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by Father of the Ragdoll
Wed Apr 29, 2020 4:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: POLL - Cambridge Open Online (May 24th)
Replies: 20
Views: 4879

Re: POLL - Cambridge Open Online

Would the plan for this to be played tossup only or with bonuses or is that to be determined?
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Apr 20, 2020 8:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Fall and Winter Editor Applications
Replies: 19
Views: 9407

Re: ACF Fall and Winter Editor Applications

Well it seems undeniable that this is an improvement, no? Before we had an ACF Fall that was too hard for true novices and too easy for good former high school players and less experienced but competitive players. Now we have an ACF Fall that is easy enough for true novices and an ACF Winter for goo...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Fall and Winter Editor Applications
Replies: 19
Views: 9407

Re: ACF Fall and Winter Editor Applications

Previously, ACF only had one tournament to fill the "easier than Regs" difficulty window, which is a very large window. Fall had to serve the dual functions of trying to attract brand new players to the game and providing more seasoned ones with a regs-minus experience. By adding Winter, ...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 147191

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

On top of what everyone else has said, I think it is important to consider what Eric did between cheating and admitting he cheated. As has been pointed out, he denied it, defended himself, and threw Chris under the bus once statistical evidence came out that people described as "inconclusive&qu...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:01 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 147191

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Sorry, by "as anomalous" I just meant "as anomalous using the metric my and Will's post used." I don't think what I posted is exonerating, but I do think John Lawrence's performance on SH is worth noting. This exact type of comparison was requested and I think it's good context ...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Tue Apr 07, 2020 10:19 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 147191

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Here's the previous analysis with some other frequent players of hard tournaments. It appears John Lawrence's performance at "stanford housewrite" is comparably anomalous to online TO. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/696862016597393529/697024317728227398/unknown.png?width=1440&am...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54230

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

A few notes on the "weirdness" that people have referenced. I want to point out that this is a fairly ageist concept, as it seems to imply one of: It is "weird" for someone to pursue a competitive activity that they enjoy beyond the age of ~23. I don't think that should be the ca...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54230

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

If I may paraphrase an argument originally made by someone else, it's worth noting that these arguments by and large seem to come from people whose primary engagement with the quizbowl community is by being active on quizbowl Discord. Perhaps these people represent a great silent majority that has ...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:14 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54230

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

As long as we are using running analogies, for college club track and XC, grad students (who are in their athletic prime compared to undergrads) are fully allowed to play. Imagine being a CS major who is involved club XC who demands that grad students be excluded or have their eligibility reduced be...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54230

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

These three factors are indicative of another vision of college quizbowl. Many people wish that college quizbowl would be a scholastic league (analogous to hsqb or college basketball) that people play for four years and then leave. This rapid turnover could engender growth. On the other hand, this ...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Mar 15, 2020 1:23 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54230

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

From a perception perspective, people generally feel better about getting thrashed by their "equals" than by people with a perceived advantage - whether real or not (and it could very well be real). Is this true? I have always felt better about losing to people with more experience than m...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54230

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

Speaking as someone who ran a club with zero dominant grad students for 3 years, we had a huge attrition due to the time it would have taken to adjust to sets like MUT and EFT that we were playing in practice. The vast majority of our attrition (if not all of it some years) came well before we start...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:07 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
Replies: 106
Views: 95470

Re: Introducing YellowFruit.

Came across what looks like an error of some sort. All of the headings for this entry are shifted 1 to the left starting with ppg. It looks like you didn't specify any divisions? If that's the case, then it looks like that cell was omitted altogether, rather than a blank space created to fill in. T...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:19 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
Replies: 106
Views: 95470

Re: Introducing YellowFruit.

Came across what looks like an error of some sort. All of the headings for this entry are shifted 1 to the left starting with ppg.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT Discord Mirror (03/08/2020)
Replies: 10
Views: 4616

Re: LIT Discord Mirror (03/08/2020)

Congrats to Nerds (Aseem, Benji, Tejas, & Chris) for winning a one game final over Bentley et al. (Mike, Aayush, Kevin, Juliet)!

