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by Snom
Wed May 03, 2023 10:17 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 50741

Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion

Very minor mistake: In the tossup on neutrino detectors from the Harvard/MIT packet, it says that IceCube has 80 subsurface strings, but it currently operates with 86. We refer to the current iteration of the detector as "IC86" at IceCube. At some point in the past (pre-2010) it was planne...
by Snom
Fri Sep 09, 2022 8:10 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 ACF Fall at Columbia (10/15/2022)
Replies: 0
Views: 714

2022 ACF Fall at Columbia (10/15/2022)

Title: I am pleased to announce that an online Overflow site of 2022 ACF Fall will be held by Columbia University on Saturday, October 15, 2022. The tournament will take place on Discord (link will be sent before the tournament). The opening meeting will begin at 8:45AM EST and gameplay will begin a...
by Snom
Wed Mar 23, 2022 1:58 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: 2022 Benjamin Cooper Awards | Nominations Open Until 04/01
Replies: 2
Views: 1979

Re: 2022 Benjamin Cooper Awards | Nominations Open Until 04/01

There is now just over a week left to get Cooper Award nominations in!
by Snom
Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:49 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: 2022 Benjamin Cooper Awards | Nominations Open Until 04/01
Replies: 2
Views: 1979

Re: 2022 Benjamin Cooper Awards | Nominations Open Until 04/01

Reminder that there are three weeks left to submit Cooper Award nominations.
by Snom
Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:09 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)
Replies: 3
Views: 2124

Re: ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)

Johns Hopkins won the tournament today in a one-game final against Cornell. Here are the final stats . Thank you very much to our wonderful staffers Caroline, Geoffrey, Gareth, John John, Raymond, and Kevin for their time, to William Groger for keeping things running smoothly while handling stats an...
by Snom
Tue Jan 18, 2022 11:27 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
Topic: 2022 Benjamin Cooper Awards | Nominations Open Until 04/01
Replies: 2
Views: 1979

2022 Benjamin Cooper Awards | Nominations Open Until 04/01

I am pleased to announce that The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is now accepting nominations for the 2022 Benjamin Cooper Academic Ambassador Awards. The Cooper Awards, which recognize those who contribute to the “spirit and honor of quizbowl competition,” will be presented at the ...
by Snom
Wed Dec 29, 2021 5:09 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)
Replies: 3
Views: 2124

Re: ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)

the email address listed in the first post was incorrect. I don't know how I didn't notice this sooner. sorry! the correct email for our club is columbiaquizbowl [at] gmail.com (I think the other one is Cornell's...). If you emailed us already please forward it to this one.
by Snom
Fri Dec 17, 2021 2:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)
Replies: 3
Views: 2124

Re: ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)

Field (teams/mods) as of 01/20/2022 Carnegie Mellon 1/0 Connecticut 1/0 Cornell 1/1 Gettysburg 1/0 Johns Hopkins 1/0 "Penne" 1/0 Syracuse 1/0 Virginia 1/0 Total 8/8 teams Update 1/20: The field is currently full with no teams on the waitlist, but may be expanded if more teams express thei...
by Snom
Fri Dec 17, 2021 2:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)
Replies: 3
Views: 2124

ARCADIA at Columbia (Online; 01/22/2022)

Columbia Quizbowl is pleased to announce that we are hosting the Upper Mid Atlantic mirror of ARCADIA on Saturday, January 22nd . Details: The tournament will take place online over Discord. A link to the server will be sent before the tournament. l, Albert Zhang, will serve as the tournament direct...
by Snom
Sun Jul 11, 2021 1:21 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2020-21 Groger Ranks Player Poll: RESULTS POSTED
Replies: 30
Views: 16190

Re: 2020-21 Groger Ranks Player Poll

One player that hasn't been mentioned above but really deserves a place on your ballot is Anish Kodali from Great Valley. (I'm sure many of you were already ranking him) Great Valley might not have played quite as much out of state, but they went completely undefeated in the PA circuit this season (...
by Snom
Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:57 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Maroon Bowl II @ The Internet (Hosted by Ridgewood High School) (1/17/2021)
Replies: 7
Views: 4062

Re: Maroon Bowl II @ The Internet (Hosted by Ridgewood High School) (1/17/2021)

For the sake of the teams playing this tournament on Sunday, I hope this tournament runs smoothly and a good time is had by all. Why is a tournament of this size, with many teams who have not played pyramidal quiz bowl ever or in many years, being run on SATURNALIA, a pre-nationals difficulty set? M...
by Snom
Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:58 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Packet Submission discussion
Replies: 28
Views: 10370

Re: Packet Submission discussion

Throwing an idea out there because this Discord discussion was the dumbest I've seen in a while. Would having something like a question writing workshop help the demographic of somewhat experienced players but inexperienced writers that the "anti-packet sub"bers on Discord are arguing face...
by Snom
Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:01 am
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
Replies: 106
Views: 95478

Re: Introducing YellowFruit.

