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- Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Gyaankosh???
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3706
Re: Gyaankosh???
Hello, I had to renew the Gyaankosh domain name recently and tried to check in to the site. What I found was that the site was down, and has been down since June. It seems my webhost transferred my account to a new set of servers, and this transition somehow interrupted service (despite all assuranc...
- Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6949
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
Thanks to all the teams who showed up! Much love to Chris from Bellarmine for offering to moderate, and to Brian for doing stats. I was skeptical a tournament could run so smoothly with as few staff as we had, but I guess l was wrong. We started when we said we'd start, we ended when we said we'd en...
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6949
- Sat Feb 26, 2011 3:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6949
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
Logistics:
Meet in Old Union 216 by 9:30 AM. We'll be starting at 10 to allow all teams to arrive at the site. The current schedule calls for a triple round-robin, with playoff packets as needed to break any ties. We will try to wrap up the event by 6 PM.
Meet in Old Union 216 by 9:30 AM. We'll be starting at 10 to allow all teams to arrive at the site. The current schedule calls for a triple round-robin, with playoff packets as needed to break any ties. We will try to wrap up the event by 6 PM.
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6949
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
We've got rooms in Old Union. Thanks to the teams who have already contacted me.
MSJ and UCLA: please e-mail me if you're still planning on coming!
MSJ and UCLA: please e-mail me if you're still planning on coming!
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6949
Re: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
Bumping this for visibility. I have not received any confirmation e-mails.
If you are coming, please send me an e-mail to confirm your attendance.
Additionally, if teams are looking for affordable housing, I have a capacious apartment that they may crash in for the night.
If you are coming, please send me an e-mail to confirm your attendance.
Additionally, if teams are looking for affordable housing, I have a capacious apartment that they may crash in for the night.
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 1:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6949
ACF Regionals 2011 @ Stanford (2/26/11)
The Stanford Quiz Bowl club will be hosting ACF Regionals on February 26, 2011. I will be the TD for this event. Location We will be playing in Old Union , though we are looking at the Nitery (right next door). Parking is available in the Tresidder Lot, which is just south of Lagunita Drive at the b...
- Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6556
Re: THUNDER II at UCSD - 12/4/10
I can verify that there is now an interested Stanford contingent. At worst case, it will be me showing up as free agent. At the best, we'll have two teams.Dutton Speedwords wrote:Expressing interest. The only real barrier for me (and possibly others from Stanford) is that it's the weekend right before exams.
- Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:41 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: The quizbowl decades project
- Replies: 123
- Views: 76553
Re: The quizbowl decades project
Two of my favorite high school memories are from the 2006 HSNCT, when we upset both Maggie Walker and Richard Montgomery to finish atop the rankings after the prelims. I think that was the first time in a while that Grosse Pointe (yes, there's an 'e' at the end of both words) North quiz bowl receive...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Post here if you want required geography at ACF Nats
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6801
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Whatever happened to the Stanford Archives?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2044
Re: Whatever happened to the Stanford Archives?
Yeah, the Apache server occasionally (and for as-of-yet-unknown reasons) goes over its memory limit and then gets killed by the server overlords. I'm working on a fix, but 'till then I'll be rebooting it manually whenever it goes down. EDIT: I'll be away from home for the next week and can't guarant...
- Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Whatever happened to the Stanford Archives?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2044
Re: Whatever happened to the Stanford Archives?
Yeah, my bad. There are two other admins for the archive and I just assumed one of them was uploading recent submissions. In any case, I've updated the page now. The archive has been seeing fewer and fewer submissions as of late, so there's not that much new stuff. No new updates since March 10th 20...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
- Replies: 153
- Views: 51721
Re: Chicago Open 2009 Discussion
I too enjoyed the carbocations tossup. Off the top of my head, I have two critiques about the biology in the tournament: First, a minor factual error. The third part of the nodulation factors/nitrogen fixation bonus said something along the lines of "This element is found at the active site of ...
- Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Lederberg Memorial Science (10/17 or 18)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13770
Re: Announcement: Lederberg Memorial Science (10/17 or 18)
So no physiology/anatomy/medicine/taxonomy in this tournament?
