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- Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Canadian Quizbowl
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5834
Re: Canadian Quizbowl
Since travel/finances are apparently a burden, have any potential hosts considered holding, say, Ontario Bowl on Saturday followed by, say, a mirror of a US tournament on Sunday? This has been done successfully south of the border (see: Shorter College's NAQT IS/ACF Fall weekend from 2007) and gives...
- Mon Jul 14, 2008 4:09 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Triple Elimination
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3640
Re: Triple Elimination
I played around with it a little bit, and it looks like you could do eight teams in nine rounds Thanks for figuring that out. Which means... I imagine it would be easier for everyone if you just did a playoff round robin bracket than a complicated triple elimination system. Since the latter option ...
- Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Housewrites vs. NAQT
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5442
Re: Housewrites vs. NAQT
Has anyone ever tried a packet submission (optional) HS tournament? I'm imagining a college or HS team doing an essentially house-written tournament but offering significant discounts for writing a packet. You probably wouldn't get many takers, but I'd guess (in a few regions at least) at least 2-3 ...
- Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Does this sound Legit?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1612
Re: Does this sound Legit?
In my experience, the answer to "Does this sound Legit?" is almost always "No". Usually this involves someone asking me about an "email they got", but websites work the same way. That said, see: http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/197/ripoff0197249.htm, among others. ...
- Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Panasonic renamed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2116
Re: Panasonic renamed
Maybe one day a real quizbowl tournament can get corporate sponsorship...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Great News! CBI "Susp"Ends!
- Replies: 89
- Views: 28760
Re: Great News! CBI "Susp"Ends!
Interesting, especially questions like Rate the level of importance you place on the following potential benefits institutions receive from ACUI's partnership with a program like College Bowl (compared to independent participation in academic challenge programs of their individual choice) Network of...
- Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Chip's Love of Pyramids! (renamed from NAC legitimacy)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 11176
Re: Chip's Love of Pyramids! (renamed from NAC legitimacy)
Of course the sky is blue -- we should all be sad and blue that so much misinformation has spread about the NAC and its obvious love for pyramidial questions. Clearly :chip: loves them so much, he keeps them all hidden away for himself and only lets out a few per tournament. Why oh why can't you peo...
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Video?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3928
Re: Video?
Indeed. Princeton vs. Agnes Scott needs a sequel!Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Also, if anyone has the ability to split that video up into segments of less than 10 minutes, please let me know. I would be interested in posting it on Youtube.
- Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Great News! CBI "Susp"Ends!
- Replies: 89
- Views: 28760
Re: Great News! CBI "Susp"Ends!
I admire your faith, Chris K, but I've played CBI and consequently have less optimism. In my region specifically, among the non-circuit teams, there was usually 1-2 that I could've seen attending SCT or ACF Fall and enjoying it; with a little work, these teams might have done OK, but obviously would...
- Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 QU NAC: B. T. Washington (OK) wins!
- Replies: 350
- Views: 54632
Re: 2008 QU NAC discussion and comment
Hasn't Booker T. Washington been fairly active (at least in Chip) for awhile? Does anyone know what the odds are, if any, of them branching out into NAQT/PACE type stuff? Or maybe to put it another way, are they not coming to mainstream national events due to lack of knowledge that good quizbowl exi...
- Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Player name pronunciation
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16029
Re: Player name pronunciation
Maybe she was trying to tell you something beyond the pronunciation of her name...pblessman wrote:My favorite example is a woman called Schenk who insisted on being called "Skank." Not even kidding...
- Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:58 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: QB social science: School District Income v. HSNCT Placement
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5377
Re: QB social science: School District Income v. HSNCT Placement
Wow, I'm actually really excited somebody did this. Thanks for compiling this data. That said... Caveats about this chart: ... 2. The chart in Matt's post includes private and magnet schools, for which zip code-based data is unlikely to be representative. Umm... that's a bit of a problem, don't you ...
- Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Great News! CBI "Susp"Ends!
- Replies: 89
- Views: 28760
Re: Great News! CBI "Susp"Ends!
Not only are they wrong, but there's also no reason to make these (incorrect) pronouncements about ACF vs. NAQT, since I think it's already been well-established in this thread , by ACF members, that the way NAQT is organized puts them in a vastly superior position to do something about this vacuum ...
