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by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Nov 24, 2019 2:01 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Archving the old Yahoo! group
Replies: 10
Views: 13639

Re: Archving the old Yahoo! group

I'm not in the group, but if an archive exists somewhere (or one is created before 14 Dec), I'd be glad to host it on the site.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Nov 10, 2019 3:36 am
Forum: Rules and global announcements
Topic: Site Performance Issues
Replies: 1
Views: 193476

Re: Site Performance Issues

I've added some additional security settings on the server to limit the excessive traffic. There may be some false positives that are getting blocked - I've tried to limit it where I could. If you know of people that are getting 403 errors viewing content on the site, bring it to my attention either...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Nov 10, 2019 1:27 am
Forum: Rules and global announcements
Topic: Site Performance Issues
Replies: 1
Views: 193476

Site Performance Issues

The site has been receiving an excessive amount of traffic over the last day or so, putting an extreme demand on the server.

I'm working on getting a handle on the traffic and back to normal. Things may be a little weird in the meantime.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:38 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Authentication on this Website
Replies: 10
Views: 7461

Re: Authentication on this Website

There's some issues with the CSS on the other pages (the tournament database and packet repository) that need to be resolved before this redirection happens sitewide. I think I have these fixed now, but let us know if you run into any problems while accessing the database or quizbowlpackets.com ove...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Jul 21, 2019 10:10 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Authentication on this Website
Replies: 10
Views: 7461

Re: Authentication on this Website

Surprise!

HTTPS is enabled on the entire site. For the moment, forced redirection is only happening when you access the forums. There's some issues with the CSS on the other pages (the tournament database and packet repository) that need to be resolved before this redirection happens sitewide.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Nov 04, 2018 10:16 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Quizbowl Folding@Home Team
Replies: 13
Views: 2236

Re: Quizbowl Folding@Home Team

So, I did a thing.

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by The Goffman Prophecies
Mon Sep 17, 2018 9:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Old Archived Packets Broken Links
Replies: 4
Views: 3533

Re: Old Archived Packets Broken Links

Whoops, sorry about that. Some file permissions were goofed during the server move.

The files are all still there and you should be able to download them again. Thanks for bringing this up!
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Sep 02, 2018 11:08 pm
Forum: Rules and global announcements
Topic: Site Downtime: September 1, 2018 - And we're back!
Replies: 2
Views: 13556

Re: Site Downtime: September 1, 2018 - And we're back!

I wanted to take a moment to say thanks to those of you that have sent me some feedback so far. Based on this feedback, I've made a couple tweaks: 1) The "hsquizbowl.org" buzzer logo in the top-left was changed to redirect back to the database instead of the forum index. A couple of you no...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sat Sep 01, 2018 5:24 pm
Forum: Rules and global announcements
Topic: Site Downtime: September 1, 2018 - And we're back!
Replies: 2
Views: 13556

Re: Site Downtime: September 1, 2018 - And we're back!

Things are back up! In addition to a new server, the forums have been updated to the latest version of phpBB and I cleaned up some of the old style options that did not work correctly. The currently active theme uses responsive design and should work well both on traditional PCs and mobile devices. ...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Aug 28, 2018 7:14 pm
Forum: Rules and global announcements
Topic: Site Downtime: September 1, 2018 - And we're back!
Replies: 2
Views: 13556

Site Downtime: September 1, 2018 - And we're back!

Saturday is going to be moving day for the Quizbowl Resource Center. While you're enjoying a long Labor Day weekend, this site - including the forums, the tournament database, and the packet archive - will be moving into some new digs. Thanks to PACE and a contribution from Microsoft, we'll be movin...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:13 pm
Forum: Rules and global announcements
Topic: Email Backlog
Replies: 0
Views: 10281

Email Backlog

I just cleared up an issue with the server that was preventing emails from being sent out by the server. It's going through the queue and processing the last several days' worth of backlog now - some of you may be seeing a glut of emails in the next few minutes/hours. Apologies in advance for the in...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:09 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Recognizing people in organizational roles
Replies: 4
Views: 4491

Re: Recognizing people in organizational roles

Jeffrey Hill also deserves a tremendous amount of recognition for the work he's done updating this website over the past several years. He developed the original stats hosting framework for good own site, and then developed and implemented that and packet hosting here. This site has been a resource ...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Thu May 17, 2018 2:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Discord Down
Replies: 1
Views: 418

Re: Discord Down

The fact that this website is still up is merely a false flag operation designed to further build your trust in an uncorruptible independent administrator (namely, me).

