rates (Native Son, Red Badge and Great Gatsby, all with <= 2 powers). But other more conventionally clued tossups like Alexander Pope, Fal...
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 1:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Beterword - Free Buzzword Alternative
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2538
Re: Beterword - Free Buzzword Alternative
What's the process for creating a packet / tournament on this platform? Is that something that's going to be open for anyone to do independently? Unless I'm mistaken, this capability isn't offered by Qblitz either. I do think it would be cool if some platform made it super easy to create such a set....
- Tue Jun 14, 2022 7:14 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6663
Re: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
I've updated the posted packets with a few small fixes and also added docx versions.
- Sun Jun 12, 2022 11:58 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6663
Re: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
Thanks to everyone who made the NSC happen this year! The editors for this year's set were: Mike Bentley - European and Cross History; Visual Fine Arts; Social Science; Geography; Current Events; Other Academic Hari Parameswaran - American and World History Joseph Krol - Physics; British and World L...
- Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:40 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6663
2022 PACE NSC Discussion Thread
Thanks everyone, hope you all enjoyed the set! Packets are posted here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2786/. Will likely post a slightly fixed version later in the week, along with docx files.
Longer post coming soon.
Longer post coming soon.
- Sat Jun 11, 2022 9:37 am
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago - Congratulations Lambert!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13172
Re: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago
Live stream will start in about 30 minutes here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjPjiM ... kOJDsXaxOw
- Sat Jun 04, 2022 12:54 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Playtesting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2331
Re: 2022 PACE NSC Playtesting
Hi, I'm also looking for a few proofreaders who are available to work today and tomorrow morning. Please email me at [email protected] if you're interested. Thanks!
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:21 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago - Congratulations Lambert!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13172
Re: 2022 PACE NSC: June 11-12, Chicago
Hi everyone, in answer to a question on the Discord, here's the distribution for the tournament and the list of editors: 4/4 History (1/1 American, 1/1 European, 1/1 World, 1/1 Cross, Historiography and Misc.) - Hari Parameswaran and Mike Bentley 4/4 Literature (1/1 American, 1/1 British, 1/1 Europe...
- Mon May 09, 2022 12:10 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Playtesting
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2331
Re: 2022 PACE NSC Playtesting
Wave 2 playtesting will start somewhat soon. It would be great to get a few more people signed up for this. Please email me at [email protected]. (Also email me if you've already signed up and didn't receive the mail I just sent with details.)
- Sat Apr 16, 2022 2:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Directed Prompts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2000
Re: Directed Prompts
I'm having a hard time finding an actual example (my search for "by asking" and equivalents on aseemsDB doesn't get many results) but I'm almost positive I've seen directed prompts that basically give you free points by prompting on a somewhat generic answer and then giving an instruction ...
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 1:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2022 Livestream A/V Discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1668
Re: ACF Nationals 2022 Livestream A/V Discussion
I'd personally love more events to livestream more than just the finals. I understand that question security does make this challenging. But I personally would like the option of a 30 minute delay or something rather than recordings that get posted much later. (As someone who has made a lot of recor...
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 12:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 PACE NSC Writing and Editing Application
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2588
Re: 2022 PACE NSC Writing and Editing Application
As we hit the home stretch in set production, it'd be great to bring on board a few more writers interested in producing biology and chemistry questions. Email me at mbentleypace@gmail.com if you're interested. I'm also looking for volunteers for any of the following roles on the set: -Second round ...
- Mon Apr 11, 2022 5:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2022 Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12201
Re: ACF Nationals 2022 Thanks and General Discussion
Big fan of length caps, glad to see they were strictly enforced. Agree with Will that those questions on Rastafarianism, wood and nuclear subs were cool. As I've mentioned elsewhere, it's hard to provide an objective assessment of a set as a playtester. But was glad to see the editors treating playt...
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 3:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2920
Illinois Open Online Mirror - 6/25/22
I'll be organizing a Zoom mirror of Illinois Open on Saturday, June 25th. Tournament will start at 10 AM EDT. This is an open set so expect things to go pretty late. An informal sign-up sheet is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/152tQeVs1OQEetFdN8r0w56lt_u4AsV8DVQfF8ckXZSY/edit?usp=sharin...
- Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Summer 2022 Tournaments
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1253
Summer 2022 Tournaments
What's on the slate for summer tournaments this year? For academic-ish sets, here's what I saw announced: Chicago Open NASAT MUSES WOOLF JAVA THING This seems below average compared to previous years. Are there any missing sets or ones not announced yet? As I mentioned on the Discord last night, I h...