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- Thu Feb 11, 2021 10:47 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Announcement: STROT (Stony Brook Open Trash) Summer 2021
- Replies: 0
- Views: 342
Announcement: STROT (Stony Brook Open Trash) Summer 2021
Hello all! We at Stony Brook are pleased to announce that we are producing a trash tournament, STony bRook Open Trash (STROT), to be played in Summer 2021. The set is written by members of the Stony Brook team and is head edited by me. Stony Brook will host a Discord tournament of the set sometime i...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:09 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Stony Brook Scrimmages
- Replies: 2
- Views: 479
Re: Stony Brook Scrimmages
Stony Brook's meetings this semester are on Wednesdays 7:30-8:30pm and Fridays 5-6pm so we are open to scrimmages on any of those days. If those don't work out for your team, we can also do weekends. Currently, we're planning to hold the scrims over Zoom, but I've bounced around the idea of making a...
- Tue Feb 02, 2021 7:58 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Stony Brook Scrimmages
- Replies: 2
- Views: 479
Stony Brook Scrimmages
Hi everyone! We at Stony Brook are interested in getting more in touch with the community and are open to scrimmage with other college teams out there. Most of our team is relatively new to collegiate quiz bowl, but are interested in engaging with other teams. If you're interested in scrimmaging wit...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 9:09 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1252
Re: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
Congratulations to Hunter A for coming in 1st place! Also congratulations to West Essex and Randolph A for coming in 2nd and 3rd place respectively! Full stats can be seen here https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6676/ Category stats can be seen here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oIfPWwG...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:53 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1252
Re: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
Outside staffers will be paid $20. Sign up with this form https://forms.gle/UhFU7DDPbRdV9tUG7
Make sure to get registrations in!
Make sure to get registrations in!
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:18 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1252
Re: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
Less than two weeks away til this tournament! Get your registrations in if you haven't already!
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 7:16 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1252
Re: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
Important Update:
This tournament is going to take place over Zoom rather than Discord and Buzzin.Live will be used as a buzzer system. Both Zoom and Buzzin.Live are free to use.
This tournament is going to take place over Zoom rather than Discord and Buzzin.Live will be used as a buzzer system. Both Zoom and Buzzin.Live are free to use.
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:59 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1252
Re: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
Teams cannot have won 3 or more high school tournaments (at any level) in a school year and cannot have scored 50+ ppg at a novice tournament, 30+ ppg at a regs tournament, or 10+ ppg at a nats tournament. Teams can ask for the tournament director to grant exceptions. Do you mean for the 50/30/10 p...
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:16 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1252
Re: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
Field
(# of teams/# of staffers)
Randolph (2/0)
Smithtown East (2/0)
West Egg (1/1)
Hunter (2/0)
West Essex (1/0)
Smithtown West (1/0)
(# of teams/# of staffers)
Randolph (2/0)
Smithtown East (2/0)
West Egg (1/1)
Hunter (2/0)
West Essex (1/0)
Smithtown West (1/0)
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:16 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1252
MOQBA Novice Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (1/9/21)
I am pleased to announce that Stony Brook will be hosting a high school novice tournament on January 9, 2021. The tournament will be using the MOQBA Novice set . Date & Time The tournament will take place on January 9, 2021 and will begin at 10 am ET . Location The tournament will take place onl...
- Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:43 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: ACRO-Demia Online Tournament - 11/15/20
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3172
Re: ACRO-Demia Online Tournament - 11/15/20
Will free agents have to assemble their own team or will the TD make teams consisting of free agents?
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 9:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2110
Re: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
Thank you to all who participated in this tournament! We hope you all enjoyed! Thank you to all the staffers who put on a great tournament! Also special thanks to Michael Kearney for co-TDing and making sure everything ran smoothly. Congratulations to Brandeis A for coming in 1st place! Also congrat...
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 4:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2110
Re: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
Logistics emails have been sent to staff and teams. If you have not received one, please notify me ASAP
- Tue Oct 13, 2020 9:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2110
Re: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
This tournament is in need of staffers. If you are interested, please email [email protected]
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2110
Re: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
Since the UNC site is already at 19 teams, does that mean one of those teams and any additional teams from the Lower Mid-Atlantic that want to play ACF Fall will be moved to play at this site? How are you going to decide who plays at which site? Sorry for the late reply. At this time, I am not exac...
