Search found 226 matches
- Wed Jun 24, 2020 11:25 am
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: G2G FASTER
- Replies: 4
- Views: 641
Re: G2G FASTER
I'll pop in at 10 to get wrecked by this.
- Sun May 03, 2020 10:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DECAMERON - Asynchronous guerrilla tournament announcement and signups
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6624
Re: DECAMERON - Asynchronous guerrilla tournament announcement and signups
In light of recent cheating scandals and the persistence of suspicious performances on online events, I am politely requesting that all of my team's matches be played on Discord or Zoom video call. I possess a premium zoom room (Thanks UChicago!) and will read matches on my team's packet (if I'm av...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:52 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: From Tony Taylorism to Pre-Lew Fordism: Baseball in the Second Half of the 20th Century
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1464
Re: From Tony Taylorism to Pre-Lew Fordism: Baseball in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Can't wait to go 1/4/6 on this.
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38252
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
Free Zoom would actually work fine if people wanted to do a tournament by video. The 40 minute limit is not a big deal because you can do one session after another. Does the timer for the 40 minutes limit counts all the waiting time in between rounds? Even if it doesn't, quizbowl rounds can easily ...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4689
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Astro (the only subject that I’m really qualified to give an opinion on) was really solid. Loads of real stuff early and answerlines that should be gettable by the end. One exception is the clue on abundance matching which isn’t strictly used for luminosity but it usually is so it’s not that bad. In...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 12:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals at Rice (01/25/2020)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1059
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals at Rice (01/25/2020)
Thanks to Andrew for running a very good tournament.
Having not played solo since Early Autumn Collegiate Novice in 2010, I probably would have been mentally finished by the middle of the day if there was logistical bullshit to contend with.
Having not played solo since Early Autumn Collegiate Novice in 2010, I probably would have been mentally finished by the middle of the day if there was logistical bullshit to contend with.
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: JORDU: A Jazz Side Event (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2687
Re: JORDU: A Jazz Side Event (Summer 2020)
I am very ready to get thoroughly embarrassed on what is supposed to be one of my better categories.
- Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Preseason Poll 2019-2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14570
Re: Preseason Poll 2019-2020
22. Chicago C (projected roster: Halle Friedman, Ian Baram, Edgar Lin, Wonyoung Jang) Placing any C team, even Chicago C, in the top 25, is a dicey proposition. There are plenty of questions about team composition and members' levels of competitiveness, but compared to the teams below them, Chicago...
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17230
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
Hey, so I wrote what was (as far as I can tell) the hardest science tossup in the set, judging from me asking around on the day of - the tossup on oozes , which made it in unedited from our team's submission. I intended for the tossup to link disparate pieces of knowledge about ocean science that I...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17230
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
Science history: What we did: We had a science history question (tossup or bonus) like once every two packets. Did that shit work?: Eh. I was more mixed on this. I still think this IDEA is very good - science history belongs in the distribution, and it belongs in the science distribution. It's repr...
- Mon May 27, 2019 2:21 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4650
Re: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
This is now the Bill Buckner memorial packet
- Mon May 27, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4650
- Mon May 27, 2019 2:15 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4650
Re: Let's Remember Some New York Mets
This is my time to shine.
- Wed May 15, 2019 9:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5929
Re: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
Everyone already knows this but the Yale ACF Nats placement in the spreadsheet should mention the lack of "not that bad at quizbowl" person Jacob Reed.
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39939
Re: Player Poll 2019
TeammateShilling.exe Halle Friedmann is really good at visual arts. Underrank her at your own peril especially if you're playing CO, she will still be able to get things ahead of you there. Olivia Kiser knows a shit-ton of random myth and history things. I recall at one point Olivia told me that he ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 4:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22602
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Because sets (not counting ACF Nationals 2019) have 1/1 math and usually more. Math that normal people usually care about is clued in almost every science tossup (and as you pointed out logic-based philosophy/thought TUs and probably some SS/Econ). There is no need for 1/1 "Content that is tau...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22602
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
For starters, people who want a tournament with 1/1 math should feel free to write tournaments with 1/1 math! There is no one "correct" distribution. Not to beat this dead horse again, but do that at something like Lederberg or WAO or Sun God or Terrapin, not ACF Nationals 2019. At least ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Are stats going to be posted for this, or are they a casualty of the paper scoresheets / bad hotel internet? The google spreadsheets for stats are completed for everything up to finals. Someone in the editors groupchat has entered all of the games but one that I missed into SQBS, not sure what the ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21787
Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
Going to SMU for a postdoc working on the DESI experiment. I will probably be around the Dallas area to staff things if asked and am always open to join open teams looking for some science help.