- Tue May 27, 2008 11:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 QU NAC: B. T. Washington (OK) wins!
- Replies: 350
- Views: 54632
Re: NAC Schedules
I'd be shocked if a tournament that used only two rooms at a time didn't run smoothly...
- Tue May 27, 2008 12:41 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
- Replies: 70
- Views: 22369
Re: Cavalier Classic XIII (10/25/08) at UVA
Will, can you send me an email or something and let me know some contact info for you or the UVA team? I'll be in law school there this fall, and while I doubt I'll play much -- if at all -- I'd certainly be interested in helping y'all out with reading and stuff. (I would've just emailed you but app...
- Mon May 19, 2008 10:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LaTeX and packets
- Replies: 95
- Views: 38255
Re: LaTeX and packets
Also, for the self-described Luddites: AFT is actually less newfangled than Word. It's platform-independent plain text! Beyond robot readers and databases, there are plenty of reasons to eschew a proprietary, error-laden file format that only complicates the writing, submission, editing, formatting...
- Mon May 19, 2008 4:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LaTeX and packets
- Replies: 95
- Views: 38255
Re: LaTeX and packets
Regarding automatic scoring: there was a room at ICT where this was done, and it was awesome . It had a scoreboard, what tossup we were on, countdown timers for bonus parts, and even a little indicator for which player had buzzed. It was pretty amazing. This type of thing is the one thing that I wo...
- Mon May 19, 2008 3:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate quzbowl in South Carolina?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2897
Re: Collegiate quzbowl in South Carolina?
What are you looking to do with this information? Are you trying to come up with places to apply next year or something? If so, have you considered looking outside the state? UGA, for example, would only be 30 minutes farther from Myrtle Beach than Clemson (according to Google Maps) and is, of cours...
- Sun May 18, 2008 11:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Greatest Quiz Bowl team ever?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14874
Re: Greatest Quiz Bowl team ever?
Disregarding powers and negs, that implies getting 22 tossups and converting on EVERY single bonus part on a given NAQT packet plus 5 more points. :shock: Don't disregard powers, then. I am almost entirely sure that such a team would not make the playoffs at PACE today. They may have been good for ...
- Sat May 17, 2008 7:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LaTeX and packets
- Replies: 95
- Views: 38255
Re: LaTeX and packets
AFT seems trivially easy to implement. If anyone can't figure out how to use that, they were probably going to screw up their packet in Word anyway, and at least this way it's seriously just plain text. I think Andrew Hart is correct about GDocs not really playing well with markup language. I don't ...
- Mon May 12, 2008 1:50 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2007-2008
- Replies: 268
- Views: 72693
Re: Georgia 2007-2008
AlphaQB: I'd be surprised if the easy-medium-hard parts were invariably in that order. A good bit of the time, it makes sense to do it in a different order -- like work from plot (middle difficulty)/author of that work (easy)/other work by author (hard).
- Tue May 06, 2008 4:41 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Larry Bird's College Coach
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1200
Re: Larry Bird's College Coach
That's awesome. This might even be a cooler connection than that Celtics stats guy...
- Mon May 05, 2008 4:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Two-tournament weekend at VCU August 16 & 17?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11860
Re: Two-tournament weekend at VCU August 16 & 17?
I'll actually be moving to Virginia about a week before this (thanks to the date change), so I might be interested in playing or helping read or something.
- Mon May 05, 2008 4:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New Tournament Calendar Available on the Quizbowl Wiki
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3848
Re: New Tournament Calendar Available on the Quizbowl Wiki
Well it depends on what preferred status confers. If it is just a "PACE Seal of Approval" I think it's a great idea -- it's saying, hey, these people went to this Bootcamp and now (theoretically) know more than they used to about running tournaments; as such, this tournament should be of d...
- Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Community College Championship
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4335
Re: NAQT Community College Championship
All I'm saying is that there need to be a certain number of participants even in the CC field to make the championship legitimate. If this means that the DII field is effectively 24 teams (plus however many CCs are competitive enough to break into that number), well, I don't see an inherent problem...
- Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Hypothetical Unfair Result
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2889
Re: Hypothetical Unfair Result
Interesting. I, myself, have never been a huge fan of bonus conversion as a sole tiebreaker. That said, of course, ANY statistical tiebreaker is going to have its flaws. I'm willing to accept the currently prevailing notion that BC is less-flawed than other methods, and am curious to see how common ...
- Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2007-2008
- Replies: 268
- Views: 72693
Re: Georgia 2007-2008
Alpha points out exactly what the problem is with your logic. On the anonymous works question, it's entirely reasonable to think that a less-knowledgeable team might only know Dickinson did that, while the more knowledgeable team would know about Dickinson, Austen, and others. If the answer had been...
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 4:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ghetto Warz discussion
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4301
Re: Ghetto Warz discussion
If I recall correctly, I think we played some Ghetto Warz packets at Moon Pie last year... and they were terrible then. I can only imagine what would possess someone to reuse questions that were known to be bad AND plagiarized.
- Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:12 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Presidential Candidates association test
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2117
Re: Presidential Candidates association test
It looks like they tried to do two "good" pics and two "bad" pics of each candidate, but I gotta say, one of the Obama pics was just awful -- it was really grainy and he looked homeless or something. That was just reflex for me to hit the bad key, even on the "Obama=Good&quo...
- Mon Apr 21, 2008 12:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2007-2008
- Replies: 268
- Views: 72693
Re: Georgia 2007-2008
EFG, I'm from Macon, which (as you may know) is roughly half an hour north of Warner Robins. To be honest, HS quizbowl in Middle Georgia is unfortunately not as strong as it should be/could be/has been in the past. The three big Houston County schools, in particular, all seem to be good-to-great pub...
- Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT's Post-ICT Survey
- Replies: 84
- Views: 20384
Re: NAQT's Post-ICT Survey
I think the logic is that, while there are cases like Valencia '04, and while there are always a couple competitive CCs in middle brackets, most CCs end up doing poorly in the bottom bracket -- case in point, this year 5 of the bottom 6 were CCs. Personally, though, I would only be in favor of split...
- Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What got you into Quizbowl?
- Replies: 90
- Views: 19148
Re: What got you into Quizbowl?
Was the book The View from Saturday ? In my case, my elementary school had a team that was run by the gifted program teacher. The team was open to 5th and 6th graders, but every once in awhile, she would bust out the Quiz-a-Matic and questions from Patrick's Press or Campbell's for younger classes. ...
- Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:07 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: My withdrawal from the Missouri market
- Replies: 27
- Views: 5415
Re: My withdrawal from the Missouri market
Yeah, would it be feasible either for Missouri to adopt NAQT A-series or for someone to try to get NAQT to do one of those custom sets they do, but in MO format? It seems like the option that would be most likely to result in decent questions while being cost-effective. Unless NAQT doesn't want anyt...
- Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: College Jeopardy finally finds a way to avoid quizbowlers.
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6921
Re: College Jeopardy finally finds a way to avoid quizbowlers.
Bryce, does Ken now write for the show? That's the only way your response makes sense... Unless you think Jeopardy! repeats questions, and that some that appeared on the Jennings episodes (which were also on national TV ) might recur. But unlike crappy HS question writers, I don't believe Jeopardy! ...
- Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2008 NAQT HSNCT Announcements
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12716
Re: 2008 NAQT HSNCT Announcements
So what's the over-under on how many years before we see a 200-team HSNCT? Any aspiring HSQB bookies out there?
(Just kidding. Gambling is bad. But really, I think the annually-increasing size is both a symptom of good things in the HS circuit, and a good thing in itself.)
(Just kidding. Gambling is bad. But really, I think the annually-increasing size is both a symptom of good things in the HS circuit, and a good thing in itself.)
- Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:24 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Art Names
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8551
Re: Art Names
I never once said I actually believed it should have been ruled incorrect. Except here: then I personally feel no remorse for that person if and when he is ruled incorrect. On a separate point, what makes Night Watch more "correct"? Just because all good quizbowlers learned it that way? T...
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sunday fall tournaments
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8498
Re: Sunday fall tournaments
I think a lot depends on how far away we're talking about. You're right, Athens to Tuscaloosa on Sat night and back on Sun night just wouldn't happen. At the same time, I can tell you that we would not have brought six teams to ACF Fall last year had it been on Saturday instead of Sunday. We would h...
