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- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:07 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: 2023: The most common schools from the last four NAQT Entering Freshmen Lists
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4137
Re: 2023: The most common schools from the last four NAQT Entering Freshmen Lists
As best as I could tell, these are the top five teams that were not active at all in 2022-23. Oklahoma State - 38 freshmen When I was an undergrad at Oklahoma, back when Oklahoma State still had an active club, we were in a similar situation. So, I can give a little bit of insight into the Oklahoma...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1436
Re: CO Matchmaking
I wasn't planning on playing, but the time has come for me to extract my revenge on Stevie Miller for being a racist/toxic teammate, who (among his many many sins) tried to sabotage the Maryland/Indiana HS set by deleting a chunk of questions from the Google docs when we tried to edit the 4chan (the...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7486
Re: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
The only clue that seems unique to Spivak is the phrase "epistemic violence," which doesn't even that important to her work, but it is mentioned in the Wikipedia page for epistemic injustice (the first part of the bonus)! While I generally liked this set especially the social science (lot...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 12:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7486
Re: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
A lot of answers that used to be fairly run-of-the-mill, common bonus parts when I was an up-and-coming player (2013-16 era) have crept up to hard part difficulty. [...] for example, played out as a hard part rather than a medium (11% conversion); Gayatri Spivak (14%) In my opinion, the reason this...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet submission thoughts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3442
Re: Packet submission thoughts
I'm not opposed to reducing the submissions to even less questions; say, 8/8, as you suggest. However, it's important to keep in mind that the more submitted packets you use, the more complicated set production becomes. This is for a few reasons. First, you have to be mindful about combining packets...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19756
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
One minor complaint I have is that some of the geography felt like it reached into other areas of knowledge too frequently. Specifically, the Tennessee River and Rio Grande tossups felt like, after tweaking a clue or two, they could be straight-up history tossups. I'm all for writing geography with...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7969
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
Can we not write questions like this? A painting by this artist inspired the title of a Norman Bryson history that opens by analyzing its usage of a minister’s daughter as a model. Margaret Oppenheimer correctly attributed a painting originally believed to be by this artist and which depicts a coup...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19756
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
I would also like to thank Caleb Kendrick for including a literature tossup under philosophy in the Finals. I know this is a joke, but I made an honest effort to be less dogmatic in how I approached this set. I feel like I've mellowed out some since the pinnacle of my philosophy mafia days, and I h...
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 12:25 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12616
Re: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
Kevin, I think that you're conflating a lot of things. First, I think you're conflating the time it takes to find fresh, buzzable clues with the time it takes to write longer questions. If you want to reward real knowledge and not just packet study, you're often going to have to spend a lot of time ...
- Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:31 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12616
Re: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
I think Andrew makes a lot of really great points, but I'll just add two more. First, while it's true that ICT's order of finish mirrors the ACF Nats order of finish, upsets are much more common at ICT. It's basically unheard for a third bracket team to beat a top bracket team at Nats, but it's fair...
- Sun May 21, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: New college quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11089
Re: New college quizbowl stats website
This is so cool! I love the sleek design and it's awesome how much information you've compiled into one source! One thing I noticed: a lot of tournament placement stats are slightly off. Sometimes this seems to be because the website is breaking ties by PPG (e.g., this year's Nats), which seems like...
- Mon May 01, 2023 1:21 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022-2023 End of Season Player Poll
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12707
Re: 2022-2023 End of Season Player Poll
There's probably some more posts coming about What The Numbers Show as the data analytics roll out, but immediately Alex Akridge of Indiana A leapt out to me as having like the 3rd best science stats in the ACF Nats field, with tons of early buzzes in a pretty tough second bracket. I haven't seen A...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Summer Opens?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7263
Re: Summer Opens?
I'm pretty sure UMD will likely host a mirror of either NASAT or maybe COOT this summer. We will also try to play as many side events as possible.
- Mon Apr 24, 2023 9:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8950
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Discussion and Thanks
I loved this set. Last year's Nats set a very high bar which this set definitely lived up to. Thanks to everyone who made it happen!
- Mon Apr 24, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 50919
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
I really liked the conceit/content of the 1967 tossup, but I'm not a huge fan of year tossups because they're very easy to fuck up at game speed. For example, I buzzed right at Kerner Commission which I knew was about the 1967 Detroit riot and the other riots that summer, but I also knew it wasn't r...
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Who's Doing CO This Year?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8344
Re: Who's Doing CO This Year?
Since I probably won't be able to attend CO anyway on account of teaching a summer class, I'd be down to chip in some questions if not edit a category or two.
