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- Mon May 29, 2023 12:46 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9246
Re: Greatest High School Quiz Bowl Players Ever
Sam Blizzard was a great solo player but i think at the time Max Schindler was the person to beat - he just had a really strong team behind him as well. Sameer Rai had an unbelievable amount of hype attached to him at the time as well.
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: BHSU at Yale (04/08/2023)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3642
Re: BHSU at Yale (04/08/2023)
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Ill be your 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, whatever works.
Really would love to play!!
- Tue Oct 26, 2021 2:09 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: What is the remit of the misconduct organization?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5585
Re: What is the remit of the misconduct organization?
Overreport clearly implies sending in information that the group themselves have decided are outside the scope of the form. A clear misreading by Naveed.
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:49 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Holy Smokes, It's Nobel in Literature Speculation Time!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 971
Re: Holy Smokes, It's Nobel in Literature Speculation Time!
LKJ is great. He just received an honorary doctorate from the UWI, Mona. Knowing a bit about him, I think that's a greater honor than a Nobel.
Wilson Harris, who is now dead, would have been a good candidate. I dont see the academy giving it to Jamaica Kincaid. (Or Merle Collins or Dionne Brand).
Wilson Harris, who is now dead, would have been a good candidate. I dont see the academy giving it to Jamaica Kincaid. (Or Merle Collins or Dionne Brand).
- Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18620
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
Riding a bus on a muggy morning. I'd love to just walk around in the woods today but i'll be in Evanston instead. By the time I get to Evanston, she'll be....
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18620
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
Eating a momo...yearning (i wish my girl could have came)....waiting around in the cavernous and gauche Laguardia terminal....reading Mariarosa Dalla Costa...drinking ginger ale (only thing i drink on planes). Sitting in the blue...line Watching all the people I'll feel much better on the other side...
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18620
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
The game is played on terrain.
The one who controls the terrain, controls the game.
So at CO, who will stand taller
Than the one wearing a green collar
And holds three letters (i,K,D) to his name
The one who controls the terrain, controls the game.
So at CO, who will stand taller
Than the one wearing a green collar
And holds three letters (i,K,D) to his name
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18620
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
Rewrite the book and rule the pagesSardorbek Eminov wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:37 am Doug, as we drive over the Cuyahoga River: “hey let’s throw a match into it!”
Saving face, secured in faith
Bury, burn the waste behind you
- Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18620
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
Sink water down there hits different, can confirm
- Tue Aug 17, 2021 11:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18620
WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING! Evanston! With a pocket for my oatmeal and a pocket for my salt, I will be travelling from scenic LaGuardia airport to my friend Naftali's apartment in Logan Square this Friday night. Like Darby Allin, I want to face the "Best in the World," and I know that Chi...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bluegrass Music Bracket Interest Check
- Replies: 6
- Views: 804
Re: Bluegrass Music Bracket Interest Check
I'm considering running a bluegrass bracket starting probably around June and am wondering if people would actually be interested in such a thing. I plan on running the gauntlet all the way from the old days of Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers to about the year 2000, with a few exceptions. I am...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 10:46 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The World As It Is - Winter 2021
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8425
Re: The World As It Is - Winter 2021
I am a FREE AGENT for this tournament. I know much of this world.
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 11:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Let's All Be Wrong about the Nobel in Literature!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1372
Re: Let's All Be Wrong about the Nobel in Literature!
Louise Glück - advisor to quizbowl star Laurence Li!
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 1:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Rhododendron Bowl ("Canceled" - Folded into Qblitz Rookie Challenges)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1370
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:13 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Men of Quizbowl, We Should Talk.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16529
Re: Men of Quizbowl, We Should Talk.
What I most want to highlight here is this, men in quiz bowl need to be willing to lose face and to lose standing in our personal relationships to make quiz bowl a more open and accepting place. Until that is more widely accepted and practiced, it is going to be hard to make meaningful change, beca...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:50 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353174
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - THE FINALS!
BORN TO RUN!!!
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:11 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353174
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Sweet Sixteen!
--I was sorely tempted to pick a Fleetwood Mac song I think is like the fifth best on its album, but the mystique (some might say overrated status) of "Stairway" makes it win for me. Hey, did I tell y'all that I had a neighbor who was a Seventh Day Adventist who told me about backward mas...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353174
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Sweet Sixteen!
