setophaga wrote:This may have long become myth and legend, but I'm about halfway through a 20/20 Wheel of Time packet on the few things I remember (and some things I don't) from the series. Let me know if anyone's interested in a reading when the packet is finished (probably in the next week). I could probably also easily convert it to 30/0 or 40/0 if that would be better suitable for IRC readings.
This is now complete. It is 20/0 with powers (and superpowers in some cases) to facilitate reading on the IRC.
PM me if you are interested in playing, and let me know what would be your preferred date. I could read it tonight if enough people are interested, but otherwise it'll probably happen early next week (Monday or Tuesday)
This happened.
Austin Brownlow posted a ridiculous statline of 13/1/6 plus a superpower to run clear with 180 points.
Finn Bender went 1/2/1 for 30 points and Conor Thompson 0/1/1.
If anyone missed out and is interested in a second reading, let me know.
Sameer Apte
Carnegie Mellon '19
New England Conservatory '21
Stony Brook '25
I have a sequel to my Pacific Northwest themed packet that should be ready next weekend. A decent amount of the content in the packet should be accessible to a general audience. Tentative plan is to read it around 10 PM eastern on Monday, April 24th.
Mike Bentley wrote:I have a sequel to my Pacific Northwest themed packet that should be ready next weekend. A decent amount of the content in the packet should be accessible to a general audience. Tentative plan is to read it around 10 PM eastern on Monday, April 24th.
Actually this will be at 10 PM on Tuesday, April 25th.
Mike Bentley wrote:I have a sequel to my Pacific Northwest themed packet that should be ready next weekend. A decent amount of the content in the packet should be accessible to a general audience. Tentative plan is to read it around 10 PM eastern on Monday, April 24th.
Actually this will be at 10 PM on Tuesday, April 25th.
Mike Bentley wrote:I have a sequel to my Pacific Northwest themed packet that should be ready next weekend. A decent amount of the content in the packet should be accessible to a general audience. Tentative plan is to read it around 10 PM eastern on Monday, April 24th.
Actually this will be at 10 PM on Tuesday, April 25th.
I'll be reading this tonight.
Will be starting in a few minutes in #quizbowl on slashnet.
Mike Bentley wrote:I have a sequel to my Pacific Northwest themed packet that should be ready next weekend. A decent amount of the content in the packet should be accessible to a general audience. Tentative plan is to read it around 10 PM eastern on Monday, April 24th.
Actually this will be at 10 PM on Tuesday, April 25th.
I'll be reading this tonight.
Will be starting in a few minutes in #quizbowl on slashnet.
Player Total
Mike Cheyne 50
Matt 30
Michael Zhuang 30
Sam 20
Susan 15
Richard 15
Jeremy 15
Tejas 10
Jonathan 10
Steven Silverman 10
Chris Manners 10
Jordan -5
Naveed -5
Conor -5
I can read the unused portions of the Rutgers Nats packet (half of the finals tiebreaker packet) plus the used questions too if people are interested. I'd be doing this around 9PM Saturday.
Joelle Smart
Ellensburg High School, 2006–10
University of Washington, 2010–14
Rutgers University, 2015–20??
PACE
HSAPQ biology editor, 2014–2017
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Those of you who've been to Maryland practices probably know we sometimes write and bring tossups to read to each other, I've compiled the best of the speedchecks I wrote into a document now with difficulty ranging from Regs to Open. I can read these today @ 9PM EST in #quizsauce on SlashNET. Get ready to have some funn.
Arun Chonai
Richard Montgomery High School '11
University of Maryland, College Park '??
Short-beaked echidna wrote:I'm writing an extremely hard packet about early church history, available from Sunday.
Me, in the announcement thread for OCTAVIAN wrote:I'd be really interested in getting no questions correct on this
Jakob M. (they/them)
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2? "No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
Amizda Calyx wrote:I can read the unused portions of the Rutgers Nats packet (half of the finals tiebreaker packet) plus the used questions too if people are interested. I'd be doing this around 9PM Saturday.
