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- Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11336
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
I'd personally be willing to pay a higher fee so that more can go towards a mirror fee given that quiz bowl tournaments are generally pretty underpriced for open teams given th amount of work that goes into writing and editing. Same. I'm very inelastic with respect to time but very elastic with res...
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 8:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11336
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
My friends, this is thin gruel indeed. I understand that one can be frustrated with slow payments or even whatever stunt Will pulled, but that seems like hardly the sort of thing that should lead you to revoke a mirror that you've already granted. So setting that aside as not really a serious reason...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 8:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11336
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Emerging for a brief moment from my eternal slumber, I would like to say: this fucking sucks. I don't know anyone at UMD and I'm not going to speculate on anyone's motives, but to announce a mirror, have people make plans to attend, and then retract it (and without actually coming in personally to e...
- Tue Jul 16, 2019 4:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
- Replies: 79
- Views: 35624
Re: 2019 Chicago Open (8/3/2019) at Northwestern University
More importantly, I am looking for a team to play on so if your team is missing people and/or you would like someone to regale you with old-timey stories between matches, get in touch.
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 11:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12561
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
We are now playing with Connor and Jakob.
- Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12561
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Dallas Simons and I are looking for teammates.
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 9:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10800
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
Well, this is unfortunate. I'll try to ping various people that might be able to help out but no promises.
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10800
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
If it's in NYC, I'll play whatever whenever.
- Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57430
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
I approve of this team name.jonah wrote:Monday Begins on Saturday, and Sunday Comes Afterwards
I don't suppose anyone has any plans to mirror CO, say, maybe in the greater NYC area? You know, for those of us (me) who got rekt by the airlines.
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:36 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50049
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Hi friends! I wrote and edited all of the jazz and computer science in this set (with the exception of a guest submission from Ike). This was my first time doing this much work at this high of a level, so I'm looking forward to hearing about what people thought- always feel free to PM/DM me in addi...
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57430
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
dang it someone play this tournament with me
grapesmoker at gmail dot com
grapesmoker at gmail dot com
- Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF and Powers (POLL)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 22408
Re: ACF and Powers (POLL)
Also it's hard for me to have this much sympathy for ACF when most of what you're doing is taking questions that teams wrote and repurposing them. This is one of the most remarkably ignorant things ever posted on this forum. /awakens from slumber It's not merely ignorant; it's downright disrespectf...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57430
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
supwcheng wrote:Jonathan Magin and I have formed a team and are looking for two more players to join us. A science player would be greatly appreciated!
- Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:17 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How Do You Run Your Club
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12812
Re: How Do You Run Your Club
I would like somebody who was on the Berkeley team in the early to mid 2000's, when it was organized along the lines of the Roman Republic with Consuls and Praetors and such, to come post in this thread. Apparently I have been summoned in my official capacity as An Old. This organizational structur...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19076
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
I'm curious about the motivation behind answer lines like "photography books by Robert Frank" and "essays by George Orwell" -- especially the latter, since Robert Frank hasn't really done much else, as far as I know. Why not just "Robert Frank" or "George Orwell&q...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:47 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19076
Re: Chicago Open Discussion
For whatever my old man thoughts are worth... Yeah, this set was hard. Was it some crime against quizbowl? Nah. It's not the CO I most cherish, but I appreciate that Ike had the opportunity to put his vision into practice. I thought that there was a lot in this tournament that was neat and interesti...
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 11:39 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Naveed Bork Memorial Tournament
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17067
Re: Naveed Bork Memorial Tournament
Hey, is it too late to get in on this?
edit: ah, nevermind, can a mod delete this please
edit: ah, nevermind, can a mod delete this please
- Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cambridge Open mirror in NYC (07/01/2017)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15581
Re: Cambridge Open mirror in NYC (07/01/2017)
This is still happening at Hamilton, right?
- Mon May 29, 2017 8:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25304
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
Unfortunately I can't actually make this event. Sorry to be missing it.
- Tue May 09, 2017 3:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25304
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
I'm tentatively interested.
- Tue May 02, 2017 5:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Monetization
- Replies: 128
- Views: 48707
Re: The Barbarism of Monetization
Let's say it is free-riding (I'm not convinced but let's suppose for the sake of argument). What then? Is it inherently a terrible situation? It doesn't seem to me like quizbowl is in dire straits because of it, so even if NAQT is free-riding somehow, what does this entail and why should we be conce...
