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- Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:24 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '17-'18
- Replies: 154
- Views: 93689
Re: Illinois '17-'18
The IHSSBCA will be hosting Team Illinois Tryouts on February 11th, the Sunday after NAQT state, in Urbana, IL. If you are interested in attending these tryouts, please fill out the following form: https://goo.gl/forms/S3F3yKUQ2YdXekUe2 It is important to note that with the continuing uncertainty re...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 3:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '17-'18
- Replies: 154
- Views: 93689
Re: Illinois '17-'18
Hello everyone, The 2018 iteration of the Illinois NAQT State Championships, hosted on February 10th at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is currently seeking staff. We need both moderators as well as scorekeepers. Qualified moderators, who are capable of reading at least 20 toss ups with...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Homewood-Flossmoor Pop Culture Tourney (mirror of OH Trash)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5334
Re: Homewood-Flossmoor Pop Culture Tourney (mirror of OH Tra
Homewood-Flossmoor High School in Flossmoor, IL will be mirroring the Ohio Trash 2017 questions on Saturday, January 6th. The tournament will start at 9a, and expect to end around 4p. Entry fee is $15 a player, teams of maximum of 5 players, and can register individually and be placed on a team if ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 5:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 154464
Re: ROUND 0 PART 1 VOTING NOW: Best Song of the 2000s Bracke
Little Lion Man – Mumford and Suns vs. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – Arctic Monkeys vs. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson 1234 – Feist vs. Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks Not even a top 3 Dixie Chicks song but I'm not a big fan of 1234. M...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 13316
Re: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
I only managed to hear a few of the packets but it was clear this was a much much better effort than last year. The questions were engaging and worked even for lower-level high school teams. My only real issue, and this is a nit-picky single question concern, is the Berlin Airlift tossup, which I ha...
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: A, B, C teams
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8809
Re: A, B, C teams
Generally, I don't have a problem with schools not conforming to the standard A (strongest) to Z (weakest) as long as they make it known ahead of time and back it up with full rosters. This guarentees that the only real issue I have with it, messing up the seeds, doesn't happen. That being said I wo...
- Sun Oct 22, 2017 10:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Book Prizes-Where to Find Them
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4546
Re: Book Prizes-Where to Find Them
If you have a half price books outlet near you, consider yourself spoiled. I am under the impression that their normal stores have fantastic deals as well but have never actually been to one.
- Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Good books for studying history
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6603
Re: Good books for studying history
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553382403/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918. I absolutely adore this book. It is easy to read, engaging, and throws a ton of fun and useful information at you. While its limited to World War I i...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SQBS Help Thread
- Replies: 48
- Views: 56576
Re: SQBS Help Thread
Can two people working on the same tournament/division on different devices merge their files into one? In principle, yes, but it's somewhat error-prone. It's better to divide tournaments and scoresheets such that there will be no need to merge except perhaps at a rebracket. If you have to merge, h...
- Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:38 am
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: New AMSQG announcement
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12847
Re: New AMSQG announcement
Where can this sample be found? I've been looking to potentially send my team to a mirror. As of now, it is still uncompiled. The sample packet, after we finish our distribution related discussions, will be posted in this thread. There is no current timetable for when this sample packet will be com...
- Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:32 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: New AMSQG announcement
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12847
Re: New AMSQG announcement
I'll preface this post by stating that my role in this project is only feedback based. I am not receiving, nor seeking, financial compensation for my work and as a result am not directly writing or editing any tossups but rather providing guidance to the writers and editors and keeping the answerlin...
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 11:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Top five college teams for 2017–18
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13308
Re: Top five college teams for 2017–18
Here are some D2 teams to watch out for, based on what/who I know. Teams are in no particular order. Returning D2 eligible : 1. Illinois (Cole Timmerwilke, Mike Etzkorn) - Give him a couple years, and Mike will become one of the best literature/FA players in the game. You heard it (publicly declare...
