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- Tue Nov 14, 2017 7:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I Need Contact Information for These Folks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4171
Re: I Need Contact Information for These Folks
I'm at [email protected]
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 11:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Missouri Open at Brown 11/14/15
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13168
Re: Missouri Open at Brown 11/14/15
If any free agents are interested in joining the Amherst team, we have 1 (maybe 2?) spots open on our A team. Since the current team pretty much only covers science and history, anyone specializing in other subjects would be welcomed. I'm much interested (and have sent you an email). Brandeis is st...
- Mon Jul 06, 2015 3:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Samuel L. Bronkowitz presents Chicago Open (07/18-19/15)
- Replies: 117
- Views: 62631
Re: Samuel L. Bronkowitz presents Chicago Open (07/18-19/15)
The Davis and Minarik teams both submitted packets last night. Yetman et al and Canada are on the clock. If your packet is not in my inbox when I wake up on Thursday morning, you won't be playing this tournament. I'm serious. Are you certain you didn't receive our packet? To the best of my knowledg...
- Sun Mar 29, 2015 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 30155
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)
I'll be doing an MA in philosophy at Brandeis (that is, during the spare moments when I'm not attempting to revive the lately-dormant Brandeis team).
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: George Oppen @ Columbia University (2/21/15)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19347
Re: George Oppen @ Columbia University (2/21/15)
I think that our team and Harvard's both ended up X-2, but one of Harvard's losses was a forfeit. Perhaps we can organize a final by Skype sometime if we want to really settle this. We're in—this weekend sometime? That might work for me, though my own schedule is fairly inflexible (I wouldn't presu...
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History 2015
- Replies: 139
- Views: 77415
Re: CO History 2015
Please put me down as a free agent.
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO 2015 Matchmaking
- Replies: 47
- Views: 22594
Re: CO 2015 Matchmaking
For the better part of a decade I've been skulking in the shadows, avoiding a confrontation with Chicago Open. This year, it's goodbye to all that. So, contact me through the usual channels if you feel like teaming up. EDIT: James Lasker is now on board. Someone with a broad grasp of history would b...
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
- Replies: 95
- Views: 54509
Re: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
What that man said.magin wrote:I'd like to play this tournament.
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: George Oppen @ Columbia University (2/21/15)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19347
Re: George Oppen @ Columbia University (2/21/15)
I'll play it with the bells on.Kouign Amann wrote:What is the interest level in playing Eyes at this site?
- Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Oxford Open North America Online (03/01/2015)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 45194
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 5:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51816
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
I realize this is late, but I'd very much like to play this if any teams are still in need.
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 2:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Summer Practices in NYC!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4038
Re: Summer Practices in NYC!
I may be able to make tonight's practice, but failing that I'll be at most of the future instances. Thanks for organizing this!
- Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT Mirror at Yale (3/30/13)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8688
Re: MUT Mirror at Yale (3/30/13)
There is a nontrivial chance that UMass will send a team, With Three Non-Yetman Players And Everything!
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open Mirror @ Columbia 11/17-18/2012
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13189
Re: Minnesota Open Mirror @ Columbia 11/17-18/2012
EDIT: Looks as though I'll be playing with NYU.Ivar the Boneless wrote:I'd like to sign up for this as a free agent.
- Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UMD mirror of KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
- Replies: 75
- Views: 27789
Re: UMD mirror of KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
The Peripheral College Hangers-On (Rafael Krischevsky, Mirza Ahmed, and myself) would like to register for this and are seeking a fourth.
EDIT: It seems that Yogesh Raut, than whom there is none more peripheral, will be joining us.
EDIT: It seems that Yogesh Raut, than whom there is none more peripheral, will be joining us.
- Mon May 14, 2012 8:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Article in Slate about ACF Nationals
- Replies: 32
- Views: 12140
Re: Article in Slate about ACF Nationals
I really hope everyone reads this article and then explains that the lack of women in quizbowl has something to do with fragile lady egos because there was nothing sexist or offensive about that the first time. To judge solely from this article, the paucity of XX-chromosomed persons in quizbowl can...
- Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Women in college quizbowl
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12546
Re: Women in college quizbowl
Speaking not as a social scientist but as a person, I have noticed the following empirical regularity: women are turned off by aggressive, baselessly self-confident men competing in a little world they create, remove from mainstream society, and take super-seriously. That doesn't externalize the pr...
- Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:45 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: How do you keep newer players involved?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18559
Re: How do you keep newer players involved?
