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- Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:39 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Qwiz5 Quizbowl Essentials Resource Thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6356
Re: Qwiz5 Quizbowl Essentials Resource Thread
We're glad you're liking them! We'll keep producing them. If you have something you'd like us to cover in a Qwiz5, drop us a line! I'm glad that these guides exist, but make sure that whoever is producing these guides fact-checks themselves and understands the distinction between terms with distinc...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 10:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Abolish packet submission for ACF Fall
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3300
Re: Abolish packet submission for ACF Fall
When I was a subject editor, Stephen Liu was the head editor. Stephen filtered the vast majority of the submissions so that us subject editors only saw a minority of packets that were deemed to have usable submissions--those generally came from teams with writers who had some degree of experience. T...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:54 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6681
Re: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
I've long been an advocate for msqb vastly expanding its distribution of general knowledge. I'm not a fan of collegiate quiz bowl having more than a little trivia, but it's perfectly apropos for middle school (and hs!) qb to ask more directly about elements of their culture and surroundings they're ...
- Thu Jun 27, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4894
Re: Public Trivia Nights into Quizbowl Play
This is a really good idea! And probably more practical in a college setting than posting a flyer or going from classroom to classroom. I'd be very interested in doing this at VMI. Do you all write the questions yourselves or find them from the internet? If you write the questions what kind of dist...
- Fri Jun 07, 2019 4:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: RULFO at PACE NSC
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7050
Re: RULFO at PACE NSC
Will have to drop. Didn’t realize this conflicted with PACE Conference.
- Thu May 30, 2019 10:00 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Mons Mathstrosity: A Packet of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4297
Re: Mons Mathstrosity: A Packet of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
Why not just roll it into the "eventual" Mons Mathstrosity (the quotation marks being present for a reason)?
- Fri May 24, 2019 10:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Geography Monstrosity 2019
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1573
Re: Geography Monstrosity 2019
We’re in M103.
- Fri May 03, 2019 6:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl (8/10-11)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6245
Re: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl at Cal State, Long Beach (Date TBD)
Flights to Long Beach Airport are also pretty cheap and come from all Bay Area airports. It seems like a pretty easy pickup from the campus.
- Fri May 03, 2019 6:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl (8/10-11)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6245
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: California Summer Open(s)?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7171
Re: California Summer Open(s)?
With Summer Open not happening, here's my dream lineup for a California side events tournament that would hopefully take place at least a couple weeks away from CO: Saturday: META This Must Be the Place The Unanswered Question Sunday: Super Acronym II RULFO Age of Empires may also be ready by that ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:10 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Ken Jennings Slate article on quizbowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5790
Re: Ken Jennings Slate article on quizbowl
The content of the article is mostly very good. I hope it was an editorial decision and not Ken Jennings' to call us Jeopardy's minor leagues (I don't know in what other games the minor leagues would be substantially more difficult than the major leagues). This is the key problem with quizbowl in p...
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:55 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Ken Jennings Slate article on quizbowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5790
Re: Ken Jennings Slate article on quizbowl
The content of the article is mostly very good. I hope it was an editorial decision and not Ken Jennings' to call us Jeopardy's minor leagues (I don't know in what other games the minor leagues would be substantially more difficult than the major leagues).
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:32 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: AMA about the 2011 NSC & the evolution of PACE
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6982
Re: AMA about the 2011 NSC & the evolution of PACE
Was PACE the first high school quiz bowl organization (whether good or bad) to effect the complete removal of trash from its distribution? What did discussions to that end look like? Did those discussions impact HSAPQ’s own decision not to put trash in its own contemporary inaugural NASAT? Why was a...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 2:09 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Help Me Justify a Quizbowl Class?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2559
Re: Help Me Justify a Quizbowl Class?
Howdy! I'm fortunate to be in a school that already has a quizbowl team, so I'm not looking for help establishing one. What I'm needing is help with a proposal to justify having a class period set aside for quizbowl (and maybe other academic competitions). Right now, my main argument is that athlet...