Whoops, I was a dufus and forgot that the next Saturday after my post was actually the very next day; I meant Saturday the 6th. But it turns out I won't be available for that time either, so...the reading time is TBD.
Joelle Smart
Ellensburg High School, 2006–10
University of Washington, 2010–14
Rutgers University, 2015–20??
PACE
HSAPQ biology editor, 2014–2017
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
I have a packet of 20 tossups on things I enjoy. It's roughly a normal trash distribution, but with a larger component of "other" and slightly less TV/movies/music. I'll be reading it in the IRC this Thursday, May 18, at 22:30 EDT if anyone's interested. Difficulty is rather variable.
Steven Silverman
Unionville High School '13
Carnegie Mellon University '17
Silverman wrote:I have a packet of 20 tossups on things I enjoy. It's roughly a normal trash distribution, but with a larger component of "other" and slightly less TV/movies/music. I'll be reading it in the IRC this Thursday, May 18, at 22:30 EDT if anyone's interested. Difficulty is rather variable.
Will there be sports? If so, I'm definitely interested. If not, still sounds fun.
Harris Bunker
Grosse Pointe North High School '15
Michigan State University '19
UC San Diego Economics 2019 -
Silverman wrote:I have a packet of 20 tossups on things I enjoy. It's roughly a normal trash distribution, but with a larger component of "other" and slightly less TV/movies/music. I'll be reading it in the IRC this Thursday, May 18, at 22:30 EDT if anyone's interested. Difficulty is rather variable.
Will there be sports? If so, I'm definitely interested. If not, still sounds fun.
Conor Thompson (he/it)
Bangor High School '16
University of Michigan '20
Iowa State University '25 Tournament Format Database
Silverman wrote:I have a packet of 20 tossups on things I enjoy. It's roughly a normal trash distribution, but with a larger component of "other" and slightly less TV/movies/music. I'll be reading it in the IRC this Thursday, May 18, at 22:30 EDT if anyone's interested. Difficulty is rather variable.
Will there be sports? If so, I'm definitely interested. If not, still sounds fun.
Of course! I sure wasn't going to short-change the sports questions in favor of other categories.
Steven Silverman
Unionville High School '13
Carnegie Mellon University '17
Silverman wrote:I have a packet of 20 tossups on things I enjoy. It's roughly a normal trash distribution, but with a larger component of "other" and slightly less TV/movies/music. I'll be reading it in the IRC this Thursday, May 18, at 22:30 EDT if anyone's interested. Difficulty is rather variable.
Pushing this back to 23:30 EDT in hopes that MASSOLIT will be over by then.
EDIT: Happening now, even though MASSOLIT isn't over. I'll do another reading if there's sufficient interest.
Steven Silverman
Unionville High School '13
Carnegie Mellon University '17
Silverman wrote:I have a packet of 20 tossups on things I enjoy. It's roughly a normal trash distribution, but with a larger component of "other" and slightly less TV/movies/music. I'll be reading it in the IRC this Thursday, May 18, at 22:30 EDT if anyone's interested. Difficulty is rather variable.
This happened. Naveed won. Scores below, packet attached (now with an excellent backronym thanks to Aakash).
Player Total
Naveed Chowdhury 100
Aakash Patel 40
Stephen Eltinge 25
Dylan Minarik 20
Sam Rombro 10
Jeremy Tsai 10
Kenji Shimizu 5
Ryan Bilger 5
Harris Bunker -5
Victor Prieto -5
I have written a packet to which the answers are all positive real integers. It will contain some number of questions which is more than 15. I will read it tomorrow (Saturday, May 20) in the IRC at 9PM Eastern.
Edit: Just to be clear, this is not a math packet. Very few of the clues are math.
