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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...

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...

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.

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 alienation that hyper-refe...

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 TV, film, o...

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

This is cool!

Brandons42 wrote: ↑
Tue May 19, 2020 1:12 am
suggestions for improvements

"quizbowlers".

I have fixed it for you, since I am a loving and caring admin (eventually).

All too obvious which one is better at BBCode, though.

naan/steak-holding toll wrote: ↑
Fri May 08, 2020 3:31 pm
of course it's not incumbent upon Chicago to accept but they should be prepared for the memes to come...

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: ↑
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?

I keep rereading this line and it's starting to make sparks and smoke come out of my brain.

BenWeiner27 wrote: ↑
Fri May 01, 2020 1:22 am

Ehtna wrote: ↑
Fri May 01, 2020 12:24 am
I'm heading to University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), hoping to keep up with qb as much as possible!
Ditto.

Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑
Fri May 01, 2020 12:39 am
You simply love to see it.

Ehtna wrote: ↑
Fri May 01, 2020 12:24 am
I'm heading to University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), hoping to keep up with qb as much as possible!

You simply love to see it.

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 only reasonab...

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...

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...

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...

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 concern o...

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...

Great Bustard wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:31 pm
December 27-30

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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...

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 not repres...

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 ...

show us the TD hat Jacob

(voted for Northwestern due to its various advantages, such as food options and proximity to other potential events)

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?

Have at it here!

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.

I think Mike's points are generally accurate.

Furthermore, this:

lifchrs wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 08, 2020 1:22 pm
the category with the greatest number of questions (at least in NAQT packets)

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 figure out a...

Aw, no FJM :(

Cheynem wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:18 pm
Can a private forum be set up for this?

Can and now has; you can go ahead and request access the normal way.

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.

This tournament was a ton of fun! I definitely recommend it.

I too am in search of an Unanswered Question teammate.

EDIT: playing with Auroni!

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.

please don't run muses saturday morning!

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.

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...

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 to plow up ...

Periplus 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.

can we be "to smithereens" please

I would recommend using an identifier such as "This unnamed location" if you're going to write a tossup on something that doesn't have a reified name. It feels much less hacky than saying "description acceptable." All else equal I would think a simple tag like "description acceptable" would be much...

Gene Harrogate wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:51 pm
Just a thought: maybe people shouldn't get so bent out of shape over the semantics of a meaningless poll the Canadian circuit does every year.

People discussing quizbowl-related things is what the quizbowl discussion forum is for.

Cheynem wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 23, 2019 12:01 pm
Looking for teammates in this, especially people who know things I don't like such as fiction, poetry, painting, sculpture, the auditory arts, philosophy, and social science.

Much like TNT, Mike Cheyne knows drama.

This seems like a difficult exercise since there's like a hs level trashtournament a year and maybe a total of 50 tus in the regular season There's also been a more difficult trash tournament every year since 2016 (either CO Trash or Super ACRONYM), though maybe that's less helpful for regional ran...

TheIronLadyOfQuizbowl wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2019 6:15 pm
What is the rationale between not using head-to-head as a tiebreaker?

Doing so double-counts the game in question.

you, the general you, should play this tournament

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 30, 2019 7:31 pm
Did you know that you can invite Gritty to make a special appearance at your event?

For the sake of completeness: Not only did we already know that, we already invited him and were already turned down. ACF's official position now is that Gritty is canceled.

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