Being good at Quizbowl has nothing to do with intelligence--it just takes hard work as long as you start out with an average memory. Statements such as this (or some variation) always seem to crop up when this topic is periodically resurrected. Now, at first blush I'm not even sure how we'd go abou...
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 10:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12493
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
Thomas Littrell and I are teaming up for this. If you're interested in riding our coattails to glorious victory, shoot an email to littrell DOT thomas AT gmail DOT com or yetman DOT douglas AT gmail DOT com
- Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 12493
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn Intergalactic (Nov 19-20th)
I'd like to show up for this (for real!) - if any kindly souls out there would like to team up, do email me.
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: MAGNI, A Fall Tournament (Oct. 15-29, 2011)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 32755
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: MAGNI, A Fall Tournament (Oct. 15-29, 2011)
freshmen in Arizona may lag behind the kind of college freshman you're using to calibrate CollegiateNovice difficulty given the exceptionally underfunded public education system in Arizona compared to most places. At the risk of derailing this thread, I for one am pretty skeptical of efforts to ded...
- Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: American History Packet
- Replies: 41
- Views: 12481
Re: American History Packet
Yes please.
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU is a terrible school
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3708
Re: VCU is a terrible school
A Barehanded Telethon Mirth Gun wrote:what is this i dont even
This, Harry, is three jugs of rakia in a lonely Bosnian brothel.
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open III (11.20.10-11.21.10)
- Replies: 125
- Views: 38361
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Minnesota Open III (11.20.10-11.21.10)
It sure is delightful to be informed of my team's totally unexpected dissolution by browsing the hsqb forums instead of by, you know, receipt of even one email or pm!Morraine Man wrote:My team for this no longer exists. I am looking for a new team. I already bought hotel and airfare so I won't cancel on you.
- Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
I'm running a bit behind myself, but should be at the tournament site at 8:50. Call if anything.
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
Right, about that. Bruce is still decompressing (or decomposing) from his flight, but I think he'll agree that an 8:30-9:00 registration period is what we're aiming for, with games beginning at 9:00 or very soon after. Those of you who have read my email and its attached file know that the standard ...
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
The mysterious and important information has been sent. If any attendees who read this board and were not on the list in my previous post would like a copy, email me.
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
My definition of "tonight" is a liberal one. Don't worry, it's coming.
- Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
I think we need one more laptop. I'll take the plunge and hand mine over. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Tonight I will be sending out important information concerning access to the campus on Saturday morning (for reasons that will become clear, these are not the sort of instructions I ought to relay in a publi...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 5:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
So, this tournament desperately needs staffers of some sort. Since my darling NYC friends are pretty much a bunch of "drifters, weirdos, and preverts" who wouldn't be caught conscious at 8:30 AM even if you mixed caffeine with their barbiturates, I'm putting out an open call for any genero...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
Would people be interested in playing the extra 100 questions from Mike Cheyne's TV set after the main event and BELFAST, depending on time frame? Be advised that the odds of Hunter college security kicking us out increase geometrically after 7:00, if not earlier. EDIT: On the other hand, Central P...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 11:09 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Hide Your Unauthorized Participation in Quizbowl Well!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3649
Re: Hide Your Unauthorized Participation in Quizbowl Well!
Let's see if I can't clear up a couple of misconceptions/continually propagated falsehoods about this incident: Unfortunately, as Charlie alludes, there is information suggesting that this isn't the stupidest or worst thing this guy has done at this school. The criminal charges brought against Mr. A...
- Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
- Replies: 70
- Views: 21760
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ECSO2 @ Hunter College (7/10/10)
Charlie Dees and I will be hosting an afterparty at the Waldorf-Astoria, for those interested. Yes, and I'll send over a case of Dom Perignon 1975. In plastic red cups. Bruce, please put me down as a free agent. And wider community: do keep signing up! Summer on the Upper East Side, Central Park in...
- Sun Apr 25, 2010 3:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ECSO: Let's Do This Again?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5783
Re: ECSO: Let's Do This Again?
I emailed the most prominent of Hunter's deans, and still haven't heard back. I didn't want to make a pest of myself by bombarding every email address i could siphon from our website, but at this juncture that seems to be the only course of action (short of barging into an office unannounced and dem...
- Thu Apr 15, 2010 11:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ECSO: Let's Do This Again?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5783
Re: ECSO: Let's Do This Again?
