Well, don't think if it as being "stuck" reading a bunch of books - instead, perhaps, consider that you "get" to read a bunch of great works of literature.
Also, somehow I don't think paying for flashcards counts as real knowledge.
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- Sat Nov 30, 2019 1:03 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Getting "Real" Literature Knowledge
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13691
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 10:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
- Replies: 91
- Views: 36975
Re: Illinois Side Event Weekend - 7/20/19
oh but also sacronym tooryanrosenberg wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:42 pm Looking for CamO, MUSES, and Unanswered Question teammates, especially if we haven't played together before.
- Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 47458
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
The cell phone field says to not list a cell phone, I don't know what to believe.
- Sun Jun 09, 2019 12:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: STAR BOWL (2019 Spring and Summer Side-Event)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 16231
Re: STAR BOWL (2019 Spring and Summer Side-Event)
This set is fantastic - if you have any interest im science fiction and things of that nature, I highly recommend that you play it!
- Sun May 26, 2019 12:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 37883
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
This set was still incredible the second time!
- Sat May 18, 2019 8:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC Online Restricted Open Mirror
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4328
Re: ILLIAC Online Restricted Open Mirror
Are there real stats anywhere? It's very important to me that I flex the first buzzes I got because I remembered clues from Chicago Open four years ago.
- Fri May 03, 2019 10:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6641
Re: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
Top level of the atrium, outside JFK
- Fri May 03, 2019 10:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6641
Re: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
Alright, more updates - I've closed the field at six teams, so with a five game schedule, that should actually allow us to do full tossup/bonus games. We'll meet at 9:30ish in the top level of the atrium, and figure things out from there. I'm definitely in favor of playing full games, given the hig...
- Fri May 03, 2019 9:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6641
Re: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
They're not listed on the sheet, but we actually should be okay on staff for now - I'll let you know if that changes, but I think we should be set.
- Fri May 03, 2019 9:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6641
Re: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
Alright, more updates -
I've closed the field at six teams, so with a five game schedule, that should actually allow us to do full tossup/bonus games. We'll meet at 9:30ish in the top level of the atrium, and figure things out from there.
I've closed the field at six teams, so with a five game schedule, that should actually allow us to do full tossup/bonus games. We'll meet at 9:30ish in the top level of the atrium, and figure things out from there.
- Fri May 03, 2019 10:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6641
Re: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
So, some updates - Due to scrimmages, it looks like the start time is going to be 9:30 at the earliest, hopefully this doesn't pose any problems. As a result, I think we're gonna do this as tossups only, so that people can get to bed before midnight. Watch this space for updates on where to meet, wh...
- Fri Apr 26, 2019 11:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6641
Re: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
This will depend on when staffer tasks are finished on Friday, with possibly a short delay to accommodate dinner.
- Fri Apr 26, 2019 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6641
Rock and Roll Hall of Shame @ SSNCT
Hello, this is an announcement for a mirror of CW Rock and Roll Hall of Shame to be held at the 2019 NAQT SSNCT on Friday, May 3rd, at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. I understand that this is relatively short notice, but hopefully everyone staffing SSNCT that wants to play will be able to. Logistics You ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What is a collegiate nationals middle part?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7612
Re: What is a collegiate nationals middle part?
Something that I have always found interesting is how different the community's answer to this question is at the high school level versus the college level. It seems as if the community believes that, relative to their respective sets, high school teams should perform significantly better at natio...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45338
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
I think they're usually fine - I've used them at quite a few tournaments in the past, but the problems are in rebracketing - either you pick a fixed number of teams from each bracket to advance and run the risk of rising to a higher bracket than a team with a better record than you, or you just pick...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 5:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 45338
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
A format which requires 14 rounds but only 1 tiebreaker (as opposed to 13 rounds and two tiebreakers, as the current format does), without expanding the field, is: 4x9 crossover brackets (so, each team in pool A plays each team in pool B and none from their own; likewise for pools C and D) Split to...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 2:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 37883
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
This set is a fucking delight, quite possibly the best event I've played in recent memory.
If you're on the fence about it I highly recommend going to a mirror!
If you're on the fence about it I highly recommend going to a mirror!