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2110
Re: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
Update: This tournament is now the overflow site for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. This tournament will be co directed by Michael Kearney.
Original post has been edited to reflect these changes
Original post has been edited to reflect these changes
- Wed Sep 30, 2020 9:08 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: PACE Online Tournament Training Sessions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 911
Re: PACE Online Tournament Training Sessiosn
Have you considered recording the training sessions for those who cannot attend on the given dates?
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 4:54 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: TJ Electronic Scoresheets
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2812
Re: TJ Electronic Scoresheets
Stony Brook used these scoresheets for our latest tournament. They are very intuitive, especially for TDs. Occasionally we had some problems where the scoresheet would display VALUE in the total score columns. Later on in the tournament, we discovered that one of the teams had to be on the left side...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2167
Re: A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
Also can this be moved to collegiate discussion?
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 5:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2167
A Statement on Stony Brook Quiz Bowl
As some may know, Stony Brook hosted the northeast mirror of LIT on September 26. There were a decent amount of problems for me to step back and reassess everything. I was the co tournament director and the sole stat keeper for the tournament and it can be concluded that I was to blame for most of t...
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:32 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
- Replies: 64
- Views: 16518
Re: Introducing YellowFruit.
My YellowFruit was working fine until I went to export the full report. Then it froze for about 2 minutes and finally crashed. When I tried to reopen it, all that came up was a java script error. I can't seem to open any of the files I saved to the program.
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
First and foremost, I would like to thank everyone who took part in this tournament! I hope everyone enjoyed it. With that being said... during the tournament, players private messaged tournament directors via Discord to express their concern at possible cheating going on. After reading the concerns...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 8:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
We will not be accepting any more registrations. We have an official field of 30 teams. Logistics emails have been sent. If you have not received one, let me know. There will be a staff meeting on Friday 9/25 at 8pm ET. If you cannot make that time, then come in at 8:15 am on Saturday morning. There...
- Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
As of 9/19, all teams on the wait list have been placed into the field. We actually still have one spot left . If any school wants to fill that last spot, please sign up ASAP. First come, first serve. We also still need some more staffers. If any teams want to provide a staffer, please let me know A...
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
Just added waitlist to field postCan you publicize the wait list?
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
To account for bonuses, we have changed the start time to 9 am ET. Anyone interested in staffing can sign up with this form. https://forms.gle/ALmJRjuqNgbXvvmg6 This form is for outside staffers not affiliated with a team competing at this tournament. Outside staffers will be paid $20 USD. (We have ...
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
Outside staffers that are not affiliated with a team participating in this tournament will be paid $20 USD. Please either respond to this thread or email [email protected].com if you are interested. Although the 16 team field cap has been met, schools may still register. They will be put on a wait l...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
I’ve made an error in the eligibility for this tournament. Closed high school teams ARE allowed to play this mirror. Original post edited to reflect this.
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
We’re about 2 weeks out until the tournament. Get those registrations in!
- Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2110
2020 ACF Fall at Stony Brook University (10/17/2020)
I am pleased to announce that the Northeast overflow Mid-Atlantic and Northeast site of 2020 ACF Fall will be held at Discord on Saturday, October 17, 2020. The tournament will take place virtually on Discord. The opening meeting will begin at 9:45 am ET and gameplay will begin at 10 am ET. I, Jade ...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 5:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
Due to complications with Stony Brook's Student Government, we actually won't be able to accept payments until the day of the tournament, Sept. 26. The day of the tournament, each team will receive an email with payment info that will include a summary of any possible discount. Also as of now, check...
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 10:53 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5032
Re: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
The Bail Project and Feeding America has received $350 each from this tournament. Thanks again for everyone who participated!
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 2:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
Re: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
Post reserved for field. Initial field of 16 teams but is subject to change based on interest and staffers. 30/30 (Number of teams, staffers) Bowdoin College (1/0) Harvard (3/0) MIT (4/0) Brandeis (5/1) Belmont (1/0) NYU (3/0) Yale (2/2) Brown (1/0) Illinois (2/1) Columbia (2/1) Cornell (2/0) Amhers...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4059
LIT Northeast Online Mirror Hosted by Stony Brook (Sept. 26)
I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. The quiz bowl team at Stony Brook University will be hosting an online mirror of Longhorn Invitation Tournament (LIT) on Saturday, September 26th, 2020. More information on the set is available with this link https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php...
