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by warum
Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: 21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)
Replies: 4
Views: 548

Re: 21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)

I would do this on Sunday, but not Saturday
by warum
Tue May 02, 2023 11:45 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 50704

Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion

Prelims 2, TU 18 on "ferns" says "“Allies” of this lineage include lycophytes and horntails." I'm pretty sure it should say "horsetails," not "horntails."
by warum
Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:55 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
Replies: 21
Views: 4028

Re: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments

My favorite questions (not including some of the later packets): Sertao/caatinga/pampas bonus Heinrich Biber bonus Early book printing bonus Satis House TU (I certainly would not have gotten it even on the giveaway, but the idea seemed cool and Tim got it) Ars subtilior bonus Dickinson/Master/bird b...
by warum
Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
Replies: 59
Views: 35956

Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion

Some comments: Gamboge seems too early in the Cambodia TU Alceste seems hard for a medium part in the Gluck bonus Asking for both Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism seems extremely hard For the "Maximum wavelength" TU it seemed hard to figure out what to say at the end Regardless of the &quo...
by warum
Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:21 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
Replies: 27
Views: 7837

Re: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?

2. If this is a problem people are seeing consistently, we could try to start writing more score clues in terms of scale degrees, or intervals, or chord types. Then everyone's on the same playing field. As someone who has decent relative pitch but not absolute pitch, this would not help me. When I ...
by warum
Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:12 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 5363

Re: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion

I was confused by Packet 2 TU 3, the religion TU on "wells." In Gerar (“guh-RAHR”), Isaac rebuilds several of these places that had been destroyed by the Philistines. Joseph was said to have been taken from one of these places by a caravan of Midianites after being betrayed by his brothers...
by warum
Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
Replies: 7
Views: 7156

Re: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)

Does having played in a high school-only mirror of a regular collegiate tournament count for having to submit a packet?
by warum
Mon Feb 07, 2022 8:48 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 NAQT SCT: Division I question-specific discussion
Replies: 15
Views: 2252

Re: 2022 NAQT SCT: Division I question-specific discussion

The clue states: "Work on 'general adaptation syndrome' by Hans Selye ["SELL-yay"] began research into this phenomenon, which is experienced in a disorder that Francine Shapiro first treated with (*) EMDR." I interpret this sentence as containing two independent clues, neither o...
by warum
Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:11 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 25769

Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

In addition, I already think it was clear that "these events" was applying to a specific type of supernova, or else the clues would have used the pronoun "one type/kind/variant of these events." As you said yourself, you could tell the question was asking for a specific kind of ...
by warum
Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:03 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Penn Bowl @ Pitt [ONLINE, semi-open] (October 23, 2021)
Replies: 4
Views: 2148

Re: Penn Bowl @ Pitt [ONLINE, semi-open] (October 23, 2021)

Will there be an update on the field for this tournament posted soon?
by warum
Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 19
Views: 1367

Re: Specific Question Discussion

Here are a few negative comments I wrote down during the tournament. I thoroughly enjoyed the set in general, and might come back later with positive comments if I have time. I was very confused by this bonus part in Packet C: [10e] The lower reaches of the Moselle can be found in this European coun...
by warum
Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
Replies: 84
Views: 33044

Re: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)

I really enjoyed this tournament, both in terms of question content and organizational smoothness.
Will there be a discussion forum for it?
by warum
Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Favorite Albums
Replies: 29
Views: 4104

Re: Favorite Albums

No particular order. Probably forgot a few that I like just as much as the ones I included.
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by warum
Sat Aug 14, 2021 12:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
Replies: 19
Views: 7513

Re: Teammate Appreciation Thread

I'd like to express my appreciation for several people. Tim Morrison emits an unflappable aura of calm in every game no matter how close the score is, and scales ridiculously well on literature questions. I should also learn not to neg him out of applied math/stats tossups. Ethan Strombeck has incre...
by warum
Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 4991

Re: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion

Here are my comments on the remaining packets I played at the West Coast mirror on March 6. 6 "Sequencing" and "airline industry" were both cool ideas Tuscany TU seems a bit cliffy on Cosimo Dirac delta function TU was fun In the "twin prime" conjecture bonus, I don't r...
by warum
Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 4991

Re: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion

Here is my feedback on the first 5 packets. I will probably do another post for packets 6-10 later. 1 Concrete TU was cool Othello TU was impressively "fresh" on a very core work Japan TU was fun Scordatura seems easy for a hard part Pottery bonus was cool Vodou/Sioux/Orishas was quite eas...
by warum
Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 39
Views: 15744

Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

I am far from an expert, but was confused by the lack of a prompt on "cloud formation" for "cloud seeding." The answerline said "prompt on making clouds ." It's conceivable that another moderator might have interpreted "cloud formation" as equivalent to "...
by warum
Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 39
Views: 15744

Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

Here are some questions I found particularly enjoyable to edit and read: Tossups Monteverdi - Berkeley A - extremely good clues, hardly needed editing Czech republic in music - UBC B - Loved the inclusion of Pavel Haas, and the other clues were really well-chosen too France in music - Harvard A - Sp...
by warum
Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 5520

Re: Specific Questions Discussion

Here are my comments on the rest of the packets I played. 6 "Hospitals" was fun, reminded me of something that would be in a Mike Bentley-written tournament 7 In the clustering tossup, the mention of "Scikit" was unhelpful for two reasons. First, the package is actually called sc...
by warum
Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:38 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 5520

Re: Specific Questions Discussion

Regarding Outliers - I almost cut that question due to my intense dislike of Malcolm Gladwell, but I will defend the question in terms of "this is an extremely popular author whose work comes up in a lot of places." I definitely had a very odd AP Economics class, but we also read excerpts...
by warum
Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:14 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 5520

Re: Specific Questions Discussion

Here are my thoughts on the tossups for packets 1-5. I might do the same for packets 6-10 if I have time. Atlantic Ocean should specify that "South Atlantic" should be accepted I never realized that egg matzo didn't contain eggs! Cool clue Maya tossup: the "j" in "ajaw"...
by warum
Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 IKEA - General Set Discussion
Replies: 25
Views: 5333

Re: General Set Discussion

I agree that Anna-Sophie Mutter has the potential to be a cliff for "violin concerto" in a game with multiple music specialists. I don't recall whether it played that way in the game I was in. I really enjoyed buzzing on the Seven Last Words clue in the Haydn tossup. It was a great use of ...
by warum
Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 5520

Re: Specific Questions Discussion

I think a directed prompt would be helpful on the "web scraping" TU. I buzzed on the clue about BeautifulSoup and said various variations of "HTML parsing" while being prompted, ending up with a neg. As far as I understand, BeautifulSoup is specifically used for parsing HTML and ...
by warum
Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 11497

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion

Sorry about that, while the tossup generally called it a "concept," there was one line that called it an "influential model" (in quotes) because the Elinor Ostrom book discusses it in a section entitled "Three Influential Models," so I thought that phrasing might be he...
by warum
Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:44 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 11497

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion

Some questions that I remember really enjoying were: Wolves tossup Turkey in opera tossup Supermodels bonus Paraphilias bonus I remember being confused that tossup on "tragedy of the commons" used "this model" as a pronoun. I've always thought of the tragedy of the commons being ...
by warum
Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 38
Views: 11718

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks

I was impressed by the clarity of writing in this set. I noticed significantly fewer confusing turns of phrase than I do in the average set. I agree with Will's point about bonuses being overly long. There were many times where my team would think a bonus part was over, give our directed answer, and...
by warum
Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 11497

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion

If I remember correctly, the tossup on "sepoys" mentioned "blowing from a gun" in the first or second clue. I think that clue should have been moved later in the question, since the Indian Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 is the most famous historical period for use of that method of executi...
by warum
Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 11497

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion

Here are two questions that I wrote down for negative reasons while playing the set. There are a much larger number of questions that I enjoyed, which I might comment on once I see the packets. There was a bonus about Massachusetts in literature that seemed to refer to The Crucible as being set in a...
by warum
Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
Replies: 3
Views: 3895

Re: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford

UC Berkeley A won this tournament with a 9-0 record. In second place (and the top-placing high school) was Mission San Jose, and UCLA took third place.
Full stats are available at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6599/.
by warum
Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
Replies: 3
Views: 3895

Re: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford

There are 16 teams signed up. We are closing the field for now. Any teams who still wish to sign up can still contact us; your team will be placed on a waitlist. If we can find enough staffers we may be able to expand the field and take teams off the waitlist.
by warum
Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
Replies: 3
Views: 3895

LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford

Stanford will be hosting an online mirror of Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT) on October 24, 2020! The tournament will start at 9 AM Pacific time and have 9 rounds, lasting approximately until 5:30 PM. You may read more about the set here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=...
by warum
Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MARCATo General Thoughts
Replies: 9
Views: 1709

