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by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:08 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7086

Re: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion

So, sorry it has taken so long to get round to this, but there's a question that needs some work and to stop misunderstandings creeping into the canon Description acceptable. According to Jean Ducat, an unclear term denoting the final stage of this system is first mentioned in the Gortyn law code as...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:01 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Fall Discussion
Replies: 6
Views: 4462

Re: 2023 ACF Fall Discussion

Regarding the Cyrus Cylinder clue, I think the wording could have been more specific but there's nothing really wrong there. It has been referred to in that way, although for nationalistic purposes. The question was not attempting to assert it actually was such a charter. Yeah, this is basically ok...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:58 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: Summer Opens?
Replies: 16
Views: 7200

Re: Summer Opens?

We are very much looking for American and Canadian hosts of COOT mirrors, so please get in touch with me if you want this to happen!
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Feb 19, 2023 4:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2023 COOT: Announcement
Replies: 8
Views: 8647

Re: 2023 COOT: Announcement

This happened yesterday - in a one game final, Chicago A, who had the advantage, overcame Golfers, Non-Golfers, Both, Neither (a team comprising George Charlson, Alex Peplow, Evan Lynch and Afham Raoof) 450-220. Stats for the tournament are available here: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8058/...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:03 am
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion
Replies: 27
Views: 8103

Re: 2023 ACF Regionals Discussion

7. According to Polyaenus, a person with this title was deposed in 496 BCE after minting his own coins. A “Northern” version of this title was held by Rajuvula, who ruled Mathura in the early 1st century CE. Nectanebo I and Nectanebo II supported people with this title during their “Great Revolt.” ...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:09 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 25771

Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

Could you post the myth question on Mycenae? - I believe that at the point I buzzed in the first line (Inachos) the TU equally refers to Argos, and in Pausanias, Strabo, and a range of other ancient authors the river/river god/culture hero/mythical king is always associated with Argos and the Argol...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:57 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 53
Views: 25771

Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

Could you post the myth question on Mycenae? - I believe that at the point I buzzed in the first line (Inachos) the TU equally refers to Argos, and in Pausanias, Strabo, and a range of other ancient authors the river/river god/culture hero/mythical king is always associated with Argos and the Argolid.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:57 pm
Forum: Collegiate Discussion
Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks
Replies: 10
Views: 4973

Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - General Discussion and Thanks

I'd like to open by praising this set - in the areas I pay close attention to (History, RMPSS and the like), it did a very good job of challenging both newer and more experienced players, delivered on the canon of quiz in 2022, and very rarely when pushing the boundaries did I feel 'Why on earth are...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:27 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COOT 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 5268

Re: COOT 2021

The packets have been uploaded to the archive
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020–21 Player Poll
Replies: 6
Views: 7269

Re: 2020–21 Player Poll

Your ballots should include Evan Lynch and Joseph Krol -both over 90ppg on WORKSHOP, over 100ppg on SMH, Evan over 100ppg at the UK Regs mirror (where Ox A and Cam A where absent, which probably made not much difference to his personal total), Krol 44ppg at the Regs Invitational site (7th highest sc...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020–21 Postseason Poll
Replies: 10
Views: 4617

Re: 2020–21 Postseason Poll

in the country
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(memes aside, I assume this is not intended to only rank US teams?)
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Fri May 21, 2021 9:38 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The possibility of spectator-facilitated cheating
Replies: 5
Views: 4460

Re: The possibility of spectator-facilitated cheating

1. Banning spectators This would basically solve the whole problem. Understandably, organizations may want to stream matches in order to provide an atmosphere consistent with those in previous years. This solution would, however, be the easiest to implement; and if only the players can see the ques...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:20 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest
Replies: 36
Views: 11721

Re: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest

Yes, I would love to play this (and imagine I would not be the only UK player)
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:17 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 39
Views: 15746

Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion

Questions I particularly enjoyed that I can remember right now - the ancient prosthetics bonus set, the ancient Egyptian art TU (which I shamefully failed to work out, despite it talking about an object in a museum less than a mile from me), axis mundi bonus set - generally, I enjoyed this set, and ...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Feb 01, 2021 1:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals Invitational (1/30/2021)
Replies: 12
Views: 6466

Re: 2021 ACF Regionals Invitational (1/30/2021)

This tournament had a rather ambitious schedule and its participants spanned 8 hours of timezones, but I think it worked out alright. I'm sure there are also a lot of things to be said about how spectators were involved at this tournament; I encourage any public feedback so that other tournaments c...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:50 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COOT 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 5268

