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- Thu Nov 15, 2018 2:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15475
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
As an update, which is far too late (and was entirely my fault for not announcing earlier), we cut down Philosophy by 4/4 in this tournament (total of 11/11 across the 15 packets of pure philosophy), with the intention of making up somewhat for it in other clue space. To briefly summarize from the p...
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 11:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15475
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
The private discussion forum is up--apply to join under Usergroups in the User Control Panel ("2018 Sun God"). Feel free to join and post your thoughts, comments, and concerns about the set!
- Sun Sep 02, 2018 4:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15475
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
UCSD and Berkeley, which both have representative editors on this set, are in the process of figuring something out for their respective sides of the state--no confirmed dates yet, however (most schools in California inc. UCSD haven't started yet and Berkeley has run into some other scheduling issue...
- Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15475
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regu
Updated the announcement post with a current list of hosts; reminder to prospective hosts to contact me as soon as possible about potential/concrete bids so we can sort out a slate of mirror sites!
- Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sun God Invitational Playtest Mirror (9/29/2018)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9610
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 1:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Preseason poll 2018–19
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15223
Re: Preseason poll 2018–19
I could see also UCSD being good this year. Working on a tournament, and sort of knocking on the door last year. UCSD loses Parikshit Chauhan and myself from our ICT/Nats roster this year, but they do gain in youthful vibrancy and exuberance as a result and also they're getting Alistair from Homest...
- Sat Jul 21, 2018 12:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15475
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regu
A couple of updates: 1) We will be making a detailed stats platform (buzzermetrics/buzzpoint data/detailed conversion stats etc) available to hosts for our questions. As such, we are seeking bids from hosts that can guarantee internet access for moderators to use online scoresheets and train moderat...
- Tue Jul 10, 2018 1:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Words and Objects
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7205
Re: Words and Objects
Rahul just read the questions at a UCSD practice—it was a great set, especially once you fully adopt the mental gymnastics mindset of the answer lines! I highly reccomend it! Stats: (5 rounds) Will Alston - 13/23/12 - 365 Jason Cheng- 11/13/7 - 280 (Heard all 6 rounds) Daniel Chung- 4/9/3 - 135 Bran...
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:49 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
- Replies: 50
- Views: 23140
Re: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
Isn't "not enough tournaments" equally an issue which more organization could solve? From what I can tell, the diminishing amount of regular tournaments come from a mix of announced tournaments disappearing, older writers/editors dialing back their commitments, and a lack of support and c...
- Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: Scheduling reform
- Topic: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
- Replies: 50
- Views: 23140
Re: Quizbowl Needs a Scheduling Committee
Are there really enough tournaments where having to pick out scheduling slots is a necessity? It felt like this year was missing a tournament or two. There are certainly few enough tournaments every year that, say, people thinking about hosting in SoCal can just talk to the other clubs in the region...
- Mon Feb 12, 2018 12:23 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
- Replies: 64
- Views: 34642
Re: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
This is a non-obvious one of which I’m a huge offender: it’s extremely demoralizing to other players in the room (at practice, in tournaments, on your team, on the opposing team) when you consistently buzz on something before anyone else does and proceed to say something like “Wow what a bad buzz” o...
- Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:18 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs packets, recordings, and detailed stats survey
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18435
Re: Packets, recordings, and detailed stats warm-up survey
EDIT: This also seems to me to be further reinforcement of the "negs are really bad" theory of quizbowl. Obviously it's hard to quantify aggression unless we are able to quantify player certainty about an answer (no way in hell for now) but if three fewer negs per tournament makes that bi...
- Sun Jan 21, 2018 5:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals @ UCSD (1/20/18)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3952
- Wed Dec 06, 2017 4:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PB 2017: General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3161
Re: PB 2017: General Discussion
Will's comments about literature got to the heart of what bugged me about this set when I played it about a month ago--much of the cluing/answer line selection (esp. in bonuses) actively excludes people who don't play a lot of quiz bowl, except at the regular difficulty level, which is the absolute ...
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15475
Re: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regu
The tournament will probably be ready by early fall, but we’ll let it be mirrored for as long as demand exists until, say, early winter 2019 We’ll have a firm date for the online open mirror (which will precede all physical mirrors) at some point further along the production timelin, likely at the e...
- Wed Nov 29, 2017 12:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15475
2018 Sun God Invitational Announcement (Fall 2018) [Regular]
This is the global announcement for Sun God Invitational , a regular difficulty tournament set to be mirrored in Fall 2018. We will be aiming for the controlled end of ACF Regionals/something like Terrapin 2016, with an overarching goal to make questions as accessible as reasonably possible. The tou...
