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- Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
The last packet will be read on the Discord at 8 PM EST tonight.
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 3:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Thanks to everyone for coming out and playing/enduring CO this year (and apologies for the late finish time), and congrats to Matt, Matt, Shan, and Adam for winning in an exciting series of final games. Sadly, because the set has been spreading around, I'm not completely comfortable with the idea of...
- Sun Jul 22, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chill the fuck out about getting copies of sets
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3903
Chill the fuck out about getting copies of sets
Today I was extremely displeased to learn, after finishing and running a Chicago Open set that took a toll on my physical and mental health, that someone downloaded the raw packet files from our shared folder and that it was circulated by at least Eric Mukherjee. I was looking forward to reading the...
- Sat Jul 14, 2018 10:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Every paying team should now have gotten an email about how much they owe. I can be paid via Venmo at any time (just look up my name), or via cash or check the morning of the tournament.
- Fri Jul 13, 2018 9:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Will you let us know how much we owe at some point (i.e. if there were discounts)? Yes, at the opening meeting itself. Speaking of discounts, if you are coming to the tournament at all in any capacity and have the ability to bring buzzers, please do; I have raised the discount to -$10 per working s...
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 12:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
The +50 deadline is tonight, and you have one week of accumulating penalties to get your packets in at all, or you will be dropped from the field.
- Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Reminder that the +$25 deadline is this weekend. Also, I'm aware of one team that hasn't yet emailed me to officially register; please do that.
- Mon Jun 11, 2018 8:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
The submitted packet list has been updated (pending, as usual, extensions and other requests). Email me if you have any questions.
- Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
- Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Due to issues with the room reservation process at the University of Chicago, this tournament will instead be held at Northwestern University.
- Thu May 31, 2018 9:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Reminder that tonight is the deadline for -$25 packets (unless you've emailed me asking for an exception).
- Wed May 30, 2018 12:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112653
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)
Get this... thing out of quizbowl.
- Mon May 28, 2018 2:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 18727
Re: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
I loved this tournament, which got at knowledge locked deep in the core of my brain, and want to especially highlight the unique, creative, and fun approach it took to bonuses in the one round that had them. I encourage Daniel and Luc to work on other, non-Pokemon projects that may interest them.
- Thu May 24, 2018 12:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112653
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault)
Are any of these reports/allegations actually substantiated at this time? Or proven in any way? It's interesting that Matt went from having a background role to not being able to staff. Was this decision made based off public pressure or actual facts one way or the other? cw: not life safe: https:/...
- Wed May 23, 2018 10:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
I've expanded the field to 22 teams after assessing the staff situation, letting Mike Etzkorn's team in.
- Mon May 21, 2018 3:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
As this is both HSNCT and a holiday weekend, can the deadline for packets on the 27th possibly be pushed back a couple days (like the 29th)? Did you one better and pushed it back to the end of the month. It's very late to bring it up, but is replicating some form of this (probably not in the form o...
- Mon May 21, 2018 8:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Side note: potential staffers, please send me an email so I can easily keep track of who'll be around. Thanks!
- Sat May 19, 2018 8:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Our field is now full, but I have begun soliciting/keeping track of staffers and there may be the possibility of expansion once I've got enough.
- Mon May 14, 2018 8:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
I've updated the opening post with the packets we've received for the earliest deadline. Some of you have emailed me about reasonable extensions; your packets will be added once I actually receive them. Several more of you have messaged or asked me in person about extensions which will remain hypoth...
- Mon May 07, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Reminder that the first packet deadline is coming up this Sunday, May 13th. Additionally, I'm awarding one-week extension upon request to packet writers who are significantly involved in producing this year's high school national sets; if this applies to you, contact me with the deadline you're aimi...
- Tue May 01, 2018 9:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Smoothing Out Your Set
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10935
Re: Smoothing Out Your Set
I would say that the majority of readers I've met (in and out of quizbowl) are fans of certain geographically-bound literary schools, style, etc. For example, have you not met tons of people who are specifically fans of Russian literature? Have you not encountered the many players who have a backgr...
- Tue May 01, 2018 7:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Smoothing Out Your Set
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10935
Re: Smoothing Out Your Set
A lot of the above post is fair, as a case in point to underscore the importance of coordinating with your co-editors if you're going to split up a category. However, only works from Britain/Europe, with nothing American or World (Yale A + UT Dallas A + NCF A: Miss Julie, Duino Elegies, A Christmas ...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Opening post updated with full writing and editing team.
- Thu Apr 12, 2018 12:57 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Steven Pinker's Font Size Fun Time Nationals Barrel
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2498
Re: Steven Pinker's Font Size Fun Time Nationals Barrel
If you do calisthenics on the floor of my game room I will scowl at you all round.The Stately Rhododendron wrote:I have to condition for a trail crew job, so you better believe Quizbowl crunches are back.
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 1:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
Since this tournament will almost certainly be both bracketed and packet submission, I'm tightening up the field cap to 18 teams, with possibility for later expansion based on interest, staff availability, and my ability to come up with a good schedule for larger field sizes.
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 2:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 78343
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
I am announcing a field cap of 18 teams for this tournament. As a reminder, please email me to actually register.
- Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The looming crisis
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12671
Re: The looming crisis
Andrew is correct in his diagnosis. While I and several of my peers enjoy writing and editing tournaments and (at least I) plan to keep doing so, we can't be relied upon to produce the bulk of the needed sets year after year. I have tried, with my past two projects, to recruit younger co-editors who...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CMST: General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9656
Re: CMST: General Discussion
The editors of this set should be commended for demonstrating that by tightly adhering to a set of just a few first principles, such as tossup answerline accessibility, a desire to explore familiar concepts from new angles, and erring on the side of simplicity, it's possible to create a very good to...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 3:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8757
Re: Words and Objects
Definitely playing this.
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 23515
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
I may post a more detailed self-reflection as head editor but for now, I wanted to quickly address this: 2. Some tossup answerlines seemed to be examples of taking a reasonable answerline and stretching it out too far. As an example, the tossup on "valedictions" was probably too much; are ...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 8:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155250
Re: IT IS THE FINALS: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside
- Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33867
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
I think that eliminating the first line or two in tossups could automatically correct this curve without sacrificing ability to differentiate between lower-tier teams. I urge writers to consider shortening their questions in the future. I'd just like to point out that shortening questions to 6 line...
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19372
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Doing reverse clue-lookups on both PubMed and Google Scholar yields pages upon pages of papers on which a Ki67 labeling index was calculated for various cancers, so even if you're technically right, I'm at a loss to understand how you could have been misled.Sima Guang Hater wrote:Ki67 labelling - not just for tumors.
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 55636
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
This tournament is now clear. I have uploaded the packets and they can be found here.
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 11:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33867
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
Having absorbed and sought out a lot of feedback about the set over the past week, I regret that a prevailing impression of it is that it seemed to lack middle clues. While it is true that the project I laid out in the general discussion thread led to many leadins that pushed the envelope, I felt as...
- Sun Jan 28, 2018 12:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155250
Re: FINAL FOUR: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside
Hey Ya!
Hey Ya!
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19372
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Was folding at home the middle part of the bonus? I’d be curious to know how many people got that because of these forums and not actually knowing it. Yes. That confounding effect seems hard to tease out, but it was well-known before the forums thread and is well known now. Could I see the Wallace ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19372
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
The P234S mutation in an enzyme that regulates this phenotype completely reverses its specificity. In humans, most genetic variation in this trait is found in the last exon on chromosome 9 at band 9q34.2. The most common allele controlling this phenotype has a guanine-261 deletion to cause a frames...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 2:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19372
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
The bonus on ecological succession tripped me up because I thought the question already said “climax” before the bonus part on climax. Although Frederic Clements only recognized the “climatic” form of this concept, later ecologists identified “edaphic,” “disturbance,” and “anthropogenic” varieties ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14360
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
* These sentiments are those of a sophomore with limited college reg-level exposure. I thought overall the tossups of this set were more difficult than last year's. One packet that included Charles Bukowski as an answerline stuck out to me as a particular difficult round (4 tossups went dead). In t...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19372
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
Could I see the tossup on Moby-Dick ? I'd like to make note of what changes were made from my original version. 10. This novel enjoins the reader to consult a “metaphysical professor” should they “ever be athirst in the great American desert,” since “as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedd...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 55636
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
Which is why I'm doing it now. You can join it by going to User Control Panel -> Usergroups, then scroll down to ACF Regionals 2018, select it, and hit "join selected."Tornrak wrote:It appears that there is in fact a private forum, but no one has announced its existence.
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19372
2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
Post comments about specific questions here. I or my coeditors will post questions as requested, but please provide a brief reason (ie, don't just dump a list of ten tossups). We're aware of a litany of minor issues that we need to address before the set runs for the last time this weekend, and your...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14360
2018 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
First of all, I'd like to extend thanks to the hundreds of people who played, staffed, and directed ACF Regionals this past weekend -- I hope you enjoyed yourself and that things went smoothly. I can't heap enough praise upon my coeditors -- Will Alston, Will Holub-Moorman, Stephen Eltinge, and Kenj...
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155250
Re: SWEET SIXTEEN: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Toxic by Britney Spears
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
- Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 55636
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
Eric (and others), the instructions can be found at this site
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 1:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155250
Re: SWEET SIXTEEN: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Mr. Brightside by The Killers - I feel bad for consistently voting against a song by a formative band from my musical youth, but I like every other single from Hot Fuss better than Mr. Brightside :( Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Toxic by Britney Spears 99 Problems by Jay...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 10:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 55636
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals Global Announcement (1/20/18)
The +$50 deadline for half-packets has passed. This coming Sunday (Jan. 14) is the absolute latest you have to submit a half-packet if you're required to, so please don't miss it.
- Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155250
Re: ROUND TWO, PART TWO: Best Song of the 2000s
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Time to Pretend by MGMT One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs. Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine Lose Yourself by Eminem vs. Rehab by Amy Winehouse Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Feel Good Inc. by Goril...
- Tue Jan 02, 2018 8:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 155250
Re: ROUND TWO, PART ONE: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson - finally giving SUBG some love in a probably hopeless matchup Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Wake Up by Arcade Fire Toxic by Britney Spears vs. Get Ur Freak ...