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by king_crimson
Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:21 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2021-22 High School Postseason Poll/Player Poll/Player Appreciation Thread - Results posted?
Replies: 41
Views: 24036

Re: 2021-22 High School Postseason Poll/Player Poll/Player Appreciation Thread

have a couple ppl/teams i would like to shill elle lee has definitely been a monumental part of our success this season. they're amazing at visual arts (they firstlined a lot of vfa at pace and powered vfa against top-college teams at mrna, like uva a). all of their performances on difficult sets (m...
by king_crimson
Sun Nov 15, 2020 6:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata
Replies: 21
Views: 3139

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Errata

In the Mary Shelley tossup in Packet 9, Robert Walton's expedition does not discover Victor Frankenstein dead on an ice floe. They find him and his dead dog team stranded on an ice floe and nurse him back to health, during which time Frankenstein tells the main story of the novel. He dies when the ...
by king_crimson
Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 IKEA - General Set Discussion
Replies: 25
Views: 5341

Re: General Set Discussion

This set was fun. The lit in this set was generally quite good. It had a good combination of high canon + deep cuts from the core canon. I especially liked the drama and poetry content: most of it was really interesting and clued stuff I didn't think would be clued up. Bonuses tended to be slightly ...
by king_crimson
Mon Oct 12, 2020 2:15 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: JHU HS Fall Tournament (10/24)
Replies: 14
Views: 4327

Re: JHU HS Fall Tournament (10/24)

Hi,

Are there enough staffers to expand the field?

Thanks.
by king_crimson
Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:05 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10386

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

Looking at packet 11, this quote seems to be factually incorrect.
In that novel set in one of these facilities, a half-Native
American character who pretends to be deaf and dumb, Chief Bromden, chokes Nurse Ratched.
I think it was Randle McMurphy who choked Nurse Ratched.
by king_crimson
Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:39 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2020-2021
Replies: 12
Views: 5930

Re: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2020-2021

Just a quick post that after Saturday's mirror of IKEA, a college set, I'm pretty convinced that TJ B is a top-15, if not t-10 team. They were able to take a near-full Texas A to the last tossup and go 4/5/1 on a shorthanded Maryland, along with nearly beating us too, all this being shorthanded (The...
by king_crimson
Sun Sep 20, 2020 6:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10386

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

I don't have the packages, so I'll give my feedback based on what I can remember. I thought this tournament was well done, and that tossup difficulty in particular was very well calibrated. Answerlines were appropriate, varied, and interesting, and the tossups generally unfolded well. Will said the...
by king_crimson
Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:55 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"
Replies: 110
Views: 112477

Re: Announcing QuizDB: "Knowledge is Power"

Just curious,

Wasn't 2020 Terrapin PIANO difficulty? It's classified under College Regs (7) right now.

Thanks!
by king_crimson
Sun Sep 13, 2020 4:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10386

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

This author’s father confiscated the only manuscript of a novella about a woman who tells Woodville about her father confessing his love for her. In a novel by this author, Lord Raymond leads a failed siege of Constantinople. A character created by this author is shaken after lightning obliterates ...
by king_crimson
Sun Sep 13, 2020 3:22 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10386

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

What were the early clues on Kawabata, Shelley, and the late clues for thief? Thanks. For the Kawabata tossup: The first two sentences were about Beauty and Sadness The next two sentences were about Thousand Cranes The finale clues were from Snow Country I will let William answer the questions abou...
by king_crimson
Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:16 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions
Replies: 54
Views: 10386

Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament Individual Questions

I really enjoyed this set's literature and RM, especially a lot of the hard parts. The Glass Menagerie/Williams/poker, the Nuwa/Daji/fox and Titus Andronicus bonus with a part on the meat pie were probably my favorite bonuses of the set. I felt there was kind of a trend on literature bonuses getting...
by king_crimson
Sun Sep 06, 2020 11:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
Replies: 55
Views: 22866

Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)

Thanks for clearing this up.

Although this tournament did have some logistical issues, I really did enjoy the questions and had a great time playing the tournament, even for 12 hours.

Thanks for the LIT team for writing a fun, challenging set and the Duke team for hosting!
by king_crimson
Sun Aug 16, 2020 3:08 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2020-2021
Replies: 12
Views: 5930

Re: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2020-2021

Two underrated teams next year are Langley and Centennial. Centennial has senior Anthony Duan, who is a very good history and geography player, but they also bring up Anurag Sodhi from their ms feeder. Sodhi is a top-tier MS player and seems to scale up pretty well. Centennial usually has a really s...
by king_crimson
Sat Aug 15, 2020 12:35 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2020-21 Groger Ranks Preseason Poll: RESULTS POSTED
Replies: 5
Views: 5261

Re: 2020-21 Groger Ranks Preseason Poll

Plugging a podcast that some friends and I made a couple months ago. It's a rundown of what we (collectively as a group) thought would be a possible top 25 for 2020-21. Feel free to check it out if you need any inspiration. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEx9X1iL7Wo I might write something later if I...
by king_crimson
Mon Jun 15, 2020 11:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll: RESULTS POSTED
Replies: 35
Views: 11480

