so you’re telling us that a guy named moses did most of the work but couldn’t quite see the job through to the end?
hmm
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- Mon Dec 21, 2020 11:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: JaMES: How well do you know your Bible? (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5354
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:44 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: On HS Teams Without Coaches
- Replies: 68
- Views: 8524
Re: On HS Teams Without Coaches
My high school quizbowl team had a coach but went to a couple of events here and there without her. There were plenty of teams in our circuit that were more consistently unchaperoned. As a tournament director in high school and college, I regularly welcomed unchaperoned teams to events I was running...
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:00 am
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT (season 4 starts January 14!)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4045
Re: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT (new events!)
If someone previously registered for Season 2C before D was available, is there an easy way to switch over?
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16104
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota: POSTPONED
Are we getting close to a definite idea about a new date? I'm sure I'm not the only one who got an email from United yesterday reminding me that I'll have to change or cancel my ticket soon if I don't want to lose it. I believe most airlines these days let you cancel without a penalty so long as yo...
- Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern [CANCELLED]
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16104
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: 4/18-19, University of Minnesota: POSTPONED
Are we getting close to a definite idea about a new date? I'm sure I'm not the only one who got an email from United yesterday reminding me that I'll have to change or cancel my ticket soon if I don't want to lose it.
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10110
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
Hey, just remembered about this. If you, like me, are around New York but without a team because you also forgot this was happening, let's see if we can put something together. I could also probably staff if nothing pans out.
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12762
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Put me down as saying we should honor the hard work of those who provide the events for us by, yknow, playing them as written.
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 11:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12762
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Given that MUSES is twelve full packets of 20/20, I wonder if trying to stick it in at the end of the day is really the best choice. Any chance we could lead off with that?UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2019 4:06 pm We will be running Unanswered Question, META, and MUSES as Sunday side-events in that order.
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 10:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
- Replies: 45
- Views: 10875
Re: NYC Summer Open date poll
I know a date can't really be nailed down until rooms, events, etc are decided, but at this point is there an estimate of when a firm date—if one is going to materialize at all—might be available? I'm looking at going out to the UIUC weekend, and it'd be nice to know if I should hold off because thi...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6768
Re: CO Matchmaking
Maybe you'll get the 2017 me that kinda just sat there and scored 10 ppg, maybe you'll get the 2018 me that was leading scorer on a good middle-bracket team, and maybe you'll get something else entirely! Are you brave enough to find out?
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21816
Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
I'm done and will be moving to northern New Jersey. Happy to help out with things in the greater tri-state area as my schedule allows. Given that I won't be in grad school anymore and will be moving from a boarding school to a day school, I should have much more free time than in the past two years.
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 8:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Re: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
Just a reminder that this will be starting in about half an hour.
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 12:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Re: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
Looks like Monday it is. Let's start around 7:30 EST? I have no idea how to use Discord, but I think that's the preferred platform these days, so I will try to figure it out.
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Re: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
I much-belatedly sent these packets to the archive yesterday. Before approving them, Mike Bentley asked me if I might be interested in running this set online since it was only played by a few people in one physical location last year. I'm not opposed to this idea, so if this is something that would...
- Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: International Expansion of Quizbowl
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7277
Re: International Expansion of Quizbowl
Has there ever been a good quizbowl tournament run on non-English questions? To my knowledge, no one's figured out how to do pyramidality in other languages I don't think it's so much that no one has figured out how to do it (for at least a few languages many quizbowlers are familiar with, there ar...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 3:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Best Film Player
- Replies: 44
- Views: 23672
Re: Best Film Player
[*]Aidan Mehigan: I'm basing this solely on the fact that he 30'd the 2016 ACF Nats bonus on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance , and the fact that he's eagerly awaiting SHAWARMA II. Unless we decide the film canon should consist only of, like, that one bonus plus Saul's SHAWARMA tossup on Muppet Tre...
- Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:06 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Re: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 20
This thing is done(!!) and is happening at UMN tomorrow—if anyone else would like it for this weekend or some other weekend, just let me know.
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 10:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Re: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 20
There seems to be some interest in attaching this to CMST in some way. If you'd be interested in playing Angels 2 this spring, peer pressure your TD into getting into contact with me and we'll see what we can work out.
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2017 EFT: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4345
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Hey, whatever the first creed bonus part got "fixed" to is still wrong. I can't remember exactly what it said yesterday, but it still was claiming the line in question had something to do with Eucharistic theology, which just isn't what's been talked about there at all.
