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- Wed May 09, 2007 9:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
- Replies: 63
- Views: 31277
Now, all this shit Dren is saying (and its the sort of stuff you tend to get from the Sorenson/Flaxman [read: trash partisan/cbi apologist] crowd,) is the really awful stuff Uh, what? Not that I really should feel a need to respond to this, but I have long been on the record, whatever record that m...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 20841
Re: TRASHionals Undergrads and other musings
I see no reason why High Schoolers shouldn't excel at Trash. There are high school teams that do compete (and are competitive)in trash tournaments, though. This past Sunday at UTC we had 3 High School teams who played in the Junior division of the RC Cola, and they all had a good time. The was a te...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Criticism of Criticism
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15661
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 20841
Re: TRASHionals Undergrads and other musings
I'm fairly certain Craig wasn't on the original Keenan team at TRASHionals I because he was at CBI NCT. Back in those days the two events were the same weekend; I missed one TRASHionals due to being at CBI NCT in 1999. But the general point stands. I've been a fairly good trash player but there's j...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 20841
Re: TRASHionals Undergrads and other musings
At TRASHionals II (1999) in State College, an all-undergrad team (but not from the same school) won TRASHionals (Kenny Peskin, Anthony DeJesus, Ryan Seibel, don't remember the 4th). The same year, my team finished 3rd as an all-undergrad team (yes, I was in college once!) I don't think that could h...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 20841
re:
That's wrong, that team had two graduate students (Nick Meyer and Jon Pennington) on it. The other two were undergrads Steve Kaplan and Ross Ritterman. Hmm. Well, I recall it being mentioned at the time, but obviously that was in error. Or perhaps I accidentally turned "hey, that team has ANY ...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 20841
- Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ham Sandwich Scandal
- Replies: 66
- Views: 21217
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
Even if you want to quibble with the exact numbers (which, of course, anyone may do,) an unquestionable fact is that they're of very comparable size. Quoted for re-emphasis? MaS 3.5 times as large - if we accept the Forbes number for Hollywood's overall revenue (and for that matter it's likely to b...
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
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Again, this all gets at the big problem of the generation gap in TRASH. It is very hard to please everyone and not piss off others. This is why I'm advocating for a Division II at TRASH so that the distributions can be changed to reflect the problem of the differences in popular culture amongst the...
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
Completely unrelated -- since I've seen it bandied it around a couple of places in this thread, here are some #s: 2004 US Box Office: $9.3 billion 2004 Video Game Sales: $7.3 billion (includes consoles and games) I realize there are more factors here that could be made on either side to inflate one...
- Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
This certainly seems to be a polarizing category. We lamed literally every video game bonus that we could, and only one was stolen all weekend. In addition, most of our opponents lamed or bageled their bonuses as well. It seemed like N% of the teams (where N is a number between 50 and 80) really lo...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
Re: re:
FWIW, video games were capped at 1/1 for the tournament. This is interesting because, as Coelacanth's post confirms, I'm sure I'm not the only person who thought there seemed to be way more than that. As I noted above, however, this may simply have been because I don't know anything about them, alt...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
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FWIW, video games were capped at 1/1 for the tournament. This is interesting because, as Coelacanth's post confirms, I'm sure I'm not the only person who thought there seemed to be way more than that. As I noted above, however, this may simply have been because I don't know anything about them, alt...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
Perhaps TRASH (or another group / organization entirely) should consider running a Division 2 tournament a la NAQT. Division 2 would be open to all players affiliated with a university (or I guess a high school) and have a younger skewed distribution than Division 1 (open). This would hypotheticall...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 4:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
I don't see how a single curling question and a single bowling question in a tournament makes it bad. In fact, both questions, IMO, were pretty accessible, especially if you consider that the Scotties Tournament of Hearts is probably one of the two most important tournaments in womens' curling worl...
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
- Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASHionals Discussion
- Replies: 111
- Views: 49949
I think this is one of the better TRASHionals that I've attended. Some things that they've improved on: -- more and better video game questions. They asked about games that people actually play, and seemingly a much wider variety than usual. Tossups on Time Crisis, .hack, Tecmo and Bionic Commando ...
- Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ABD (and mirrors) discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6494
Re: "Gimmick" Rules
I think the problem with the "Gimmick" Rules, is that people play so few tournaments, especially trash, that they are reluctant to fool around with them on the limited sets of questions on which they do get to play. While I have played in some sink/steal tournaments (fun, but breeds resen...
- Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ABD (and mirrors) discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6494
- Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: February Avatars
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10511
- Thu Jan 18, 2007 9:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: exit, voice and loyalty
- Replies: 85
- Views: 39605
Moving away from talk of editing, I think that one thing that has hurt participation has been the changing electronic media. The shift from mailing list to message board as a preferred electronic forum may have had a negative effect. Casual people will check their email daily and will at least have...
- Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: exit, voice and loyalty
- Replies: 85
- Views: 39605
Re: I almost never post here, but...
So, with these faults in mind, I propose another alternative, so radical that I am sure it will meet with rabid hostility: Eliminate the question distribution entirely, at least for tossups. Tossups should no longer belong to any particular discipline (history, biology, literature, pop culture), bu...
- Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: exit, voice and loyalty
- Replies: 85
- Views: 39605
Based on some posts here, I wonder how the average quizbowl player actually feels about this topic, given that most of them don't read this board. I still think that the most important factor, whether the editor dumps a young/bad team's questions or does his best to salvage them, is making an effor...
- Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH regs discussion
- Replies: 77
- Views: 37775
Still, whining about questions to which you didn't know the answer just comes off like sour grapes. That's a really stupid thing to say. Yeah, good trash players have no right deciding what seems reasonable or unreasonable. Once a set has been completed, its fucking shariaa. Nevermind that there wa...
- Thu Nov 30, 2006 3:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH regs discussion
- Replies: 77
- Views: 37775
The problem is not questions on old stuff per se, it's questions on specific old stuff that people in college today have no hope of knowing firsthand. Sure, ask as many questions about Stevie Wonder, Soylent Green, and the Immaculate Reception as you want--just about anyone who will be showing up a...
- Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH regs discussion
- Replies: 77
- Views: 37775
- Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: TRASH regs discussion
- Replies: 77
- Views: 37775
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: archive of TRASHionals cryfest flap?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13378
Dear Dan: Shut up. Seriously, shut the fuck up. Your obsessive, asininely late post is the sort of thing that I would really prefer not to respond to, but since it's obvious by where and how you posted it that you're doing so only to try and rally the troops over what should be a dead issue by this ...
- Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: double standard?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 31755
I certainly can't say I'm surprised by the reaction coming out of St. Louis - let's face it, Mike has never had a great reputation around much of the Midwestern circuit and he certainly does little to counteract the perception that a lot of people have of him as an asshole, if not actively encourage...
- Sun May 02, 2004 1:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
Re: The Obvious
Not to derail the thread (move it if necessary), but ,well I have to say that I still have the same resentments with TRASH (and maybe not all Trash tournaments, but most). The questions are probably somewhat pyramidal for the most part, but I hate the fact that 95% of the content seems to be either...
- Sat May 01, 2004 9:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
Re: The Obvious
I have a question for those of you legitimate players who are forced to deal with trash and CBI peckerheads on a regular basis I hope you're referring to people who are only willing to play Trash (that doesn't make it much better, but better enough) and not to anyone who plays Trash. Trash is, to m...
- Tue Apr 27, 2004 8:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
the QB team can either boycott the CBI Intramural Tournament or use it as a potential recruiting tool. Regarding the latter: the reason I say CBI campus is pretty pointless is because its best value is as a recruiting tool. Because here's the thing: there are other ways to recruit that don't involv...
- Mon Apr 26, 2004 6:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
Yes, that is the apt comparison. What's interesting is that such a situation used to exist: the Big Dance (smaller dance in those days) began by inviting only conference champions and stayed that way for a long time. Did the NCAA championship lack legitimacy? Then, too, CBI can't do much about the ...
- Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
- Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
- Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
- Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI Nationals
- Replies: 55
- Views: 81280
This business of Richard Reid (whoever he is: been a while since I've played CBI) knocking on other formats (and the people that play them), interests me not so much for being tasteless but more because it seems odd that CBI is actually acknowledging their competition. For as long as I can remember...
- Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Division II
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12309
And in response to UFeng (sorry that I don't know your name), what is wrong with forcing people to either move up to D1 or quit? The circuit will not survive if it is plagued by people who only want to play D2 and then quit when it gets to hard. Yes, maybe the amount of teams from year to year woul...
- Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
While St. Louis is closer to many more teams than Los Angeles, there is also more to do in Los Angeles, the weather is better, and, if a team has to ask some college bigwigs for money, a tournament in Los Angeles sounds more prestigious than a tournament in St. Louis. Add in the fact ICT was held i...
- Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
- Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
What's up with all the declines in D-I? With eight teams still undecided, we're just two more declines away from getting a bid, and considering we went 4-12 - in a pretty strong region, I'd say, but 4-12 nonetheless - this is pretty amazing. Of course last year we got a bid outright at 6-8. Who know...
- Mon Feb 16, 2004 7:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
I have to say I really hope there isn't something in this mystical S-value adjusting for historical strength at ICT, especially not in D-2. Last year's strength shouldn't matter at all, because (except for UCLA and CCs), no one in last year's D-2 field is in this year's D-2 field. Well, to reintrod...
- Fri Feb 13, 2004 9:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
The cap is, at the moment, four per division, if I'm not mistaken, and they did, in fact, have four teams in DivII. Okay. That was my suspicion, but I couldn't remember (obviously it wouldn't make sense to allow one team to show up at a sectional and get an automatic bid). That said, evidently it m...
- Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
Yes, but there's only one really weak NAQT region, two if you wish to count the UK based on its most recent performances. I fail to see how the tournament would be better by including the 6th place team rom a stronger region as opposed to the winners of those two regions. I assume you mean that you...
- Fri Feb 13, 2004 2:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
Why do we invite the winner of the Big Sky Conference to the NCAA's even though they haven't won a NCAA game in I don't know how long? Actually, the Big Sky Conference won an NCAA game as recently as 1999 when Weber State upset North Carolina. In fact, the Big Sky winner has frequently been one of ...
- Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Prognostication Time
- Replies: 100
- Views: 79874
If I recall correctly, I think that NAQT does, on rare occasions, invite a lower-finishing team over a higher-finishing one. I think Northwestern over Minnesota last year was an example. However, NAQT will probably try to invite the higher-bracket teams first. Jason Mueller (Not speaking for NAQT b...
- Wed Feb 11, 2004 2:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CBI rules shafted me
- Replies: 49
- Views: 68845
We actually stopped playing CBI this year because we don't have $600 to spend on lousy questions and none of us really like playing it anyway. Here's my question: it seems that some programs have stopped playing CBI because of the cost. Certainly we have, at least for this year. Yet there are plenty...