Remember: just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Thu May 17, 2018 12:40 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Where are you going to college next year? (2018)
Replies: 29
Views: 18539

Re: Where are you going to college next year? (2018)

KelinC625 wrote:I'm going to Wofford College. I'm pretty sure they have a team, but I'm not very informed on the state of their quizbowl program.
They hosted a tournament just last month.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri May 11, 2018 10:05 pm
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: QBNotify: An email notification system for tournaments
Replies: 18
Views: 20349

Re: QBNotify: A email notification system for tournaments

Aaron's Rod wrote:3. I know embarrassingly little about how the hsquizbowl sites are maintained--is it possible to get a link to this put on the DB website, even if it's just in small print next to "more search options"?
I'll see what I can do about this.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Wed Aug 26, 2015 7:42 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: HSQBRank 2015-16
Replies: 76
Views: 77976

Re: HSQBRank 2015-16

With the information Fred has provided to me, we have been able to link at least one of the addresses involved to someone who is registered here. I won't speak further about that at this time, but I would encourage the guilty person(s) to step forward and accept responsibility for their actions soon...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri May 29, 2015 7:42 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Running a Middle School Tournament
Replies: 1
Views: 2525

Re: Running a Middle School Tournament

So, our varsity teams are wondering if we can run a middle school tournament in order to fund ourselves. Absolutely. There's (theoretically) nothing that would preclude you from hosting a high school tournament, either. This is wondering if there is anything I should look out for? Our area has a lo...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri May 29, 2015 6:52 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: 2015 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations Arcadia!
Replies: 70
Views: 48407

Re: 2015 NAQT HSNCT: May 30-31, Chicago

PSA to teams & staffers coming from out-of-town: BRING A JACKET. The weather for Saturday is going to be rainy with a high temp of 57. Sunday clears a bit, but it'll still only reach 60. As an added bonus, Saturday's high is going to arrive around 9am; look for rain through midday and 20 - 25 m...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue May 26, 2015 5:30 pm
Forum: New Collegiate Teams
Topic: (Re)Starting a team at the University of South Alabama
Replies: 16
Views: 20366

Re: (Re)Starting a team at the University of South Alabama

You can also use the site's tournament database to look for past events and watch for upcoming tournaments.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Apr 28, 2015 4:23 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Is culinary art a fine art?
Replies: 21
Views: 12405

Re: Is culinary art a fine art?

Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:I wrote a history tossup on "Wonder Bread" once - this product was actually very important in 20th century US history and ending several malnutrition based diseases. It was universally panned.
I once wrote one on ranch salad dressing that received a very similar reception.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:28 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: Your Travel Disaster Stories
Replies: 51
Views: 72587

Re: Your Travel Disaster Stories

This comes straight from the Dark Ages of both the Maryland and Penn programs. My memory of some of the details is somewhat fuzzy. January 2005: Penn Bowl XIV Other editions of Penn Bowl can be billed as "The Penn Bowl that wasn't" (see the 2006 Sword Bowl mirror), this was definitively &q...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:10 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: The greatest quizbowl photos
Replies: 123
Views: 87719

Re: The greatest quizbowl photos

grapesmoker wrote:Also, a lot of photos on the earlier pages are now broken links. Don't know if that's something that mods have control over or if they were embedded.
The couple I checked were links to images posted on Facebook.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Mar 29, 2015 7:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)
Replies: 47
Views: 29904

Re: Where Are You Going Next Year? (2015 College)

