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by krollo
Wed Jan 25, 2023 3:07 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Who's Doing CO This Year?
Replies: 31
Views: 8244

Re: Who's Doing CO This Year?

Would also be happy to write; provisionally interested in editing like 1/1 or something depending on what other people sign up for.
by krollo
Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:24 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 3256

Re: 2022 ACF Winter – Thanks and General Discussion

An overall survey on the 2022 ACF Winter set is available here - we'd really appreciate any responses.
by krollo
Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:25 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 5386

Re: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion

While I wait for the HSQB upload to be approved the packets are available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
by krollo
Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:23 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 3256

Re: 2022 ACF Winter – Thanks and General Discussion

While I wait for the HSQB upload to be approved the packets are available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
by krollo
Sun Nov 06, 2022 2:30 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 5386

2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion

This is the specific question discussion thread for ACF Winter 2022. In the modern era discussion threads seem to become more and more obsolete, which is a great shame: I learned a lot about editing (and posting) from reading old discussion threads on here, and Discord chats are far less accessible ...
by krollo
Sun Nov 06, 2022 2:29 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 12
Views: 3256

2022 ACF Winter – Thanks and General Discussion

This is the general discussion thread for ACF Winter 2022. Thanks to all 151 teams who played it, and especially to all the staffers and coordinators who gave up their Saturdays to help it run so smoothly. In the modern era discussion threads seem to become more and more obsolete, which is a great s...
by krollo
Tue Sep 20, 2022 4:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
Replies: 7
Views: 7180

Re: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)

I've added the team registration form and the staffer registration form, as well as a field list spreadsheet, to the main post. I've also updated the list of hosts in the first post - registration forms for the new sites will be up in a week or so. We're still looking for hosts in the following regi...
by krollo
Sun Sep 18, 2022 2:45 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
Replies: 7
Views: 7180

Re: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)

A reminder that the second packet submission deadline is today.
by krollo
Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
Replies: 7
Views: 7180

Re: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)

I've updated the lists of hosts in the first post - registration forms for those sites will be up in a week or so. We're still looking for hosts in the following regions: Southeast Midwest South Central California Northwest Eastern Canada UK If you're interested in hosting a site in any of those reg...
by krollo
Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
Replies: 7
Views: 7180

Re: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)

A reminder that the first packet submission deadline is tomorrow.
by krollo
Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:13 pm
Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Playtesting
Replies: 0
Views: 3126

2022 ACF Winter: Playtesting

We're looking for playtesters for 2022 ACF Winter. For the moment, we're only looking for people without a current school affiliation (though depending on numbers I may relax this later). I'm intending on holding two main phases of playtesting: one in either the second or third week of September foc...
by krollo
Sun Aug 28, 2022 4:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
Replies: 7
Views: 7180

2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)

This is the official announcement for 2022 ACF Winter, which will be held on November 5th, 2022. Like last year’s set, this set will target a difficulty halfway between ACF Fall and ACF Regionals. The tournament will be head edited by me, Joseph Krol. The subject editors will be: Eric Mukherjee – Bi...
by krollo
Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:09 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Winter - Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 10
Views: 4227

Re: 2021 ACF Winter - Thanks and General Discussion

I edited World Lit, VFA and OFA (except opera) for this set – hopefully they were enjoyable! First of all I'd like to say thanks to the other editors for their help during set production, especially Tim and Nick whose comments and criticisms were consistently very useful. Thanks too to everyone who ...
by krollo
Mon Sep 13, 2021 3:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COOT 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 5273

Re: COOT 2021

If anyone is still interested in hosting a mirror of COOT 2021 please let me know either here or on Discord by Wednesday 1700 BST. If not, we'll post the packets then and people will be free to discuss/compliment/rant/insult as they wish.
by krollo
Tue Feb 16, 2021 3:31 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: TAKETHAT (popular music tournament) open for mirrors
Replies: 2
Views: 4026

TAKETHAT (popular music tournament) open for mirrors

We’re pleased to announce TAKETHAT, a tossup-only tournament on popular music written by Joseph Krol, Theo Howe and Isaac Renert. The first mirror, played by UK teams, took place this weekend and was very well received, and we'd be delighted to have it mirrored in the US (we're also planning at leas...
by krollo
Sun Jan 10, 2021 7:44 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 FLopen - Scrimmage of on Final Three Packets for College Teams
Replies: 6
Views: 2029