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 8:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: There Will Be Stock Clues
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16409
Re: There Will Be Stock Clues
This tournament was a veritable stew of delightful topics, seasoned with a perfect blend of Lawrencian refinement and Schindlerian degeneracy. Neither flavor overpowered the other in the course of doing a wonderful job of asking about many different kinds of foods and the many different ways in whic...
- Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Side Event Weekend - 8/5/2017
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15048
Re: VCU Side Event Weekend - 8/5/2017
For what it's worth, I would be a fan of moving all of the already-announced stuff up in the day and appending whatever substitute event we settle on to the end of the schedule.
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Re: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 20
After various discussions at and after CO, it doesn't seem like this tournament is going to find a slot to run in this summer. Given that, I'm not necessarily gonna push myself to finish it in the next week or two. However, it did seem like the interest in this set was pretty substantial and enthusi...
- Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Side Event Weekend - 8/5/2017
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15048
Re: VCU Side Event Weekend - 8/5/2017
Hey, could people who have registered get added to the spreadsheet, and could we get some fee info?
- Sun Jun 18, 2017 8:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NSC set discussion
- Replies: 85
- Views: 40828
Re: 2017 NSC set discussion
Hi everyone, stepping in as a mod to remind everyone, young and old, to follow the board rules. If you aren't familiar with the rules, please remedy that by reading up here as soon as possible. Specifically, please do not make content-free posts (especially not as responses to other content-free pos...
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 9:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19951
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts
Looking to play this with someone who knows old paintings and/or film. By the time this tournament happens, I'll have two degrees in art history and will undoubtedly still suck at paintings questions.
edit: playing this with B
edit: playing this with B
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Re: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 20
I know the side event economy is currently dealing with a supply shock of unprecedented severity, so I don’t want to push this event on anyone unduly, but I thought I’d throw out a reminder to hosts that this tournament will indeed be available from early August onward. If you're a host who thinks t...
- Wed May 31, 2017 8:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UK Player Poll 2017: Now With More Tweed
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16291
Re: UK Player Poll 2017: Now With More Tweed
Scared Edmund so much at EFT he forgot what tournament it was, I guess.Quantumhovercraft wrote:This was actually Salman.Edmund wrote: 8. Aidan Mehigan
Ran Penn Bowl to time with frightening military precision. Probably a good moderator if I could understand his accent. #britishproblems
- Tue May 30, 2017 1:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 105
- Views: 52385
Re: 2017 HSNCT discussion
I'm not the moderator who did it, but I can almost guarantee that your post was removed for being total nonsense and provoking a messy tangent that detracted from the purpose of the thread. Let's refocus, everyone.Antrobus63 wrote: Was my post actually removed for being offensive? Wow.
- Tue May 16, 2017 9:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25395
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
Also, could you add Thought Monstro, Stock Clues, The Celebs, OCTAVIAN, and whatever else to that sheet, just so we can try to gauge interest in the whole slate of potential events? Obviously, it's all too much, but I figure the more data you have the better, and it might come in handy for figuring ...
- Tue May 16, 2017 9:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25395
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
If there's already a huge glut of side events and we're going to limit ourselves to just ~3, why use one of those slots on something that a non-zero fraction of the field will have already heard at CO?Beevor Feevor wrote: Naveed Bork
- Tue May 09, 2017 5:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 16765
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2017)
For the next two years, I'll be living, teaching, and (fingers crossed!) coaching at St. Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville. The kicker is that I will be doing so as part of a master’s program run out of the UPenn GSE. I have no idea how much time I’ll have to play things (probably not a ton!...
- Mon May 08, 2017 10:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25395
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
Absolutely in, absolute advocate for the maximum amount of quizbowl.
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 2:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 21178
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
If this is all so easy and innocent and just a big misunderstanding about different circuit norms, then why lie when asked about it the first time? That's the thing I haven't been able to understand yet. It was an ill conceived joke premised on the notion that Naveed was already aware what was goin...
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 9:16 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 21178
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
But when Naveed says "Will and Eddie have found a way around this problem by simply pretending to be students." - no that's, wrong! I'm willing to lay dollars to donuts that if Jordan had said "no, you guys can't play" then Will and Eddie would not have played. Ike This is accur...
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8907
Re: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
bring it onvinteuil wrote:that'll be the all lit crit/art theory/historiography complement to this set, duhhydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:jacob, now we don't have to write VIICO
- Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Side Event Weekend 2016
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6716
Re: VCU Side Event Weekend 2016
2) Once you have registered as a participant in the weekend, you will be granted access to a Google spreadsheet on which you may officially form teams for each event. Since only people who have actually registered using their real e-mail addresses will be able to edit the spreadsheet, the spreadshe...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 1:22 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10055
Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger (Summer 201x)
What’s going on? Now that NSC is off to the printers, I am very pleased to announce that I have just about finished picking out the answers for Angels in the Architecture 2: Build it Bigger, a new side tournament all about architecture. Jeez man, you’re doing this to us again? How much more materia...