Do you think you can add an import from SQBS feature in a future release for easy conversion? Not a programmer, so sorry if I just made an insanely hard suggestion. What is the use case for doing this? It's not necessarily that hard, but I haven't come with a reason to justify the work. Things like...
by Snom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 7)
Replies: 20
Views: 14484

Re: 2020 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 7)

LeoLaw wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2020 1:56 pm Are there any updates on the list of mirrors?
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(Obligatory I'm not associated in any way with ACF, but the forms and fields are linked in the Iowa and OSU mirror announcements in this forum)
by Snom
Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
Replies: 14
Views: 4939

Re: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes

Most of these are good additions to the rules, but there are a couple that seem unnecessarily rigid to me. Specifically, these two: Added Section DX.2.B: "Whether or not a player buzzed before, at, or within less than a syllable after the power mark is a matter of moderator judgment, and is no...
by Snom
Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes
Replies: 14
Views: 4939

Re: ACF Online Gameplay Rules Changes

Added Section E.4.A: “For an online tournament, a team shall direct a response to the moderator by prepending “Our answer is” to their answer. Moderators should only consider responses preceded by “Our answer is” or any other phrase designated by the TD. (For example, for a bonus part on Sextus Emp...
by Snom
Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:20 am
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: QB Stats+ Browser Extension
Replies: 0
Views: 4546

QB Stats+ Browser Extension

Download links: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qb-stats-plus/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/qb-stats+/bmonliomcipdifgfcdimklccompoflbm Spent some time over the past few weeks working on a browser extension to improve the quiz bowl stats viewing experience by adding some n...
by Snom
Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: IKEA Northeast Announcement (10/24)
Replies: 8
Views: 5203

Re: IKEA Northeast Announcement (10/24)

High Dependency Unit wrote: Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:17 pm Can we see the field?
This sheet has fields for all IKEA mirrors (unless something has changed recently, in which case please correct me Will).
by Snom
Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata
Replies: 21
Views: 3140

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata

The tossup on cymbals allows for a prompt on "drums" despite "bass drum" being clued in the TU (the other team converted it off of this prompt after power). Not sure if this is a mistake or not, but thought I should mention it.
by Snom
Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:18 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33331

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

I'm becoming more convinced that Zoom tournaments need something other than the Zoom chat to handle buzzes. I was trying my hardest to notice buzzes but Zoom's minimalist chat interface makes it really hard to see them without just taking your eye from the packet every few seconds. A kind of ridicu...
by Snom
Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10387

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

A few other nitpicks from packet 1: From the tossup on black body “One of these systems is responsible for the glow seen in solids above the Draper point.” As far as I can tell, the “Draper point” is a somewhat vague and non specific temperature determined by Draper as the point where he could see a...
by Snom
Sun Sep 27, 2020 10:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10387

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

there's an error on Steppenwolf from Round 1 where the tossup says "Hermione" instead of Hermine. 10. This character grabs ahold of a man’s hair which then turns into a comet and carries this character through a “rarefied and glacial atmosphere." This character sees a war between cars...
by Snom
Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl
Replies: 11
Views: 4821

Re: Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl

And at almost every event with a camera policy, some people have not been able to have their video on. Are they not going to be allowed to play? So far, no TD I know has been this stringent. But it's worth considering. Especially since "camera off" tends to be contagious. Once people see ...
by Snom
Sun Sep 27, 2020 3:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl
Replies: 11
Views: 4821

Wider camera requirements for online quiz bowl

I originally made a few posts on the Discord about this last week, but in the end decided that the consequences outweighed the drawbacks. After more incidents this past week and encouragement from some Discord posters, I have decided to propose this on the forums to gather feedback. The proposal: Al...
by Snom
Tue Sep 15, 2020 3:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Impossible Lair - Old Videogame Tournament - 9/25/20
Replies: 22
Views: 4959

Re: Impossible Lair - Old Videogame Tournament - 9/26/20

(mentioned this on Discord briefly, but thought it would be better here) Since LIT Northeast is being played during the day next Saturday, is there any chance this tournament could be played at night à la traditional trash side events? I was not aware this tournament existed before last night, so I...
by Snom
Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Impossible Lair - Old Videogame Tournament - 9/25/20
Replies: 22
Views: 4959

Re: Impossible Lair - Old Videogame Tournament - 9/26/20

(mentioned this on Discord briefly, but thought it would be better here) Since LIT Northeast is being played during the day next Saturday, is there any chance this tournament could be played at night à la traditional trash side events? I was not aware this tournament existed before last night, so I ...
by Snom
Wed Jul 29, 2020 1:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33331

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

Addendum to Karan's suggestions. Hopefully someone can test if increasing a channel's bitrate helps with audio cutoff issues; I'm not sure what such testing would look like but I'm more than happy to help anyone who has any test method ideas. My anecdotal experience from running a few Discord server...
by Snom
Tue Jul 21, 2020 1:51 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Chris Ray vs. Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering | 2006
Replies: 2
Views: 5838

