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- Wed Aug 07, 2019 3:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 31852
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
I was, however, quite disappointed with the music in this set. I'm not sure when the decision was made to roll jazz into the 1/1 Auditory Arts, but that combined with the world music, a tossup purely on film music, two tossup on performers, the opera tossup (although this is more understandable) an...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 31852
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
As an aside: I respectfully wish editors would keep team names as is unless there is a serious problem with them. It's a disheartening way to start the day to see your name tossed (even if it's not funny). We didn’t do this intentionally, so it must have been an internal communication mistake—sorry!
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 31852
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
I’ll populate this post with more stuff as I remember it, but first I’d like to reiterate my thanks to my fellow editors, and to acknowledge a few dumb mistakes—I screwed up the wording of a crucial late clue in the Trump (the dog) TU, and I likely should’ve moved the powermark or even some middle c...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 7:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 52
- Views: 28789
Re: Faster (Human) Parsing of Answer Lines
I personally find this formatting extremely cramped and unnatural to read. (I have a lot of trouble with double-column text in general)
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45670
Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
Similarly, a hearty thank you to our playtesters - Jarret Greene, Seth Teitler, Geoffrey Chen, Eric Douglass, Natan Holtzman, Naveed Chowdhury, and assuredly others who I'm neglecting to mention right now. Aside from extensive feedback from Wonyoung in particular and the other editors in general (C...
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Packet-Submission Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10496
Re: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
EDIT: To put it another way, ACF Fall cannot, and should not, exist to make Will Alston, Jacob Reed, or Auroni Gupta better editors. Its primary goal is to produce an incredibly important product for the players. If it serves as a useful set of training wheels, all the better! Of course not, I was ...
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Packet-Submission Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10496
Re: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
I think there are a lot of people who are juniors and seniors in college for whom ACF Fall is still a very appropriate tournament to play. Given that "ACF Fall is basically a high quality, HS nats-minus or regular-plus tournament" (I agree), does this mean that these people have a "h...
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Packet-Submission Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10496
Re: 2019 ACF Fall Global Announcement: November 2, 2019
Coupled with a very high entry fee of $150, it seems like ACF is putting up a big barrier to entry for a lot of teams. Since the packet submission requirement is aimed explicitly at teams of upperclasspeople or underclasspeople who got college playing experience in high school, are you saying that ...
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Faster (Human) Parsing of Answer Lines
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6846
Re: Faster (Human) Parsing of Answer Lines
I'm intrigued the idea of putting ACCEPT/PROMPT/REJECT on separate lines, but I think it could actually decrease moderator speed. That's because the current best practice is to put "most-anticipated" answers first; sorting by ACCEPT/PROMPT/REJECT means that some very likely answers may end...
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 11:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45670
Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
To clarify one point on the distribution: there will be some amount of science history in each science category of the set (it's not all taking up "other science" slots).
- Fri Aug 02, 2019 10:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45670
Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
(As have Wonyoung Jang and Sriram Pendyala—always a delight—and a few others.)DumbJaques wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2019 9:37 am Jacob Reed, Jonathan Magin, WIll Holub-Moorman, and Alston Boyd have done fantastic jobs on this set, and were wonderful to work with.
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 1:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: TAPIR Set Available for 2020 Mirrors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9812
Re: TAPIR Set Available for 2020 Mirrors
The $10 mirror fee norm is a holdover from quite a long time ago, and really should have gone up to $15 by now. If you believe that sets should be cheaper than that, you either believe that producing good questions doesn't deserve even remotely fair compensation, or you don't believe that sets need ...
- Thu Jul 25, 2019 9:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Different Styles of Making Flashcards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8876
Re: Different Styles of Making Flashcards
I am by no means an elite player, but I have done quite a bit of studying over the years, and have never used nor seen the appeal of flashcards. I take bulleted pencil-and-paper notes on the harder details of everything I study, and I don't understand how flashcards could be more helpful for me. Is...
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:57 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Climate change and quizbowl
- Replies: 29
- Views: 26542
Re: Climate change and quizbowl
While I don't think that Mike's second point meets my challenge above (i.e. "Say you get your political goals. If the legislation is strict enough to be truly effective, you'll have to drastically curtail this kind of polluting anyway."), I of course strongly endorse his message that activ...
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:28 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Climate change and quizbowl
- Replies: 29
- Views: 26542
Re: Climate change and quizbowl
This is a phenomenal post. Two points to build on it: 1. "Eating local" (e.g. not making frivolous trips to other regional tournaments) isn't some dreary punishment; it has its own joys too. Building relationships with the other teams in your circuit, watching their younger players develop...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 10:21 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Does every quizbowl organization need its own blog?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7361
Re: Does every quizbowl organization need its own blog?
