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by excessive dismemberment
Tue Aug 29, 2023 5:36 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: World Music Audio Set
Replies: 8
Views: 5003

Re: World Music Audio Set

Has this been played at any point? Is there a chance of another reading/mirror of this?
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Apr 17, 2023 12:33 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2023)
Replies: 12
Views: 9232

Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2023)

I will be starting a math phd at the University of Delaware, and I intend to play as much as my schedule allows.
by excessive dismemberment
Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:21 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
Replies: 27
Views: 8103

Re: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion

Regarding my own categories, I would simply like to apologize for their problems. Biology had too many unusual answerlines and difficult clues. Although I tried to make them easier than my questions for 2020 ACF Regionals, which were some of the hardest of that set, religion and mythology still had...
by excessive dismemberment
Sat Dec 18, 2021 3:48 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: Proposal for another way to deal with misconduct
Replies: 7
Views: 7161

Re: Proposal for another way to deal with misconduct

Also, since someone on Discord mentioned wanting clarification on the below text: Additionally, I suggest creating a public log (such a spreadsheet) tabulating who has sent an inquiry, under what capacity (e.g. “I am a TD asking about staffers for tournament X”), and whether they’ve received a resp...
by excessive dismemberment
Wed Nov 17, 2021 11:38 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)
Replies: 51
Views: 49018

Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2021)

Starting next semester, I will be at brandeis for their post-bacc math program, I'll be trying to play as much as possible
by excessive dismemberment
Wed Oct 06, 2021 6:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)
Replies: 14
Views: 11665

Re: Illinois Open (open to mirrors starting 11/13/2021)

I recognize that it's pretty hard to schedule mirrors this semester due to covid , but with mirrors starting in around 5 weeks, do you know if other mirrors are getting scheduled (selfishly, a northeast mirror in particular)?
by excessive dismemberment
Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Announcing the Clark Smith + Friends Side Event Series!
Replies: 6
Views: 1625

Re: Announcing the Clark Smith + Friends Side Event Series!

Similar to Mike, there's a few I'd like to play but really looking forward to the "ancient world" religion/mythology set
by excessive dismemberment
Sun Dec 06, 2020 3:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: PAveMEnT: A Remote Cooperation Audio Tournament (Winter 2020)
Replies: 31
Views: 12240

Re: PAveMEnT: A Remote Cooperation Audio Tournament (Winter 2020)

If this information is available and I just missed it, my bad, but can we get more info about the schedule of this tournament and how it'll really work?
by excessive dismemberment
Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:36 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Resobowl - A Charity Music Tournament for BLM (Good Call NYC)
Replies: 5
Views: 2483

Re: Resobowl - A Charity Music Tournament for BLM (Good Call NYC)

Resonator wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:38 am
Hip Hop and R&B (3/0)
- 70s-90s Hip Hop
- 70s-90s Hip Hop
- Contemporary Hip Hop and R&B
Did you mean to say "70s-90s Hip Hop" twice? Other than that and the questions Robert asked, this looks great
by excessive dismemberment
Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
Replies: 15
Views: 10909

Re: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement

InvadErGII wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:20 pm Yes! Our intention is to run it in the fall, presumably online. Watch this space for updates.
Great, looking forward to it
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Jul 20, 2020 1:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement
Replies: 15
Views: 10909

Re: ACRO-Demia: Global Announcement

Is this going to happen in some form (whether delayed or not)?
by excessive dismemberment
Tue May 26, 2020 11:52 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33259

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

Re: start time, I find it very unfair that the community expects West Coast players to get up super early, just so East Coast players don't have to stick around in the evening. The fact that West Coast players have put up with this over and over again in the past does not make it okay. As someone w...
by excessive dismemberment
Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:55 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: POLL - Cambridge Open Online (May 24th)
Replies: 20
Views: 4859

Re: POLL - Cambridge Open Online

Oh No You Didn't wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:53 pm I would like to play this and would not like to commit multiple days to this
seconding this
by excessive dismemberment
Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:15 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
Replies: 11
Views: 8626

Re: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed

I'm gonna talk about my time at ICT 2018, and in particular 2 rounds, one of which I got 0 points. In our last prelim game, we were playing UCSD, and it was looking like a fairly low scoring game. I had proceeded to contribute very little in the first half, and we were up something like 90-30. In th...
by excessive dismemberment
Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 60
Views: 6387

Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata

In the tossup about fire in belief, I buzzed in with “light” after the clue about Brahma and Vishnu’s race to the end of Shiva’s pillar of ‘this substance.’ I was negged, but as far as I can tell the pillar is referred to as a “pillar of light” more often than not—particularly in reference to the o...
by excessive dismemberment
Fri Nov 08, 2019 12:15 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 51
Views: 14551

Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata

[10] After the Æsir kill Thjazi and recover the apples, Odin attempts to appease Skadi by turning Thjazi’s eyes into one of these things. To resolve a paradox, Zeus turns Laelaps and the Teumessian fox into two of these objects. Sorry if I'm being nit-picky, and maybe this wasn't an issue in the ac...
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 51
Views: 14551

Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata

[10] The ghee, or clarified butter, consumed by Agni is produced by these animals. As these animals are considered sacred, Hindus do not consume their meat. ANSWER: cows [or cattle; or bulls] I'm all for questions on ghee and cows coming up, but this feels like a bit of a waste of a myth bonus part...
by excessive dismemberment
Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
Replies: 26
Views: 3626

Re: General Discussion Thread

As others have said, this set was quite fun, and the questions were often quite creative. I really enjoyed how the set was challenging without being oppressive. However, I don't think this tournament felt like it had a coherent idea of what difficulty it should be. I understand that not every questi...
by excessive dismemberment
Thu Jul 25, 2019 4:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20921

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

When is this running until on sunday?
by excessive dismemberment
Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:01 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Players Choice Awards
Replies: 52
Views: 37564

Re: Players Choice Awards

did this ever happen/is this happening?
by excessive dismemberment
Mon May 20, 2019 9:16 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2019
Replies: 92
Views: 63826

Re: Player Poll 2019

Auroni wrote: Mon May 20, 2019 8:22 pm Rudra Raganathan (1)
I appreciate the vote, but my last name is spelled "Ranganathan"

Edit: thanks Auroni, mods please delete
by excessive dismemberment
Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2019
Replies: 92
Views: 63826

Re: Player Poll 2019

- It shocks me that Halle Friedman hasn't been mentioned yet for visual arts. She is very capable of getting insane painting buzzes against members of Chicago A in practice, and her tournament stats reflect not just her depth in visual arts, but her lower-level humanities generalism as well (her PI...
by excessive dismemberment
Thu Apr 18, 2019 12:56 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MUSES Announcement
Replies: 22
Views: 11729

Re: MUSES Announcement

Illinois Admin wrote: Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:50 pm
2/2 Mythology (1/1 Greco-Roman, 1/1 Other Near East)
yes.
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ICT DI specific question discussion
Replies: 31
Views: 2473

Re: 2019 ICT DI specific question discussion

I have some specific complaints that will probably sound more negative on the tournament as a whole than I really am: - The clue in I think it was the coatlicue tossup about a goddess creating her son fully formed was negbait for Parvati, and could/should have been worded better. - The clue about An...
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Announcement: SHAWARMA II (visual movies) [winter 2019]
Replies: 23
Views: 13890

Re: Announcement: SHAWARMA II (visual movies) [winter 2019]

I am not a particularly good film player, but I greatly enjoyed it, and I'd definitely recommend it to others
by excessive dismemberment
Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292280

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the tossups on Priam and Vulcan please? The early clues in those seemed very hard (but it's possible I should just learn more) I'm happy to debate the merits of the lead-in clues for both (especially for Vulcan), but I would encourage you to learn especially about Gorgythion, whose &quo...
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292280

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Loved the idea of a tossup on harmoniums, but weren't you describing an indian instrument with an accordian part pretty early in the tossup? Unless it has changed since I last touched it, there's no indication that it has an accordion part in the clues about Hindustani music, merely that it can't d...
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292280

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Loved the idea of a tossup on harmoniums, but weren't you describing an indian instrument with an accordian part pretty early in the tossup? Unless it has changed since I last touched it, there's no indication that it has an accordion part in the clues about Hindustani music, merely that it can't d...
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292280

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the tossups on Priam and Vulcan please? The early clues in those seemed very hard (but it's possible I should just learn more) Also, I thought the degrees of freedom tossup seemed a bit half-baked as an idea for a tossup. The Arabian Horse Association clue seemed early in the FEMA tossup...
by excessive dismemberment
Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:31 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 50
Views: 9790

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion

This set was overall much more enjoyable than I expected. A lot of the questions were on really interesting subjects. I enjoyed the increase in world art content for what it's worth, but I also don't know much art in general so most of my views on art questions are just whether or not they sound coo...
by excessive dismemberment
Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
Replies: 5
Views: 4285

Re: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18

CPiGuy wrote: Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:11 pm
dtaylor4 wrote: Sun Dec 02, 2018 12:39 amStats?
Stats ...
Stats.

