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- Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:06 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Scattergories 5 (Summer 2021)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 680
Re: Scattergories 5 (Summer 2021)
would love to play this with people who are good at art and poetry especially, hit me up if that's you!
- Sun Nov 22, 2020 2:15 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4497
Re: (Format Poll Added) FLopen 2020 Open Main Site @ Discord (11/21/2020)
This tournament was, in general, very well run, and I want to thank the staffers who made that possible. Getting through 11 rounds of difficult 22/22 with 75 minutes of break time in about 11.5 hours would be commendable in person, let alone online! I also think the "hand visible" rule was...
- Sun Sep 27, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4459
Re: Collegiate Preseason Poll 2020-1
A combination of Tim and (in my opinion) Stanford being underranked in last year's postseason poll.
- Sat Aug 01, 2020 3:25 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
- Replies: 51
- Views: 19773
Re: Y'all need to pay attention to your own community
One thing I would like to stress from Mahria's post is a point which has been repeatedly pointed out: men who perform well are repeatedly forgiven for their outbursts. Forgetting everything that Luke had done in high school, much of which was unknown at the time, how was anyone in club leadership o...
- Fri May 08, 2020 3:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6154
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
A Yu-Gi-Oh match is composed of three duels. I suggest that Columbia and Chicago B have a play-in game to conclude ours– the winner can then play Chicago A. Yeah the goofiness of my post aside, I do mean this sincerely - I think a lot of folks want to see this happen, I'd obviously like to see this...
- Fri May 08, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6154
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
A Yu-Gi-Oh match is composed of three duels. I suggest that Columbia and Chicago B have a play-in game to conclude ours– the winner can then play Chicago A.
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:17 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 37042
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
You say that there is not enough evidence to make "a formal accusation", which suggests that you believe you have met some lesser standard of evidence which warrants only anonymous accusations. You are mistaken. There is no such standard. Anonymous accusations are irresponsible and harmful...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:50 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15936
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...
- Sat Mar 14, 2020 1:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15936
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Without regards to difficulty this is a good bonus. With regards to difficulty, you have to have the knowledge of a grad student in the field to 30, and the knowledge of a physics student who has taken the right upper division classes to 20. This bonus doesn't strike me as a very good example. For ...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15936
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
Working hard to improve at an activity because you enjoy participating in it, even though it might give you no material benefit, is good. It strikes me as quite odd that your post presents this as bad.
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15936
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
I've said this elsewhere, but I'd like to note that the chance to play the best people in school was quite attractive to me when I started college quizbowl. Playing better opponents is more fun, I think. I suppose we could make things less fun, by limiting the field to only a portion of the people i...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15936
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
I whole-heartedly agree with this post. The difficulty of ACF Nats is absurd. Hard bonus parts and early tossup clues are essentially wasted in distinguishing teams. There's no reason to expect writers to write lines and lines of clues that maybe 3 people are going to get any information out of wha...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 3:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15936
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
I would, in general, echo what others have suggested in saying that middle parts are a good place to target if you want to make your set feel subjectively gentler. I appreciate that ACF Nats hard parts can get into interesting and unexplored territory, but those are a lot easier to stomach when you ...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:49 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15936
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
300 teams know who's gonna dominate HSNCT and that it's not them; a solid 200+ of them still have "fight for 6-4" as a legitimate aspiration, and I think a lot of the kids in the neighborhood that Dylan's quoting are among those 200 teams. There's nothing for those kids in college nats; t...
- Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:43 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Reforming Tournament and Set Announcements
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1232
Re: Reforming Tournament and Set Announcements
Who do you suggest perform the work of building and maintaining this site? That is, do you take this as a suggestion aimed at organizations, a suggestion aimed at particular individuals, or a suggestion aimed at any individual who desires to use their time and energy executing your recommendations?
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 8:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open @ UIUC (11/16/2019)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3839
Re: Fall Open @ UIUC (11/16/2019)
This tournament was fun and well-run. Thanks, UIUC! One note: one of my club-mates who played for a different team said that they were deprived of a game because Chicago D left before the last round, apparently to catch a train. This is, uh, not great of them. The tournament didn't really go abnorm...