Psycho Killer vs. Ohio - Ohio is of the 70s . Raw, sharp, guitar that gets you. Talking heads had nowhere to go but up from Psycho Killer Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Wish You Were Here . Wish You Were Here has the groove and the groove is soverign. Stairway to Heaven vs. The Chain . To quote another ...
- Fri May 08, 2020 4:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 17418
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
Knowing several players on both teams, I feel like I am well prepared to write one of my universally well-received Teddy Atlas style "tale of the tapes" for this, complete with notes on the producers of questions, the strategic styles of the teams, the "x-factor" of Jacob Reed's ...
- Thu May 07, 2020 10:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353174
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Live and Let Die vs. The Gambler - While I don't enjoy either of these songs, The Gambler most resembles a song I would enjoy. Kenny Rogers has that storytelling style and has a solid studio backing, but man's stories are banal. Live and Let Die - what's up with the production here, everything sunds...
- Tue May 05, 2020 6:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353174
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
I inherited my distaste from my mom, who always got pissed at parishoners for suggesting they sing "Imagine" at church.
- Mon May 04, 2020 12:31 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket - Born to Run wins!
- Replies: 788
- Views: 1353174
Re: Best Song of the 1970s Bracket
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) vs. I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home) - Long Cool Woman is clearly the better song, but listening to Grand Funk reminds me of hanging out with my good friend Louie Chaverini. And sometimes you just have to surrender to the twang. No Woman No Cry vs. Fly Like an Eag...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 5:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1606
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
3/62: Thermidor v Self-Existing - Thermidior honors wonderful plants - Gentians, Carline Thistles, Ryegrass, Horsetails, and Lentils. 30/35: Pédale v Frederick - LMAO at quizbowlers supporting positivism. Meanwhile, I rely on my bike to safely transport myself from work site to work site. 19/46: Abs...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular 1" quadrant
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1734
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular 1" quadrant
1/64: June v Sip - Memories of June in the mountains...mmmm 32/33: Qiyue v Kisaragi 17/48: December v Eryue - December was always stressful in my family because my mom (a minister) absolutely hates christmas. 16/49: Kartika v Sotz' "Dusk! with a creepy, tingling sensation, you hear the flutteri...
- Sun Mar 29, 2020 7:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "religious" play-in round
- Replies: 15
- Views: 979
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "religious" play-in round
45 seed: Daθušō v Āθrō - burning and unburning fire - in my belly right now! 51 seed: Xšaθrahe Vairyehe v Amərətātō 62 seed: Elul v Tammuz - it's inconcievable that people would pick Tammuz over Elul to me! Saying Selichot, drawing closer to Elohim, the laconic nights of late summer, Rose Schneiderm...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1324
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular" play-in round
voted for Xul because i'm scared of dogs
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1102
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "modern reform" play-in round
I was born in White Overtone WorldBridger Green Central Castle of Enchantment Earth family- Cardinal Clan- Blood I empower in order to equalize Commanding opportunity I seal the store of death With the overtone tone of radiance I am guided by the power of timelessness I started seeing my girlfriend ...
- Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:47 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Notable Buzzers
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20763
Re: Notable Buzzers
My old QB coach and MD alum Casey Reterer told me a story of once leaving THE JUDGE in a classroom overnight and coming back to discover that the university had called the bomb squad, which drilled a hole clean through it.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stamina during Nationals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4535
Re: Stamina during Nationals
Go for runs (or the gym) during the lunch break! There's a small park in Rosemont that's got a nice little path.
- Sun Dec 01, 2019 10:53 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Current Events
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5477
Re: Studying Current Events
Without a doubt, the single best way to get points in "Current Events" is to do some deep dives into political histories of most countries. This is something that Wikipedia can do yes, but you are going to have to ask yourself if that's the way you learn things. I am a partisan of working ...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11088
Re: No prizes is better than insulting prizes
I'll also add that we have always provided lunch at every tournament we have hosted - even taco bars - so if you are going to complain about prizes please consider folks who provide lunch too - this is often a major cost that I rarely see when I travel to other tournaments. I can't speak for anybod...
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14512
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
Wish I could have played the whole tournament, but was cutting down forsythia in Inwood.
