Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:28 pm
I will be reading a "music" packet at 10 CST tonight.
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Yes. I will post about it soon!jonpin wrote:Is there likely to be a Festivus theme-and-trash-packet frenzy again this year? I'll be writing a theme packet sometime this month if time allows and would play it either then or at some other time around then.
Matt Lafer handily won the packet, with Mike Cheyne coming in second.women, fire and dangerous things wrote:I wrote another film packet, which is 10 tossups on silent film and 10 assorted tossups. I'll read it tonight at 10:30 Eastern.
Has this happened yet?Kilroy Was Here wrote:For no particular reason, I am writing (almost done!) with a 20/20 incredibly (I know Byzantium from an academic perspective more than a quizbowl one, so I THINK what I'm writing isn't run of the mill Byzantine History) difficult Byzantine History packet. I plan on reading it at Michigan's quizbowl practice on Thursday night, so I can read it at any point after that.
No. I plan on doing it either Monday or Thursday at 10pm easternJem Casey wrote:Has this happened yet?Kilroy Was Here wrote:For no particular reason, I am writing (almost done!) with a 20/20 incredibly (I know Byzantium from an academic perspective more than a quizbowl one, so I THINK what I'm writing isn't run of the mill Byzantine History) difficult Byzantine History packet. I plan on reading it at Michigan's quizbowl practice on Thursday night, so I can read it at any point after that.
This will be happening tonight, although it's only 15/15 because I ran out of ideas that I wanted to write about.Kilroy Was Here wrote:No. I plan on doing it either Monday or Thursday at 10pm easternJem Casey wrote:Has this happened yet?Kilroy Was Here wrote:For no particular reason, I am writing (almost done!) with a 20/20 incredibly (I know Byzantium from an academic perspective more than a quizbowl one, so I THINK what I'm writing isn't run of the mill Byzantine History) difficult Byzantine History packet. I plan on reading it at Michigan's quizbowl practice on Thursday night, so I can read it at any point after that.
I'm as excited to play this packet as I am to write a CULEX-inspired JRPG tossup for Tricon 6.0.The Ununtiable Twine wrote:I'm about 35% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT first, but if people are interested in acquiring it afterwards, that's fine too.
me : this packet :: Raine : ruinsThe Ununtiable Twine wrote:I'm about 35% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT first, but if people are interested in acquiring it afterwards, that's fine too.
sign me up, dawgThe Ununtiable Twine wrote:I'm about 35% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT first, but if people are interested in acquiring it afterwards, that's fine too.
this packet just got that much harderAuks Ran Ova wrote:I'm as excited to play this packet as I am to write a CULEX-inspired JRPG tossup for Tricon 6.0.The Ununtiable Twine wrote:I'm about 35% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT first, but if people are interested in acquiring it afterwards, that's fine too.
I'll read my packet sometime after 10:30pm central tonight in #vexingquestions.theMoMA wrote:Inspired by a wonderful old ICT question, I'm about halfway through a car packet of 15-20 questions on "art's vexing questions." I will read it tomorrow night in the IRC for those who are interested in such things and aren't driving to Nationals. Email me tomorrow if you want it for your trip.
Who *IS* this mysterious "individual"? What *WAS* he doing winning this packet? These are just two of this thread's most vexing questions.theMoMA wrote:The packet was played and an individual prevailed with 45 points. Stephen Liu finished second with 40; Tejas, Ryan B., and Kenji tied with 20; and Richard and Chris M. had 10.
With Jake's blessing, I hereby also tentatively announce INSANITY PRELUDE(/POSTLUDE), a tossup-only packet of ca. 20 hard RPG tossups to be played before (or after) LIMITLESS INDALECIO.The Ununtiable Twine wrote:I'm 100% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT first, but if people are interested in acquiring it afterwards, that's fine too.
The distribution for this packet will be as follows:
20 tossups + maybe a couple of additional questions, although I may save a few of those for CULEX.
20 or 21 bonuses
Each set of tossups/bonuses follows a distribution that doesn't deviate too much from the following (except for any common links, which may spread across time periods):
3 NES/GB
5 SNES/Genesis
4 PS1/Saturn
4 PS2/GCN
4 PS3/Wii/360/PS4/Wii U
This is shaping up to be a very challenging packet.
Before Sean beats me to making this joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cku497rURF8Cheynem wrote:Is it on Satan?
Probably about 25% of my packet will be on non-J RPGs.Cheynem wrote:When will people write a non-J RPG packet?
Auroni wrote:I have a packets' worth of unusual tossups across various categories I've written throughout this year. Some of them are very stupid. I'll read it in #quizbowl at 11 EST tonight to whoever's there.
