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by csheep
Sat Jul 22, 2023 7:13 pm
Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
Topic: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)
Replies: 11
Views: 4174

Re: 2023 NASAT @ Columbia (Open)

Mirza/Mitch/Myself will be playing on a team - open to anyone as a fourth, just drop us/me a line.

We are old and bad (except Mitch - he's pretty good!) so set expectations accordingly if you want to play with us. Mirza might miss the first 1 - 2 rounds as he's getting in early in the AM.
by csheep
Fri Jan 13, 2023 11:17 am
Forum: Trash
Topic: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)
Replies: 7
Views: 4447

Re: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)

cottonmouth wrote: Fri Jan 13, 2023 12:53 am
csheep wrote: Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:14 pm I'd love to team up with someone for this. I don't anticipate buzzing much and I don't actually play many games.
Feel free to join me!
Ah thanks for the inv but I paired up with someone else. Appreciate it!
by csheep
Thu Jan 12, 2023 11:14 pm
Forum: Trash
Topic: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)
Replies: 7
Views: 4447

Re: GFUEL Online Mirror 2 (January 2023)

I'd love to team up with someone for this. I don't anticipate buzzing much and I don't actually play many games.
edit: i've teamed up with fellow michael (w) for this
by csheep
Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: TOEJAM III Online Doubles: January 31, 2021
Replies: 9
Views: 3550

Re: TOEJAM III Online Doubles: January 31, 2021

Should we expect a logistics email of some sort ahead of time? (I'm asking as a staff sign up)
by csheep
Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:24 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)
Replies: 12
Views: 5232

Re: Scattergories 4 online (8/22/20)

Happy to join a team if any one wants to fill up their roster. As noted, mainly contributing in sporadic lit.
by csheep
Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20
Replies: 18
Views: 6119

Re: Myth of the Machine Summer Discord Mirror - 7/18/20

Would love to find a team for this. I have sporadic knowledge but nothing consistent/coherent. Probably best on vaguely finance-y and business-y and related things with misc. other knowledge. Might neg a lot.
by csheep
Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146919

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

It's simply the case that, at an online tournament, there is really nothing stopping people from cheating in a modest way, and because of that, I assume that many people in this community, if they were being honest with themselves, would have to admit that they did something at an online event or p...
by csheep
Tue Apr 07, 2020 12:08 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
Replies: 81
Views: 25592

Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)

(Sorry to single out Wonyoung specifically, but I'm skeptical that the term "mixed impure academic," as defined by NAQT, would communicate the flavor of his packet to someone who had never met him.) [...] I'd like to again hold out the "East Asia" packet as exemplary, as its wri...
by csheep
Sat Apr 04, 2020 8:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
Replies: 81
Views: 25592

Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)

This has been a very fun and exceptionally well-organized day of QB so far. Big thanks to Will and Em and everyone else involved for putting this together; to all the writers who had some great and fun packets; and to all the readers. The smoothness of the logistics and the innovation of multi-room/...
by csheep
Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:11 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
Replies: 179
Views: 146919

Re: This Time, A Stern Warning

Name and shame :mad: As someone who unwittingly played in a recent online tournament with a player that I found out, post facto, is an "open secret" cheater, I did not feel very good about the situation! Since neither me nor my other teammates are part of the cool kids in group of QB lumin...
by csheep
Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 60
Views: 6387

Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata

Some other random things I remembered- Is there a reason concentration camps were outright accepted for gulags? I imagine most people buzzing with that answer aren't thinking of gulags but rather nazi concentration camps (which is what I'd have done) - seems like it should be a prompt at best. I th...
by csheep
Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata
Replies: 60
Views: 6387

Re: 2020 MWT Specific Questions and Errata

Packet 3 - I really disliked the "fraud" (financial) toss up. I just think it's way too vague/broad of a concept to clue effectively while keeping in mind considerations of pyramidality. The first clue - while using the industry accepted and recognized term of "gap detection" is ...
by csheep
Sat Mar 21, 2020 7:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MWT Online [Open, Tossups-Only] - 21 March 2020
Replies: 5
Views: 3265

Re: MWT Online [Open, Tossups-Only] - 21 March 2020

This was run well and efficiently, a feat all the more impressive given the size. Thanks a bunch to Conor and all of the staffers who helped make this happen.
by csheep
Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Degen Packet
Replies: 6
Views: 2748

Re: Degen Packet

cool i love degening. :party:
by csheep
Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54058

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

From a perception perspective, people generally feel better about getting thrashed by their "equals" than by people with a perceived advantage - whether real or not (and it could very well be real). Is this true? I have always felt better about losing to people with more experience than m...
by csheep
Sat Mar 14, 2020 3:53 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
Replies: 132
Views: 54058

