The Quizbowl Resource Center

1.82

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:
Our Lady Peace wrote:Did this happen?
Yes, because they posted stats?

That post hadn't been approved yet when I made my post.

1.82 · Re: NAQT Collegiate Novice @ Georgetown (10/1/2016) (IS-161A Did this happen?

Did this happen?

1.82

Ferlinghetti's Axis wrote:Are there mirrors of this tournament planned?

Georgia Tech is hosting a mirror on November 12; the announcement will be up soon.

1.82

jasongg17 wrote:Out of curiosity, has a 2016 edition been compiled?

http://www.fraughtmachine.com/efcontact/2016EF.html

1.82

I would definitely like to attend CO 2017, which would be my first ever CO. If you're interested in having a history/religion player on your team, feel free to PM me or send me an email at weijia05 at yahoo dot com. Weijia knows things and will also write good questions promptly, so you should defi...

1.82

This is just a reminder for everyone that this thread exists and is being updated.

1.82

I really appreciated all the decisions made by the writers of this tournament, especially the decision not to involve Cory Haala. In particular I'd like to single out the sports as worthy of praise; the early clues of sports tossups did an excellent job of rewarding the sorts of things that people w...

1.82

This thread is based on Cody's thread last year , which I thought was a good idea. The nation is divided into regions and sub-regions of my arbitrary choosing, but I think it should be reasonably clear what goes where. I will attempt to keep this updated as the year progresses. National Tournaments ...

1.82

I think it's a little silly to accuse Naveed of being somehow "disingenuous", but it is worth noting that sometimes bad and/or new teams are confused by multi-part answerlines, or answerlines more complicated than a single noun... I certainly don't think it's silly -- Naveed maintains tha...

1.82

I think it's a little silly to accuse Naveed of being somehow "disingenuous", but it is worth noting that sometimes bad and/or new teams are confused by multi-part answerlines, or answerlines more complicated than a single noun... I certainly don't think it's silly -- Naveed maintains tha...

1.82

I've elaborated upon this before , so I'll be brief: I agree with pretty much everything this thread says. In particular, themed questions are great, and everybody should write them. However, I am still suspicious of "creative" answer lines (creative questions are fine and good, of course...

1.82

I've elaborated upon this before , so I'll be brief: I agree with pretty much everything this thread says. In particular, themed questions are great, and everybody should write them. However, I am still suspicious of "creative" answer lines (creative questions are fine and good, of course...

1.82

I've elaborated upon this before , so I'll be brief: I agree with pretty much everything this thread says. In particular, themed questions are great, and everybody should write them. However, I am still suspicious of "creative" answer lines (creative questions are fine and good, of course...

1.82

I've elaborated upon this before , so I'll be brief: I agree with pretty much everything this thread says. In particular, themed questions are great, and everybody should write them. However, I am still suspicious of "creative" answer lines (creative questions are fine and good, of course...

1.82

mukbang: https://www.twitch.tv/hftf_

1.82

Hey, you guys should come today because there'll maybe be pizza to commemorate my last weekend in College Park and my last Maryland practice. If you can't come we'll also be having the first ever Maryland Academic Quiz Team mukbang (or MAQTbang).

1.82

Monday practices have been canceled due to lack of interest. Practice will continue as scheduled every Thursday.

1.82

Edward Lansdale wrote:Any updates from Columbia or Maryland?

Because the university administration has been very slow to respond to our inquiries, the scheduled NASAT mirror next weekend at Maryland has unfortunately been canceled. We hope that this set can be mirrored at Maryland later this summer.

1.82

One obvious change if you want to see this program achieve widespread implementation is to change its name.

1.82

Is an official announcement for the Maryland mirror forthcoming? I would like to express my interest in either playing or staffing. Since our ordinary building is closed for construction, I'm holding off on an announcement until I can get confirmation from the university that we have rooms. Sorry f...

1.82

It might seem self-evident, but one great way to ensure club success is for the members of your club to be friends. This isn't to say that they need to or should already be friends outside of quizbowl, but people are much more likely to come to practice if they know that practice will be where they ...

1.82

Due to ongoing construction in Jimenez, practice tomorrow (and fire the foreseeable future) will be held in 0119 Francis Scott Key Hall, on the opposite side of the mall. It will be on the ground floor; enter beneath the large stairs at the front of the building. Contact me with any issues you have.

1.82

Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:Would "US invasion of Cuba during the Spanish American War" been accepted?

This was in fact the primary answerline given on the sheet.

1.82

Practices will be held on Thursday afternoons from 6 to 9, starting this Thursday. They'll be on the first floor of Jimenez Hall, the usual location for Maryland tournaments. Please send me an e-mail if you need any further information.

1.82

Would there be any interest in a Skype mirror of NASAT (for those who are not playing one of the in person mirrors)? Is the only mirror in St Louis? If so, I'm interested in a Skype mirror I've been at NSC and so haven't been able to properly announce it yet, but there will be a mirror of NASAT in ...

