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Jem Casey

alexdz wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 5:44 pm
Jem Casey wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:12 am For now, I'd like to collect reports via a google form, ...
FYI, I just tried to use this form and it says it's only accessible to members of the owner's organization, so it looks like some settings may need to be tweaked to collect data with the form.

Thank you Alex, should be fixed now!

Jem Casey

Ryan's exciting announcement of the college quizbowl statistics database project prodded me to finally share a personal project in a similar vein. A couple years ago, I scraped all the college and open tournaments I could find on hsquizbowl.org (as well as some from neg5 and qbwiki) going back to 19...

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TaylorH wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:55 pm Packet 13, Q10 on Papua New Guinea: the clue on the film Dead Birds focuses on the Dani people, who live in Western New Guinea ie Indonesia, so it appears this clue is not correct. I like this question otherwise though!

oof, thanks for catching this!

Jem Casey

I had a blast editing the philosophy for this set, in large part thanks to Jaimie and my co-editors being such a delightful team to work with; thank you all! I also enjoyed reading all of your submitted questions. This is by no means a complete list of the quality material we received, but the philo...

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I, and at least a few other people I've spoken to, found the Turing tossup confusingly worded. My teammate buzzed and negged with Searle at the same place I would have, shortly before Searle's name was said. I had just studied the Chinese Room thought experiment with what I thought was a reasonable...

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My recall of set content is too poor these days to give much more specific praise/feedback without having the questions in front of me, but I greatly enjoyed playing this set; thanks your hard work, Taylor, Jonathen, and team!

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Finally, as an older member of the community with a wide variety of trainings and experiences, I'll offer myself as a resource for younger male members of this community who are having issues navigating interpersonal relationships or recognizing uncomfortable situations. My DMs are open, as is my e...

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If you'd like feedback on your literature or painting/sculpture submissions, feel free to reach out to me via private message, Discord dm, FB Messenger, or by email at "[my first name]z[my last name]@gmail.com"

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2) The tossup on Sogdian s had an abysmal answerline with nothing else in it besides the primary one. This is particularly bad because "Sogdian" is a fairly generic term that, in ancient sources, seems to refer to urbanized East Iranians who spoke the common language of "Sogdian"...

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I'd like to play this. If you want a fourth scorer who knows some things about indie music, baseball, and a select few tv shows/movies, and who may be useful on academic/academic-adjacent things that crop up, put me on your team!

Jem Casey

Going to be playtesting 14/14 philosophy and possibly some lit questions starting at 10:30 EST; PM me for irc room details.

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Lit playtesting is beginning now.

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After Andrew's session this evening (i.e. beginning around 9:45 pm CST), I'll be playtesting a batch of the set's literature questions in the same irc channel. If you're interested but won't be participating in Andrew's playtesting, PM me.

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To everyone joining the forum after this first crop of mirrors, welcome and thanks for playing SMT! As the set's head editor, I'd like to thank all the other editors and writers whom Young graciously named above for their work on the set--as well as Young himself, without whose vision, tireless logi...

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Naveed, Ophir, and I are looking for a fourth teammate, preferably someone who can buzz on SCIENCE and is willing to write a few SCIENCE questions for our submission this week. PM me if you're interested.

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I'm playing this. Let me know if you're interested in teaming up

Edit: I'll be playing with Jason Golfinos

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The set has been added to the archive and is available here!

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I respect Ike's vision, but I'm sort of puzzled...did anyone find the last few years of CO "overly canonical" or "too easy"? Indeed, people complained that last year's CO was too hard as well. Did we need a tournament to amp up difficulty so much in order to get interested in le...

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Full detailed stats from the CO site are available here. Full detailed stats for the Skype mirror are here. Thanks again to Ophir for making these!

Edit: please PM or email me or Ophir with corrections or problems accessing the sheets.

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Since there are no more planned mirrors of Jordaens Visual Arts, please use this thread for any and all discussion of the set, be it general thoughts, comments on specific questions, or errata. Some thanks are in order, first and foremost to my co-writer Sarang Yeola. Sarang wrote 13 questions, a to...

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If I have time, I'll read the tiebreakers packet and the three extra tb questions after Auroni reads the It's Lit packet. Also, thanks to Billy Busse, Halle Friedman, Jason Golfinos, Eliza Grames, Saul Hankin, Ophir Lifshitz, Tejas Raje, and Ryan Rosenberg for moderating, to Joe Su for handling stat...

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John Lawrence and Jacob Reed beat Matt Bollinger, Trevor Davis, and Jason Thompson in the final to win the tournament. Thanks to everyone for playing; hope you all enjoyed the set.

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The schedule for Jordaens is available here.

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Brackets are as follows. Please contact me privately if they look seriously unbalanced. Bracket 1 Athena Kern/Joey Goldman Aidan Mehigan/Bernadette Spencer/Chris Ray Raynor Kuang/Robert Chu Charles Hang/Patrick Butenhoff/Michael Coates Ryan Humphrey/Marianna Zhang/Foster Hughes Auroni Gupta/Will Ned...

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I was under the impression Jason Asher already asked you to waitlist the two of us (initially as a team) - but in case he did not, we are interested in playing if you are assigning free agents to teams. Thanks. I don't believe I heard from Jason, but in any case you guys and the other free agents h...

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I'll be assigning free agents to teams tomorrow evening, but feel free to find your own team before then.

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For those unfamiliar with the IRC, you can access the channel here. Apologies for not providing a link sooner.

