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- Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: 21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 587
Re: 21st Century Music (late Festivus packet)
I would do this on Sunday, but not Saturday
- Tue May 02, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 50916
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals Specific Question Discussion
Prelims 2, TU 18 on "ferns" says "“Allies” of this lineage include lycophytes and horntails." I'm pretty sure it should say "horsetails," not "horntails."
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4108
Re: 2023 BHSU: Favorite questions/clues/buzzes/moments
My favorite questions (not including some of the later packets): Sertao/caatinga/pampas bonus Heinrich Biber bonus Early book printing bonus Satis House TU (I certainly would not have gotten it even on the giveaway, but the idea seemed cool and Tim got it) Ars subtilior bonus Dickinson/Master/bird b...
- Mon Apr 10, 2023 1:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36177
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
Some comments: Gamboge seems too early in the Cambodia TU Alceste seems hard for a medium part in the Gluck bonus Asking for both Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism seems extremely hard For the "Maximum wavelength" TU it seemed hard to figure out what to say at the end Regardless of the &quo...
- Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7923
Re: Can we cool it a bit with the "note-spelling"?
2. If this is a problem people are seeing consistently, we could try to start writing more score clues in terms of scale degrees, or intervals, or chord types. Then everyone's on the same playing field. As someone who has decent relative pitch but not absolute pitch, this would not help me. When I ...
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 4:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5458
Re: 2022 ACF Winter – Specific Question Discussion
I was confused by Packet 2 TU 3, the religion TU on "wells." In Gerar (“guh-RAHR”), Isaac rebuilds several of these places that had been destroyed by the Philistines. Joseph was said to have been taken from one of these places by a caravan of Midianites after being betrayed by his brothers...
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 7:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7196
Re: 2022 ACF Winter: Global Announcement (November 5)
Does having played in a high school-only mirror of a regular collegiate tournament count for having to submit a packet?
- Wed Apr 13, 2022 10:05 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Science Packet, 2nd Reading (Gauging Interest)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2134
Re: Science Packet, 2nd Reading (Gauging Interest)
I'm definitely interested in playing this
- Mon Feb 07, 2022 8:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 NAQT SCT: Division I question-specific discussion
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2278
Re: 2022 NAQT SCT: Division I question-specific discussion
The clue states: "Work on 'general adaptation syndrome' by Hans Selye ["SELL-yay"] began research into this phenomenon, which is experienced in a disorder that Francine Shapiro first treated with (*) EMDR." I interpret this sentence as containing two independent clues, neither o...
- Wed Feb 02, 2022 2:11 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 53
- Views: 25941
Re: 2022 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
In addition, I already think it was clear that "these events" was applying to a specific type of supernova, or else the clues would have used the pronoun "one type/kind/variant of these events." As you said yourself, you could tell the question was asking for a specific kind of ...
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl @ Pitt [ONLINE, semi-open] (October 23, 2021)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2172
Re: Penn Bowl @ Pitt [ONLINE, semi-open] (October 23, 2021)
Will there be an update on the field for this tournament posted soon?
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1426
Re: Specific Question Discussion
Here are a few negative comments I wrote down during the tournament. I thoroughly enjoyed the set in general, and might come back later with positive comments if I have time. I was very confused by this bonus part in Packet C: [10e] The lower reaches of the Moselle can be found in this European coun...
- Tue Aug 24, 2021 5:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
- Replies: 84
- Views: 33324
Re: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
I really enjoyed this tournament, both in terms of question content and organizational smoothness.
Will there be a discussion forum for it?
Will there be a discussion forum for it?
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Favorite Albums
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4211
Re: Favorite Albums
No particular order. Probably forgot a few that I like just as much as the ones I included.
- Sat Aug 14, 2021 12:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Teammate Appreciation Thread
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7582
Re: Teammate Appreciation Thread
I'd like to express my appreciation for several people. Tim Morrison emits an unflappable aura of calm in every game no matter how close the score is, and scales ridiculously well on literature questions. I should also learn not to neg him out of applied math/stats tossups. Ethan Strombeck has incre...
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 3:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5138
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
Here are my comments on the remaining packets I played at the West Coast mirror on March 6. 6 "Sequencing" and "airline industry" were both cool ideas Tuscany TU seems a bit cliffy on Cosimo Dirac delta function TU was fun In the "twin prime" conjecture bonus, I don't r...
- Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5138
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
Here is my feedback on the first 5 packets. I will probably do another post for packets 6-10 later. 1 Concrete TU was cool Othello TU was impressively "fresh" on a very core work Japan TU was fun Scordatura seems easy for a hard part Pottery bonus was cool Vodou/Sioux/Orishas was quite eas...
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15872
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
I am far from an expert, but was confused by the lack of a prompt on "cloud formation" for "cloud seeding." The answerline said "prompt on making clouds ." It's conceivable that another moderator might have interpreted "cloud formation" as equivalent to "...
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 15872
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - Specific Question Discussion
Here are some questions I found particularly enjoyable to edit and read: Tossups Monteverdi - Berkeley A - extremely good clues, hardly needed editing Czech republic in music - UBC B - Loved the inclusion of Pavel Haas, and the other clues were really well-chosen too France in music - Harvard A - Sp...
- Tue Dec 08, 2020 12:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5588
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
Here are my comments on the rest of the packets I played. 6 "Hospitals" was fun, reminded me of something that would be in a Mike Bentley-written tournament 7 In the clustering tossup, the mention of "Scikit" was unhelpful for two reasons. First, the package is actually called sc...
- Mon Dec 07, 2020 1:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5588
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
Regarding Outliers - I almost cut that question due to my intense dislike of Malcolm Gladwell, but I will defend the question in terms of "this is an extremely popular author whose work comes up in a lot of places." I definitely had a very odd AP Economics class, but we also read excerpts...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5588
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
Here are my thoughts on the tossups for packets 1-5. I might do the same for packets 6-10 if I have time. Atlantic Ocean should specify that "South Atlantic" should be accepted I never realized that egg matzo didn't contain eggs! Cool clue Maya tossup: the "j" in "ajaw"...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 IKEA - General Set Discussion
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5397
Re: General Set Discussion
I agree that Anna-Sophie Mutter has the potential to be a cliff for "violin concerto" in a game with multiple music specialists. I don't recall whether it played that way in the game I was in. I really enjoyed buzzing on the Seven Last Words clue in the Haydn tossup. It was a great use of ...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 IKEA - Specific Questions Discussion
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5588
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
I think a directed prompt would be helpful on the "web scraping" TU. I buzzed on the clue about BeautifulSoup and said various variations of "HTML parsing" while being prompted, ending up with a neg. As far as I understand, BeautifulSoup is specifically used for parsing HTML and ...
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11655
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Sorry about that, while the tossup generally called it a "concept," there was one line that called it an "influential model" (in quotes) because the Elinor Ostrom book discusses it in a section entitled "Three Influential Models," so I thought that phrasing might be he...
- Tue Nov 10, 2020 11:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11655
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Some questions that I remember really enjoying were: Wolves tossup Turkey in opera tossup Supermodels bonus Paraphilias bonus I remember being confused that tossup on "tragedy of the commons" used "this model" as a pronoun. I've always thought of the tragedy of the commons being ...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 2:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11845
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - General Discussion and Thanks
I was impressed by the clarity of writing in this set. I noticed significantly fewer confusing turns of phrase than I do in the average set. I agree with Will's point about bonuses being overly long. There were many times where my team would think a bonus part was over, give our directed answer, and...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11655
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
If I remember correctly, the tossup on "sepoys" mentioned "blowing from a gun" in the first or second clue. I think that clue should have been moved later in the question, since the Indian Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 is the most famous historical period for use of that method of executi...
- Sun Nov 08, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11655
Re: 2020 ACF Winter - Specific Question Discussion
Here are two questions that I wrote down for negative reasons while playing the set. There are a much larger number of questions that I enjoyed, which I might comment on once I see the packets. There was a bonus about Massachusetts in literature that seemed to refer to The Crucible as being set in a...
- Sat Oct 24, 2020 8:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3932
Re: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
UC Berkeley A won this tournament with a 9-0 record. In second place (and the top-placing high school) was Mission San Jose, and UCLA took third place.
Full stats are available at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6599/.
Full stats are available at https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6599/.
- Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3932
Re: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
There are 16 teams signed up. We are closing the field for now. Any teams who still wish to sign up can still contact us; your team will be placed on a waitlist. If we can find enough staffers we may be able to expand the field and take teams off the waitlist.
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3932
LIT West Coast Online Mirror hosted by Stanford
Stanford will be hosting an online mirror of Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT) on October 24, 2020! The tournament will start at 9 AM Pacific time and have 9 rounds, lasting approximately until 5:30 PM. You may read more about the set here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=...
