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- Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Carper Award community discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7123
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...
- Thu May 25, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9327
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...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13798
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...
- Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9975
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.
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 NAQT ICT: online, April 10
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13798
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?
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 3:00 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Video Now Available for 1st NQC
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2360
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?
- Fri Nov 06, 2020 5:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8449
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.
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to build "stamina"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15518
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...
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stamina during Nationals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4546
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...
- Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7925
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...
- Fri Sep 27, 2019 8:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4423
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...
- Sat Sep 21, 2019 10:59 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Thoughts on Coaching: Basic Advice for New Coaches
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4423
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...
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Matt Weiner's "Studying for Quizbowl" presentation.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8449
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...
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 11:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: High School Player Poll
- Replies: 42
- Views: 28549
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...
- Wed May 02, 2018 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 63562
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 ...
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 63562
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...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Illinois '17-'18
- Replies: 154
- Views: 94774
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?
- Sat May 27, 2017 8:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Liveblogging the humans vs. QANTA match.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2731
Liveblogging the humans vs. QANTA match.
Assuming the Internet access in here holds up, it'll be here: http://hsquizbowl.org/blog/
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20924
Re: Packet Sub: Things you liked in high school
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.Cheynem wrote:I'm super sick so my packet will be late or MIA.
- Fri Apr 07, 2017 7:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Resource Center Blog
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9975
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...
- Mon Aug 15, 2016 8:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Monetizing my Madness: a PACE Fundraiser
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8735
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.
- Sun Jul 17, 2016 4:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5538
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...
- Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NSC tournament format: playoff proposal.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5538
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...
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 9:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 77264
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...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 7:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Dennis Loo on Jeopardy! Inquiry
- Replies: 5
- Views: 923
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...
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 133
- Views: 77264
Re: 2016 HSNCT discussion
Can you post the condensation reaction bonus from the final game? Thanks.
- Thu Apr 28, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss 2016 NHBB Nationals Here
- Replies: 88
- Views: 44377
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...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: I hate the word "rundle"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2110
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...
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 6:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2015-16 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 52
- Views: 37005
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.
- Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread
- Replies: 41
- Views: 27466
Re: DC Metro 2014-15 Date Claim Thread
TJ would like to claim 2/14 for hosting a mirror of HFT.
- 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: 12468
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...
- Wed Aug 07, 2013 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open Discussion
- Replies: 95
- Views: 30949
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 ...