Re: College Nationals and Its Problems

The other reason suggested is that graduate students stifle the growth of the game by playing for years and beating up on younger teams. I will get this out of the way first - this is a cognitive distortion, and is ultimately not true . Some of greatest players of our age got to where they are with...
by csheep
Sun Mar 08, 2020 5:27 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Ontario Hybrid @ Barnard, NYC [DELAYED INDEFINITELY] (OPEN)
Replies: 3
Views: 1914

Re: Ontario Hybrid @ Barnard, NYC 3/28/2020 (OPEN)

Aaron Cohen,James Lasker, Isaac KD and I have formed a team. We don't know a lot of trash and inconsistently know certain pockets of academic. You can see our recent work (read: shame) at such tournaments like Fall Open at NYU and NYC Summer Open for a sense of how we expect to perform/place. Find m...
by csheep
Tue Dec 24, 2019 9:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Replies: 43
Views: 19221

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)

I'd personally be willing to pay a higher fee so that more can go towards a mirror fee given that quiz bowl tournaments are generally pretty underpriced for open teams given th amount of work that goes into writing and editing. Same. I'm very inelastic with respect to time but very elastic with res...
by csheep
Tue Dec 24, 2019 4:18 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Replies: 43
Views: 19221

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)

The justifications given by the TO editors for not reinstating the mirror are strikingly thin. We can discard the stuff done by prior Columbia administrations, and we can likely also disregard a large portion of the EFT-related grievances given the very different nature of a 24-field college tournam...
by csheep
Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
Replies: 43
Views: 19221

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)

No idea why the "NYC vs. Maryland/adjacent area" issue seems to always pop up in relation to spring opens considering the multiple precedent cases demonstrating that 1. Many NE teams will simply not attend if there's no NYC/further north mirror 2. NYC and Mid-Atlantic mirrors do not cannib...
by csheep
Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:35 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion
Replies: 20
Views: 2632

Re: 2019 Fall Open General Discussion

I enjoyed the lit and music. I thought the answerline selection was good and the cluing had creative/novel ways to go deeper into core canonical topics while retaining accessibility. Good tournament, would recommend.
by csheep
Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Errata
Replies: 14
Views: 2351

Re: 2019 Fall Open Errata

The Song Dynasty TU: For 10 points, name this dynasty founded by Zhao Guangyin, which repeatedly fought the Jin dynasty until Mongols conquered both of them. This should read Zhao K uangyin (and the pronunciation guide should probably be changed as well) Wikipedia tells me Zhao Guangyin is someone e...
by csheep
Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:16 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 66
Views: 14356

Re: 2019 Fall Open Specific Question Discussion

I thought the music was done very well and liked the balance of clues/approaches. Bruch - Joachim seems to be a negbait for Brahms given his close association with Brahms. I think it'd be better if the phrasing of the clue placed the actual text of the clue (the description of the Bruch VC) before t...
by csheep
Mon Oct 28, 2019 12:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 EFT - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 56
Views: 7460

Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata

Entirely trivial, but referring to Tencent as a "financial" firm seems questionable.
by csheep
Tue Aug 27, 2019 8:21 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019
Replies: 8
Views: 3604

Re: Scattergories 3 online: July 20 or 21, 2019

When will the stats be posted?
by csheep
Sun Aug 04, 2019 9:59 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Age of Empires - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 6
Views: 620

Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata

The TU on translating (Buddhist texts) into Chinese seems like it could be confused for simply "spreading Buddhism in China" or some similar answer line? Diving in a bit: 3. Victor Mair argued against the common interpretation that geyi (“guh-yee”) was a method for this activity, as prese...
by csheep
Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:07 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 Age of Empires - Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 6
Views: 620

Re: Specific Question Discussion and Errata

The TU on translating (Buddhist texts) into Chinese seems like it could be confused for simply "spreading Buddhism in China" or some similar answer line?
by csheep
Thu Aug 01, 2019 12:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GOLBEZ discussion
Replies: 7
Views: 309

Re: GOLBEZ discussion

For that reason, there was definitely more "culture/community" (for lack of a better term) content in this set than other video game sets, but it gave me a chance to ask about stuff that I thought deserved to come up, or at least get clued. This is one of the reasons I didn't want to lock...
by csheep
Mon Jul 29, 2019 12:07 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

Raw stats are publicly available, but I will try and soon directly post the summarized stats here (and Daniel Hothem has graciously volunteered to summarize the CANONEXPANSION and Unanswered Question stats). Apologies if it takes 2 or 3 days. Do these raw stats include the GLOBEZ shootout/where mig...
by csheep
Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:13 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

Raw stats are publicly available, but I will try and soon directly post the summarized stats here (and Daniel Hothem has graciously volunteered to summarize the CANONEXPANSION and Unanswered Question stats). Apologies if it takes 2 or 3 days. Do these raw stats include the GLOBEZ shootout/where mig...
by csheep
Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Age of Empires (Side Event)
Replies: 19
Views: 11624

Re: Age of Empires (Side Event)

