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- Tue Feb 02, 2021 2:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4690
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
I thought that the set's content was by and large excellently formulated and executed, and I really loved the literature and arts in particular. There were so many questions that I would love to single out as having been excellent that I've forgotten some of them -- a good problem to have, to be sur...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: *NEW* ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3448
Re: *NEW* ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021 WORKSHOP
Mirrors:
Open playtest mirror - (2/6)
Northeast - Harvard (2/13)
Mid-Atlantic - Duke/UNC (2/20)
West Coast - Claremont Colleges (3/6)
Southeast - Florida (3/6)
Midwest - Minnesota (3/27)
Lower Midwest/Texas/Rockies - WUSTL (3/27)
High School - (5/1)
BSQC - TBD
Open playtest mirror - (2/6)
Northeast - Harvard (2/13)
Mid-Atlantic - Duke/UNC (2/20)
West Coast - Claremont Colleges (3/6)
Southeast - Florida (3/6)
Midwest - Minnesota (3/27)
Lower Midwest/Texas/Rockies - WUSTL (3/27)
High School - (5/1)
BSQC - TBD
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: *NEW* ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3448
Re: *NEW* ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021 WORKSHOP
The original post has been updated to reflect a new number of packets, a mirror fee, and a notice highlighting our use of Advanced Stats.
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:46 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5718
Re: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
was arrested one morning without having done anything wrong
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 1:37 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: MARCATo (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 9917
Re: MARCATo (Summer 2020)
I'd be willing to do that for this tournament once all mirrors have concluded. In the meantime, if you're burning to know what a particular clip is (in my portion of the set), you may message me. Chiming in to say that my DMs are also open if you want to ask about a clip from the popular music half...
- Wed Jul 22, 2020 5:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: *NEW* ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3448
*NEW* ANNOUNCEMENT: 2021 WORKSHOP
This is the new and official announcement for this year’s iteration of WORKSHOP , to be played in Spring 2021. Building on the successes of last year, we aim to produce a high-quality set at about 3 dots on Ophir's difficulty scale (similar to ACF Regionals) written by newer writers. We intend to c...
- Sat Jun 06, 2020 8:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Trash Questions in College Sets
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2771
Re: Trash Questions in College Sets
Trash can be historically important, but can pop culture not be important in the present? Can a 2020 regionals bonus on the WNBA not reflect a growing recognition of that league, its players, their advocacy? Isn't a question on Megan Rapinoe (as a player) be just as much a comment on her broader ex...
- Thu May 28, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3318
Re: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
I heartily endorse Ganon's post; I don't have much to add because I think it pretty comprehensively lays out the systemic issues with quizbowl pop culture writing. It's really quite clear what kind of people make up most quizbowl writing corps when players have to sit through the umpteenth question ...
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38261
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
All this talk about proscriptions feel odd to me. Whether it's in poker, where it's common to use silly sounding terms like "angle shots" to describe acts of questionable integrity, to the goofy sounding term of "doping" to describe the serious act of using drugs to cheat, or &q...
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5855
Re: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
Seeing as the average team plays about half the bonuses in the tournament, 13 rounds of tossups is about the same amount of quizbowl as 9 rounds of tossups and bonuses. More if you're bad. I don't have a problem with paying the same amount. This is assuming that tossups and bonuses are equivalent w...
- Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:42 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5855
Re: SUN Open on Discord (April 19, 2020)
Has there been a decision made as to whether this tournament will be tossup-only or not? Also, has there been any consideration given to adjusting the tournament price if we just play tossups, in light of the fact that people presumably signed up under the impression that it would be run with bonuse...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 8008
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
I didn't get points for saying "the prologue to Hopscotch" for the bonus part on the Table of Instructions. Was this a moderator error (possibly because of a long or complicated answerline) or was this a genuine omission by the packet? If the latter, I think the answer line should be expa...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:26 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 66
- Views: 8008
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals: Specific Questions and Errata
Someone in the General Discussion thread brought up an example of “bait,” which was disappointingly more widespread than one question. Off the top of my head, the E minor question had a sentence along the lines of, if I recall correctly, “Victor Herbert’s second cello concerto in this key inspired ...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4690
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Hey everybody! I wanted to thank everybody for playing the set and for giving such helpful feedback -- publicly or privately -- as well as elucidate my editing philosophies on my categories (which, as outlined above, were World/Other Literature, Classical Music, and Popular Culture). In general, I s...
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 1:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England Discussion '19-'20
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2302
Re: New England Discussion '19-'20
I have a couple takes: - Acton-Boxborough should definitely be regarded as a threat to even nationally-contending teams -- last year, Basil received 5th place at IPNCT and narrowly beat Auburn in HSNCT prelims, and he will have had a whole year to improve on these results by the time nationals seaso...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 9:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2807
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Thanks and General Discussion
I thought that this set was overall very polished and enjoyable to play, and I particularly admired the inventive yet accessible ways that the editors incorporated salient topics centering on women / POC / other marginalized communities into the set's content. The literature, history, arts, and popu...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 3:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Plea for No More Excuses
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5846
Re: A Plea for No More Excuses
While I do strongly agree with this post overall and also believe that people should not be dropping the ball with regards to their set writing and editing commitments (having also worked on sets where people have dropped the ball and subsequently having had to spend time and labor to make up for it...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 10:57 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Literature "Progression"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4753
Re: Literature "Progression"
Although they're hardly exhaustive, NAQT's You Gotta Know lists are a great (and free!) place to start for all subjects. As far as progressing through the canon goes, it's simply not possible for one player to read every single work in the high school literature canon, so you should really just pick...