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 2:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7922
Re: PB 2017: Specific Questions Discussion
Could I see the bonus part on “alcohols”? I am aware that the pKa of an alcohol was given, but I’m pretty sure the Williamson synthesis uses an alkoxide, which wasn’t accepted. I agree--this threw me off too, since the SN2 of alcohols to alkyl halides occurs in basic conditions. Of the three clues ...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 10:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10477
Re: ACF Fall 2017 Thanks and Discussion
I forgot to say something in the team Slack before this thread got posted, but Will Alston helped me out a lot on the myth I edited with difficulty/playability/general advice, which was very useful since myth was a new category for me
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: PSA - Don't be a Luddite
- Replies: 62
- Views: 24715
Re: PSA - Don't be a Luddite
After playing at, listening to a bunch of complaints about, and then getting shanghai'd into helping out with the UCSD EFT 2 site yesterday, I can't say the system is particularly hard to use even for staffers who didn't bother reading any of the instructions given to them (which I guarantee is most...
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EFT at UCSD (10/14)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2659
- Sun Oct 15, 2017 6:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EFT at UCSD (10/14)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2659
Re: 2017 EFT at UCSD (10/14)
I've been given access to the scoresheets and will have stats up in about an hour or so
- Thu Mar 09, 2017 1:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime @ UCSD (4/23)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2679
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime @ UCSD (03/12/2017)
Unfortunately, due to lack of confirmed teams throughout our canvassing over the last two weeks (turns out it's hard when half the schools in the circuit, including us, are on the quarter system), it looks like I'll have to cancel this--hopefully, we can get it hosted at some point in April. I'll be...
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime @ UCSD (4/23)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2679
Re: (This) Tournament is a Crime @ UCSD (03/12/2017)
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- Mon Feb 27, 2017 7:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (This) Tournament is a Crime @ UCSD (4/23)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2679
(This) Tournament is a Crime @ UCSD (4/23)
San Diego Quizbowl is pleased to announce a last-minute mirror of (This) Tournament is a Crime at UC San Diego on Sunday, April 23, 2017 . Information about the set can be found here . Apologies for the late announcement, but we've only just now determined that there would be a playable turnout for ...
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 12:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT rules revisions 2017
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19559
Re: NAQT rules revisions 2017
[...] There was only one round at SoCal that had twenty or more tossups converted (with exactly 20), and Amherst never broke 18 converted or 19 read (and I doubt anyone else in DI did either). Amherst had rounds where we heard 12 questions (12!!) out of literally twenty four tossups. We heard fewer...
- Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT rules revisions 2017
- Replies: 44
- Views: 19559
Re: NAQT rules revisions 2017
Minor correction, though I agree in broad strokes with what Kevin is saying--the D1 site of SCT at UCSD had a minimum of 19.25 tossups heard per round for a team and 20.9 TUH per round for D2. I do agree that the timer does have a drastic effect on fields that aren't powering as much, to the tune of...
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 6:20 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WAO at Caltech (2/25/17)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2554
Re: WAO at Caltech (2/25/17)
As clarification, there may be chimera teams in attendance and I've gotten wind of open teams (some high school players) planning to play at this site. Obviously, at this point, it's too late to submit a packet, and it wouldn't do to turn them away at what may already a pretty small field since half...
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 5:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2958
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
I don't remember where the source was, but maybe said first play to be translated into English then--in any case, I admitted that bonus part was written mostly because I was in a rush at that point and I apologize for the mistake. I didn't include that tidbit itself in the question for that reason, ...
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2958
Re: Thanks and General Discussion
I did try to control difficulty as one of my two main goals while editing the literature--I also wrote on answers such as The Age of Innocence and Madame Bovary , for example. I was worried about this tournament turning into a death march overall given the rushed nature of the production process, so...
- Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Brief Wondrous Tournament of WAO (January 21st-after)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 20489
Re: The Brief Wondrous Tournament of WAO (January 21st-after
As far as I know as a WAO editor, Will wasn't behind the decision to not post an announcement re: a mirror hosted at Columbia, so I'm not entirely sure where that's coming from, Jerry. Anyway, for my part, I'll post here to confirm that the WAO mirror at Caltech is, as it says in the first post in t...
- Wed Jan 25, 2017 3:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 WAO Literature Discussion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 709
2017 WAO Literature Discussion
Along with the biology (which, aside from writing the replacement/editor's questions and providing feedback, was mostly Jonathan Luck, so credit should go where it's due), I edited/wrote the majority of the American, Euro, and World/Other lit, with assistance on the rest from Will. I tried to mainta...
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 10:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 NAQT Sectionals Southwest @ UC San Diego (02/04/2017)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2278
2017 NAQT Sectionals Southwest @ UC San Diego (02/04/2017)
Quiz Bowl at UCSD is pleased to announce the Southwest site of the NAQT Sectional Championship Tournament on February 4, 2017 . Location: This tournament will take place at UC San Diego, most likely in either the Humanities and Social Sciences or Center Hall buildings as usual. Explicit confirmation...
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 20831
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
I'm surprised to learn of this confusion, Hidehiro, and I definitely should've been less laissez-faire about letting people handle communication about their attendance and letting people say things because I found them amusing--I apologize for the miscommunication. If you want to talk about anything...
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 20831
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
Finally, I understand that the people running the Terrapin mirror in SoCal wanted to help out the circuit. Fine, and that's a great goal. We do need more teams in not just SoCal, but quizbowl in general. But we don't need to bend the eligibility rules to do so, especially because it'll look very ba...
