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- Wed Aug 17, 2022 6:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2022 CO Trash: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3409
Re: Specific question discussion
Round 1, TU 16 - "gunnery sergeant" was the rank held by DI Hartman, but it's not a "job" and it's not synonymous with drill instructor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill_instructor#United_States That's a valid assessment. My reasoning behind accepting it is that it is basical...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 8:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2022 CO Trash: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3409
Re: Specific question discussion
Could I see the soccer tossup on Toronto? I'm impessed how it avoided giving power just because one is Canadian but wondering what the clues were about. A club in this city was the last professional stop for Juventus (yoo-VEN-toos) legends Francesco Morini and Roberto Bettega. River Plate and Juven...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 5:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2022 CO Trash: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3409
Re: Specific question discussion
Yes, please email Carsten (OctagonJoe at gmail) for a copy of the set. As a note, I will be sending the version of the set that was used on Sunday, which means it will still have all the original errors. We have already been making edits to the set for future mirrors, but you can also e-mail me any...
- Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy SNL: Season 8
- Replies: 3
- Views: 372
Re: Fantasy SNL: Season 8
Due to a cleric error, the gods decided to not allow stats to be posted for the last two weeks. Week Four Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 1-3-0-0 110 Maryland B 2-0-2-0 98 Team Gehring 1-1-2-0 101 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-4 55 Team Gehring Kenan Thompson -- 8 points Alex Moff...
- Sat Oct 09, 2021 5:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Fantasy SNL: Season 8
- Replies: 3
- Views: 372
Fantasy SNL: Season 8
Welcome back, sports fans! A new season of Saturday Night Live of course means a new season of fantasy SNL. This season's sponsor is last year's CO Trash. Last year's CO Trash: Never forget that this tournament happened. The teams are still the same as they always have been: Team Gehring, Team Cheyn...
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Submission discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10545
Re: Packet Submission discussion
I'm not speaking for ACF here, but I wanted to add some comments. If ACF wants to require teams to submit packets, it should directly teach people to write instead of throwing them into it blindly. If ACF assumes that people won't write on their own volition if packet sub didn't require them to, the...
- Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1113
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
I think it's important to consider what months we're including in the MONTHS TOURNAMENT. And that starts here, with which galactic tones make it into the final field. As an expert on the Dreamspell calendar based on the Googling I've done in the last five minutes, I would like to make two requests: ...
- Sat Jan 25, 2020 8:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals at Minnesota (01/25/2020)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2360
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals at Minnesota (01/25/2020)
Here are stats. Thanks to everyone who came and played or staffed!
- Sat Nov 02, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Fall at Minnesota (11/02/2019)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3020
Re: 2019 ACF Fall at Minnesota (11/02/2019)
Congratulations to Minnesota B, who defeated Minnesota A in the first game of an advantaged final. Thanks to everyone who came. Stats can be found here.
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 7:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl @ UMN (10/19/19)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3849
Re: 2019 Penn Bowl @ UMN (10/19/19)
Here are the final stats: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... _combined/. Congratulations to Andrew, Evan, and Rob for winning, and thanks to everyone for showing up.
- Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl @ UMN (10/19/19)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3849
Re: 2019 Penn Bowl @ UMN (10/19/19)
Stats through lunch are here.
- Sat Aug 17, 2019 8:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Congrats to Mike Cheyne on winning another season of FSNL, his third in five opportunities. Congrats also to Kenan Thompson, who takes home the scoring title at what is looking to be a very promising start to his SNL career. I'm sure Tejas, Naveed, or Andrew will be posting FFSNL stats in the near f...
- Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Here are the stats from last night's season finale. Sorry I forgot to post last week's stats. Week Twenty-One Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 8-8-5-0 605 Team Gehring 5-11-5-0 597 Maryland B 8-2-11-0 591 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-21 272 Team Gehring Cecily Strong -- 18 points ...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 2:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
- Replies: 91
- Views: 37422
Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
I could use a teammate for Unanswered Question.
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:47 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Ten Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 4-5-1-0 302 Team Gehring 3-4-3-0 281 Maryland B 3-1-6-0 270 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-10 126 Team Gehring Kenan Thompson -- 19 points Aidy Bryant -- 6 points Leslie Jones -- 8 points Kyle Mooney -- 6 points 39 points Team Cheyne Cecily...
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals @ UMN
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5640
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals @ UMN
Minnesota A cleared the field to win this site. Minnesota B took the UG title, and Carleton claimed the D2 title. Stats can be found here.
- Thu Jan 17, 2019 8:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Nine Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 4-4-1-0 267 Team Gehring 2-4-3-0 242 Maryland B 3-1-5-0 247 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-9 113 Team Gehring Kenan Thompson -- 10 points Heidi Gardner -- 10 points Mikey Day -- 9 points Leslie Jones -- 3 points 32 points Team Cheyne Cecil...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Eight Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 4-3-1-0 241 Maryland B 3-1-4-0 225 Team Gehring 1-4-3-0 210 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-8 99 Team Gehring Kate McKinnon -- 4 points Mikey Day -- 15 points Beck Bennett -- 11 points Kyle Mooney -- 4 points 34 points Team Cheyne Kenan Th...