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 9:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB Nationals Recap
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6654
Re: NHBB Nationals Recap
is there a private forum set up now? It doesn't look like it, at least from my end. You can check if it is set up, and eventually join it, by clicking on "User Control Panel", located near the top left of your screen, then clicking on "Usergroups", before finally scrolling down ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA 2017
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17386
Re: IHSA 2017
With regards to the Athens tossup, that was mea culpa and I ill this as a moment to discuss my regionals writing philosophy has a whole, how I failed in this specific instance, and other issues with the question. The Athens tossup was originally written with the idea of it being slotted in Round 0, ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '16-'17
- Replies: 145
- Views: 66907
Re: Illinois '16-'17
For what it's worth, the Mass Effect clue in the radians tossup comes directly from Simple Wikipedia.JakobeanEra wrote:ftfynsb2 wrote:I didn't expect anything particularly great from the set, but some of the questions looked like they were taken straight from Wikipedia, like IHSA questions have been in the past.
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 4:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion - 2017 FRENCH
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1739
Re: Specific Question Discussion - 2017 FRENCH
Here is the tossup in question. Large statues of overweight men on the shoulders of naked servants have been found at the archaeological site of Barriles in this country. Soldier and conman Gregor McGregor tricked hundreds of people into investing in bonds for the fictional country of Poyais, suppos...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IHSA 2017
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17386
Re: IHSA 2017
Regionals was definitely a step down from the Prince-led effort of last year but i was surprisingly unrepulsed by many of the questions. I wrote a decent number of the history questions, as well as the film, and, save a few that were the victim of sub-optimal packetizing, they seem to have went well...
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Question Discussion - 2017 FRENCH
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1739
Specific Question Discussion - 2017 FRENCH
Please post any comments regarding specific questions, including errata, here.
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion - 2017 FRENCH
- Replies: 2
- Views: 990
General Discussion - 2017 FRENCH
Since Fregeau isn't often active on the forums I am going to go ahead and make the necessary threads for discussion. Please give your general thoughts and opinions about FRENCH in this thread.
- Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: FRENCH Open
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4799
Re: FRENCH Open
I had a great time seeing this set evolve from a few questions Fregeau wrote and we played at UIUC practices to a final product. This was a great first writing effort and, based what I heard in the hallway, people had a blast playing it. EDIT: I also hope final stats are up soon! :) I've already tal...
- Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 20412
Re: 2017 (This) Tournament is a Crime Specific Discussion
Hi everyone, What, and on which clue, did people neg Mount Ida with? What, and on which clue, did people neg introduction of fire to humanity with? What, and on which clue, did people neg snake (in Chinese mythology) with? I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to this one, but I'd like to confi...
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 4:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Division II SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4483
Re: 2017 Division II SCT: specific question discussion
So just now hearing the Div II set, since it was played at Illinois State, I have some problems with the Tale of Genji tossup. The lead-in gives the literal translation of mono no aware, the "pathos of things", and then gives some slight background information about the Kokugaku. My proble...
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 3:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Huskie Bowl @ NIU (January 28, 2017)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5324
Re: Huskie Bowl @ NIU (January 28, 2017)
Prelim stats can be found here
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 5:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3380
Re: Delta Burke 2016 Discussion
Assassinating JFK - "This struck me as kinda hard" What is hard? The answer line, or the clues, or...? I thought the clues were hard compared to standard Assassinating JFK tossups. However, I think the clues used were important and that it was a good question. Colin Kaepernick - "thi...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 8:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3380
Re: Delta Burke 2016 Discussion
Accidental Double Post
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 8:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3380
Re: Delta Burke 2016 Discussion
So I'll preface this by saying that I am obviously not the intended target for this set and as such will avoid making any comments about specific questions being too easy, instead aiming to make broad comments about the set itself and commenting where answerlines were too hard. The first thing I am ...