- Mon Oct 07, 2019 10:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: A Plea for No More Excuses
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5785
Re: A Plea for No More Excuses
The original philosophy editor for this year's NSC ended up doing the philosophy for this year's Chicago Open (quite well, I might add). I guess editing 1/1 isn't really that "major" from my perspective, but for others I'm sure it's a big deal. Just want to clarify some things, since (spo...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 12:52 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16999
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
I'd also like to push back on the idea that "only 14 out of 34 questions on analytic content wouldn't be sufficient" or that 3/2 contemporary analytic content isn't enough, or the general trend of asking a lot of analytic philosophy at many hard tournaments. If we think about the ways tha...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16999
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
This set's difficulty was mostly fine. By and large I thought it "got things right" outside of having a bit much bonus variation in the too-hard tail direction and social science / philosophy being a bit more daunting than the other areas - your mileage may vary, but I don't think our tea...
- Wed Aug 07, 2019 4:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 16999
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
I edited the philosophy for this tournament, and am very happy to have received largely positive feedback on it (although I would certainly like to hear from anyone who didn't like it, since it was far from perfect.) This was my first outing editing submitted packets, as well as my first attempt at ...
- Thu Jul 25, 2019 11:35 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Different Styles of Making Flashcards
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6615
Re: Different Styles of Making Flashcards
In addition to the great points other have made above, one reason you might want to use flashcards is if you have trouble regulating your studying. A given number of flashcards is an easily measurable daily benchmark, and will keep you from having to think about study time and efficiency in the same...
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 1:15 am
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Climate change and quizbowl
- Replies: 29
- Views: 19875
Re: Climate change and quizbowl
Also, from a pragmatic point of view, air travel is going to have to become drastically less common in the near future or we're all screwed -- might as well start adapting to it.
- Tue Jul 23, 2019 11:41 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Climate change and quizbowl
- Replies: 29
- Views: 19875
Re: Climate change and quizbowl
I endorse these posts.
- Fri May 10, 2019 7:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9715
Re: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
Jakob admitted in his post that this was not proof, nor has he talked to the tournament director. Your commitment to intransigence is really stunning. Have you, perhaps, considered that things might be slightly more complex than "is it conclusive proof or is it not?" Recognizing that the ...
- Fri May 10, 2019 7:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9715
Re: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
Suggesting that the stats Rama put up are in the same neighborhood of implausiblity as those Jakob cited is idiocy at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst. Yes, I agree that saying Rama cheated would be absurd, but nonetheless people did say he cheated, so I was using it as an example of why a...
- Fri May 10, 2019 7:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9715
Re: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
Yeah, I think winning ICT versus not even making top bracket at states is dramatically different. Also, did the Andy Watkins story emerge because people looked at the stats again, or did it emerge because NAQT found actual evidence that was a smoking gun? Once again, the stats provided are far more...
- Fri May 10, 2019 6:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9715
Re: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
More recently, some of the same people that Jakob has cited in his exposé of Shubham have told me and other people that they believed that Ramapriya cheated at the online mirror of Stanford Housewrite. While he did indeed have some potentially suspicious buzzes, and (so I've been told) he's had a &...
- Sun May 05, 2019 2:00 pm
- 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)
I am quite excited for this tournament's existence, and would be happy to either contribute to its completion or play it.
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 1:18 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39388
Re: Player Poll 2019
Here are some facts about my teammates that will hopefully make you rank them higher. John Lawrence deals with some of the most overlap of any top scorer in the field. Matthew and I are buzzing on lit, I am buzzing on philosophy, Kai is buzzing on music and art, all of us doing so pretty well (but s...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 5:03 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17940
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
Essentially, this is the classic "pick 2 out of 3" situation: * Large ACF Nationals, with more than 40 teams * Championship bracket with 10+ teams playing a full round-robin * Tournament of a length that writers and editors can produce at a high quality; that moderators can read without l...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21594
Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
I will be starting an two-year MA program at UChicago's Divinity School. I intend to continue to play.
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 12:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Michigan Winter Tournament (Winter 2020)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10387
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Michigan Winter Tournament (Winter 2020)
Does this tournament have a head editor? If not, how do you plan on handling the well-documented issues that arise in the absence of one?
- Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:08 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Happy 6th Watkinsgate Anniversary!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10539
Re: Happy 6th Watkinsgate Anniversary!
Edit: I've asked a few non-involved science people about this (withholding names) and they unanimously agreed that it was not my place to jump in; obviously, this is a different community with a very defined set of justified beefs. I agree with this; the fact that he cheated at quizbowl is a matter...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:57 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19061
Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
OK, but if someone has a friend group who you see only in an extremely limited window of time, one would think that friend group would make a point of socializing after the event that has attracted them. I've said this before, but I think it's bizarre, to say the least, that quizbowl regularly conv...