I’ll follow the lead of Auroni/Will and read a few dozen of my bad questions this Tuesday at 9:13 p.m. EST. (If you want to play but can’t make it, PM me.) I wrote most of them for practice over the last few weeks. There are approximately 30 music questions, plus handfuls of jazz, ling, CS, astro, and a couple math or history. Unless there are objections, I’ll just read them in the arbitrary order they were written. Whoever wins will receive a prize (next time I see them).women, fire and dangerous things wrote:Tonight at 10:00 EST I'll copy Auroni and read a bunch of questions I wrote to study over the last year.
I'll be there.hftf wrote:Auroni wrote:I have a packets' worth of unusual tossups across various categories I've written throughout this year. Some of them are very stupid. I'll read it in #quizbowl at 11 EST tonight to whoever's there.I’ll follow the lead of Auroni/Will and read a few dozen of my bad questions this Tuesday at 9:13 p.m. EST. (If you want to play but can’t make it, PM me.) I wrote most of them for practice over the last few weeks. There are approximately 30 music questions, plus handfuls of jazz, ling, CS, astro, and a couple math or history. Unless there are objections, I’ll just read them in the arbitrary order they were written. Whoever wins will receive a prize (next time I see them).women, fire and dangerous things wrote:Tonight at 10:00 EST I'll copy Auroni and read a bunch of questions I wrote to study over the last year.
Here is the packet. It was really close, but Eddie managed to pull ahead of Will in the last 10 tossups. He will win a prize based on his favorite question (#13).hftf wrote:I’ll follow the lead of Auroni/Will and read a few dozen of my bad questions this Tuesday at 9:13 p.m. EST. (If you want to play but can’t make it, PM me.) I wrote most of them for practice over the last few weeks. There are approximately 30 music questions, plus handfuls of jazz, ling, CS, astro, and a couple math or history. Unless there are objections, I’ll just read them in the arbitrary order they were written. Whoever wins will receive a prize (next time I see them).
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# Player Category 10s –5s
1 Eddie Music 10 3
Ling 2 0
Jazz 1 0
TOTAL 13 3
2 Will Music 6 2
Ling 3 2
History 1 0
CS 1 0
Astro 1 0
TOTAL 12 4
3 John Music 8 2
Ling 0 1
Jazz 2 0
TOTAL 10 3
4 Auroni Music 4 5
Ling 0 1
TOTAL 4 6
5 Julian Music 1 0
CS 2 0
TOTAL 3 0
6 Victor Music 1 1
Astro 1 0
TOTAL 2 1
7 Chris Astro 0 1
TOTAL 0 1
7 Doug Ling 0 1
TOTAL 0 1Code: Select all
earlier than my optimistic estimate ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
exactly at my optimistic estimate ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
between the two estimates ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
exactly at my pessimistic estimate ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
later than my pessimistic estimate ▇▇▇▇With that being said, we actually do need a field, a time, and some rooms to make this work.Vissi d'arte wrote:With Jake's blessing, I hereby also tentatively announce INSANITY PRELUDE(/POSTLUDE), a tossup-only packet of ca. 20 hard RPG tossups to be played before (or after) LIMITLESS INDALECIO.The Ununtiable Twine wrote:I'm 100% done with LIMITLESS INDALECIO, a 20/20 JRPG packet intended to exceed the difficulty of ACFNATIONALS. I intend to use this packet as sort of a difficulty barometer for CULEX, a hypothetical JRPG tournament slated to take place in the next couple of years. I would like to run it at HSNCT first, but if people are interested in acquiring it afterwards, that's fine too.
The distribution for this packet will be as follows:
20 tossups + maybe a couple of additional questions, although I may save a few of those for CULEX.
20 or 21 bonuses
Each set of tossups/bonuses follows a distribution that doesn't deviate too much from the following (except for any common links, which may spread across time periods):
3 NES/GB
5 SNES/Genesis
4 PS1/Saturn
4 PS2/GCN
4 PS3/Wii/360/PS4/Wii U
This is shaping up to be a very challenging packet.
Ended up being busy last night. Will read this on the weekend at some point.Mike Bentley wrote:I have a Pacific Northwest themed packet I wrote (and edited to be a bit more palatable for a nationwide audience) and an amusing primary-themed half-packet UW team member Jefferson van Wagenen wrote. May read it Thursday night around maybe 10 PM EDT.
I'll read this around 10:30 eastern tonight.Mike Bentley wrote:Ended up being busy last night. Will read this on the weekend at some point.Mike Bentley wrote:I have a Pacific Northwest themed packet I wrote (and edited to be a bit more palatable for a nationwide audience) and an amusing primary-themed half-packet UW team member Jefferson van Wagenen wrote. May read it Thursday night around maybe 10 PM EDT.