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22602
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Because sets (not counting ACF Nationals 2019) have 1/1 math and usually more. Math that normal people usually care about is clued in almost every science tossup (and as you pointed out logic-based philosophy/thought TUs and probably some SS/Econ). There is no need for 1/1 "Content that is taug...
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 57413
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
A word of warning: April 13th is the night of "Spring Fling," which, for the uninitiated, is a concert at franklin field that leads to large numbers of drunken and otherwise intoxicated students running around campus with no regard for anything, often vomiting in random places. Probably be...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 57413
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
A couple more reminders: I'm working on stats tonight. Should be up tonight or maybe tomorrow if I find motivation to do actual work. Thanks to everyone who venmo-ed me already. Please Venmo me $15 dollars if you haven't yet. I got physical payment from Sorice and Seth, and will track the remainder ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2019 2:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Well, with regards to logistics, of all the tournaments that ever happened, this was one of them. Sorry for the issues that caused what should have been maybe a 4 hour tournament into a nearly 6 hour hellscape. Thanks to everyone who came to play the tournament. I hope you all were able to enjoy it....
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 6:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Schedule is attached. Dylan et al, you were warned. Seth is optimistic about using game rooms. The chance of us using game rooms goes up if you come to the staff check-in table at 6 and help set up rooms so please do that. See you all soon. EDIT: Meet in the lobby at 6:30 so we can start the tournam...
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 12:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
I just Facebook messaged all of the people who volunteered a room in the spreadsheet. In the event that the game rooms that Seth spoke of don't materialize, we will need one more room to run this tournament. Please let me know if you have a room that would be available tonight from 6-9:30PM Also we ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 11:53 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Okay, after talking with Joel, here's the deal: 1) we can start at 6:30, but we'll need to break around 7:30 so that staffers can check in and help with set-up. 2) teams providing buzzers to ICT need to check in their buzzers before starting in on the side event. Team buzzers can be checked in star...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
I have not attempted to find a team because I was unsure of whether we'd be in Chicago on time; if it turns out we will be (which looks reasonably likely); is the TD amenable to allowing five-member teams? We really want to get to 12 teams since that makes a really easy schedule with no byes that a...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 2:40 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Oh and if your team doesn't have a name, I'm going to give you the stupidest name I can think of. So do that before I make schedules late thursday night/Friday morning.
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 2:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 26073
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Lederberg Trinity (Summer 2019)
Hey everyone, with five days left before the tournament, here's some updates and additional requests. 1. We have 207/240 questions edited for this set, and are well on pace to finish 2. We have 10 teams signed up, and enough free agents to cover two more teams. Please form two more teams ASAP. 3. J...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 3:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6743
Re: CO Matchmaking
Now that we know when and where CO will be, the plebeians can start forming teams and writing packets. I'm looking for some teammates. I'm not good at anything, but can one-clue tossups on "Miss America." I write questions for a living so I'm comfortable writing a packet fast. I'll try no...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 3:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4721
Re: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
Sure would be nice to know if I’m able to play this tournament in time to write a packet for it.
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11099
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
Courtesy of Matt: Teams may not object to the specific replacement question which gets read unless it is an exact repeat (See C.13). (In particular, players have no basis for expecting that a replacement question be from the same category as a question which was thrown out, or for expecting that th...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11099
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
FYI to future tournament directors, if you are replacing a physics tossup, use a physics tossup.
If you don’t have a physics tossup, use some other science tossup.
If you don’t have some other science tossup, apologize to the teams and yell at the editors before sending some other question.
