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- Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:10 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5435
Re: Earlybird Online (10/3/2020)
Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. As someone who cares deeply about the integrity of the fields of high school quizbowl tournaments in states I don’t live in, I have to say this is one of the most disappointing displays from a TD I’ve seen in all my time here. Even if Dunbar and [another team] are ...
- Fri May 08, 2020 3:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6157
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 5:36 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Understanding Literature as a Category
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1994
Re: Understanding Literature as a Category
I’m not going to say much about the distribution because I’ve seen these discussions play out a thousand and they usually don’t lead anywhere. Literature is the most “pure” category in terms of fitting the medium of a quizbowl question, and I don’t think there’s much disputing that. I’m sure this is...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 11164
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Terrapin Open (Spring 2020)
I will most likely not be playing this set if this Columbia mirror is cancelled, which is a shame since I’m sure it will be a great set. While I wouldn’t advocate for a mirror to remain simply because of my own self-interest, I’ve yet to see a good rationale for its cancellation and doubt there is o...
- Sun Aug 25, 2019 11:56 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Literature "Progression"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4685
Re: Literature "Progression"
Also, if you are willing to cash in some money, NAQT's frequency list for literature is a decently complete list of books and their authors. I do not believe there to be plot summaries in the lists though. Please, for the love of god, do not pay money for this. Keep reading the very famous books of...
- Mon May 06, 2019 6:33 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UPDATE - All the Lit We Cannot See (2020)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2976
Re: Announcement - All the Lit We Cannot See (Winter 2019)
This seems like a fun tournament! Very interested in either writing or playing.
(Autobiography of Red was tossed up at CO 2016, btw)
(Autobiography of Red was tossed up at CO 2016, btw)
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 9:09 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39394
Re: Player Poll 2019
Thank you to those who have given me reps! I wouldn’t advise that you vote for me in the overall poll; my performances at both nationals have not warranted inclusion and I don’t think my uncharacteristically good PIANO statline is enough to do it. Instead, vote for my teammate Eric Xu who led us to ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17942
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion
I know that Matt Weiner, among others, has in the past advocated breaking out Nats into "divisions." As a stopgap, would it be unreasonable to do that even without using two different question sets? (After all, the lowest-placing teams often come to test their mettle against the toughest ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17942
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion
Personally, I care more about the integrity of ACF Nationals as a “players championship” than I do about its expansion. Obviously, I’m not a member of ACF and don’t knows its priorities, but if the field needs to be 40 teams instead of 48 to ensure a full RR in playoffs which is almost unanimously c...
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 38878
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
This is slightly late, but I've finally played all the packets and I have to say that this set is not as hard as some people are making it out to be. The answerlines are mostly very reasonable (I'd say moreso than recent spring opens) and there was a lot of great early cluing. If you're playing on t...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin @ UMD (3/2/2019)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3801
Re: Terrapin @ UMD (3/2/2019)
Combined stats have games double-posted, btw.
- Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:10 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 326921
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
Jack Mehr and I are each writing a packet of hard (ranging from Nats to CO+), literature common links to be read sometime in mid-January on Discord. If this sounds interesting to you, indicate your availability on the following poll (times are EST). We'll be reading this in the discord tomorrow nig...
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:57 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Preparing From Benet's and Masterpieces of World Literature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6257
Re: Preparing From Benet's and Masterpieces of World Literature
I bought a set of Masterplots for my house so I know a bit about the encyclopedia grind. My best piece of advice is to be the most thorough on the outer portions of the canon, and to largely ignore the most important works in the canon. Studying Great Expectations or Moby Dick from these books won’t...
- Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:21 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: How to Approach Literature
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6683
Re: How to Approach Literature
I'll echo Jakob and say that reading literary criticism at this point isn't going to help you very much. I don't know your current level of play, but you're going to want to start by just amassing a lot of "author-work", "work-character", and "work-plot point" knowledge...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2018 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 91
- Views: 38073
Re: 2018 HSNCT discussion
Can I see the tossup on “In the Penal Colony“?
- Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:16 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15987
Re: Fuck it, let's rank the sets
TTIAC and Stanford Housewrite were both better than CMST.
- Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:11 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 326921
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
On Wednesday at 9 PM EST, I will be reading a 20 TU very hard short fiction packet in the discord. Every tossup answerline will be a character from a short story. I'll be doing a second reading of this at the same time on Thursday for people who can't make it Wednesday. These happened! Wednesday Sc...
- Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: META - Summer 2019
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6402
Re: META - Summer 2019
My favorite types of short fiction are poetry and non-fiction essays! (this sounds cool, though, I like these types of tournaments)
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 11:22 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 326921
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
I'll be doing a second reading of this at the same time on Thursday for people who can't make it Wednesday.Banana Stand wrote:On Wednesday at 9 PM EST, I will be reading a 20 TU very hard short fiction packet in the discord. Every tossup answerline will be a character from a short story.
- Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:55 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 326921
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
On Wednesday at 9 PM EST, I will be reading a 20 TU very hard short fiction packet in the discord. Every tossup answerline will be a character from a short story.
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:34 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Women in Sets
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13126
Re: Women in Sets
On the flipside, a tossup on Martin Guerre on the surface is just “some tossup on a French dude from 500 years ago” but I’d guess that a decent percentage(probably not quite a majority?) would have encountered him while reading/reading about Natalie Zemon Davis and her view of the case through a fem...
- Sun Jun 25, 2017 2:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Top five college teams for 2017–18
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11628
Re: Top five college teams for 2017–18
Ditto on Cambridge, and I don't even think it's much of a hot take. Anyone who has played with/against Golfinos knows he's legit, and give him some teammates that can cover his weaknesses? Spooky. #7 seems a bit low, tbh.
- Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been announce
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12507
Re: Approximately 20 high school house writes have been anno
There are literally not enough weekends in the year to accommodate half of these. Imo, there are two major reasons for the use of housewrites. The first is for a team acquire revenue, and the second is that producing the housewrite will help with the development of their players since it forces you...
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 4:55 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21422
Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
Fun books that seldom come up in QB: "The Monk" by Matthew Lewis (a Gothic classic; the nuttiest book you will ever read) "McTeague" by Frank Norris (also wild) Fun books that never come up in QB: "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Choderlos de Laclos (probably my favorite ...
- Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21422
Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
Heart of Darkness is so good, what is going on in here? Moby-Dick is worth a read, too. Fundamental part of U.S Lit that comes up all the time and is a really awesome experience(I think the cetology parts catch too much flak from people who claim to dislike it). Beloved is also really good. Kafka an...
- Sat May 20, 2017 5:01 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranking
- Replies: 56
- Views: 46245
Re: The 70 Greatest Players of the Last Eight Years: A Ranki
I think the basketball analogy works well here, if we view MattBo as Kobe and Jordan as Lebron(lol). Both are obviously insanely competitive people, but Kobe almost always seemed to "need" the win more than Lebron, and went to psychotic lengths to get it. Lebron is more reserved and only k...
- Sun May 14, 2017 6:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11993
Re: Prison Bowl 3/25 NYC
armitage wrote:This is in abysmally bad taste
- Wed May 10, 2017 6:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Modern Age - A Lit/VisArts Side Event
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7262
Re: The Modern Age - A Lit/VisArts Side Event
This is also going to be 7 packets, not the 8 from the original announcement. There's a lot of side events going around and we figure 8 packets probably won't be played at any site. I'll echo Eric's sentiment that we're happy people are interested!
- Mon May 08, 2017 10:10 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25226
Re: Virginia Summer Open – 8/5/17
I'm down(to staff)!
- Mon May 08, 2017 9:27 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Scattergories (February 2017)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10425
Re: Scattergories (February 2017)
This was very fun to read through. The annotations are a sweet idea. I would've gladly first line-negged Sonmi-451, forgetting the full name of the section. That priming tossup is also cool since the spreading activation effect should come up more. Wish I could've played!
- Thu May 04, 2017 12:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Poll
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7299
Re: Postseason Poll
I can't imagine a team that doesn't do better or worse depending on their mood and how much sleep they got. Berkeley B's top bracket run looks very compelling - knocking off Northwestern after their cinderella run and Penn for good measure, wish I had a chance to do that at my first Nats. Seems lik...
- Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Difficulty Consistency in Finals Packets
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8944
Re: Difficulty Consistency in Finals Packets
This is a good thread. Despite not coming anywhere near a spot in Nats finals, I've thought about this a lot since I noticed it watching/reading last year's finals(and 2015's). First, I'll say that as a spectator, it adds a bit of excitement to the matches. "Damn, this packet is really pushing ...
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19644
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts
Eric Xu and I are going to be playing this.
- Sun Apr 23, 2017 11:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 33882
Re: ACF Nationals Thanks and Discussion
The literature in this set was really really good. It was very accessible across the board while offering a great challenge on interesting hard parts and early-middle clues. Common links probing core works of famous authors including the ones on teachers and the beach(which I unfortunately negged wi...
