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- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Quizbowl Championship @ St. Anselm's (2/22/14)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2164
DC Quizbowl Championship @ St. Anselm's (2/22/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the D.C. Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our D.C. Quizbowl Championship at St. Anselm’s Abbey School on Saturday, February 22, 2014! The D.C. Quizbowl Championship will use HSAPQ’s 8-8-8 format: a first and third period of 8 powermarked tossups fo...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY Quizbowl Championship @ Ithaca HS (3/29/14)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5411
NY Quizbowl Championship @ Ithaca HS (3/29/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High School on March 29! This tournament will feature the top 4 finishing teams at each of the regional tournaments at SUNY-Buffalo, Ithaca High School , and...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY Quizbowl Championship -- Columbia Regional (3/1/14)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4327
NY Quizbowl Championship -- Columbia Regional (3/1/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York eastern & NYC metro regional tournament at Columbia University on March 1, 2014! The top 4 teams from this tournament will qualify for the New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High ...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY Quizbowl Championship -- Ithaca HS Regional (3/1/14)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2123
NY Quizbowl Championship -- Ithaca HS Regional (3/1/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York central regional tournament at Ithaca High School on March 1, 2014! The top 4 teams from this tournament will qualify for the New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High School on March 2...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY Quizbowl Championship -- SUNY-Buffalo Regional (3/1/14)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1810
NY Quizbowl Championship -- SUNY-Buffalo Regional (3/1/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the New York Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our New York western regional tournament at SUNY-Buffalo on March 1, 2014! The top 4 teams from this tournament will qualify for the New York Quizbowl Championship at Ithaca High School on March 29. Bot...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MA Quizbowl Championship @ MIT (4/5/14)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5938
MA Quizbowl Championship @ MIT (4/5/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT on April 5, 2014! This tournament will feature the top 6 finishing teams at each of the regional tournaments at Amherst and Harvard on March 8. Both t...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MA Quizbowl Championship -- Harvard Regional (3/8/14)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10592
MA Quizbowl Championship -- Harvard Regional (3/8/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our Massachusetts eastern regional tournament at Harvard University on Saturday, March 8, 2014! The top 6 teams from this tournament will qualify for the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT ...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: MA Quizbowl Championship -- Amherst Regional (3/8/14)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2509
MA Quizbowl Championship -- Amherst Regional (3/8/14)
HSAPQ, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship Association, is pleased to announce our Massachusetts western regional tournament at Amherst College on Saturday, March 8, 2014! The top 6 teams from this tournament will qualify for the Massachusetts Quizbowl Championship at MIT on ...
- Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSAPQ's Board Liaison
- Replies: 0
- Views: 920
HSAPQ's Board Liaison
Hi, everyone! I’m Max Schindler, HSAPQ’s new board communications liaison. I’ll be doing things like speaking for HSAPQ on the forums and posting announcements for our exciting, brand new state tournament series! If you have any questions, please feel free to email me ([email protected])!
- Mon Nov 25, 2013 2:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why can't prompts be more specific?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2751
Why can't prompts be more specific?
I looked around a bunch on the forums and couldn't find anything on this (besides the semi-relevant anti-prompt thread from 2 years ago, but it didn't really address this), so I don't know if this was discussed before my time, but I was wondering: why can't moderators tell you what is wanted when th...
- Mon Nov 25, 2013 1:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd: 11/23/13 @ CMU
- Replies: 110
- Views: 46938
Re: Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd: 11/23/13 @ CMU
Siddhant is making me post this because he cares too much about fantasy quizbowl, sorry. One of my tossups was misattributed in game 8 (against the Donetsk Metallurgical Academy) -- I got the tossups on Zweig and feeding people though I don't know who they were given to. This allegedly makes him tie...
- Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Old-Timey Guerilla QB Event - Pittsburgh, 11/23/2013
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8785
Re: Old-Timey Guerilla QB Event - Pittsburgh, 11/23/2013
Should the tossups be powermarked?
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 5:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8641
Re: General Discussion
One thing I like a lot about "this X" is it's pretty easy to hear/latch onto regardless of moderator quality. When I'm reading I always like to put a bit of extra emphasis on the first instance of a pronoun so it's clear for everyone, but it's a lot harder to do that in any meaningful way ...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Ease of Powers
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8846
Re: Ease of Powers
When you get to the point where the top high school teams are able to pretty consistently buzz a line or two before FTP in regular difficulty college questions, then it should be no surprise that they're killing HSAPQ/IS-sets (nor should the leadins of those sets be made more challenging to appeal t...
- Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Old-Timey Guerilla QB Event - Pittsburgh, 11/23/2013
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8785
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 3:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25608
Re: Question Specific Discussion
13. Every Cauchy sequence within a metric space has this property. For 10 points each: [10] Name this property which, for a series, means that the sum is finite. The harmonic series lacks this property, but the geometric series has it as long as the ratio between successive terms is between negativ...
- Mon Oct 28, 2013 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25608
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Also the tossups on interpolation and uniform distribution, please.Mewto55555 wrote:Can I see the convergence bonus (I think it was from round 2 or 3)?
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 5:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 118
- Views: 25608
Re: Question Specific Discussion
Can I see the convergence bonus (I think it was from round 2 or 3)?
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 2:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
- Replies: 203
- Views: 108177
Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
Maybe a picture of people playing quizbowl or something?Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote:And if someone wants to contribute a background image that isn't something that I made in 3 seconds with Paint to amuse myself, get in touch with me.
- Tue Aug 27, 2013 1:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question about WUStl Live
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6778
Re: Question about WUStl Live
The standings come out looking like this, so what it will give you is team rankings with W-L and ppg, individual results, and the scoresheet for every game. The thing that looks like PPB it outputs is some other metric, so you might want to ignore that if you decide to use WUStL.
- Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
Sorry for the delays, the set's up. Hope everyone who played enjoyed!
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 4:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Texas Invitational and local tournament scheduling
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1445
Re: Texas Invitational and local tournament scheduling
I find it amusing that the one player whom the initial proposed change would benefit most doesn't even deign to play local tournaments (good teams: this is a bad idea. Play local tournaments.)
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- Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
If no one else tells me they want this for anything by Friday, I'll post it.
- Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
- Replies: 203
- Views: 108177
Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
You appear to have left out Ladue (like, obviously this is pre-season and you're spitballing on little information so it doesn't matter, but with all due respect to only-senior-on-Ladue B David, plugging either of returning A-team members Ben/Jialin into his missing spot here would have turned a T-2...
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15835
Re: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
If there is desire, I will have a packet of somewhat-short Star Wars mashups done by then. The academic part will be mostly lit, but there will be a few from other categories.
- Thu Jun 27, 2013 1:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10867
Re: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
That's a terrible plan, seeing as characters named Septimus appear in works by Stoppard, Forster, Woolf, Trollope, Wilkie Collins, Saki, and probably a few more I'm forgetting.
- Wed Jun 26, 2013 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
No, the Canadian mirror of Missouri Open is using it (in roughly two weeks I believe). After that, though, it will be.
- Wed Jun 26, 2013 4:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10867
Re: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
Pierre Wantzel used Galois theory to prove some of these problems impossible. Felix Klein wrote a book on these problems, one of whose impossibility follows from pi being transcendental. Gauss proved that the 17-gon was a possible example of these problems that include (*) trisecting an angle, doub...
- Tue Jun 25, 2013 5:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12348
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
Dude, your leadins do not need to be harder. In packet 1, I would literally have only buzzed in the first line of two tossups: Pennsylvania, because I know things about Eakins, and Louis XVI, and maybe Italy if I had figured it out fast enough. I know I'm not the high-achieving high school quizbowle...
- Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 10867
Re: 2012-13 NAQT IS set discussion
Can I see that tossup on "geometric constructions"? It was in the pyramidal part of the MSHSAA state questions, so I think it was from an IS-set.
- Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Specialists or Miscellaneous?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3103
Re: Specialists or Miscellaneous?
Yeah no, my teammates are comically underrated because of shadow effect, etc. Even if you've got one fantastic individual player, you still need tons of support to complement you in close games or when you have an off-game. My teammates this year included a fantastic secondary generalist who is a to...
- Wed Jun 19, 2013 1:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
Hey Max I know it does not really matter, but i only heard three packets and buzzed once or twice. You may have confused me with some one else for with the rest of the stats, just an FYI. Thanks again for reading and great set. There was probably someone else whose name was mib_stuff who I confused...
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
Last night's scores can be found here in sketchy spreadsheet form. Also, I have updated the stats for the original site . If someone from Sam+Seth+Selene remembers their score breakdown (they combined for 0/1/6/0), or could reconstruct it given the questions, let me know. Also alert me if any errors...
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
This is happening.Mewto55555 wrote:I can read this in the IRC (#schindlit) for anyone who hasn't/won't play (or if you've only played a few packets, we can start with those), at 9:30 CST tonight.
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
I can read this in the IRC (#schindlit) for anyone who hasn't/won't play (or if you've only played a few packets, we can start with those), at 9:30 CST tonight.
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15395
Re: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
I agree that the randomization got weird at times, although I'm skeptical that the S.F. and LA questions needed to be moved per se. Yeah, I was just trying to come up with an example of very similar concepts coming up in two different categories and that was the best I could do off the top of my he...
- Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 57
- Views: 15395
Re: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
I loved the set! One thing that did concern me was some sub-optimal randomization -- stuff we found particularly standing out day 2 was, for example, the lit in the last playoff packet being 3 poems, 1 short stories, or stuff like tossups on San Francisco and LA Philharmonic in close succession (tho...
- Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowldb Search not functioning
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6902
Re: Quizbowldb Search not functioning
If you ever need to search a large quantity of packets, and if QBDB's search algorithm continues to be totally useless for things longer than one word, then a handy trick is to just google "site:quizbowlpackets.com [thing I am searching for]".
- Mon Jun 10, 2013 2:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NSC: Congratulations, Ladue!
- Replies: 78
- Views: 56964
Re: 2013 NSC: Congratulations, Ladue!
Do any recordings exist aside from that first 3:40 or so of the finals? Huge thanks to PACE, especially Matt W. for a very well-run tournament, and Eric and everyone else involved with the great question set. Every staffer we experienced was either good or great, very helpful and professional, etc (...
- Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
Is there any interest in playing a room of this at NASAT or something? Also, a bunch of people have indicated they want to play this on the IRC or something, I can do that sometime after NASAT for anyone who isn't planning to play a mirror of this at a Missouri Open mirror.
- Sun Jun 09, 2013 11:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NSC Set Discussion
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14006
Re: 2013 NSC Set Discussion
Thus Spoke Zarathustra twice in the finals (though music, phil, so whatever) One very specific thing I would like to be clearer is tossups on slightly more nebulous yet specific answerlines like that "Nixon-Kennedy debates" -- in my room it got prompted on pres. debates and wasn't pulled b...
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 3:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: National Quizbowl Awards 2013: Congrats to the Recipients!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6555
Re: National Quizbowl Awards 2013
Could there maybe be a small blurb released about each nominated person (just a few lines of notable tournament performances/statlines, or for coaches information on what sort of role they take in running the team, or whatever) written by the committee or someone else involved in this process? That ...
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 184850
Re: ProtoBowl
The point is not "Protobowl will never get you anywhere" since that is obviously not true. The point is more 'if you are a science specialist whose primary source of exposure to quizbowl science are the 3604 on protobowl, many of which are from mediocre sets written 3+ years ago, then you ...
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 11:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 184850
Re: ProtoBowl
Ugh, that's a huge logical fallacy. High Tech is not magically good because you all use Protobowl, it's good because, due to the nature of your school, you have a sufficient number of intelligent people who care enough to spend their time studying quizbowl. The problem with all these protobowling pe...
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT: June 15-16 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19999
Re: 2013 NASAT: June 15-16 at Ohio State
Well, it could take as much as two rounds in tiebreakers after prelims and as much as two after playoffs, which means a total of 13+2+3+2=20 rounds in one day, which sounds a bit nuts.
- Thu Jun 06, 2013 2:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 184850
Re: ProtoBowl
Look, I don't understand the point of all the discussions of why this behavior is bad or what purpose Protobowl serves or whether it is an ideal intro to quizbowl or whatever the heck we're talking about now. The point is that PB has turned into a platform for a bunch of immature quizbowl-people to ...
- Wed Jun 05, 2013 12:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: ProtoBowl
- Replies: 367
- Views: 184850
Re: ProtoBowl
Obviously cleaning it up would be an extremely desirable thing, but one thing to consider is that /lobby can at times be a good environment for practice between multiple non-stupid users. While activity on HSQB is a fine way of connecting names with schools, trophies, et cetera, it's not going to b...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 12:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: "How to Host a Tournament" Discussion - All Commentary Here!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6561
Re: "How to Host a Tournament" Discussion - All Commentary Here!
Make sure every team has a number to reach you at if they're running late/have to drop the morning of the tournament.
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
Congratulations to Benji-Bernadette/MattBo-Rob-Matt on getting bonus points in a tournament with no bonuses! That is because the scores I have for Benji's team v. Raynor's team and for Jacob's team v. Sid's team are off by 10/5 respectively, so SQBS thinks they got bonus points. If anyone had corre...
- Tue Jun 04, 2013 1:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
- Replies: 143
- Views: 49422
Re: Side Event: Schindler's Lit
Staaats from the upper division -- if anyone has the detailed scores for the two missing games that would be great!
Thanks a bunch to Sid Verma who indeed had the stats ready almost immediately after the tournament, I just lost them in my email inbox
Thanks a bunch to Sid Verma who indeed had the stats ready almost immediately after the tournament, I just lost them in my email inbox