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- Fri Oct 02, 2020 3:21 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5714
Re: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
I've redacted all uses of the name of a team playing this tournament under a pseudonym, at that team's request.
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5518
Re: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
If such an experiment cannot produce negative evidence, it side-steps the point of such an experiment. It can only serve to either kick the can down the road indefinitely or exonerate him. Are you suggesting that evidence is only useful if it can be used to prove Chase's guilt? If so, I find that a...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 7:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5518
Re: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
If such an experiment cannot produce negative evidence, it side-steps the point of such an experiment. It can only serve to either kick the can down the road indefinitely or exonerate him. Are you suggesting that evidence is only useful if it can be used to prove Chase's guilt? If so, I find that a...
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 7:29 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Impossible Lair - Old Videogame Tournament - 9/25/20
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2576
Re: Impossible Lair - Old Videogame Tournament - Date Poll
Would very much prefer this not be September 27th, which would overlap with one of the open IKEA mirrors (specifically, the one I'm playing).
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
Thanks so much to all the writers and staffers! This tournament ran really well and was a blast to play.
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2011
Re: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
I was right!
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:21 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IKEA Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (10/3/20)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4460
Re: IKEA Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (10/3/20)
Without questioning Nick's particular skills or abilities: why is a high schooler directing this college tournament? Did we not just have several discussions about appropriate boundaries?
- Wed Jul 29, 2020 5:15 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: GPT3 for Quizbowl
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1733
Re: GPT3 for Quizbowl
For me at least, generating pronunciation guides seems to be GPT3's killer app for quizbowl. I am *the worst* at writing these guides. GPT3 seems to do a pretty good job on these. It's not necessarily perfect (that first example invents syllables that don't exist) but I'm pretty sure it outperforms...
- Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4130
Re: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20
This was a great set, as always. I was also perfectly happy with how things ran on Discord (other than my esteemed teammate Mike's technical issues, which seemed to be primarily client-side)! Also, the private discussion forum for this set is now open; please request to join it through your User Con...
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:39 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20496
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
Hey everyone. In the past I've engaged in some boundary-crossing behavior that I sincerely regret. I've apologized privately, and have been working both to achieve restitution and to consider the nature and causes of my behavior so that I can adjust it for the future.
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:33 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Resisting one-upmanship
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1340
Re: Resisting one-upmanship
I also agree with this sentiment, especially the idea of normalizing asking stuff like "I've never heard of that -- can you tell me more?" We often say stuff like "quizbowl is about learning", and this is a great way to put that idea into practice while also decreasing the aliena...
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:41 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Announcement: Forward-Thinking Trash Tournament Seeking Writers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2120
Re: Announcement: Forward-Thinking Trash Tournament Seeking Writers
100% of the video games questions will be on broadly popular games since 2010 (there will be no "classic gaming" or niche JRPG content in this tournament). Why are culturally-significant video games from before 2010 unworthy of being asked about in the same way as culturally significant T...
- Thu May 21, 2020 5:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6374
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
just posting memes/image macros is technically against the rules, so you'll have to start accusing each other of cowardice/posting extreme cringe the old-fashioned way
- Tue May 19, 2020 7:30 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quiz Watch Data Analysis: How study trends change according to Quiz Bowl tournament frequency
- Replies: 1
- Views: 685
Re: Quiz Watch Data Analysis: How study trends change according to Quiz Bowl tournament frequency
This is cool!
"quizbowlers".
- Fri May 08, 2020 4:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6374
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
I have fixed it for you, since I am a loving and caring admin (eventually).
- Fri May 08, 2020 4:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6374
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)

All too obvious which one is better at BBCode, though.
- Fri May 08, 2020 3:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6374
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
You're gonna need to cut a much better promo than this if you really want to generate some heat and get over with the fans.naan/steak-holding toll wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 3:31 pmof course it's not incumbent upon Chicago to accept but they should be prepared for the memes to come...