- Thu Jan 10, 2019 3:51 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Washington DC televised quiz bowl
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2064
Re: Washington DC televised quiz bowl
Heh, if only someone offered them a new home in exchange for them going pyramidal.
- Tue Dec 25, 2018 3:11 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Outreach Advice Wanted
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2377
Re: Outreach Advice Wanted
You're doing the right thing by having an initial introduction through email about what quiz bowl is about (the elevator pitch) and attaching a separate longer document for interested administrators to peruse. While it may look at first glance like a game of no more value than bar trivia, quiz bowl ...
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 4:21 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 35047
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
I know that we on the board like to argue about a lot of things, but the inaccessibility of Champaign should be something we can all agree on. This might be true, but the fact that there's public transportation to there (the bus and train Alston mentioned) and the fact that the connection is throug...
- Thu Dec 06, 2018 4:51 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Students as tournament directors?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2375
Re: Students as tournament directors?
It's great that you're interested and I'm excited to see another Mississippi team interested in hosting on good questions. In general, yes, students can direct tournaments, but there have been issues in the past with some that you should be aware of and make sure that y'all won't fall victim to in ...
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 10:44 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2019 NASAT: June 22 & 23
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12147
Re: 2019 NASAT: June 22 & 23
A belated reply to the above: we're aware of the relative difficulties of traveling into Lexington, Kentucky, but that is where IQBT is base. A lot of our connections for local staff and room reservations are dependent on hosting in Lexington. Additionally, one of the co-owners would also be unable...
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 12:39 am
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: 2019 NAQT MSNCT: Congratulations Hunter!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8614
Re: 2019 NAQT MSNCT: May 11-12, Chicago
The Saturday (preliminary) rounds of the 2019 MSNCT will use questions similar in length and difficulty to those at previous championships. The Sunday (playoff and consolation) rounds will use longer and harder questions similar to those in NAQT's Regular Invitational Series. The subject distributi...
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 6:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018-2019 California Cup
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8253
Re: 2018-2019 California Cup
They're a diploma-granting secondary learning institution with formal enrollment and coursework that is also approved as such by NAQT. What's your reasoning for defaulting to the position that "they should not be allowed to play" rather than "trust but verify?"
- Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:38 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: My Health
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6550
Re: My Health
So happy for you, David. Hopefully, that "probably" prognosis can turn into a "definitely" in the near future.
- Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:42 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: autoPG: Docs script for crowdsourced pronunciation guides
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4423
Re: autoPG: Docs script for crowdsourced pronunciation guides
This is great stuff! One question I had is how we as a community will hash out who gets to determine the crowdsourced pronunciation guides. I think that several extant pronunciation guides can be incorrect to the point of confusing players (I encounter this fairly frequently with Indian names, I'm s...
- Wed May 30, 2018 9:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 68702
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
The Northern California Quiz Bowl Alliance’s President is a top NAQT member. I have every confidence he’ll do the right thing. That said, if it comes down to it, I will lobby against NAQT tournaments being run in Northern California. Obviously, Matt Bruce is unwelcome at any event here. Anything els...
- Tue May 01, 2018 7:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Question Security and You
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2016
Re: Question Security and You
This has also been a big problem on the meme page (to the extent that it's become something of a running joke whenever I point out unclear set content to Jakob).
- Fri Apr 27, 2018 2:29 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 45315
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
In my earlier post in this thread, I accidentally spoiled some questions from the unread editors' packets that are being saved for next year. Perhaps it's hubris to think many people actually read my post, but in theory the milk has been spilt. So, here are the text of the questions, which are not ...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Historature 2018: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3232
Re: Specific Question Discussion
I think I remember the question on Powhatan refer to them as a "tribe." To be fair, I don't know of many non-transparent ways to refer to them (a similar problem exists with questions on the Iroquois / Haudenosaunee) and it didn't affect my enjoyment of the question (it was good to see that answerl...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:24 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: "I'm sorry, I can't accept that."