Let me say, as (of course!) a completely removed and objective observer, that a tournament in NYC would be the Hanging Gardens in our quizbowl Babylon. I would be all up in that shit like...well, maybe I ought to stop myself there, and just say that we should make this happen. As Aaron says, Hunter ...
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Harvard International II/ Fake ACF (3/20/10)
- Replies: 104
- Views: 27592
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Harvard International II/ Fake ACF (3/20/10)
I'd like to put myself down as a free agent for this here event.
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Northeast FIST Mirror (11/7/09)
- Replies: 54
- Views: 10997
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Northeast FIST Mirror (11/7/09)
The wheels are in motion - we're planning to get this to you by tomorrow.Crazy Andy Watkins wrote: (assuming the Weiner/Yetman packet materializes, as I've heard no word about it)
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 10913
Re: Minnesota Open 2009 Discussion
Doug, only about 4/4 of what you label "continental" is actually continental in a useful sense of the word. Stuff like revivalist Neoplatonism and al-Ghazali is not continental in any sense other than that those people lived on the continent of Europe. "Continental" almost alway...
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 10913
Re: Minnesota Open 2009 Discussion
I think Doug overstates his case a little bit, especially where old warhorses like Berkeley, Kant, and Hume are concerned Perhaps. For one, I have to revise my hasty inclusion of "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" in the category of "historically significant works that have limi...
- Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 10913
Re: Minnesota Open 2009 Discussion
First of all, thanks to Minnesota for a well-crafted set. The quibbles re: occasional wildly difficult answer selection are valid (perhaps at a later point I'll find a bit more to quibble about), but my cup overfloweth with interesting clues, pyramidal tossups, and all that good stuff. The philosoph...
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 12:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Minnesota Open Mirror (10/17/09) at Maryland
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5516
Re: Minnesota Open Mirror (10/17/09) at Maryland
The draft sounds like a fine idea to me. Should we end up going with the traditional system, though, it would be a pleasant change to play with teammates! If anyone's up for taking me on, just shoot me an email. BTW, if any teams are planning to get a hotel room for Saturday night and would be willi...
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MIT Mirror of MO, 10/17
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5179
Re: MIT Mirror of MO, 10/17
I was interested as well, but I have it on good authority that Ylaine has no plans to run this tournament. I assume either she or Rohan will post here soon and clarify.
- Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT Discussion
- Replies: 186
- Views: 28165
Re: EFT Discussion
One point about the "reptile(s) fund" clue: I get seven hits in my archive (four singular, three plural), but all in the past year. This pileup of sorts may be skewing Andy's, and possibly others', notion of its difficulty.
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:00 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 31311
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EFT 4 at Brown (Saturday, October 3)
Unfortunately, a family wedding prevents me from from attending. Best of luck though.
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER at Brandeis, Oct 24
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3708
Re: THUNDER at Brandeis, Oct 24
Some number of teams from CUNY-Hunter will be there. And that number will be one.
- Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Area Summer Quizbowl Practices
- Replies: 0
- Views: 947
NYC Area Summer Quizbowl Practices
Cross-posted from the high school section: I think I managed to hit most of the usual suspects with my email, but just in case: I'm looking to host a slew of summer quizbowl practices in NYC, most likely at Hunter College, but perhaps a public library. If you're interested in participating and in di...
- Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ 2008-2009
- Replies: 132
- Views: 22436
Re: NY/NJ 2008-2009
I think I managed to hit most of the usual suspects with my email, but just in case: I'm looking to host a slew of summer quizbowl practices in NYC, most likely at Hunter College, but perhaps a public library. If you're interested in participating and in discussing dates and times, please go to http...
- Sun May 17, 2009 12:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tyrone Slothrop Literature Singles, 7/12/09
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3992
Re: Maryland Sun 'n Fun Side Event
cursednine wrote:I will play this as well.
- Sun May 03, 2009 10:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Prelim. Announcement: Sun 'n Fun X July 11, 2009
- Replies: 44
- Views: 13429
Re: Prelim. Announcement: Sun 'n Fun X July 11, 2009
I'd like to come down and play this beast.
- Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Nationals at WUSTL (Apr 25-26, 2009)
- Replies: 85
- Views: 67574
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ACF Nationals at WUSTL (Apr 25-26, 2009)
I'm all set to come down to ACF Nats; however, as of right now I have no place to stay, and would be loath to shell out for two nights in a hotel room when my team consists of...one man. If any teams would be willing to lend me their floor for Friday and Saturday nights, I'd be hugely grateful, and ...