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It's a fun change of pace to do an event in this format about once a year; I wouldn't make it more regular than that.

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theMoMA wrote:It's been shown that CO can exist on 8-line questions. But what I'd really like to see is someone showing that Regionals can exist on 6-line questions.

ACF Regionals had a six-line cap on tossup length in 2008.

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I enjoyed this tournament a lot. I suspect that I did anomalously well compared to my usual performance on hard lit questions, and that many of the reasons why are in fact the issues Ike raises. The set felt a lot more accessible to me than I expected it to feel, and that's probably because a lot of...

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I have little opposition to more official quizbowl presence on social media; however, folks have to be extremely alert about not revealing any uncleared question content on any social media platform, which induces some constraints on what can be said or done with it.

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So, the science tournament has been postponed and the last three rounds of CO are apparently available for in-person readings. What effects will that have on the proposed schedule of side events?

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I buzzed in very early on the Peruvian election and said "the election where Fujimori won and defeated Vargas Llosa." I feel like that should have been acceptable at that point. I'm not sure if it would have been a good idea to say something like "year required." That should def...

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bird bird bird bird bird wrote:Shan needs to leave before the conclusion of this tournament, so my current staff list is: John, Ashvin, Andrew. That leaves two more rooms to be staffed by the bye team.

Are you yourself going to be present, Jeff? If not, who is going to be "on-site TD"?

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Corry, while it's admirable that you try to see how well your questions played out in numerical terms wherever possible, it seems to me in general that you tend to take NAQT's internal conversion statistics to be the be-all and end-all of question quality far too quickly. Any question set is going t...

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I also hope more people sign up for this tournament soon! The field list is quite small still. Might that have something to do with the rather strange way side events have been handled for this site, given that it's supposed to be a summer open? It seems to me like that drove almost everyone who tr...

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I will fourth Max's opinion. I'd much rather that strong fields get to play SHEIKH and AVOGADRO'S NUMBER early in the day if people will have to travel back home; on the assumption that Tricon (what exists of it) will be read no matter what my views on it are, I'd advocate for it being last in the d...

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This is quite a comprehensive post. While I don't agree with all of its analysis (I second Fred's incredulity about the attitude towards VHSL, which 270 teams play every year, and have other pockets of optimism/pessimism elsewhere), I am really glad to see the entire outreach picture laid out in one...

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I will just briefly state that college players have many opportunities to make more questions come up on what they're interested in seeing more of, by submitting good questions to packet-sub tournaments or (when sufficiently qualified) by writing their own sets and tweaking the distribution or focus...

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I have posted about the lunch arrangements for Sunday here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16973&start=50#p305679 Do the folks organizing this tournament have lunch arrangements for Saturday? With 17 rounds it's important to have some plan that is real and somewhat eff...

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A bunch of people put down names on the unofficial spreadsheet from the main thread, but it looks like only one team has actually registered so far. Are (other) people still coming to this?

EDIT: 3 apparently. I like opponents

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The subject of this post is "How we treat each other." I include it in this series because this topic was a pretty large elephant in the room for as long as Matt Weiner was an active quizbowl participant. I think it's fair to say without unduly maligning anyone that Mattw was a person whos...

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After a few years, I guess it's worth asking if this thread served its intended purpose. I don't know of many people who have posted here and gone on to join up with writing projects. What's more, it seems like there is a spot still open in the fall where a tournament could take place in early Octob...

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The University of Maryland would like to claim 10/3 for Maryland Fall, which will be run on the set of the same name . Since I've been informed that the SAT date is actually the 3rd, I'd like to claim 10/10 for this tournament instead, if that's not too much trouble. Thanks! As a general point, I t...

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Can we get an update, either in the Excel spreadsheet or a post, outlining the current field with submitted packets, dropped players, and added players all factored in?

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Read books. In particular, it's useful to read books with a relatively large historical "sweep" across an area of focus -- now that you're out of high school (and presumably have outgrown a textbook which purports to merely be about European History or American History or what-have-you), ...

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Does your study plan also involve music / auditory arts rather than just visual art?

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Is there a reason why this set is only planned to be 12.5 packets long, rather than a more standard 14?

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Part 5: How We Treat Each Other -- In the fifth component I'll be discussing how we in the quizbowl community treat each other, and how we should take this opportunity to reset or roll back a lot of the more harmful patterns we've gotten into on that score. Any update as to when this part will come...

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So there are currently four available spots for persons? Is it worth hashing that out in the matchmaking thread?

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because of the repeat policy. A quick factual clarification: The writing team for this year's NHBB nationals sets was given an explicit reprieve from the no-clue-repeats-across-sets policy for the US History Bee only (i.e. it was permitted to have a clue which appeared both in the US History Bee an...

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Could we get a running list of signed up teams? Thanks. I mean, there's only one (1) team signed up for VCU Open proper; it seems unlikely to me that the audience for this event will emerge until more people finalize their plans for the main tournament (but if there is an audience for this which ha...

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Let me be the first to say I really appreciate the time you've taken, David, to address the many concerns and thoughts people have brought up here. Like David, I am going to make this one last post and then I'll have to more or less leave this thread alone for time-management reasons. Hopefully this...

