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- Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11748
Re: Which Online School are you Going to Next Year? (Collegiate 2020)
starting a PhD in history at Princeton next year; will probably play the occasional set!
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20802
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Those points make sense—I can see how it could be difficult to make the jump from buzzing with a specific speech impediment (even though the clue was describing the category of "residual speech errors" more generally) to a broader categorical answer that itself isn't incredibly well-define...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20802
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I'm also not sure what the best solution is. On one hand, these answer lines do have a sort of unity in the real world: I could easily see a class on, I don't know, sociology of work, assigning both Ehrenreich and Hochschild, and I can see those authors recognizing their respective objects of study...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 20802
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
there was also a corpus linguistics bonus—maybe you didn't hear that?
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12725
Re: ACF Regionals playtesting
hey, can the jason who filled out the doodle poll email me for the IRC info? don't want to invite the wrong person.
- Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12725
Re: ACF Regionals playtesting
I'm hoping to playtest painting, philosophy, and social science on Monday and/or Wednesday evening this coming week, probably in the IRC. If you're interested, fill out this Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/xmewy3iisrqqgwq2 —indicate in the name box if you're only interested in one or two of th...
- Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals playtesting
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12725
Re: ACF Regionals playtesting
I'm hoping to playtest painting, philosophy, and social science on Monday and/or Wednesday evening this coming week, probably in the IRC. If you're interested, fill out this Doodle poll: https://doodle.com/poll/xmewy3iisrqqgwq2 —indicate in the name box if you're only interested in one or two of the...
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 7:30 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8105
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Quinctilius Varus wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 2:24 am
#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #2: Snail Mail - Lush
#1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #2: Pusha-T - Daytona
#1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #7: Lucy Dacus - Historian
#1: Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer vs. #2: Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 11:17 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8105
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #3: Beach House - 7 #1: Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts vs. #5: JPEGMAFIA - Veteran #2: Pusha-T - Daytona vs. #3: Noname - Room 25 #1: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour vs. #4: U.S. Girls - In a Poem Unlimit...
- Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
- Replies: 102
- Views: 8105
Re: Best Albums of 2018 Bracket
Thanks to the 25 people who voted on 130 unique albums! Here are the brackets, which will be closed at the end of Friday. Only brackets with at least half of the options chosen will be counted. I'm willing to provide YouTube links or Spotify playlists to notable songs from the albums if there's suf...
- Thu Aug 02, 2018 1:06 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 26245
Re: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
Of tournaments not yet mentioned, Cane Ridge Revival was an excellent set with innovative and interesting humanities and social science questions (with the caveat that I don't remember the science and wouldn't be able to comment on it even if I could). That more than any other set influenced how I ...
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 3:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17397
Re: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
Just wanted to say that it was a blast to work on this set—I learned a ton from reading the submissions and the other editors' questions. Thanks to everyone who helped out with it, and who came out to play!
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19231
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
This thinker’s major work targets writers who used logical sciences as “evidentiary proof for the truth of their metaphysical sciences” A minor quibble, but I’m not sure it makes sense to call The Incoherence of the Philosophers al-Ghazali’s single “major work.” It’s his best-known work in quizbowl...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 7:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19231
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
It's from the Revival of the Religious Sciences.Tornrak wrote:Could I see the tossup on Al-Ghazali? I’m curious as to where the first sentence is from.
- Wed Oct 04, 2017 8:18 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 458120
- Mon Jun 05, 2017 9:42 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Limits of the "Back to the Classroom" Movement
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12286
Re: Limits of the "Back to the Classroom" Movement
...A fuck-the-classroom approach often leads to tossups that on material that is more obscure and which fewer people in the field have engaged with (e.g., that goofy tossup at ACF Nats on "primal scream therapy"). I'm not familiar with the specific tossup, but I don't think that social sc...
