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- Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is this a legal practice in Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12187
Well, I posted this in response to somebody saying that NAQT has no rules against, say, bringing a periodic table with you to every game, or a king list or something. I posted that because I thought it might fall under things prohibited by that rule. I did not mean to imply that writing something do...
- Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:10 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105110
- Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is this a legal practice in Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12187
NAQT has no strict rule against such things, but their rules do contain this: Any tournament official may find that a player, coach, institutional representative, or other person associated with a team during the tournament has committed misconduct. Misconduct includes disruptive behavior, unethical...
- Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:33 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 105110
I would not be surprised if many of them decide that getting good enough at the game simply isn't worth the time that they could spend, say, drinking. Perhaps I'm hypersensitive to it because I'm one of the few (the only?) dry person on the Midwestern circuit, but I can assure you that those two ar...
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
Your case is already weak by virtue of the fact that Norse myth is not overrepresented by any stretch of the imagination, unless you consider any presence at all to be overrepresentation. Stop complaining already. You've been playing a lot longer than I have, and I conceed that my personal experien...
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 2:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
There will never be a painting of Wodin Contemplating the Head of Bran inspired by Norse myth, precisely because there is no such thing in Norse myth. If you're looking for a painting featuring Odin and Mimir's head, you can buy one for $400 from http://www.stephanielaw.com/image/mimir.shtml That w...
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
- Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
When it comes to Classical mythology (Greco-Roman), then that overrepresentation is justified because these things have a significance apart from their mere existance as myth. Classical mythology has infiltrated our own culture and our own language, and has done so throughout the West. People talk a...
- Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
I should point out that the second part of my post was aimed not at your singles, Seth, but at quiz bowl in general. I do think that your tournament had a much more reasonable distribution than quiz bowl at large, where I think the proportion of Norse to others (excluding Classical) is far more loop...
- Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
I understand that Norse mythology has a much bigger pool of possible questions, because everything has a name, but I still feel that it is the single most overrepresented category in quiz bowl, except perhaps for sociology/anthropology/psychiatry, but my rant about quiz bowl Social Science and its s...
- Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall @ Chicago Results
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3990
- Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall @ UChicago Update
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2447
It has come to my attention a few minutes ago that some teams were never given directions to the site of the Tournament. On behalf of the Chicago college bowl club, I apologize for this rather embarassing problem, and I hope that all those who were not given this information can catch this post in t...
- Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: personal stats data analysis
- Replies: 55
- Views: 29858
- Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23892
When you think of Quizbowl Myth, you think of (or at least I do) questions on the name of the hilt of the sword (different from the sword's own name, mind you) of some obscure deity (like Borvo, Celtic god of springs). That's what I was expecting. That's not what we got at all. Instead, virtually ev...
- Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IO discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4435
Not sure if there are any outstanding mirrors, so I will be as vague as I can. Generally, I enjoyed the tournament, but there was one rather glaring problem. After the first packet, there were no American history tossups for several rounds (at least four), except for two which were from the same tim...
- Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Div II?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2107
Last year, Div II at ACF Fall was anyone in their first or second year of playing. I have, within hearing distance of Andrew Yaphe, told this to other people this year, in such a way so as to imply that it would also be the case this year. In none of these instances did he correct me, and I hear he'...
- Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Powers
- Replies: 161
- Views: 76787
- Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best quiz bowl/academic schools?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 29552
Re: thanks
thanks for the input everyone, right now (based on many factors, and not taking into account distancel) this is my preference: 1) Stanford 2)Chicago 3) Florida 4) Swartmore 5) Harvard Where can I find out who is graduating etc. for these teams? I don't want to be stuck on a team full of amazing sen...
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: how not to write questions
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11958
- Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7687
One of the more bizarre things for me was the fact that they did not read the same packets at the same time. I'm fairly certain that both DI and DII read the same packets, but not simultaneously. A packet, say, that D1 read near the beginning of the tournament, was read to DII at the end. Now, the f...
- Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Post your school schedules!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10751
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer types
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22158
... I swallowed a piece of aluminum... A statement like that is begging for some elaboration. You know how aluminum cans have a tab, but the tab isn't attached to the actual can, its attached to this tiny semicircle that is then attached to the can. Well, when I tore the tab off my can of Pepsi, pa...
- Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer types
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22158
- Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13961
- Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Why Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13961
- Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: bonus discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4343
If you're looking for a way to obstruct the flow of an ACF game, then I can suggest the following method. Get your worst team member to start acting unruly. Under ACF rules, that means: * Continuing to argue with a reader after a protest has been lodged. Once you have lodged a protest, shut up. It w...
- Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer types
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22158
The Judge is a bit of an exception, as I think it's the only system I've ever seen with those cumbersome pedals for buzzers, but as long as every person on both teams has to do the same thing to buzz in it really shouldn't make a difference. We have a modular system that has both judge-like paddles...
- Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buzzer types
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22158
- Fri Aug 19, 2005 3:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Organizational theory...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5607
As far as I can tell, ACF is nothing more than a bunch of guys in their 20's who sit around, drink, and somehow pull off 3 levels of what are generally considered to be the best college tournaments around. If they can do that, what's stopping you? Granted, college teams are probably far more likely ...
- Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Computational math...Illinois and elsewhere
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24716
There's a lot of computational math and science in Illinois. I didn't play straight-up IHSA; I played in a local league under IHSA rules but with different questions (the Metro North League, if anyone's heard of it). Computational Math was just as important as Science, History, or Literature. Equal ...
- Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Request For Comments: Audio Match Hosting Software
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7489
- Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scheduling and Sporting Events
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11597
ACF Fall at UIUC was on the same weekend as that university's homecoming, wasn't it? I had to stay in a pretty sketchy hotel (at 3 AM I was awoken by a drunkard outside my window falling and breaking his head, along with the subsequent sounds of his friends yelling and the ambulance coming) and I he...
- Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: singles poll
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3739
- Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Post CO discussion?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6877
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 3:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Right answers that are counted wrong...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13599
- Thu Jun 30, 2005 1:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Right answers that are counted wrong...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13599
- Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl in foreign countries: How?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5379
- Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354875
- Wed Jun 08, 2005 5:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The format/rebound debate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8639
IMO, the rule should be that if the reader begins reading before the buzzer, the question must be completed. iirc, that is the NAQT requirement if one of the two teams cannot see the clock. I don't know what sort of rules NAQT has for its readers as to how they must display the clock or respond to ...
- Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The format/rebound debate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8639
Well, it's no different from being up 10 with 10 seconds to go on the clock when a tossup is read. You can neg at 3 seconds left and still win. Yes it is. If you're up 10 with 3 seconds left and you are 100% sure you know the answer, it is in your interest to get it correct. If there are bounceback...
- Wed Jun 08, 2005 2:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The format/rebound debate
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8639
Being from Illinois, I grew up on both teams having a chance at the bonus, and it absolutely shocked me that this was not the ways things worked in college. At my first practice, I just stared there in disbelief for a few minutes after realizing it. But there's one thing that not having that rule pr...
- Tue May 17, 2005 11:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Definitive Greatest QB Poems List
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6158
- Fri May 06, 2005 6:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354875
Hmm. Then, if I committed the cardinal sin of QB and said a first name, would they accept both Francis and Franz? If they did not accept either Francis or Franz, that is a very legitimate protest. For all we know, you were raised by rabid anti-Germans who taught you history with Anglicized names, a...
- Fri May 06, 2005 5:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bad Negs
- Replies: 826
- Views: 354875
- Thu May 05, 2005 12:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 05 discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 21099
I'll be taking classes at Chicago during the summer, maybe even in the same building in which this thing will be held, so it would not be out of my way at all to attend. It would also fit with my pattern of attending tournaments that I have no place being at this year. To any others my age: the only...
- Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player movement/retirement thread
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11362
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:53 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 88153
This, I think, is part of it. I mean no disrespect to you or Chad, but as I don't know who either of you are, I'd expect in NAQT, ACF, or a modification of either, you wouldn't be able to come within five points of beating a team consisting of Andrew Yaphe and Seth Teitler. 1) Chad has been sort of...
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:38 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 88153
To approach CBI non-seriously requires an ability to discount the fact that it costs nearly $1000 to even have the chance to get to their nationals, which translates to a full year worth of circuit events. That is a lot of money for mere amusement, not to mention the sort of thing that can cripple ...
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:11 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 88153
...people were overlooking the redeeming characteristics I've seen in CBI. Which are what, exactly? There are two big ones, though they may be mutually exclusive because they require different approches. First, if you approach CBI non-seriously and listen to it with an ACF/NAQT mindset, comparing i...
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 1:04 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 88153