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Ophir: hftf__ May want to get this corrected in the Google docs (Ophir is listed as htft__ --- that is, the "t's" and "f's" are switched). Otherwise, folks'll be adding some Skype rando. Thanks, Travis. Due to some player movement, we only have seven teams for this Skype mirror....

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It looked like the field was filling up so I put myself down for the last spot, but I don't have a teammate at the moment. I'm fine playing with anyone who doesn't neg too much. Seems like expanding to 8 teams wouldn't be a bad idea though, if there's available staff. Locking down a fourth moderato...

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I’m pleased to announce that an online mirror of Jordaens Visual Arts will be held at 8 pm EST on Saturday, July 15th. The purpose of hosting the online mirror before the set is played on Chicago Open Sunday is twofold: to fine-tune through playtesting what will already be a mostly polished set (sim...

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With 15 teams signed up, I wanted to state explicitly (as I should have done a while ago) that the field is capped at 16 teams due to the number of packets in the set (9). If no one objects, we'll do the same schedule as the 2015 Visual Arts event--two brackets of eight, with winner of each bracket ...

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*the question to ask here is “where is a player in this field most likely to have learned this information?" "A CO packet" is probably a bad answer to this. A followup question is, "If it’s very unlikely to produce buzzes, is there any reason to put it in the question?" &qu...

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Hi all, I'm a person who wrote for NSC--specifically 64/41 questions, most of which were literature. Of my 59 literature tossups, 23 had answers that were not works, authors, or characters; so, my work for the set represented a not insignificant contribution to the "extremely large number of co...

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I am late here as always, but wanted to shout out my teammates for being very good at their categories, since their countless hours of work and elite specialism may have been somewhat obscured by the stats and their bad luck on ACF Nationals 2017 – Editors’ Finals 1 (which was by far the worst packe...

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Hey, put Weijia Cheng on your CO team! I can pretty much guarantee that he'll get every religion question you don't neg him out of, plus lots of history, econ, and other random things.

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Cheynem wrote:Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but what, if any, are other events happening on the CO Sunday?

I believe the other planned events are It's Lit and Naveed Bork Memorial.

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This is a somewhat overdue announcement for Jordaens Visual Arts Tournament, a tossups-only visual fine arts tournament to be played on Sunday, July 23rd at CO 2017. Named in honor of beloved Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens, the set will consist of 9 packets, and is being written by myself and Sarang ...

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I'm rather late, but just wanted to enumerate a few strengths and possible shortcomings of what was clearly a good open-level tournament. By category: Literature: Auroni did great work here. Tossup difficulty was consistent and reasonable, clues were evocative, and the few questions that pushed into...

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After the main event, 7 rounds of FRENCH (using packets 1-3, then 7-10) and 7 rounds of Scattergories (using packets 1-7) were played, both as one room shoot-outs. The final scores were: FRENCH Jordan Brownstein: 320 (joined for rounds 4-7) Richard Yu: 305 Brian Stack: 300 Jonathan Magin: 125 Lucian...

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pure joy in quizbowl form 10/10

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(This) Tournament was a Crime. It...wasn't very good. So, this is wrong. As Mike said, the set wasn't perfect, but had tons of wonderful questions and was competent throughout. If you're on the fence about playing it—say, for example, at the conveniently-located mirror at UMD this coming Saturday —...

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Yeah, I'm not sure what evidence is being (or could possibly be) adduced for the claim that "middle parts seem to have been chosen with the philosophy that anything that comes up at hard tournaments is fair." Of the things pointed out in my categories, I think a lot more of it is about a ...

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This was a very good set, and one that truly had that coveted "intellectual experience" feel to it. Perhaps authorial intent has no place in quizbowl discussion, but what Will said about "personal flavor" was a plus for me; many questions felt charged with the enthusiasm that the...

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This was a very fun set. To quote Cody's description of another Mike Bentley product, Eyes is always a "true quizbowl treasure." A bunch of the slides seemed "transparent." I note this is a pretty common useless complaint sometimes, but questions like "Heracles killing hydra...

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July 22nd is the most popular date for Chicago Open, so we're rolling with that. Unless I am mistaken, the only event on the docket besides Chicago Open proper is Auroni's literature tournament. Please post here if you wish for your event to be added to the docket on Sunday. Sarang Yeola and I are ...

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Would you be willing to let someone play this if they have had 3-ish tossups in packet 14 spoiled for them (from being told about how the Ohio State vs. Chicago final played out)--and thus can't play packet 14--but otherwise know nothing about the set? If not, I completely understand. If you want s...

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I will just say that I don't think any of this is particularly difficult or necessarily earth-shattering. I think of the history question writers I enjoy (Chris Ray, Mike Bentley when he's being whimsical, Matt Weiner) and they already do these things people are calling for; I mean, as Matt Bolling...

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Nonetheless, I don't like the fact that there's this sort of underclass of topics that people really do know about and that really are important, and that really seem to me to "belong to history," but can't be asked about in quizbowl because they "aren't really history." This is...

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There was a lot of great music across genres this year, but one album I really want to recommend is Masterpiece by Big Thief. It's their debut album and the first time I hear its title track I was just blown away. The album feels like a scrapbook, where every song is an intimate glimpse into someon...

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While trapped in the airport without wifi earlier today, I wrote the following brain dump; the conversation has moved a bit since then, but I'll just put it up unedited. This post will be concerned with the European history distributional changes discussed so far, and not Jacob’s suggestion for the ...

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