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by hokie168
Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:42 pm
Forum: Community Discussion
Topic: 2024 Carper Award community discussion
Replies: 9
Views: 6981

Re: 2024 Carper Award community discussion

Have Dave Hamilton and Raj (Roger) Bhan been considered? Both of them edited ACF Nationals multiple times, from 1999 to 2003. The 2020s QB community is struggling with how few people are willing and able to edit difficult tournaments. This situation was much worse in the late-90s and early-00s. Thes...
by hokie168
Thu May 25, 2023 4:46 pm
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
Replies: 15
Views: 9031

Re: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever

My impression from people Even Older Than Me is that this is true and Yaphe was always game-dominatingly good, though as QBWiki puts it "a paucity of records from that time precludes further judgment." I've pinged a friend of mine who was active in that era, whom I hope can say more. Andr...
by hokie168
Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
Replies: 29
Views: 13507

Re: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10

I'll be liveblogging for HSQB at https://hsquizbowl.org/blog/ . I intend on following the top bracket for playoffs/superplayoffs. Let me know if there are any games you want me to attend, especially in the prelim rounds. I'll be starting Round 3 or Round 4, depending on where the tournament is at wh...
by hokie168
Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:53 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog
Replies: 20
Views: 9880

Re: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog

I'll once again be liveblogging ICT, starting either Round 3 or Round 4 depending on where they're at when I get off work. I'll be following the top bracket for playoffs/superplayoffs. Let me know if you have any requests for which games you want me to watch.
by hokie168
Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
Replies: 29
Views: 13507

Re: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10

Would it be okay to liveblog the event for HSQB, as long as there is no question content mentioned?
by hokie168
Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:00 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Video Now Available for 1st NQC
Replies: 4
Views: 2294

Re: Qwiz presents the 1st Annual National Quizbowl Conference!

For those of us who will be at work that day, will there be recordings of the conference posted anywhere?
by hokie168
Fri Nov 06, 2020 5:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
Replies: 1
Views: 8353

Re: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.

Just bumping this because it's the start of a new season, new players have had the chance to attend a tournament or two, and I think this could help a lot of teams.
by hokie168
Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:29 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: How to build "stamina"
Replies: 21
Views: 15361

Re: How to build "stamina"

I posted this in the Collegiate Discussion section about how to stay focused during long tournaments like ACF Nats. There's really no secret shortcut to building stamina. It's more useful to just keep a healthier lifestyle, which would help with your schoolwork as well. My advice would be: 1. Get su...
by hokie168
Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Stamina during Nationals
Replies: 7
Views: 4499

Re: Stamina during Nationals

This may have been posted before, but this thought kind of floated in my mind while playing Fall Open yesterday. How did/do you guys get through 18 rounds of 14+ rounds of ACF Nationals/ICT without becoming extremely exhausted and losing focus in important games? Even after playing ~8 or 9 rounds o...
by hokie168
Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7819

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

I edited physics. Initial playtesting suggested the tossups were too easy, so for most of them, I removed a sentence of easy clues and put in a tough opening sentence. Hopefully, people found the first half of the tossups sufficiently challenging. There was indeed a lot of applied stuff- we had many...
by hokie168
Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:41 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
Replies: 2
Views: 4356

Re: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches

Sure- feel free to repost. Or, once we figure out the differences, it should be easy enough to modify this post. Thanks for pointing out that in places with underdeveloped circuits, there might not be more than 2-3 tournaments. In that case, coaches should definitely make it to all of them. For stud...
by hokie168
Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:59 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
Replies: 2
Views: 4356

Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches

I’ve taken a job that prevents me from coaching this year, but I thought this might be useful to new (and even some experienced) teams, especially ones with an inexperienced coach. I feel like this post is still a bit disorganized, but I just wanted to put it up before the HS season starts. My Backg...
by hokie168
Tue Sep 04, 2018 9:52 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
Replies: 1
Views: 8353

Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.

I recently got permission from Matt Weiner to post the files to his excellent "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation. He intended it as a resource for new college teams and new coaches, and made it nearly plug-and-play by providing slides as well as a Word file to read from while showing the...
by hokie168
Sun Jun 10, 2018 11:09 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: High School Player Poll
Replies: 42
Views: 28320

Re: High School Player Poll

That's completely absurd. I think it's fair to say he's the best specialist in hsqb. Seriously. I think Geoffrey's complete absence from any of the teams was arguably the biggest mistake with the All-World selections this year. I'd put it slightly ahead of leaving Grant Li off any of the teams. I t...
by hokie168
Wed May 02, 2018 4:55 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
Replies: 121
Views: 62518

Re: ACF Nationals discussion

Once Sam mentioned it, I do think that I should've included a prompt on "sphere-packing problem" even if I mention "this statement"- it just didn't occur to me that people would buzz with that. If I had to re-edit, I would've rephrased it to say Toth developed a method to try to ...
by hokie168
Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
Replies: 121
Views: 62518

Re: ACF Nationals discussion

I edited the math submissions and wrote the following questions: TUs on the core, sigma algebra, and Grothendieck. I had one other tossup that I don’t think has been posted yet, but has possibly been spoiled for next year and might get posted. I’ll talk about that one if Andrew clears it, since I th...
by hokie168
Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '17-'18
Replies: 154
Views: 92692

Re: Illinois '17-'18

I was looking at the state tournament schedule at http://www.ihsa.org/data/scores/scb28r16.htm and was wondering if anyone knew how IHSA splits teams into pools. Is it seeded, random draw, geographic, or what?
by hokie168
Sat May 27, 2017 8:12 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Liveblogging the humans vs. QANTA match.
Replies: 3
Views: 2709

Liveblogging the humans vs. QANTA match.