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Hard to implement in Word (text box anchors are paragraph-level). Probably not possible in Google Docs, though an add-on for marginal notes would not be difficult to make, and would even be a good first project for someone who wants to learn the platform. These factors are likely to make it impossi...

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After I finish my share of my team's CO History packet in a few days, I will be going on "sabbatical" from question writing for most of the 2015-16 competition year. What this means is that I will not be committing up-front to writing any questions for any organization or set, or to any ed...

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One observation that's been made in recent discussions is that the quizbowl community is relatively decentralized. There aren't very many organizations or resources (this website excepted) which thread the whole community together, particularly at the high school level, and it's often hard for new t...

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The travel disasters thread has made me a bit worried about playing quizbowl in colllege; maybe I should have read the favorite quizbowl experiences thread first... One reason why travel disaster stories are so salient to the people who share them is that they're very much the exception, not the ru...

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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Yes, I know this is part 6 and I haven't finished writing part 5 yet. It was easier to finish this one first. I'll loop around and get Part 5 done as soon as I can. A lot of us know or have heard of Weiner's Laws , those most famous of tongue-and-cheek adages. But over the span of 15...

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I agree with Fred that this is weird and would just add an unnecessary extra step with little benefit to the community or to editing teams.

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I think that was both a good and bad idea. It was good that the Bataan Death March of the NHBB Blitz did not have the International Olympiad component, which would have been equivalent to that scene at the end of the Naked Gun when Ricardo Montalban falls to his death and is repeatedly run over by ...

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What would have prevented the International History Olympiad from being folded into e.g. the production of the National History Bowl and Bee during the earlier burst of activity? This question does have an answer: I would have, and I did. In talking with Dave Madden to help set up writing for the H...

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GOODCOMPANY88 wrote:Who thought it would be a good idea to toss up Elegabalus?

I wrote this tossup, among the 9 tossups and 31 bonuses I contributed to the set. Was the issue that the tossup was too difficult for this field?

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Just to add my 2 cents as a current competitor. The "NHBB-to-quizbowl pipeline" really isn't as much of a thing as many people expected it to be. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it's an utter failure, as some might, as there are certainly high-profile crossovers who used NHBB as a lau...

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Thanks for the detailed post, Daniel. Your contributions in this thread and in the NHBB general discussions have been quite thoughtful, and I look forward to reading the future posts you might be preparing. I think Daniel's post gives us an interesting way of flipping Aidan's question backwards: Wha...

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any quizbowl penetration into the public eye has to be at least partially personality-driven. Agreed. I suggest we spend a couple years staging an epic wrestling-style storyline, except consisting mainly of subtle literary allusions. You say this as though it hasn't already been ongoing for years n...

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make it easier for some random dude at a non-powerhouse school who wants to write questions to get involved in NAQT, NHBB, HSAPQ, or something else where he can contribute questions towards an officially sanctioned tournament. We might need that random dude to edit ACF Nationals in eight years. Sor...

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I think something that can help people understand the issues at hand here is to think about the completely opposite ways in which quizbowl and NHBB are organized on a large scale. NHBB is totally top-down. ...All-subject quizbowl, on the other hand, is organized from the bottom up I don't think it'...

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Intro [/u] Five years have passed since the foundation of National History Bee and Bowl in the spring of 2010. In that half-decade, a lot of aspects of the academic quizbowl community have grown, changed, or utterly transformed. Five years is longer than the average student's high school quizbowl c...

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I said a lot about this topic in this thread . The most important things are to say whatever you're going to say confidently and succinctly , so it sounds like you know what you do and you're proud of it -- this will make it seem much cooler to other people. When talking to people who are completely...

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Needless to say, Matt Weiner isn't the only person who has dropped the ball on completing a question set. If someone had to make a movie about the quizbowl experience tomorrow, the montage of every flakeout even of the good quizbowl era alone would be long enough to become its own feature film easil...

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Back to Intro/Contents (Thankfully, the answer is not "six feet of earth from his head to his toes") There's a whole lot of questions being written these days. With the explosion of good quizbowl nationwide has come an explosion of question sets which at least aspire to embody good quizbo...

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Also, the NSC had a four quarter format until 2010--one of the reasons given for the original format was that a single format would disadvantage teams from states with a different format. Well, three "quarter"s. As I understand it, the original NSC format was something of a Great Compromi...

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Is there a stated reason for this change?

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Back to Intro/Contents Or: Filling the Void Before March 2015 we had a single person who was: an administrator on (and the owner of) these forums (the Quizbowl Resource Center), the Chairman of the second-largest question vendor company (HSAPQ) and a frequent subject editor for same, a contract wri...

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There's this bizarre idea in your post that time is absolute, and there exists a mechanical system for accurately determining it. The idea of a 5 second period for answering isn't about a distinct quantity (5 seconds). Here 5 seconds refers to a sense of space, or the accepted length of how long a ...

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It goes without saying that the sudden departure of Matt Weiner from many commitments earlier this year truly shook the quizbowl community to its core, forcing a half-dozen organizations and many people to scramble to keep the system in order. Due to the heroic efforts of many, though, the real pros...

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Just curious as to how this went / was it well-attended / is this going to be an annual event at NSC? I think this is a great idea and hope that it can continue in the future. About 50 people attended total, not counting the panelists. I think this event went extremely well for a pilot run; in the ...

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