- Wed Dec 05, 2018 10:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Seven Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 3-3-1-0 202 Maryland B 3-1-3-0 201 Team Gehring 1-3-3-0 176 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-7 88 Team Gehring Kenan Thompson -- 6 points Pete Davidson -- 7 points Heidi Gardner -- 5 points Kyle Mooney -- 1 point 19 points Team Cheyne Kate ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2018 7:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Six Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 2-3-1-0 172 Maryland B 3-0-3-0 173 Team Gehring 1-3-2-0 157 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-6 79 Team Gehring Cecily Strong -- 7 points Aidy Bryant -- 10 points Kyle Mooney -- 0 points Leslie Jones -- 8 points 25 points Team Cheyne Kenan Tho...
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2018 (July 22, 2018)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 42045
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 1:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2018 (July 22, 2018)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 42045
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2018 (July 22, 2018)
The set has been posted.Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:52 pm Are there any more remaining mirrors? If not, can it posted soon?
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 10:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Five Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 2-3-0-0 150 Maryland B 2-0-3-0 135 Team Gehring 1-2-2-0 132 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-5 69 Team Gehring Kate McKinnon -- 13 points Heidi Gardner -- 6 points Mikey Day -- 9 points Kyle Mooney -- 8 points 36 points Team Cheyne Kenan Tho...
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Four Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 1-3-0-0 104 Maryland B 2-0-2-0 109 Team Gehring 1-1-2-0 96 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-4 53 Team Gehring Beck Bennett -- 3 points Heidi Gardner -- 3 points Mikey Day -- 4 points Aidy Bryant -- 10 points 20 points Team Cheyne Kenan Thomp...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Three Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Team Cheyne 1-2-0-0 78 Team Gehring 1-1-1-0 76 Maryland B 1-0-2-0 79 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-3 41 Team Gehring Mikey Day -- 0 points Beck Bennett -- 8 points Kyle Mooney -- 7 points Heidi Gardner -- 9 points 24 points Team Cheyne Cecily Strong...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week Two Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Maryland B 1-0-1-0 57 Team Cheyne 0-2-0-0 53 Team Gehring 1-0-1-0 52 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-2 29 Team Gehring Kate McKinnon -- 9 points Mikey Day -- 8 points Alex Moffat -- 7 points Leslie Jones -- 6 points 30 points Team Cheyne Cecily Strong -...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
Re: FSNL Season Five
Week One Stats Standings Team Record Points scored Maryland B 1-0-0-0 34 Team Cheyne 0-1-0-0 28 Team Gehring 0-0-1-0 22 Robot Matt Bollinger 0-0-0-1 16 Team Gehring Kenan Thompson -- 2 points Mikey Day -- 10 points Chris Redd -- 6 points Ego Nwodim -- 4 points 22 points Team Cheyne Kate McKinnon --...
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 9:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: FSNL Season Five
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2076
FSNL Season Five
Fantasy Saturday Night Live Season Five will be brought to you again here on the HSQB forums. This season is being sponsored by last year's CO Trash. Last year's CO Trash: You know, the one from last year. Scoring for FSNL is the same as it was for last season, Season Four. Appearing in a sketch ear...
- Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Trash online mirror ANNOUNCEMENT (Sun., 9/23)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11609
Re: CO Trash online mirror ANNOUNCEMENT (Sun., 9/23)
Thanks to everyone who played today. Due to the small size of the field, we decided against doing a full tournament and started with a quick round robin of three games. The stats for the round robin, which was won by the team of Chip Horton, Brian McNamara, and Delano Barnes, can be found here . Aft...
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 8:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Side Event Open - 8/11/18
- Replies: 92
- Views: 38023
Re: Illinois Side Event Open - 8/11/18
I just put my name down as a free agent for some things. Let me know if want to team up.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 CO Trash: Please avoid spoilers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6475
Re: Please avoid spoilers
I realize this is the height of "nobody cares," but I don't think Leon is actually Air Controller Macias. Macias is the guy who says such lines as "Maybe we ought to turn on the searchlights now." He wears kind of a light colored tie and seems older yet has slightly more hair th...
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 CO Trash: Discussion of specific questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9304
Re: Discussion of specific questions
If anyone wants a copy of the set, send me an e-mail. Please do not distribute it to anyone who did not play or staff on Sunday.
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 11:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 CO Trash: Discussion of specific questions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9304
Re: Discussion of specific questions
I'd like to see the question on "Behind Blue Eyes"; I have zero doubt that I made a bad reflex buzz, but as soon as I heard this was a song originally slated for the Lifehouse album and then a reference to Meher Baba (I think by name?), I negged with "Baba O'Riley," which now ou...
