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- Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7540
Re: Online Quiz Bowl Can Be Improved
Using Discord text chat to buzz is another aspect of online tournaments that I think can be improved. Third-party buzzer apps make it easier on moderators and makes it less likely for buzzes to get mixed up or unnoticed by the moderator. The two that I’ve used that work are buzzin.live and gamenigh...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 6:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Submission discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10491
Re: Packet Submission discussion
Maybe I'm a confused old man, but why is this such a theoretical discussion? Has packet submission not been dying for close to a decade? If reducing packet submission has deleterious effects on player and writer development, should we not be seeing some consequences by now? Instead it seems that ap...
- Sat Aug 08, 2020 2:19 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT rules changes for 2020-2021
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2386
Re: NAQT rules changes for 2020-2021
Read a replacement from the end of the packet. Instead of doing this, can we please finally have the option to request printed editions that excise comp math already? I know that NAQT can and does print custom editions of its sets for local circuits to use according to their specifications, and the...
- Sat Jun 27, 2020 10:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33482
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
The fact that some features on Zoom require a premium / academic account is not ideal. Our bracket got a late start because I think the person who created the initial meeting didn't have permissions to create breakout rooms. Yes, a lot of people playing are going to have academic Zoom accounts. But...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Quizbowl Monopolization and its Problems
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5752
Re: Quizbowl Monopolization and its Problems
As far as I know, NAQT has not made any clear statement about whether or not its questions can be used in an online tournament over Zoom or Discord for next year We have not yet reached a decision about this issue (but we are having internal discussion about possibilities for online hosting). A lot...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5462
Re: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT
The front page of Buzzword has the film sample listed as "Play Level C (hardest) Sample Game."
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: National Charity QB Tournament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5352
Re: National Charity QB Tournament
This is going to be a High School Tournament, which is why we're using an International-Style Set. We're currently working out the logistics, but anyone High School and under is welcome to join. What’s an “International-Style Set”? Do you mean your set is going to be in the style of an NAQT Invitat...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
- Replies: 35
- Views: 17954
Re: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
Also, regarding "general knowledge" -- this definitely is important and can be used very well in themed bonuses, particularly. I remember one of the earliest bonuses I wrote for an elementary set involved question on apples in various contexts. I've also written questions where the answer...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
- Replies: 35
- Views: 17954
Re: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gift of the Magi I'm trying to avoid answers like these. It's true that some 6th graders can get those, but that's not who this set is for. Those answers will go dead too often if they are asked to novice middle schoolers. I wouldn't even toss up Orwell. I still ...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 4:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
- Replies: 35
- Views: 17954
Re: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
What would people think about the creation of a "starter set" that would be: -basically 3-5 packets at most, perhaps only 1-2 -be specifically targeted to teach new players how to play and to see if they like quizbowl -would feature extremely easy, short questions Such a set, in my opinio...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:37 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Joint Quizbowl Project
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9021
Re: Joint Quizbowl Project
3. An implementation of Ophir's "jumping between tossups and bonuses with the stroke of a single key" outside the context of advanced stats. I am guessing this should be fairly straightforward, though I could be wrong. You can split the window into two, depending on your viewer. You can d...
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 12:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Joint Quizbowl Project
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9021
Re: Joint Quizbowl Project
(He hasn't posted on the forums since 2010, but we olds remember him.) He staffed the last Cal Cup tournament 2 weeks ago! In any case, here are a couple more (small-scale) projects to toss onto the pile: 7. A standardized email outreach template for regional circuits along the lines of what Chiego...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Joint Quizbowl Project
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9021
Re: Joint Quizbowl Project
Can we throw out ideas without committing to working on them? There are several projects that I think the quiz bowl community could really use but that I personally don't necessarily have the time to commit to: 1. Incomplete quiz bowl answerlines (failing to include the entire names of countries and...
- Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Basic Steps Towards Quizbowl Professionalization for Tournaments: Cut the Acronyms and Pseudonyms
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4813
Re: Basic Steps Towards Quizbowl Professionalization for Tournaments: Cut the Acronyms and Pseudonyms
Something that’s been nagging at me more and more (and certainly something I’m very guilty of) is that the forums are a great clearinghouse for tournament announcements for the community at large, but they should not constitute the main interface of interaction between us and the external tournament...