Re: Scrimmage of on Final Three Packets for College Teams

According to the poll Sunday, 1/10 is the most popular date, so we will run the scrimmage on that date starting at 1 PM EST . We will be using the "main site" Discord server, since many team participating are already in that server. I will send out links to this server a few days before t...
by krollo
Fri Dec 25, 2020 7:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 FLopen - Scrimmage of on Final Three Packets for College Teams
Replies: 6
Views: 2029

Re: Scrimmage of on Final Three Packets for College Teams

Cambridge would definitely be interested, too.
by krollo
Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COOT 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 5273

Re: COOT 2021

Just a reminder that this set will be available for mirrors from February 13th - get in contact with us if you're interested in hosting one in your area.
by krollo
Fri Aug 21, 2020 4:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COOT 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 5273

Re: COOT 2021

AGoodMan wrote: Tue Aug 18, 2020 12:54 pm Will the set have powers?
Yep.
by krollo
Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COOT 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 5273

Re: COOT 2021

2/2 Chemistry and Other Science, broken down over the set as: 12/12 Chemistry 8/8 Maths 3/3 Compsci 2/2 Earth Science 1/1 Miscellaneous Am I reading it correctly that there will be, at maximum, two pure astronomy questions in the set? We intend to include a lot of what would ordinarily be classed a...
by krollo
Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:43 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CamO 2020 available for mirrors
Replies: 6
Views: 2914

CamO 2020 available for mirrors

Cambridge University Quiz Society are pleased to announce that the Cambridge Open set is now available for mirrors. This set is approximately Regs+ difficulty, and in a break from previous CamOs consists of 22/22 packets with 7-8 line powermarked tossups. The distribution is listed at the end of thi...
by krollo
Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:29 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 66
Views: 14368

Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion

Thanks to all the authors for putting together what I think is my favourite of all the hard tournaments I've played. The only question that really bothered me on a factual basis was, funnily enough, the very first bonus of the tournament, on 'books artlovers might use'. While I actively like the ide...
by krollo
Sat Apr 27, 2019 5:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2019
Replies: 92
Views: 63971

Re: Player Poll 2019

A few people from Cambridge who might have slipped under the radar: Richard Freeland - In addition to reliably getting any Old Testament, and most New Testament, content early on, he has excellent coverage on essentially all of myth, possibly the best in the UK. He's also terrifyingly good at classi...
by krollo
Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Replies: 59
Views: 30533

Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?

I thought I'd give a few suggestions on this from the perspective of a rather different mathematical education system. In short, math s degrees in the UK tend to have a very significant proportion of applied – my first-year syllabus was about half-and-half, and I've personally ended up studying almo...
by krollo
Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CamO 2019 available for mirrors
Replies: 2
Views: 1742

Re: CamO 2019 available for mirrors

(1/1) Other Anglosphere Literature (US-dominated) (1/1) European Literature (0.8/0.8) World/CL Literature Will things like English-language Nigerian literature go under "Anglosphere" or "World"? Also, will US literature not written in English be under Anglosphere? It's (a little...
by krollo
Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: CamO 2019 available for mirrors
Replies: 2
Views: 1742

CamO 2019 available for mirrors

I'm happy to announce that the latest instalment of Cambridge Open is now available for mirrors. It went down well at the UK site a month ago, and we've made improvements to the set based on that since. It's a similar difficulty to previous iterations, around Penn Bowl, though this set is hopefully ...
by krollo
Fri Dec 14, 2018 7:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Is Festivus happening?
Replies: 11
Views: 6315

Re: Is Festivus happening?

I have 20-tossup packet of 'Literary Elements' I'm up for reading, probably around Regs difficulty.
by krollo
Fri Feb 16, 2018 8:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 Oxford Open - Question Feedback
Replies: 8
Views: 777

Re: Question Feedback

These things always seem to end up a bit negative, so I'll start by saying this was an immensely fun tournament. Of course, there was a bit of variation at times, but almost all the questions were perfectly well-written, with a lot of original ideas. As regards specific issues I remember: the 'stati...