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I think you are on the right path in your postscript: relating the history knowledge you acquire to what you already know is probably the best way to have things stick in your mind. History is like a map; a piece of it like an individual date or clue will have a lot more meaning for you if you can r...

Unlike some other ballots I could name, this one was written without the aid of algorithms, equations, or even statistics. In fact, after consulting with numerous experts in linguistics and literary theory, I have decided to remove all references to number from this ballot, with the sadly unavoidabl...

I am no longer playing quizbowl. Not as a result of this ranking being posted, there are lots of other reasons. I have finally escaped the bowl and am now scampering across the dining table. Sadly, most of you will be eaten.

Would you consider using zoom and buzzin.live for gameplay instead? During the pandemic, pretty much all online tournaments were initially run in this way, with everything taking place on discord, including camera feeds and buzzing. Over the summer of 2021, Canadian tournaments transitioned to using...

Hi, just a couple questions about this tournament.

First, could we get an update on the field so far?

And second, on what platform will gameplay take place?

Thanks.

We are unexpectedly down to five teams at this site. If any teams or players that could not attend an in-person site wish to play online, a spot is open.

Field (5/6)


Rice A
Reed College A
Reed College B
UBC A
Utah A

I am pleased to announce that the Northwest site of 2022 ACF Winter will be held by UBC online on Saturday, November 5, 2022. The tournament will take place on Zoom. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9 AM (PST). I (Lia Rathburn) will be the tournament director. Ple...

As a reader, I have had the least issues with buzzin compared to discord or buzzman. I have bled more than a full sentence on multiple tossups when I've read for discord tournaments, among the other usual issues with it. I've used buzzman to read for games between friends, and while it does have cer...

4 ballots besides mine have been received. Thank you to Jonathan Shauf, Chandler West, Tracy Mirkin, and Max Gedajlovic. 1.Georgia Tech 124 (Highest 1, Lowest 2) 2.Stanford 121 (Highest 1, Lowest 2) 3.Harvard 112 (Highest 3, Lowest 4) 4.Ohio State 111 (Highest 3, Lowest 5) 5.WUSTL 107 (Highest 4, Lo...

And here's my ballot. It is mostly based on team ppgs at the two national tournaments, adjusting for strength of opponents. 1.Georgia Tech 2.Stanford 3.Ohio State 4.Harvard 5.WUSTL 6.Cornell 7.Texas A 8.Maryland 9.Yale 10.Chicago A 11.North Carolina 12.Florida 13.Northwestern 14.Johns Hopkins 15.Bri...

Extending the deadline to whenever I get three more ballots.

Incidentally, I have only received one ballot so far. I'll probably cancel this if I don't get more than 5 by the deadline.

A poem, an author from this people wrote. “Song of the Flight”, it is often translated as. A collection of “ballads of the lords”, it is included in. Someone, an author imagines, who “in our basement, lived, and my parents, sacrificed”, in a 2012 poetry collection about her meth-addicted brother. [O...

I made some minor revisions to my subject ballots.

More ballots. Literature 1.Matt Bollinger 2.Mitch McCullar 3.Matthew Lehmann 4.William Golden 5.Caroline Mao 6.Darren Petrosino 7.Henry Goff 8.Clark Smith 9.Daniel Sheinberg 10.Caleb Kendrick 11.Moses Kitakule 12.Henry Atkins 13.Jason Golfinos 14.Eve Fleisig 15.Andrew Hanna History 1.Jonathan Tran 2...

A ballot. 1.Matt Bollinger 2.Jason Golfinos 3.Clark Smith 4.Matthew Lehmann 5.Tracy Mirkin 6.Chris Ray 7.Caleb Kendrick 8.Natan Holtzman 9.Tim Morrison 10.Hari Parameswaran 11.Vincent Du 12.Geoffrey Chen 13.Lia Rathburn 14.Charles Hang 15.Jonathan Tran 16.William Golden 17.Ethan Strombeck 18.Eric Wo...

Quizbowl is a team game. To participate in this poll, e-mail me a list of your top 25 quizbowl teams from this year at hrathburn@outlook.com by 11:59 PM (pacific time), May 20, 2022. Only teams that played either ICT or ACF Nationals are eligible for this poll. You may rank multiple teams from the s...

I heard he presented Hygd with a gorget, the priceless torque that the prince's daughter, Wealhtheow, had given him; and three horses, supple creatures, brilliantly saddled. Carlos Doebeli (University of British Columbia) Nowhere, they said, north or south between the two seas or under the tall sky ...

A belated push, but in view of the threat of B-K5 White can do nothing else. 1. Ben Chapman (University of Toronto) Compare these two diagrams, for instance. On the left is the position after the 14th move in a variation of the Queen's Gambit that for a long time was very fashionable in tournaments ...

And in 1718, upon a question referred to all the judges by King George I, it was resolved by the opinion of ten against the other two, that the education and care of all the king's grandchildren while minors, and the care and approbation of their marriages, when grown up, did belong of right to his ...

Registration has closed at 8 teams. I will be sending out a logistics e-mail later tonight or tomorrow morning.

The registration deadline has been extended to 5 PM Pacific time today.

Field (8/12)

USC (1)
Claremont Colleges (1)
Iowa (1)
UCSD (1)
South Dakota Mines (1)
Washington (1)
Berkeley (1)
Arizona State (1)

I am pleased to announce that a Northwest (and West Coast if no California mirror materializes) mirror of Boilermaker Spring Novice will be hosted by UBC on March 26, 2022. I (Lia Rathburn) will be the tournament director. Please direct all enquiries about this tournament to quizbowlubc@gmail.com. L...

Did you only check your inbox, or did you also check whatever junk or spam folders you have set up? Is it possible that many e-mails from different senders with the same subject line triggered some kind of spam filter?

Overall, I think this tournament will be a better playing experience if it is held over Zoom and buzzin.live rather than Discord, and I hope you will consider making that change. You make a lot of good points regarding the different platforms. It always sucks when technology / equipment issues / la...

This tournament seems like a great idea, and thank you for writing and organizing it! Would it be possible to hold the main site's games over Zoom and buzzin.live rather than Discord? Having played or staffed 3 Zoom tournaments and many Discord tournaments over the past year, I find that Zoom combin...

A rookie ballot. 1.Jet Dong of McGill 2.Amy Wang of Toronto 3.Marcell Maitinsky of British Columbia 4.Yadu Kukenthiran of Western Ontario 5.Blaise Brosnan of McGill 6.Devan Greevy of McGill 7.Liam Kusalik of Waterloo 8.Thomas Kroeker of British Columbia 9.Fardad Asghari Zadeh of British Columbia 10....

A main ballot, which may please some and bring others to weep at its author's foolishness 1.Henry Atkins of McGill The unanimity of prior ballots with regard to Henry's placement is well-merited. At every tournament he played this year, Henry's habit of getting many more tossups than other quizbowl ...

I may be somewhat biased from answering this question incorrectly when I played it, but the second clue of Pack F's Tossup 7 has some issues. Civil servant or bureaucrat is arguably a more reasonable answer to the clue "That man who worked in this profession feuded frequently with Wang Anshi&qu...

4. ... Leaders who retired to monasteries during this period engaged in “cloistered rule”. ANSWER: Heian <BM, World History> This clue is not uniquely identifying, as emperors abdicated and became cloistered all the way until the 1600s. If this is an issue, the period from 1086 to 1185 is sometimes...