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- Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeastern Quizbowl Newsletter
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4840
Re: Southeastern Quizbowl Newsletter
I like hearing about quizbowl. [email protected]
- Tue Aug 23, 2011 3:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8013
Re: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
I'm a pretty terrible literature player, and the only reason I'm even commenting on this is because I primarily only read modern and post-modern literature. I've noticed that the east Asian authors are starting to get asked more and more, although I can't ever seem to recall seeing or hearing Yu Hu...
- Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8013
Re: World Literature and Time-Subdistribution
I'm a pretty terrible literature player, and the only reason I'm even commenting on this is because I primarily only read modern and post-modern literature. I've noticed that the east Asian authors are starting to get asked more and more, although I can't ever seem to recall seeing or hearing Yu Hua...
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10294
Re: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
derp, never mind. I can read.No Electricity Required wrote:Well, that survey is from 2010 HSNCT, so I don't think that number means that they will be removed (at least not because of that survey).Andrew Jackson's Compatriot wrote:Does this mean the computational bonuses will be taken out?NAQT.com wrote:[ 47.2% ] No computational math at all
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10294
Re: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
Does this mean the computational bonuses will be taken out?NAQT.com wrote:[ 47.2% ] No computational math at all
- Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Individual player stat v. 29192
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16103
Re: Individual player stat v. 29192
Well, this stat is an individual player stat but it does not attempt to be very team-independent. It tries to describe a player's total value contribution (by incorporating team PPB) and obviously if you're on a team where you can't answer tossups because your teammate negs all the science (or gets...
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28618
Re: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
Will the packets from this event be available for future use? I am assuming so. They were all really fun. This was a great event. We had a lot of good times playing quizbowl with some great players. This was so fun and I loved it. I really hope that this would happen again as it is a great experien...
- Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Community Chest, A Board/Card Game Side Event
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5960
Re: Community Chest, A Board/Card Game Side Event
what is this? Also this sounds awesomeadosreme wrote: video games about non-video games
- Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28618
Re: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
My team has submitted our packet with bonuses and powermarks and the like. We will be playing under the name Guidon't Need No Education. ALSO, if I have time to write this weekend, would anyone be interested in playing an anime/manga/Japanese videogames side event here shootout style? It would proba...
- Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28618
Re: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
Where do we email the packets when they are done?
- Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - Herp Derp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 112909
Re: On-going Season Rankings V2.0
Fred, have you given any thought to having a locked and stickied thread where just the rankings go, and then have a separate thread for people to discuss and complain, that way when people want to see the newest rankings, they don't have to sift through the 34674647784236476237864738 pages of people...
- Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: On-going Season Rankings V2.0 - Herp Derp
- Replies: 255
- Views: 112909
Re: On-going Season Rankings V2.0
WHY DIDN'T YOU RANK RANDOM SCHOOL 271 FROM NORTH DAKOTA????????????Mewto55555 wrote:WHY IS EVERYONE RANKED ALL WRONG
EVERYTHING IN HERE IS TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I CAN NEVER TAKE ANY OF THESE RANKINGS SERIOUSLY NOW!!!!!!!!!!
- Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:30 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Buying Quizbowl Books Really Cheap!!!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3457
Buying Quizbowl Books Really Cheap!!!!
Ok, since Border's is going out of business this week, I thought It would be a good idea to create a list of good books for quizbowl. They all close on the 31st, and by Thursday or Friday, all books will probably be 40% off. This sounds like a great opportunity for everyone to come together and give...
- Tue Jul 26, 2011 9:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The thirty-or-zero problem (80s trash)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9825
Re: The thirty-or-zero problem (80s trash)
Looking at the power stats that got posted in the other thread, a lot of the trash questions were the easiest of the tournament. If "older" trash is a way to keep that stuff in check or line it up closer to rewarding, like, intellectual curiosity, then I am pretty okay with that. Almost a...
- Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The thirty-or-zero problem (80s trash)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9825
Re: The thirty-or-zero problem (80s trash)
Agreed!!!!!The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:More please.Cheynem wrote:M*A*S*H
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 4:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How to Become a Good Science Player
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11929
Re: How to Become a Good Science Player
If you are looking to improve on physics, I would highly recommend reading any books written by Richard Feynman or about his works. The stuff in the books are normally quite entertaining especially since he was so eccentric and that helps non science players retain facts better. Also the textbook I ...
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
- Replies: 96
- Views: 37959
Re: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
To reiterate a fine line that we've dealt with before, discussing communication in the abstract is fine, specifying the tone of message board posts or particular posts is not. After all, it's equally unproductive to complain about power placement in a face-to-face context. So, if your post conforms...
