CMST II: Searching For Writers
CMST II: Searching For Writers
There has been interest from hosts in a second Collaborative Middle School Tournament, in order to add another pyramidal middle school tournament to NAQT's new middle school program. We would like to respond to this demand with a second set along the lines of the first. Unless I'm terribly wrong about things, Andy Watkins will once again be overseeing the set, and I will once again be in charge of marketing the set to interested parties.
However, one major problem is that Donald Taylor and I collectively wrote about 30% of last year's set, and neither of us will have anywhere near the time we spent on the first one. Therefore we will need, at minimum, 10-11 writers of around 10/10 each, and at least one or two people willing to step up as editors.
Our current time frame is to have the set completed by February 1. In order to do that, we would need all questions written by about January 15, to allow two weeks for editing, proofreading, and placing pronunciation guides. Hosts would be able to run the tournament on any weekend between February 5 and April 30, and we would make the set publicly available no later than May 2, in order to allow students to use the set as practice for NAQT's MSNCT the following weekend.
Length and Distribution
All tossups should have a maximum length of 425 characters (IS-length) before the addition of pronunciation guides. All bonuses should have a maximum length of two lines in size 10 Times New Roman, after the addition of pronunciation guides.
We will use a very similar distribution to last year's tournament. We are considering increasing the math distribution at the expense of physical science/earth science (which was difficult for us to write last year), and revising the literature distribution to include language arts (e.g. grammar, literary terms, basic foreign language); however, neither of these changes is currently set in stone.
Please sign up in this thread if you want to write for the tournament. Also please sign up if you want to take over any editing roles. The success of this kind of tournament depends, as always, on people who are willing to volunteer a little bit of time to help a great many other people.
However, one major problem is that Donald Taylor and I collectively wrote about 30% of last year's set, and neither of us will have anywhere near the time we spent on the first one. Therefore we will need, at minimum, 10-11 writers of around 10/10 each, and at least one or two people willing to step up as editors.
Our current time frame is to have the set completed by February 1. In order to do that, we would need all questions written by about January 15, to allow two weeks for editing, proofreading, and placing pronunciation guides. Hosts would be able to run the tournament on any weekend between February 5 and April 30, and we would make the set publicly available no later than May 2, in order to allow students to use the set as practice for NAQT's MSNCT the following weekend.
Length and Distribution
All tossups should have a maximum length of 425 characters (IS-length) before the addition of pronunciation guides. All bonuses should have a maximum length of two lines in size 10 Times New Roman, after the addition of pronunciation guides.
We will use a very similar distribution to last year's tournament. We are considering increasing the math distribution at the expense of physical science/earth science (which was difficult for us to write last year), and revising the literature distribution to include language arts (e.g. grammar, literary terms, basic foreign language); however, neither of these changes is currently set in stone.
Please sign up in this thread if you want to write for the tournament. Also please sign up if you want to take over any editing roles. The success of this kind of tournament depends, as always, on people who are willing to volunteer a little bit of time to help a great many other people.
Dwight Wynne
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
I'll edit math and write for math, biology, fine arts, and kiddie lit (I can do others if need be).
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Signing up for 10/10, preferably geography.
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
I'll write history questions and fine arts if needed
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Unless we want to turn this into "Pyramidal Geography Bee," I'm going to need some more writers to volunteer. Hopefully a few more people will step up in the next couple of weeks and we can start writing things.
Dwight Wynne
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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I'll sign up for 10/10. Preferably history
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I can help. I'll write music, social science, and/or non-children's lit, and I'm interested in editing the same.
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I'll sign up to write the ~20/20 I wrote last year. I can write questions in most non-science areas, though I'd prefer to write history, social science, government, and myth. I am also interested in editing the history, government, and myth categories.
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I'll be happy to provide proofreading services as I did last year. Does it look like this is going to happen? Or do we need to recruit more writers?
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I don't see the number of writers who were interested last year. I'm inclined to nix the project if we pass Christmas or so without enough writers to cover.
Andrew Watkins
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
1. As it stands, counting the maximum amount I think I'd be able and willing to write, we have around 100/100 worth of writers. We need another 110/110 or so worth of writers (about 10-11 people at 10/10 each).