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2016
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6235
Re: Best Albums of 2016
Top 5:
5. Angel Olsen, My Woman
4. Hannah Epperson, Upsweep
3. Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book
2. Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing
1. A Tribe Called Quest, We Got It From Here...
5. Angel Olsen, My Woman
4. Hannah Epperson, Upsweep
3. Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book
2. Frankie Cosmos, Next Thing
1. A Tribe Called Quest, We Got It From Here...
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10511
Re: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
VIICO: Make Heteroglossia Great Againvinteuil wrote:that'll be the all lit crit/art theory/historiography complement to this set, duhhydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:jacob, now we don't have to write VIICO
- Thu Nov 10, 2016 5:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10511
Re: Thought Monstrosity (Summer 2017)
jacob, now we don't have to write VIICO
- Thu Oct 13, 2016 6:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Let's Predict Who Wins the 2016 Literature Nobel!!!!
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3724
Re: Let's Predict Who Wins the 2016 Literature Nobel!!!!
I've been reading Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles: Volume 1 , over the past few weeks, and it's really an amazing book Seconding this—it's one of my favorites. I think Dylan's work since the turn of the millennium has been some of his most interesting (and "literary") in terms of its ex...
- Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 MYSTERIUM General Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7204
Re: 2016 MYSTERIUM General Discussion
I thought this set was excellent—the history was especially superb, and aside from the aforementioned issues with the econ questions, the social science/thought was great. Thanks for writing it!
- Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8516
- Wed Jan 06, 2016 9:06 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8516
Re: Best Albums of 2015
sameHabitat_Against_Humanity wrote:To lazy to post thoughts; this is the correct ballot.gyre and gimble wrote:To Pimp a Butterfly (To me, musicals are only artistic insofar as they are musicals--a musical soundtrack on its own is just a gimmick.)
Carrie and Lowell
- Sun Jan 03, 2016 1:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8516
Re: Best Albums of 2015
TPAB
In Colour
Sometimes I Sit
Art Angels
In Colour
Sometimes I Sit
Art Angels
- Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement: "stanford housewrite"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20222
Re: Announcement: "stanford housewrite"
From emails I got back in November, it seems like a bunch of schools in the Northeast (including Harvard) have already declined to host a physical mirror. So, if one of those schools—or another in the Northeast—decided that they'd be fine with hosting, would Stanford still be okay with that?
- Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8516
Re: Best Albums of 2015
MALIK SECTIONAL #1 To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar) vs. #4 If You're Reading This, It's Too Late (Drake) #2 AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP (A$AP Rocky) vs. #3 Summertime '06 (Vince Staples) HORAN SECTIONAL #1 25 (Adele) vs. #4 In Colour (Jamie XX) #2 Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) vs. #3 Emotion (Carly-Rae Je...
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Albums of 2015
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8516
Re: Best Albums of 2015
Malik To Pimp a Butterfly . Compton Summertime '06 —this is one of the best hip-hop albums released in the past few years; I like it almost as much as TPAB. If You're Reading This It's Too Late — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79AR0VC5wCA&t=1m47s Horan Purpose , because Adele is actively a negat...
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21571
Re: IRC Festivus 2015: Rex Ryan's Revenge
I have a themed packet of music tossups that's been sitting on my computer for a while, so I guess I can read that.
- Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Science Bowl
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5215
Re: Science Bowl
I also still stand by what I wrote in that thread—if you're interested in science, taking AP science courses, and can bring yourself to overlook the stupid format quirks, Science Bowl is an intellectually rewarding activity. I'd encourage you to give it a try!
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:29 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 458120
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
This happened. Eric scored a lot of points. I'll try to get the set uploaded to the archive within the next week.hydrocephalitic listlessness wrote:I don't think any of the mirrors got to them, so I'll be reading the final two packets of VICO tonight at 10pm ET in #vico.
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 8:30 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 458120
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I don't think any of the mirrors got to them, so I'll be reading the final two packets of VICO tonight at 10pm ET in #vico, minus the questions Jacob talked about in the discussion forum. I'll read some of my favorite questions from the set afterwards if anyone who didn't get to play the set/read it...
- Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4757
Re: VICO Thanks and Discussion
My one complaint is that the first two sentences of the Lyanna Stark tossup aren't actually about Lyanna Stark, but different people, and then the third sentence opens with something like "one theory about this person uses a blue rose..." which was where I buzzed with "Jon Snow"...
