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- Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2018)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20100
Re: Where are You Going Next Year (Collegiate 2018)
I'll be starting a Ph.D. in physics at UCSB in the fall, which barring some unforeseen circumstances (or a sudden desire to finish my Star Wars set) effectively marks the end of my quizbowl career. It's been fun.
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 82
- Views: 19583
Re: PB 2016: Specific Question Discussion
In the tossup on absinthe in literature, the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" is clued. While the story's characters do, in fact, drink Anis del Toro (identifiable as absinthe based on the fact that it's drunk with water and tastes like licorice, and further by the fact that the w...
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 10:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Collegiate Novice at Cornell (10/1/2016) (IS-158C)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2180
NAQT Collegiate Novice at Cornell (10/1/2016) (IS-158C)
The Cornell University quizbowl team is pleased to announce our mirror of the NAQT collegiate novice tournament, which will take place on October 1, 2015. The tournament will (most likely) take place in Rockefeller Hall (231 East Ave, Ithaca NY). Further information about starting time, etc. will be...
- Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:20 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
- Replies: 45
- Views: 31488
Re: NY/NJ Date Claims '16-'17
Cornell University is hosting a mirror of Harvard Fall Tournament XI on October 15, 2016.
- Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT XI at Cornell (10/15/2016)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3327
Re: HFT XI at Cornell (10/15/2016)
Field update:
Ithaca (4,1,0)
Oneonta (2,0,0-2)
Amherst Central (2,0,1)
Total: 8,1,1-3
Ithaca (4,1,0)
Oneonta (2,0,0-2)
Amherst Central (2,0,1)
Total: 8,1,1-3
- Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT XI at Cornell (10/15/2016)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3327
HFT XI at Cornell (10/15/2016)
The Cornell University quizbowl team is pleased to announce our mirror of Harvard Fall Tournament XI, which will take place on October 15, 2015. The tournament will (most likely) take place in Rockefeller Hall (231 East Ave, Ithaca NY). Further information about starting time, etc. will be posted cl...
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:33 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BASK at Cornell (10/10/2015)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4245
- Sun Sep 20, 2015 12:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BASK at Cornell (10/10/2015)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4245
Re: BASK at Cornell (10/10/2015)
This tournament is still happening. The field's been updated.
- Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 20044
Re: Chicago Open thanks and discussion
Has the set been posted yet?
- Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Novice at Cornell (9/19/2015)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2402
VCU Novice at Cornell (9/19/2015)
The Cornell University quizbowl team is pleased to announce our mirror of VCU Novice, which will take place on September 19, 2015. The tournament will take place in Rockefeller Hall (231 East Ave, Ithaca NY). Further information about starting time, etc. will be posted closer to the tournament. Regi...
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:16 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BASK at Cornell (10/10/2015)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4245
Re: BASK at Cornell (10/10/2015)
Field (Teams/Buzzers/Moderators):
Ithaca (3/1/1)
Wellsboro (1/0/0)
Bishop Guertin (1/0/0)
Geneva (2/0/1)
Southern Cayuga (1/0/0)
Total: 8/1/2
Ithaca (3/1/1)
Wellsboro (1/0/0)
Bishop Guertin (1/0/0)
Geneva (2/0/1)
Southern Cayuga (1/0/0)
Total: 8/1/2
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 8:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: BASK at Cornell (10/10/2015)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4245
BASK at Cornell (10/10/2015)
The Cornell University quizbowl team is pleased to announce our mirror of BASK, which will take place on October 10, 2015. The tournament will take place in Rockefeller Hall (231 East Ave, Ithaca NY). Further information about starting time, etc. will be posted closer to the tournament. We have a fi...
- Sat Aug 08, 2015 12:12 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NY / NJ Date Claims, 2015-16
- Replies: 65
- Views: 37439
Re: NY / NJ Date Claims, 2015-16
Cornell University will be hosting a mirror of BASK on October 10, 2015.
- Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: History Player
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12772
Re: History Player
As your captain next year, overruled, learn history.The Quest for the Historical Mukherjesus wrote:Keep doing that.Amethyst wrote:Hi! I was a science specialist in high school
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:07 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
- Replies: 577
- Views: 457355
Re: Clearinghouse for Random Packet Announcements
samus was I.Vissi d'arte wrote:samus was Colin
- Mon May 18, 2015 7:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9453
Re: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
Status report: this set is halfway done, and has been that way since I had to stop working on it in March, but I'm gonna keep on writing this and have it ready for play sometime next year (next ICT, if possible).
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 11:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Literary Phrasing
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8999
Re: Literary Phrasing
While we're on the subject of verbal tics to avoid, for the love of god, think long and hard before you use the word "titular". And then don't use it. For clarification's case, here's the prompt/first part: An eye operation serves as a turning point in this story, in which the patient end...
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9453
Re: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
This set is currently 33.5% done, but most of that was done in the last few weeks after I took a sabbatical to watch all 6 seasons of the Clone Wars cartoon. I'm reasonably confident I can get it done before the two high school nationals, but I'm not sure which one, if any, I'll be attending.
- Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF eligibility rule changes for 2015-2016
- Replies: 74
- Views: 37195
Re: ACF eligibility rule changes for 2015-2016
High school players: You don't have an issue with NAQT preventing you from playing D2 SCT against college teams and are perfectly fine using the D2 SCT set for a high school tournament, but when ACF wants to implement a similar policy with ACF Fall, it's a huge issue. You don't have a problem that ...
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 7:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 Regionals: thread for all things science
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6301
Re: 2015 Regionals: thread for all things science
Aaaaaaaaaaas yoooooooooou wiiiiiiiiiiiiish.... 10. In the oxymercuration-demercuration reaction, this phenomenon accelerates the reaction by stabilizing the mercurinium intermediate which is reduced in subsequent steps. This phenomenon is the most widely-accepted explanation for a higher-than-expec...
- Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2015 Regionals: thread for all things science
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6301
Re: 2015 Regionals: thread for all things science
Could I see that tossup on hyperconjugation? That first line about oxymercuration seems really obvious, and I and someone on the other team were staring at each other in incredulity when that came up first line. Other than that, and the generally unforgiving nature of the chemistry bonuses, this sci...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 8:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9453
Re: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
Is this set written for teams or will people be playing this SOLO? Does trash/pop culture refer to things outside the SW universe that refer to the SW universe (like Robot Chicken or Spaceballs)? And lastly, will you translate this set to common non-Galactic Basic sentient languages like Shyriiwook...
- Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9453
SOLO: A Star Wars Tournament
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… This is the announcement for Sean’s Opulent Lucasian Open, or SOLO, a Star Wars tournament written by, you guessed it, me. I’m hoping to finish 10 packets of 20 tossups each, with the following distribution: 2 Movies (Roughly 1/3 Prequels, 1/3 Originals, 1...
- Sun Nov 09, 2014 9:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 25995
Re: ACF Fall 2014 - General Discussion
I don't know if it was me, but this tournament seemed to have a lot more Graeco-Roman myth and film questions than usual. Were those subdistributions increased?
- Thu Nov 06, 2014 1:34 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Is culinary art a fine art?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12449
Re: Is culinary art a fine art?
The only questions I can remember on food are that one common link tossup at the 2014 NSC on peaches that used clues about Peach Melba and Bellinis for the first half, and a tossup I played a few years back in practice on avocados. If you're planning on writing culinary arts questions...don't. A cul...
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What are the easiest categories to learn?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5164
Re: What are the easiest categories to learn?
Blasphemy.Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:Short answer: not science
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17915
Re: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
This strikes me as incorrect. To turn this into a learning experience, I was under the impression that Cronenberg was known for his "body horror" style and Naked Lunch, but was declining in relevancy and "artistic merit" (however you want to define it) recently; I'd genuinely ap...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11663
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
Could I see that tossup on Tahiti? I think the first clue was pretty transparent, seeing how it's one of the most famous features of Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, which is definitely the most famous of his Tahitian paintings.
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 1:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICCS: Discussion of Specific Questions
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2452
Re: ICCS: Discussion of Specific Questions
I don't have the set right in front of me, but what I do remember is that some of the chemistry got pretty hard and sometimes borderline unanswerable (like those tossups on the partition function and Clausius-Clapeyron equation). I also don't remember a lot of tossups on elements and compounds, whic...
- Tue Sep 09, 2014 2:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 High School Pre-Season Poll
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13195
Re: 2014-15 High School Pre-Season Poll
In case anyone's interested, I redid the poll removing those two ballots: 1. LASA A (9 first place votes) 249 2. Western Albemarle A (1 first place vote) 239 3. Rockford Auburn A 222 4. Northmont A 211 5. DCC A 210 6. Farragut A 184 7. (tie) Centennial A 164 7. (tie) Richard Montgomery A 164 8. Magg...
- Fri Sep 05, 2014 1:19 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: We Trivia Now
- Replies: 2
- Views: 625
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:36 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013-14 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13229
Re: 2013-14 NAQT IS sets: question-specific discussion
My only big complaints about questions this year are the two IS sets (I think 130 and 132) that had a tossup on angular momentum which started by asking about Clebsch-Gordon coefficients, and the extremely difficult coin collecting bonus from IS-136.
- Sun Jun 08, 2014 2:05 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 65330
Re: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
In the interest of correctness, it's Shravan Balaji and Srishti Srivastava.Smuttynose Island wrote: New Jersey
Jack Mehr
Shravan Bialaji
Rohan Kodialam
Sean McBride
Shristi Srivastava
Stephen Badger
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:05 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 HSNCT discussion
- Replies: 135
- Views: 75587
Re: 2014 HSNCT discussion
The science this year I thought was an especially weak point. Some examples: - Cauchy's generalization of Hooke's Law in the first line. Hooke's Law was determined a long time ago to be a terrible tossup idea, and this is a stock clue that was determined to be a terrible leadin. - Complete metric sp...