- Sat Mar 23, 2019 1:28 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5021
Re: 2019 Terrapin speciifc question discussion and requests
I heard from one of our readers that a bonus on Aztec deities was given without a pronunciation guide; this is odd given that that's almost the canonical example of where you should have one. I brought this up at the time because I found (and still find!) it hilarious that "Bough" had a p...
- Sat Mar 09, 2019 2:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4363
Re: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
Update - the posted stats have a handful of errors that have been pointed out to me, those have been corrected and the stats now have a new home at
https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/s ... t_id=10117
https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/s ... t_id=10117
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 7:34 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4363
Re: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
Apologies, the mistake preventing the other stat reports from showing up has been fixed.
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5494/
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5494/
- Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4363
Re: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
Hey guys, thanks for registering for the 2019 KY NAQT State Championship, this Saturday, March 2. This is a guaranteed NAQT HSNCT qualifier, as well as a PACE NSC Platinum qualifier. An important note is that this tournament will be held in a different building than usual. Registration will begin a...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 49460
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
For those of you looking for a site to play this tournament might I humbly suggest March 30 at the University of Minnesota? I hear that tournament is announced and has a field and everything, so it's sure to satisfy all your quizbowl-playing needs. As has been established, Michigan would prefer not...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8190
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
[*] Subject specific : The history, while generally quite enjoyable, and with some experimental ideas that worked well, was a bit, for want of a better word "memey" Ryukyu is one of those things that feels a bit like a "meme" Beaver Island is a bit of a "meme" as well ...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 49460
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
For those of you looking for a site to play this tournament might I humbly suggest March 30 at the University of Minnesota? I hear that tournament is announced and has a field and everything, so it's sure to satisfy all your quizbowl-playing needs.
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 3:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 65
- Views: 8190
Re: Spartan Housewrite: Specific Question Discussion
[*] Subject specific : The history, while generally quite enjoyable, and with some experimental ideas that worked well, was a bit, for want of a better word "memey" Ryukyu is one of those things that feels a bit like a "meme" Beaver Island is a bit of a "meme" as well ...
- Tue Jan 22, 2019 5:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4363
Re: Kentucky State Quizbowl Championship (Louisville, 3/2/19)
An email will be sent out shortly, but teams may now register for this tournament on the NAQT website at https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=10117.
- Tue Jan 08, 2019 8:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12176
Re: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
If you read what I said, I'm mad that the editors required that hosts take advanced stats, and then (read closely, since this is the important part) did nothing with them! I changed a number of questions based on advanced stats from the Discord mirror read closely, since this is the important part ...
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 7:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17718
Re: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
Hello friends, sorry for the delay, but stats are now posted!
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5496/
I'll add the finals in a moment, and may eventually fix the display of the non-ascii characters.
edit: fixed the finals not actually being added
http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5496/
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edit: fixed the finals not actually being added
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 47458
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
RIP, I'm a bad moderator now
- Sun Dec 09, 2018 8:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17718
Re: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
"One Shift, Two Shift, Redshift, Blueshift" (Maximilian Shatan, Geoffrey Chen, Hidehiro Anto, Greg Peterson) clinched by defeating "Will the Real Ben G. Wynne Please Stand Up" (Stephen Liu, Benji Nguyen, Michael Coates, Chinmay Kansara) 325-295 in the first game of an advantaged ...
- Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17718
Re: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
Now that I've heard back from everyone, I'm officially locking the field - we're at eight teams of four and two of five, so we're confirmed for a simple nine game round robin, with finals. I've posted the tournament schedule on the team formation spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17718
Re: Penn Bowl 2018 Online Mirror (12/09/18)
Hello all, I'll be taking over as TD for this tournament. Right now it looks like we have ten teams signed up, with five empty spaces for six free agents. Unless we get a huge surge of interest, I'm gonna go ahead and cap the field at that number, and on, let's say Wednesday afternoon, i'll assign a...
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:56 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Neg5 to SQBS Parser
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9766
Re: Neg5 to SQBS Parser
Yes, but that could caused by simply entering the wrong command, or because you're using a different version of python - the file is written for Python 3. If you can take a screenshot of those errors and post them here, I can tell you which is the case.
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:52 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Neg5 to SQBS Parser
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9766
Re: Neg5 to SQBS Parser
Can you post the errors that you're getting? It's likely that you may have the wrong version of python installed.