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Top 100 Player Ranking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11407
Re: Top 100 Player Ranking
Thanks for creating this fun little ranking. I think Itamar could honestly be number 1; when he plays, he often puts up numbers better than Matt Jackson (though he has less support than Matt). It's a shame med school is so time consuming, because he'd probably be in the GOAT conversation if he had p...
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2023 NAQT SCT: February 4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7653
Re: 2023 NAQT SCT: February 4
Yeah, if it wasn't clear from my first post, I'm not criticizing any team for chosjng to attend the online mirror. I'm criticizing NAQT for allowing this clearly suboptimal arrangement.
- Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2023 NAQT SCT: February 4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7653
Re: 2023 NAQT SCT: February 4
I'm very annoyed with NAQT's decision to make the online SCT mirror open to all teams. Essentially every team that would normally attend the upper mid-Atlantic site, Columbia, Cornell, Hopkins, and Rutgers, is attending the online site. This isn't meant as criticism of these teams, but they are (to ...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12474
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
I'm not sure if Caleb means to say that no "literary" features of philosophical primary sources (stuff like famous passages, colorful metaphors, unusual formatting features) are fair game for philosophy questions. I certainly don't mean anything that strong, and I agree with most of what ...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 4:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12474
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
Philosophy: especially in the editors packets, Young did a great job of picking buzzable clues for significant thinkers and texts. For the sake of offering feedback, one suggestion: for hard parts that both sound and are very hard (thinking of stuff like The Logic of the Moral Sciences , the Menexe...
- Thu Aug 11, 2022 2:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4673
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
EDIT: Since no one else has posted yet, and I remembered some more stuff: What was the full list of accepted answers for "information avoidance"? I buzzed at the end and said "denial" (i.e. being in denial about information), which seemed like an apt descriptor, albeit from psyc...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 4:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12474
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
So contra everyone else in this thread, I wasn't a huge fan of this set. First, there were a lot of tossups where the answerline was needlessly convoluted, e.g., northeast India, the last chapter of Age of Innocence, etc. These only make the questions easier to fuck up and create additional hassles ...
- Sun May 08, 2022 2:33 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021-22 Collegiate Player Poll
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18080
Re: 2021-22 Collegiate Player Poll
also, Matthew Lehmann is not the 15th (!!) best history player. He's better than Hang, better than me on non-American, etc. definitely should be around the top 5. edit: also, Jason and Tracy are pretty underranked too. Golfinos is probably top 3, he's way better than me on anything not American.
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 1:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Interest for an "NAQT-style" college housewrite
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3131
Re: Interest for an "NAQT-style" college housewrite
While this is a good idea which I hope comes to fruition, I think that this kind of set is difficult to pull off which is why it's only been rarely done. First, the question length makes writing good questions that don't cliff really hard or devolve into buzzer races much more difficult. Second, the...
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 4:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2022 Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12107
Re: ACF Nationals 2022 Thanks and General Discussion
This set was excellent. In an era of consistently immaculate Nats sets, this might be my favorite. I liked the easier tossup difficulty even if it occasionally led to a few more cliffs and transparent tossups. Thanks for everyone who made this happen!
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 6:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ARCADIA General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3380
Re: ARCADIA General Discussion
I forgot to post this earlier, but I thought this set was extremely good. It reminded me a lot of 2016 Terrapin. Thanks for everyone who made it happen.
- Sun Jan 30, 2022 4:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5018
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks
Might have more detailed thoughts later, but I really liked the thought in this set especially the linguistics (every ling question was a hit of pure dopamine).
- Thu Oct 28, 2021 2:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4941
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl Specific Question Discussion
Can I see the poetry tossup on Jews? The lead-in on Charles Reznikoff felt to me like real neg-bait. I buzzed with something like _people in court_ and got negged. I guess you were referencing his work Holocaust ? But, the description sounded just like his much more famous work Testimony . And, in a...
- Mon Oct 25, 2021 2:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Penn Bowl General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1615
Re: 2021 Penn Bowl General Discussion
I think this was one of the best Penn Bowls ever. It was really delightful to play. In particular, I believe the thought in this tournament was some of the best that's ever been written at college regular difficulty. I do think sometimes some of the more creative tossups were a little confusing and ...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8763
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
For what it's worth, I tried to include a mixture of economics questions to cover subjects of both contemporary and historical interest. Although every question can't be to everyone's taste, and I'm sure that you could achieve a fair result with a radically different mix of subjects, I think the su...
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 1:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Thank Yous and Discussion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9760
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Thank Yous and Discussion
I really enjoyed this set. It made for a fun return to irl quizbowl, and witnessing maybe the most heart-warming title run in quizbowl history was an added plus. The philosophy and social science had loads of good ideas, and the literature was extremely well-written with a lot of accessible answer-l...
