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Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I want to use this as an opportunity to make a critique of a question and of the general discourse about bad writing (I already brought this up in person to the editors, so this is more just an exercise to make a point). There was a question using alternate universe clues from Harry Turtledove. The ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Yeah I was wanting to play and hadn't tried to hard beyond asking one person about forming a team, so if other people want to play message me.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I thought other delta Burke mirrors were happening in Illinois this summer.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Also, who were the teams?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

God that's depressing. At what point would they just have canceled it, if only 3 teams signed up?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

OHIO: Jarrett Greene (South Range), Ike Jose (Stow Munroe Falls), Saajid Moyen (Copley), Ashvin Srivatsa (Sycamore). Certainly many others you could add here as well--I would say, this is a fairly deep team that with the exception of Ike, lacks a MVP. Joe is right, Noah Rahman should definitely be ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

In what universe would that protest be denied about piano etudes? I would like to hear more about that protest. I am also curious about IMSA's protest in I believe round 4 of the playoffs which an IMSA alum told me was completely in line with what he was taught in school there but which NAQT denied....

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Let's all make up numbers and say things.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Is there a pressing reason something needs to change? It seems like right now the HSNCT is officially meeting all of its demand, is running a logistically astounding product, and is providing a one-of-a-kind experience for high school teams. There is NOTHING like the HSNCT and I feel like that's a l...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

This is super late but is it still feasible for me and a teammate to join a team? I'd need to know within the hour I think.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Does OQBA exist in any form today? I know that Eric Bell quit running it when he moved to Vegas, but remember that there were other people trying to keep it going. There is perhaps a better thread for this, but I actually played an OQBA tournament in 2007 and, for whatever it's strengths were, I fel...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

What would it take for NAQT to be convinced to change the math questions at msnct in the ways I outlined in the other thread?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I have a critique of Kay's Rachmaninov 3rd concerto question that I think applies to lots of Quizbowl. It seems to me like a lot of problems with listing series of notes in a melody is that you still lack the rhythm component, and without that, it's hard to fill in the gaps of what the melody sounds...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Were the repeats also clue repeats? There's nothing wrong with asking about Iran (home of one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations) twice in a large tournament as long as both questions aren't about, say, Ayatollah Khomeini.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So the word is now that the tournament is going to be canceled because the set ended up being amazingly offensive. This is not just my decision, but I definitely don't think that the questions I'm seeing here have any business being read as an hsnct side event. I will email participants to confirm l...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I have been without a laptop for a couple weeks now with it being repaired, so rest assured I will be in contact with people this week about running this tournament. I am going to be up front right now that I am very concerned about what is going on at its PACE mirror, and this tournament will proba...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So does anybody here know of any registered teams? The NTAE website is not keeping up their end of the bargain about posting a list of registered teams in mid-May and I suspect that's because they don't have teams to list, but I would love to know if this tournament is in fact happening.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

But that line of argument I don't think applies to MSNCT. There are very few entrenched middle school circuits with set-in-stone diehard format warriors, especially compared to the high school world of a decade ago. For this particular tournament, I don't believe for a minute that NAQT couldn't get ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Is there a reason it can't be a VCU open mirror?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Literally. The only times you ever really have people clapping in high school games is towards the end of the national playoffs, whereas here it was after almost every half.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I forgot my other observation, which is that man, people LOVE clapping for middle school quizbowl.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

If the point of St. Louis Open is to be something that bored high schoolers and not particularly good college freshmen do to kill some time on a Saturday in July, then great, but I was having people from Wash U try to convince me to come to it, and Senor Hang is on the college forums to try and find...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

This was only my second time ever reading at the middle school level, but I actually found many of the questions to be rather difficult, for example, a leadin about TORCH in placenta that my scorekeeper noted was something he learned in med school. I suspect that a lot of difficulty complaints here ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I would imagine/hope that you're not going to get much interest in a high school tournament among college players. I was hoping to go to St. Louis Open when I was hearing about it from Sean, but now that I know it's IMSAnity, I think I'll pass.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Just as a reminder, if there are any more people out there who will be at the HSNCT and would be malleable enough that I could convince them to moderate here, please please please let me know so we can get a full field and have it run nicely.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