Re: COOT 2021

Just a reminder that this set will be available for mirrors from February 13th - get in contact with us if you're interested in hosting one in your area. A reminder about this: we are looking for hosts for American/Canadian mirrors of COOT 2021 - if you or your team are interested, please email me ...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:03 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Replies: 42
Views: 11500

Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion

I thought almost all the history in this tournament was excellent, with some interesting lead ins and well organised clue orders - I will be pointing new writers towards some questions as 'how to do it' in the future. Only big erratum I spotted was this question: 18. Members of this body were requir...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: COOT 2021
Replies: 10
Views: 5268

COOT 2021

I am pleased to announce that for 2021 Oxford University and Cambridge University Quiz Societies will be combining forces to produce a housewritten set: Cambridge and Oxford Open Tournament (COOT). The head editors for this set will be Joseph Krol and me. The set, which will comprise 13 packets, wil...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Tue Jul 21, 2020 5:04 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Mimir's Well Harvest League (starting August 2)
Replies: 1
Views: 1474

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Mimir's Well Harvest League (starting August 2)

I would highly recommend playing this, the first league was excellent, with a high standard of questions and competition
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jul 19, 2020 11:11 am
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

This was a really enjoyable tournament. The set was filled with fun and interesting ideas, and felt very highly polished as well. The logistics were really good as well from my perspective and I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on running Discord tournaments - the only issue seemed to be t...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:23 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

Thanks to everyone who turned out to play the finals packets last night - according to the discord scoring bot the Top 10 scorers were itamar 75 tejas 65 Erik Christensen 35 cabibbo-kobayashi-maskawa 30 Krol [Cambridge] 25 JLaw 20 r_hi 10 swapnil garg 10 Max Brodsky (High Tech) 10 Nick Jensen 5 I've...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:09 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

I will be reading the two Finals packets tonight on the discord at 11 pm BST/6pm EDT this evening.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jun 28, 2020 2:43 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

Stats are available here - Let me know if there are any errors!

Edit. Playoffs stat report now carries over the one game from prelims.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jun 28, 2020 11:55 am
Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
Topic: Introducing YellowFruit.
Replies: 106
Views: 95111

Re: Introducing YellowFruit.

When I export Full Report, I cannot upload any of the produced HTML pages to hsquizbowl apart from the _standing.html file - the others all bring up the error "Scoreboard report was not saved because it does not appear to be a valid SQBS file." etc. Edit. Also when I send the file to anoth...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:32 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

Thank you to everyone who played yesterday, and congratulations to Vro for clearing the field, and to Will Alston for top scoring. I also want to thank my team of moderators, who did a sterling job all day - many of them kept an excellent pace during the rounds, and generally let me know quickly if ...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:30 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

The logistics email with links to the Zoom room (and backup Discord channel) has been sent out to team contacts. Please let me know if you haven't received them (though I will not reply until morning UK time now)
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Fri Jun 26, 2020 7:28 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33261

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

UKQB have also issued a guide to running Zoom tournaments, which can be found here . As an aside, I'm a little, er, thrown off by the male pronouns used when referring to the moderator and scorekeeper in this document. The instances of male pronouns being used where gender neutral ones should have ...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Fri Jun 26, 2020 8:38 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

I've not had an email response from MIT, Berkeley, vro, or Koyaaniscottie - please reply, or let me know that you've not got it - (MIT, I'm aware my first email didn't go through, but you've not since responded to the resent emails)
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Jun 22, 2020 7:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

I have now emailed all the registered teams - let me know if you haven't received and email and expected to!
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Thu Jun 11, 2020 7:41 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

A reminder please for teams to register using the google form (looking at Harvard A and B, MIT, and 'vro')

Edit.
We also now have enough mods confirmed for 24 teams.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Wed Jun 03, 2020 7:10 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

nickdai wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:29 pm Past versions of Oxford Open were not powermarked. Is there an intent to powermark this year’s edition?
No.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Wed May 27, 2020 5:44 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

I would also vote against Americanization, the British content introduces a lot of bonus difficulty variance but it's interesting to listen to and does meaningfully differentiate teams in the tossups. Agreed. I would suggest, though, that the very British bonuses have easy parts replaced with thing...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Tue May 26, 2020 6:58 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

Based on the experience of this past weekend's CamO, I would strongly advise against a Zoom tournament, or at least against having a team of people who aren't super-experienced with running Zoom breakout rooms being bracket captains / mods. I'd personally prefer Discord, as ICT and similar events h...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon May 25, 2020 1:57 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