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 1:51 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: PACE Outreach--Mentors and Newsletter
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2016
Re: PACE Outreach--Mentors and Newsletter
The newsletter looks excellent—it is good at the message it conveys. A couple more things I would do are to plug Quizbowl 101 harder so teams visit the PACE website and see the other introductory resources. I’d also put a couple examples of a super basic tossup and bonus so administrators don’t have...
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9555
Re: Cross-Post: NAQT Timing Discussion
As someone who’s moderated 1000+ official tournament qb/HB matches in the last 10 years, I wholeheartedly support this change. It feels weird and alien to switch to NAQT timing when I staff SCT/MSNCT/HSNCT, and anecdotally it seems to adversely impact the players who use less binary association-base...
- Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:19 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: IQBT Looking for Host for 2020 NASAT Main Site
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7998
- Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: "Should have been prompted" replacement policy
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6047
Re: "Should have been prompted" replacement policy
Since this is an issue that should ideally be covered by the same ruleset from SAGES all the way up to Arrabal, it doesn’t make much sense for us to only talk about the experiences of good teams at high level collegiate tournaments. At local tournaments with inexperienced moderators and newer teams,...
- Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: To NAQT: Ask Ken Jennings to Promote Pyramidal Quiz Bowl on Twitter ASAP
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2802
To NAQT: Ask Ken Jennings to Promote Pyramidal Quiz Bowl on Twitter ASAP
The primetime Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time Tournament is receiving higher ratings than Game 1 of last year's NBA Finals and World Series . There seem to be more eyeballs on J! than at any other point in history, and we can anticipate a tremendous number for today, in which Ken Jennings may very w...
- Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:39 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Qwiz5 Quizbowl Essentials Resource Thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9096
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: College area archives
- Topic: Abolish packet submission for ACF Fall
- Replies: 29
- Views: 8580
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...
- Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - Specific Question Discussion Thread
- Replies: 60
- Views: 10410
Re: Specific Question Discussion Thread
I, and many other qbers, hate the word polity. Was there no way to write the Qin tossup with a different pronoun? It's a legitimate word, and while there's a reason to hate its prior overuse in qb, there's no particular reason to hate the word (same thing with "titular," actually). Nevert...
- Mon Oct 28, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Penn Bowl - General Discussion Thread
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3665
Re: General Discussion Thread
I also think that the Qin dynasty being classified as social science really weird - it seemed like a rather regular archaeology question, which I think both fits well in history and doesn't crowd out an already crowded part of the distro that soc sci is. Archaeology in this tournament ended up bein...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Rethinking Middle School/Novice Difficulty
- Replies: 35
- Views: 17954
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: 11159
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: College area archives
- Topic: RULFO at PACE NSC
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11085
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: College area archives
- Topic: Mons Mathstrosity: A Packet of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5600
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: College area archives
- Topic: Geography Monstrosity 2019
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2395
Re: Geography Monstrosity 2019
We’re in M103.
- Fri May 03, 2019 6:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl (8/10-11)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9419
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: College area archives
- Topic: California Summer Weekend o' Quizbowl (8/10-11)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9419
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: California Summer Open(s)?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9693
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: High school area archives
- Topic: Ken Jennings Slate article on quizbowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7724
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: High school area archives
- Topic: Ken Jennings Slate article on quizbowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7724
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: 25390
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: High school area archives
- Topic: Help Me Justify a Quizbowl Class?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3562
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: High school area archives
- Topic: Washington DC televised quiz bowl
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2948
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: High school area archives
- Topic: Outreach Advice Wanted
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3533
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: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 47581
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: High school area archives
- Topic: Students as tournament directors?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3397
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: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 NASAT: June 22 & 23
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14707
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: 15
- Views: 13157
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: 10763
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: High school area archives
- Topic: My Health
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8095
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: 5607
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: College area archives
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 111130
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: College area archives
- Topic: Question Security and You
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2547
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: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 62940
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: College area archives
- Topic: Historature 2018: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5252
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 th...
- Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: "I'm sorry, I can't accept that."
- Replies: 12
- Views: 10826
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 "oto...
- 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: 60927
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...