- Thu May 07, 2020 2:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals Cancellation Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1862
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern
I keep rereading this line and it's starting to make sparks and smoke come out of my brain.naan/steak-holding toll wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 1:21 pm Is it not feasible to attempt to reschedule this in a state that is following less strict guidelines, i.e. Florida or Georgia?
- Sat May 02, 2020 1:16 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2020)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8798
Re: Where are you going to college next year? (2020)
- Fri May 01, 2020 12:39 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2020)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 8798
- Mon Apr 20, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Fall and Winter Editor Applications
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5684
Re: ACF Fall and Winter Editor Applications
I'm not sure I understand what you hope to achieve with this oddly antagonistic line of questioning. What sort of response to the question "what if the target difficulty of ACF Winter is not easy enough?" could possibly satisfy you? What do you even expect possible responses to be? The onl...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38207
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I'm not sure about that with Alman. He put up very good numbers at MIT Penn-ance , where he might have cheated as well for all we know. He played fewer tournaments, so it is difficult to compare between tournaments. His numbers before 2012 are much lower than his 2012 numbers, so on the one hand it...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:41 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38207
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in how the quizbowl community has handled the events of the last few days. Apparently we have reached the point where vague posts led to random accusations in a Discord server, which led to piles upon piles of fancy-looking statistical analysis that ser...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38207
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Iain raises a good point in the Internet Charity Tournament thread: I also trust the TDs and think they are well equipped to deal with cheating, but having a planned response that actually explains the direct consequences one will face for cheating is still a good idea so that we don’t end up in clo...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:00 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38207
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Contra my esteemed colleague Prof. Boyd, I think this is a reasonable middle ground when there's suspicion but no concrete proof, especially as we're entering a (hopefully quite temporary!) period in which many events will be held online by necessity -- "several people have expressed some conc...
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15989
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota: POSTPONED
Right, yes, but staffers were asked in an email from going on three weeks ago to please hold off on doing anything until more info was announced, and most people's original flights are scheduled for just over two weeks from now. I'll do my own thing if I have to, but I thought I'd check in to see i...
- Mon Mar 30, 2020 9:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Rescheduled 2020 IAC Nationals - 12/3-6 & 12/27-30
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1047
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:48 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: Nationals Alternatives?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2917
Re: Nationals Alternatives?
Could the mods move all these comments about saving this year's nationals questions to another thread? This explosive tangent is distracting from the actual discussion about virtual alternatives to the cancelled national tournaments. Don't worry, the mods can handle this! The thread has indeed been...
- Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Marking bonus parts as hard, medium, and easy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3095
Re: Marking bonus parts as hard, medium, and easy
I think this would be an interesting thing, but I would urge people to treat the markings like the ordering of clues in tossups--they represent what the writers/editors think are the proper difficulty. They probably are "correct" for the most part, but not always. In other words, they do ...
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 7:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4753
Re: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
My thoughts: 1. I don't believe any NAQT college tournament needs to be timed. SCT doesn't use the timer and ICT, which attracts excellent staffers and logistics people, doesn't need to use the clock. 2. Because of that, I would be fine with NAQT's college tournaments adopting 5/5/5 (well, I don't ...
- Fri Feb 07, 2020 12:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 Chicago Open Location Poll
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1482
Re: 2020 Chicago Open Location Poll
show us the TD hat Jacob
(voted for Northwestern due to its various advantages, such as food options and proximity to other potential events)
(voted for Northwestern due to its various advantages, such as food options and proximity to other potential events)
- Sun Jan 19, 2020 12:03 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (postponed)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5720
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (Late July 2020)
Have at it here!Haaaaaaaarry Whiiiiiiiiiite wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:00 pm Since people are already making teams for CO proper, should there be a team formation sheet for CO Trash?
- Sat Jan 18, 2020 8:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7497
Re: 2020 Chicago Open (Please Vote for Date in Poll)
I voted for all the dates initially since I'm available for them all, but would now like to indicate my preference for the 18th.
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:33 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Understanding Literature as a Category
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2066
Re: Understanding Literature as a Category
I think Mike's points are generally accurate.