Re: MARCATo General Thoughts

I tried to simulate a full round robin on all rounds of the first MARCATo mirror, based on buzzpoint data that Noah kindly provided. The resulting team records and PPG, and individual player PPG, are available at https://github.com/natan-holtzman/MARCATo_stats , as well as the Python code used to ru...
by warum
Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:51 am
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Announcing Qblitz
Replies: 23
Views: 18890

Re: Announcing Qblitz

I encountered a situation today when my internet briefly went out while I was typing an answer. When the internet came back, the page seemed to be stuck on "Submitting answer" and nothing was happening. So I refreshed the page, and it advanced to the next question, skipping the step where ...
by warum
Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:12 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Announcing Qblitz
Replies: 23
Views: 18890

Re: Announcing Qblitz

After playing my first game on Qblitz (the seeding round of MARCATo), I was impressed with how smoothly the user interface works. I have two suggestions that I feel would further improve the experience. 1. Prompts. The writers should be able to specify certain possible answers that trigger a prompt ...
by warum
Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:33 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: On HS Teams Without Coaches
Replies: 68
Views: 48437

Re: On HS Teams Without Coaches

Rohan, if you don't think that 11-year-old kids should have an adult along with them while walking by a busy road as part of an official school activity, I don't know what to tell you. First of all, kids that age are not mature enough to manage a situation if one of them gets lost or has a medical e...
by warum
Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT
Replies: 12
Views: 5406

Re: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT

When a season of Buzzword is over, overall standings reflect the best 5 games of each player. Will category standings be calculated similarly, or are they only based on total points scored in each category, favoring players who played more games?
by warum
Wed May 27, 2020 11:09 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33260

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

Re: breakout rooms, I suspect that the perceived delay was not really a delay. When you reassign people into breakout rooms, you basically need to wait for all of the rounds in the bracket to finish. Re-assigning breakouts is not difficult and should take 1 minute max per team. I am guessing that i...
by warum
Thu May 07, 2020 3:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
Replies: 35
Views: 10408

Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)

Is it required that the webcam be pointed at our hands? Or is a built-in laptop webcam that can only view our face OK?
by warum
Sat May 02, 2020 10:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 9113

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion

Quick notes from the Closed Shop online mirror Questions that I especially enjoyed: jazz fusion bonus, TUs on Chinese Malaysians, cloud condensation nuclei, expected value in physics, USPS, and diving Packetization issues: if I remember correctly, packet 2 had 2 computational chemistry questions, a...
by warum
Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16699

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

Could I see the tossups on "rotation" and "Peter Grimes"?
They both seemed to have a relatively easy clue placed early in the question, leading to buzzer races (a description of rotation matrices, and "The Great Bear and Pleiades").
by warum
Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16699

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

At this level, you could probably just, I don't know, tossup Amahl and the Night Visitors or "Support Vector Machines" or "Sonic Adventure" and avoid all this confusion. I second this point. It seems unnecessarily ambitious for the writers to write NAQT-length tossups on such co...
by warum
Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Replies: 78
Views: 16699

Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion

At this level, you could probably just, I don't know, tossup Amahl and the Night Visitors or "Support Vector Machines" or "Sonic Adventure" and avoid all this confusion. I second this point. It seems unnecessarily ambitious for the writers to write NAQT-length tossups on such co...
by warum
Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7819

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

My completely subjective impression is that, compared to 2019 Regionals, the 2020 tossups were equal in difficulty while being more engagingly written/fun to play. The bonuses seemed slightly harder than last year.
by warum
Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:12 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323227

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...
by warum
Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323227

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) – Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde – Royals Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt vs. Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me Cour...
by warum
Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:02 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323227

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk – Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky ...
by warum
Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:18 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323227

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

#1 Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. #16 Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best #8 Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. #9 Weyes Blood – Movies #5 M83 - Midnight City vs. #12 Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk #4 Azealia Banks - 212 vs. #13 Fiona Apple - Every Single Night #6 Adele - Rolling ...
by warum
Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:45 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323227

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

#1 Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko #8 Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing vs. #9 Ariana Grande - thank u, next “Everything is Embarrassing” is OK. I find Ariana’s vocal style on that whole album annoying. #5 Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. #1...
by warum
Thu Dec 05, 2019 1:56 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Replies: 349
Views: 2323227

Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket

#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) #5 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company vs. #12 M.I.A. - Bad Gi...