- Sun May 25, 2014 11:46 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 PACE NSC Questions Discussion
- Replies: 69
- Views: 42321
Re: 2014 PACE NSC Questions Discussion
This was definitely my favorite NSC of the past 3 years. Great answer selection, especially on the science, keeping with some standard answers (benzene, colloids, glycolysis) while mixing in an incredible variety of new answers (rocket fuel, reducing agents, mass-energy equivalence, blood sugar). My...
- Mon May 19, 2014 12:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NJ/NY 2013-2014
- Replies: 94
- Views: 42321
Re: NJ/NY 2013-2014
What High Tech chooses to so with its team breakdowns is also going to be relevant: do they revert to the 2012-2013 method of creating multiple balanced, extremely skilled teams, or will it consolidate its players like it did this year to essentially form a superteam? Just to be clear, cause I thin...
- Tue May 13, 2014 10:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
- Replies: 203
- Views: 108015
Re: HSQBRank 2013-2014: Witty Subtitle
Who are these guys and what tournament(s) did they play?Dr. Loki Skylizard, Thoracic Surgeon wrote: China - 8
- Fri May 02, 2014 12:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NAQT Small School NCT: Congratulations Hallsville!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 19294
Re: 2014 NAQT Small School NCT: May 3-4, Minneapolis
I second this motion.vinteuil wrote:I demand to be able to hear these at some later time if this happens.Mewto55555 wrote:I have a packet of (somewhat hard) Star Wars mashup tossups if you're looking to bundle together a bunch of unused packets into some kind of event.
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Where Will You Be Going To College Next Year? 2013-14
- Replies: 45
- Views: 20928
Re: Where Will You Be Going To College Next Year? 2013-14
I'll be at Cornell University, playing quizbowl.
- Fri Apr 25, 2014 12:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91901
Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
My mother was killed by a gamma ray burst mapping the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall.Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:I like that this is basically the quiz bowl version of "Slumdog Millionaire" without you know, the not cheating part.
- Mon Mar 31, 2014 7:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
- Replies: 155
- Views: 91901
Re: Lederberg 2: Daughter Cell (3/29/14)
I would like to (incompetently) play this too.
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 10:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Neg Prizes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6068
Re: Neg Prizes
Eh, I've always thought neg prizes were fun, a way to keep the games from getting too serious. It's true that top scorers usually win them, but the people who are in contention for a neg prize are usually as excited for them as they are for a PPG award. If you want to avoid someone negging out their...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:38 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific requests and discussion
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5355
Re: Question-specific requests and discussion
- Not straight up accepting "integer" seems a little cruel to me I don't understand how this is cruel. The difference between a primitive type (eg int) and an object (eg Integer) is fundamental to Java, and indeed, one of the very first concepts taught in AP Computer Science. The third pa...
- Sun Mar 23, 2014 4:03 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific requests and discussion
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5355
Re: Question-specific requests and discussion
My comments: Round 1: - Not straight up accepting "integer" seems a little cruel to me Round 2: - Whenever there's a force that acts on lights and stars in space, it pretty much has to be gravity - My translation of Crime and Punishment used "ubermensch" instead of "superman...
- Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: General set discussion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1663
Re: General set discussion
Some general comments before I go to sleep: 1) Two of my teammates complained that the visual art was not so great. They mainly bemoaned the lack of Renaissance era artists and a large amount of common link questions on "this country", "this object", "this person", etc....
- Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NAQT HSNCT: Congratulations LASA!
- Replies: 68
- Views: 40470
Re: 2014 NAQT HSNCT: May 31-June 1, Chicago
Will there be a recording service like iHigh at this year's HSNCT?
- Sun Mar 09, 2014 1:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific Discussion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4362
Re: Question-specific Discussion
11. Several months before this event, a tablet predicting its occurrence was excavated from the tomb of the founder of Capua. The Sacred Way and a bridge over the Field of Mars were considered as possible settings for this event, whose key figure was given a warning note that went unread just prior...
- Tue Mar 04, 2014 11:21 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New Jersey NASAT Try-Outs April 12th
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4424
Re: New Jersey NASAT Try-Outs April 12th
I would like to sign up for the science tryout, and Srishti Srivastava would like to sign up for literature and humanities.
Also, if someone wins two categories, would we only bring 5 people or would we pick a second place winner from one of the categories?
Also, if someone wins two categories, would we only bring 5 people or would we pick a second place winner from one of the categories?
- Sun Mar 02, 2014 7:02 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Good ways to improve literature knowledge?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7963
Re: Good ways to improve literature knowledge?
At the end of last year, our team wanted to get better at covering our biggest weakness (literature), so I made a spreadsheet of 50 or so authors and their novels/short stories to read, along with other nerd statistics (color coding, how important 1-5, if there was a movie adaptation for yours truly...
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 2:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: High School Quizbowl Podcast
- Replies: 48
- Views: 18496
Re: High School Quizbowl Podcast
I would like to see discussions on each specialty (how to study them and some common problems and topics), starting with the big 3 and moving towards the smaller specialities.