- Tue May 02, 2017 4:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Monetization
- Replies: 128
- Views: 48707
Re: The Barbarism of Monetization
A number of people in this thread have said a thing that I don't think is correct, which is that NAQT questions are somehow sufficiently different from normal circuit questions that not having them to practice on constitutes a disadvantage. In fact, NAQT's questions are more or less the same as othe...
- Mon May 01, 2017 10:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Barbarism of Monetization
- Replies: 128
- Views: 48707
Re: The Barbarism of Monetization
Ok, putting my ACF member hat on, here are two things: My team was threatened with sanctions from ACF! ACF's structure is pretty amorphous and allows a wide latitude for discretion to the head editor, but just to be clear, no single individual has the authority to speak on behalf of ACF in this mann...
- Fri Apr 28, 2017 3:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals survey
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2636
Re: ACF Nationals survey
Ok, at this point, everyone who attended either Nationals or Regionals should have received an email with the survey link. We'll be taking responses for another week (that is, until Friday, May 5th), at which point I won't close the survey but I'll probably stop checking it every day, and ACF will s...
- Fri Apr 28, 2017 2:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34107
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
At 20 packets, this year's Nationals set was shorter than the past several. I'm curious as to the reasoning behind writing a shorter set and I'm interested in opinions as to whether Nationals sets should contain closer to 20 or 25 packets. This is part of the survey I put out; so far it seems most ...
- Fri Apr 28, 2017 12:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Difficulty Consistency in Finals Packets
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9003
Re: Difficulty Consistency in Finals Packets
While maybe it's not a good idea to dramatically increase difficulty in finals packets, I think it's wrong to say that teams don't expect that to happen. Finals packets are hard, you know they're hard, you know playing in the finals is going to be difficult and you'll be up against a tough opponent....
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 11:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals survey
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2636
Re: ACF Nationals survey
If you came to Nationals, you just received an email asking you to fill out a survey. If you didn't come to Nationals but could potentially have (i.e. you played Regionals but either didn't qualify or turned down your bid), we'd appreciate it if you also filled it out. It shouldn't take you more th...
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals survey
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2636
ACF Nationals survey
If you came to Nationals, you just received an email asking you to fill out a survey. If you didn't come to Nationals but could potentially have (i.e. you played Regionals but either didn't qualify or turned down your bid), we'd appreciate it if you also filled it out. It shouldn't take you more tha...
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:26 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Nationalities of Title Winners
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10807
Re: Nationalities of Title Winners
2010 winner with Stanford Kristiaan de Greve is Belgian, I believe.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 7:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2017 (4/22 - 4/23)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 33674
Re: ACF Nationals 2017 (4/22 - 4/23)
In what has become an annual tradition, I'm happy to post videos of a few games, including the final. Unfortunately this year I wasn't able to get as many as I usually am, but hopefully people will still enjoy these. Thanks to Dylan Minarik for acting as official ACF videographer while I was reading...
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:26 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8235
Re: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
But seriously, I don't think one additional game over two days is a huge ask. If a lot of people think this truly a terrible imposition, we can revisit this question, but given that most teams were pretty happy to play these games, that doesn't seem super unreasonable to me.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:25 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8235
Re: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
MORBO HAS NO USE FOR YOUR CONCEPT OF FATIGUECheynem wrote:Am I parsing Jerry correctly to note he never gets tired? I guess that's why he's sadistic.
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 12:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 CO Trash general discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6964
Re: 2016 CO Trash general discussion
hi this tournament was very good kthx
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34107
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
the fact that we're not made of moneyAaron Manby (ironmaster) wrote:What are the roadblocks with ACF Nationals moving to a hotel?
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:44 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8235
Re: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
I'm not sure anyone is upset about more quizbowl. We didn't have to break these ties, but since we already had ties we did have to break, there was no additional time needed to run these games. Quiz bowl is always better than the lack thereof. What has gotten into your head, Mr. Reed? Have you ever...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
I mean that ICT has more schools, total. So if one school fails to bring buzzers, there are still more schools that might do so. And in fact we did end up relying on a smaller proportion of teams to bring a larger number of buzzers, so when those teams didn't bring them we were much more vulnerable....