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17111
Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
There will be an online mirror of VICO after the online mirror of SHEIKH. Signup information available in the SHEIKH online thread: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=17553
- Tue Aug 11, 2015 4:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SHEIKH and VICO Online (August 29th)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14026
Re: SHEIKH Online (Mid to Late August)
There will be an online mirror of VICO in tandem with this. You can sign up for it in the second tab of the SHEIKH spreadsheet. It'll be $5/player, and team size will depend on staffing availability.
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4757
Re: VICO Thanks and Discussion
Given this tournament's success, I'm thinking of writing a set on the model of this one (except with a slightly different distribution and a good bit lower difficulty) to be played as a side event at the open tournament Stanford is writing for next year. Also, I hope this happens! One piece of advi...
- Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4757
Re: VICO Thanks and Discussion
There were also some goofy ideas, like calling Prince Charles a thinker... Those clues were intended to be a little whimsical, but not totally illegitimate—if I remember correctly, Terry Eagleton actually reviewed "Harmony" when it came out (not that he had anything nice to say about it, ...
- Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17111
Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
A private discussion forum for VICO has been set up!
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Harvard summer practices
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4826
Re: Harvard summer practices
Happening at WHRB tonight at the usual time!
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Opinions on "Ladder" Room Format
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2298
Re: Opinions on "Ladder" Room Format
Leaving aside whether it's the best format for determining the best literature player (it seemed to do a decent enough job of that), I think, for a couple of reasons, it results in a significantly less fun playing experience than the traditional format. (Apologies if I'm repeating criticisms of las...
- Thu Jul 23, 2015 10:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RILKE Discussion
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7678
Re: RILKE Discussion
I enjoyed the set on the whole! My main criticism of the question content is that some of the "canon expansion" resulted in pretty steep pyramids—the set hasn't been released yet, so I can't point to any specific examples, but there seemed to be several instances of new-to-quizbowl/"e...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 8:00 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 458120
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Yeah, I know this is a year late, but playing this head-to-head against my brother was probably one of the most enjoyable competitive experiences I've ever had. I think we actually tied (we wouldn't have if my mom wouldn't have butted in to get a good "Tapestry" buzz). If only I could pla...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 20057
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
The flip-side of the submissions was that, in about half the cases, they were just too damn hard. There were things like the mentioned-by-me-in-another-thread tossup on "The Main Currents of Marxism." Am I the only one who thinks "Kolakowski" is actually a tougher answerline? I ...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open History discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 12989
Re: Chicago Open History discussion
I wrote that question, and it never occurred to me to put that alternate answerline in--as (other) Will said above, that's how I've seen most "this election" questions labeled. I would've accepted Mike's answer because it's unique, but I'm not a huge fan of the alternate answerline acrobat...
- Mon Jul 20, 2015 6:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 CO Visual Arts
- Replies: 131
- Views: 73579
Re: 2015 CO Visual Arts
This tournament was fantastic. As others have said, it should definitely be used as a guide by future open side event writers. More specifically, I'd say that it also can and should be a model for how to write questions on modern and contemporary art, even at lower difficulties. For example, I reall...
- Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17111
Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
I'll be playtesting some questions today from 6-8pm—PM or email me if you want to do that and haven't already let me know.
- Wed Jul 08, 2015 4:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
- Replies: 28
- Views: 17111
Re: VICO: Very Intense Conceptual Open/The New SCIENCE
Update: This tournament is going to have eight rounds, and is a little over two-thirds written. Jacob and I would like to playtest some/all of the written questions soon, so if you're not planning to play the set this summer and are interested in doing that, shoot me a PM/email.
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) 2015-16
- Replies: 37
- Views: 25475
Re: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) 2015-16
Harvard would like November 14 for HFT.
- Thu May 28, 2015 5:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
- Replies: 53
- Views: 72584
Re: VCU Open 2015 - August 8th
I'd play this as well.
- Wed May 27, 2015 7:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Harvard Fall Tournament IX Available For Mirrors
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10030
Re: Harvard Fall Tournament IX Available For Mirrors
I'd upload it, but I don't have the finalized version of the set. Stephen probably does, though!
- Tue May 26, 2015 4:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
- Replies: 95
- Views: 54444
Re: RILKE: Chicago Open Literature Singles 2015
I'm playing for sure!