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- Sat Jan 02, 2021 5:50 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1590
Re: John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
Sorry for the late reply. I'm not on here too much. Without meaning to speak for Peter, I'd say that I'd be super bummed if we didn't get to do an an-person thing. I like quiz bowlers and quiz bowl environment more than I like rote trivial, honestly. (I say after 3 hours of Sporcle.) I'm personally ...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:15 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1590
Re: John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
For whoever might care, this set just needs packetizing and it's good to go for mirrors or whatever else someone might need it for. It's pretty clearly not happening at the main site as long as Florida remains a hotbed in the middle of a deadly pandemic, but if anyone has other, safer uses for it, w...
- Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SuMO VI General Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2280
Re: SuMO VI General Announcement
Hey Nick!
None of our writers have ever done that before, so I don't know if it ever crossed our minds honestly. I'll talk to the others, but I don't think that there's a plan for that right now.
None of our writers have ever done that before, so I don't know if it ever crossed our minds honestly. I'll talk to the others, but I don't think that there's a plan for that right now.
- Tue May 19, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SuMO VI General Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2280
Re: SuMO VI General Announcement
While we're obviously very grateful for the international attention we've received, I think our writing staff have elected not to hold a Florida mirror on July 11th. We'll figure out, when it's possible, when this will be, but obviously we can't guess on what any better than you can.
- Tue May 19, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Summer Events?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1776
Re: Summer Events?
the hope is to have an in-person event down here in Florida in the late summer glad to see my fellow Floridians taking the pandemic seriously I floated the idea, once or twice, of running something after 8 weeks of dropping case numbers. And only then. And then, to a lot of pushback. You can apprai...
- Tue May 19, 2020 8:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: What makes a good tiebreaker?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1173
What makes a good tiebreaker?
I didn't know where to put this, so I guess I'll put it here. I was a little surprised that there isn't like a "Writing for people who don't write no good" or "writing theory" subforum but that's life. Can't have an infinite number I guess. I've worked on a few sets over some per...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 8:35 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1590
Re: John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
Because of the COVID crisis, this has been postponed to a later date. It's still mostly done, we'll meet any deadlines we've set for other mirrors so far, but we think it's unwise to run a tournament at that point, and it was probably overly-optimistic to try.
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SuMO VI General Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2280
Re: SuMO VI General Announcement
This semester turned out to be more than we reckoned for, and I think we are sliding back to 12 packets.
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:37 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1590
John Charles Daly III (Postponed)
Hello all! Sorry for the delay in getting this together. I'd explain why but I know you don't actually care about my personal life. Peter Torres and I are mostly done with JCD III. It'll be ready for mirrors in late May if anyone's entrepid enough to run a tournament then. It's going to be pretty si...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:35 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: SuMO VI General Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2280
SuMO VI General Announcement
Hello everyone! This is a general announcement that we are writing SuMO VI. We’re aiming to have it finished by late June. It’ll be put together by Mickey Sizemore, Griffin Thompson, Cody Johansen, Mitch Alday, Daniel Golisch, and myself. This tournament series is Mitch Alday’s baby. Mitch, as I und...
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 4:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall "Gentlemen's Agreements"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4584
Re: ACF Fall "Gentlemen's Agreements"
I don't really know about that. 1) I think that if your circuit wants to have a "gentleman's agreement" rule and the Midwest wants to knock each others' brains out on easy questions, why do you care what they do? That might sound a little bit snarky, but I mean it as a genuine question. Is...
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 5:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SuMO V - Florida Mirror - July 6th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1236
Re: SuMO V - Florida Mirror - July 6th
So, depending on a few people trying to get standby flights, and a few people who aren't responded to texts, we're looking to have either 7 or 8 teams (Or 14-16 pairs). Obviously, we're aiming for 8, because byes are gross. We're looking to kick-off at 9 AM, and we're meeting at HPA 1 107. HPA 1 is ...
- Sat Jun 01, 2019 2:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SuMO V - Florida Mirror - July 6th
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1236
SuMO V - Florida Mirror - July 6th
Hey guys! It's that time of year again. We're holding a site of SuMO in Orlando, at UCF, on July the 6th. It'll be at UCF, we're going to aim to start at 9:30. Like usual for SuMO, you sign up in pairs, and you'll be randomly matched up the night before or the morning of. Pairs are $50 each, but hal...