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 59702
Re: Announcement: Geography Monstrosity (May 2009, Chicago)
If I'm at HSNCT, I'd be up for judging this proposed cartographical contest. I can't draw to save my life.
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Gaddis Experiment II
- Replies: 98
- Views: 56342
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Gaddis Experiment II
JelloBiafra wrote:It'll be the same for me.Hilarius Bookbinder wrote:If I make it to HSNCT, I'll play.
What they've said.
- Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Michigan 08-09
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6163
Re: Michigan 08-09
Does anybody know if University Liggett has a quiz bowl team? My niece might be going there and is interested in quiz bowl If they did have a team, it might have been during my freshman year of high school. We never played them in any regional/invitational/state competitions that I can recall. Nor ...
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH Archive?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2854
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Concept tossups in the social sciences
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7774
Re: Concept tossups in the social sciences
As far as Jonathan's idea for anthropology tossups on societies, here's a question from Terrapin 2009 that I think may be representative of what he's talking about. Feel free to critique: Daughters of the Dreaming was a feminist book condemning traditional study of these people; that work may be se...
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: More technological wankery from E. Silberman
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2322
Re: More technological wankery from E. Silberman
This is actually pretty neat, and shouldn't be hard to integrate into Gyaankosh. I especially like the fact that when I go to print the questions, it doesn't have the answers hidden.
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Discussion Thread
- Replies: 121
- Views: 21257
Re: ACF Regionals Discussion Thread
the Northern Australia tossup didn't appear to prompt on Australia or the Outback The question was about the Northern Territory, which is a specific demarcation of land. The "Outback," on the other hand, is a generic term for the largely inhospitable Australian interior; it covers parts o...
- Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gyaankosh?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3069
Re: Gyaankosh?
Here you go.
- Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gyaankosh?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3069
Re: Gyaankosh?
It's up and running again. Apparently I was over my memory usage limits as well. I've added ACF packets from 2007 and will get to adding tournaments from the past six months soon.
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gyaankosh?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3069
Re: Gyaankosh?
It will be back up. It went down because my old credit card expired and I haven't uploaded new account information. I'm not thrilled about paying to keep it online, so I'm also looking into cheaper, free(er) hosting options as well.
- Fri Feb 20, 2009 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Right about now, actually.
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 7:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cardinal Classic discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 16498
Cardinal Classic discussion
All mirrors are over with, so feel free to discuss the set below. I'm still waiting to receive the full stats; hopefully they'll be up in the next day or two.
- Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
No, all the mirrors are done. I was going to wait until I had the full stats up to open discussion, but I'll open a thread in the discussions forum.
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Quick results: Chicago goes undefeated (12-0) to clinch the win. Magin and company finish second (10-2), while Sexton and Yaphe pull in third (9-3). Full results to follow soon; awards ceremony right now.
- Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
We'll push the time schedule back half an hour then; registration at 9, play by 9:30.
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9928
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
(cross-posted from the CC thread): Cardinal Classic (and all side events, for that matter) will take place in the Nitery, which is part of the Old Union complex. Here it is on the map. If you're driving, I'd recommend parking in the Tresidder parking lot off Mayfield Avenue. The building is a short ...
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Actually, we've got better rooming situations this time around, so ignore the location information above. Cardinal Classic (and all side events, for that matter) will take place in the Nitery, which is part of the Old Union complex. Here it is on the map. If you're driving, I'd recommend parking in ...
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9928
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
The building will be open at 8 AM, so we can start earlier than 9:45 this year.cvdwightw wrote: ... meeting outside the building around 9:45 ...
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9928
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
Oh hey I can't believe I haven't signed up for this yet. I'm playing!
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9928
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Science Non-Strosity (2/15/2009)
I'll donate my laptop if need be. We'll have plenty of scoresheets.
- Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
We have rooms for Friday night confirmed. The movies tournament will begin around 7 PM and should be done around 10 PM. Cardinal Classic will be all-day Saturday and Science Non-Strosity will be Sunday morning, followed by ultimate in the afternoon. If the weather is uncooperative, we can book a bas...
- Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Field updated in the first post. We have confirmed room reservations for all-day Saturday and Sunday. As far as scheduling goes, it is likely that Saturday will only have Cardinal Classic, while Science Non-Strosity and Yogesh's film tournament will probably be on Sunday. Lunch on Sunday will be bet...
- Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Sweet!marnold wrote:Chicago will be attending.
No, teams of novices are exempt from packet-writing (though they are welcome to submit one, discount included)Just to make it explicit, this means that packets are required of teams composed entirely of freshmen, correct?
- Sun Dec 14, 2008 6:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Interest check: experimental all-geography tournament
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4982
Re: Interest check: experimental all-geography tournament
I would love to play in this tournament.
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 11:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pre Announcement for INDIA
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2370
Re: Pre Announcement for INDIA
YES. Also, I'll play this.
- Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
The current plan is to have separate time slots for the movies and science tournaments, with the movies getting the Friday night or Saturday night slot, and the science tournament getting the Sunday slot. Hoosier Open is also a possibility, in which case it'll probably share Sunday with the science ...
- Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/08) at Stanford
UPDATE: MIT and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County have declared interest in mirroring Cardinal Classic. They should make formal announcements in due time. Although there's been some posts on the forums, I have not yet received e-mails from teams interested in attending. If you are thinking...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: ROBOT I (Washington DC, 5/24/09)
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9754
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: ROBOT I (sometime in the spring)
I'd prefer March 28th myself, since that's still Spring Break for me and I'd love to actually fly out and staff this thing.
- Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
- Replies: 63
- Views: 34222
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cardinal Classic XVIII (2/14/09) at Stanford
Stanford Quiz Bowl is pleased to (officially) announce that Cardinal Classic XVIII: An Indeterminate Subtitle will take place on Saturday, February 14, 2009 . Just like last year's event, this tournament will actually take place at Stanford. The team meeting will be at 10 am in room 200 of the Old U...
- Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Some new question database
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6016
Re: Some new question database
That's because the server caches all the uncategorized questions. If you categorize a question, then immediately come back to the uncategorized question page, chances are you'll still be looking at what's in the cache, as opposed to what's actually in the database. The cache should refresh every 5 m...
- Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6360
Re: Announcement: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/14/2009
This tournament has been rescheduled for February 14, 2009 . We apologize if this inconveniences anybody, but the new date is better for most people, including ourselves. If somebody could change the thread name to reflect the new date, that would be great. If I'm not mistaken, Cardinal Classic is ...
- Fri Oct 10, 2008 5:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Some new question database
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6016
Re: Some new question database
Hey, an easy way to simplify the task of reformatting old packets is to write a parser that strips out everything besides text, including paragraph returns and such, and replaces it with a space. Then, the human labor only has to go through and insert returns between blocks of question text, answer...
- Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:32 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How Often/When Does Your Team Practice?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 7542
Re: How Often/When Does Your Team Practice?
Twice a week for about an hour each at the start of the school year. After cross country season, that gradually grew to everyday practices. We also did early morning practices once a week and extra-long practices every Wednesday for our run up to HSNCT. Also, informal practices at peoples' homes ove...
- Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Some new question database
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6016
Re: Some new question database
I first convert everything (docs, PDFs, RTFs, etc.) to a UTF-8 text file. Then I clean up some commonly-found patterns with regular expression matching. At this point, I look over the text file and manually make edits to clean up the questions, so they're easier to detect as either a tossup or a bon...
- Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Some new question database
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6016
Some new question database
It can be found here . I had no plans for the summer and I thought I'd learn some computer programming, so I decided to take on the idea of a question database. I know it's been done before, but I wanted to address three particular issues that intrigued me: Full Unicode support* : This means that an...
- Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Date pick: 2009 Cardinal Classic XVIII
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3032
Re: Date pick: 2009 Cardinal Classic XVIII
Right now we're leaning towards the 14th. An official date claim should be coming soon.