I wouldn't be opposed to a website that tracks all of that, but a key salient fact is that these are, in fact, separate organizations and I think it's best to keep that fact relevant. Someone looking to find information on Greater Pennsylvania quizbowl may not necessarily want to see every NAQT pos...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:40 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Does every quizbowl organization need its own blog?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7361
Does every quizbowl organization need its own blog?
We've all complained about how the "blog" link on the HSQB front page leads to a very sparse page that hasn't been updated in ages. Now, even ACF has its own blog to go with NAQT's interviews and social media presence, PACE's social media, Greater Pennsylvania Quizbowl's fantastic website,...
- Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:38 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Stop putting "Quiet Night Thought" in power for Li Bai
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7871
Re: Stop putting "Quiet Night Thought" in power for Li Bai
Justin is right, and so is Max, at least in terms of how those tossups inevitably play out. As far as I can tell, the root of the problem in both cases is a recognition that a topic is important enough to keep coming up, coupled with a lack of any collective sense of what the "famous but not-ye...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12577
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
We're delighted at the response we've gotten so far! Given the impressive number of applicants, we're going to close writer applications for now; applicants should expect to hear back tonight.
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PSA: Don't Write For PACE
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11487
Re: PSA: Don't Write For PACE
These are my personal thoughts and do not necessarily reflect those of any quizbowl organization. I'm going to leave aside any first-year issues with the mentorship program and focus on Will's grievance, i.e. the most direct impetus for this post. Let me try to characterize that grievance as I under...
- Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12577
ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
I'm delighted to announce the inaugural iteration of WORKSHOP, a successor to PADAWAN . The set will be played in Spring 2020. The goal is to write a high-quality regular-difficulty (3 on Ophir's scale) set each year, and for the set to be mainly written by newer writers . In other words, we want to...
- Tue Jun 25, 2019 2:29 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Preliminary announcement for PADAWAN-like set to be run Spring 2020
- Replies: 1
- Views: 12792
Preliminary announcement for PADAWAN-like set to be run Spring 2020
Hi everyone, I'm excited to announce that I'll be spearheading a PADAWAN-like set to be written in Summer/Fall 2019 and played in Spring 2020. Our team of editors/mentors is Alex Damisch (logistics), Adam Fine (chemistry and physics), Will Holub-Moorman (social science, trash/other), Olivia Lamberti...
- Tue Jun 04, 2019 3:15 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Regular+ Spring Tournament
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9876
Re: Regular+ Spring Tournament
Would this tournament be open? (Might change the pool of potential writers and editors.)
- Mon May 20, 2019 10:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
Why not Penn Bowl?Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 10:17 pmI began by looking at the subcategory scoring breakdown for players at EFT, Terrapin, ACF Regionals, and Sun God.
- Mon May 20, 2019 9:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
The biggest flaw this year to me, as the person organizing the poll, was simply the lack of ballots in certain categories. Maybe more ballots would balance things out, but I really do see the biggest problem as 1) a lack of pertinent information 2) bad interpretations of that information. Ryan has ...
- Mon May 20, 2019 9:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
A small point: I find it counter-intuitive to continue reading to the side for the "& ...." when there's a tie—I missed a few players the first time for this reason. At least one other person I've talked to has had the same issue; would recommend putting everybody in the same column.
- Mon May 20, 2019 9:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
Historical Results Visual Arts: 5. Derek So, McGill (39, 1 first place vote, lowest unranked) I'm shocked and saddened that I was the only person to put Derek at #1 here. There's a reason that dude got the most superpowers (among other things) at Jordaens. More broadly: I love the idea of recognizi...
- Wed May 15, 2019 3:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Making things stick.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7162
Re: Making things stick.
I often made mnemonics for things that, for whatever reason, I was unable to make stick. For example, for the life of me I could not recall the order of the major battles of Alexander the Great. I could read about them all I could, but in the end I still messed up the order of Granicus River, Gauga...
- Mon May 13, 2019 5:38 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Vulching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23814
Re: Vulching
This is a good topic to discuss, and I think knowing when to just put the tossup to bed is a skill that has sometimes differentiated experienced team leaders from those who let close games slip away. Mike lays out a bunch of good strategies. Another solution would be to develop clear non-verbal comm...
- Wed May 08, 2019 4:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: South Central Connecticut Summer Practices
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4141
South Central Connecticut Summer Practices
Hi everyone, Like last year, I'm happy to announce Wednesday practices ca. 9–11PM at my place (near the campus of the Harvard of Central Connecticut) from May 15 until August 28. Anybody's welcome, there will probably be a whimsical combination of very hard, somewhat hard, old, and subject-specific ...
- Fri May 03, 2019 8:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9802
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
Thanks for the lovely comments and judicious criticism, Auroni! I took most of those scholarship clues on trust from other writers, but I would like to speak to the McClary and Strathern clues. The latter was preceded by the sentence "According to a book titled for these things, some people are...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
EDIT: Daniel, what criteria did you use to pick the players for the VFA sheet? Strange to not see John Lawrence, among others. I looked through the advance stats for Terrapin, EFT, and Regionals, selecting players who appeared high (roughly top 5-10 at a given site) on the Paintings/Sculpture subca...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 8:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
To help me with my ballot, I assembled a spreadsheet with Nats and ICT stats for a number of players, as well as Visual Arts stats for various other players. In case it helps others, you may find it here. If you would like to edit this spreadsheet, perhaps by adding other subject area stats, please...