There are stats. Please let me know if there are any corrections.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 8064

Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion

Looking through course listings for a binary "is there Nietzsche, or is there no Nietzsche?" metric seems silly -- it says nothing about the degree to which continental thinkers like Nietzsche or Foucault are emphasized in academic philosophy, or the ways in which they are engaged with by...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 8064

Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion

Although I did not take as many philosophy and history courses as many people here, I took a good handful at the University of Illinois and read Locke, Hobbes, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Rousseau, Hume, Marx, Nietzsche, etc as well as several non-western and ancient philosophers. A quick glance at the sh...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP at UT Austin (02/29/2020)
Replies: 1
Views: 1891

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP at UT Austin (02/29/2020)

Thank you to everyone who came out and played today! Texas A won in the first game of an advantaged final over Texas B. Texas C and Rice A rounded out the top bracket. The all-tournament team was: 1. William - Texas A 96.67 ppg 2. Ashwath - Texas C 80.83 ppg 3. Robert - Strake Jesuit 56.67 ppg 4. Ja...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Feb 02, 2020 7:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: "Should have been prompted" replacement policy
Replies: 15
Views: 6013

Re: "Should have been prompted" replacement policy

One additional thing to consider is that tiebreaker tossups are usually on answerlines that are more convertable than the median tossup of a set for the simple reason that editors do not want multiple tiebreaker tossups to be used for a single tie. As a result, the rate of a team converting a tiebre...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
Replies: 18
Views: 7727

Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)

Just an update, we are setting the completion deadline as no later than July 18th. We are also no longer reserving the set for the Illinois Side Event Weekend (although it may still end up being mirrored there) and are opening it to be mirrored any side event weekend type events, Chicago Open, and/o...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
Replies: 60
Views: 10281

Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread

Yeah Roger Bacon was exceptionally difficult. I converted it at the end (in practice) because of the title but I’d be pretty surprised if anyone got it before then. I don’t see why it this couldn’t be a common link on Bacon or some scholastic concept. I think that would have been a much better way t...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Fri Oct 25, 2019 10:15 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
Replies: 60
Views: 10281

Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread

From bonus 7 of packet 15 [10] While the Quran stresses that the crescent moon is not Allah, the term Allah may have referred to an older pre-Islamic moon deity. Muslims have also tried to disassociate Allah from this god, whose idol at the Ka’aba was used for divination. This seems to be pretty pro...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 56
Views: 7468

Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata

[*] My teammate answered "violence" for the tossup on aggression and when prompted said "violence against dolls". Violence and aggression aren't quite synonymous, but they seem similar enough that this tossup could be confusing. (I believe it ended up going dead against a team w...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Thu Sep 12, 2019 5:15 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
Replies: 18
Views: 7727

Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)

We will be writing at least 10 packets in order to ensure that UIUC can run a full tournament with finals at the 2020 iteration of Side Event Weekend. Once we have more written and have a better idea of when we will be finishing I will update with how many packets we are going to have for sure.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
Replies: 18
Views: 7727

Re: MUSES II (Summer 2020)

2 Polyhymnia -1 Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals -1 Non-Ancient Hymns/Prayers/Musical Rituals Are there really enough hymns for a second set with this many hymns? We are expanding our hymns to include more prayers, sacred texts, and chants than we did the first time in order to maintain playab...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Thu Sep 12, 2019 12:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES II (Summer 2021)
Replies: 18
Views: 7727

MUSES II (Summer 2021)

Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce MUSES II, the sequel to last years MUSES . This set will have a similar distro to last year's version, with somewhat major tweaks to improve playability. The set will consist of 8 packets of 20 tossups. The set will also have powers, but unlike last year's ve...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:59 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Preseason Poll 2019-2020
Replies: 26
Views: 18070

Re: Preseason Poll 2019-2020

Can we also see the data for teams that got votes but were not in the top 25?
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Aug 18, 2019 4:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/18

Live stats available here
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:55 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/18

The schedule and discord server link are now in the signup sheet. Teams have also been assigned with generic placeholder names.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:45 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/18

Sorry for not making this clear, 2 pm CST. If there is a desire to run this as tossup only we will accomidate it.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Fri Aug 16, 2019 2:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/18

Is it safe to assume that this event will start in the early to mid-afternoon on Sunday, to avoid conflicts with Age of Empires? Yes it is, we will start at 2 pm. Sorry for not posting this sooner, had to get a new laptop and updating this slipped my mind. Free agents should form teams now: by the ...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Wed Aug 14, 2019 11:59 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/17

It appears that the best date for people is August 18th, as such we will be moving the date to then. In the next day or so look for more specific logistics.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/17

