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- Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:36 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: World Music Audio Set
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5089
Re: World Music Audio Set
Has this been played at any point? Is there a chance of another reading/mirror of this?
- Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2023)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9310
Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2023)
I will be starting a math phd at the University of Delaware, and I intend to play as much as my schedule allows.
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8245
Re: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
Regarding my own categories, I would simply like to apologize for their problems. Biology had too many unusual answerlines and difficult clues. Although I tried to make them easier than my questions for 2020 ACF Regionals, which were some of the hardest of that set, religion and mythology still had...
- Sat Dec 18, 2021 3:48 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Proposal for another way to deal with misconduct
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7217
Re: Proposal for another way to deal with misconduct
Also, since someone on Discord mentioned wanting clarification on the below text: Additionally, I suggest creating a public log (such a spreadsheet) tabulating who has sent an inquiry, under what capacity (e.g. “I am a TD asking about staffers for tournament X”), and whether they’ve received a resp...
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 11:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 49363
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
Starting next semester, I will be at brandeis for their post-bacc math program, I'll be trying to play as much as possible
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 8:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES III: Select Difficulty
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2680
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11725
Re: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)
I recognize that it's pretty hard to schedule mirrors this semester due to covid , but with mirrors starting in around 5 weeks, do you know if other mirrors are getting scheduled (selfishly, a northeast mirror in particular)?
- Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcing the Clark Smith + Friends Side Event Series!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1649
Re: Announcing the Clark Smith + Friends Side Event Series!
Similar to Mike, there's a few I'd like to play but really looking forward to the "ancient world" religion/mythology set
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PAveMEnT: A Remote Cooperation Audio Tournament (Winter 2020)
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12390
Re: PAveMEnT: A Remote Cooperation Audio Tournament (Winter 2020)
If this information is available and I just missed it, my bad, but can we get more info about the schedule of this tournament and how it'll really work?
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Resobowl - A Charity Music Tournament for BLM (Good Call NYC)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2544
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10992
Re: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
Great, looking forward to itInvadErGII wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:20 pm Yes! Our intention is to run it in the fall, presumably online. Watch this space for updates.
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10992
Re: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
Is this going to happen in some form (whether delayed or not)?
- Tue May 26, 2020 11:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33663
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
Re: start time, I find it very unfair that the community expects West Coast players to get up super early, just so East Coast players don't have to stick around in the evening. The fact that West Coast players have put up with this over and over again in the past does not make it okay. As someone w...
- Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: POLL - Cambridge Open Online (May 24th)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4914
Re: POLL - Cambridge Open Online
seconding thisOh No You Didn't wrote: ↑Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:53 pm I would like to play this and would not like to commit multiple days to this
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:15 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8724
Re: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
I'm gonna talk about my time at ICT 2018, and in particular 2 rounds, one of which I got 0 points. In our last prelim game, we were playing UCSD, and it was looking like a fairly low scoring game. I had proceeded to contribute very little in the first half, and we were up something like 90-30. In th...
- Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6571
Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
In the tossup about fire in belief, I buzzed in with “light” after the clue about Brahma and Vishnu’s race to the end of Shiva’s pillar of ‘this substance.’ I was negged, but as far as I can tell the pillar is referred to as a “pillar of light” more often than not—particularly in reference to the o...
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 12:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14818
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
[10] After the Æsir kill Thjazi and recover the apples, Odin attempts to appease Skadi by turning Thjazi’s eyes into one of these things. To resolve a paradox, Zeus turns Laelaps and the Teumessian fox into two of these objects. Sorry if I'm being nit-picky, and maybe this wasn't an issue in the ac...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14818
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
[10] The ghee, or clarified butter, consumed by Agni is produced by these animals. As these animals are considered sacred, Hindus do not consume their meat. ANSWER: cows [or cattle; or bulls] I'm all for questions on ghee and cows coming up, but this feels like a bit of a waste of a myth bonus part...
- Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3672
Re: General Discussion Thread
As others have said, this set was quite fun, and the questions were often quite creative. I really enjoyed how the set was challenging without being oppressive. However, I don't think this tournament felt like it had a coherent idea of what difficulty it should be. I understand that not every questi...
- Thu Jul 25, 2019 4:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21433
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
When is this running until on sunday?
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 52
- Views: 37896
Re: Players Choice Awards
did this ever happen/is this happening?