2. I am having problems figuring out how to add new members to the group that is allowed to view the hidden forum. Also, if you have access to the hidden forum already and haven't already signed up as wanting to write questions, PLEASE post now confirming you still want access (either because you want to write again or want to do something else on the project).
2. I am having problems figuring out how to add new members to the group that is allowed to view the hidden forum. Also, if you have access to the hidden forum already and haven't already signed up as wanting to write questions, PLEASE post now confirming you still want access (either because you want to write again or want to do something else on the project).
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
I'd do 15/15 of anything but science.
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FixedMoving Day wrote:We need to recruit more writers
I will write more than 20/20, but I start running out of ideas of difficulty appropriate topics after writing the initial 20/20, so I'd need someone to provide me answer lines for additional questions.cvdwightw wrote:1. As it stands, counting the maximum amount I think I'd be able and willing to write, we have around 100/100 worth of writers. We need another 110/110 or so worth of writers (about 10-11 people at 10/10 each).
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Is it too great of a conflict of interest for me to offer to write 10/10 and be the coach of a team playing on this set? If not, I can write 10/10 of whatever is needed the most. If you are increasing the comp. math, is it necessary to write them in a pyramidal style? It can be written with clues on how to do the problem, but I don't think a TU ending with, "or, what is 3+4?" would be well-received by anyone.
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I can write 10/10 of whatever is needed most (preferably science, math, fine arts, or literature). I would also be happy to help with proofreading or difficulty control.
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I can write 10/10 for this.
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Yeah, I suppose I could try to write at least 10/10, preferably non-children's lit, art, math, and rpm, although there probably won't be much philosophy.
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
I'm trying to convince Andy that we have enough writers for this. We are likely to get started on writing this week, with hopefully an announcement out as soon as writing deadlines are finalized.
Dwight Wynne
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
I guess I'll take 10/10, preferably science, math, lit, and painting.
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I can work on this in whatever capacity is helpful.
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No reply received to this question yet...Moving Day wrote:Is it too great of a conflict of interest for me to offer to write 10/10 and be the coach of a team playing on this set? If not, I can write 10/10 of whatever is needed the most.
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Sorry. I think I emailed or PM'ed Dwight regarding this. I think we agreed that that was fine, though I'll wait for Dwight's confirmation.Moving Day wrote:No reply received to this question yet...Moving Day wrote:Is it too great of a conflict of interest for me to offer to write 10/10 and be the coach of a team playing on this set? If not, I can write 10/10 of whatever is needed the most.
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Yeah, this is fine.Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Sorry. I think I emailed or PM'ed Dwight regarding this. I think we agreed that that was fine, though I'll wait for Dwight's confirmation.Moving Day wrote:No reply received to this question yet...Moving Day wrote:Is it too great of a conflict of interest for me to offer to write 10/10 and be the coach of a team playing on this set? If not, I can write 10/10 of whatever is needed the most.
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
I'd like to contribute some proof reading to this, and maybe a bit of writing.
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SO where is this exclusive forum that writers are allowed access? Before I begin to write, I need to see what's out there.
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Whoops. I'll add you and Fred right now. (To everyone else: you can request access yourselves, going to the usergroups section of your user control panel.)Moving Day wrote:SO where is this exclusive forum that writers are allowed access? Before I begin to write, I need to see what's out there.
EDIT: actually I'm not in charge of that group so I don't have permissions to do that.
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I'll take care of it.
Edit: done
Edit: done
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Hey, we're still having some problems figuring out how to approve people for the CMST usergroup. In the meantime, you should e-mail Andy at andy.watkins2@gmail to get started on this project if you're still interested in writing.
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
These problems have been fixed. If you want access to the CMST forum, you should add yourself to the CMST usergroup and either Andy or I will approve you.cvdwightw wrote:Hey, we're still having some problems figuring out how to approve people for the CMST usergroup. In the meantime, you should e-mail Andy at andy.watkins2@gmail to get started on this project if you're still interested in writing.
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Everyone who requested access should have access now, I think?cvdwightw wrote:These problems have been fixed. If you want access to the CMST forum, you should add yourself to the CMST usergroup and either Andy or I will approve you.cvdwightw wrote:Hey, we're still having some problems figuring out how to approve people for the CMST usergroup. In the meantime, you should e-mail Andy at andy.watkins2@gmail to get started on this project if you're still interested in writing.
