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- Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 5 (Summer 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 774
Re: Scattergories 5 (Summer 2021)
I'd hope for it to be played in person, if possible (perhaps in the fall), but of course we'll see how things go - I imagine we'll run an online mirror either way.
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 2:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 5 (Summer 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 774
Scattergories 5 (Summer 2021)
I'm happy to announce that the fifth iteration of Scattergories will be available for mirrors starting in summer 2021. I'll be joined again by the esteemed JinAh Kim, and this time we'll also be joined by the equally esteemed Mike Bentley. As usual, it will be a very difficult, whimsical vanity tour...
- Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2011
Re: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
This set has now been posted to the archives.
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 10:11 am
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
- Replies: 4
- Views: 968
Re: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
I'll read the last two packets tonight at 8:30 Eastern.
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 11:24 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
- Replies: 4
- Views: 968
Re: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
I'll do two more packets tomorrow (Wednesday) at 8:30 Eastern.
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 10:10 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
- Replies: 4
- Views: 968
Re: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
I read the first three packets tonight, and I'll do some more tomorrow, Tuesday, at 8:30 Eastern (not 8:00 this time).
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:39 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
- Replies: 4
- Views: 968
Re: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
Reminder that this is happening tonight at 8:00 Eastern!
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:42 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
- Replies: 4
- Views: 968
Scattergories 4 packet readings on Discord
Before posting the Scattergories 4 packets on the archive, I'll do some casual readings of the packets on Discord. I'll start on Monday at 8:00 Eastern, probably doing the first two packets then.
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:43 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2011
Re: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
I'd be happy to run some Discord shootouts (a couple packets a night, perhaps) at no cost.
- Sun Aug 23, 2020 11:10 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2011
Re: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
I don't plan to run another full-blown mirror of this - if anyone does want to run something using this set, let me know in the next couple of days so I can hold off on uploading it to the archives.
- Sat Aug 22, 2020 7:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
Final stats are at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6546/ (thanks to Joe Su for running stats!). Team "Mott scattergories" (John Lawrence, Mike Bentley, Rob Carson, and Halle Friedman) won in overtime in a tight final against team "Mie scattergories" (Shan Kothari, Alston Bo...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
One of our staffers had to drop last-minute; if anyone else is willing to help staff, please let me know!
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 2:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
A logistics email has been sent out to a representative from each of the teams. The field is now full at 20 teams, but there still are a small number of open slots for players.
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
20 will be the final field cap - with 20 teams, we can do a round robin with two brackets of 10, followed by a one-game crossover final. The tournament's in a little under two weeks, so it would be helpful if free agents could assemble themelves into teams soon so I can make sure we do indeed get to...
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 2:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
There are now 18 teams signed up, but I've expanded the field to 20.women, fire and dangerous things wrote: ↑Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:24 pm The field has now been expanded to 18 teams - thanks to those who have volunteered to staff!
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
The field has now been expanded to 18 teams - thanks to those who have volunteered to staff!
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
A few updates: 1. This tournament will have a code of conduct to which all players and moderators will be required to agree in order to participate; it will be sent out with the logistics email. Those who violate the code of conduct will be given a warning and/or removed from the tournament, as appr...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
There are now 8 teams officially signed up, but the field cap has been expanded to 14.
- Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3591
Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
This is the official announcement for the main mirror of Scattergories 4 (announcement here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=23552&p=364280&hilit=scattergories#p364280 ), which will be held on Discord on Saturday, August 22 starting at 11 AM EDT. Camera will be required...
- Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DATE POLL: Scattergories 4 online mirror
- Replies: 3
- Views: 833
Re: DATE POLL: Scattergories 4 online mirror
The most popular date is Saturday, August 22, so I'll be running the mirror then. Stay tuned for an announcement!
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 8:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DATE POLL: Scattergories 4 online mirror
- Replies: 3
- Views: 833
Re: DATE POLL: Scattergories 4 online mirror
Yes, the plan is for this to be the main site. (Though I may do more online or in-person mirrors later, if there are enough people who are interested but can't play this one.)
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: DATE POLL: Scattergories 4 online mirror
- Replies: 3
- Views: 833
DATE POLL: Scattergories 4 online mirror
I'm planning to run an online mirror of Scattergories 4, most likely in August. If you're interested in playing, please fill out the poll indicating which dates you'd be available. I'm not including August 8, since CAMP is running then - if there are other events that I've missed that are already sc...
- Mon May 18, 2020 5:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Summer Events?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1776
Re: Summer Events?
We haven't set a date yet, but we're planning to run Scattergories 4 as an online event this summer.
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4626
Re: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)
I was planning on running Scattergories at the various side event weekends.
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2011
Scattergories 4 (Summer 2020)
I'm pleased to announce the fourth iteration of Scattegories, intended to be played as a side event in summer 2020. This version will be written by me and JinAh Kim, and will be more of the same Scattergories that you know and hopefully love: a very hard tournament about stuff that I like. As before...
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 12:46 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Survey
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2170
Re: ACF Survey
That being said, it now seemd to me that ACF doesn't really have a goal for what it wants to be. For a while, it seemed to me that ACF's purpose was to push the boundaries of pyramidal quizbowl by writing more and more innovative questions with more and more content, fostering an environment for th...
- Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open @ UIUC (11/16/2019)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3891
Re: Fall Open @ UIUC (11/16/2019)
Lauren can't make it anymore, so Dylan, Hayden and I are looking for a fourth in case anyone's looking for a team.
- Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Preseason Poll 2019-2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14558
Re: Preseason Poll 2019-2020
The #25 ranked team is the friends we made along the way.