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 1:40 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Survey Texts and Other Resources List (aseemslegit.com)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6846
Re: Survey Texts and Other Resources List (aseemslegit.com)
As announced in the other thread, this list can now be conveniently accessed from http://aseemslegit.com
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 1:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Book To Learn Music
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5369
Re: Book To Learn Music
Books to Learn https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T4b8g_qTGsO_8ExU8Z_C4nzjDsw7jXr21lDOn2SBS3g/edit?usp=sharing :O music https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T4b8g_qTGsO_8ExU8Z_C4nzjDsw7jXr21lDOn2SBS3g/edit?usp=sharing :O :O EDIT: Kai's rec is good. EDIT: Since I send this out so much, I have decide...
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10615
Re: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
For everybody who is trying to dispute Joseph's specific claims, please consider that, having lied and been exposed so publicly, it doesn't seem particularly likely that Joseph would cave upon being presented with yet another piece of evidence. That is: piling on won't do anything here, since it's t...
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 5:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10615
Re: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
real amit bilgi hoursansonberns wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2019 5:24 pmJoseph in PMs wrote:so that the readers could practice reading and pronouncing some of the names and such
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 5:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
2) Jaimie Carlson is being undersold a bit by this discussion as a "lit player" - if you take her as just that, I think it's a bit hard to make a case for her in the top 25 on the basis of being a top-3 lit player, since I don't think her level of lit dominance quite stack up to what elit...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 64002
Re: Player Poll 2019
Thanks for running this poll, Auroni! I like the new format, even if it means a lot more work. Curiosity: why are there separate polls for visual and audio arts, but not for any subcategories of the big 3? (I understand that "misc." covers this to a certain extent.) The rest of this post w...
- Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
- Replies: 90
- Views: 46733
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
the Sugar Plum Fairy clue was early, yeah, but it was well-written and I think a lot of people got buzzes on it (This post is very much from the peanut gallery—it is not intended even to comment on this set’s music, which I have not seen yet.) This sounds like a successful clue! People getting good...
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 3:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 21198
Re: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
Do you expect there to be a mirror site further northeast than Columbia? If people want to organize one, I'm open to the possibility, but I would strongly prefer to have a bunch of big tournament sites with people of all different backgrounds and strengths playing. I like large events that can brin...
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 12:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
- Replies: 90
- Views: 46733
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
It's also hard because I don't know what the canon or curriculum of non-western music would look like at the collegiate level, or even what the main textbooks might be. Sounds like a perfect case for the hilariously over-detailed music section of https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T4b8g_qTGsO_8ExU...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 22245
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion
Personally, I care more about the integrity of ACF Nationals as a “players championship” than I do about its expansion. Obviously, I’m not a member of ACF and don’t knows its priorities, but if the field needs to be 40 teams instead of 48 to ensure a full RR in playoffs which is almost unanimously ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30548
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Because there's no clear reason that math should beat out any number of equally deserving things for a 1/1 slot among 20/20; if, hypothetically, the standard quizbowl tournament were to be 24/24, then I think math would have a case. Definitely agreed with this, but even then, I'm not sure math woul...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 82795
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
I do think this post could have been made in a way that doesn't come have a subtext feels denigrating to Columbia "Congratulations to Columbia, but . . ." No doubt you'll follow up with an apology or clarification here, but I'd question the sincerity of it, since I think it's pretty galli...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 10:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 82795
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
How did people feel about the new playoff format? Aside from the fact that 5 games is pretty few for determining final placement (the reduced sample size makes placement more vulnerable to single-packet swings), this format seems to have been fairly vulnerable to differences between the playoff brac...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 12:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45318
Re: ICT format and seeding discussion
I think I misunderstood your point as "seed alphabetically" or something.
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45318
Re: ICT format and seeding discussion
If every team should be given the aforementioned respect of assuming that they could walk into ICT and win it, and every game counts equally towards the final standings, then there's no reason that higher seeded teams should be given any kind of preferential treatment related to when they meet up. ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45318
Re: ICT format and seeding discussion
It would benefit the community to run an open-ballot pre-nationals poll that explicitly asks participants to predict how well the teams will finish at both ICT and Nationals. (It is also in everyone's interest to participate in such a poll, if it comes into being.) I love this idea, and it would mo...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45318
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
I would suspect that ACF might be slightly easier to seed since the rounds lend themselves to less variable "upsets" and the distribution is less unique (so looking at every other tournament probably gives a better idea of how teams will do). But even at ACF, there's still quirks--in 2011...