If you don’t have a physics tossup, use some other science tossup.
If you don’t have some other science tossup, apologize to the teams and yell at the editors before sending some other question.
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:27 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4721
Re: DATE POLL: Chicago Open
Am i the only one who’s going to graduate between July 20 and August 2?
I guess I’ll play anyway but I should be writing/editing my thesis then.
I guess I’ll play anyway but I should be writing/editing my thesis then.
- Fri Jan 25, 2019 5:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The D-value SOS calculation is broken
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9197
Re: The D-value SOS calculation is broken
Nearly a year has passed since Ryan's original post in this thread, and this year's SCT is fast approaching. Have any steps been taken to tweak the strength-of-schedule metric in the D-value calculation, in response to the flaws that Ryan demonstrated? Doubly noted. As someone who has been personal...
- Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:41 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: John Charles Daly Mirror at WUSTL (6/30/18)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4634
Re: John Charles Daly Mirror at WUSTL (6/30/18)
Five days out from the date of the tournament, it would be nice to know if there is more interest in this tournament than the 3 free agents in the google doc.
- Sun Jun 03, 2018 8:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21598
Re: Boston Summer Open I
wcheng wrote:I'd be completely unable to attend this tournament if it was moved to any later of a date, so I'm hoping it can stay where it is.
I can also only attend this date and have already booked travel for this date.
- Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21598
Re: Boston Summer Open I
If anyone is interested in going to Fenway Sunday night (8PM*) to see the Yankees play the Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball, DM me. It looks like there are still some reasonably priced tickets available directly through the red sox website. *Assuming that there won't actually be any side events runn...
- Mon May 14, 2018 6:23 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31883
Re: Players Choice Awards

I’m aware we are the big evil cabal, but as far as I know there’s still only one Chicago institution.
- Mon May 07, 2018 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57460
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
I emailed you a while back to register my team (Tamara Vardomskaya, Mike Cheyne, Sam Bailey, and me) for the tournament. Did you get the registration? It appears that we are not included in the field in the first post.
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:59 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50093
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Now that I can access the "color" question from Editors one, I can confirm my suspicion that the first two clues are nearly unbuzzable and if you do buzz on them you are either a) the Eric Weisstein's world of astronomy page that the clue was taken from or b) about to neg with "Infra...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50093
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Now that I can access the "color" question from Editors one, I can confirm my suspicion that the first two clues are nearly unbuzzable and if you do buzz on them you are either a) the Eric Weisstein's world of astronomy page that the clue was taken from or b) about to neg with "Infrar...
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 2:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31883
Re: Players Choice Awards
Shameless Chicago promotion time: Matthew Lehmann and Luke Tierney are both freshmen who scored over 20 PPG in the ACF Nationals top bracket and led their team to it's first top 10 finish in at least the last 5 years (and probably more than that). If they aren't both in your ballot for rookie of the...
- Sun Apr 22, 2018 10:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50093
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
For the jazz, I did my best to be innovative, including writing on things like jazz practice (the bonus on fake books) and education (the bonus part on Stan Kenton). As a former, and hopefully future, jazz musician, this was noticed and appreciated although our team did not get to answer either bon...
- Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 81
- Views: 16534
Re: SMT 2018 Specific Question Discussion
Researchers in 2007 observed the effect of sudden changes in this variable in the upregulation of alpha crystallins, or sHSPs, in the eggs of zebrafish. Saccharomyces mutants sensitive to this variable were used by Hartwell to figure out the role of cyclins in cell division. This variable is observ...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CMST: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 12915
Re: CMST: Specific question discussion
It would necessitate rewriting a bunch of clues and the answerline, but "this variable" or "these reaction conditions" might work better. I hate tossups using “this variable” in bio and reaction chem since that immediately narrows it to an answer space of 3 or 4. “These reaction...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CMST: General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7336
Re: CMST: General Discussion
I should also note that while Aseem claims that the balance of the other science was due to some form of mistake, I think the balance of the other science was better than any tournament I've played in a while. Math doesn't really deserve to have one or even more than one question per packet and I do...