Thanks to everyone who has signed up, and especially to those who have registered so far - we're approaching our initial 20 team field cap, so I am currently seeing if we can secure enough mods to expand to 24 teams - for now, sign up ASAP to be sure of a place in the field!
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun May 17, 2020 5:58 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

The first post has been updated with the date of the tournament, and some new information.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Wed May 13, 2020 9:56 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror

Very pleased to see such initial strong interest in the tournament - please do keep signing up! - we will announce the date based on votes received in the evening (BST) this Saturday.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Tue May 12, 2020 10:58 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror

Illinois Admin wrote: Tue May 12, 2020 10:45 am Is this planned as tossups only or tossups + bonuses?
Tossups and Bonuses.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Tue May 12, 2020 6:33 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Replies: 39
Views: 15789

Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June

Oxford University Quiz Society are planning on hosting an online mirror of Oxford Open 2020 on Saturday, 27th June. The set was played here in February, and was well received. The set is regular difficulty, with the science answer lines shading on the easier side. Though there are some more British ...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun May 03, 2020 10:48 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
Replies: 67
Views: 33261

Re: Running Zoom Tournaments

To back up what George said, the whole experience was massively improved by being able to see your teammates (and others) - given the length of time before we might have in-person tournaments again, a medium which aids the social side of quizbowl is one worth using.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:07 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round
Replies: 22
Views: 1213

Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient" play-in round

Well, first, as someone committed to being anti-Athenian, it is important to note that this is not the "Greek" calendar (as no such thing existed), but that merely of a single somewhat important city state. 40 seed: Thargelion v Anthesterion One of the days of the Anthesteria festival invo...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:47 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 23
Views: 7819

Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion

I'd like to echo what I think is the general consensus that this was a a good Regionals set, with generally around the right difficulty, and some good ideas. The logistics side of the tournament, from a player's perspective, was a seamless as any tournament I've played in. I will be interested to se...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:25 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)
Replies: 27
Views: 7182

Re: Even GHOTIer (GHOTI II 2020 Announcement)

I hope I might be able to persuade/force some sort of mirror of this in the UK

Also, was GHOTI ever posted to the archives?
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:17 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Thanks and General Discussion
Replies: 15
Views: 4674

Re: ACF Fall 2019 Thanks and General Discussion

From the perspective of someone who only read it and did not see it being played, this was the best Fall set in a while, and it was definitely appreciated to receive it earlier, and with much less work needed than in the past for the purposes of Briticization
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:15 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
Replies: 51
Views: 14551

Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata

Arabidopsis failiana wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2019 9:34 pm I feel like "ox" definitely should have been accepted for the cow tossup. I'm fairly sure that when I read the Odyssey, it referred to "ox-eyed Hera."
Both Autenreith and Cunliffe,the standard Homeric lexica translate it as Ox-eyed
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:20 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Fall Open 2019 (November 2019)
Replies: 10
Views: 10279

Re: Fall Open 2019 (November 2019)

Is there any chance of an online mirror of this? I unfortunately cannot go to the UK site, but would love to play this tournament if possible.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Video: British Student Quiz Championships 2019 Final
Replies: 3
Views: 4005

Re: Video: British Student Quiz Championships 2019 Final

adosreme wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:10 pm I love your questions! Was this a housewritten set?
This was a Briticized version of SCT
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Sep 16, 2019 2:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
Replies: 7
Views: 4221

Re: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN

Stats available here, including the consolation game played between Teams 2 and 6.
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Mon Sep 16, 2019 5:37 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
Replies: 7
Views: 4221

Re: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN

This happened - following a round robin, the standings were Team 1: 4-1 Team 2: 1-4 Team 3: 4-1 Team 4: 0-5 Team 5: 4-1 Team 6: 2-3 Team 1 (Charles Hang and Rahul Rao-Pothuraju) were leading on PPG, so Team 3 (Robert Muñiz, Ben Ream, Michael Kearney) played a play-in game against Team 5 (Jakob Myers...
by Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone
Thu Sep 12, 2019 11:53 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN
Replies: 7
Views: 4221

Re: Online Mirror of OCTAVIAN

Discord link here: https://discord.gg/TER3pH - please join ASAP so I can assign you to your team roles, and we can double check that I have set up the room permissions correctly

Edit. I now have moderators - thanks to the volunteers!