- Mon May 20, 2019 9:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64652
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64652
Re: Player Poll 2019
- It shocks me that Halle Friedman hasn't been mentioned yet for visual arts. She is very capable of getting insane painting buzzes against members of Chicago A in practice, and her tournament stats reflect not just her depth in visual arts, but her lower-level humanities generalism as well (her PI...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES Announcement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11859
Re: MUSES Announcement
yes.Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:50 pm
2/2 Mythology (1/1 Greco-Roman, 1/1 Other Near East)
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ICT DI specific question discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2522
Re: 2019 ICT DI specific question discussion
I have some specific complaints that will probably sound more negative on the tournament as a whole than I really am: - The clue in I think it was the coatlicue tossup about a goddess creating her son fully formed was negbait for Parvati, and could/should have been worded better. - The clue about An...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: SHAWARMA II (visual movies) [winter 2019]
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13970
Re: Announcement: SHAWARMA II (visual movies) [winter 2019]
I am not a particularly good film player, but I greatly enjoyed it, and I'd definitely recommend it to others
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292451
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the tossups on Priam and Vulcan please? The early clues in those seemed very hard (but it's possible I should just learn more) I'm happy to debate the merits of the lead-in clues for both (especially for Vulcan), but I would encourage you to learn especially about Gorgythion, whose &quo...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292451
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Loved the idea of a tossup on harmoniums, but weren't you describing an indian instrument with an accordian part pretty early in the tossup? Unless it has changed since I last touched it, there's no indication that it has an accordion part in the clues about Hindustani music, merely that it can't d...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292451
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Loved the idea of a tossup on harmoniums, but weren't you describing an indian instrument with an accordian part pretty early in the tossup? Unless it has changed since I last touched it, there's no indication that it has an accordion part in the clues about Hindustani music, merely that it can't d...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292451
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the tossups on Priam and Vulcan please? The early clues in those seemed very hard (but it's possible I should just learn more) Also, I thought the degrees of freedom tossup seemed a bit half-baked as an idea for a tossup. The Arabian Horse Association clue seemed early in the FEMA tossup...
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9933
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
This set was overall much more enjoyable than I expected. A lot of the questions were on really interesting subjects. I enjoyed the increase in world art content for what it's worth, but I also don't know much art in general so most of my views on art questions are just whether or not they sound coo...
- Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4315
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 53
- Views: 26921
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
I might be wrong about this, but I thought mentioning Lava and Kusha first line in the Sita tossup was a bit early
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4315
Re: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
FIELD UPDATE: Totals: 32/19 Traverse City Central HS 2/2 Okemos High School 2/2 Monroe County Middle College 2/0 U of D Jesuit 1/1 DeWitt High School 2/2 Divine Child High School 2/0 Detroit Country Day School 2/1 Huron High School (New Boston) 2/0 Mercy High School 2/2 Skyline High School 1/1 Flat...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:13 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4315
2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
Michigan Academic Competitions is pleased to again be hosting its annual Autumn Classic, which will take place on Saturday, December 1st, 2018. We will be having an initial field cap of 32 teams; the cap may increase depending on the availability of staffers. However, please register as early as pos...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18350
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
Is there any update on the list of hosts? Thanks
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14808
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
Could I see the exact wording on the bonus on varna? I'm sure it was just me messing up, but I just want to make sure it was just me being silly by saying jati instead
Edit: Also do you mind showing the religion tossup on india? The christianity clues seemed quite interesting.
Edit: Also do you mind showing the religion tossup on india? The christianity clues seemed quite interesting.
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 9:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6566
Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
I would like to apologize for that. I do not believe that my teammate meant any harm when he said that (he is considered somewhat of a thought player, and I think failed to get any points on the more feminism-related bonuses), but yes, I or someone else should have said something. What he said is no...
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:50 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6566
Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Congrats to OSU A on winning this Mirror! Stats should be posted soon, and I hope no one had too many issues with the way this was run. Thank you all for coming out!
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6566
Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Registration meeting at 8:30 am tomorrow in 3347 Mason Hall. Looking forward to seeing all of you there!
- Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6566
Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Field updated, and it would be greatly appreciated if teams could register soon! This mirror is just 3 weeks away, and it would be really helpful for us to be able to reserve rooms. Hope to see you all there!
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 1:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6566
Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
gimmedatguudsuccrose wrote:Will statistics for this tournament be posted on the database?
Yes they will, and the stats for EFT 2017 will be posted over the next couple of days
- Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6566
EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Hello, I am pleased to announce that the University of Michigan will host a mirror of the 2018 Early Fall Tournament (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20808) on the 29th of September. The tournament will begin at 9 am in Mason Hall, with registration beginning at 8:15 am. Fee...
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WORLDSTAR errata/specific question discussion
- Replies: 8
- Views: 522
Re: WORLDSTAR errata/specific question discussion
I greatly enjoyed this tournament even though I'm not very good at most of the subjects in it. My one question that I have might be a bit pedantic, but in the question about Tamil Nadu, it asked for "this province" I think, and Tamil Nadu is a state as far as I know. I found that slightly ...
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30857
Re: Boston Summer Open I
Yeah this was a good time, it would be great if this could happen whenever I'm in town
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9593
Re: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
I'd love to go to some of these if someone could give me a ride from either franklin park or princeton
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NASAT Online Mirror
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11036
Re: NASAT Online Mirror
Yah, depending on weekend
- Wed May 09, 2018 10:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Side Event Open: Organization
- Replies: 27
- Views: 13557
Re: Side Event Open: Organization
I'm also looking into running a Boston event, with a main event on Saturday (I'm thinking NASAT right now) + smaller events dotted throughout Saturday & Sunday. I'm not sure of the state of the MSU event, but would anyone/site be very against this happening? For reasons of redundancy, too far f...
- Sat May 05, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8397
Re: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could you please post the bonus on Shiva, Yoni, etc from the first round I think? Thanks