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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023-2024 Player Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3115
Re: 2023-2024 Player Appreciation Thread
More skill-based appreciations will be reserved for the Player Poll thread when that goes up. I definitely want to show some appreciation for Nermeen Rahman , Ezra Santos , and Jay Kim . They are some of the absolute nicest and most fun people I've ever met HEARTILY seconding this. I’ll also add tha...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5678
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
I can see how the clues, as written, wouldn't bring out the interesting aspects of the [Battle of Franklin] episode, but as you mention you have to economize with NAQT length limits. I do think that ideally, the ["South" (of China)] tossup would have been written to allow more buzzes from...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:14 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ICT general discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1466
Re: 2024 ICT general discussion
It seems like many top-scoring teams and individuals had fewer powers and perhaps slightly lower PPB than last year. I'm curious to what extent this was deliberate vs. just random fluctuation.
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5678
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
I do not think this one tossup at all reflects the general feel of the history distribution, where I think we mixed in a larger number of social + cultural history topics than we did in previous years. A lot of my editing work was kicking and replacing questions until the great-man-bowl quotient wa...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5678
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
The football tossup was tossup 23 or 24 of packet 1, I think, so people didn't hear itImportant Bird Area wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:34 pmfootball 1/1Tippy Martinez wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 1:27 pm I don't recall any football questions other than 1 that only got played in the third place game.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:47 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5678
Re: 2024 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
A few things: As can happen with a semi-automated system, there were some packet feng shui issues; in particular, I was reluctant to buzz on the tossup about the region of "southern China" in packet (I think) 2, after the same packet had a history tossup on "converting China to Christ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: "Where Are You Going Next Year?" (Collegiate 2024)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2886
"Where Are You Going Next Year?" (Collegiate 2024)
Someone on the internet asked for this to be made, so I obliged. To quote the quote of the quote in last year's thread: It's that time of year again where people start to hear back from transfer applications, grad school apps, job offers, landlords, etc. and make plans to go places. Here is a thread...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New Team at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
- Replies: 3
- Views: 603
Re: New Team at Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
I've informed a member of that past Lawrence team who should be in touch with you shortly.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Please Keep Full Stats at Your Tournament
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1585
Re: Please Keep Full Stats at Your Tournament
Perhaps, given all of what Jonah has said, we could shift from a posture of "demanding" fuller stats from the unwilling to helping people out past the "choir" figure out and adopt the practices we think are good. I'd be curious to hear someone weigh in who has had success getting...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:57 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: TELEOLOGY 3: Spring/Summer 2024
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1191
Re: TELEOLOGY 3: Spring/Summer 2024
After the main event of ESPN @ UChicago, a site of TELEOLOGY 3 was hosted. The initial plan was to divide the interested field of about 16 players into two shootout rooms, with ~1-2 people from the bottom room moving up and two from the top moving down after every second packet. However, by the end ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Ancient/Medieval History balance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1190
Re: Ancient/Medieval History balance
I see your point on "Early Medieval." I would guess the sticking point, which you touch on, is... those questions are hard to write. There aren't as many sources of note, especially on lower levels, and the time period isn't as widely touched on as modern or classical. Even the course I t...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4796
Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
What is the field cap, and what's the procedure for waitlist/standby teams and/or expanding the field if it is reached? I understand that room reservations are unlikely to be finalized for a few months, but the field is almost halfway to its eventual final size from last year, and the situation was...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4050
Re: On Team Splitting at National Qualifiers
Given that much of the discourse (whether it admits as much or not) is targeted at the school I attend, and at me specifically, it seems only fair that I weigh in. I will give some modest defenses of team-splitting in general, which have been lacking in this thread thus far: There are cases where so...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4796
Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
What is the field cap, and what's the procedure for waitlist/standby teams and/or expanding the field if it is reached? I understand that room reservations are unlikely to be finalized for a few months, but the field is almost halfway to its eventual final size from last year, and the situation was ...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals at Purdue (01/27/2024)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1385
Re: 2024 ACF Regionals at Purdue (01/27/2024)
I'm disappointed that this site did not use MODAQ when many other sites did so. I was also disappointed that this was true of Penn Bowl when Purdue hosted that in the fall. In the future, it'd be good if set logistics directors who want advanced stats get more direct with hosts that MODAQ or similar...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7623
Re: 2024 ACF Regionals Discussion
I enjoyed this set. It did a good job of presenting a lot of different cool things and balancing "canonical" and "innovative" approaches. To start things off, here are some small notes I took during the day, sorted by letter designation of packet edited for comprehensibility. Mos...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet submission thoughts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3461
Re: Packet submission thoughts
The duality of packet-sub: While spectating on my bye-round yesterday, I heard 7 of my submitted questions that more or less made it into the final ACF Regionals set, with one or two more possibly inspiring questions in the packet. This was pleasing to me. That said, I wrote 24 questions for the ear...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet submission thoughts
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3461
Re: Packet submission thoughts
A semi-recent and pretty comprehensive discussion about this topic was had in the main channel of the Discord on July 28, 2023 (starts here at 10:41am and continues, with occasional digressions, to the day's final comment at 11:06pm). I'd encourage people who have thoughts about this topic to read o...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:02 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Carper Award community discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7115
Re: 2024 Carper Award community discussion
I'm not sure why Guy is deserving; his involvement in quizbowl was fairly short, and I'm not even sure what his contributions were, to be honest. At the risk of very literally Remembering Some Guys: Guy Tabachnick founded the Hunter College High School quizbowl team in 2006, which became a powerhou...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 7:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 British Novice
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2572
Re: 2023 British Novice
Obviously this set was written with a British audience in mind, and so a few of the questions will be unsuitable for being played across the pond; at least for novices, and so we will provide a list of questions we think may need to be “Atlanticised”, or adapted to fit an American/Canadian audience...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 4:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How many "cooks" is "too many cooks" (when producing a set)?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2929
How many "cooks" is "too many cooks" (when producing a set)?