- Thu May 02, 2019 12:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9349
Re: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll
It might be worth noting that the above criteria would include several people who are not currently going to school, like…Jesse Gingold I sure hope he's enrolled, because he's been playing stuff . Yeah. My post initially said "at a 4 year University" and included Jesse because he normally...
- Wed May 01, 2019 5:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9349
Re: 2019 Florida Circuit Player Poll
Edit: I saw "played two of these tournaments" instead of "Open players are not eligible" and then listed a bunch of ineligible open players. Then I, even more stupidly, included Jesse Gingold, who is most definitely enrolled at Valencia, because I am a moron, which is my primary ...
- Mon Apr 08, 2019 1:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ICT format and seeding discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 30485
Re: The ICT format is awful and unfair (or: why I now play for the "Ann Arbor Campus, University of Michigan")
If NAQT wants to maintain its consistent position that all games are a measure of a team's strength, I think that isn't the most unreasonable decision they could make. Losing to a playoff team in particular should always count against you IMO - it sure does in the top bracket of ACF Nationals! OK, ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 3:03 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19271
Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
Of course, your mileage may vary, but Charlie, I don't think that this thread is painting a really accurate picture of quiz bowl people. Every time I've been to ICT, I've spent time hanging out with Valencia, UF, Toronto, and a lot of other good people that I enjoy seeing. And when we go to places l...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5006
Re: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
UF B appears to have had six wins over non-sandbag teams before the finals. OK, they had 6 wins NCF had 5 UCF C had 4 right? Edit: OK, yes, thanks for the edit, I think I get what you're asking better. It wasn't my decision, I have no idea what was actually happening, but it looks like the TD 1) Di...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5006
Re: ACF Regionals @ UCF (1/26/19)
Looking at the stats posted to the TDB, I cannot make heads or tails of the playoff format, and it looks like some teams played 4 playoff games and others only 2. Can anyone enlighten me? Top bracket teams played 3 games against each other. Bottom bracket teams played 3 against each other. Then the...
- Fri Oct 26, 2018 4:06 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: JCD II Announcement (Moved to December 1st, 2018)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5204
Re: JCD II Announcement (Moved to December 1st, 2018)
Aaron, I'm not sure if most teams are super solidified yet. Or, really, any of them. I do know that Griffin Thompson lost a teammate when the date changed, and I believe that Zach Foster's team only has 3.
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
- Replies: 38
- Views: 30364
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
I'm sort of out of the loop, but did no one in the south east put in a bid except GT? UCF and UF like hosting, and Atlanta is 7 hours away from UCF and from me. And I think that it's farther for NCF.
Well, I guess it sounds like a long day of driving ahead!
Well, I guess it sounds like a long day of driving ahead!
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 7:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cambridge Open @ UCF July 7th,2018
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1649
Re: Cambridge Open @ UCF July 7th,2018
Hello everyone! We finished the set. Most of the games were either won or lost, and tossups were had by all. We had a three way tie for first place that we weren't able to break because of time/logistical reasons. Congrats to Jakob Myers's team (With Leo Law, Peter Torres, and Jakob's dad) for winni...
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 1:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Summer Mixed Open Mirror Tournament in Orlando (6/30)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1256
Summer Mixed Open Mirror Tournament in Orlando (6/30)
Hello everybody! On June 30th, we’ll be mirroring SuMO here in Orlando. Just like the Tennessee site, we’ll be using SSNCT, we’ll be using matched doubles, and there will be a prize pool for teams that do well. To elaborate on the above, you sign up with one other person, making a team of two. The m...
- Fri Jun 01, 2018 5:06 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75656
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
NAQT has a legally binding set of bylaws that each member agrees to and formally signs on to when they accept membership in the company. In order for NAQT to remove a member, we have to follow the established grievance procedure that everyone has agreed to. If we do not do this, it opens our proces...
- Thu May 31, 2018 6:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75656
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Let me clarify that I'm not calling for Matt Bruce to be expelled right away simply because of how damning everything in this thread is. In fact, I'm completely in favor of NAQT going through a formal procedure, especially when allegations are as serious as they are here. However, while NAQT did ev...
- Thu May 31, 2018 4:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75656
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
In this particular case, NAQT has the summer offsesaon to conduct its formal grievance process, but what happens if (God forbid) concerns surface while the circuit is active? I sincerely hope NAQT and other organizations work to establish a more rapid internal process to address concerns about stud...