I can only speak to the ~10% of the questions that I have any semblance of knowledge of, but this set was very hard, very real, and very fun. And, based on the reactions of others who played it/whom I read for, the other 90% is similarly excellent.
by csheep
Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

Thanks for running the event Raynor. The logistics and communication were on point.
by csheep
Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
Replies: 73
Views: 37817

Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)

To repeat what everyone has mentioned, I very much enjoyed this set.
by csheep
Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

csheep wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:34 am Separately, our main event team currently consisting of myself/Aaron Cohen/Mirza Ahmed has an open slot - welcome to any/all.
We still have an open slot, if anyone wants to join last minute or if there's extraneous/backup staff who want to hop in casually.
by csheep
Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:34 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

I'm looking for a team for META, Age of Empires, and possibly Muses/Unanswered Q. I can hopefully contribute miscellaneous lit, spotty classical music, and China Stuff. I know nothing about visual art. I will probably be a third/fourth scorer. Separately, our main event team currently consisting of ...
by csheep
Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:33 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

. double post
by csheep
Sat Jun 15, 2019 9:32 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

Demand for the main event seems like it's far outstripping the six teams. The current method of allocating spots based on who happened to be online and saw this thread first seems incredibly unfair to me, given how drawn out this scheduling process has been. I would be very annoyed if I don't get t...
by csheep
Sat Jun 15, 2019 8:26 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread
Replies: 59
Views: 20919

Re: GUERILLA NYC Summer Open Main Thread

Demand for the main event seems like it's far outstripping the six teams. The current method of allocating spots based on who happened to be online and saw this thread first seems incredibly unfair to me, given how drawn out this scheduling process has been. I would be very annoyed if I don't get to...
by csheep
Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:46 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
Replies: 45
Views: 22684

Re: NYC Summer Open date poll

Yes please, more Scattergories votes.
by csheep
Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
Replies: 45
Views: 22684

Re: NYC Summer Open date poll

I agree with Will's point regarding not wanting to play a truncated set. Just in case it's an important point, hopefully "truncated" here refers to potentially playing 20/24 given questions from the CamO packets. Whether we play NASAT, OxO, or CamO, we will definitely not play all the pac...
by csheep
Thu Jun 13, 2019 1:15 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
Replies: 45
Views: 22684

Re: NYC Summer Open date poll

I agree with Will's point regarding not wanting to play a truncated set. My original vote was for OxO and I guess I will keep it that way, though I'm personally agnostic between OxO and NASAT.

Please vote for Rulfo and Scattergories :<
by csheep
Mon Apr 29, 2019 6:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
Replies: 59
Views: 30511

Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?

Quiz bowl distribution isn't based on the distribution of college majors, nor should it be.
by csheep
Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:37 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: NYC Summer Open date poll
Replies: 45
Views: 22684

Re: NYC Summer Open date poll

Last weekend of July sounds good to me at this juncture. In terms of side events, I'd personally be very interested in, and like to agitate for: Scattergories RULFO Golbez Imaginary Landscapes Assuming these are ready + available for mirrors/haven't been over-mirrored by the time late-July rolls aro...
by csheep
Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
Replies: 73
Views: 37817

Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)

I'd like to play this at a summer side event weekend (mainly thinking of the NYC side event that's was announced to be in the works); if that ends up not happening I'd like to play an online mirror.
by csheep
Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:21 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

For the bulk of the English speaking readership, Stoner was catapulted to fame via the NYRB publication, whose preface/introduction discussed at length the argument for Stoner as a "hero," as labeled by the author in a later interview. I don't want to sound too dismissive here, but have I...
by csheep
Sun Mar 31, 2019 10:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the TU on Alyosha from Karamazov? I negged very early in with Stoner on the hero/preface clue which I thought was a reasonable thing to answer. In an authorial preface, this character is called a “hero” despite being “a figure of an indefinite, indeterminate sort” and an “odd man.” This...
by csheep
Sat Mar 30, 2019 9:11 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 50
Views: 9789

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Thanks and General Discussion

I enjoyed this tournament! We went 1-9 and generally put up some pretty mediocre stats, but I at least had a pretty good time in the process. I thought the questions were interesting and fair in the (limited) categories I'm familiar with (a narrow subdistribution of lit and music; "China stuff&...
by csheep
Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 110
Views: 292278

Re: 2019 PIANO/MO Specific Question Discussion

Could I see the TU on Alyosha from Karamazov? I negged very early in with Stoner on the hero/preface clue which I thought was a reasonable thing to answer.

Also I think I generally enjoyed the prevalence of countries as answerlines.
by csheep
Tue Jul 24, 2018 4:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion
Replies: 37
Views: 17211

Re: Chicago Open 2018 Thanks and Discussion

As someone who believes that quizbowl ought to roughly track the academy, I think that this drastic increase in nonwestern art is a pretty terrible idea. This statement seems at odds with "Furthermore, a lot of the questions drew heavily from secondary sources (many of which I suspect few peop...