What was it after 8, 210-130.gyre and gimble wrote:Fun fact: our tiebreaker against Hunter finished 210-210. All tossups and all but one bonus part was converted. We played 3/3 as a "sudden death" and Hunter got all 3 tossups.
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- Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:29 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
- Replies: 287
- Views: 133897
Re: PACE NSC: format changes, 2010 information
- Mon May 31, 2010 9:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
- Replies: 194
- Views: 51254
Re: 2010 HSNCT discussion thread
The one problem I had with the round was the math comp bonus which was dramatically longer than any other question I had heard all day-- it seemed out of place and detracting. On that note—I strongly recommend against giving more time for calculation bonuses. They eat up the clock like a starving l...
- Thu May 27, 2010 6:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010 NAQT HSNCT
- Replies: 228
- Views: 45627
Re: 2010 NAQT HSNCT
Hey kids. Once again I have made the last minute decision to attend HSNCT and be the roving reporter of your dreams. I will have Chiego feeding me where the best games should be, but if you are a top team and you know me personally, feel free to shoot me an email with a contact phone number that I ...
- Mon May 24, 2010 3:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ScoreBit -Academic Competition Scoreboard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2471
Re: ScoreBit -Academic Competition Scoreboard
WHAT?!The Granny wrote:A combination Swiss Pair scheduling program/thought experiment.
- Sat May 22, 2010 9:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 87872
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
The Atom Strikes! wrote:It turns out that the Chris Romero team will not be happening. As a result, I am now a free agent for this.
I see no problem here.Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:I am definitely out. Sorry, Guy and Auburn kids who were added.
- Thu May 20, 2010 9:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Memoirs of a Robot (A Guide to Improving at QB)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 22411
Re: Quiz Bowl Memoirs of a Robot (A Guide to Improving at QB)
An random example of one reason I like quiz bowl is something that happened earlier today. I was at Birch Bark Books, a Minneapolis bookstore owned by Louise Erdrich. It is a small bookstore that has an American Indian theme, but also other books (Erdrich is a an American Indian, and she wasn't at ...
- Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Comments
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10101
Re: ACF Nationals Comments
On a side note, if Sudheer had ever won ICT it would have been awesome if future generations would have referred to this event as "the fifteen" Side note to Bruce's side note: if I ever write an all-Jacobite theme packet, I have now resolved that it will contain 45-point superpowers. Oh, ...
- Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
- Replies: 275
- Views: 116201
Re: CO Side Event: The Jean-Baptiste Lully Memorial
I'd like to write a bit for this.
- Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Comments
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10101
Re: ACF Nationals Comments
There was another, smaller one in 1715, so I have no problem with "Jacobite Rebellion" being prompted; I don't see why "Second Jacobite Rebellion" wasn't acceptable, though.recfreq wrote:I have to plea my ignorance on rebellion of 1745, are there other notable Jacobite rebellions?
- Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question About Rules
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2340
Re: Question About Rules
Allowing buzz withdrawals, on the other hand, is far too exploitable (until we get computer readers which stop the instant a player buzzes). Actually, there's not insignificant delay, at least for me, between at least my irrevocable commitment to buzz and my physically having buzzed. I say not insi...
- Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Comments
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10101
Re: ACF Nationals Comments
I would parrot what those above have to say that this set was a ton of fun to play on, and definitely had a good amount of stuff rewarding people knowing things early on, with good buzz distributions, etc. The biggest complaint I have is that there seemed to be a dearth of modern art. I'll quantify ...
- Tue Apr 20, 2010 3:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Memoirs of a Robot (A Guide to Improving at QB)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 22411
Re: Quiz Bowl Memoirs of a Robot (A Guide to Improving at QB)
i41 can't wait to read From Bear to Buzz.grapesmoker wrote:maybe even my own quizbowl memoir.
- Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 87872
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
I shall be participating in this event with A. Martin Watkins.
- Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
- Replies: 217
- Views: 87872
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Spring Offensive at HSNCT (5/29/2010)
Am signing up, seeking teammate.
- Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Country questions, particularly in 2010 ICT
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2760
Re: 2010 ICT discussion
I wish I could be more helpful and give you the exact round in which this occurred, but one of the DII packets had four TUs with answers being the names of countries (Poland, Norway, and two others). If I recall, two of those were consecutive, and most of them had political and/or geography clues. ...
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERRILLA II - 4/9/10 - Chicago
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11204
Re: GUERRILLA II - 4/9/10 - Chicago
Sounds like a plan.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Want to play with me, Dallin and Ahamd?Sir Thopas wrote:Need team, will write.
