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- Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12619
Re: Penn-ance Question Specific Discussion
Wasn't there a tossup on type Ia supernovae in the first finals packet? Did that get scrapped? EDIT: This is the tossup: 8. Methods of modeling properties these entities include the Δm15 [‘Delta M One Five] method, MLCS, and the Stretch method. A 2010 paper by Kelly et al. showed that the Hubble res...
- Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2030
Re: Penn-ance General Discussion
Here's the version of the Chopin etudes tossup that I played at the OSU mirror: 14. One of these works by a certain composer features only sixteenth-note arpeggios moving in similar motion, beginning with C minor and resolving in a fermata on a half-note C major chord. In another, eighth-note triple...
- Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2030
Re: Penn-ance General Discussion
I have a basic understanding of theory and how it works inverted fifth chords Nope. I was trying to make up a random example. I haven't taken a theory class in a long time, so it's very likely I messed something up (which seems to be the case). Apologies. Does my point make sense, however?
- Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn-ance General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2030
Re: Penn-ance General Discussion
As a decent music player, I agree that the way some of the music was written was sub-optimal; I have a basic understanding of theory and how it works since I took AP Music Theory in high school, but in a quizbowl setting it doesn't work well because unless you've actually analyzed the pieces the que...
- Sun Dec 02, 2012 3:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Winter War 2 at OSU (1/19/13)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3326
Re: Winter War 2 at OSU (1/19/13)
Field update (12/19/12): Brush 2, 2 JV, 1 buzzer Monroeville 1, 1 JV Ursuline Academy 1, 1 buzzer Whetstone 1, 1 buzzer Dublin Coffman 2 Van Wert 1, 1 buzzer South Range 2 Olmsted Falls 2 Minford 2, 1 buzzer Put-in-Bay 1, 1 buzzer Interested: St. Charles Fisher Catholic Solon There is interest in a ...
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Winter War 2 at OSU (1/19/13)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3326
Re: Winter War 2 at OSU (1/19/13)
This tournament's questions have been switched to HSAPQ tournament 33.
- Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Winter War 2 at OSU (1/19/13)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3326
Winter War 2 at OSU (1/19/13)
Dear Coaches: I, Jasper Lee, would like to invite you and your teams to a quizbowl tournament to be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on January 19th, 2013, dubbed the “Winter War Invitational 2.” Information: We will be using HSAPQ Tournament 33. For those unfamiliar with HSAPQ or...
- Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 13677
Re: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
I actually learned about everything in that bonus in a sixth grade class (while I was living in South Carolina). Although the Great Serpent Mound didn't get more than a mention and a picture, and the big focus was on the Mississippians.
I'm probably the exception, however.
I'm probably the exception, however.
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 2:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 13677
Re: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
Also, the lead-in to the Elgar question wasn't uniquely identifying, since at least Mendelssohn also wrote works when he went on holiday to Italy. The tossup mentions that the piece in question, In the South, was dedicated to Leo Schuster. This is before Italy is mentioned. I don't think that would...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 13677
Re: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
UCSD A, Tossup 10: Okay, not something they complained about, but something I'm curious about: is there a difference between a prolation and a mensuration canon? And what is a "double" mensuration canon? From what I can find on the subject, there is no difference between a prolation and a...
- Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 ACF Fall: Carnegie Mellon Univ Mirror, 11/3
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8413
Re: 2012 ACF Fall: Carnegie Mellon Univ Mirror, 11/3
What does the field look like right now? How many schools/teams have signed up?
- Sat Oct 27, 2012 1:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance at Ohio State (10/27/2012)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9574
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance at Ohio State (10/27/2012)
Awesome. I wanted to make sure of this since neither Jarret nor I am running the tournament (we're intend to play as part of the house team instead); the person you (Gerard Louis) sent it to is the actual TD.
- Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance at Ohio State (10/27/2012)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9574
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance at Ohio State (10/27/2012)
Hey, can someone email the packets to [email protected]? Thanks!
- Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Important information regarding ACF Fall payment!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7583
Re: Important information regarding ACF Fall payment!
On the registration page, who should the team contact be, preferably? An officer of the club, or someone actually attending the tournament?
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2012 ACF Fall: Carnegie Mellon Univ Mirror, 11/3
- Replies: 16
- Views: 8413
Re: 2012 ACF Fall: Carnegie Mellon Univ Mirror, 11/3
Wait, so that means nobody has signed up yet?
As for OSU, I have a rough estimate of how many people are interested in going, so it'll be about 2-3 teams. I'll get back to you on this once I know for sure who is going.
As for OSU, I have a rough estimate of how many people are interested in going, so it'll be about 2-3 teams. I'll get back to you on this once I know for sure who is going.
- Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44748
Re: Question-specific discussion
It seems like the American History was a category that was endemic of a lot of the problems this set had. The examples brought up so far aren't even the only ones (there was a Blaine/Cleveland/Mulligan letters bonus that was also too easy to 30 and at least one other example I can't think of).
- Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44748
Re: Question-specific discussion
Well, you use the iodoform test in ochem lab and you learn about free radical halogenation when learning about alkanes, so I think the clue content is largely fine. The only problem with the question is that it didn't do a great job of ruling out alternate reaction types that could be the answer. Y...
- Mon Oct 01, 2012 9:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 116
- Views: 44748
Re: Question-specific discussion
I think the "halogenation" question should accept "free radical reaction" before free radicals are mentioned, or at least move the mention of "free radicals" to the beginning of that sentence, because radical reactions are as much of a thing as halogenation reactions a...
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3079
Re: General discussion
Overall, I enjoyed the tournament, but I agree with Sam in that the bonus variability was probably the worst issue the set had. but Some easy parts in those categories were people I had never heard of (although maybe it's my lack of social science/philosophy knowledge), and some middle/hard parts we...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 9:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Things Ashvin wrote (i.e. science)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1999
Re: Things Ashvin wrote (i.e. science)
The science I can talk about (bio, chem, other science) seemed okay for the most part aside from the tossups on really hard things. Can I see the metamorphosis tossup? I negged it with urea cycle because I think I recognized two things being described that are also part of the urea cycle. (Actually,...
- Sun Aug 05, 2012 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANFORTAS - Myth Tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10981
Re: ANFORTAS - Myth Tournament
This was fun! Thanks for writing this, Ike.
- Sun Jul 22, 2012 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012
- Replies: 131
- Views: 55493
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PRELIM: WELD (Wildly Experimental Literature Doubles)
- Replies: 65
- Views: 22276
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:19 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Potential Wright State Team
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4854
Re: Potential Wright State Team
Hey, it's great to see another university in Ohio get a quizbowl team together. Get in touch with Catie Haas; I'm sure she will be excited to have the opportunity to play at the very least. To answer your question, tournaments and their respective mirrors will be announced by a post usually months b...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANFORTAS - Myth Tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10981
Re: ANFORTAS - Myth Tournament
I'm in. What will the tournament format be like? Will it depend on the number of people who sign up, or has it been decided to be singles/doubles/quads/something else?
- Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: So You Want to Write a Housewrite
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12909
Re: So You Want to Write a Housewrite
FKT had 9 packets in 2010. Edit: I believe that it was stated on the Ohio forum that in 2011, 10 packets were provided. FKT had 10 packets. The reason there were only 10 was due to the tournament format of each mirror being arranged way in advance (which added up to only 9 rounds) so the number of ...
- Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:31 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Quiz Bowl's Systemic Failure At Expansion and Recruitment
- Replies: 75
- Views: 45739
Re: Quiz Bowl's Systemic Failure At Expansion and Recruitment
This goes extra since, if I recall correctly, OSU kids have been writing a pyramidal set for OAC, right? It's REALLY easy to use that as leverage, especially if the writers come out and publicly tell teams the best way to prepare for state is to prepare for good quizbowl. This isn't exactly true; t...
- Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2012 NSC: June 9-10 at Washington University in St. Louis
- Replies: 106
- Views: 176330
Re: 2012 NSC: June 9-10 at Washington University in St. Louis
Is anyone doing a liveblog of the tournament this year?
- Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30480
Re: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
So is there no geography and current events in this tournament?
- Mon May 28, 2012 10:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Geography Monstrosity 4 (June 8th, St. Louis)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24064
Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)
Yeah, this was fun, even though I didn't do well in my first side event ever (!!!???). I hope everyone enjoyed the questions I wrote. Thanks to Jeff for doing this, and I hope it comes around again next year.
(also what/who was "Thunk")
(also what/who was "Thunk")
- Tue May 08, 2012 9:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Metro areas without enough good high school quizbowl
- Replies: 55
- Views: 17147
Re: Metro areas without enough good high school quizbowl
Pittsburgh area (what happened to the University of Pittsburgh's team? Are they still hosting tournaments?) Pitt is still hosting SAGACITY and Battle of the Burgh, as evidenced here: http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tournament_id=4032 http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-teams.jsp?tou...
- Mon May 07, 2012 10:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Metro areas without enough good high school quizbowl
- Replies: 55
- Views: 17147
Re: Metro areas without enough good high school quizbowl
Regarding Ohio, I think metro-wise Toledo and Cincinnati are the most lacking when it comes to quizbowl participation. The Toledo area uses a quizbowl format that I still have yet to comprehend, while Cincinnati, outside of Walnut Hills and Sycamore, doesn't do anything outside of OAC. Columbus seem...