Additionally, I was told that MUSES only ran 5 packets for the NYSO folks. Would those people like a discord mirror run to hear the rest of the packets? We've talked to a few people about this and the consensus seems to be a solid yes! We just need to work out the details on that, which have been a...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/17

Due to a combination of moving, CO stuff, and family emergencies, I simply have not had the time to reach out to the people who have signed up as I said I would. I apologize for this. In lieu of that, I have now created a poll for people to fill out to help guage when to run the miriror. If you are ...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Tue Aug 06, 2019 3:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Announcement
Replies: 22
Views: 11738

Re: MUSES Announcement

We have a discussion forum up, which you can add via your user control panel.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sat Aug 03, 2019 3:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

MUSES is now finished! The MUSES Tragedy was victorious in the second game of their disadvantaged final againt the Rob Carson, Tejas Raje, Matt Lafer, Billy Busse team with a final score 395-140. Congrats everyone and good job The MUSES Tragedy! Side event "weekend" is now officially over.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Fri Aug 02, 2019 12:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

Re: MUSES Online 8/17

This is the same day that was selected via poll for the RULFO online mirror. Seeing as there is probably a good amount of people who want to play both sets, I will ask MUSES to find a different date for their online mirror. That's my bad, after this weekend I will contact the people who already sig...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Announcement
Replies: 22
Views: 11738

Re: MUSES Announcement

Online mirror announcement is up
by Father of the Ragdoll
Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Online 8/18
Replies: 19
Views: 6544

MUSES Online 8/18

This is the announcement of the online mirror of MUSES . This will take place on August 18th, 2019 and will be run by Iain Carpenter. We understand that we did not run a poll for this date and it may not be ideal, however, there are very few, if any, other dates that will work for us. If this date p...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Jul 29, 2019 1:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Announcement
Replies: 22
Views: 11738

Re: MUSES Announcement

Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: Sun Jul 28, 2019 2:12 pm Are there any plans to mirror this online? Would love to play at some point - thanks!
We are discussing this now and should have some more concrete info in the next week.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

For MUSES, the final will take place tomorrow sometime, potentially during lunch or between SACRONYM and Unanswered Question. The team of Tejas, Rob, BIlly, and Matt will be playing a final with advantage over the team of Alex, John, Auroni, and Ryan. On a related note, here are the stats for Cambri...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

We are gonna finalize schedules soon so if you have not signed up but plan to play please do so ASAP. If your team does not have a name, you should make one ASAP as well, or we reserve the right to create the ugliest possible portmanteau of your names and use that as your team name.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

There is also a lot at the Main Library that is close to DKH.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:50 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

Quick announcement: CamO's field cap has been reached but there are still a few spots empty on teams.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Jul 07, 2019 10:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Neuroscience Side Event Interest Gague
Replies: 12
Views: 8498

Re: Neuroscience Side Event Interest Gague

Neuroscience is the one science that doesn't scare me (aside from animal science) so I'd play this.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:38 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

Matthew Lehmann, Alex Damisch, and Bryan Lu will be cutting the most British items from the set. To maintain consistency, we are planning on removing a set number of tossups and bonuses each round. The exact number will be at Matthew's discretion once he has the set in front of him, based on how man...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

Mike E. asked me to post this here for community feedback. The schedule we currently have on the drawing board is as follows: Friday : META + potentially other smaller events (looking for input on what events to play and in what order based on arrival times and preferences) Saturday : CamO in 8 roun...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon May 13, 2019 10:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Replies: 91
Views: 36966

Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19

Will The Unanswered Question be ready by this point? Due to some event cancellations and the fact that some of these things might be mirrored earlier, I'm not sure if we need more events--I thought about doing a gimmicky revival of the guerrilla film tournament if we needed some a late Sunday event...
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon May 13, 2019 12:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Side Event Summer Wrangling
Replies: 14
Views: 10778

Re: Side Event Summer Wrangling

MUSES will also be ready by July 20th. MUSES is intended to be able to be run a main event as it is 20 tossups with linked 2 part bonuses with 12 packets.
by Father of the Ragdoll
Mon May 06, 2019 5:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ILLIAC - General Discussion
Replies: 6
Views: 589

Re: General Discussion

The religion distro issue is 100% on me. When I first answerblanked, I aimed to cast a wide cultural net and ended up with too little of the major faiths (esp egregious was the lack of major Indian relgions in the tossups). I had intended to go back and redo it but ended up hitting external deadline...