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: SCIENCE CHAMPIONSHIP (now including all grades!)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14379
Re: science championship
is this an out-of-season april fool's joke?
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 4:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6530
Re: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
So, the main reason I was so dismissive was that the situation that Harris has presented where he's attempting to get payment but the dastardardly and/or incompetent bureaucracy isn't responding to him is patently untrue. On November 2, 2017, over two weeks before the tournament, the University of L...
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 6:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6530
Re: Attention Louisville and Princeton Quizbowl
I'm not now nor was I then officially officially affiliated with UofL Quizbowl in any way, but I find your outrage rather incomprehensible. UofL Quizbowl is a part of the University of Louisville, and as such, as absolutely no ability whatsoever to simply mail out checks to people. UofL teams have b...
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOUNDTRACK Online Mirror
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4054
Re: SOUNDTRACK Online Mirror
cool, I'll probably be a little late then, but I'll join as soon as I'm able!
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 5:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOUNDTRACK Online Mirror
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4054
Re: SOUNDTRACK Online Mirror
Is there any way this can be pushed back an hour or so? I'm extremely looking forward to this set, but I don't get home until 9 tonight.
- Sun Apr 08, 2018 4:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Louisville (KY) Spring Academic Tournament (April 8, 2018)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4215
Re: Louisville (KY) Spring Academic Tournament (April 8, 201
Stat reports can be found on the tourament page here. Note that in the combined stats, the teams are not listed by order of finish - the correct order of finish can be found by looking at the stat report for Playoffs.
- Sun Apr 08, 2018 12:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Louisville (KY) Spring Academic Tournament (April 8, 2018)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4215
- Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: IT IS THE FINALS: Best Song of the 2000s
Nero D'Avola wrote:Bride by Mistake wrote:Wynaut wrote:Sit Room Guy wrote:Big Y wrote:Granny Soberer wrote:vengefulsweatermensch wrote:vinteuil wrote:ProfessorIanDuncan wrote:merv1618 wrote:Hey Ya! because good god people
- Tue Jan 30, 2018 5:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 32385
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
I converted those histograms into a cumulative graph, to get a bit of a better idea of what the buzz pyramid looked like:
https://i.imgur.com/PglFlef.png
https://i.imgur.com/PglFlef.png
- Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: FINAL FOUR: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Paper Planes by M.I.A.
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:06 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: ELITE EIGHT: Best Song of the 2000s
Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Toxic by Britney Spears
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
Paper Planes by M.I.A. vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West vs. Hurt by Johnny Cash
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: SWEET SIXTEEN: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley vs. Mr. Brightside by The Killers Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Toxic by Britney Spears 99 Problems by Jay-Z vs. Paper Planes by M.I.A. Ignition (Remix) by R. Kelly vs. Chicago by Sufjan Stevens Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs...
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: ROUND TWO, PART TWO: Best Song of the 2000s
ripAKKOLADE wrote:I got bad news for you, Ram.
- Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: ROUND TWO, PART TWO: Best Song of the 2000s
Hey Ya! by Outkast vs. Time to Pretend by MGMT One More Time by Daft Punk vs. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand vs. Dog Days Are Over by Florence + The Machine Lose Yourself by Eminem vs. Rehab by Amy Winehouse Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Feel Good Inc. by Goril...
- Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: ROUND TWO, PART ONE: Best Song of the 2000s
Crazy by Gnarls Barkley[ vs. Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day Mr. Brightside by The Killers vs. Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson Jesus Walks by Kanye West vs. Wake Up by Arcade Fire Toxic by Britney Spears vs. Get Ur Freak On by Missy Elliott 99 Problems by Jay-z vs. Hips Don't Lie by ...
- Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2000s: HEYYYYYYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
- Replies: 735
- Views: 153439
Re: ROUND ONE, PART FOUR: Best Song of the 2000s
Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes vs. Fidelity by Regina Spektor Maps by Yeah Yeahs Yeahs vs. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz Yeah! by Usher featuring Ludacris vs. Cry Me a River by Justin Timberlake Idioteque by Radiohead vs. American Boy by Estelle featuring Kanye West Fallin' by Alicia Keys vs. D...