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 10:33 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5032
Re: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
CAMP will be posted to the archives soon. If anyone is up for it, I can read some questions over the main qb Discord tomorrow. Thank you all for participating! Stats can be found here https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6504/ Please please please pay the entry fee if you haven't already. All the p...
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12531
Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
Has my email been received about hosting a northeast mirror? My email is [email protected]
Edit: spelling
Edit: spelling
- Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:12 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5032
Re: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
CAMP is still on for August 15. The logistics emails have been sent to both players and staff. If you haven't received it, email me at [email protected]
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 5:16 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl HS Regs 2020-2021 Available for Mirrors HS OPEN ONLY
- Replies: 0
- Views: 599
Wolfie Bowl HS Regs 2020-2021 Available for Mirrors HS OPEN ONLY
Hello all, (I finally got some wifi, thank god) I am happy to announce that we are making Wolfie Bowl available for mirrors for the 2020-2021 season. This set is available for HS OPEN ONLY mirrors. This means that the field will consist of chimera teams. We made this decision as to not over saturate...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 11:49 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5032
Re: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (August 8)
I’m sorry to say that I have to postpone CAMP due to my power being out from a storm. The electric company says it be back up for a couple days and I can’t run a tournament without a charged computer. The new date will be August 15. I apologize for an inconvenience. Feel free to reach out to me thro...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 12:31 am
- Forum: Northeast Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: Tri-State Area Date Claims 2020-2021
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2950
Re: Tri-State Area Date Claims 2020-2021
Stony Brook will host a mirror of MOQBA Novice on January 9th online and exclusively for the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut Tri State Area.
- Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:37 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: CAMP Online Film Tournament for Charity (NEW DATE August 15)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5032
Re: CAMP I Online Film Tournament for Charity (August 8)
I apologize for the lack of announcements and updates. This tournament is still happening and all participants should receive an email with the server link within the next couple days. Payments can be made via Venmo @Jade-Anderson-32 or PayPal [email protected].com From there, they will be donated to...
- Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5628
Re: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
Wolfie Bowl happened and it was a moderate success! I'd like to thank all the players who competed. Everyone did so well and it was great that the set was mostly well received. I'd also like to thank the staff. They did a great job even when stuff got confusing. We really couldn't have done it witho...
- Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5628
Re: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
Wolfie Bowl Subcategory Distribution EDIT: This has been fixed so that every value more or less adds up to the road category distribution. Some may not add up to exactly 1 because of decimals. I apologize for what might be the ugliest distribution ever. I also apologize for doing the math incorrect...
- Thu Jul 30, 2020 1:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5628
Re: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
IMPORTANT UPDATE We are two days away from the tournament. We need everyone to pay their entry fees as well as join the server. If you have not gotten the server link or unsure if you have paid yet, please contact [email protected].com There will be a staff meeting on Friday 3pm ET for staffers who ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2020 9:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5628
Re: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
Current field can be found here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13IyT3s_ugimpfzITg8KD81OGBNOSjLo5yIlIHiuIsAw/edit?usp=sharing Feel free to message questions about the field. We have a decent amount of teams on the waitlist. We'd love to extend the cap if we can get enough staffers. Any of tho...
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3615
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
Same as Mike Cheyne, I'd be happy to play for a team that isn't full
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5628
Re: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
We reached our max amount of teams. Any new teams that register will be put on the waiting list. Players who have not registered, but are on a registered team can still sign up. We have a couple spots open still for free agents. Also if you have less than four players of your team and unless you hav...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:31 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Playtesting for Wolfie Bowl
- Replies: 3
- Views: 618
Re: Playtesting for Wolfie Bowl
Traditionally, I think it's best to playtest high school questions only with players who are ineligible (i.e. graduated from high school.) Else, you create weird incentives and it's harder to reveal answers because there isn't as much contact between current potential players of this set and colleg...
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5628
Re: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
Ok I forgot to attach the file
If anyone has any questions, feel free to email or PM me
- Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Wolfie Bowl Online Tournament (August 1, 2020) [EXPANSION]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5628