- Sun Apr 04, 2021 8:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13678
Re: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
NAQT’s Integrity Policy is intended to ensure that its national championships occur without cheating and—almost as importantly—without the suspicion of cheating. The policy has two parts. First, all active players need to have their faces and both hands visible on camera at essentially all times. S...
- Sun Apr 04, 2021 7:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13678
Re: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
NAQT’s Integrity Policy is intended to ensure that its national championships occur without cheating and—almost as importantly—without the suspicion of cheating. The policy has two parts. First, all active players need to have their faces and both hands visible on camera at essentially all times. S...
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9318
Re: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
Even despite being very sick, I had a lot of fun playing this tournament. Thanks for everyone who made it possible!
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Annabelle, I don't think Duke acted malevolently, but I do think that you did act negligently. UMD, like many other teams, are paying entry fees out of pocket during COVID. You're selling a product to the community, and people have a right to complain if there are problems with the product they've p...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
- Replies: 16
- Views: 9972
Re: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
One thing I found very telling from the stats is the difference in Princeton A's PPB with and without Chase. Before Chase was removed from the tournament, Princeton A's PPB was a very solid 21.56. After Chase was removed, Princeton A's PPB dropped precipitously to 15.42. That meant that Chase was do...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
I'd like to thank Jacob for his last post, which I thought was really thoughtful. I'm still not totally happy with how things have played out, but it's fairly rare that we get any kind of closure in cheating scandals. Hopefully we can all learn from this experience, and have a better season as a res...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Why would anyone agree to host anything if they knew that one of the risks was being publicly excoriated because they didn't optimally handle that incredibly challenging situation? I'm impressed with Annabelle and others' performance under intense pressure and I hope that the lessons learned here c...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Why would anyone agree to host anything if they knew that one of the risks was being publicly excoriated because they didn't optimally handle that incredibly challenging situation? I'm impressed with Annabelle and others' performance under intense pressure and I hope that the lessons learned here c...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Perhaps we could all remember that running tournaments is hard when you've never done it before, and how it's perhaps not a good look for a top-scorer grad student on a top 5 team who has never TD'd a tournament (let alone an online tournament) to namedrop people suspected of cheating in a public f...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
I believe I have replied adequately to your concerns. Look, I never played quiz-bowl before coming to the USA, I have never really posted on forums, but the way you all insinuate stuff about me is kind of mean. If I ever get a 56 point average in any future tournament, I will go back and revisit th...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
I'm happy this was resolved. I hope other Discord tournaments learn from the mistakes that were made here by not offering an overly ambitious number of games, not atrempting to create all the afternoon roles during lunch, and having adequate protocols in place to deal with cheating. Jacob, I feel li...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Moreover, it appears that at least some players on Duke's house team were also cheating. Angikar Ghosal from Duke went from a 5-21-12 performance on MWT, a tournament significantly easier than LIT, to an impressive 30-26-18 performance yesterday. I cannot address the cheating allegations since I am...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 1:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
This tournament really drove home several problems with holding tournaments online. During the tournament, Chase Chiang of Princeton was caught cheating (I have no idea why the final stats don't contain some indication that this occurred). From what I've heard, addressing the cheating situation was...
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 22988
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
This tournament really drove home several problems with holding tournaments online. During the tournament, Chase Chiang of Princeton was caught cheating (I have no idea why the final stats don't contain some indication that this occurred). From what I've heard, adressing the cheating situation was t...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147699
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I'm also a bit confused on the Terrapin Open side of things of the delay in releasing advance stats. I've been interested in these since the first in-person mirror as I would be in seeing advance stats for any tournament in which I played. I presume that, as with most advanced stats, this is Ophir'...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 147699
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I'm glad Eric confessed and apologized. Many people make dumb decisions. Confessing to cheating should be embarrassing, it should sting, but, as long as the cheater apologizes and shows contrition, we shouldn't ostracize them from the community. I do think Eric should, at least, receive a temporary ...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 54587
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
With regard to graduate students, I think it's important to keep in mind that graduate students rarely have as much time to devote to the game as undergraduates. Most players, accordingly, peak in either their senior year, or first year in grad school. I think there are some problems with the curren...
- Mon Mar 02, 2020 12:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8130
Re: 2020 Terrapin Open: Thanks and General Discussion
Also, just to clarify, I really liked the questions that were in the set. I just wish they covered a broader area, and want to express in strong terms how unfortunate it would be for the subdistribution adopted here to become any sort of norm. My back-to-the-classroom strategy probably isn't very d...