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- Mon Jul 29, 2019 5:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5056
Re: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
Thank you everyone for coming out to attend this! Despite a couple hiccups here and there, I think this ran somewhat smoothly, and most people seemed to have a good time. Stats for all the events can be found here . There are a couple issues with the NASAT stats that I will resolve tonight. If you s...
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5056
Re: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
Can we do Unanswered Question later in the day? One of my teammates will be driving back from Tahoe in Sunday morning. Would strongly prefer it not to be last in the day. Considering that the majority of players interested in Unanswered Question will also be interested in RULFO, I have no issues wi...
- Mon Jul 08, 2019 1:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5056
Re: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
A few more updates: Due to complications with reserving rooms at Stanford during the summer, both days of the tournament will now be held at UC Berkeley, within Cory Hall . We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause. We're in need of many more staffers for NASAT, our main event. As such, I'v...
- Tue Jun 18, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5056
Re: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019)
Gauging the current amount of interest for the side events, I've set the max number of players per team for META, Age of Empires, and RULFO to 3. If you're interested in playing these events, please put your name down (as a free agent or as a team) so we can get a better idea of the number of staffe...
- Sun Jun 09, 2019 9:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45663
Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
I understand that the submission dates have been announced for a while, but would it be possible to create a +$0 deadline somewhere in between next Saturday (June 15th) and July 6th? The price increase ($75) feels steeper than most submission tournaments - a more gradated schedule might allow teams ...
- Thu May 30, 2019 6:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5056
NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl (July 27-28, 2019) @ Berkeley
Stanford Berkeley will be hosting the annual NorCal Weekend of Quizbowl on the weekend of July 27th and 28th. The schedule will be as follows: Saturday (7/27): NASAT META Sunday (7/28): Age of Empires The Unanswered Question RULFO The tournament will be held at UC Berkeley within Cory Hall . Conven...
- Wed May 15, 2019 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9319
Re: Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
We've narrowed the schedule down to two potential options. If you're interested in attending, please fill out the following form to help us make the final decision!
- Thu May 09, 2019 2:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9319
Re: Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
We have a good number of responses so far! If you haven't filled out the form yet but are possibly interested in playing, please do so by Monday, May 13th.
- Sat May 04, 2019 7:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9319
Re: Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
As per Will's suggestion in the other thread, I've added Oxford Open as an option for a main event. If you've already responded, you should be able to edit your previous response (or can simply submit another one).
- Sat May 04, 2019 1:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl (8/10-11)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9381
Re: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl at Cal State, Long Beach (Date TBD)
I've posted a form to gauge interest / collect preferences for a Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl. We want it to be worthwhile for players to attend both events if they so desire, so please do fill out the form if you're considering attending.
- Sat May 04, 2019 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9319
Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl (Date TBD)
Berkeley and Stanford are planning on hosting a Northern California Weekend of Quizbowl similar to past years. If you'd be interested in participating, please fill out the following form so we can decide what dates / events work best for everyone.
- Fri May 03, 2019 9:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl (8/10-11)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9381
Re: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl at Cal State, Long Beach (Date TBD)
I have not been in coordination with the powers that be in Norcal, and have heard no word as to whether they are planning a summer quizbowl event; I did post on their Facebook group about this tournament, and would welcome any input from them. What seems most logical to do is to run NASAT, as it's ...
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45663
Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
Assuming Scattergories and Age of Empires are happening, is there a third event that could be stuck in there? I feel like, flippancy aside in my earlier post, you could pretty easily do a third tossup-only event (maybe one that only ran at a high school nationals or something). Following up on this...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ICT DI general discussion and thanks
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2956
Re: 2019 ICT DI general discussion and thanks
Another point: in the pop culture distribution, I would suggest reducing the number of TV questions. This is not because TV is an unimportant topic, but rather because TV tends to have a much more bimodal distribution of knowledge than other pop culture areas - people who watch a given show tend to...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1747
Re: 2019 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
I buzzed in with "ballerina" at the description of Degas' Little Dancer, which wasn't accepted. Was that ruled incorrect due to the lead-in describing Dancing Girl? Moreover, I was pretty surprised Dancing Girl would be appropriate for a lead-in.
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 10:45 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 455481
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Jack Mehr and I are each writing a packet of hard (ranging from Nats to CO+), literature common links to be read sometime in mid-January on Discord. If this sounds interesting to you, indicate your availability on the following poll (times are EST).