Thanks for your patience. Please let us know if there are any errors, and some combination of Nick, Conor, and me will fix them.
by excessive dismemberment
Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:49 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 53
Views: 26558

Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata

I might be wrong about this, but I thought mentioning Lava and Kusha first line in the Sita tossup was a bit early
by excessive dismemberment
Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:41 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
Replies: 5
Views: 4285

Re: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18

FIELD UPDATE: Totals: 32/19 Traverse City Central HS 2/2 Okemos High School 2/2 Monroe County Middle College 2/0 U of D Jesuit 1/1 DeWitt High School 2/2 Divine Child High School 2/0 Detroit Country Day School 2/1 Huron High School (New Boston) 2/0 Mercy High School 2/2 Skyline High School 1/1 Flat...
by excessive dismemberment
Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:13 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18
Replies: 5
Views: 4285

2018 Autumn Classic at the University of Michigan 12/1/18

Michigan Academic Competitions is pleased to again be hosting its annual Autumn Classic, which will take place on Saturday, December 1st, 2018. We will be having an initial field cap of 32 teams; the cap may increase depending on the availability of staffers. However, please register as early as pos...
by excessive dismemberment
Sun Sep 30, 2018 10:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 51
Views: 14523

Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the exact wording on the bonus on varna? I'm sure it was just me messing up, but I just want to make sure it was just me being silly by saying jati instead

Edit: Also do you mind showing the religion tossup on india? The christianity clues seemed quite interesting.
by excessive dismemberment
Sun Sep 30, 2018 9:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Replies: 10
Views: 6500

Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)

I would like to apologize for that. I do not believe that my teammate meant any harm when he said that (he is considered somewhat of a thought player, and I think failed to get any points on the more feminism-related bonuses), but yes, I or someone else should have said something. What he said is no...
by excessive dismemberment
Sun Sep 30, 2018 11:50 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Replies: 10
Views: 6500

Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)

Congrats to OSU A on winning this Mirror! Stats should be posted soon, and I hope no one had too many issues with the way this was run. Thank you all for coming out!
by excessive dismemberment
Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Replies: 10
Views: 6500

Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)

Registration meeting at 8:30 am tomorrow in 3347 Mason Hall. Looking forward to seeing all of you there!
by excessive dismemberment
Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Replies: 10
Views: 6500

Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)

Field updated, and it would be greatly appreciated if teams could register soon! This mirror is just 3 weeks away, and it would be really helpful for us to be able to reserve rooms. Hope to see you all there!
by excessive dismemberment
Fri Aug 17, 2018 1:09 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Replies: 10
Views: 6500

Re: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)

gimmedatguudsuccrose wrote:Will statistics for this tournament be posted on the database?

Yes they will, and the stats for EFT 2017 will be posted over the next couple of days
by excessive dismemberment
Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)
Replies: 10
Views: 6500

EFT at Michigan (09/29/2018)

Hello, I am pleased to announce that the University of Michigan will host a mirror of the 2018 Early Fall Tournament (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20808) on the 29th of September. The tournament will begin at 9 am in Mason Hall, with registration beginning at 8:15 am. Fee...
by excessive dismemberment
Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: WORLDSTAR errata/specific question discussion
Replies: 8
Views: 506

Re: WORLDSTAR errata/specific question discussion

I greatly enjoyed this tournament even though I'm not very good at most of the subjects in it. My one question that I have might be a bit pedantic, but in the question about Tamil Nadu, it asked for "this province" I think, and Tamil Nadu is a state as far as I know. I found that slightly ...
by excessive dismemberment
Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:19 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Boston Summer Open I
Replies: 59
Views: 30488

Re: Boston Summer Open I

Yeah this was a good time, it would be great if this could happen whenever I'm in town :party:
by excessive dismemberment
Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)
Replies: 22
Views: 9434

Re: Rutgers Summer Practices (Open to all)

I'd love to go to some of these if someone could give me a ride from either franklin park or princeton
by excessive dismemberment
Sat Jun 09, 2018 6:52 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NASAT Online Mirror
Replies: 27
Views: 10903

Re: NASAT Online Mirror

Yah, depending on weekend
by excessive dismemberment
Wed May 09, 2018 10:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Side Event Open: Organization
Replies: 27
Views: 13428

Re: Side Event Open: Organization

I'm also looking into running a Boston event, with a main event on Saturday (I'm thinking NASAT right now) + smaller events dotted throughout Saturday & Sunday. I'm not sure of the state of the MSU event, but would anyone/site be very against this happening? For reasons of redundancy, too far f...
by excessive dismemberment
Sat May 05, 2018 11:05 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Replies: 64
Views: 8246

Re: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion

Could you please post the bonus on Shiva, Yoni, etc from the first round I think? Thanks