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:25 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19061
Re: How We Treat Each Other: 2019
Why is it like pulling teeth for me to show up to ICT and convince people to leave the tournament at the end of the day and go eat a good dinner and then go out to enjoy a little nightlife in one of the largest cities in America? Isn't that what friends do? I enjoy the Chicago dining and nightlife ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 5:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Harder Questions in the Finals?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5559
Re: Harder Questions in the Finals?
My point is something like this: it's clearly possible to have equally hard tossups on answerlines that, in themselves, have rather different "familiarity rates." If, as Jacob says, the questions are written with an eye to keeping difficulty consistent and then, after the fact, you decide ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:25 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Harder Questions in the Finals?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5559
Re: Harder Questions in the Finals?
I'm against making the questions harder in the finals, but I'm perfectly fine with shifting some of the harder answerlines in the set to later packets, and we should make sure we're distinguishing between the two when we talk about it.
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 38876
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
I think MJ/Jacob's assessment of this set as "nats with generally more accessible answerlines" (apologies if this is too much of a caricature) pretty accurately characterizes my experience playing it. I certainly do not think it qualifies as nats+, at least in those categories where I know...
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10937
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
Why is the history side event being run in the evening if there are no planned side events for Sunday*? I imagine we will all be rather tired after a long day of quizbowl, and running it in the morning seems somewhat better for everyone involved, unless there are extenuating circumstances that I'm u...
- Tue Mar 05, 2019 6:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: What is the purpose of a first line?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 13129
Re: What is the purpose of a first line?
In my experience, many (in fact, likely the majority) of buzzes that are "on the first sentence" or "on the first clue" have a buzzpoint somewhere in the second sentence or later, because of parsing time/cautiousness/etc. In addition to the many arguments given elsewhere on these...
- Sun Mar 03, 2019 4:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6008
Re: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
Echoing what was said above, I was very excited for some of our newest players to get a chance to compete without the shadow of more experienced teammates. These are promising and motivated players, and it's very sad to see a group of true novices miss out on a tournament win to a team with a combin...
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6374
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6374
Re: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
Is the Chicago B registered here the same Chicago B that's playing this at Hopkins two weeks prior, did Chicago drop their second team from the Hopkins mirror and that post just hasn't been updated, is the second Chicago team at Hopkins actually Chicago C, is "Chicago B" here a questionab...
- Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 9136
Re: EFT 2018 - Thanks and General Discussion
Detailed statistics are useful to any team trying to identify their weaknesses and improve, as well as any team attempting to compare their knowledge base to opponents they were not playing in a given game. Suggesting that their utility for player analysis only applies to the top 20 teams is mislead...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 11:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 39649
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
First off, it’s just veritably false that UIUC would have a smaller local staffing pool than Lexington. The population of quizbowlers around Champaign during the summer is so much higher than Lexington that I just don’t understand how the conclusion that UIUC would have less local staff could be ma...
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 39649
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
The other bid was from Champaign, Illinois. It was a good bid, but it included less local staff and equivalent travel costs for teams. I also spoke with a few people from Illinois, who told me it would be easier to travel to Lexington than Champaign. Jacob has already commented on the insanity of c...
- Thu Nov 08, 2018 12:26 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: Looking for host sites for 2019 NASAT
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4455
Re: Looking for host sites for 2019 NASAT
Since this is something I only announced in this thread, I'll also announce here that the Pop Culture National is not going to debut in 2019. I'll be looking at 2020. Won't CO Trash also be happening in 2020, as a presumably better candidate for the descriptor "open tournament intended to dete...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 53
- Views: 20661
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
In addition, I would argue that it's incorrect to refer to Nietzsche as a "nihilist"' philosopher. If anything, he saw the central purpose of his philosophy as combating nihilism. It's important to remember that the point of a quizbowl philosophy question isn't to do philosophical work bu...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 7:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57103
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
As I also mentioned, as far as I know, I don't have privileges to put the stats anywhere else relevant, and I don't know how. If anyone can and wants to put them elsewhere, great. I am a bit confused by this. As far as I can tell, creating a tournament on the DB can be done via a single button and ...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 2:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2019 - Weekend of August 3rd
- Replies: 98
- Views: 57103
Re: Chicago Open 2018 - July 21st weekend
I do mean to be the annoying stats guy, since it's been a few months now.An Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:33 pm I don't want to be the annoying stats guy, but is there any chance stats from this tournament could get posted to the DB soon?