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- Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke mirror 1/18/20 on Discord (not open)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Re: Delta Burke mirror 1/18/20 on Discord (not open)
Six teams have signed up. I'll end the signup period on Friday, so if you're still interested, please go ahead and sign up by then.
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:46 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Notable Buzzers
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21016
Re: Notable Buzzers
QuizCo was a local buzzer system company that went out of business several years ago. A lot of local high schools have their buzzers, although I don't know how many are still around. When the INL sponsored science bowl, I think one of their electrical engineers built a custom buzzer system for them ...
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke mirror 1/18/20 on Discord (not open)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Re: Delta Burke mirror 1/18/20 on Discord (not open)
No. The intent is to give novice college players experience, especially in areas where there aren't many tournaments. For that reason, I want to restrict it to new college teams and players.
High school teams should have plenty of local tournaments to play in.
High school teams should have plenty of local tournaments to play in.
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 12:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11185
Re: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
At a middle school tournament we just ran, the book prizes we gave away were gifted me by a previous player who had graduated and passed on her book collection. There were a lot of graphic novel versions of classics, and the players (even the high school players who were staffing) seemed to really l...
- Thu Dec 12, 2019 12:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: QuizCo Equipment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2327
Re: QuizCo Equipment
QuizCo was located in Boise (and is, as best as I can tell, out of business), and there are a few schools that have those buzzer systems. I can check and see if any of them aren't using them or have spare parts, but I think your best bet is just to get a new system.
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke mirror 1/18/20 on Discord (not open)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Delta Burke mirror 1/18/20 on Discord (not open)
In the Northwest, we have a lot of distance between our schools, so Idaho Quiz and Academic Teams is hosting an online mirror of Delta Burke on January 18 (MLK weekend) to give newer and less experienced teams a chance to play each other without having to travel long distances. We're opening up the ...
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:09 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Archving the old Yahoo! group
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13913
Re: Archving the old Yahoo! group
I am a member of the group. I'd be fine with loaning my Yahoo password if somebody who wants to archive it needs access. (I don't really use it for anything.)
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11185
Re: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
One thing I used to do is buy slightly more prizes than there were top scorers (so if I wanted to give out prizes to the top 8 scorers, common in my day, I would get like 10-11 books). This way if some book was truly of no interest to anyone, nobody would get stuck with it. I was often surprised at...
- Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Should I quit quizbowl?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5526
Re: Should I quit quizbowl?
As far as that last point goes, if you enjoy quiz bowl, there are multiple roles for you, even if you don't feel that you're a good player and don't enjoy playing. Staffing tournaments can still provide a solid connection to an activity you enjoy, and if your school hosts tournaments (especially col...
- Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl in Nevada/Utah/New Mexico/Colorado/Nebraska/Wyoming
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16541
Re: Quizbowl in Nevada/Utah/New Mexico/Colorado/Nebraska/Wyoming
BYU will be hosting a tournament on Saturday, Nov. 23.
We hope that this can be the start of a decent circuit in the SLC metro area.
We sent out letters and are e-mailing schools now. One school has already registered, and we're getting some interest from a few other schools.
We hope that this can be the start of a decent circuit in the SLC metro area.
We sent out letters and are e-mailing schools now. One school has already registered, and we're getting some interest from a few other schools.
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What's the State of the College Game?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7343
Re: What's the State of the College Game?
First, more established members of the quizbowl community should reach out to new teams' leadership and strike up a relationship so that you can check in and help them overcome obstacles like organizational or funding issues. This would also be useful in planning for leadership transitions and for ...
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What's the State of the College Game?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7343
Re: What's the State of the College Game?
As one of the mentioned circuits, I don't think we'd have had a better turnout for EFT had it been something easier like ACF Fall. There's not really any other teams out there who might come for an easier tournament. (If we had more stronger high school teams, that might be a possibility, but it's a...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4738
Re: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
UW and Colorado clubs both have more than one member. They just didn't have more than one person willing to make the trip. Matt and Vikshar (and Daniel) all flew to Boise on their own dime. I don't know to what extent these clubs get support from their university to help fund such trips, but it's no...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4738
Re: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
Matt (Colorado) and Daniel (Oregon) split their games. Since Daniel had to leave to catch a flight and couldn't play a tie-breaker, they agreed to just call it a draw.
Daniel was top scorer overall.
Daniel was top scorer overall.
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 9:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4738
Re: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... und_robin/
(Not quite done yet.)
(Not quite done yet.)