1.82 · Re: MYSTERIUM @ UCLA (04/23/16) Did this happen?

Did this happen?

1.82

Hey everyone, I'm going to be living in College Park until the first week of July, so if anyone is in or around the area and has any desire to play some questions, please contact me to let me know what days of the week you're free in the evenings so that I can set up a regular date and time. Obvious...

1.82

A question that represents the questions I (and perhaps other people) have about the intended audience: would, say, Jordan and Auroni be allowed to play this set with Maryland and Michigan? Both of them will obviously not be playing ACF Fall since they are too good for ACF Fall, but both of them pl...

1.82

A question that represents the questions I (and perhaps other people) have about the intended audience: would, say, Jordan and Auroni be allowed to play this set with Maryland and Michigan? Both of them will obviously not be playing ACF Fall since they are too good for ACF Fall, but both of them pla...

1.82

I'm looking for a team. I know a lot of things about sports (especially baseball, the best sport) and in general I can and will contribute on anything other than video games and comics.

1.82

Let me, if I may, quote the next line: Again, this is only at intro and reg difficulty - once we get to Regs+ and Nationals, go wild. Seriously. I find it very odd that regular difficulty and novice difficulty are being grouped together, since regular difficulty is much more like those harder diffic...

1.82

Ike, I disagree pretty strongly with the conclusions you've put forth in this thread. I played ACF Regionals 2015 on a two-person Maryland B team on which neither player had ever played any sort of quizbowl before that year's ACF Fall. Naturally we ended up in the bottom bracket because we had no id...

1.82

Hey guys, you should consider voting for Jordan Brownstein. I know a lot of you haven't seen much of him since we stayed within the Mid-Atlantic region pretty much all year, but I've been sitting next to him at every tournament he's played this year (except MLK, which he decided to play solo in upst...

1.82

Maryland is running Terrapin XXIX in the fall. It will be regular difficulty. Someone who is actually involved with writing the tournament will post more soon.

1.82

As has been mentioned, there were many repeats this weekend, both across sets and in the same set. We've all been lectured many times about how the same answerline can be used twice in the same tournament if the clues are different, so I'll state that that's not what happened here; there were many i...

1.82

If for some inexplicable reason you're not Facebook friends with me (or any of the half-dozen people who posted it), you may have missed this article about Computer Man: http://www.dbknews.com/2016/04/21/quiz- ... -national/

1.82

Cheynem wrote:How much pro wrestling?

The "other" distribution will contain a generous helping of professional wrestling, I promise.

1.82

This is an announcement for a yet-to-be-named trash tournament. The tournament will be written by me and Emma Stevens. The distribution is to be as follows: 4/4 sports (1/1 baseball, 1/1 football, 1/1 basketball, 1/1 other) 4/4 music 4/4 movies 4/4 television (2/2 last decade, 2/2 before that) 2/2 l...

1.82

I will be pursuing a one-year Master of Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I'd like to play quizbowl during that time.

1.82

I lost my phone in Ann Arbor, presumably on Saturday night. If someone knows the whereabouts of a gray flip phone, please let me know.

1.82

I don't have the set in front of me, but a tossup on Galicia led in with "this region" and a reference to a Roman-era event, leading to Jordan buzzing with "Hispania" and being negged. This was suboptimal.

1.82

Full stats are up. Virginia cleared the field to win with a 9–1 record, and Rochester finished second at 7–3. Thanks to everyone who came out today.

1.82 · Re: MYSTERIUM at Maryland (March 26, 2016) Prelim stats are up.

Prelim stats are up.

1.82

This tournament has been canceled.

1.82

The University of Maryland is hosting a mirror of ACRONYM, an American trash tournament, on Sunday, March 27, 2016. This is the day after our mirror of MYSTERIUM . As is customary, the tournament will be held at Jimenez Hall. For the global ACRONYM announcement, see here . This is an open tournament...

1.82

A private discussion forum has been created for the Maryland Fall set. If you have played or read the tournament, please request to join the usergroup and gain access to the board by going to your User Control Panel, clicking on "Usergroups" ( or clicking this link ), and selecting "2...

1.82

Complete stats for Saturday have been posted. Individual statistics may have some errors; if you have a log of a game and know of any such errors, please contact me and we will fix them.

1.82

I enjoyed the religion a lot in this set; even when I didn't know a question, the content was framed in a way that made me interested in learning about it. The two tossups in that batch that I thought didn't play very well were on mandalas and yoga; the former seemed to confuse people because it see...

1.82

Eyes was played this morning. There were two rooms, and so two seeding rounds were played to place teams in the upper and lower room, after which six rounds were played with the two lowest scorers in the upper room switching places with the two highest scorers in the lower room every two rounds. The...

1.82 · Re: COTTAGE Bowl 2 at Maryland (February 28, 2016) Final stats

Final stats

Search found 361 matches