Assuming the Internet access in here holds up, it'll be here: http://hsquizbowl.org/blog/
by hokie168
Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
Replies: 41
Views: 20790

Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school

Cheynem wrote:I'm super sick so my packet will be late or MIA.
Mike, we should just get our packets done in time for NSC. We can do this again and see how well the young'uns do on stuff that came out about the time they were born.
by hokie168
Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog
Replies: 20
Views: 9880

Re: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog

Does anybody have any idea what is going to happen with the blog or the link to it? Well, assuming that the Internet at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare isn't completely hosed, and that a couple things that seem to be wonky with Wordpress get fixed, I'll be putting live updates from ICT's afternoon top bra...
by hokie168
Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:04 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Monetizing my Madness: a PACE Fundraiser
Replies: 15
Views: 8677

Re: Monetizing my Madness: a PACE Fundraiser

I'm in for 50 cents an hour, with a cap of $50. Fred, make sure to find me at one of the nationals this year.
by hokie168
Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:12 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
Replies: 5
Views: 5486

Re: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.

What seems more fair would be to use advantaged-final-style playoffs for these cross-tier matches. Teams in the top tier should still be afforded some advantage by virtue of doing better in the preliminary rounds. I think that teams in the top tier were already afforded an advantage- they had the a...
by hokie168
Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:28 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
Replies: 5
Views: 5486

NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.

Mods- I’m not sure whether this should be here or in Theory, but since there’s only one tournament affected, I put it here. Please move if necessary. A quick summary of the problem: We currently have a format in which there are 12 preliminary pools of 8 teams to start. These sort into four playoff t...
by hokie168
Tue Jun 07, 2016 9:32 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
Replies: 133
Views: 76872

Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion

The version that was used at HSNCT is as follows: The saponification of animal fats to form soaps is an example of this class of reaction. For 10 points each-- A. In what class of reactions does water break apart a chemical bond? answer: hydrolysis or hydrolytic reaction (accept hydrolyzing or hydr...
by hokie168
Mon Jun 06, 2016 7:04 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Dennis Loo on Jeopardy! Inquiry
Replies: 5
Views: 899

Re: Dennis Loo on Jeopardy! Inquiry

It was in fact me, unfortunately. Like Sarah said, I don't remember it fondly- I did an immense amount of prep for it but lost due to a :capybara:-load of bad luck and a disallowed protest on what was probably a factually incorrect FJ with no known correct answer. If you want to know more, you can P...
by hokie168
Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:53 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
Replies: 133
Views: 76872

Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion

Can you post the condensation reaction bonus from the final game? Thanks.
by hokie168
Thu Apr 28, 2016 8:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
Replies: 88
Views: 43755

Re: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here

Well the last one was the least important, anyway. For the first two: I am nigh-literally floored that either of those things were floated as ideas, much less BOTH, much less either happened, much less BOTH happened. There is no universe in which either of those are good ideas. Most importantly (no...
by hokie168
Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:21 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: I hate the word "rundle"
Replies: 20
Views: 2063

Re: matt jackson is on jeopardy, doesn't read poetry, hates

Plus, saying "he would be just as good as one of the ~5 best players of all time with six months of preparation!" is preposterous in any activity with any modicum of history. It would depend on the exact format, but even in quizbowl, the result of 10 solo matches between the two would mos...
by hokie168
Wed Oct 14, 2015 6:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro 2015-16 Date Claim Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 36605

Re: DC Metro 2015-16 Date Claim Thread

TJ would like to claim Sunday, 12/13 as the date for a middle school tournament on NAQT MS-15.
by hokie168
Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:18 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread
Replies: 41
Views: 27275

Re: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread

TJ would like to claim 2/14 for hosting a mirror of HFT.
by hokie168
Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:17 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: On the Clock, and how to play with it
Replies: 26
Views: 12367

Re: On the Clock, and how to play with it

Madden's Clock Theory So, here's a controversial notion, but one that I think has some statistical validity to it. I posit that not only towards the end of the game, but at any point, where a team takes a lead, they should then kill the clock as much as possible on bonuses (and if possible, even by...
by hokie168
Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:23 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
Replies: 95
Views: 30542

Re: Chicago Open Discussion

Hey, this is Dennis from the UVA team. I edited the "other science" and welcome feedback and suggestions about those questions. In general, my edits to math tossups were based on the following ideas: If the answer is a theorem, add early clues about methods of proving that theorem. If the ...