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MARCATo General Thoughts
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1741
Re: MARCATo General Thoughts
I tried to simulate a full round robin on all rounds of the first MARCATo mirror, based on buzzpoint data that Noah kindly provided. The resulting team records and PPG, and individual player PPG, are available at https://github.com/natan-holtzman/MARCATo_stats , as well as the Python code used to ru...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 10:51 am
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing Qblitz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18969
Re: Announcing Qblitz
I encountered a situation today when my internet briefly went out while I was typing an answer. When the internet came back, the page seemed to be stuck on "Submitting answer" and nothing was happening. So I refreshed the page, and it advanced to the next question, skipping the step where ...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 12:12 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Announcing Qblitz
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18969
Re: Announcing Qblitz
After playing my first game on Qblitz (the seeding round of MARCATo), I was impressed with how smoothly the user interface works. I have two suggestions that I feel would further improve the experience. 1. Prompts. The writers should be able to specify certain possible answers that trigger a prompt ...
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 1:33 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: On HS Teams Without Coaches
- Replies: 68
- Views: 48712
Re: On HS Teams Without Coaches
Rohan, if you don't think that 11-year-old kids should have an adult along with them while walking by a busy road as part of an official school activity, I don't know what to tell you. First of all, kids that age are not mature enough to manage a situation if one of them gets lost or has a medical e...
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 2:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5464
Re: Buzzword: A New Online Competition from NAQT
When a season of Buzzword is over, overall standings reflect the best 5 games of each player. Will category standings be calculated similarly, or are they only based on total points scored in each category, favoring players who played more games?
- Wed May 27, 2020 11:09 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 33486
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
Re: breakout rooms, I suspect that the perceived delay was not really a delay. When you reassign people into breakout rooms, you basically need to wait for all of the rounds in the bracket to finish. Re-assigning breakouts is not difficult and should take 1 minute max per team. I am guessing that i...
- Thu May 07, 2020 3:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10489
Re: Cambridge Open Online (5/24)
Is it required that the webcam be pointed at our hands? Or is a built-in laptop webcam that can only view our face OK?
- Sat May 02, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 42
- Views: 9266
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP Specific Question Discussion
Quick notes from the Closed Shop online mirror Questions that I especially enjoyed: jazz fusion bonus, TUs on Chinese Malaysians, cloud condensation nuclei, expected value in physics, USPS, and diving Packetization issues: if I remember correctly, packet 2 had 2 computational chemistry questions, a...
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16829
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
Could I see the tossups on "rotation" and "Peter Grimes"?
They both seemed to have a relatively easy clue placed early in the question, leading to buzzer races (a description of rotation matrices, and "The Great Bear and Pleiades").
They both seemed to have a relatively easy clue placed early in the question, leading to buzzer races (a description of rotation matrices, and "The Great Bear and Pleiades").
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16829
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
At this level, you could probably just, I don't know, tossup Amahl and the Night Visitors or "Support Vector Machines" or "Sonic Adventure" and avoid all this confusion. I second this point. It seems unnecessarily ambitious for the writers to write NAQT-length tossups on such co...
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16829
Re: 2020 Division I SCT: specific question discussion
At this level, you could probably just, I don't know, tossup Amahl and the Night Visitors or "Support Vector Machines" or "Sonic Adventure" and avoid all this confusion. I second this point. It seems unnecessarily ambitious for the writers to write NAQT-length tossups on such co...
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7884
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
My completely subjective impression is that, compared to 2019 Regionals, the 2020 tossups were equal in difficulty while being more engagingly written/fun to play. The bonuses seemed slightly harder than last year.
- Wed Dec 18, 2019 10:12 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324139
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...
- Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324139
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) – Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde – Royals Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt vs. Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me Cour...
- Fri Dec 13, 2019 2:02 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324139
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk – Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky ...
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 1:18 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324139
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
#1 Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. #16 Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best #8 Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. #9 Weyes Blood – Movies #5 M83 - Midnight City vs. #12 Mark Ronson (ft. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk #4 Azealia Banks - 212 vs. #13 Fiona Apple - Every Single Night #6 Adele - Rolling ...
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324139
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
#1 Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko #8 Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing vs. #9 Ariana Grande - thank u, next “Everything is Embarrassing” is OK. I find Ariana’s vocal style on that whole album annoying. #5 Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. #1...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 1:56 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
- Replies: 349
- Views: 2324139
Re: Best Song of the 2010s Bracket
#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) #5 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company vs. #12 M.I.A. - Bad Gi...