Dwight Wynne
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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If anybody feels like writing a few middle school questions in the next few days, this project could use your help.
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What Reinstein said.
I know we're dealing with college students in many cases, but this propensity to put things off until the last minute has me too nervous to commit my team to playing on the MS-01 set elsewhere for fear I'll need it for our own tournament...
I know we're dealing with college students in many cases, but this propensity to put things off until the last minute has me too nervous to commit my team to playing on the MS-01 set elsewhere for fear I'll need it for our own tournament...
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Would it be so bad if your players didn't play your own tournament, and instead helped run it (scorekeeping, etc.)? That's pretty common for tournament hosts to do anyway.Moving Day wrote:this propensity to put things off until the last minute has me too nervous to commit my team to playing on the MS-01 set elsewhere for fear I'll need it for our own tournament...
ETA: Not that I don't hope the CMST set gets done on time.
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Depending on the categories needed, I could probably write some for you guys.Westwon wrote:If anybody feels like writing a few middle school questions in the next few days, this project could use your help.
EDIT: I'm pretty much okay with writing any social studies, visual arts, myth, biology, and maybe something else I didn't think of.
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I could probably write some if you need some non-bio science or history or maybe some math
EDIT: I can also add some social sciences, non- classical myth, certain literary periods, and other things depending on what you need. Also I'd like to edit the physics and chem if possible.
EDIT: I can also add some social sciences, non- classical myth, certain literary periods, and other things depending on what you need. Also I'd like to edit the physics and chem if possible.
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Just so nobody spends a lot of time worrying that their tournament won't have questions, there has been good progress on this set in the past day or two, and everybody should be confident that it will be finished. Thanks to Tristan and Joe, who have already written questions. If more people want to help, your help is still welcome--we have answers waiting for questions. I'll be out today, so hopefully if somebody new volunteers soon, somebody else who is part of this project will send them an email getting them up to speed.
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Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
Depending on the amount of time I have over the coming days, I'll be glad to contribute as much as I can.
EDIT: I can write for pretty much any category except music theory.
EDIT: I can write for pretty much any category except music theory.
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Ar$oni$t$ Get All the Girl$ wrote:I'll edit math and write for math, biology, fine arts, and kiddie lit (I can do others if need be).
maged wrote:I'll write history questions and fine arts if needed
To the best of my knowledge, these statements are lies.Huang wrote:I can help write again.
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Everybody who is working on this project should click on User Control Panel above, then Usergroups, then choose CMST. Once you're in, you can find all the links at "Procedures for submitting my questions" and get updates and sign up for more work at "CMST: Finishing Writing". (Most of you already know this, but just in case...)
To update everybody who is not working on this project, 90% of the questions have been written and submitted, and the editing process has begun.
Also, Kay Li has submitted 4 tossups and is working on a 5th.
To update everybody who is not working on this project, 90% of the questions have been written and submitted, and the editing process has begun.
Also, Kay Li has submitted 4 tossups and is working on a 5th.
Re: CMST II: Searching For Writers
As of 5:00 PM Pacific Time on February 11, this set has been fully edited and packetized, and will be proofread over the weekend. We will therefore have a finished set ready to send to our first set of hosts no later than February 15, our stated deadline.
I want to thank all of my co-writers and editors for getting this product done well and on time. It may not be a perfect set, but it looks at least comparable to the original CMST and was completed with about half the stress. Special thanks go to Andy Watkins for pressing the panic button at the right time and to David Reinstein, whose constant bonus writing kept the initial question shortage from being worse.
I want to thank all of my co-writers and editors for getting this product done well and on time. It may not be a perfect set, but it looks at least comparable to the original CMST and was completed with about half the stress. Special thanks go to Andy Watkins for pressing the panic button at the right time and to David Reinstein, whose constant bonus writing kept the initial question shortage from being worse.
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"It's a competition, but it's not a sport. On a scale, if football is a 10, then rowing would be a two. One would be Quiz Bowl." --Matt Birk on rowing, SI On Campus, 10/21/03
"If you were my teammate, I would have tossed your ass out the door so fast you'd be emitting Cerenkov radiation, but I'm not classy like Dwight." --Jerry
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A lot of people contributed. Primary credit for writing questions nobody else wanted to write and turning this from a bunch of question drafts into a tournament set goes to Dwight.