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERRILLA II - 4/9/10 - Chicago
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11204
Re: GUERRILLA II - 4/9/10 - Chicago
Need team, will write.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13905
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
Yeah, if we're going for a system that is decipherable because it looks like normal speech, then moderators with the cot-caught merger (or the Northern Cities vowel shift, etc.) would just read it in their regional variation. I don't see how it's an issue.
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13905
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
If the guide contains ow, then a reasonable assumption is that it's the ow in fowl (how else would you say ow aloud?), with the ow in low being represented by an.. o, or oe perhaps, certainly makes sense. the whole point of a pronunciation guide is to use strings of letters that can stand on their ...
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13905
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
Enjoy.canaanbananarama wrote:One thing that I think people might enjoy (I've always wondered why such a site doesn't exist on the Internet) is included with in the pronunciation guide, actual sound recordings of moderators who speak/know these languages pronouncing the actual words.
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 8:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13905
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
Guess what, they're going to spend 10 seconds doing it anyway unless the pronunciation guide is right there in the text. And since we're never going to have a tournament done two weeks before the deadline so we can go in and write pronunciation guides for all the problematic words, we'll never get ...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 7:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13905
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
But even taking the example of Hungarian, are people really going to be that confused if I say G-yoo-la Andrassy vs. Dj-u-la Andrassy? I suspect no one will care. Even relatively incorrect pronunciations, if consistent, are generally fine. People will be confused if you spend 10 seconds figuring ou...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 6:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13905
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
Digraphs, whatever they are, don't help non-linguists any more than if I were to write out a formula for a non-physicist, so forget those things and focus on putting together a nice cheat-sheet that can be handed out to inexperienced moderators. Really? You don't think what I wrote about Hungarian ...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Universal Pronunciation Guide
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13905
Re: Universal Pronunciation Guide
While vowels are thornier (as others have noted), I think that English consonants are versatile enough to count for most sounds that you would find north of the Kalahari. One exception: "kh" is pretty unambiguously [x]. We should use this. For example, Hungarian digraphs. Those who know wh...
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Discussion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5958
Re: MUT Discussion
Did not and will not play, would like to see discussion.
- Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Norcross mirrors the Prison Bowl -3/6/10- (GA)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10836
Re: Norcross mirrors the Prison Bowl -3/6/10- (GA)
Percentage-wise, the distribution for the middle-categories isn't affected. The main categories' distribution changes by an eightieth. The others' effects may be slightly more significant, though I still don't think the one pop culture question is going to decide each match. I think Andy means the ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PENN BOWL: Difficulty Swings
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5290
Re: PENN BOWL: Difficulty Swings
I didn't mean "everyone who reads a book will remember all the important things about it when answering a bonus," but rather "asking for really important plot details from a novel as a hard part is a good idea which tends to reward reading things." I'm a little confused how you ...
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl III at Hunter HS (NYC) - 2/27/10
- Replies: 135
- Views: 149177
Re: Prison Bowl III at Hunter HS (NYC) - 2/27/10
LASA is a game up on St. Anselm's going into the advantaged final.
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 5:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl III at Hunter HS (NYC) - 2/27/10
- Replies: 135
- Views: 149177
Re: Prison Bowl III at Hunter HS (NYC) - 2/27/10
An inherent problem with taft, that is; not a malfunction. Finish your programs, Evan Silberman.lchen wrote:a problem with the stats program
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 2:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl III at Hunter HS (NYC) - 2/27/10
- Replies: 135
- Views: 149177
Re: Prison Bowl III at Hunter HS (NYC) - 2/27/10
Preston (location: the Bronx) pulled out at the beginning of the 100-minute (!) lunch break. Eric Douglass: continues to be empirically true.
- Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37018
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
Is she famous in her own right? If you know about biographies of musical figures or some artists in that time period, you should encounter Alma Schindler at some point. I in fact had no idea there was a song about her by Tom Lehrer, but I got those points. I agree that the clues should probably hav...
- Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: T-Party Discussion Forum
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3783
Re: T-Party Discussion Forum
Playtested a wee bit.
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37018
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
Languages of Brazil would be my guess.Katamari Damacy wrote:Did anyone pick out the foreign language question this year?
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37018
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
I'd rather have an ACUI moderator take two seconds to read the pronunciation guide and incorrectly pronounce Mindszenty as "meend-SHEN-tee" than have that moderator take six seconds on the clock to slowly sound it out even more incorrectly or, as I have heard alleged about one actually-qu...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
- Replies: 228
- Views: 37018
Re: Welcome to the 2010 SCT discussion.