Last edited by CPiGuy on Fri May 19, 2017 10:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Conor Thompson (he/it)
Bangor High School '16
University of Michigan '20
Iowa State University '25 Tournament Format Database
jonah wrote:When is your Gaussian integers packet being played?
I guess you watched that 3Blue1Brown video too
Sam Brochin
Hunter College High School 2012—2018, Pitt 2019—who knows
2016/2017 HSNCT National Champion
"sam brochin take me the **** to waffle house" — Max Shatan
Yesterday, this math-based Youtube channel released a video that pretty heavily used Gaussian integers, so that was in the front of my mind. Great channel, everyone should check it out.
Sam Brochin
Hunter College High School 2012—2018, Pitt 2019—who knows
2016/2017 HSNCT National Champion
"sam brochin take me the **** to waffle house" — Max Shatan
CPiGuy wrote:I have written a packet to which the answers are all positive real integers. It will contain some number of questions which is more than 15. I will read it tomorrow (Saturday, May 20) in the IRC at 9PM Eastern.
Edit: Just to be clear, this is not a math packet. Very few of the clues are math.
So, I will be reading this as planned in 15-20 minutes on the IRC. There are now 20 questions.
Conor Thompson (he/it)
Bangor High School '16
University of Michigan '20
Iowa State University '25 Tournament Format Database
CPiGuy wrote:I have written a packet to which the answers are all positive real integers. It will contain some number of questions which is more than 15. I will read it tomorrow (Saturday, May 20) in the IRC at 9PM Eastern.
Edit: Just to be clear, this is not a math packet. Very few of the clues are math.
So, I will be reading this as planned in 15-20 minutes on the IRC. There are now 20 questions.
This happened. Scores:
Jon Pinyan 60 2/3/0
Sameer Apte 25 1/1/0
Aakash Patel 15 0/2/1
Kenji Shimizu 15 1/0/0
Mike Cheyne 15 1/0/0
Chris Manners 10 1/0/1
Naveed Chowdhury 10 1/0/1
Sam Rombro 10 0/1/0
Ricky Rivera 10 0/1/0
Eric from Berkeley 10 0/1/0
Steven Silverman -5 0/0/1
Would anybody be interested in playing a packet of super-hard pre 20th-century Japanese history and/or a packet of stupidly hard Ethiopian and Somali history? I was thinking of writing them for fun and to lock some cool stuff that doesn't come up much in quiz bowl into my head and then figured I might as well see anybody might want to play them.
Jason Golfinos
Trinity School '13 (inexplicably in charge, 2011-13)
Princeton '17 (inexplicably in charge, 2015-16)
Cambridge '18
HLS '22
jasongg17 wrote:Would anybody be interested in playing a packet of super-hard pre 20th-century Japanese history and/or a packet of stupidly hard Ethiopian and Somali history? I was thinking of writing them for fun and to lock some cool stuff that doesn't come up much in quiz bowl into my head and then figured I might as well see anybody might want to play them.
I'd play both of these.
Jakob M. (they/them)
Michigan State '21, Indiana '2? "No one has ever organized a greater effort to get people interested in pretending to play quiz bowl"
-Ankit Aggarwal
A while ago, I wrote ~17 silly bonuses for my Festivus music packet that didn't get played (the content is pretty similar to the tossups, which you can find in the Festivus packet list; it's mostly recent indie music), so if people are interested I could read them sometime. I'll tentatively schedule this for 6 PM PST this upcoming Monday in the quizbowl Discord, but let me know if you're interested and would prefer some other time, since I imagine there isn't a very large audience.
I am going to write a packet on Vine. It will probably be very niche/vanity, but if people want to hear it in the IRC i'd be more than pleased to do a reading at some point.
Dylan Minarik
Hamburger University 'XX
Northwestern '17
Belvidere North High School '13
I'm planning on reading my annual Before & After packet sometime this week--either in the IRC or Discord, depending on what is the more done thing these days. If it would be convenient for interested participants, I'm leaning towards 10 PM Eastern on Wednesday the 31st.