In January, when CO 2023 did not yet have editors, I posted : Stray observation: It seems like, in recent years, the number of editors per tournament has sharply increased (10+ is now normal) and the typical number of (sub)categories edited per editor has decreased proportionally. Does the fact that...
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 1:22 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: LITANY (side event, 2023)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2561
Re: LITANY (side event, 2023)
Is this event still happening?
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 10:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8710
Re: 2023 Festivus (12/23/23)
If the list of packets gets long enough, I might advise everyone to write at most 20 tossups or ~160 lines of clue text, so that a large number of people can go within a reasonable timeframe. Longer-than-that experiences can tend to drag. I'd also re-up from a past event of this type -- try to be sp...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6515
Re: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
It looks like the consensus is that my suggestions in the first post are unnecessary, which has largely persuaded me of same. The post-overhaul archive seems to do what folks generally want re: giving one-off and specialty packets their own section without gatekeeping based on the size of their orig...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 6:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 20158
Re: The Quizbowl Packet Archive IS getting an overhaul!
For those who've missed it, it seems the overhaul HAS BEEN gotten! Big rounds of applause to Mia, Ganon, Jeffrey Hill, Alejandro, and everyone else who worked to make this happen over many years.
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 8:22 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3627
Re: We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game
Seems like we're mostly good here, so I guess round down the first post to a heads-up that a lot of these clauses can now be stress-tested by much more discreet devices, and an encouragement to be vigilant about said devices.
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3627
We need rules against "wearable" / AR / AI devices in-game
"Introducing the New Ray-Ban | Meta Smart Glasses" On October 17, Ray-Ban and Meta released "smart glasses" that can record video and audio. The glasses are also integrated with "Meta AI" and have headphones integrated into the ear parts. While it does not seem super p...
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6515
Re: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
I am going to assume (perhaps incorrectly) that Matt's message is primarily an attempt at addressing a general issue within the quizbowl community, and not one specifically targeted at me, the author of the set in question. You assume correctly, i.e. it was indeed general -- I really didn't mean an...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6515
Which packets should get uploaded to the archive?
Recently, "2023 SHAWM Packets" was uploaded to the Collegiate section of the quizbowlpackets archive. As far as I can tell, these packets were not announced publicly on these forums or in the main quizbowl Discord, were not played online in the main quizbowl Discord, and do not have stats ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: One dot spring semester tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3584
Re: One dot spring semester tournament
Is the jump from 1 dot to 1.5 dots sufficiently high that CREEK+ and DMA wouldn't meet this need for most interested/eligible players? It seems like most circuits have not yet made plans to mirror both of those sets, which are already produced and ready to go, assuming the mirror window for each run...
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SUDO
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8668
Re: SUDO
Might there be other opportunities to play this for folks who are, say, playing Penn Bowl on that date?
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Trophies vs Plaques
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5623
Re: Trophies vs Plaques
For Nationals last year, I intentionally decided to order smaller, non-plastic trophies to try to avoid the problems you described. I'd be curious to hear if people liked those or didn't, and what they'd like to see ACF do in the future. I thought the specific items from last year were both pretty ...
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022-23 IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualifier Conversion Data
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3135
Re: 2022-23 IQBT Undergraduate Championship Qualifier Conversion Data
Are these raw conversion numbers rather than percents? If so, I made a "percent-ified" version in this sheet.
- Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:02 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16885
Periodization of quizbowl history: An initial attempt
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any attempt at Doing History in possession of large egos, must eventually devolve into disputes over periodization . (When did the Roman Empire start to “decline and fall”? Is there a such thing as the “early modern”? How should we theorize the “long 19th...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Seattle Open - NASAT Mirror - 9/2/23
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2146
Re: Seattle Open - NASAT Mirror - 9/2/23
This was announced very late -- while Seattle is very cool and I might one day consider planning a trip there that involves playing a tournament, there's no way I could have done so with less than four weeks' notice. I imagine I'm not the only one who feels similarly. If you (general audience you) a...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:51 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19776
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
I appreciate that there was not a lot of "note-spelling" in the early clues and it's cool to see a lot of music history incorporated. However, 6 out of 10 non-opera classical tossups were heavily or entirely focused on music history, recordings, performance, and specific ensembles. ...And...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 2:21 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: How Much to Card
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3301
Re: How Much to Card
I'd add: If you are doing card stuff to a point that it doesn't feel enjoyable anymore, or the rewards that come from it don't feel worth the stress, there's no shame in scaling back or changing it up to other study methods that you find more fulfilling.
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:46 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19776
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Thanks for the candid reflections, Arya. All in all, your work on this set represents an outstanding debut for an editor at this difficulty level, and I really hope you write and edit for more things at various difficulties in the coming years. (Future editing teams: recruit this person! Thanks) Two...
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 7:11 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7974
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
With the exception of "Marguerite" (which I stand by, both because it's in the title of an Arnold poem, and because I think it is only respectful to remember the actual names of the ""muses"" of notable male authors) I think this could have played better if it didn't g...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 12:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7974
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - Specific Question Discussion
Marie-Denise Villers has never come up in quizbowl before, at least based on a quick search on QBReader. She's definitely someone who could, based on growing recognition -- she, e.g., has a chapter in art museum gift shop book Broad Strokes: 15 Women who Changed Art and History (In That Order) . Th...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19776
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
If I'm understanding correctly, Andrew's notion of a question "being 'about' something" (or a notion quite similar to it) has previously been discussed using the term "tightly themed" . I lean more toward Jordan's view than Andrew's, stressing that the "best" place on t...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2858
Re: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
We do intend on playtesting - that is something I meant to add to the original post. The ideal date would be mid-late September for a playtest, and we would sincerely appreciate any interest in being part of a playtest. That's great to hear! I'm not sure what my own availability looks like, but I i...
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 3:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS CO Weekend Mirror
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2355
Re: EMACS CO Weekend Mirror
This set was inventive, whimsical, accessible, thoughtful in its approach to underasked but undeniably Important/Well-Known topics, and extremely fun. It's an achievement Anderson should be extremely proud of. I heartily recommend more mirrors, including online, for those who couldn't make this firs...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 1:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26110
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
As much as I'd like to play both EMACS and COLONIAL, and as excited as I was to hear that that might be possible, it seems extremely late in the game to make a schedule change, and it's probably best for that reason alone to keep things as is. (A lot of the field is in transit to CO right now!) I'm ...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2858
Re: Holiday Hippopotamus Invitational Packets (October/November 2023)
Does anyone on the team that produced this set have any prior experience writing or editing for sets with an interscholastic audience? Either way, do you have plans to playtest this set with experienced writers/editors/players before running it? 6/6 pop culture per packet at the expense of the usual...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 26110
Re: Chicago Open 2023 (August 5 at Northwestern)
What time should teams arrive by on Saturday morning? Is there an opening meeting or will teams proceed immediately to Round 1?
(General reminder to all -- set out for the tournament early, taking into account potential Lolla-induced delays!)
(General reminder to all -- set out for the tournament early, taking into account potential Lolla-induced delays!)
- Sat Jul 29, 2023 12:40 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: EMACS (computer science side event, 2023)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5876
Re: EMACS (computer science side event, 2023)
There are a bunch of unteamed free agents still on the field sheet, with six duos and three staffers registered -- any thought of expanding to triples?
- Mon Jul 10, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12638
Re: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
I'm curious where the range of length fits into this. From casual empiricism, if the cap is eight lines, there are unlikely to be many that are five lines, even though that's not a crazy number in an absolute sense. Players and writers have come to expect now that there will be variation in difficu...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 1:58 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Open Call for Penn Bowl 2023 Editors
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4154
Re: Open Call for Penn Bowl 2023 Editors
Is there an update on this? Are editors still needed for any categories?
EDIT: Just saw the new announcement. Thanks!
EDIT: Just saw the new announcement. Thanks!
- Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:23 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: How should we approach async writing and scoring?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4068
Re: How should we approach async writing and scoring?
Yet more options might include: Introducing some point multiplier that is inversely related to a question's conversion rate, i.e. make questions worth more if fewer people get them at the end offer players some chance to choose questions that could be worth more, e.g. a limited number of "doubl...