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- Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 28231
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.
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 3:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 28231
Re: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
Who voted for this?
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 28231
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...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 28231
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...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:27 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 28231
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...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 6:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Alabama 2020-2021 Discussion Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 28231
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.
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 46056
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?
- 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: 84060
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
I heard there was supposed to be a livestream? Is there a link?
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 46056
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.
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 46056
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...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 46056
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.
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 46056
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...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 46056
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.
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 46056
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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 8:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292461
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.
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 4:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292461
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 ...
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292461
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...
- Wed Mar 27, 2019 5:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292461
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...
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 110
- Views: 292461
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...
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 1:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3870
Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
No surprise then, Rafael and I didn't hear the word "ultra" in the game.
- Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Errata
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3870
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:40 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 26658
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 ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:56 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 26658
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...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:17 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 26658
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...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5074
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...
- Wed Mar 06, 2019 12:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1757
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...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1757
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...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin advanced stats
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1757
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...
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5074
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.
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6232
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 ...
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6232
Re: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)
If you don't get any of your maybe teams and Columbia withdraws, what do you envision happening?
- Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin @ MIT (3/2/19)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6232
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...
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite @ NYU (02/16/19)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4239
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!
- Sat Feb 16, 2019 12:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Florida Spring Tournament (FST) 2019 [Available 3/23/2019]
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12641
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?
- 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: 8610
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...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT SCT @ Rutgers (2/9/19)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8247
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...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20878
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...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals @ Swarthmore (1/26)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8359
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...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20878
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...
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 11:35 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112173
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, ...
- 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: 23669
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 ...
- Tue May 15, 2018 8:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112173
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...
- Tue May 15, 2018 6:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112173
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 ...
- Tue May 15, 2018 5:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112173
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...
- Tue May 15, 2018 5:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112173
Re: Matt Bruce
The blotted out name is not the victim, it's a different source who interacted with the victim.
- Mon May 14, 2018 8:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 112173
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...
- Mon May 07, 2018 7:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41801
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.
- Mon May 07, 2018 7:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41801
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
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?"4. Rafael Krichevsky, Columbia (lowest--10th)
- Thu May 03, 2018 1:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Canadian Player Poll 2018
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16912
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.
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 8:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 63561
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...