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- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Booster Shot at WUSTL (4/13)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 545
Re: Booster Shot at WUSTL (4/13)
Thank you everybody for coming, and congratulations to Truman State (Fred Garvey, Donal Ryan) for clearing the field and winning this tournament! Further congratulations to our top individual scorers, Gabe Forrest (114.5 ppg), Fred Garvey (84.5 ppg), and Amith Punyala (54.5 ppg). Full stats can be f...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5692
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
The lead-in to the unit interval tossup is not unique to the unit interval; any closed interval can be the fiber of a compact Mobius strip over S-1. I think this clue came from the Wolfram page on fiber bundles, which is just giving an example fiber bundle construction of the Mobius strip (there are...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:19 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 597
Re: 21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)
Given that I've had requests for both Saturday and Sunday, I think I'll keep the time tomorrow but try to do a second reading on Sunday, if there's enough interest.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 597
21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)
I recently finished a packet on auditory FA of the 21st century. The questions are quite hard and intended to reward knowledge of music being commissioned and performed by ensembles today, though with plenty of clues based in the canon as well. I'd like to read the packet in the main discord this we...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ARCADIA @ WUSTL 12/2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3171
Re: 2023 ARCADIA @ WUSTL 12/2
Thank you to everyone for playing today! Congratulations to Missouri A for clearing the field, going undefeated in a double round robin. Stats can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... und_robin/
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:26 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ARCADIA @ WUSTL 12/2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3171
Re: 2023 ARCADIA @ WUSTL 12/2
Here's a field update for this tournament:
School (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers)
School (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers)
- WUSTL 2/some/some
- Missouri 2/1/1
- SIUE 1/0/0
- Squidward Community College 1/1/0
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7228
Re: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
I enjoyed this set! Though some people I've mentioned this to have disagreed, I thought it successfully brought down the difficulty of winter a little, while keeping plenty of "zest." Here are some assorted comments I had. With regards to For what its worth, the r tossup was social science...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: BRUIN II: DMA at UCLA, November 18th!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 893
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 6:52 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6515
Re: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
I think most everyone is in agreement that the ideal packet archive would have some distinction between widely played, well-regarded sets and more niche or personal projects. Indeed, as Matt said, the archive overhaul will presumably have such structure, either explicitly, or implicitly through diff...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7974
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
To add another example of the "solve something" part, the bonus which essentially asked for the lowest non-prime power other than 1 and 6 felt really hard to come up with on the spot. Between the time it took to process that's what it wanted, and to search through the first 10 numbers and ...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 4:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7974
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
I will stick to providing overly specific feedback on the 0.5/0.5 I'm confident in and say that I thought this set had some of the best math content of any set I’ve ever played (aside perhaps from Illinois Open). My only general criticism is about the distribution: the math had so much analysis and ...
- Mon May 08, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Recint(ish) Musicals
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2708
Recint(ish) Musicals
I have 20 tossups on "Recent(ish) Musicals" originally intended for Festivus this year but finished rather early, so I plan to read them tonight (5/8) at 8pm ET. "Recent" is defined roughly as the last 15 years; the packet is about 75% musicals of the 2010s and 25% the 2020s. It'...
- Sat Apr 29, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 50948
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
To elaborate on the ideals bonus part, there are two points that are slightly off: first, it should say that ideals are closed under multiplication by elements of the ring (all subrings are closed under multiplication). Second, whether ideals are subrings depends on whether you require rings to have...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4326
Re: 2023 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
This composer wrote an E-flat minor piano sonata whose movements "Foreboding" and "Death" were inspired by the bayoneting of a young worker. This composer of 1. X. 1905 used a viola to portray a much-younger married woman named Kamila in his string quartet "Intimate Letters...
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 9:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36202
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
The conformal tossup (good idea btw) should probably accept biholomorphicity before mentioned
- Thu Nov 10, 2022 3:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7931
Re: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
I guess I’ll weigh in on the pro-note spelling side. I don’t really have a cohesive argument, but here is a loose assemblage of rambling thoughts. I don’t quite buy the argument that score clues are comparable to computation clues. The latter are bad because they require doing nontrivial mental work...
- Sun Nov 06, 2022 4:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5464
Re: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
I enjoyed this set a lot. I'm not one for extensive feedback so I'll just give my impression on the music, which is that the score clues seemed rather difficult. I generally think this is a good thing, as recognizable but not "famous" score clues should be more normalized at lower difficul...
- Sat May 14, 2022 11:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
Re: DECAF (5/14)
After a longer-than-expected night (or morning, for some), this tournament finished with Tossupsdag på Troldhaugen (Miriam Nussbaum & Sameer Apte) defeating Ben & Jerry Junkin's (Karan Gurazada & William Golden) on the very last tossup of the set. Thank you to everyone who played and sta...
- Fri May 13, 2022 12:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4659
Re: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
There is no dedicated space for what quizbowl would consider OFA, though these things may come up occasionally.
- Tue May 10, 2022 11:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
Re: DECAF (5/14)
Though we are still sitting at 15 teams, I have decided to expand the field to bring in those on the waitlist. To accommodate this, I have correspondingly expanded the set to 9 packets, which will allow for a 15-team tournament format that guarantees all teams 8 games as originally suggested. I know...
- Sat May 07, 2022 9:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
Re: DECAF (5/14)
Since there are a few teams more than the current field cap (including one who have been on the free agents list for a while), I'd like to be able to expand to 16 teams. This would need one to three more players (or an already registered team splitting into two), so I'm going to push the registratio...