- Fri Apr 21, 2017 4:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
- Replies: 63
- Views: 28456
Re: The ol' Nationals Cracker Barrel
This 'ol Cracker Barrel is tumblin' on, but don' mind me, I'm just passin' by before I get to my there destination in the ol' Big Apple. Yessir, New York City for some good ol' fashioned bowlin'.
I'm hammered and I hope Jordan wins.
I'm hammered and I hope Jordan wins.
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:35 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Documenting plagiarism
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9498
Re: Documenting plagiarism
A bit of self-plagiarism never hurt: Delta Burke 2012 Question: This author wrote of an "Arhat who sought Heaven under a mountain of stone" before claiming "humility is beatness before the absolute world" in "Sakyamuni Coming Out from the Mountain". This author asked, &...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:32 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Documenting plagiarism
- Replies: 20
- Views: 9498
Documenting plagiarism
I sometimes come across plagiarism in old sets and just brush it off since most were written a decent amount of time ago, but I feel like having a thread to document egregious examples would be fun. This is not meant to be witch-hunty since most of the offenders probably aren't even active anymore; ...
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5641
Re: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
Could I see the tossup on Maad City?
- Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5641
Re: 2017 Division I ICT: specific question discussion
On another sitcom, one of these events led to Buster's relationship with Lucille Austero. Yeah, so I buzzed on this clue with "award shows," which is actually a correct answer given the way this is phrased. In the episode "Key Decisions," Lucille Austero gives Buster her phone n...
- Sun Apr 09, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Modern Age - A Lit/VisArts Side Event
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7262
The Modern Age - A Lit/VisArts Side Event
I am happy to announce The Modern Age, a literature and visual arts side event consisting entirely of material from after WWII. This tournament will consist of 7 power-marked packets of 20 tossups(8-10 lines of 10 TNR) and two-part related bonuses, aping Kurtis' format from Listory and Skype Lit. It...
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24797
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - thanks and general discussion
Liberty-- J: Spends a bunch of time on Constant, who is, like, not a philosopher? A: Yeah, once again, if your goal when writing a philosophy question is to reward engagement with philosophy, you should clue philosophers. How is Constant not a philosopher? Eric Xu first-lined this tossup with somet...
- Tue Nov 08, 2016 4:42 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Writing for high school - difficulty?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4361
Re: Writing for high school - difficulty?
Gauging difficulty as a new writer is probably one of the most difficult parts of the craft, and something I still struggle with from time to time. A very important concept to learn is that tossup difficulty and answerline difficulty do not have to go hand in hand, and there are many ways to adjust ...
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2016: General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5002
Re: PB 2016: General Discussion
Before any more rumors go around, I would like to make it clear that this set was largely completed at the start of the tournament. It's not really acceptable for it to be "largely completed" on the day of the tournament, but disregarding that, isn't it just straight-up fact that this was...
- Sat Oct 15, 2016 7:44 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Improving as a Literature Writer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4041
Re: Improving as a Literature Writer
Thanks Jon(and Jacob), that's some really useful advice. I definitely agree that good/playable questions are better than no questions, and that not every question has to be perfect or even close to it. Reading excerpts is definitely something I've utilized before and will definitely continue, especi...
- Mon Oct 10, 2016 6:11 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Improving as a Literature Writer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4041
Improving as a Literature Writer
Recently, I've been writing a lot of lit questions for both improvement and with the hope of eventually making something playable. One thing I've noticed as I've began to focus on constructing good pyramidal tossups on important topics is that I operate best on things I'd classify as "fringe ca...
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Literature Skype League / Tournament (2016-2017)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 21272
Re: A Literature Skype League / Tournament (2016-2017)
I'm interested in playing this.
- Sun May 08, 2016 4:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
- Replies: 41
- Views: 24281
Re: Player Poll 2016: Don't Vote for Jerry Kramer
He hasn't been mentioned yet, but Eric Xu deserves some love. Coming off of being the best HS player in the country, Eric received the usual "can this kid even play on regular difficulty?" before leading UVA to 3rd at Penn Bowl(where we lost by one tossup to Columbia) and a respectable fin...
- Thu May 05, 2016 7:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Roundtable?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3946
Re: Postseason Roundtable?
I'd be free on Sunday.
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
- Replies: 74
- Views: 25353
Re: ACF Nationals 2016 Discussion
I really enjoyed this set, especially the literature. There were a lot of interesting and buzzable clues from works I'd read. This isn't much of a gripe, but for the tossup on Charles X, I remember the Anti-Sacrilege Act being dropped first line which seemed slightly easy, especially compared to mos...
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:40 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quizlr: a new study resource
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9795
Re: Quizlr: a new study resource
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