The Quizbowl Resource Center

Bosa of York

It appears that there is in fact a private forum, but no one has announced its existence.

Bosa of York

If we want to register for this tournament, should we fill out the form linked in the OP?

Bosa of York

1992 in spaceflight in the WAO II thread wrote:The VCU team email me tonight to let me know that their mirror is being postponed. The VCU mirror might happen in January.

Is this mirror actually going to happen? If so, is it known when?

Bosa of York

If this ends up materializing, I'll write a packet.

Bosa of York

To be clear, will Regionals champions and Undergraduate champions receive automatic bids?

Bosa of York

Similarly, I’d appreciate knowing when the Maryland mirror will be.

Bosa of York

It's obviously incredibly early to tell, but is this tournament expected to be ready for the early fall slot (like EFT), the mid-late November slot (like Terrapin/WAO II) or some other time?

Bosa of York

According to the email that was sent out, registration begins at 8:00 and will until 8:45.

Bosa of York

Could I see the tossups on (films with) multiple endings and the Sun?

Bosa of York

The Virginia site's stats appear to have been changed sometime in the past week to only contain the results from the first packet. Is there a reason for this?

Bosa of York

Thanks a lot to Johns Hopkins for hosting this tournament. I had a lot of fun staffing and the rest of the Delaware folks had a great time playing.

Bosa of York

Is the second post's statement that Princeton's mirror will be on the 11th (which has not been stated anywhere else to my knowledge) known to be correct?

Bosa of York

do not submit any tossups that are shorter than 7 lines, or we will send them back to you. What margins/font/font size does this limit apply to (e.g. seven lines in size 12 Arial with one-inch margins will be less than that in size ten Times New Roman with half-inch margins)? EDIT: I now see that t...

Bosa of York

Is there any chance this set could be posted?

Bosa of York

Also given that the fees as listed are per-player it might be smart to have that as a field in addition to the number of teams.

Bosa of York

Will this tournament's distribution mirror that of previous iterations of ACF Fall or that of this year's ACF Regionals (particularly regarding the distribution of literature by genre rather than geography)?

Bosa of York

Sit Room Guy wrote: 1 World Philosophy

Yes Please.

Bosa of York

I got the Brahms question at SCT--which mentioned he was liked by Eduard Hanslick--because of this post

Bosa of York

I'd be interested in playing.

Bosa of York

I'll proabably play.

Bosa of York

I would postulate that there are very few famous works of fiction that are not enjoyable when read with an open mind--if no one liked them they wouldn't have been notable in their time--but I might as well say that I personally read The Unbearable Lightness of Being for a class recently and enjoyed ...

Bosa of York

Okay! I thought that past years' discussions were in private forums but I now see that I was mistaken.

Bosa of York

Is it, perhaps, unwise to have this thread open publically given the relative ease of creating a private forum (though not, I suppose, of managing who exactly should be able to see it)?

Bosa of York

Short-beaked echidna wrote:I'm writing an extremely hard packet about early church history, available from Sunday.

Was this finished? Is anyone else interested in playing this?

Bosa of York

Troy's stats for the final are presumably incorrect--they're listed as getting or negging on 21 tossups. I assume this is the reason for their abnormally low ppb in that game. That said, I'm really glad to see Albany-area teams going to tournaments (see also Amsterdam at NHBB nationals and Berlin at...

Bosa of York

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

Bosa of York

A minor point: the PSS tossup on Africa said that Fanon was from that country. While the incorrect pronoun was presumably noted, the fact that Fanon was born on Martinique, and was merely living in Algeria when he wrote The Wretched of the Earth , may not have been. EDIT: could I see the tossup on t...

Bosa of York

Given that the Louisiana mirror has been cancelled and no replacement has been publicly announced, could this set be posted?

Bosa of York

I'd be interested in working with any team that can take on a relatively inexperienced writer. I'm most able to write literature, history, religion, and philosophy but can do anything other than music and trash with some modicum of competence.

Bosa of York

Anyone else find it odd that only one team in both Division I and II converted over 20 PPB for ICT, and neither of those teams had over 21 PPB? I don't know if anyone from NAQT reads this part of the forum, but if they do: does NAQT have any intention of adjusting its bonus difficulty, or is ~20 PP...

Bosa of York

I can't speak to its quality relative to others, but I know Giordanos offers delivery. Last night after ICT it took about an hour to get here.

Bosa of York

Delaware will probably do poorly because Rohan and I have been busy with school stuff and not studying. Fortunately, no one cares about DII.

Bosa of York

I'd be really interested in getting no questions correct on this set, especially if there's an online mirror since I probably won't be at any summer opens.

Bosa of York

For what it's worth, Delaware can come at any date. Our possibility of bringing a second team would be highest on the 6th, then the 29th.

Bosa of York

Is a future Texas mirror planned? Will the set be posted?

Bosa of York

Could I see the questions on The Master and Margarita, The Underground Man, and The Gay Science?

Bosa of York

There's a link to the set here, though one would think it should have been posted to the archives.

Bosa of York

Is a future South mirror of this planned?

Bosa of York

randomguy1997 wrote:Here are my (and my team's) very quick, general thoughts for DII:
There were a few "oddball" inclusions, such as Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Also the (DII at least) question about the Kennedy assassination in Clickhole and The Onion, which I also enjoyed.

Bosa of York · Re: ACF Regionals at VCU (Feb. 18, 2017) What is the status of the waitlist?

What is the status of the waitlist?

Bosa of York

(You might have noticed this but) I'm not sure the last slide of Pergamon should be in power? It seemed like a lot of people were buzzing there in the Skype mirror, moreso than in the other power-throughout questions. It could just be because I don't know actually know anything about Pergamon, but t...

Bosa of York

Amazon claims my gift was delivered Friday, but my partner has not responded, suggesting there was a problem with delivery or something. Since madness is doing something twice and expecting a different result, it should arrive again on the 28th. Aiiii, this is on me! Thank you for sending me a copy...

Bosa of York

My apologies that this is exactly the wrong place to ask this, but Stephen's post reminded me that "stanford housewrite" has not yet been posted to the archives (and its thread has been archived so I couldn't ask there). Does anyone have the capacity to do that?

Bosa of York

Amazon claims my gift was delivered Friday, but my partner has not responded, suggesting there was a problem with delivery or something. Since madness is doing something twice and expecting a different result, it should arrive again on the 28th.

Bosa of York

Are there any more mirrors of this? Will the set be posted?

Bosa of York

The novice tournament at UVA was on an NAQT Collegiate Novice set, which is not clear.

Bosa of York

I liked the questions at NSC about coffins in Moby-Dick and infinity in the works of Borges.

Which is to say,

Kouign Amann wrote:my favorite question was the one that made me feel really good about myself because i got it super early off a clue i was enthusiastic about

Bosa of York

felgon123 wrote: 25% wint's Twitter (@dril)

!!!

Bosa of York

My thanks to Tejas Raje for the copy of Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. Something having to do with Muslim history was my super-secret/not included out of fear of having two similar requests wish, and I'm glad my gift serendipitously fulfilled it.

Bosa of York

Xochicuicatl Cuecuechtli wrote:I just ordered my gift; it should arrive the 16th.

Make that the 19th.

Search found 311 matches