Reel Knowledge was a lot of fun - much respect to the hosts - they kept it moving quite quickly for a side event.
Reel Knowledge was a lot of fun - much respect to the hosts - they kept it moving quite quickly for a side event.
- Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Films films films
- Replies: 2
- Views: 520
Re: Films films films
Absolutely love the Before series... Funny Ha Ha (and all of Andrew Bujalski's following films) definitely fits in. Lovely movie, very ambling. On Amazon Prime, I believe. Additionally - Miami Vice (2006) - cool cool cool breeze, fast boats, Audioslave, early mornings Chan is Missing Rebels of the N...
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
- Replies: 59
- Views: 21244
Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Can I suggest censoring the names of the location of this event? Just for extra security...
- Sat May 25, 2019 12:01 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSNCT Havdallah
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4700
HSNCT Havdallah
Would anyone - Jews/gentiles alike - want to do havdallah Saturday night at HSNCT???
- Wed May 08, 2019 12:16 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16495
Re: NAQT, Outreach, and Social Media
I think the "play-along" aspect of Finals is something that a) is fun and participatory from afar and b) has been very hard to capture outside of a live setting. I'm talkin' bout when the whole audience is whispering to each other before, after, and during the buzzes. ("would you have...
- Mon Apr 22, 2019 1:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How to build "stamina"
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15455
Re: How to build "stamina"
physical activity such as push-ups, core exercises, and runs during lunch break will do you just fine.
- Sat Dec 29, 2018 11:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bardbowl II @ Bard Manhattan, New York, NY (1/5/19) [NAQT IS-181]
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6692
Re: Bardbowl II @ Bard Manhattan, New York, NY (1/5/19) [NAQT IS-181]
I signed up to moderate, is there some kind of confirmation that y'all got it?
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- Sat Sep 29, 2018 3:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: How Much Do You Study?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8684
Re: How Much Do You Study?
One thing I might recommend is always trying to be what I'll call "intellectually curious." If you've got a few minutes, read some online articles on topics you don't know much about (or even just Wikipedia summaries). My analogy for this is the "doctor's office"--whenever I end...
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 2:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: META - Summer 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7526
Re: META - Summer 2019
Where's the ethnography?
- Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30736
Re: Boston Summer Open I
The Dunkin Donuts Cambridge Open sponsored by Store 24 and presented by Feral Isaac ![Twisted Evil :twisted:](./images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif)
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- Sat May 26, 2018 10:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Boston Summer Open I
- Replies: 59
- Views: 30736
Re: Boston Summer Open I
I'm working in the White Mountains this summer, so I should be able to come down (perhaps with my better half as well
).
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- Mon May 07, 2018 6:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41552
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
Finally, justice.
- Sat May 05, 2018 11:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8395
Re: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Is there an ETA on the recordings of the final?
- Tue Apr 24, 2018 1:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41552
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
I do think that it overranks Isaac (sorry Isaac) for his NAQT ability, at the expense of players like Kenji and Caleb who are much stronger ACF players (remember, ACF is the dominant format, even if ICT is one of the two nationals). It does not overrank me, if anything it underranks me. I'm probabl...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 41552
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
Kenji is really, really good, and probably the only active player who had my number at NAQT.
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The end of the match
- Replies: 26
- Views: 14356
Re: The end of the match
Is this how Dees thinks quizbowl games end?
- Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Steven Pinker's Font Size Fun Time Nationals Barrel
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2473
Re: Steven Pinker's Font Size Fun Time Nationals Barrel
On the couch of my aunt, I'm thinking about the many mysteries of ACF Nationals this year: WHO is responsible for the "mysterious" closure of the T and was Charlie still on? WHAT FORCE gave Penn a flat right outside of WWE World Headquarters and Joe Nutter's old stomping grounds? WHY was t...
- Wed Apr 18, 2018 2:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 8395
Re: 2018 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Crows and Blackbirds are different
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:32 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Steven Pinker's Font Size Fun Time Nationals Barrel
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2473
Re: Steven Pinker's Font Size Fun Time Nationals Barrel
I have to condition for a trail crew job, so you better believe Quizbowl crunches are back. can you please do this on jacob reed's desk when we play you thanks I did these before almost every round. Also, I went for a run during lunch and saw so many deer. They were used to humans, so they didn't s...