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by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:28 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 27866

Re: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread

Who are the members of the ASCA board who voted to hold an in-person district and state series? If MSHSAA can publicly post who voted to try and ban me from playing open tournaments (and every other annual advisory committee vote) then ASCA can post who voted to try running this event.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:20 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 27866

Re: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread

I, personally, am not in favor of holding large, state-wide in-person events at this time and will not be in favor of doing so unless the situation improves considerably. Are you going to still participate in your district championship if it happens, or are you going to do the right thing by taking...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:13 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 27866

Re: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread

Please, that is a stretch... An Alabama Quiz Bowl tournament having a significant impact outside of the immediate connecting states at this point of the pandemic? That is like saying you are drinking Pharaoh Tuts urine when you bath in the Nile in 2020. If Alabama decisions are impacting other Stat...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:27 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 27866

Re: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread

To me, one of the more shameful aspects of the general worldwide response to this pandemic has been how willing people are to punt decisions until later in the calendar, rather than making a real effort to predict the (very obvious) future (that Alabama currently has killed 1 out of every 1,000 resi...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
Replies: 83
Views: 27866

Re: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread

A board that makes statewide decisions governing an educational activity for minors should publish its minutes. People deserve to know who all the members of the ASCA board are, and how they voted, at the barest minimum.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:56 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
Replies: 74
Views: 45200

Re: ICT format and seeding discussion

You seed the pools well and give them well-edited packets on which to play the other teams in their pool?
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:54 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
Replies: 105
Views: 82570

Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania

I heard there was supposed to be a livestream? Is there a link?
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
Replies: 74
Views: 45200

Re: ICT format and seeding discussion

If every team should be given the aforementioned respect of assuming that they could walk into ICT and win it, and every game counts equally towards the final standings, then there's no reason that higher seeded teams should be given any kind of preferential treatment related to when they meet up.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
Replies: 74
Views: 45200

Re: ICT format and seeding discussion

I think publicizing seeds before an event is inappropriate, because every team deserves the respect of being treated as if they might win. I actually don't even think it's good practice to build schedules by plugging in teams to a schedule based on their seed - as a TD I always entered preliminary p...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
Replies: 74
Views: 45200

Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")

Can somebody change the title of this thread? It's definitely offputting for no productive reason at this point.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
Replies: 74
Views: 45200

Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")

Is there a way to fairly reward teams for the percentage of games they won, or at minimum give teams who have an undefeated record and a strength of schedule above a certain value an added boost? I think that going undefeated in a competitive sectional is the kind of criteria that speaks well of a t...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:28 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
Replies: 74
Views: 45200

Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")

I'd be FASCINATED to find out what the D-value predicts the finishes at ICT should have been based on its statistics.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:06 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
Replies: 74
Views: 45200

Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")

Will's "garbage in, garbage out" analogy is calling the D-value a not great ranking for determining how teams will do at nationals, and I think that in particular something is wrong with the way the "strength of schedule" calculation works, and the fact that there isn't much of a...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Mar 27, 2019 8:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Maybe you'll realize one day that I'm saying I and others should be ashamed of things we've told other people in the pursuit of good quizbowl, and that it's not worth it to get in the habit of writing things you might be ashamed of, like what you just wrote, when there's no reason to do so.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Mar 27, 2019 4:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Your post had enough other decrees about what is right and wrong about question construction in questions that were absolutely in the range of acceptable that I feel OK saying what I said. Rather than declaring that the Ferrara question "didn't need to exist," or "There's zero reason ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Is there anything more constant in quizbowl than "an open tournament billed as 'Nats minus' is going to end up being too hard"? This is not my first rodeo, and I'm kind of shocked that nobody else in this thread was able to read between the lines in the announcement and expect exactly what...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

I guess it sort of was subtweeting you, but only because you have yet to give an actual response to why you felt it necessary to compile that list of common-link answers on places and complain about how they should have been turned into other answers. Those questions were basically all fine, and man...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 26, 2019 4:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

I would love to just once read a questions discussion thread where the players who didn't actually write the set respond to the editors who did write a set that makes an honest effort at being good quizbowl, worth one's time and money, without a list of proclamations that the clues are BAD AND MISPL...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
Replies: 35
Views: 3819

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata

No surprise then, Rafael and I didn't hear the word "ultra" in the game.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:29 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
Replies: 35
Views: 3819