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8645
Re: "I'm sorry, I can't accept that."
The worse instance I ever saw was my player getting awarded the points on a bonus part, and THEN... moments later, the moderator backing up and reconsidering, then asking my player to "SPELL IT." This was a science bonus at sectional championship match, where the answer line was "otoscope." Points ...
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:17 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl today?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 29735
Re: What is the most pressing concern in college quizbowl to
I don't think very many college quizbowlers show up to a tournament, decide that 1/1 world history isn't enough, and walk off, but perhaps you're right that aspects of the distribution are unappealing--can we expound on this? I do, however, suspect that many economics and psychology majors (which i...
- Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:33 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT sponsorship
- Replies: 37
- Views: 19809
Re: 2018 HSNCT sponsorship
-We expect increased levels of media coverage for future ICTs and HSNCTs as a result of this agreement. Can you clarify how this follows from receiving some financial backing and plastering LetterOne's name everywhere in exchange? What exactly will partnering with LetterOne do to effect this outcome?
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 11:14 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: I Need Serious Help With Bad Questions
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11535
Re: I Need Serious Help With Bad Questions
Well I was actually thinking of running a hs tournament and allowing someone who isn't a member of our team TD for obvious ethical reasons. Is this still an ethical gray area? Generally speaking, there’s no issue with having someone from your high school TD a tournament at which your school has ent...
- Wed Oct 25, 2017 7:29 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: I Need Serious Help With Bad Questions
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11535
Re: I Need Serious Help With Bad Questions
I've had a thought: hosting a tournament. It's be good for fundraising, introducing new quiz bowl, and sticking it to the current system in our county. Good idea or too spiteful? There's nothing spiteful about competing with something bad and trying to show the relative merits of your idea in a con...
- Thu Oct 19, 2017 6:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
- Replies: 66
- Views: 26866
Re: Cal's Mid-Spring Tournament—March 2018
Same as above.
- Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:23 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: The State of Good Quizbowl, State-by-State, 2017 Edition
- Replies: 25
- Views: 17625
Re: The State of Good Quizbowl, State-by-State, 2017 Edition
I feel like the ratings value state organizations perhaps too highly. This may be the political scientist in me, but one thing I've seen over the years is that institutions matter. You can go into a bad quizbowl area and run a bunch of good pyramidal tournaments in one year, but if you don't get so...
- Sun Jun 18, 2017 4:29 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Starting a team at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4812
Re: Starting a team at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA
Hi Zach, we'd love to have a De Anna team started in the Bay (also, several quiz bowl players, including myself, happen to be from Cupertino)! It's technically always possible to get a team started for any session as long as you can get interested students, but putting together room reservations for...
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 2:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been announce
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11825
Re: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been anno
This is all very unfortunate, as Richard Montgomery has been planning for a house write as well. What can all of us do when it comes to considering mergers? If you must do it alone (this is directed to the general "you" and not you specifically), write a novice set. I'll disagree here - novice sets...
- Thu Jun 15, 2017 12:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been announce
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11825
Re: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been anno
This is all very unfortunate, as Richard Montgomery has been planning for a house write as well. What can all of us do when it comes to considering mergers? If you must do it alone (this is directed to the general "you" and not you specifically), write a novice set. There needs to be more truly eas...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 8:23 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NSC set discussion
- Replies: 85
- Views: 38550
Re: 2017 NSC set discussion
The amount of architecture in the tournament was the same as last year (4/4), although it's certainly possible there were more architecture clues in non-architecture questions. This was indeed what I was referring to -- I believe there were a lot more architecture clues (referring to cities, for ex...