I'll be finishing my MS this semester, putting an end to my collegiate career.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The place of zoology in the bio distribution
Replies: 53
Views: 30931

Re: The place of zoology in the bio distribution

Wasabi wrote:On an unrelated note, most of the images disappeared from the "famous quizbowl photos" thread, too. Dunno if anybody knows how to fix that.
I'm looking into it.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:49 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TDB packet archive
Replies: 13
Views: 8170

Re: TDB packet archive

That's something I'd tossed around as an idea as well. I can provide the files if there's someone who is willing to do the work to set up the torrent.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:23 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TDB packet archive
Replies: 13
Views: 8170

Re: TDB packet archive

The current size of the archive across all difficulty levels is just shy of 10 GB at the moment, and continues to grow each year. Currently the college archive makes up just under 50% of the sets in the repository, the high school archive another 25%, and the middle school, open, and trash archives ...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:11 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: TDB packet archive
Replies: 13
Views: 8170

Re: TDB packet archive

Alpha Phi Gamma wrote:Would it be possible to implement a download all option? Ideally split amongst college, hs, and ms.
By "download all," do you want to be able to download all the packets from a particular set at once, or download all of the question sets at a particular difficulty level?
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:05 am
Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
Topic: The Fundome
Replies: 8
Views: 13661

Re: The Fundome

Is there any chance that this Best Western has since become a Clarion Inn? I ask because for 2013 PACE we stayed in a Clarion Inn and Fundome in College Park that meets your description of a room that is neither fun nor a dome. I wonder if at some point the room was a Fundome by that definition, li...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:14 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Somebody broke the forums
Replies: 2
Views: 515

Re: Somebody broke the forums

Just a figment of your imagination. Nothing to see here...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:02 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Praise Song
Replies: 35
Views: 15034

Re: Praise Song

Thanks, Jonathan Magin, for starting this thread and for consistently being a welcoming, friendly personality in the Mid-Atlantic, and for everything you've done as a tournament writer, editor, and advisor over the years to contribute to the continued strength of the multiple quizbowl circuits in th...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:56 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: quizbowl and technology: a proposal
Replies: 43
Views: 114901

Re: quizbowl and technology: a proposal

I can't offer much development assistance at this point. but if I/HSQB can do anything from a server/resource perspective, let me know.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sat Apr 12, 2014 3:18 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Nationals Prediction Thread!
Replies: 30
Views: 9239

Re: ACF Nationals Prediction Thread!

Cheynem wrote: 26. South Carolina: It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) south-west of Dzierzążnia, 16 km (10 mi) west of Płońsk, and 71 km (44 mi) north-west of Warsaw.
This is a strangely accurate assessment.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Mar 23, 2014 2:16 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Ease of Powers
Replies: 27
Views: 8731

Re: Ease of Powers

Fred, are those numbers standardized to 20 TUH/game?
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:12 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Outage Notice: Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:00 PM EST
Replies: 2
Views: 2975

Re: Outage Notice: Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:00 PM EST

Everything's back up for now -we're running on our upgraded server and everything is checking out.

I'm still tweaking some things with the site, so you may see some brief outages again, but the bulk of the work is done at this point.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sat Dec 21, 2013 3:24 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Outage Notice: Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:00 PM EST
Replies: 2
Views: 2975

Re: Outage Notice: Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:00 PM EST

Just a reminder that this is happening Sunday afternoon.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:10 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Bank Accounts
Replies: 20
Views: 7468

Re: Bank Accounts

Seconding the credit union recommendation; they've been nothing but great when it comes to working with the VT club.

Something to note: unless you want your SSN associated with the club account, you'll probably want to request an Employer Identification Number for the group from the IRS.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:05 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The Saint Joseph Mirror of GSAC XXI:POSTPONED DUE TO ELECTRA
Replies: 46
Views: 14191

Re: The Saint Joseph Mirror of GSAC XXI:POSTPONED DUE TO ELECTRA

Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote:
POSTPONED DUE TO ELECTRA
The weather was bad enough to give me a complex.
You should see what the Weather Channel's dealing with.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
Replies: 30
Views: 12292

Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors

gyre and gimble wrote:How do I add Will as a group administrator?
You can't, unfortunately. He's been promoted.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:33 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors
Replies: 30
Views: 12292

Re: Harvard Fall Tournament VIII Seeking Mirrors

There's a private discussion forum now. Stephen has been set up to approve requests for the usergroup.