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 3:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
In that case, I think it would make more sense for ACF to just figure out why NAQT doesn't have the same issue with teams not bringing buzzers to nationals. That seems much easier than coming up with complex schemes about buying/storing thousands of dollars' worth of buzzers and then funding those ...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34107
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
We were constrained by the number of teams that wanted to come (and the number of packets). We had a 3-stage format for 42 teams. As the field dropped to 40 teams, I drew up a 2-stage limited single-bye schedule for the tournament. (A format I will write up at some point.) Is there any thing in par...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
I'm not suggesting this as the only plan of action for solving the buzzer dilemma, but perhaps a section of the site selection process could be devoted to buzzers. Just add a section to the bid form asking "how many house buzzers do you have?" and "are there local high schools with w...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34107
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
I was a little confused by the scheduling. Barring travel mishaps that aren't the fault of any team or ACF, the total number of teams seemed an odd choice. Was the tournament constrained by the rooms available? Originally, we had a schedule worked out for a 42 team field, which is what we thought w...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34107
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
As a spectator, I really enjoyed the tossup on "venture capital" firms, which I thought was testing just the right kind of mix of historical and contemporary knowledge. Good job, whoever wrote that.
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: looking for these sets in docx
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3656
Re: looking for these sets in docx
Actually, you can just send me the LaTeX; I strip out all the doc stuff anyway in processing.Cody wrote:The first two are only available in LaTeX. I can probably generate a docx of 2015 VCU Open soon-ish.grapesmoker wrote:2014 PADAWAN
2015 Claude Shannon
2015 VCU Open
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: looking for these sets in docx
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3656
Re: looking for these sets in docx
Continuing my search for packets in Word format:
2014 PADAWAN
2015 Claude Shannon
2015 CO visual arts
2015 Feynman's BONGOS
2015 RILKE
2015 SHEIKH
2015 VCU Open
2014 VCU Open
2014 College History Bowl
2014 Modern World
Send 'em if you got 'em.
2014 PADAWAN
2015 Claude Shannon
2015 CO visual arts
2015 Feynman's BONGOS
2015 RILKE
2015 SHEIKH
2015 VCU Open
2014 VCU Open
2014 College History Bowl
2014 Modern World
Send 'em if you got 'em.
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8235
Re: How many tiebreaker games do we really need?
Hey, so I don't want to clog up the ACF Nationals discussion thread with this discussion, but I figured people might want to air some opinions on tiebreaker games. It does seem excessive to me that 9th (!) place was decided via tiebreaker, especially given that last year 4th place was left unbroken...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
Apologies in advance for this idea sounding perhaps a bit unorthodox, but what prevents an event like ACF Nats, ICT, etc. from getting a rep from ZeeCraft or Electramatic (or wherever) to attend? That is, could a buzzer manufacturer attend said event with buzzers in-hand for the purposes of renting...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
If ACF owned buzzers where would they be stored and who would take care of them. This is a serious question. ACF has much less turnover and institutional buildout than NAQT or NHBB. There's not a Dave Madden or R. Hentzel type figure who will always be there; the closest ACF ever had to such a Heim...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
If ACF owned buzzers where would they be stored and who would take care of them. This is a serious question. ACF has much less turnover and institutional buildout than NAQT or NHBB. There's not a Dave Madden or R. Hentzel type figure who will always be there; the closest ACF ever had to such a Heim...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
This situation seems like a bunch of teams fucked up and not on ACF or whatever. With responsible teams ACF buying like 10 buzzer sets seems wasteful... Furthermore, it's clear that there are enough buzzers out there (even locally) between official organizations (NAQT, PACE, NHBB, but NHBB was conf...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:51 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Buzzer Dilemma
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8799
Re: The Buzzer Dilemma
I'm not sure if we'll do this for Fall or Regionals (ok, I'm guessing almost certainly not for Fall) but for Nationals this idea is very much in play. We're definitely going to consider fining teams that say they will bring buzzers and don't. edit: I would formulate this as "If you have buzzers...
- Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 34107
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
I too would like to offer my congratulations to Maryland, and of course especially to Jordan, who was electrifying over the course of the last two days, putting in an all-time great Nationals performance. And congratulations should go out to Michigan, who fought back from a tough loss to force the f...