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 11:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2728
Re: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
Stats are finally up: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5 ... all_games/. Sorry again for the delay!
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 9:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2728
Re: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
Sorry for the delay, that totally slipped my mind! They'll be posted quite soon.
- Tue Aug 20, 2019 10:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 (2019)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5707
Re: Scattergories 3 (2019)
This set is now clear, and the packets will be up on the database soon.
- Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 (2019)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5707
Re: Scattergories 3 (2019)
A private discussion forum is now set up for Scattergories 3, which you can join by going to "User control panel" and then "Usergroups."
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 2:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2728
Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
This is a preliminary announcement for a Discord mirror of Scattergories 3, on the weekend of July 20. Apologies for not offering a broader range of possible dates; that weekend and the next weekend are basically the only times I could run it, and there are more people I know of who'd want to play t...
- Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:22 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: The Birth of a Nation: Slapdash Michigan Shootout Day (July 6)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9183
Re: Interest in Slapdash Michigan Shootout Day
I'd most likely come to this.
- Tue Jun 18, 2019 3:46 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: CANCELLED: Trash Side Events Weekend at Purdue -- July 6/7, 2019
- Replies: 43
- Views: 14728
Re: Trash Side Events Weekend at Purdue -- July 6/7, 2019
If the field hovers around the size it's currently at, I probably wouldn't be inclined to make the drive down, personally.
- Fri Apr 26, 2019 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 (2019)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5707
Re: Scattergories 3 (2019)
A couple updates:
1) Jaimie Carlson is now writing questions for this set!
2) I'd like to run a Discord mirror for those who can't play it at CO, ideally sometime in July. If you'd be interested in playing such a thing and have date preferences, post here or get in touch.
1) Jaimie Carlson is now writing questions for this set!
2) I'd like to run a Discord mirror for those who can't play it at CO, ideally sometime in July. If you'd be interested in playing such a thing and have date preferences, post here or get in touch.
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 12:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DATE POLL: Illinois Side Event Weekend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6549
Re: DATE POLL: Illinois Side Event Weekend
Seems like there's a big group for a July mirror, but I'm assuming if I asked people to settle on one weekend those votes would be split. I'm currently leaning towards August 17th-18th to have a buffer after CO. This has the benefit of giving writers more time to polish their sets and not accidenta...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 4:14 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Old time bonus formats
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9937
Re: Old time bonus formats
At my very first tournament, my team impressively zeroed a 40-30-20-10-1 bonus which asked you to identify Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" from quotes, where the 1-point quote was "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 4:25 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: DATE POLL: Illinois Side Event Weekend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6549
Re: DATE POLL: Illinois Side Event Weekend
A July date, the earlier the better, would definitely be better for me.
- Fri Mar 22, 2019 4:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories 3 (2019)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5707
Re: Scattergories 3 (2019)
I'm still planning on having this run on CO Sunday, but I won't be able to make CO this year, so I'm looking for someone to run things for me in exchange for 20% of the revenue. If you'll be at CO and are interested in doing this, get in touch! I'd also love to see the questions played in person, th...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 3:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I agree with the theory behind your post, that we shouldn't ask about states in literature when it tests trivial knowledge that isn't important to the context of the works. But I don't think that's the case for the questions in this set. There were three "states in lit" tossups, one of whi...
- Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:54 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5459
2019 ACF Regionals detailed stats
The every.buzz detailed stats aren't quite ready, but I'm releasing the detailed stats spreadsheets for each individual site and for the combined sites. Please read all the information below before you view the spreadsheets. Overview The aim of detailed stats is to provide more data than standard st...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
14. The bodhisattva (“boh-dee-SUT-vuh”) Manjushri is most commonly depicted riding one of these creatures. One of these creatures nurses King Gesar (“GEZ-er”) in a Tibetan epic. It’s not a dog, but according to Okinawan legend, one of these animals caused a boulder to fall from heaven and crush a d...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:16 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Two small errata, both on giveaways. I believe calling "Ezekiel" a "minor prophet" to be wrong, and "Ouranos" is not the husband of Rhea. I've fixed these two errata, thanks for pointing them out! 7. This figure is deemed a watchman for the people of Israel who will be...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 11:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
4. This man became exceedingly wealthy by throwing peeled branches into watering troughs (“troffs”) to make sheep have spotted and striped offspring. This man condemned two of his sons after they murdered all the men of Shechem in retaliation for the rape of their sister. On his deathbed, he condem...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Something I noticed about the literature in this set is that there seemed to be a very notable number of tossups on countries in the lit. I heard several players remark on how that was sort of frustrating. I'm not confident that it was a problem so much as a preference, but I figured it was worth a...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Yes, Rebecca contacted me about that protest; I ruled against it because though all the clues to that point apply to "beliefs," they don't all apply to "justified true beliefs." The previous clue was: To attain one status, these states must be linked to their objects by “causal c...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 8:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I thought this set was pretty decent overall, but, echoing what Jacob, I felt like there was significant difficulty variance across categories. The history, for example, seemed like it could have played well at MUT or NSC, which isn't necessarily problematic, but was kind of jarring next to some of...
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 5:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I was aiming for this year's Regionals to be similar in spirit to last year's but a tad easier, but I definitely needed to do a better job of coordinating that between categories.
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:05 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15757
2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
This thread is for the discussion of the 2019 ACF Regionals set. First off, many thanks are due to my fabulous editing team: Rob Carson: geo/CE/trash/other, visual OFA Will Holub-Moorman: painting, philosophy, social science Dylan Minarik: myth, religion (taking over from Matt Bollinger, who wrote t...