- Wed May 30, 2018 11:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75656
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Here's a brief overview of how the grievance process specified in NAQT's bylaws works: Step 1: a written grievance is filed against an NAQT member Step 2: the member has the opportunity to respond in writing to the grievance Step 3: a panel of three NAQT members is appointed to produce a written re...
- Wed May 30, 2018 10:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 75656
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
Is there any internal difference between termination of membership and resignation within NAQT? I know that there some sort of profit-sharing given to NAQT members at the end of each year's cycle. Would resignation divest a member? Or does it work like stock in that a resigned member could still pr...
- Tue May 15, 2018 5:45 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 52
- Views: 31876
Re: Players Choice Awards
I'm basically out of the circuit at this point, especially at the national level, so maybe my opinion is worthless. But, if anyone is curious about the South East... 4th scorer of the year, on a national level, has to be Adam Fine, right? But 16 points per game on 2 negs at ICT on the way to a natio...
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
- Replies: 76
- Views: 32221
Re: Player Poll 2018: Delightfully Devilish
OK, hear me out. Timothy Guice.
Like, he may not be a top-25 talent, but think about how much more it would mean for him than for Eric Mukherjee.
Like, he may not be a top-25 talent, but think about how much more it would mean for him than for Eric Mukherjee.
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: NAQT policy about descriptive answer lines and protests
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2106
Re: NAQT policy about descriptive answer lines and protests
After 10 years of quiz bowl, I'm not sure, but I do think that you're not ACF and you don't need to defend them. But what if there's something nutty like the 2016 ACF Regionals answerline where they gave us the excellent "New York City " answerline at first playthrough? I understand that y...
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 6:04 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Postseason poll
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8542
Re: Postseason poll
At the risk of becoming "the person who only goes onto the forums to hype up UF"...
UF should probably be considered closer to their finish at Nats (14th) than ICT (19th) because they were full strength at Nats, not ICT. John L just really isn't the same type of player that Tracy is.
UF should probably be considered closer to their finish at Nats (14th) than ICT (19th) because they were full strength at Nats, not ICT. John L just really isn't the same type of player that Tracy is.
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 8:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals discussion
- Replies: 121
- Views: 50077
Re: ACF Nationals discussion
Basically my only complaint is the Haldane tossup," ... "I personally feel that books written for laypeople should NOT appear in science questions, and especially not *multiple* books Do you mind if I ask if 1) This is just for Nats difficulty, and not across the board? Or is this somethi...
- Sat Mar 31, 2018 8:28 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
- Replies: 50
- Views: 23401
Re: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
I'm inclined to the belief that running a "rogue" tournament against something more established like SCT is its own punishment: people won't go to your event and you will have wasted your time. Further, I refuse to believe that any rogue quizbowl organizations are out there thinking "...
- Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Midseason poll
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10502
Re: Midseason poll
As long as we're promoting teams, I think UF is traditionally underrated because of their circuit. They finished 17th at last year's ICT and they had an unfortunate 3-way-tiebreak with Toronto and Chicago C push them out of second bracket at Nats. And they're returning their three highest scorers an...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 6:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Best Film Player
- Replies: 44
- Views: 23633
Re: Best Film Player
I'm not sure where he stands among the rest of the players already mentioned, but I think Taylor Harvey deserves a shout (yes I'm kind of biased because he's my teammate, but still). He has good coverage between "trash film" and "art film" from my experience being next to him wh...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: ACRONYM 11 @ UMN, again (03.04.18)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7728
Re: ACRONYM 11 @ UMN, again (03.04.18)
2 Tejas Raje A Post-Psychoanalytic Marxist Analysis Of Lil' Yachty's "Peek A Boo" 11.0 38 powers 9 tossups 6 negs Really?? That's a pretty awesome statline. I think that's the highest power % I've ever seen (not counting freshmen going 1/0/0 or something). https://www.naqt.com/stats/tourn...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:42 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: ACRONYM 11 @ UMN, again (03.04.18)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7728
Re: ACRONYM 11 @ UMN, again (03.04.18)
2 Tejas Raje A Post-Psychoanalytic Marxist Analysis Of Lil' Yachty's "Peek A Boo" 11.0 38 powers 9 tossups 6 negs
Really??