Re: Chris Ray vs. Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering | 2006

It has come to my attention that all the audio after the 15:05 mark is missing. This is true of the file hosted on ASU/KAET servers (confirmed through multiple downloads) and is also true when played back through the flash video player present on the website in 2009 when the old URLs are edited to t...
by Snom
Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:32 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Chris Ray vs. Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering | 2006
Replies: 2
Views: 5838

Chris Ray vs. Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering | 2006

It seems it's the time to dig up the lost internet history of Quiz Bowl past. While I was three when this game occurred and wouldn't play quiz bowl for almost a decade, as Mik Larsen noted on Discord: "quizbowl loves to beat Chris Ray jokes into the ground for whatever reason, thus it became pa...
by Snom
Wed Apr 15, 2020 5:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2020)
Replies: 37
Views: 13288

Re: Where are you going to college next year? (2020)

I'm headed to Columbia University (CC)!
by Snom
Sat May 18, 2019 11:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Florida Spring Tournament Specific Question Request and Discussion
Replies: 11
Views: 793

Re: 2019 Florida Spring Tournament Specific Question Request and Discussion

I remember the Hegel tossup near the end had a super early drop of "aufhebung" which I feel should probably be well out of power even on hard HS difficulty. I got tripped up bc I thought it was bait then lost a race the next clue :/ Could I see that TU?
by Snom
Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: CAST General Discussion
Replies: 7
Views: 558

Re: CAST General Discussion

Played CAST at Penn Manor yesterday. Overall very much liked it (actually the first non-NAQT non-novice tournament I've played at). Thought the bonuses were all very good for the difficulty. My main complaint (which may be totally unwarranted given my lack of QB experience) is the rather significan...
by Snom
Sun Feb 10, 2019 1:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: CAST General Discussion
Replies: 7
Views: 558

Re: CAST General Discussion

Played CAST at Penn Manor yesterday. Overall very much liked it (actually the first non-NAQT non-novice tournament I've played at). Thought the bonuses were all very good for the difficulty. My main complaint (which may be totally unwarranted given my lack of QB experience) is the rather significant...
by Snom
Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:07 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Quinterest.org seems to be down
Replies: 4
Views: 6557

Re: Quinterest.org seems to be down

I would suggest using Raynor's QuizDB.org instead of Quinterest

Due to my inability to read I completely missed that you mentioned quizbug
by Snom
Sun Jun 03, 2018 5:46 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: How Much Do You Study?
Replies: 8
Views: 8668

Re: How Much Do You Study?

Whatever it is, certainly not enough
by Snom
Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:28 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Help Debugging Human-Computer Cooperation Quiz Bowl Webapp
Replies: 2
Views: 6107

Re: Help Debugging Human-Computer Cooperation Quiz Bowl Weba

Getting a question early that the bot isn't even close to getting right feels good every time :lol:
by Snom
Fri Oct 13, 2017 8:37 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
Replies: 110
Views: 112493

Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"

something like:

Code: Select all

UPDATE tossups SET formatted_text = replace(formatted_text, "(*)</b>)", "(*)</b>");
? Well, with correct field and table names of course :razz:
by Snom
Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:30 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
Replies: 110
Views: 112493

Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"

Oh, and also for some reason all the end power markers look like this:

(*))

for me... I don't think that's how it's supposed to look?
by Snom
Sun Oct 08, 2017 8:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Arguing for a standard packet format v1
Replies: 3
Views: 4055

Re: Arguing for a standard packet format v1

What if you just made a standard quiz bowl packet writer with a standardized YAML format or something

Half the quiz bowl packet PDFs/DOCXs are super bland anyway :lol:
by Snom
Sun Oct 08, 2017 2:48 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
Replies: 110
Views: 112493

Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"

PDF parsing is still screwed up? Almost all of the questions have weird formatting glitches and stuff...
by Snom
Wed Feb 01, 2017 1:41 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: QuizGuru - Robot that reads random questions to you
Replies: 9
Views: 6457

Re: QuizGuru - Robot that reads random questions to you

The problem is said username/password is the admin user and has edit access to the database...

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DROP TABLE [name of table] anyone?
by Snom
Mon Jan 23, 2017 8:52 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: QuizGuru - Robot that reads random questions to you
Replies: 9
Views: 6457

Re: QuizGuru - Robot that reads random questions to you

jrachele: I'm not sure the quinterest people would like you leaking the username and password to their MySQL database :lol:

You might want to clone the repository to an SQLite file or something (PM me if you want my dump)
by Snom
Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Nittany Lion Novice II @ Penn State University (11/12/16)
Replies: 5
Views: 4711

Re: Nittany Lion Novice II @ Penn State University (11/12/16

https://i.imgur.com/IapAeoN.png

(I had some trouble with Milton Hershey and their subs... will update when fixed)