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- Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2005 Announcement of Hosts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9029
- Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2005 Announcement of Hosts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9029
- Sat Jul 09, 2005 9:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RMP (or just M) singles?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5453
- Tue May 17, 2005 5:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Definitive Greatest Players List
- Replies: 18
- Views: 27745
I don't really understand this portentous outburst. Please note that four of our top seven players (Sheahan, Johnson, Dendy, Windham) haven't played a tournament since 2000. Far from being forgotten, they are still firmly ensconced in the top ten. Actually, I wasn't really responding to your (by th...
- Tue May 17, 2005 12:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Definitive Greatest Players List
- Replies: 18
- Views: 27745
- Sat May 07, 2005 11:30 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 87472
Richard Dunlap, commenting on one of my posts, said this: Careful with that last brush -- despite its problems, some (many) of those retired quiz bowl players have fond memories of CBI. Don't assume a consensus you probably don't have. I didn't believe I was asserting that every last former CBI play...
- Thu May 05, 2005 3:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Jacopo Pontormo Tournament of Manners
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10556
- Thu May 05, 2005 10:28 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 87472
Ray wrote: Carthaginem esse delendam! Cato the Elder wrote: Carthago delenda est! I think the latter makes a little more sense in this context, since the former is in indirect discourse but without a finite verb delimiting it. Mike Sorice, Matt Weiner, Sudheer Potru, Seth Kendall, and the hundreds ...
- Tue May 03, 2005 12:52 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 87472
I agree with Sudheer that this conversation is irrelevant, as most conversations about CBI are (and have been since the first one I saw, in 1994); I think its utility has only been that it has allowed sufferers to vent a little, and for that I certainly don't blame Potru for starting it, since my tw...
- Tue Apr 26, 2005 1:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Recent bans
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7420
While I can see and to some extent sympathise with the point of those who suggest that the censorship on this board is a little draconian, recall that the quizbowl community is a little sensitive to spam and trolling because of the horrible experience that befell it in 1996-1997, when its usenet boa...
- Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:54 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Nationals aftermath/discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 66813
- Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:40 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Nationals aftermath/discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 66813
Something I have not seen brought up: Keeping science questions focused overwhelmingly on conceptual science as opposed to science history also forces people like me to learn some conceptual science in order to write a proper question. If I hadn't imposed a firm rule on myself against writing any s...
- Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:00 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Nationals aftermath/discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 66813
The discussion of science and science history/science biography has interested me a great deal; indeed, I have often expressed semi-privately many of the same opinions I have seen coming up. I admit I am biased here, because I also genuinely enjoy science history questions (one of my minor doctoral ...
- Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A blast from the past ...
- Replies: 46
- Views: 39797
Isn't it possible, Seth, that today's players are just as good as those of years gone by, and merely that the exponentially higher question difficulty prevents such feats from occurring on a day-to-day basis? I'd expect to see a lot more four-word buzzes on a Goethe tossup than one on Heinrich von ...
- Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nats Results
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8674
- Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A blast from the past ...
- Replies: 46
- Views: 39797
As awesome as that article is, and all, it's also wrong: Don played at the Tennessee Masters in 1996. I know, because not only was I there, I was on the worst team at the tournament and lost to Don's team (Jim Dendy, Jason King, and Robert Meredith were also on it) by something like 525-40. It was, ...
- Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A blast from the past ...
- Replies: 46
- Views: 39797
Don was a standout from Berry College and the University of Tennessee in the late seventies and early eighties. Not a lot of records exist from back then, but apparently he was insanely good back in the day (he was supposed to have won every direct matchup between he and waters until 1999) and was o...
- Wed Mar 23, 2005 12:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Seniors Bound for College Thread
- Replies: 155
- Views: 84052
While I rarely read the high school boards (when I was in high school the first Bush was president), I've perused this one to see if anyone happened to mention Kentucky. I am utterly unsurprised that no one has, simply because of the phenomena I've heard from the few recruits we get each year (and c...
- Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Switching A and B Teams
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15490
I don't know if it's cheating or not, but what I don't think should happen is something like what happend last year at a tournament: We faced a B team in the morning, slaughered them, lost a close match in the semis, beat the same school's A team for 3rd, and the school's B team won the whole thing...
- Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10525
- Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Is this the most pathetic post ever?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20066
- Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Bid discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 23691
That said, I'd be happy to see NAQT go back to using the same packet set for DI and DII, as they have sometimes done. I agree. I have always thought that the most compelling argument for the continued existence of a Division II at all has been that it ostensibly prepares the younger players for the...
- Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:03 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: SCT commentary
- Replies: 67
- Views: 76079
The problem with a tossup on Amneris is not that its a tossup on Amneris, though one might point out with some justification that it is a little bit more difficult than some of the other questions in the SCT. Furthermore, I don't think that its misleading, but in seeing the tossup in text I am struc...
- Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:52 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: SCT commentary
- Replies: 67
- Views: 76079
Actually, the relevant portion is why NAQT might not want to reveal its distribution ... They might sound Coca-Cola protecting its secret formula, they might sound like Microsoft opposing open source software. But it give a plausible answer to part of Mike Sorice's post. I disagree. Samer did not s...
- Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: over-, under-, or mis-represented topics in QB
- Replies: 38
- Views: 24924
- Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Cvijanovich
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3872
When I first read this I thought for a second that it might be a terrible, grisly joke. On a moment's reflection, I find myself really earnestly wishing it were a joke. Like most people in quizbowl at large, I can't really claim that I knew Cvijanovich; when I played against him, I recall that he wa...
- Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: All-Star awards
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4217
- Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: All-Star awards
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4217
All-Star awards
So, I'm noticing as Fall results come in that the top three scorers only were mentioned in reports from Illinois and Rutgers; in fact, New England often only lists the top two or three. For most of my career, which has lasted for a thousand years now, the standard has typically been the top four or ...
- Thu Nov 06, 2003 5:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Do you know a Beethoven ballet about a Titan?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16413