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:02 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New community college team
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14274
Re: New community college team
That's what I did at the campus fair. I brought the plunger-style Zeecraft buzzers because they're more fun to use and had some novice high school questions. Most of the people who came by tried them out, and most of them put their name down. (Now, whether they come to meetings or practices is anoth...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:19 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New community college team
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14274
Re: New community college team
One of the people who signed up yesterday is married to a teacher. (I don't know if he's full-time or not; TVCC requires that the sponsor be full-time.) That might be an option. (The BSU club president's father teaches there, too, but he is not full-time, so we can't use him.) It certainly would be ...
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 10:54 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New community college team
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14274
Re: New community college team
So I set up a table at TVCC's Campus Fair today, and got 17 names on my sign-up sheet. Of these names, I estimate maybe 4-5 of them are really interested. Which is enough. There was definitely a wide skill level. Lots couldn't answer the novice high school questions I was reading, but there were a f...
- Wed Sep 25, 2019 7:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18189
Re: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
Even if there is an easier MS distribution (something I've kind of toyed around with, too), I don't think this precludes using it as an intro to harder questions. Even if the questions are short, as long as they're pyramidal, you can still use early clues or hard bonus parts to introduce harder answ...
- Wed Sep 25, 2019 12:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4437
Re: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
Thank you for this. From somebody who is not a high school coach, and who hasn't coached, I found it really insightful. I'd love to use an abbreviated version of this on our blog, if you don't mind. For this area, there are some things here that don't really apply, or have to be modified. For exampl...
- Thu Sep 05, 2019 6:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4738
Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Boise State on 10/19/19
Boise State/Idaho Quiz & Academic Teams will be hosting EFT on October 19. High school teams are eligible to play. The main announcement for the EFT can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22625 . It should be regular minus, I guess? We have not reserved rooms ye...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:15 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New community college team
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14274
Re: New community college team
The Student Activities people at TVCC said that (at least as far as travel goes, which is all I mentioned), clubs are self-financed. If they're traveling, they'll have to raise their own money. I don't know how easy it is to try to get some funding from the administration for things like tournament ...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:10 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New community college team
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14274
Re: New community college team
Hey, Colin! I'm glad you're getting a CC team going in the Northwest. There are plenty of big differences between the university circuit and the CC circuit. To wit: I imagine that the fact that students are usually present for just two years presents a challenge (less time to develop them). --Hahah...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:06 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New community college team
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14274
Re: New community college team
Ah, thanks. It looks like the nearest CC SCT to this area is Stanford.
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:54 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New community college team
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14274
New community college team
How different is quiz bowl at a community college than at a 4 year college, especially when there is no local community college circuit? I imagine that the fact that students are usually present for just two years presents a challenge (less time to develop them). How do community colleges qualify fo...
- Wed Jul 17, 2019 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 21349
- Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:35 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question regarding state policies regarding "playing up"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9592
Re: Question regarding state policies regarding "playing up"
In Idaho, several high schools are 10-12 with feeder junior high schools that are 7-9. Other high schools are 9-12 with feeder middle schools that serve 6-8. I believe that the Idaho athletic association allows 9th graders in a jr. high to play for their feeder high school, to parallel what happens ...
- Sat Jul 06, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quiz Bowl in Germany
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4688
Re: Quiz Bowl in Germany
Is there quiz bowl in Germany? I know one or two people who might be interested.
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 31097
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Include 0.5/0.5 science-adjacent math in the Science distribution and 0.5/0.5 pure, or non science-adjacent math in the Thought distribution, along with Philosophy and Social Sciences. :)
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:09 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 39211
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
At any rate, if question recycling wasn't done after that NCSU championship in the 80s, they liberally borrowed from old questions. I only attended one CBI tournament, but I remember hearing a question there (about Euler's Theorem, relating faces, edges and vertices of a polyhedron) that was nearly ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 5:32 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
- Replies: 33
- Views: 39211
Re: Let's tell the kids stories about CBI
CBI was fantastic at recycling clues and UF had a monster archive of old CBI questions This was controversial back in the 80s. My alma mater (before I arrived--I'm not quite that old), NC State, won a CBI championship sometime in the 80s, partly because they practiced on old questions, and a lot of...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 5:14 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Old time bonus formats
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17190
Re: Old time bonus formats
CBI had some bonuses that were just one question, worth 20 points or 25 points, I think. (They often had bonuses worth fewer than 30 points total. I read on here somewhere that it was possible for a team to answer more than half the TUs and answer all bonus parts correctly and still lose because the...
- Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ILLIAC - General Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 600
Re: General Discussion
Thanks for producing this set. I really appreciated the TU on Marian apparitions. I was a bit thrown when it switched from Guadalupe to Fatima (and ended up missing it because of that confusion), but I still really liked it. The TU on the BoM was first-clue answered by the BYU team I faced which, I ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC (Spring 2019 - ACF Fall + Set)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10273
Re: ILLIAC (Spring 2019 - ACF Fall + Set)
Done. The easily fixable and important stuff, I e-mailed. For the rest of my feedback, I'll wait for the forum.