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata

The question on Orthodox Jews didn't accept our team's answer of "Haredi." Unless we misunderstood the clues, I think our answer, or the phrase "ultra Orthodox" are in fact the only correct answers - most religious Jews in Israel are what we would call Orthodox, and they still ge...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:40 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
Replies: 32
Views: 26373

Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019

Why is it like pulling teeth for me to show up to ICT and convince people to leave the tournament at the end of the day and go eat a good dinner and then go out to enjoy a little nightlife in one of the largest cities in America? Isn't that what friends do? I enjoy the Chicago dining and nightlife ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:56 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
Replies: 32
Views: 26373

Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019

OK, but do you socialize with these people outside of quizbowl? Do you ever try to introduce your quizbowl friends to non-quizbowl friends? I don't think I'm wrong to say it's extremely rare for quizbowl people to drop each other a line when they're in town and get a group together to go to a museum...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:17 am
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
Replies: 32
Views: 26373

Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019

Do people feel fulfilled by the internet "friendships" of quizbowl? I had a long period of time where I was having trouble in my own personal life, and spent vast amounts of time logged into the IRC and reading every single post made on the forum, and eventually it became clear that most o...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
Replies: 39
Views: 5010

Re: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests

In fast-paced gameplay I found it very easy to hear the clues about the jacket design of Fernando Pessoa's recent edition of "The Book of Disquiet" and instead buzz in with "Ulysses," a work that has also had a recent reprinting, and which often uses images of James Joyce wearing...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:06 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats
Replies: 8
Views: 1738

Re: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats

I'm pretty sure the tournaments I've been to in the last 4 years either gave out paper packets (SCT) or else "distributed" packets via them being publicly released on the archives. I had to ask around back channels for uncleared sets, which is something predicated on a higher degree of tru...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats
Replies: 8
Views: 1738

Re: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats

The question isn't "Has this particular [very new] technology been used yet for cheating?" but rather "Have quizbowlers proven repeatedly that if they're given the chance to easily cheat, someone will eventually cheat?" NAQT famously ignored early warnings that there was a flaw i...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats
Replies: 8
Views: 1738

Re: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats

I think that quizbowl has shown repeatedly at all levels that it can't be trusted not to cheat, and I think the existence of links that tell you literally every answer to expect in the tournament is a recipe for cheating, so I don't think it's a good idea to have this thread until the set is totally...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:48 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
Replies: 39
Views: 5010

Re: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests

The question on Iblis should be revised - it refers to him as a person when he is emphatically NOT a person, but a jinn.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)
Replies: 11
Views: 6127

Re: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)

I'm delighted this tournament happened! MIT did good work and we got out at a sane hour, and I had fun. I am old enough to admit that my previous post's tone was too abrasive, especially taking an unnecessary swipe at my clubmates and other local teams in a moment of broader frustration. I've tried ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:39 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)
Replies: 11
Views: 6127

Re: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)

If you don't get any of your maybe teams and Columbia withdraws, what do you envision happening?
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:21 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)
Replies: 11
Views: 6127

Re: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)

Hi, I missed Columbia practice tonight, and am just now discovering that apparently our B team has continued its historical bad habit of freaking out unnecessarily about homework and midterms and dropping out of a tournament that it REALLY should be playing if it wants to be serious about contending...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Spartan Housewrite @ NYU (02/16/19)
Replies: 5
Views: 4180

Re: Spartan Housewrite @ NYU (02/16/19)

This was as fun and laid back a tournament as any I've been to, and the direction was great, zero delays, prompt readers, loved loved loved it. Thanks NYU!
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:52 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2019 [Available 3/23/2019]
Replies: 17
Views: 12455

Re: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2019 [Available 3/23/2019]

Is this tournament too easy for me to respectably play, or is it designed for all teams to show up and do their thing?
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Feb 10, 2019 4:36 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
Replies: 13
Views: 8488

Re: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)

Just drawing attention to the fact that Columbia A is indeed flying to this because it's the only PIANO date that our whole team can play, and if MSU and Chicago can be roped in there's suddenly a crazy strong pre-nats field, so I'm gonna need you all to FREE YOUR MINDS about a Sunday event and sign...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT SCT @ Rutgers (2/9/19)
Replies: 13
Views: 8147