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Great Middle School Pyramidal Experiment
- Replies: 105
- Views: 51922
Re: The Great Middle School Pyramidal Experiment
Hey Ford, have you/would you consider having some of the quarters (probably the bonus quarters) be only longer questions, and the others be only shorter? It sounds like you're mixing both types together, which is fine I guess, but can be frustrating because it changes the rhythm of the questions. If...
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:25 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Art Names
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8551
Re: Art Names
Did you know that the sculpture is more commonly known as "The Thinker" and just said "The Poet", or is that really the only name you know (well, knew) for it? Giving more esoteric/obscure equivalents, while technically fine, is sort of frowned-upon. If you want to show off super...
- Mon Mar 24, 2008 2:31 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Distance Proofreading
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2995
Re: Distance Proofreading
If I were the TD, I would likely be losing my mind worrying that the network would go down, either in my building or at the copy editor's end. Having real-time editing would cut it a little too close for me. Still, I'd be interested to see how this might turn out.
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:29 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT Subject Distribution
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14127
Re: NAQT Subject Distribution
Maybe because of overlap? Where do you count Homer and ancient stuff that (re)tells a myth?
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT Subject Distribution
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14127
Re: NAQT Subject Distribution
I think it would be easier and more balanced to do packet distribution. A lot of people feel that way, but I can see why one might prefer the tournament-based. If you require every subject to come out to a whole number of questions per round, you can over/under-represent certain subjects from your ...
- Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT Subject Distribution
- Replies: 38
- Views: 14127
Re: NAQT Subject Distribution
That's a pretty common complaint about NAQT, especially with regard to general knowledge and especially geography. It has not changed much since the IS-50s, although I imagine general question quality has probably increased. (Not that it was bad then...) If you weren't aware, remember that NAQT has ...
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Vanderbilt ABC XXXV - April 5, 2008
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4589
Re: Vanderbilt ABC XXXV - April 5, 2008
Dorman? Minnesota? Wow...Athena Starwoman wrote:Dorman is going to the Minnesota tournament the same day that is using these questions.
- Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Pronunciation question
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6305
Re: Pronunciation question
I think ezubaric raises a good point that exposes a flaw in the consonants-correct -> word-correct rule. Sorice's rule sounds reasonable, but it's hard to enforce; on stuff like Taika/Taiku it's obvious where it would fall, but not so much on Borodin (as this thread indicates...) English-speakers te...
- Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Productive discussion about expanding to new schools
- Replies: 59
- Views: 14028
Re: Productive discussion about expanding to new schools
We usually just have people take personal cars and carpool, and reimburse for gas or have the people riding with them split it. (Just make sure the financial arrangements are clear to all parties!) When you take 3, 4, 5 teams... just take 3, 4, 5 cars. It kinda sucks for the people that have to driv...
- Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:52 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2007-2008
- Replies: 268
- Views: 72693
Re: Georgia 2007-2008
I understand what you're saying, and it makes sense -- I think power matching is great for this, as is re-bracketing like a lot of college tournaments do. However, the standard among high school tournaments in this area has been (in my experience, which is substantial but not comprehensive) a set of...
- Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournament at the Arch (Varsity/JV) on March 1st @ UGA
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3145
RESULTS AND THANKS
EDIT: Updated with JV stats I'm pleased to report the results from UGA Quizbowl's Second Annual Tournament at the Arch. We welcomed 22 varsity and 12 JV teams to our campus. We thank all of them for their patience with some early delays with opening the second building (hopefully, we'll have the who...
- Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Georgia 2007-2008
- Replies: 268
- Views: 72693
Re: Georgia 2007-2008
So, as the tournament director/bracket-setter/lots of other things, I thought I'd jump in and say a few things. I do really appreciate the feedback, and will be soliciting coaches for more when I send out a wrap-up email tonight or tomorrow. (The very next thing I'll do after this, BTW, is make a re...
- Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:40 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Building a buzzer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11003
Re: Building a buzzer
A friend of mine built a buzzer for the You Don't Know Jack! computer game. That game used keyboard input as its buzzer, so I believe he just took an old keyboard and figured out what it did to tell the computer it was pressing space bar or whatever... from there, it was pretty simple to wire up a b...