- Wed May 04, 2022 1:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
Re: DECAF (5/14)
After acquiring a couple more staff, I've raised the field cap to 12. Currently we have 21 players, so a few more would help round out the field - if anyone else is interested in playing or staffing (we need at least one more), please do so!
- Sun May 01, 2022 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
Re: DECAF (5/14)
I would like to have a couple more staffers secured before expanding, so I'll try to solicit some more this week (to anyone interested in staffing, I encourage you to sign up!). The set has 8 packets, and I was hoping to read as many as possible, so I was considering these formats: 8 teams: round ro...
- Wed Apr 20, 2022 5:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
Re: DECAF (5/14)
As it stands, the original time (5pm on Saturday) is tied for the lead in the poll (along with the same time Sunday) so I will finalize that time.
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
Re: DECAF (5/14)
Since I've had a few requests regarding scheduling, I've made a quick poll to determine whether there's a better time for everyone. If you're interested in playing this weekend go ahead and fill it out. If there's not a strong alternative I'll leave it at the original time. Poll: https://forms.gle/3...
- Wed Apr 06, 2022 3:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DECAF (5/14)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3781
DECAF (5/14)
This is an announcement for DECAF, a tossups-only classical music set to be played over Discord on Saturday, May 14 (not Sunday as I previously said). More information about the set can be found at the discussion post here . I will set the starting time at 5pm EDT , but this can change by general ag...
- Mon Apr 04, 2022 7:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4659
Re: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
A quick update on what I’m planning for this set. The set is currently upwards of 90% complete. To ensure I’m not rushing the last bits of writing and polishing, I’m tentatively going to schedule a reading for May 14, Monteverdi’s birthday(ish). If interest for this date is low or there is a major q...
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4659
Re: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
It's tossups only, but if it doesn't fit I have no problem holding the reading online.
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4659
Re: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
This is a regular text-based set, just taken from the auditory fine arts part of the distro.
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 2:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4659
DECAF: A Classical Music Set (Interest Poll)
For some time, I have been in the process of writing a Diligent Exploration of the Classical Auditory Fine-arts (DECAF), a tossups-only AFA set that, at current rate, ought to be finished by this summer. The set, which is sitting at a bit past two-thirds of the way done, will consist of 8 packets of...
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1432
Re: Specific Question Discussion
I generally thought the score clues in this set were really memorable and unique, but there were a few mistakes: the La Campanella tossup says D-flat instead of D-sharp, and Ophir pointed out to me that the Mendelssohn tossup has an F instead of F-sharp in the melody from the Reformation symphony. T...
- Wed Aug 11, 2021 3:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8785
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
Regarding the continuous tossup (Editors 4), I really like questions with this theme, but I have a few nitpicks. The clue on Urysohn's Lemma says that "a space is considered normal iff for every pair of disjoint sets, there exists a function that separates disjoint subsets that have this proper...
- Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KEYSET
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3751
Re: KEYSET
It looks like we have enough thumbs up to go with 6 ET on 4/5, in the #packet channel on the quizbowl discord.
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KEYSET
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3751
KEYSET
I have written 20 academic music tossups of varying difficulty and quality, in which every answerline is a major or minor key. I intend to read this packet in the main discord, tentatively at 6 ET on Monday, 4/5. If this is something that you'd be interested in playing, let me know with the poll if ...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19454
Re: Specific Question Discussion
A couple of thoughts on fixes: "Another partial converse to Lagrange's theorem is Cauchy's theorem, which exerts the existence of a subgroup whose order divides the size of the G and has this property." Alternatively you could throw away the mention of Cauchy's theorem and instead mention...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 FLopen - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19454
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Can I see the Lagrange's Thm / Primes / OST bonus? I might have misheard the Cauchy's theorem clue (not that it matters much given the Euclid clue right after it) but I thought it was stated oddly.
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11683
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
In Packet J, bonus 17, the third part asks for "this 1632 book," referring to the First Folio. I believe the Second Folio was published in 1632, the first was 1623?
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16851
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
tossup on "three" in math: the object clued in the Hopf fibration and Poincare conjecture clues is a 3-sphere topologically, but it's considered a 4-sphere geometrically (as it is a hypersphere embedded in 4D euclidean space). Although Hopf and Poincare are topological concepts and both u...
- Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William Rufus King Memorial Tournament (WRK) - 10/12/2019
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2167
Re: William Rufus King Memorial Tournament (WRK) - 10/12/2019
We still have plenty of open spots for this tournament! If you are at all interested in fielding a team, let me know at [email protected].
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2019-2020 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21770
Re: Alabama 2019-2020 Discussion Thread
WRK is being held this Saturday! We still have many open spots left, so if you would like to come and still haven't registered, please let me know ASAP!
- Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2019-2020 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 55
- Views: 21770
Re: Alabama 2019-2020 Discussion Thread
WRK will be held on October 12. Announcement: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23186
- Thu Sep 05, 2019 10:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: William Rufus King Memorial Tournament (WRK) - 10/12/2019
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2167
William Rufus King Memorial Tournament (WRK) - 10/12/2019
I'm excited to announce that the Alabama Academic Quizbowl Team (AAQT) will be hosting its annual fall tournament, WRK, on October 12, 2019. This tournament will be played on NAQT's IS-185A set. Registration is at https://www.naqt.com/go/register/10878 . LOGISTICS: The tournament will begin around 8...