By all means, do what you need to do in whatever back channels to make your preferred teams happen.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Greg Peterson liked to get in IRC and make unbelievable buzzes even though he was decidedly mediocre in person and everybody knew he was cheating and kept calling him out on it until he finally stopped. That's why Ike called him Cheaterson.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Honestly, even if you apologize, I think cheating intentionally at an actual tournament should be enough to get you permanently banned from quizbowl. Cheating RUINS the game - there is ABSOLUTELY NO POINT in playing ANYTHING if you're going to be up against somebody who has already seen the question...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation Understand networking before you post mindless shit, that will be believed by anybody without real networking knowledge. PLUS If i were to cheat, I would have used a fucking VPN or torr, or any variety of anonymity. Do you really think we're ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

EDIT: One more thing. Steven mentioned to me in an email that, while he understands why people are speaking negatively of him, he thinks it's inappropriate that apparently some Desert Vista High School players at NHBB are being harassed/"attacked verbally" by people at the tournament. Thi...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

If you missed this because you don't read the college forums, this is the side tournament happening on Saturday night during HSNCT - viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15760&p=279974#p279974

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Is this a situation that's serious enough that a formal ban would need to be enacted, or should this person just be relentlessly mocked until he's too embarrassed to show his face in quizbowl ever again?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) · Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14) But is he an Eagle Scout?

But is he an Eagle Scout?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

The symbol you're referring to is a martele stroke, at least for strings. The line is definitely a tenuto, I suspect my terminology there is a little imprecise because a lot of the time in lessons teachers aren't don't use all of the right words all of the time and will say things like "marcato...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Was this tournament undergrad only?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I was inspired by this thread to give a run-down of terms that people might have tenuous grasps on, which are going to be the kinds of things you see in a score, but which are the kinds of incredibly common terms that you will need to be very careful to make sure you are using correctly if you want ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Fida wrote:
canonomics wrote:
the third garrideb wrote:Oh, no? http://www.sd84.k12.id.us/shs/departmen ... hurber.htm
That's a broken link for me.
This is what he meant to link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huma

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Because this has been a topic that has now come up a couple times in your tournament discussions, I have never actually seen anybody attempt to make a breakdown of the ideal amount of music by time period. I am personally skeptical that one needs to exist, beyond making sure that your tournament isn...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Now, on to attack some hysterical nonsense- This first clue is absurd: the third movement (which is NOT a "finale") of this piece has statements of the main theme in so many keys that there is no possible way any of theme could be unexpected. Calm down dude! It's not an "absurd"...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Andrew Hart only wishes he could still grow hair like this.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So, here will be some better criticism more aimed at instructing non musicians how to better select some important clues, taking apart that same bach Double Concerto tossup: 5. The finale of this piece reprises the theme in G minor instead of the expected tonic D minor and consists of two instances ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

So, unlike Jacob and Jonathan, I played quizbowl when music was notorious for having people write incompetently on "cool" modern composers rather than make any attempt at having quizbowl music reflect the canon of Western music (on top of all the terrible Missouri high school questions and...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

As somebody who co-founded the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance and spent a subsequent 5 years of my life fighting very vigorously to convince teams that the MSHSAA series was a horribly run boondoggle and had to work even harder to force good quizbowl to exist at all in the state in the face of a bunch ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Rom Masrour: The Preëminent Quizbowl Pornographer

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I wasn't aware that ICT does this, and I have not planned to do it at ACF Nationals personally, nor am I aware of any discussion within ACF for any future TDs to do so. Jeff just confirmed that I'm not crazy when I asked and that NAQT does indeed do this. Add it to the list of things I'd change abo...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

It seems to me like the general approach to quizbowl has always been "if you make the finals, you don't have to worry about playing any more and automatically win any lesser titles." Should this approach be revised to "if you make the top 2 or 3 spots and earn a trophy, you automatica...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote:More importantly, Virginia's had one of the all-time great seasons, Yale has completed a great run with the talented Matt Jackson, Chicago did really well and it sounds like it was a great cap to a great season of quiz bowl.

Penn shat it up though.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Well, yeah, that's the point, if not for people like me, quizbowl in Missouri would be a whole lot worse, it has nothing to do with MSHSAA, and we managed to get where we got without doing pretty much anything to help MSHSAA - none of us staff state, we had nothing to do with the NAQT bid for state,...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Upon further reflection, I'm going to start the tournament closer to 7:15 (time to get yourself a snack if you really need it), run a few rounds, and order in food to be eaten during a half hour break sometime between 9 and 10 PM. This should make us able to get through the night a little faster, bu...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

It seems to me like a good solution would be for you and your talented teammates to take turns moderating for everybody else for part of your practice, and then maybe practice one packet all together with your coach reading at the end of practice. Another good idea could be to play with teams in pra...

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