- Sat Nov 12, 2016 9:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke Mirror @ NIU (November 12, 2016)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4166
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall packet submission reform
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9262
Re: ACF Fall packet submission reform
I haven't spent much time thinking about packet submission in general but I think an ACF Fall with packet submission remains better than an ACF Fall without. However, since it seems there are far more packets than there are rounds, I think it would make sense to allow schools to collaborate on with ...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 1:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 ACF Fall general discussion
- Replies: 49
- Views: 26223
Re: 2016 ACF Fall general discussion
I get that a lot of cool people came out of France, but should we really be tossing it up (at least) three times? I'll probably have more to say once the set is posted. There was at least four, with one being film, one social science, one philosophy, and one history. I also believe |France| was an ...
- Thu Nov 03, 2016 3:33 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: community question clinic
- Replies: 95
- Views: 93105
Re: community question clinic
Would posting questions I intend to use for a high school tournament be kosher? Given how strict the community seems to be about leaking questions I'm hesitant. If a question is going to be used a tournament do not post it in an open forum. There is no way to control who would see it and you would ...
- Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:10 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird @ UIUC (10/1/16) -NO LONGER A NOVICE-
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3648
Re: Earlybird @ UIUC (10/1/16) -NO LONGER A NOVICE-
This tournament has recently been made Gold Certified meaning that the top 2 teams will qualify for PACE NSC in the Spring. Additionally, I am announcing a field cap of 16 teams and asking that anybody that is interested in the tournament, but has not yet reached out to me, to register as soon as po...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird @ UIUC (10/1/16) -NO LONGER A NOVICE-
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3648
Re: Earlybird @ UIUC (10/1/16) -NO LONGER A NOVICE-
After receiving feedback from several people within the community I had decided that, as with past iterations, Earlybird will be a regular difficulty tournament. This, however, comes at a price. The tournament will be using NAQT's IS-156, a set which was created and played in the last academic year....
- Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Earlybird @ UIUC (10/1/16) -NO LONGER A NOVICE-
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3648
Earlybird @ UIUC (10/1/16) -NO LONGER A NOVICE-
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Academic Buzzer Team is happy to announce The Earlybird Tournament. The tournament will be held on the campus the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Saturday, October 1st, 2016. I, Tyler Vaughan, will serve as the tournament director. The tourna...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Would You Recommend Working for NHBB?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 81540
Re: Would You Recommend Working for NHBB?
For editing the Ancient History Bee—130 questions in total—I will be paid less than a dollar per tossup I edited. This is particularly little considering the quality of submissions I had to edit. As someone who served in a very similar position that you did, I don't see where this sentiment is comi...
- Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Would You Recommend Working for NHBB?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 81540
Re: Would You Recommend Working for NHBB?
This topic has grown far broader than I am qualified to talk about but I will give a brief summary of what my time in NHBB was like. In the past year, I was key in the production of three major events; IHO 2015, NHBB Nationals 2016, and IHO 2016. In the course of working on those events, I wrote the...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 9:00 pm
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: HIGS Invitational
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11386
Re: HIGS Invitational
1.5/1.5 Math (1/1 Computation; 0.5/0.5 Math) Can you elaborate on your decision to include comp math into the set? The only other place I have seen comp math in recent memory is certain NAQT sets and even then most of the tournaments I've staffed have instructed us to just skip them and go onto the...
- Sun Jun 19, 2016 2:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pete Rose Reinstatement Scholarship Tournament
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17638
Re: Pete Rose Reinstatement Scholarship Tournament
Collin has informed me that this set is being postponed until next year.
Apologies to those were anticipating it this summer.
Apologies to those were anticipating it this summer.
- Thu May 12, 2016 2:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SMART II: The SMARTening - 2016-2017
- Replies: 22
- Views: 10863
Re: SMART II: The SMARTening - 2016-2107
Is there any chance of sample questions being posted or provided to respective hosts? My experience with the first SMART was poor with both the players and some staffers at the tournament I staffed having numerous complaints.