That's a pretty awesome statline. I think that's the highest power % I've ever seen (not counting freshmen going 1/0/0 or something).
Really??
That's a pretty awesome statline. I think that's the highest power % I've ever seen (not counting freshmen going 1/0/0 or something).
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:39 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: John Charles Daly Memorial Tournament - Feb 24th, 2018
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10462
Re: John Charles Daly Memorial Tournament - Feb 24th, 2018
I spent a little time playing with the stats from JCD. Most tossups were pretty direct and able to fall into one category. I broke the stats down for the biggest categories so people could have a little fun comparing stats in individual niches. In gaming, we got 1) Harrison Andrew 5/3/1 (100 pts, 13...
- Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:54 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: John Charles Daly Memorial Tournament - Feb 24th, 2018
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10462
Re: John Charles Daly Memorial Tournament - Feb 24th, 2018
Hello Alan!
It'll be at UCF on February 24th.
Having written about a quarter of the set, I'm really excited about this! I hate to spoil the surprise, but maybe more than 80% of the tossups are going to stem from the the hit show Torchwood and the band Die Antwood!
It'll be at UCF on February 24th.
Having written about a quarter of the set, I'm really excited about this! I hate to spoil the surprise, but maybe more than 80% of the tossups are going to stem from the the hit show Torchwood and the band Die Antwood!
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Managing Tournament Staff
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8574
Re: Managing Tournament Staff
No offense intended! Lunch-gate was at UCF, and I'm sure you've been doing that since before Virginia. I just would have never figured it out if someone didn't point it out to me.
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Managing Tournament Staff
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8574
Re: Managing Tournament Staff
UCF and Valencia both have irritating set-ups where Valencia gets rooms in an adjacent building, and UCF will gets rooms spread out over four floors. I have no idea if this is relatable to anyone else, but this was God-send to me. As per Virginia Ruiz, who was something of a moderator whisperer, kee...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 2:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 25117
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
Edit: I don't know how to read and I'm sorry
- Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:58 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: we should be doing religion better
- Replies: 26
- Views: 10225
Re: we should be doing religion better
OK, so I've had a few beers, I've been watching TV, and I have a short attention span. So help me out, here. Are we saying 1) The difference between myth and religion is that religion tossups are usually about the religious source material and that a tossup about Jesus walking on water is myth? 2) H...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 11:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10580
Re: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
That did happen. I'm grateful to everyone who put time, energy, and effort into making quiz bowl happen. After all, I didn't do it. But between that and (IIRC) a few occasions where the answer was given away in the bonus ("this logician..." logic is an answer to the middle part, "this...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NASAT Weekend at Valencia College (August 19th)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15062
Re: NASAT Weekend at Valencia College (August 19th)
Billy, that's a good point I would have never thought about. Though I suspect that as long as the other team wasn't Chris, I think most people would just agree to have Chris resolve it. Either way, it's a moot point now, but if someone around here plays and TD's again, it might be better to reason t...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NASAT Weekend at Valencia College (August 19th)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 15062
Re: NASAT Weekend at Valencia College (August 19th)
The southeast has always worked on an honor system of sorts before, like all of the other circuits I'm sure. UCF had paper packets for the 2012 DII SCT and Mickey and Chas had extremely close ties to one of Valencia's players, and Valencia and that player didn't do any better than D values and previ...
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 5:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT general discussion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3892
Re: 2017 ICT general discussion
First off, I had a ton of fun, and I appreciate all of the effort and love that goes into a set like this. There were several answerlines that really popped out at me as creative and interesting. My teammates loved the common link Michael Scott tossup, the Florida circuit at large really liked the H...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
- Replies: 131
- Views: 48261
Re: SCT, autobids, and ICT size discussion
People will always game a system that leaves itself open to being gamed. I don't think I necessarily agree. If you're right, shouldn't we be seeing teams lined up to be doing that? Off the top of my head, I can think of Waterloo, Columbia, St. Charles CC, Sergeant Reynolds, and Minnesota CTC who ha...
- Tue Jan 24, 2017 8:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: What keeps you doing quizbowl?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12758
Re: Quizbowl?
1. What keeps you doing quizbowl? Rather, what keeps you going, even in the face, say, getting slaughtered in a game? I keep doing quizbowl the same reason I started doing quizbowl: I love the competition and learning random knowledge. But I also keep doing quizbowl because of all the people I've m...