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 5:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC Mirror at BYU: 2 March 2019
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2138
Re: ILLIAC Mirror at BYU: 2 March 2019
Thanks for hosting this despite problems getting teams to come play.
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 5:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC (Spring 2019 - ACF Fall + Set)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10273
Re: ILLIAC (Spring 2019 - ACF Fall + Set)
Is there going to be a forum to discuss this? We were the first mirror, I think, and I have some errata and observations.
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10887
Re: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
We're neither a small college nor a liberal arts college, but we share some of the same struggles. (Most of our players, for example, either did not play in high school, or did not play at competitive schools in high school, and aren't strong players when they start for us.) We have a very successfu...
- Sat Oct 13, 2018 11:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Boise State Oct. 13
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2421
Re: EFT at Boise State Oct. 13
BYU finished 8-1 to win the tournament. Daniel from Oregon was the top scorer.
Stats:
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/52 ... bin_stats/ (Round Robin)
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/52 ... all_stats/ (Overall)
Stats:
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/52 ... bin_stats/ (Round Robin)
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/52 ... all_stats/ (Overall)
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Boise State Oct. 13
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2421
Re: EFT at Boise State Oct. 13
Field updated
- Sat Aug 25, 2018 9:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Boise State Oct. 13
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2421
EFT at Boise State Oct. 13
Idaho Quiz and Academic Teams will host a mirror of the EFT ( http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20808 ) on Saturday, October 13. The fee will be $60/team, with discounts for travel and buzzers. High school teams are eligible and welcome to play. To register, please contact me at q...
- Mon Aug 13, 2018 12:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Small Circuits, High Schools Teams, and ACF Fall
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8617
Re: Small Circuits, High Schools Teams, and ACF Fall
I guess it's moot now, but I believe that UW's ACF Fall last year did have a high school team. One of the reasons that we chose to host EFT last year rather than ACF Fall was that EFT permitted high school teams. But UW's mirror had them anyway. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4527/stats/co...
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 7:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NASAT Mirror - University of Washington - 6/30/18
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3002
Re: NASAT Mirror - University of Washington - 6/30/18
Thank you for hosting us.
- Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:47 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How to set up next year’s team for success
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13227
Re: How to set up next year’s team for success
What does this mean?jesposito wrote:studying, not just studying but studying correctly,
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 2:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2018 General Discussion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2887
Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2018 General Discussion
Also, I was amused when alternate answers to foreign work titles were given in Kanji or using the Greek alphabet.
- Mon Apr 09, 2018 2:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2018 General Discussion
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2887
Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2018 General Discussion
Oops, posted this in the wrong place. There were a few things that we observed. The teams commented that there were a lot of repeats in answerlines. Lincoln, Mexico, Japan and China were some of the answers used a few times, and lobster seemed strangely popular (although I think that there was only ...
- Sat Apr 07, 2018 8:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament at BYU - 4/7/18
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2025
Re: Florida Spring Tournament at BYU - 4/7/18
After a triple round robin, Eshaan Vakil ("Elvis is Back") and BYU tied at 7-2. Eshaan won the playoff game 355-205. Congratulations to Eshaan, and thanks to all the teams who were able to come to BYU for this tournament. Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5056/stats/final_-_c...
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 3:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 23456
Re: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
Could I hear the LDS Heavenly Mother bonus? I was excited to hear the answerline, but I didn't get it, and couldn't remember what clues pointed to it. I was also really excited about the Navajo myth bonus, but I'd like to see that bonus, too. I am not familiar with a story about Coyote and mortality...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SMT Open Online Test Mirror (2/24)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 16701
Re: SMT Open Skype Test Mirror (2/24)
Seconded. If we use Discord, I'd like to install it and get it set up before Saturday, for example.Progcon wrote:Has there been a decision about the the format of this event like Discord, etc.? If there could be 10 teams, there could just be a 10 team RR which would be ideal for a Skype tournament.
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Gimmicky Tossups
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6944
Re: Gimmicky Tossups
See also: VETO, Peter's packets
- Mon Jan 29, 2018 2:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament at BYU - 4/7/18
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2025
Florida Spring Tournament at BYU - 4/7/18
BYU will be hosting a mirror of the Florida Spring Tournament at BYU on Saturday, April 7. To boost turnout, high school teams (and chimera high school teams, within reason, and with permission of TD (me)) are permitted. To register, e-mail the Tournament Director (me) at tiwonge@gmail.com The tourn...