- Sun May 01, 2016 7:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 NHBB Nats: Factual Errors
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2209
Re: Factual Errors
In Round 5 of the US History Bee, the James Madison tossup mentions that "Paul Jennings purchased his freedom from this man". Daniel Webster was the one who bought Jennings' freedom (and Jennings worked for Webster to pay him off), so this clue doesn't really make any sense (I buzzed at t...
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 United States Geography Olympiad Test Discussion.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 727
2016 United States Geography Olympiad Test Discussion.
Although I did not personally work on the USGO Tests, I understand that the people that wrote them worked extremely hard. Please share any feedback here.
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 NHBB Nats: Factual Errors
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2209
2016 NHBB Nats: Factual Errors
Factual errors are the worst kind of mistake we can make as a writing team, as such I wish that any mistakes you noticed be brought up specifically in this thread so they are sure to be noticed. This is also the place to discuss incomplete answerlines.
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 United States Geo Olympiad Buzzer Portion Discussion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 448
2016 United States Geo Olympiad Buzzer Portion Discussion
Please discuss the buzzer portion of the United States Geography Olympiad here.
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 National History Bowl Discussion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 423
2016 National History Bowl Discussion
Please discuss the National History Bowl here.
Reminder: We are aware of the repeats the set had, if possible this thread is meant to focus on the question content/answerlines.
Reminder: We are aware of the repeats the set had, if possible this thread is meant to focus on the question content/answerlines.
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 National History Bee Discussion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 555
2016 National History Bee Discussion
Please discuss the National History Bee here.
Reminder: We are aware of the repeats the set had, if possible this thread is meant to focus on the question content/answerlines.
Reminder: We are aware of the repeats the set had, if possible this thread is meant to focus on the question content/answerlines.
- Sun May 01, 2016 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 United States History Bee Discussion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 374
2016 United States History Bee Discussion
Please discuss the United States History Bee here.
Reminder: We are aware of the repeats the set had, if possible this thread is meant to focus on the question content/answerlines.
Reminder: We are aware of the repeats the set had, if possible this thread is meant to focus on the question content/answerlines.
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 44036
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
Uh, I have heard some very disturbing things that were announced this weekend: -the possibility of 3 teams playing at once if the buzzer system permitted -teams (potentially just the top seed) being able to LITERALLY choose who they play -a number of during-tournament rule changes that weren't anno...
- Tue Apr 26, 2016 10:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 44036
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
why not instead use a clue from one of the other songs mentioned in the tossup, like Panzerlied or Horstwessellied? I don't think you understand what is being said here. The reason the writer didn't use a different clues, and as a result a different lead-in, is because they weren't aware the other ...
- Mon Apr 11, 2016 9:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pete Rose Reinstatement Scholarship Tournament
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17638
Re: Pete Rose Reinstatement Scholarship Tournament
This set will be done by March, although I most likely will run it personally at HSNCT or during the downtime during one of the college nationals. As it turns out, this was a little ambitious. It looks like the updated timetable is that the set will, likely, be finished around the time of VCU Open.
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pete Rose Reinstatement Scholarship Tournament
- Replies: 32
- Views: 17638
Re: Pete Rose Reinstatement Scholarship Tournament
To further assure concerns people may have after Ryan Leaf, I, due to my utter lack of baseball knowledge, will be focusing exclusively on packetizing and editing. This means a much more coherent set overall and a distinct lack of five stadium toss ups in row. As an additional benefit, this means th...
- Tue Nov 17, 2015 8:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 Delta Burke Discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2209
Re: 2015 Delta Burke Discussion
Yeah, we'll move the "Flight of the Valkyrie" clue deeper into the Vietnam TU. But is the Dickens TU really hard? I tried to make it tough with Martin Chuzzlewit and Pickwick Papers clues early, but then it eases up just before the FTP and certainly after. FWIW the Chicago Bears TU went d...