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11350
Re: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
This may be just me (due to having been on the losing end of the upset), but Williams upsetting Chicago at D2 ICT was pretty wild – their lead scorer Jonathan Williams got about a third of his powers for the entire tournament in that single game, handing us our only non-UMD loss. They went on to get...
- Wed May 15, 2019 10:46 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Help with HSQBRank - 2x check tournament list
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5907
Re: Help with HSQBRank - 2x check tournament list
DCC played FST at UChicago this past weekend, which appears to be unaccounted for.
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Discussion '18-19
- Replies: 76
- Views: 36406
Re: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Discussion '18-19
Based on my casual interest and general knowledge of the circuit, I would posit that Hunter will see the most success at HSNCT, followed by Ithaca and High Tech. The reason I would give Ithaca the edge here would be because they seem to be much stronger on the NAQT distribution (especially with Isai...
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 5:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8034
Re: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
Joseph then later PMed me (after the tournament) assuring that he did not have access to the email between when I sent the questions and when he played them. He also PMed my teammate Shawn a long explanation of his performance (which I excerpted below) that broadly claimed that he was confused abou...
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 4:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39943
Re: Player Poll 2019
It's my turn to shill! (As many have said above, this is by no means an exhaustive list.) - Ben Miller is a ridiculously amazing history player with iron-clad consistency, incredibly low neg numbers, and the ability to scale (he was also leading scorer on Chicago B at SGI and PIANO!). Grant Li is an...
- Wed Feb 20, 2019 9:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DII Midseason Poll
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8143
Re: DII Midseason Poll
It is worth noting that, as far as I know (I may be mistaken!), UCLA will not be fielding the roster that many assumed that they would at the season's outset, and Texas's D2 players will be playing D1, so voters should take these changes from the preseason into account. My quick take is that Chicago...
- Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:23 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: How to Approach Literature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6718
Re: How to Approach Literature
Especially if you're starting out, learning clues that come up for works and authors is crucial – I carded a ton of literature clues for novels and short fiction in May and July, and that definitely gave me a great foundation from which to expand my knowledge further while still getting me points. R...
- Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:03 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Discussion '18-19
- Replies: 76
- Views: 36406
Re: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Discussion '18-19
Barrington HS, being in Rhode Island, is also outside the region of the poll. However, they exclusively play tournaments in the NY region. As such, I decided to make an exception for them. My decision in this matter is final. Wait, what? Barrington has played two tournaments and registered for two ...
- Thu Nov 29, 2018 2:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England Discussion '18-'19
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11371
Re: New England Discussion '18-'19
To those I've met and befriended over the last two years up here: thank you for your collegiality, conversation, and passion. I'll be leaving my alma mater at the end of next week to begin a job in Washington, D.C., but will remain forever grateful for the opportunity to rejoin — as a coach — a str...
- Sat Nov 17, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 BLISS I Open for Mirrors
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8017
Re: 2019 BLISS I Open for Mirrors
It appears that the radio silence after Charles' post was, as you'd expect, not a good sign; word from a friend of mine at Blue Ridge today is that rounds 1-5 didn't make it to the tournament host until 7:15 this morning, round 6 didn't arrive until just before lunch, and round 7 didn't arrive at a...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:26 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 11122
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
As for the music, I agree with the above comments that the score clues probably could have been used in a more consistent manner as they ranged from the very recognizable opening chord of Don Giovanni as the first clue for a Don Giovanni TU to a long, drawn-out score clue from Liebestraume in a bon...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Boston Latin Tournament (BLT) I (Scobol Solo/SCOP 9 Mirror) 10/27/18
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9039
Re: Boston Latin Tournament (BLT) I (Scobol Solo/SCOP 9 Mirror) 10/27/18
[Neg5] also alleviated the need for a stats room and runners. This, in my opinion, is one of the biggest pitfalls about Neg5 (aside from the obvious issues with stats accessibility, overall glitchiness, and so on). A well-run tournament will almost always have a separate control room with at least ...
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Groger Ranks 2018-19
- Replies: 45
- Views: 29944
Re: Groger Ranks 2018-19
I'm curious to see the results if A-sets were counted, as they are in HSQBRank (I don't believe MSNCT is). Would the rankings change significantly?
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 12:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Discussion '18-19
- Replies: 76
- Views: 36406
Re: NY/NJ/CT/PA/DE Discussion '18-19
At least based on PHSAT results, I think it's fair to say that Hunter has recovered from their losses much quicker than anticipated, winning the tournament outright while missing Brian Lu.
- Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:08 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England Discussion '18-'19
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11371
Re: New England Discussion '18-'19
I think the top 5 teams right now in New England including NY are the following: 1. Hunter From what I've seen from his forum posts, Daniel's talent is only eclipsed by his humility in saying that several teams will surpass his team. Let's face it. Hunter is and has been the best high school team i...
- Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stevenson Memorial Tournament (SMT) @ Harvard (3/31/2018)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9520
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 38361
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Could you post a few of the least converted tossup answerlines? I have a feeling that the Emcee from Cabaret tossup might be one of them.
- Wed Aug 08, 2018 6:16 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Rebuilding a Circuit
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7260
Re: Rebuilding a Circuit
I think it could be worth it to contact the High School Quiz Show folks and ask if you and a couple others can advertise quizbowl, NAQT, local tournaments, and other related things at the Super Sunday tryouts (or even prior to them). While HSQS doesn't make a concerted effort to aid in the spread of...
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 11:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21598
Re: Boston Summer Open I
I also had a ton of fun, and I was very impressed at how well the whole day was run, especially considering how coagulated the schedule seemed to be (with back-to-back main events and side events and whatnot). Thank you to Raynor and co. for organizing this!
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:28 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Turning a small, mediocre team into a good one
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4146
Re: Turning a small, mediocre team into a good one
My team at the beginning of this past school year epitomized mediocrity. The first three tournaments I ever attended (March, October, and November 2017), we finished smack dab in the middle of the field. I was frustrated because I knew we had the potential to be good (my teammate was the second high...
- Sat Jul 28, 2018 5:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21598
Re: Boston Summer Open I
I'm on a team with Peter and Alex Schmidt and we are looking for a fourth. If anyone is interested, please email me at [email protected].com. Thanks! I know some high school players in the area that might sign up as free agents in the coming days; this information might be helpful for anyone looking...
- Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England Discussion '18-'19
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11371
Re: New England Discussion '18-'19
Thanks for doing this, Wonyoung. A couple of quick things to add from the New Hampshire end. I agree with your assessments here for the most part here. I would say though that when Plymouth did get it's full A-team together with the seniors, we were very tough to beat, as witnessed by a runner-up f...
- Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England Discussion '18-'19
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11371
Re: New England Discussion '18-'19
As someone who will be leaving this circuit and is now merely an observer (although I intend to continue to help from afar with circuit building efforts in whatever capacity I can), I'm excited to see what is on the horizon for New England quizbowl. I agree with all of Michael's points regarding CT,...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 38361
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Some animals have an organ called the VNO to augment this sense. It is often impaired in patients with Kartagener syndrome. The cribiform plate carries the first cranial nerve, which is named for this sense. This sense's signals bypass the thalamus, and go to a namesake (*) bulb after stimulation o...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 7:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 National Quiz Bowl Awards
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22289
Re: 2018 National Quiz Bowl Awards
Whoops. Ignore me!Deviant Insider wrote:FAKE NEWS! My ballot was cast after NASAT.Thiccasso's Guernthicca wrote:I think I remember hearing that the nomination ballots were cast before NASAT, so anything NASAT-related probably didn't have much of an effect on the nominees list.
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 6:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 National Quiz Bowl Awards
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22289
Re: 2018 National Quiz Bowl Awards
It would also be nice to have clear criteria regarding what the awards are specifically looking for. Does this consider PPG? Power count? Leadership ability? Finish at nationals? I think the area of confusion for many of us is inconsistent criteria- an indefensible omission in the mind of someone j...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 8:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Open NASAT Mirror
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4712
Re: Penn Open NASAT Mirror
Is this rescheduled date final? I know of several people (including myself) who were planning to play this mirror, but are no longer able to due to the rescheduling.
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 4:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Player Poll Results
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14945
Re: HS Player Poll Results
In a player poll like this, we wouldn't expect players such as Shripad or any of the other players we mentioned to crack the top 40. However, each of these players probably deserved to receive at least a couple votes. These players had better overall numbers than some of those in the "others r...
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 3:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Player Poll Results
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14945
Re: HS Player Poll Results
There really isn't a way to get your name out there when you're on a slightly above average team (such as Irvine) in a circuit dominated by the same two/three teams every year. Yes, there is. Max Shatan of Bard (and, by the way, I would like to make clear that to call both Irvine and Bard "sli...
- Tue Jun 19, 2018 9:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HS Player Poll Results
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14945
Re: HS Player Poll Results
In retrospect, Ethan was pretty underrated here.
- Mon Jun 18, 2018 4:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NASAT Online Mirror
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8283
Re: NASAT Online Mirror
I'm also tentatively interested.
- Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:21 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14854
Re: PACENSC 2018 - A Pokemon Set @HSNCT
Late, but I really enjoyed playing this set! It was great to revisit the halcyon days of my childhood (and depressing once I realized how much of my childhood Pokémon knowledge I had forgotten), so thanks so much for putting this together. As a side note, do you have any idea when/if stats will be p...