EDIT: My mistake for overlooking this, but here is the appropriate way to request a private discussion forum.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:34 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Outage Notice: Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:00 PM EST
Replies: 2
Views: 2975

Outage Notice: Dec 22, 2013 @ 2:00 PM EST

I'm going to be taking the site offline beginning at 2:00 PM Eastern Time on Sunday, December 22 for some long-overdue upgrades. I'm hoping the upgrade process will only take a couple hours, but it's possible the site may be down for as long as 24 hours. This outage will also affect quizbowlpackets....
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri Apr 26, 2013 6:53 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: How to start a team
Replies: 1
Views: 5989

Re: How to start a team

Welcome to the site! You'll find there are a number of people from central and western Virginia on the forums. To answer your questions: I already went to the national quizbowl website. Can you specify which site you visited? There are two organizations that run premiere national championship tourna...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Wed Apr 24, 2013 1:20 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13
Replies: 56
Views: 24208

Re: Where Will You Be Going to College Next Year? 2012-13

I'm heading to graduate school at the University of South Carolina this fall.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Missouri Open - July 6th, 2013
Replies: 34
Views: 15294

Re: Missouri Open - July 6th, 2013

The discussion about mirror sites has been moved here.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Virginia Tech Spring Invitational (4/13/2013 Blacksburg, VA)
Replies: 13
Views: 5568

Re: Virginia Tech Spring Invitational (4/13/2013 Blacksburg, VA)

Hidden Valley was a late drop, so we have 10 teams here today. After 5 rounds of a 10-team round robin, Guilford A is 5-0 and Guilford B and Schrodinger's Academy are 4-1.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:25 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ABC 2013 @ Vanderbilt University (3/30) [IS 124]
Replies: 15
Views: 5638

Re: ABC 2013 @ Vanderbilt University (3/30) [IS 124]

cchiego wrote:The SQBS stats link on the HSQB Database page for this tournament appears to be broken.
It doesn't appear any SQBS files ever got uploaded.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri Apr 05, 2013 10:34 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Missouri Open mirrors
Replies: 11
Views: 4434

Re: Missouri Open - July 6th, 2013

We're trying to figure out a plan for running a VT mirror, but because of the way the university structures the room reservation process, I don't know if we'll be able to find space on campus on a date that is within their restrictions. If there's another venue nearby that would be willing to let us...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Mon Mar 25, 2013 1:45 pm
Forum: New High School Teams
Topic: Starting a brand new QB team
Replies: 12
Views: 7540

Re: Starting a brand new QB team

Make sure to check out the HSQB tournament DB on a regular basis as tournaments are added: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/ There is a distance-based search function you can use and bookmark. Here's the links for the relevant tournaments mentioned in this thread: NCATA Tournament (4/20; Greensboro): http:/...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:47 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NAQT Security Discussion
Replies: 72
Views: 25080

Re: NAQT Security Discussion

For what it's worth, the IP address that the posts in this thread came from is owned by the University of Sussex.
by The Goffman Prophecies
Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:10 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: ABC 2013 @ Vanderbilt University (3/30) [IS 124]
Replies: 15
Views: 5638

Re: ABC 2013 @ Vanderbilt University (3/30) [IS 124]

New users whose posts are still under moderation are advised to create a separate post below the main announcement reserved for field updates. Any edits made to an approved post must go back in the approval queue again. If the first post in a thread is edited, the entire thread is hidden until the e...
by The Goffman Prophecies
Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Virginia Tech Quiz Bowl
Replies: 2
Views: 1616

Re: Virginia Tech Quiz Bowl

Feel free to email me (my email address is in my profile) or send me a Facebook message.

We can talk more at our April tournament, too.