- Wed May 02, 2012 10:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Individual Writers Seeking Projects to Join, Post Here
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11569
Re: Individual Writers Seeking Projects to Join, Post Here
I can write things that are not math, CS, physics, philosophy, religion, social science, and trash.
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46181
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
Eh, I could just be totally wrong about how it's structured (the tempo changes that make it seem as if it's written as three movements that go fast-slow-fast within it don't help). Maybe I'm just confused since I've somehow played the saxophone concerto twice. (For the record, I don't play saxophone...
- Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 119
- Views: 46181
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 Discussion
Two whole months late, but we've been playing through this set slowly in practice, and I wanted to note something: 5.The three movements of Glazunov’s only work in this genre are meant to be played without breaks in-between. That A minor work of this type was premiered by Leopold Auer. Auer made cut...
- Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Side Event Wrangling
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10504
Re: CO Side Event Wrangling
1. music
2. history
3. lit
4. everything else
2. history
3. lit
4. everything else
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Geography Monstrosity 4 (June 8th, St. Louis)
- Replies: 58
- Views: 24064
Re: Geography Monstrosity 4 (May 25th, Atlanta)
I might play this.
- Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Proposed Alternative to the Neg Prize
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2387
Re: Proposed Alternative to the Neg Prize
EDIT: delete, i think i missed something in the original post
- Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: May tournaments
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1232
Re: May tournaments
Well, TIT isn't happening as far as I know.
- Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Less-Used Topics (And Why?)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 12964
Re: Less-Used Topics (And Why?)
As a gen-ed elective, I took a comparative myth class that covered almost all of the common Non-classical Proto-indoeuropean mythologies. One thing that I would like to see is a few more questions on the mythic history of Rome, and an expanded answerline for Celtic myth beyond Cu Chulain, and the S...
- Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Statistics for 2012
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3112
Re: Statistics for 2012
lololnotthatimportantstatcorrections
Jarret didn't play MOO. Kirun was not on the A team at SCT. For future reference, Jacob did not play BARGE. Most importantly, Jarret has one t in his name.
Jarret didn't play MOO. Kirun was not on the A team at SCT. For future reference, Jacob did not play BARGE. Most importantly, Jarret has one t in his name.
- Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:09 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
- Replies: 177
- Views: 198646
Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things
I first learned about the Air Traffic Controller strike during Reagan's presidency because my AP US History teacher's father was one of those who got fired as a result of it.
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 6:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Region 7 SCT at Michigan (2/4/12)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6231
Re: Region 7 SCT at Michigan (2/4/12)
Holy balanced scoring by DI Ohio State, Batman! What is that supposed to mean? That your scoring was really balanced I was aware of that the first time I looked at the stats, but I didn't know what else Greg was saying about our team. Thanks Bryce. We've been working hard to get people involved and...
- Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Region 7 SCT at Michigan (2/4/12)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6231
Re: Region 7 SCT at Michigan (2/4/12)
What is that supposed to mean?cornfused wrote:Holy balanced scoring by DI Ohio State, Batman!
- Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:00 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Mirror - University at Buffalo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6060
Re: ACF Regionals Mirror - University at Buffalo
We're not going.
- Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2012 @ UIUC on 2/18/12
- Replies: 42
- Views: 27173
Re: ACF Regionals 2012 @ UIUC on 2/18/12
We're not going.
- Mon Jan 30, 2012 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18843
Re: VCU Closed: February 2, 2013
No guaranteed World Lit question? So theoretically I could submit a packet with 3/3 American Lit?
Also will opera fit under "music" or "other?"
I'm interested in seeing how this graduated late packet fee works out.
Also will opera fit under "music" or "other?"
I'm interested in seeing how this graduated late packet fee works out.
- Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl (Jan 28th, 2012)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 26374
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Bowl (Jan 28th, 2012)
This tournament made me feel glad we brought a staffer (Lauren) along, aside from the fact that this was a good opportunity to play against teams we don't normally face until nationals. Our matches between the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast powers were at the very least entertaining, even if the questio...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BARGE General Discussion
- Replies: 72
- Views: 23729
Re: BARGE General Discussion
For example, the upsilon meson bonus part - a real physicist is welcome to correct me, but to me this seems like a more or less random selection from the particle zoo. In general, writing about things from the particle zoo strikes me as a bad idea. Consultation of Wikipedia's summary table of meson...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BARGE General Discussion
- Replies: 72
- Views: 23729
Re: BARGE General Discussion
I noticed that Francois Couperin was mentioned 3 times in 3 different packets in this set (bonuses in the Ohio State and Richard Borty packets, and in a tossup on Lully in the Chicago A packet). While I didn't see any blatant repeats of works and such, is this a problem?