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 3:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NSC set discussion
- Replies: 85
- Views: 38550
Re: 2017 NSC set discussion
My teammates and I were a little disappointed with the math tossups. For example, the lead in for "point" could be buzzed on if one had just vaguely heard of point-set topology, and I personally thought the "arithmetic" tossup was a little weird; describing it as a branch of math threw me off (alth...
- Sat Jun 10, 2017 9:21 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Math Monstrosity at NSC
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7936
Re: Math Monstrosity at NSC
I'm intending to come once I got an update about the event.
- Sat Jan 28, 2017 1:04 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: History (New Approaches)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1458
Re: History (New Approaches)
I was a fan of the history here (addendum: I liked that the one battle tossup was on Stamford Bridge, as (a) it's a highly significant battle no one really tosses up and (b) I studied it shortly before the tournament). Taking on historical approaches that emphasize long-term trends is something that...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 2:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2017 NASAT: June 24-25 at the University of Kentucky
- Replies: 68
- Views: 50005
Re: 2017 NASAT: June 24-25 at the University of Kentucky
The entry fee is $560 per team with a $20 discount for bringing up to one buzzer system per team and a further $20 discount if we receive your payment by May 21, 2017 at HSAPQ's mailing address. You may pay on-site but you will not receive the early payment discount if you do so. I'm so sorry for n...
- Tue Nov 08, 2016 3:00 am
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Studying Social Science and Philosophy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6332
Re: Studying Social Science and Philosophy
To learn about philosophers (e.g. Montesquieu, Pascal, etc.), I think a careful reading of their respective Wikipedia articles and then cross-referencing Quinterest and old questions for relevant clues should give you a good idea of what you will need to know (at least at the high school level). Yo...
- Sun Oct 30, 2016 4:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 12553
Re: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
I thought the anthro here was fine (even with the perennial bonus on Ruth Benedict). I do have one quibble: the tossup on functionalism seemed to slide between structural functionalism and functionalism quite a bit, even though they're fairly distinct. I wrote this. I am aware that they are pretty ...
- Wed Oct 26, 2016 8:12 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Future of High School Quizbowl Round Table: Big Vision Redux
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4554
Re: Future of High School Quizbowl Round Table: Big Vision R
To talk about the episode itself, I'm particularly interested in following up on talk about making better alumni databases. Does something like that exist already, and if not, is there any reason why we don't? An alumni database would indeed be a good thing. The big question is who would have acces...
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2016 WHAQ General Discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4184
Re: 2016 WHAQ General Discussion
This was mirrored yesterday for the Varsity division of Cal Cup 1, which contained a fair number of pretty casual teams. I liked the fact that when the set erred, it generally erred easier instead of more difficult. This is a trend that I think really worked with CALI and that needs to continue to p...
- Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:20 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Stats: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9836
Re: Greatest Upsets in Quizbowl History
I did some stats wizardry of my own. (I'll publish the Excel sheet on Google docs once I see if I can put in some head-to-head data.) Since 2012, when ACF Nationals went to a 12-team top bracket, a team's tossup conversion percentage relative to the rest of the top bracket (by standard deviations) ...
- Fri Sep 09, 2016 11:18 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous High School Quizbowl
- Topic: Coach issues
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5481
Re: Coach issues
The problem at our school is that the administration is really attached to him, since the team won the state championship twice when it was on non-pyramidal questions and they think he's a great coach because of that. There's this weird loop where the better we do, the more credit the school gives ...
- Tue Aug 23, 2016 7:26 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Auditions and Tryouts
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1578
Re: Auditions and Tryouts
Auditions are bad unless the demand is so overwhelming that there is no other choice but to do them (see: Arcadia High School having 130+ students try to enter the team every year). There's no point in only restricting quiz bowl to honors students. Anyone and everyone can learn from it, and parents ...
- Wed Aug 03, 2016 10:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Side Event Weekend 2016
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6299
Re: VCU Side Event Weekend 2016
Reminder that BURI will not, in fact, be happening.