Re: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Player Poll

dmv kids who are good. matt siff is #1. abhinav scary naqt player and very good lit player. rank him overall. justin posner is also super good. the amount of points he puts out with abhinav on his team is pretty ridiculous. he also eats books so he'll get good fast. rank him too overall. katherine i...
by king_crimson
Mon Jun 15, 2020 10:51 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Buzzword Special Events from NAQT
Replies: 3
Views: 2107

Re: Buzzword Special Events from NAQT

Will there be samples for each of these events?
by king_crimson
Sun May 17, 2020 10:51 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Postseason Poll
Replies: 14
Views: 5122

Re: 2019-20 Groger Ranks Postseason Poll

Richard Montgomery A is a very, very good NAQT team and an excellent mACF team. Previously, they've had some neg issues and bonus problems, but it seems like they've cleaned that up. They are seriously underranked and are a top 10 caliber team. Langley is also very good. William Orr is the best lit...
by king_crimson
Tue May 05, 2020 4:55 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll
Replies: 6
Views: 2729

Re: DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll

Here are the results! Overall Poll 1. Matthew Siff (12), Georgetown Day School 2. Katherine Lei (12), Montgomery Blair 3. Abhinav Karthikeyan (11), Richard Montgomery 4. Justin Posner (11), Richard Montgomery 5. William Orr (10), Langley 6. William Wang (12), Thomas Jefferson 7. Chris Tong (11), Mon...
by king_crimson
Sun May 03, 2020 9:01 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 9177

Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion

In the "Mysteries of Udolpho" tossup, Villefort seemed like neg bait for "Count of Monte Cristo" given how early it was in the question before many other clues had been given. Chiming in to say that I made the same neg for those reasons, but obviously buzzing on that clue alone ...
by king_crimson
Fri May 01, 2020 9:02 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll
Replies: 6
Views: 2729

Re: DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll

We have almost 20 ballots! Keep em coming!
by king_crimson
Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:29 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll
Replies: 6
Views: 2729

Re: DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll

As Abhinav has already touched upon the top ten overall players, I'd like to focus on underclassmen and players from TJ. For freshmen, Cavan Gabaldon O'Neill from BASIS put an impressive fifty powers over eleven games on IS-190. He's a strong generalist who will be getting better throughout the year...
by king_crimson
Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:03 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll
Replies: 6
Views: 2729

DC Metro End-of-Season Individual Poll

Greetings everyone. As you all know, the 2019-2020 Quizbowl season was sadly cut short by COVID-19. Therefore, due to popular demand (I asked in the DMV Discord), I have decided to announce a 2019-2020 DMV Player Poll. The poll will work very similar to the one Groger Ranks did last year, (https://h...
by king_crimson
Sun Mar 01, 2020 10:44 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2019-2020
Replies: 12
Views: 7432

Re: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2019-2020

CabbageHugs wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:20 pm
king_crimson wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 7:27 pmElliott is a very good player.
Not sure about that but thanks?.....

I scale like a fish on a bicycle
I mean Elliott, you did very well at 190. You're also a freshman and so much better than I am when I was a freshman lol.
by king_crimson
Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:18 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: BHSAT XXIX Available for Mirrors (2020)
Replies: 10
Views: 8776

Re: BHSAT XXIX Available for Mirrors (2020)

Hi, played the Georgetown mirror and want to see some of the tossups again. When will a discussion forum be up? Thanks.
by king_crimson
Thu Feb 06, 2020 7:27 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2019-2020
Replies: 12
Views: 7432

Re: DC Metro Area Discussion - 2019-2020

As the season reaches 2/3 of the way through, a lot has changed in the DC area. The class of 2023 is pretty promising and I'd like to highlight them as well as shill for a couple of my teammates. Similar to Gus' post, I'll be focusing on underclassmen (2022 and 2023). 2023: Elliott Lee (TJ): As the ...
by king_crimson
Mon Feb 03, 2020 9:20 am
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge
Replies: 10
Views: 13672

Re: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge

You seem to be in the same scenario as me. Honestly, memorizing clues and knowing as much as you can about books will not guarantee that you power the question, sometimes even if you've read the book. Truth be told is recognizing first-line clues isn't fully you're fault, you just aren't thinking a...
by king_crimson
Sat Jan 18, 2020 1:19 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 02/29/20 - Johns Hopkins Winter Tournament
Replies: 4
Views: 2392

Re: 02/29/20 - Johns Hopkins Winter Tournament

To clarify, this will be run on IS-190, right?
by king_crimson
Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:09 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge
Replies: 10
Views: 13672

Re: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge

Hi Justin, Welcome to the forums! It's always great to see high schoolers get excited about quizbowl. I think what you're asking is a natural question for someone entering the community and starting to take the game seriously. I think it also expresses a couple misconceptions I've noticed elsewhere...
by king_crimson
Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:03 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge
Replies: 10
Views: 13672

Re: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge

Thank you Matt for the headsup! also, it was really fun playing you at Penn Bowl Online, you did great!
by king_crimson
Fri Nov 29, 2019 7:48 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge
Replies: 10
Views: 13672

Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge

Hello everyone! I'm a rising sophomore at TJHSST. I recently joined the school's quizbowl club, and have been doing pretty well due to my summer grind. During the summer, I was able to gain a lot of literature knowledge from a combination of reading packets and carding literature along with the occa...