John Lawrence
Yale University '12
King's College London '13
University of Chicago '20
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” - G.K. Chesterton
anderson wrote:A while ago, I wrote ~17 silly bonuses for my Festivus music packet that didn't get played (the content is pretty similar to the tossups, which you can find in the Festivus packet list; it's mostly recent indie music), so if people are interested I could read them sometime. I'll tentatively schedule this for 6 PM PST this upcoming Monday in the quizbowl Discord, but let me know if you're interested and would prefer some other time, since I imagine there isn't a very large audience.
This happened, and a group of people scored an impressive 400 (I think) out of 570 possible points. The packet is attached.
Also, right afterwards I read some video game tossups and bonuses that I wrote last year for a HS trash tournament, so those are attached as well.
jasongg17 wrote:Would anybody be interested in playing a packet of super-hard pre 20th-century Japanese history and/or a packet of stupidly hard Ethiopian and Somali history? I was thinking of writing them for fun and to lock some cool stuff that doesn't come up much in quiz bowl into my head and then figured I might as well see anybody might want to play them.
I'd play both of these.
same
Will Alston
Dartmouth College '16
Columbia Business School '21
ThisIsMyUsername wrote:I'm planning on reading my annual Before & After packet sometime this week--either in the IRC or Discord, depending on what is the more done thing these days. If it would be convenient for interested participants, I'm leaning towards 10 PM Eastern on Wednesday the 31st.
This is happening right? On the IRC?
Jeremy "JJ" Tsai
Rutgers 2016-2019 (President 2018-2019)
"Maryland" 2019-2021
ThisIsMyUsername wrote:I'm planning on reading my annual Before & After packet sometime this week--either in the IRC or Discord, depending on what is the more done thing these days. If it would be convenient for interested participants, I'm leaning towards 10 PM Eastern on Wednesday the 31st.
This is happening right? On the IRC?
Yes and yes.
John Lawrence
Yale University '12
King's College London '13
University of Chicago '20
“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.” - G.K. Chesterton
Eddie wrote:I will be reading João this Sunday evening at 6 PM Pacific / 9 PM Eastern. Let me know if you're interested.
is there any way we could do a time that doesn't conflict with the NBA finals?
This is already on fairly short notice, so I don't want to change up the time again unless a lot of people want to, sorry. It shouldn't take more than twenty (20) or so minutes so hopefufy you can still join us.
In honor of the 20th anniversary, I'll read my half-packet of Harry Potter tossups in the IRC at 11 EDT tonight. These are the same ones that were played during Festivus, but hopefully there are still a few interested people who haven't heard them.
Steven Silverman
Unionville High School '13
Carnegie Mellon University '17
Silverman wrote:In honor of the 20th anniversary, I'll read my half-packet of Harry Potter tossups in the IRC at 11 EDT tonight. These are the same ones that were played during Festivus, but hopefully there are still a few interested people who haven't heard them.
yup
Adam Sperber
Hickman '10
Northwestern B '14
Loyola (inactive) '21
" 'Yay, more Adam Sperber' --Nobody " --Cody Voight
I would be interested in getting no questions correct on Jason's Japanese history and Joey's church history.
Zhenglin Liu
University of Toronto BASc MechEng 1T9+PEY, Engineering Science dropout
University of Cambridge (Clare College) MPhil Environmental Policy 2T2
I'll read the goofy film packet I wrote for Michigan's practice tomorrow night at 8 EST. I will also have some "film music" (actually film score/music/composer questions, not music in film this time) tossups as well.
Edit: Details
Goofy film packet is 25 shortish tossups, mostly genre/stupid things that I find amusing
Film music packet is 25 tossups about film scores, pieces of music, and composers. The hardest questions will probably be a few on film composers.
I'll read the goofy film packet first for the handful of folks who already heard it and want to hear the second one (Saul?).