I, and possibly some other people from Columbia, might also be interested if this were to be hosted later.cwRsync wrote:If there's not enough interest on this day, I (and possibly other Wright State people) would be willing to come to this site on a later date.
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- Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Oxford Open at Carnegie Mellon, 1/17
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8488
Re: Oxford Open at Carnegie Mellon, 1/17
- Fri Jan 02, 2015 2:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Midseason College Poll
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12748
Re: Midseason College Poll
I don't think Mike gives a shit about this, and it's funnier this way, but Columbia and Princeton are the Lions and Tigers, respectively. Also, would the hypothetical teams being ranked include players who have not played at all so far this year (e.g. Alex Gerten)?
- Thu Jan 01, 2015 3:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY / NJ Area Date Claims, 2014-15
- Replies: 69
- Views: 43069
Re: NY / NJ Area Date Claims, 2014-15
Apologies for the double post, but does anyone know if Bloomfield is happening this year? I sent out an email to the contact NAQT has listed, but I have not received a response yet. I emailed Colleen Halpin earlier this year, and she said that they were indeed hosting on March 7 (the rooms having b...
- Sun Dec 28, 2014 6:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Oxford Open North America Online (03/01/2015)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 45065
Re: Announcement: Oxford Open North America (01/17/2015)
Is there anyone who has expressed interest in hosting a mirror of this in the Northeast?
- Sun Dec 28, 2014 2:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: STIMPY Global Announcement
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32097
Re: STIMPY Global Announcement
It might be wise for the initial post to contain, or link to Dan's post containing, the mirror list. It might also be wise to list the dates for the mirrors in that list, especially if they are like Yale's and not on the traditional weekends.
- Wed Dec 24, 2014 7:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6796
Re: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
I received The Book of Barely Imagined Beings - thanks, mysterious gifter! I haven't had the chance to read through an animal encyclopedia in years, so this'll be quite a throwback.
- Wed Dec 17, 2014 4:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: STIMPY Global Announcement
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32097
Re: STIMPY Global Announcement
Is the date of the Yale mirror confirmed yet?
- Mon Dec 15, 2014 5:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NAQT Metro NY State Championship - March 7th @ Columbia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4856
Re: 2015 NAQT Metro NY State Championship - March 7th @ Colu
This tournament is almost half full. I think we'll have enough staff to expand to 28 teams, but 32 is a much nicer number. If you can staff this tournament, get in touch with me at [email protected].
- Thu Dec 11, 2014 4:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2014: Quentin Tarantino Edition
- Replies: 74
- Views: 37792
Re: IRC Festivus 2014: Quentin Tarantino Edition
I'll see if I can write a 20 3-4 line tossup packet of anything in my interest by then.
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NAQT Metro NY State Championship - March 7th @ Columbia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4856
Re: 2015 NAQT Metro NY State Championship - March 7th @ Colu
Field (as of 12/23/2014):
Bronx Science (2)
Cardinal Spellman (1)
Columbia Secondary (1)
Gotham (2)
Half Hollow Hills East (2)
Highland (1)
Huntington (1)
Die Katzen (1)
Long Beach (2)
Preston (1)
Scarsdale (2)
Stuyvesant (3)
Great Neck South (3)
Wheatley (2)
Total: 24/24
Waitlist:
Hunter (2)
Bronx Science (2)
Cardinal Spellman (1)
Columbia Secondary (1)
Gotham (2)
Half Hollow Hills East (2)
Highland (1)
Huntington (1)
Die Katzen (1)
Long Beach (2)
Preston (1)
Scarsdale (2)
Stuyvesant (3)
Great Neck South (3)
Wheatley (2)
Total: 24/24
Waitlist:
Hunter (2)
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2015 NAQT Metro NY State Championship - March 7th @ Columbia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4856
2015 NAQT Metro NY State Championship - March 7th @ Columbia
The Quiz Bowl team of Columbia University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the NAQT Metro New York State Championship on Saturday, March 7, 2015. This tournament is open to any high school team in New York that wishes to attend, though teams closer to Ithaca may want to consider the Up...
- Sat Dec 06, 2014 8:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
Congratulations to High Tech A, who defeated Bethlehem Central (Eric Wolfsberg solo) in the second game of an advantaged final. Ridgewood and Livingston A rounded out the rest of the superplayoff teams, receiving 3rd and 4th place, respectively. Statistics are posted here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/...
- Sat Dec 06, 2014 5:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
Playoff statistics are now posted. The superplayoffs are currently underway, with Livingston A, Ridgewood, Bethlehem Central, and High Tech A still in contention for trophies.
- Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
Stats for this tournament will be updated periodically at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2542.
- Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6796
Re: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
I just ordered my gift; my partner should receive his gift in two days.
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
The field has been expanded to 30 teams, meaning we will do 5 prelim pools of 6, rebracketed into the same for the afternoon.
- Fri Nov 21, 2014 5:04 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 68117
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
All stats are now up at the dropbox link; the files will hopefully be hosted on the database soon.
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 68117
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Whoops, that will be fixed.hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:We'll get stats up as soon as possible. It might take a couple days, though, because most of the scoresheets are with Ben in New York.
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 68117
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
As far as the continued absence of statistics goes, I see no defense. Why were scoresheets for the HFT taken to New York by a student at Columbia? That makes no sense, nor does not making sure that all scoresheets are brought together, to the same place, by the end of the tournament day. I could no...
- Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
Unfortunately, our request for additional rooms was denied, so we will be unable to expand the field significantly. We may be able to expand the field to 30 teams if we determine that we can run an efficient tournament without using the 15th room as a dedicated control room, and a final decision wil...
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMV 2014: DEADLINE EXTENDED
- Replies: 93
- Views: 6796
Re: SMV 2014: press x to send and receive presents
Name: Ben Zhang Email: ben.zhng1@gmail.com Present requests: 1. A functional, moderately challenging model kit (e.g. a rubber-powered balsa-and-paper airplane) 2. A book on an interesting, popular, preferably science/history-oriented topic (e.g. What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothet...
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 26030
Re: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion
the dearth of non Greco-Roman myth I don't know if it was me, but this tournament seemed to have a lot more Graeco-Roman myth Out of all the questions, 3/7 (2/2) were entirely non-GR, 6/7 (4/4) were entirely GR, and 5/0 (4/0) were mixed common links of varying degrees of GR-ness. The numbers in par...
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 26030
Re: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion
3. I might have misheard this one, but I think the bonus part on lettuce in the Egyptian myth bonus referred to it as a fruit. The exact wording is: [10] After Set ate some of this food in which had Horus had ejaculated, Horus was able to call his semen from within Set and thus prove his superiorit...
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2014 Northeast at Yale (11/8/14)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14640
Re: ACF Fall 2014 Northeast at Yale (11/8/14)
Stats for all games are now available at that link. I'm still missing the scoresheet for the McMaster v. Columbia B game in B52 (Chip's room), and for the Brown B v. Cornell C game in A53. I put both of them as forfeit wins for now, and I don't know the outcome of the Brown/Cornell game, so I put it...
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 3:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2014 Northeast at Yale (11/8/14)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14640
Re: ACF Fall 2014 Northeast at Yale (11/8/14)
I just woke up, and prelim stats are now posted at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2332/
- Sat Nov 08, 2014 3:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2014 Northeast at Yale (11/8/14)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14640
Re: ACF Fall 2014 Northeast at Yale (11/8/14)
Stats have been / will be updated here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2332/
- Sun Nov 02, 2014 2:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BrainBusters Fall 2014 @ Ithaca HS, Ithaca, NY - 11/1/2014
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13763
Re: BrainBusters Fall 2014 @ Ithaca HS, Ithaca, NY - 11/1/20
I uploaded the stats for all of the games half an hour after the tournament ended. Also, given my experience with automated scoring systems so far, there paradoxically needs to be much more scorekeeper training involved, which I don't think this tournament could have pulled off.
- Sat Nov 01, 2014 3:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Things that make a good tournament
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10793
Re: Things that make a good tournament
As a TD, you should make schedules for fields ranging from at least 4 teams less than your current field to 2 teams more. Do not get too invested in one schedule - unless you want to do that extra work, keep the schedules as basic as possible and as simple to modify as possible. Also, if you're tryi...
- Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
If you can staff this tournament, get in touch with me at [email protected] as soon as possible - we have 14 teams on the waitlist for a 28-team tournament, and we'd like to expand if possible.
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:05 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: What defines a team captain?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 21145
Re: What defines a team captain?
Fun fact: of the three Ladue people who went to both nationals last year, one was "team captain," one was "club president," and the other was "co-captain" (at least on the college application; we didn't give this a second of thought outside of that). None of the titles ...
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
The field has been expanded to 28 teams.
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 9:53 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
This tournament is now full; any further registrations will be placed on the waitlist. However, registrations are still encouraged, since I anticipate that we will be able to admit several teams from the waitlist. We are also considering the possibility of expanding the field if the waitlist becomes...
- Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
This tournament is now 5/6 full about 24 hours after the announcement, so get your registrations in now!
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Re: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
Field: (as of 12/06/2014) Bethlehem (1) Bronx Science (1) Columbia Secondary (1) Kellenberg (2) Half Hollow Hills East (1) High Tech (2) Hunter (2) Livingston (3) Morristown-Beard (1) Mountain Lakes (2) North Babylon (3) North Shore (1) Ridgewood (1) West Egg (3) Wheatley (2) White Plains (2) Total ...
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 11:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10486
Columbia University BISB Mirror (12/06/2014)
The Quiz Bowl team of Columbia University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a quizbowl tournament in the fall on Saturday, December 6, 2014. This tournament is open to any high school team that wishes to attend. The questions will come from the Brookwood Invitational Scholars' Bowl (BIS...
- Mon Sep 29, 2014 2:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXII-Princeton, NJ (9/27/2014)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16566
Re: PHSAT XXII-Princeton, NJ (9/27/2014)
Do you know what room it was in? There were some rooms with missing rounds or the like. I'm not exactly sure. Does this mean that they're completely lost? I didn't keep stats that round so I don't have them. I'm just curious because I don't know our bonus conversion that round. Nope, the scoresheet...
- Sun Sep 28, 2014 6:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXII-Princeton, NJ (9/27/2014)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16566
Re: PHSAT XXII-Princeton, NJ (9/27/2014)
Do you know what room it was in? There were some rooms with missing rounds or the like.
- Sat Sep 27, 2014 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PHSAT XXII-Princeton, NJ (9/27/2014)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16566
Re: PHSAT XXII-Princeton, NJ (9/27/2014)
Prelim and playoff stats have been posted at http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2311/. Due to some confusion in the consolation rounds, some teams did not play all five scheduled games. Livingston won the right to play Bethlehem Central in one half of the semifinals, and Ridgewood won the righ...
- Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? [Collegiate edition, 2014]
- Replies: 34
- Views: 14139
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? [Collegiate edition, 2014
They are available here
- Wed Jul 23, 2014 3:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This year's sets missing from archive
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13146
Re: This year's sets missing from archive
I will point out that 2013 ACF Fall is still missing from the archive.
- Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:44 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 PACE NSC Conversion Stats
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3621
Re: 2014 PACE NSC Conversion Stats
I dunno, but that Michelozzo/Brancacci/St. Peter's bonus should have at least one zero.
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5164
Re: General Discussion
Could the mods make this thread and the question-specific thread public?
- Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY / NJ Area Date Claims, 2014-15
- Replies: 69
- Views: 43069
Re: NY / NJ Area Date Claims, 2014-15
The 2015 HSNCT is on June 6?
- Thu Jun 26, 2014 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 33377
Re: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
If PADAWAN is early October, is there nothing regular difficulty between Penn Bowl and ACF Regionals?
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Summer Practices in NYC!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4031
Re: Summer Practices in NYC!
This sounds pretty awesome. I will make an effort to drop by practice in July once I am back in the States. Feel free to stop by! We have a high schooler or two who will start showing up in July as well. And York promised to bake us all miniature fruit pies every practice! Thanks York :party: -- Wi...
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:29 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 458374
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Here comes a random trash packet by #hchsqb! Mehnaj Ahmed, Auroni Gupta, Richard Yu and I have collaborated on a packet affectionately named "69 Buzz Songs and A Neg of Despair". It will feature self-indulgent trash tossups mostly about music near and dear to our hearts, with some TV and ...
- Fri Jun 13, 2014 3:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Summer Practices in NYC!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4031
Re: Summer Practices in NYC!
When do these start? I'm driving back to school on Monday and Tuesday (for some reason the summer term starts on Thursday the 19th) and am stopping by New York City, so I'd like to show up for one of these if possible. I dunno if this is too late of a response, but they already started! The first p...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:33 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: buzzer system lockout discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9717
Re: NHBB Nationals thread
I agree with Jon in that it's not really worth doing anything about, but Victor's claims aren't entirely baseless - at the Bee, I experienced something similar with these buzzersystems.com buzzers . Basically, when one player continually presses the button before the buzzers are clear, the system re...
- Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 75747
Re: 2014 HSNCT discussion
Could I see the neutrophil tossup that was the subject of the protest, and the geckos tossup?
- Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 33377
Re: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
I will once again inquire into the existence of a regular-minus event in the fall; if it's not happening, I would encourage someone to pick up the effort.