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 NASAT: June 22 & 23
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14691
Re: 2019 NASAT: June 22 & 23
One thing I would urge IQBT to consider is increasing the cost of registration to provide funding for a more convenient location for teams. Speaking from personal experience (I chose not to attend NASAT 2017 because it was prohibitively expensive), I know West Coast teams, and likely other areas, wo...
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 4:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14549
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the tossups on Henry Fielding, Toni Morrison, and George Eliot? Despite all of these authors being quite prominent, I remember being lost for the majority of these tossups, and judging from the stats (0, 1, and 2 powers, respectively, over 78 rooms), it seems like this wasn't unique to me.
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12169
Re: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
I had a ton of fun playing this set! Huge props to the editors/writers for pretty consistently interesting ideas across the board that still felt difficulty-appropriate (most of the time) in their execution. In general, it seemed like most questions had enough middle clues to differentiate between t...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26610
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
-I think the Bocaccio bonus part in Editors (6?) claimed that the Decameron was about 5 men and 5 women, escaping a flood Here's the bonus part that you're referring to: [10] Pizan’s Book was inspired by this author’s On Famous Women . Marguerite of Navarre parodied this author in a work about five...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 13783
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
This was overall a great set! I especially appreciated the wide variety of ballet questions, particularly the Coppelia bonus. It's nice to see more ballets that are essentials among ballet enthusiasts but not necessarily considered part of the quiz bowl canon be included in a set of this difficulty...
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 2:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy Quizbowl Week 3: ACF Fall
- Replies: 11
- Views: 886
- Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Must Be The Place
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4439
Re: This Must Be The Place
Extremely excited to see this is happening (and to play it)!
- Sun Sep 09, 2018 9:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8655
Re: Words and Objects
The set has been posted here.
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8655
Re: Words and Objects
Following a mirror at Valencia tomorrow evening, all scheduled mirrors for Words and Objects will have finished. I've heard word that there may be interest for a UK mirror, butI haven't received anything definitive thus far. I plan to publish the set to the archives if I haven't heard from anyone by...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 12:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Side Event Open - 8/11/18
- Replies: 92
- Views: 37365
Re: Illinois Side Event Open - 8/11/18
I'm not actually attending, so my opinion is of limited value, but I'd also recommend Words and Objects be played as teams, following Tejas' suggestion of free agents just joining existing teams because 1) this is a cross-subject event as Mike noted, 2) players still get to play with the people they...
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 473
Re: Words and Objects Specific Question Discussion
Yeah I similarly got confused in the middle of this question about whether it was asking about the shoulder or the strap. Do any of the clues before "it was fallen off" exclusively apply to the strap and not the shoulder? In any event I'd at least prompt on Madame X's shoulder. Aside from...
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 473
Re: Words and Objects Specific Question Discussion
This was fun, and I found this very enjoyable at VCU. I've forgotten most answerlines because I have a piss-poor memory but since it was mentioned in the other thread, may I see the tossup on Madame X's dress strap? I was fumbling somewhere in the middle like "oh no what could this be is this ...
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects General Discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 338
Re: Words and Objects General Discussion
I guess my main criticism of the tournament was that it was more guessable than a standard set. (Although with Greg and I being rather aggressive players this probably contributed to our team being able to win the online mirror.) I'm not sure if this is inherent to a tournament that asks about obje...
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online Mirror
This has been done! Once logged in, go to User Control Panel -> Usergroups and select "2018 Words and Objects discussion" to request access.Mike Bentley wrote:Is there a private discussion forum for the set?
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects General Discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 338
Words and Objects General Discussion
Use this thread for general discussion of the set.
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 473
Words and Objects Specific Question Discussion
Please post here with any questions/comments you have regarding specific questions.
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 3:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online Mirror
No, there isn't. Would forum moderators be able to make one?
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 1:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online Mirror
Congrats to "Kant's Ancient Humbugs" for defeating "Terrapin XXXTentacion" in the finals, 135-120 (on a TB tossup, no less!) It was extremely exciting seeing all the great buzzes today, and I hope players had as much fun playing as I did writing/reading. Thanks to Itamar, James, ...
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online Mirror
A reminder that this is happening in half an hour! Please be in the Discord server (PM if you need a link) on time so we can finish at a reasonable hour.
- Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online Mirror
Given the number of free agents, I've added a spot for teams to add a fourth member. The field will remain at its current cap of 8 teams. I'm going to close the field tonight at 12 PM EST , so if you're a free agent, make sure to communicate with registered teams to figure something out by then! Aft...
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online Mirror
This is a very good idea. I've just added a column for teams to add an optional third teammate. I also expanded the field to accomodate 8 teams.Mike Bentley wrote:Are there any plans to expand the team size? It looks like there are 4 teams of people on the waitlist right now.
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 2:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online (7/29)
A reminder that this is happening this upcoming weekend at 9 PM EST , so free agents should organize themselves into teams if they wish to play. It'd be great if a couple kind folks would be willing to offer a few hours of their time to moderate - I'll give $15 to the first two volunteers . To sign ...
- Sat Jul 14, 2018 11:00 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online (7/29)
I will be running an online (Discord) mirror of Words and Objects on July 29th, beginning at 9 PM EST. Information regarding the event can be found here . The event will be run in doubles, and the team formation spreadsheet can be found here . Writing your team members' names down constitutes as a r...
- Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Re: Words and Objects Online Mirror
It looks like 9 PM EST on Sunday, July 29th works best for people. I'll post a full announcement for the event tonight.
- Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects Online Mirror
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4643
Words and Objects Online Mirror
I will later use this post to coordinate the final logistics for the event, but for now, I've created a poll to decide on the best time to run this. If you are interested in playing this event, please indicate ALL times that work for you with this Google form . If no times work, indicate as such on ...
- Wed Jul 04, 2018 11:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8655
Re: Words and Objects
I've updated the original post with the current confirmed sites, as well as the finalized number of packets (6). Please email me if you would like to mirror the event. I plan to also run an online mirror of the event, and will make a separate post regarding that in the coming week.
- Fri May 18, 2018 11:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 Editor application
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3796
Re: ACF Fall 2017 Editor application
Are there plans for ACF to release a similar form for Fall 2018 in the near future?
- Sun Apr 29, 2018 2:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stevenson Memorial Tournament (SMT) at Stanford, 4/28/18
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4313
Re: Stevenson Memorial Tournament (SMT) at Stanford, 4/28/18
After the tournament, we'll be running Words and Objects , written by James Malouf and myself with help from Will Nediger. Due to the incomplete nature of the set (with only 3 packets fully written as of now), we're be using this as an initial playtesting as much as the first official mirror. It'll...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stevenson Memorial Tournament (SMT) at Stanford, 4/28/18
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4313
Re: Stevenson Memorial Tournament (SMT) at Stanford, 4/28/18
After the tournament, we'll be running Words and Objects , written by James Malouf and myself with help from Will Nediger. Due to the incomplete nature of the set (with only 3 packets fully written as of now), we're be using this as an initial playtesting as much as the first official mirror. It'll ...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event Open: Organization
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13439
Re: Side Event Open: Organization
There's kind of a lack of what I would call flagship academic sets, but assuming they're finished, I could see RAPTURE, Words and Objects, and Human Use of Human Beings being the centerpiece of a day, followed by a dispersal of the various trash side events and Imaginary Landscape throughout the ev...
- Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 19883
Re: CMST: Specific question discussion
I thought the third part of the Esquire/JFK/racing bonus was confusingly worded. I was pretty sure that "The Last American Hero" was about auto racing, but the last clue was about the Hunter S. Thompson Kentucky Derby piece, so we said horse racing and got it right. Now, I believe the bon...
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: History
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2771
Re: History
Just wanted to stop in and say that the tossup on the Atlantic Ocean/World was my favorite history tossup of the year, with the only other one I enjoyed about as much being the American Revolution TU from Regionals. I liked that the question was on an interesting, important topic in historiography ...
- Fri Mar 09, 2018 3:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Dominance of Thought
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7210
Re: The Dominance of Thought
FYI, these questions have been replaced for future mirrors of CMST.ErikC wrote:Tossups like [THINGS FROM CMST]
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9442
Re: CMST: General Discussion
Overall I enjoyed the set, but I guess I'll use this space to note a broader issue. Namely, whenever distros are based on genre rather than region, non-Western regions get screwed. Art has had such a distro for years, with the result that world art is nearly nonexistent in the QB canon. This set us...