Furthermore, this:
Furthermore, this:
is not really accurate--as you can see here, "literature" gets a smaller part of the top-level distribution than both history and science/math.
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 7:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7497
Re: 2020 Chicago Open (Please Vote for Date in Poll)
I don't think any of us would personally have a problem making it to the tournament that weekend, but the CO Trash team would prefer to avoid the weekend of August 1, since that conflicts with Trivia Nationals and could thus negatively impact our attendance. Luckily it looks like the July dates are ...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 6:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2011
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Survey
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2170
Re: ACF Survey
Our goal is to support the entire collegiate community on several different fronts, including the production of high-quality tournaments for a range of different audiences and the development of resources for the benefit of collegiate quizbowl at large. Is this ACF's goal, or your understanding of ...
- Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:27 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: PSA: Don't Write For PACE
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9318
Re: PSA: Don't Write For PACE
I don't foresee any further good coming out of this topic as it is, so I've locked it. I will echo Tejas's encouragement to check out the PACE mentorship program in this and future years.
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7774
Re: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
I think "try to find interesting prizes, when you can" is reasonable advice for TDs, but putting it in such a personally-aggrieved and/or condemnatory context isn't a great way to communicate that. I also agree with Jonathan about Digital Fortress. Thrill as the protagonists struggle to fi...
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:49 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Schurniverse: It's a Schur Thing (Nationals Season 2022)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5313
Re: Schurniverse: It's a Schur Thing (Early Summer 2020)
Aw, no FJM :(
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:31 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Super ACRONYM 2: Global Announcement
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6525
- Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUSES Announcement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8429
Re: MUSES Announcement
Agreed; I really enjoyed this, highly recommend playing it, and am looking forward to finishing the finals series
I also thought the linked two-part bonuses were a pretty good compromise to avoid the larger time commitment of a full tossup/bonus format.

- Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9472
Re: The Unanswered Question: A 20th Century Fine Arts Tournament
This tournament was a ton of fun! I definitely recommend it.
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 7:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
- Replies: 91
- Views: 21424
Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
I too am in search of an Unanswered Question teammate.
EDIT: playing with Auroni!
EDIT: playing with Auroni!
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 1:00 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: 64-bit Soundbyte - Gaming/Music Mini-Event (Gauging Interest)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4132
Re: 64-bit Soundbyte - Gaming/Music Mini-Event (Gauging Interest)
I initially thought this was another video game music tournament and was only mildly enthused, but now that I've read it correctly I'm extremely enthused.
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 12:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
- Replies: 91
- Views: 21424
Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
please don't run muses saturday morning!
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
- Replies: 91
- Views: 21424
Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
Edited my form response to make this clear as well, but I would greatly appreciate Super ACRONYM being held Sunday, since circumstances have made it such that I'm likely going to end up getting into Champaign on Saturday.
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 PACE NSC: Congratulations Thomas Jefferson A!
- Replies: 35
- Views: 25939
Re: 2019 PACE NSC: June 8-9, Reston, VA
A huge thanks to our 2019 Round Sponsors! Ankit Aggarwal sponsored a Finals Round. Groger Ranks, HSQBRank via Fred Morlan, Alumni of Fisher Catholic Quiz Bowl, SCOP Novice, Greg Peterson, Mike Bentley, Greater Pennsylvania Quiz Bowl, Bryn and Eric Douglass, Peter Schmidt, and Raynor Kuang and QuizD...
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC 2019 Set Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10979
Re: NSC 2019 Set Discussion
This text's prologue mentions a "war-duke" of Thrace named Lorikus, who becomes the foster father of a child born to a man named Munon and a daughter of King Priam named Troan. In its first section, a king gives a wandering woman as much land as four oxen can plow in a day, only for her t...
- Wed Jun 12, 2019 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Age of Empires @ Chicago Open (8/4)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6102
Re: Age of Empires @ Chicago Open (8/4)
can we be "to smithereens" pleasePeriplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 5:59 pm If you'd like to request a specific one, feel free to ask! Here are lists of cheats and taunts that you can pick from.