So, using Hungarian as a good benchmark for whether the pronunciation guides are doing what they're supposed to, I find again that they are not—we have [meend-SHEN-tee] as the pronunciation for Mindszenty. This is incorrect in three (!) ways. Please, if you're going to put pronunciation guides onto ...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Winter Northeast at Yale (New Haven, CT)- 1/16/2010
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3693
Re: ACF Winter Northeast at Yale (New Haven, CT)- 1/16/2010
Good on them.Aaron wrote:They never signed up. I was told they are busy working on Prison Bowl.
- Thu Jan 07, 2010 1:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where is the line between "literature" and "trash"?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7945
Re: Where is the line between "literature" and "trash"?
Goodbye Feynmann diagrams, then?Matt Weiner wrote:No questions on anyone who's been an XKCD punchline more than once, please.Volvo Effect wrote: But what about a contemporary author of deep, intellectually engaging speculative fiction-- somebody like say, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorrow, or Neal Stephenson?
- Mon Jan 04, 2010 8:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Talk About "Your Choice"
- Replies: 56
- Views: 9056
Re: Let's Talk About "Your Choice"
Ottawa has a full department (and doctoral programs) in French-English translation/interpretation, but I bet you can't find a translation question in the archives. You are happily wrong! 1. Rudolf Schottlaender was one of the first people to perform this task, which was later carried out by the tan...
- Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fall Novice Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5379
Re: Fall Novice Tournament Discussion
High schoolers LOVE tossups on the Nernst equation!Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:since kids haven't played before, or not much, so their ability to shout "the Goldman equation! SO EASY" would be limited
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IV Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8215
Re: HFT IV Discussion
I have learned something today.Dark Ages: Fae wrote:"empty gasoline drums"
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to get better/study for PACE
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6895
Re: How to get better/study for PACE
My personal thoughts on these: Ralph Vaughan Williams - appeared in at least one IS & a couple of HSAPQ A really important composer, in addition to one who comes up all the time. The Lark Ascending being in both is a little odd, but I'd say that the ACF bonus is a bit on the easy side instead of...
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is this a BLITZ or not?
- Replies: 78
- Views: 15021
Re: Is this a BLITZ or not?
For instance, at the NAQT High School Nationals (with timed rounds), I didn't see anyone blitz because, presumably, the blitzing would take too long; even without blitzing, teams from all over the country seemed to be able to perform just fine. Well, that brings up another issue, which is that the ...
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7712
Re: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
Aha.Hilarius Bookbinder wrote:There was a tossup on Hillel (which I wrote) in last year's RMPFest, and Bruce wanted to avoid asking on the exact same answer lines.Sir Thopas wrote:why not just Hillel?
- Thu Nov 26, 2009 11:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7712
Re: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
That's an interesting point. Quizbowl Judaism in particular tends to focus very heavily on holidays. Probably because holidays are one of the few truly "Jewish" things about Judaism, a religion those holy texts and history are largely incorporated into two other religions? I mean, there's...
- Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quizzy, an Excuse for you to Try Out Google Wave
- Replies: 76
- Views: 14854
Re: Quizzy, an Excuse for you to Try Out Google Wave
master15625 wrote:I got an invite to this, so I don't need another one. Thanksmaster15625 wrote:I would like an invite to this as well.
ngurramaster7744 at gmail dot com
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER Discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 10452
Re: Better author questions
Damn, I missed a tossup on this?!jpn wrote:Also, who the hell got the tossup on the Chola king Raja Raja I?
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 2:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 39
- Views: 7712
Re: RMPFest 2 Discussion Thread
This or some version of it?Whig's Boson wrote:Online reference materials. Possibly also that big black "encyclopedia of ancient gods and deities" book for Hungarians and Dazhbog; I forget its exact title.setht wrote: What sources did you use for these questions?
- Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Writing philosophy questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2419
Re: Writing philosophy questions
Don't be sarcastic about this, dude, this was a huge problem in FIST.No Rules Westbrook wrote:What! Quotes people think are helpful and important, and which may in fact even be quite important, often turn out to be not very helpful for even knowledgeable people?! Why, my monocle.
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TIT/IO Northeast at Harvard (11/15/09)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 22020
Re: TIT/IO Northeast at Harvard (11/15/09)
I'm going to make the radical suggestion that once Harvard players were aware that there were 0 dedicated staffers, they should have stopped being players. Guy informs me Anurag was reading, so really only two staffers were lacking. Was there no schedule drawn up? We sort of had a seven team round ...
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TIT/IO Northeast at Harvard (11/15/09)
- Replies: 63
- Views: 22020
Re: TIT/IO Northeast at Harvard (11/15/09)
Hunter College (Yetman, Gioia, Arthur, Zhang) Apparently I am so misty in the head still that I didn't even read this. Who staffed this tournament? To my knowledge that puts this tournament at, uh, zero staffers. What!? You are correct. Well, that's not entirely fair. Two Harvard players read on th...