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 4:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 20831
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
Did UCSD have 8 students attend, and relegate two of them to a two-man C team because Will and Eddie wanted to play with UCSD A? If so, that's kind of destructive to one of the prime purposes of closed tournaments, which is to provide an outlet for university clubs to play together. I support limit...
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 11:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 20831
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
I'd like to clarify again that nothing about the individual situations you described within SoCal was secret, and in the three years or so that I've been organizing/involved with the circuit, we've used the relaxation of eligibility rules for pretty much universal common good. Some examples: -Berkel...
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 10:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 20831
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
Some clarification: Eddie Kim regularly plays with UCSD under the name Klaus Fuchs as a joke, and has been for the last two years, and I am not aware of any club in Southern California expressing negative feedback or unhappiness re: his attendance and membership on our rosters and within the circuit...
- Mon Nov 07, 2016 2:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB2016: Epistle to the Sons of the North
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2372
Re: Epistle to the Sons of the North
Even if it shouldn't have been a surprise, the fact that a large number of people committed to completing a sizeable portion of a large project over the course of half a year and proceeded to do (apparently) almost none of is pretty rantworthy. Should the writers have trusted the people mentioned he...
- Sun Oct 30, 2016 12:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2016: General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5007
Re: PB 2016: General Discussion
I'm on my phone right now, so I'll try to elaborate more later, but I have a preliminary comment to make: future iterations of this set needs to pay more attention to answer lines. This manifested in obvious things (like all the Lorca answers requiring _Garcia Lorca_, despite Lorca being his most co...
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Thoughts on Target Difficulty
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1343
Re: Thoughts on Target Difficulty
Without intending to speak for the other writers, I think most of what we did was to try to write the most forgiving possible questions you'd see pop up at an archetypal regular difficulty set. Personally, my goal was to "introduce" new members to what collegiate regular difficulty was lik...
- Mon Oct 24, 2016 5:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Tournament Goals/Philosophy and Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2302
Re: EFT Tournament Goals/Philosophy and Discussion
About your comment on the Tyrone family specifically, I did consider making that a tossup on the play itself, but I figured people would start getting bored of all the very standard tossups on authors that I filled the set with (variety is the spice of life and all that), and I didn't think there wa...
- Sun Oct 09, 2016 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT @ UCSD (10/08/2016)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2396
Re: EFT @ UCSD (10/08/2016)
UCLA A cleared the field yesterday by going undefeated during the 9 game round robin prelim and then winning all 3 playoff games for 1st place. Westview got second with a 9-3 record. Final standings: 1st) UCLA A 2nd) Westview t-3rd) Caltech t-3rd) Arcadia 5th) USC 6th) UCSD Alpha 7th) UC Irvine 8th)...
- Fri Oct 07, 2016 1:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10513
Re: Specific Question Discussion
I agreed with a good amount of your complaints in about the non-leadin parts of the tossup and have edited the tossup to its current form for mirrors tomorrow (this is more of a band-aid, since replacing it is still totally in the books): 12. In one stage of this process, high levels of inhibin cont...
- Wed Oct 05, 2016 12:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10513
Re: Specific Question Discussion
12. In one stage of this process, high levels of inhibin lead to selection of a single Graafian structure as the “dominant” type. High levels of prolactin production suppresses a hypothalamic hormone responsible for this process. This cycle sees a brief spike of basal body temperature by about 0.5 ...
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10513
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Re: Menstrual cycle-- 1) Hilariously, I realized process was a much better pronoun immediately after pasting it up thread and made that edit 2) The tossup is on every phase of the menstrual cycle, not just menstruation--I should've caught the folliculogenesis thing and added it to the answer line in...
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 EFT Literature
- Replies: 2
- Views: 874
Re: 2016 EFT Literature
Thanks for the kind words, Brad! I was a little worried that not enough of my bonuses went deep into singular core works, but I'm glad you think I made the right decision on the tradeoff (not giving inexperienced teams a sad 0/10 if they've never read/watched the work) by abusing common themes and e...
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10513
Re: Specific Question Discussion
I think the perception of "South Asia-heavy" might also have to do with the decent amount of East Asian religion in the set, which might easily be mixed up with myth on the day of a tournament by any number of players--in any case, I definitely agree with Will and Eddie on their subdistrib...
- Sat Oct 01, 2016 10:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10513
Re: Specific Question Discussion
I've edited this question pretty heavily since the time of discussion, but here it is in its current form: 12. In one stage of this event, high levels of inhibin lead to selection of a single structure known as its Graafian type. High levels of prolactin production suppresses a hypothalamic hormone ...
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 7:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 63
- Views: 10513
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Irreligion in Bangladesh wrote:I was on the basal temperature increase clue. Good to hear that ovulation is in the answer line.
Oh yeah, I didn't realize that; poor wording on my part. Thanks for the catch!
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Social Science and "Other" Categories
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1387
Re: Social Science and "Other" Categories
I see your point about flags, and I'm considering changing it to a flag salute tossup. That said, I do think there are a lot of things "free speech object" could be, and In general I tried not to be too worried about transparency since I figured the target EFT audience would have less expe...