- Sun Jul 24, 2011 2:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 27121
Re: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
This rapper named his label for a historically segregated Tulsa neighborhood. After starting The Black Wall Street, this Compton native released the albums ~The Documentary~, (*) ~Doctor's Advocate~, and ~LAX~. For 10 points--name this rival of 50 Cent and G-Unit with a competitive stage name. answ...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10294
Re: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
Current events is a legitimate academic subject; there's no need to lump it with pop culture and GK. Sometime soon the bonus conversion stats for HSNCT will be available and I can go hunting for thirty-or-zero problems. Offhand, I don't see any particular reason why the pop culture of the 1980s wou...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:51 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
- Replies: 52
- Views: 10294
Re: NAQT distribution change for 2011-12
After checking the distribution of HSNCT if you combine the Trash, Current Events, and General Knowledge together you get 118 Tossups and 135 Bonuses. That comes out to being 18.2% for tossups and 20.83% for bonuses. So basically 20% of the tournament is not academic knowledge. This should definitel...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 1:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Making PowerMarks standard and mandatory
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9961
Re: Making PowerMarks standard and mandatory
It's always been my opinion that if you're not going to use negs in your tournament, powers don't need to be there either. But if you are using negs (as the vast majority of competitions do, and just about every single one we attend all year), then power marks should be included as well. If you can...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 27121
Re: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
Peltasts were contrasted with these military units, whose tendency to drift to the right was checked by an officer called the ouragos. The Battle of Magnesia saw a successor to this unit defeated once its Seleucid support fell, and (*) Epaminondas added a deep "hammerhead" to the left sid...
- Thu Jul 21, 2011 1:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 27121
Re: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
Peltasts were contrasted with these military units, whose tendency to drift to the right was checked by an officer called the ouragos. The Battle of Magnesia saw a successor to this unit defeated once its Seleucid support fell, and (*) Epaminondas added a deep "hammerhead" to the left sid...
- Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 27121
Re: 2010-11 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
Can I see the tossups on phalanx from IS-105?
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
- Replies: 96
- Views: 37959
Re: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
There was a recent discussion (prompted by LIST) about reevaluating the acceptability of biography clues (formerly unilaterally shunned by good quizbowl) - maybe that would count? yeah basically I just think you can't label something as bad, then banish all discussion of it, then never have it appe...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
- Replies: 96
- Views: 37959
Re: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
What are some examples of "bad quizbowl" practices turning into established, good practices? The only thing I can think of offhand is the more widespread use of the powermark, which is not really the same thing. I can think of practices not used that have become established or formerly &q...
- Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
- Replies: 96
- Views: 37959
Re: Discussion of hsquizbowl.org's rules
Ok so I will preface this by saying that I didn't really read the other really long posts because honestly they're just too long right now so I do apologize if I am saying something that someone else has already said or made points for or against. Matt, I am very happy that you made that post. It is...
- Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Excelsior Rankings (dead forever)
- Replies: 91
- Views: 38516
Re: Excelsior Rankings
Have you given any thought to accounting for the individual players on teams? You could make some sort of parameter that takes the players from each SQBS file and rank them nationally while taking into account the strength of schedule, difficulty of set, and the shadow effect. I just think it would ...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011-2012 DC Area
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3267
Re: 2011-2012 DC Area
I like the ranking's except honestly I don't think that CR will be better than GOV or Charter. Yeah Brianna, Keyi, and myself are all gone (These are the only seniors our entire team lost), but we retain Bohan who was our best player after me. She is a strong lit player and the other two girls were ...
- Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC/MD/VA/DE Date Claim '11-'12
- Replies: 96
- Views: 40863
Re: DC/MD/VA Date Claim '11-'12
You might want to include ACT dates as well as SAT dates because they are becoming even more popular each year. Also I'm assuming that Charter's tournament will either be the second or third Saturday of December.
- Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28618
Re: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
I will have to withdraw if the date is moved to the 10th and 11th. As it stands, I would need to leave somewhat early on the 9 anyway.
- Mon May 30, 2011 11:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 214
- Views: 51688
Re: 2011 HSNCT discussion
For 10 points each--give the following about conservative vector fields: A. The value for this type of integral of the field around any oriented simple closed curve must be zero. answer: _line_ integral or _path_ integral B. The field must be expressible as the gradient of one of these scalar quant...