- Fri May 27, 2016 9:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tricon: The 4D IMAX Experience Coming Summer 2016
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8077
Re: Tricon: The 4D IMAX Experience Coming Summer 2016
I remember brainstorming a bunch of these categories with my own self-interest in mind, so I'm looking for a team for this. No guarantees, though, other than my assurance that I will certainly underperform relative to your expectations.
- Mon May 16, 2016 7:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
- Replies: 46
- Views: 26502
Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (Collegiate 2016)
I'm joining the American exodus to Oxford in the fall, and I'll be staying for the rest of the year too. #shoethetabs?
- Tue May 03, 2016 11:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Buzzer repairs and sales
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5064
Re: Buzzer repairs and sales
Has anyone heard of this brand (Rolls) ? I saw a teacher on Donors Choose requesting these today. They look halfway decent, but I've just never heard of anyone using them. If it turns out that they work and hold up decently well, they'd be a pretty cheap option. Definitely encountered these at some...
- Mon May 02, 2016 12:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 38392
Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
Quite frankly - the opinions of those who have always kept a wide berth of NHBB (except to critique it, and usually unfairly at that) are not nearly as important to me as those of the top teams and coaches who play NHBB. I mean, do you ever think that maybe you could get more people into that latte...
- Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:01 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (Missouri Open 2015) Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3761
Re: (Missouri Open 2015) Thanks and General Discussion
How many Bible questions were in this set? It didn't seem like particularly many.
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Studying Architecture
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3063
Re: Studying Architecture
(But Aidan should really be the one posting in this thread.) (Ask and ye shall receive, but I will say that the person we really need here is Evan—more times than I care to remember, he has reduced me to a sputtering mess of profanities by outbuzzing me on some architectural topic, which he can do ...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:00 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15)
- Replies: 67
- Views: 29340
Re: VCU Open ‘15 @ VCU (8/8/15)
If anyone is looking to fill a spot in a hotel room for Saturday night, let me know, and I'll gladly pay my share.
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: questions about Judaism
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7292
Re: questions about Judaism
Most Protestant Christian religions really just don't have many practices or rituals in everyday life. On the other hand, Catholic life, depending on how observant you were raised or currently practice, is full of lots of great ritual stuff that hasn't yet been mined too heavily for questions. Quiz...
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:14 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Resetting [pt. 4 of 6]: The Quizbowl-NHBB Relationship
- Replies: 46
- Views: 23348
Re: Resetting [pt. 4 of 6]: The Quizbowl-NHBB Relationship
I think Daniel's post about how easy it is to just contact Madden and set things up is actually a big problem and a perfect example of what I'm talking about: top-down makes the short term easy, but I just don't think it's sustainable. Is Madden personally going to oversee every detail of his empire...
- Mon Jun 15, 2015 2:30 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Resetting [pt. 4 of 6]: The Quizbowl-NHBB Relationship
- Replies: 46
- Views: 23348
Re: Resetting [pt. 4 of 6]: The Quizbowl-NHBB Relationship
I think something that can help people understand the issues at hand here is to think about the completely opposite ways in which quizbowl and NHBB are organized on a large scale. NHBB is totally top-down. David Madden shows up in 2010 with, as Matt says, "hella money" and starts throwing ...
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 7:09 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: History of the quiz bowl distribution
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4606
Re: History of the quiz bowl distribution
Jacques Derrida's friend Jeff Kipnis claims to have invented the use of 20 questions as the standard while he was at Georgia Tech. Joe Wells wrote a very interesting post about his interview with Jeff, who teaches at Ohio State now: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=282850#p282850 ED...
- Thu Jun 04, 2015 6:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
- Replies: 53
- Views: 61868
Re: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
Sorry if the answer is here somewhere and I've just missed it, but was there ever a final statement from Mike and Cody about whether or not We Have Ever Been Modern is (1) taking place this summer in general, and whether (2) it is taking place at the Richmond site in particular? If not, do we know w...
- Thu May 14, 2015 2:09 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2015 Final: An Attempt at a QB Microhistory
- Replies: 19
- Views: 27827
Re: ACF Nationals 2015 Final: An Attempt at a QB Microhistor
These narratives are delightful, and I hope more people make more of them. Matt Jackson would never do that...he sure didn't at NAQT States in 2010. I need a little more edge. I can't say I'm surprised, but it's certainly heartwarming to know that all these years later, that game still motivates the...