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 6:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Best Film Player
- Replies: 44
- Views: 28136
Re: Best Film Player
Alice (née Andreas) Stoehr was really good at film back in the day and probably still is.
Or if we made a list of people who have made you swear by beating you to movie tossups.Cheynem wrote:If we only focused on mumblecore, Carsten Gehring might possibly make the list.
- Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament @ UMN (3/3/18)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 20277
Re: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament @ UMN (3/3/18)
I don't know if this will cause any issues for quizbowlers, but there is a road closure on I-35W this weekend to be aware of.
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Periods, Closing Quote Marks, and You
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7129
Re: Periods, Closing Quote Marks, and You
Since I've already initiated a fussy punctuation/editing discussion, I'll point out that in NAQT's IS-174, which we read for the CC SCTs yesterday, it seemed consistent (though I haven't gone back to double check, so maybe it was sporadic?) that proper names ending in -s used as possessives did not...
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 10:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Periods, Closing Quote Marks, and You
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7129
Re: Periods, Closing Quote Marks, and You
Technically, British style would be to use single quotation marks pretty much everywhere that we (correct Americans) use double quotation marks, so people who use double quotes and exterior punctuation aren't really following any common publishing style (I say without double-checking if that's true)...
- Mon Jan 08, 2018 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 4
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12422
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 4
Given that Eddie has just ceded his spot at CO 2018 and that there were two other audio tournaments vying for spots at NSC and HSNCT, I would like to move the main site of Imaginary Landscape to CO 2018, with the possibility of running additional post-CO mirrors either on Discord, or at one or more...
- Sun Dec 10, 2017 1:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GRAB BAG at UMN 12/9/17
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2019
GRAB BAG at UMN 12/9/17
We read 4 rounds of GRAB BAG. Stats are here . The scores ending in 1 and 6 are not errors. The cumulative individual stats (which are hard to figure out from the SQBS stats) were as follows: Erik: 0/5/22/0 295 Carsten: 1/9/5/2 191 Danny: 0/2/17/2 190 Sam: 0/7/4/4 125 Foster: 0/1/5/1 60 Adam: 0/0/2/...
- Fri Aug 11, 2017 6:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
- Replies: 104
- Views: 56572
Re: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
What is the fee for each event?
- Sat Jul 01, 2017 6:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
- Replies: 104
- Views: 56572
Re: Michigan Side Event Weekend (August 19th-20th)
I'm looking for a team for The Modern Age, I guess. Or I can staff it.
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:40 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Documenting plagiarism
- Replies: 20
- Views: 11265
Re: Documenting plagiarism
I sometimes come across plagiarism in old sets and just brush it off since most were written a decent amount of time ago, but I feel like having a thread to document egregious examples would be fun. This is not meant to be witch-hunty since most of the offenders probably aren't even active anymore;...
- Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42595
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Mich
I've put out entreaties for additional staffers. If ACRONYM runs first on Sunday, I would probably be able to make it work that I could staff on Saturday. (If it runs second on Sunday, I would need to fly in to Michigan on Saturday to avoid missing two days of work just to play a trash tournament.)...
- Sat Nov 26, 2016 3:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Michigan
- Replies: 70
- Views: 42595
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime weekend - 2/25-26/17 - Mich
Isn't it usually standard to play the full tossup/bonus tournament first and then the niche tossups-only side event afterward?Auroni wrote:followed by HIT and ACRONYM (in that order) on Sunday.
- Sun Oct 16, 2016 12:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Trash Skype mirror: Sunday, October 16
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8849
- Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Minnesota (Sept. 24, 2016)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5598
Re: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) at Minnesota (Sept. 24, 2016
UMN C has 5 players who played all 10 games, which is impressive and inaccurate.AsherJ wrote:Despite my best efforts, I think I put this up correctly. Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/
- Sat Sep 10, 2016 6:05 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 459558
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I wrote a half packet comprising 3 groups of 3 tossups that share a theme and 1 tossup that might elicit the statement "that's random." I'll read it on the IRC sometime when there are people to hear it.
- Fri Aug 05, 2016 9:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12726
Re: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
If there are people not playing this live, I'll read my "team"'s packet tonight at 8:00 (so about 1.25 hours from right now) in #guerrillabride on the IRC. This packet by quizbowl favorites Sam Bailey and The Rob Carson will be read any minute now. Also, Jonathan Magin is offering to read...
- Fri Aug 05, 2016 7:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12726
Re: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
If there are people not playing this live, I'll read my "team"'s packet tonight at 8:00 (so about 1.25 hours from right now) in #guerrillabride on the IRC.
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 9:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12726
Re: Bride of the Guerrilla Tournament (Film 2016)
Sam Bailey has joined this packet.Auks Ran Ova wrote:Carsten and I are planning to write a packet for this.