- Thu May 26, 2011 1:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Class of 2011 High School Set (Interest Check)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8724
Re: Class of 2011 High School Set (Interest Check)
I'll take the physics and whatever history or miscellaneous things there are
- Wed May 25, 2011 10:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28618
Re: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
can we consolidate these three into one and add one more to the major categories i.e. lit, history, science?nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote: 1 trash
1 current events
1 your choice
- Thu May 19, 2011 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
- Replies: 82
- Views: 31532
Re: 2011 NASAT: June 11-12, University of Maryland-College Park
Delaware If we are, i won't be a part of it (i'll likely never be able to commit to this tournament, to be honest). I don't know of any Charter kids but i'll let them speak for themselves. But i'd be pretty surprised to see a Delaware team attend this. And i can tell you that players from CR never ...
- Sun May 08, 2011 10:58 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: 2011 NAQT MSNCT
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22399
Re: 2011 NAQT MSNCT
What's amazing is how many of the teams in the playoffs came from our areaCarangoides ciliarius wrote:
I wonder how many high school teams these guys could beat? Longfellow has beaten many high school clubs this year, including my own when we were lacking our best player.
- Wed May 04, 2011 11:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
- Replies: 93
- Views: 28618
Re: Jersey Shore Open - Mantoloking, NJ - August 8-9, 2011
I'm game. Raynell wanna do a Mid-Atlantic graduating seniors team?
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 11:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: CR Rider Bowl II (May 14, 2011) [CONFIRMED DATE CHANGE!]
- Replies: 75
- Views: 48696
Re: CR Rider Bowl II (May 14, 2011) [CONFIRMED DATE CHANGE!]
Can you please drop us back to two teams and also possibly send me some officialish looking invoice for Charter's wonderful bureaucracy?
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 19432
Re: NHBB Discussion
Also, keep in mind that the NHBB format is "tossup heavy" in point allocation, which is in some ways fairer than having 2/3 of the possible points come through bonus questions. What's so unfair about bonus questions? They reward people who know stuff and don't reward people who don't know...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 19432
Re: NHBB Discussion
Also, keep in mind that the NHBB format is "tossup heavy" in point allocation, which is in some ways fairer than having 2/3 of the possible points come through bonus questions. What's so unfair about bonus questions? They reward people who know stuff and don't reward people who don't know...
- Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:47 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB Discussion
- Replies: 88
- Views: 19432
Re: NHBB Discussion
OK I will preface this by saying that I wasn't at the tournament because I went to frivolous things like Prom. The thing that jumped out at me the most was the time: 1. Three days for a tournament is absolutely unacceptable. It's very consuming and would cause teams to start missing classes which is...
- Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: American History Packet
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12937
Re: American History Packet
I would like a copy
- Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: CR Rider Bowl II (May 14, 2011) [CONFIRMED DATE CHANGE!]
- Replies: 75
- Views: 48696
Re: CR Rider Bowl II (May 14, 2011) [CONFIRMED DATE CHANGE!]
We're expressing interest now. Umm say 3 teams but that could change
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ARMY NAVY @ Richard Montgomery HS (Yale Mirror) 4/9/11
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20969
Re: ARMY NAVY @ Richard Montgomery HS (Yale Mirror) 4/9/11
It looks like Charter probably won't be able to make it
- Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Delaware State Championship
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4031
Re: Delaware State Championship
Got it. I have zero clue how many Charter will have. We might only have 4 or 5 teams. GRRRRR :(
- Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Delaware State Championship
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4031
Re: Delaware State Championship
Just updated, but its mostly us. I'm hoping we have 16 teams so that we can have an easy time scheduling, but otherwise I assume 2 brackets with partial round robins would be the best. Any input?Carangoides ciliarius wrote:
Any field update, or is this going to be the Charter/CR Challenge?
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Delaware State Championship
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4031
Delaware State Championship
I am pleased to announce this years Delaware State Championship tournament, which will be held on March 19th at Mt Pleasant High School. We will be using NAQT IS-105 for the tournament. If you are interested in attending, please let me know, so that I can have your team accounted for, when we make t...
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl IV @ Hunter HS, NYC (3/5/2011)
- Replies: 60
- Views: 36991
Re: Prison Bowl IV @ Hunter HS, NYC (3/5/2011)
March is actually turning out be be a. Very busy month for Charter, so if we can make it, it would probably be with just our A team.
- Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ARMY NAVY @ Richard Montgomery HS (Yale Mirror) 4/9/11
- Replies: 48
- Views: 20969
Re: ARMY NAVY @ Richard Montgomery HS (Yale Mirror) 4/9/11
We will most likely be there with probably no more than three teams.
- Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Blue Hen Invitational @ University of Delaware, 3/26/11
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10540
Re: Blue Hen Invitational @ University of Delaware, 3/26/11
Yeah we'll be there. Probably 6-8 teams depending if I can get everybody to come. I think the best bet would probably be IS-104