Re: NAQT SCT @ Rutgers (2/9/19)

Speaking strictly as a Division 1 player, I LOVED that we were done with like 45 whole minutes to spare before the 5:30 PM train (and that the tournament had great moderators and real-ass competition in every single room). The long delay at the beginning mixed with somebody reminding me that Rutgers...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 20581

Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

Thank you for your gracious reaction to my post Will, because I do admire the willingness to try something creative. I'm totally not opposed to asking about things in a unique way - when it clicks, those are the most memorable questions (for me, the question about "this deity" that ended u...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:39 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Regionals @ Swarthmore (1/26)
Replies: 12
Views: 8274

Re: ACF Regionals @ Swarthmore (1/26)

Swarthmore is a really good place to run tournaments, so I'm delighted that the team and the local staff pool has stepped up to the plate. Rebecca was a very helpful/communicative TD who made sure I didn't misfire with buying too early of a bus on the way back. I had a great day and I think the rest...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 43
Views: 20581

Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

The set was very good, and even when taking into account the above criticisms about difficulty mismatches it served its purpose as a regional championship fantastically. The closer I get to 30 the more willing I am to straight up admit that I dislike many questions I dislike not because there is som...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Sun Jun 03, 2018 11:35 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110486

Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)

I certainly hope the complaint accounts for the fact that this is not a phenomenon isolated to a defunct blog in 2002, but rather something that has continued to resonate into the more recent past on Facebook. This is the only example I have on hand given that I am not Matt Bruce's Facebook friend, ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue May 15, 2018 9:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together
Replies: 33
Views: 23380

Re: I Love You, QB, So Please Get It The F*** Together

Bunnie and I just had a very productive conversation and found out we're on the same page in many important ways, I wasn't making anything up when I say that I'm thankful for her willingness to call out flaws because I think this process deserves heavy scrutiny and nobody should trust themselves to ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue May 15, 2018 8:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110486

Re: Matt Bruce

The board staff has the power to edit out information they don't see fit to have on their website, and while I strive to exercise my own reasoned judgement about how much the information I have needs to be filtered, if they differ with my judgement it would also set a good precedent were they to dec...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue May 15, 2018 6:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110486

Re: Matt Bruce

I in fact welcome Bunnie's perspective (although I dispute certain details of it) as symptoms of the fact that there is so little quizbowl can do other than have a whisper network, and when somebody is told a series of incredibly disturbing criminal allegations, the nature of which make that person ...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue May 15, 2018 5:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110486

Re: Matt Bruce

2. Sexual assault/harassment is a VERY serious thing. It is not something to be aired openly on a board by someone who heard it through the grapevine. There are better ways to go about this and, as a result of this, those better ways need to be made even better and more obvious. I pursued the chain...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Tue May 15, 2018 5:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110486

Re: Matt Bruce

The blotted out name is not the victim, it's a different source who interacted with the victim.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon May 14, 2018 8:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Replies: 153
Views: 110486

Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)

Attached are screenshots that came into my possession where Timothy Woodward tells somebody else that Matt Bruce, current NAQT member who read the Small School National Championship game, admitted to him he is "very remorseful" for having sexually assaulted [a woman while at Boston Univers...
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon May 07, 2018 7:50 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
Replies: 76
Views: 41339

Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish

Not everyone needs to vote in the poll if they don't really understand what they're talking about, it's good and healthy to cultivate other interests with your freetime. Also, it's the bottom file that's supposed to be read first, unsure how to embed it in my post.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Mon May 07, 2018 7:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
Replies: 76
Views: 41339

Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish

4. Rafael Krichevsky, Columbia (lowest--10th)
Is the word "lulz," or is the word "clueless about what actually goes into evaluating the kind of talent that helps people excel at a national championship?"
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu May 03, 2018 1:06 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Canadian Player Poll 2018
Replies: 27
Views: 16602

Re: Canadian Player Poll 2018

I think it's very strange that the best Canadian quizbowl player in history is at his peak and you guys come up with rules to exclude him.
by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)
Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
Replies: 121
Views: 62517

Re: ACF Nationals discussion

I just want to make sure we're all talking about the same tossup, which was written for a finals packet at a collegiate national championship, and was used in a game to determine who would get to walk away with a trophy, and was about a topic accessible enough that probably all 8 players in the matc...