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- Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4724
Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
We're currently at 23 teams, one under the initial field cap. After that, field expansion will follow the procedure outlined above.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ESPN @ Columbia (Open)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4937
Re: ESPN @ Columbia (Open)
Thank you to William, the rest of the staffers, and the ESPN editors/writers for a fun day of quizbowl! Thanks also due to Emmett for heroically dragging the TELEOLOGY mirror into existence, Michael for staffing it, and Taylor for another very entertaining set of questions.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO Matchmaking
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1435
Re: CO Matchmaking
Just wanted to cross-post from the main thread to note that the field is not almost full just yet, so matchmake away!
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4724
Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
What is the field cap, and what's the procedure for waitlist/standby teams and/or expanding the field if it is reached? I understand that room reservations are unlikely to be finalized for a few months, but the field is almost halfway to its eventual final size from last year, and the situation was...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4724
Re: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
The tournament will be held July 27th at Northwestern!
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1287
Re: 2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
In predictably oafish fashion, I included two dates in the poll, August 10th and August 17th, that JinAh and I will not be able to make. Given this, I'd prefer to select July 27th or August 3rd; however, August 10th is winning in somewhat of a landslide, with 7 more votes than either of those dates ...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:04 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1287
Re: 2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
Forgot to set a deadline but get your votes in by the end of the month, we'll decide around then.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:26 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1287
2024 Chicago Open Date Poll
This is a date poll for 2024 Chicago Open.
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4724
2024 Chicago Open (July 27th at Northwestern)
I am honored to announce the 2024 edition of Chicago Open. The tournament will be held at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, on July 27th. Production Team I, Jordan Brownstein, will serve as head editor and Young Fenimore Lee will serve as tournament director. The subject editors are: Jordan B...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 12:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7211
Re: 2023 ACF Winter Discussion
Copying some comments from the Discord to preserve them for posterity: Thanks for doing this, Kevin! I'd love to see something like this become common practice for set discussion threads (until the longed-for day when everyone simply posts their thoughts on the forums themselves, anyway). On the to...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Science Editor Request - Chicago Open 2024
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1803
Science Editor Request - Chicago Open 2024
Hello, the 2024 Chicago Open team is looking for science editors. If you're interested and can commit to editing at least 1/1, please contact me by forums pm, discord dm, or email (my gmail is jordanzbrownstein) with the categories you'd like to handle and some info about your writing/editing experi...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Discussion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3488
“Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Discussion
This is an all-purpose thread for discussing "Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me" , which is now clear. You may use it post general thoughts, specific question feedback, errata, memorable buzzes and other anecdotes, etc. The set will be submitted to the archive later today. T...
- Sun Sep 03, 2023 8:43 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3015
Re: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
Description of the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in IPCC reports (Natan Holtzman, Tejas Raje, Ryan Rosenberg, and Marianna Zhang) and Obsolete Serbian units of measurement (Michael Coates, Michał Gerasimiuk, William Golden, and John Lawrence) both went 4-1 in playoffs. Since all packets we...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 7:34 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3015
Re: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
Free agents have been assembled into teams and a logistics email has been sent to team contact and free agent email addresses. Let me know if you're playing but didn't get it.
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:00 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3015
Re: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
Since we have a good number of total players for a field of 12 teams, I'm going to close the field to free agents for now. If you're interested and aren't on the spreadsheet yet, put your name on the waitlist; if there's sufficient interest, I'll consider expanding. And don't forget to find teammate...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 7:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3015
Re: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
With this tournament coming up a week from today, don't forget to assemble your team and register! I'll assign remaining free agents to teams on Thursday or so.
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:05 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19755
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
(just for my own amusement, a last word on the above discussion--actual set content comments below) I'm still not sure I see how Andrew's conception of "aboutness" cashes out differently than what Matt J called being "tightly themed." The writing process that Andrew advocates cer...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 9:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19755
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Andrew, I think your distinction is interesting but I’m somewhat confused by your diagnosis of the issue wrt to this set and your examples. Are “horses [in Sahelian state building],” “rafts [in pre-Columbian South American material culture],” “Kashgar [in the medieval Central Asian world],” “Sassani...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3015
Re: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 02, 2023)
Ah sorry Mike, I was going with the winner of my date poll and didn't see your announcement. Because of the conflict with Seattle Open I'll be moving this to the following day, September 3rd (also at 12pm ET) . My apologies to anyone who has put their name on the sheet so far and can't attend on Sun...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3015
“Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” Online (September 03, 2023)
This is an announcement for an online mirror of “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” , to be held on Saturday September 2nd (update: to be held on Sunday, September 3rd) . I'm intending to start games at 12pm ET, though would be happy to move a little later or earlier if people feel st...
- Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 41
- Views: 19755
Re: 2023 Chicago Open - General Discussion and Thanks
Thanks to all the editors, writers, and staff for a very enjoyable CO! I'd like to post later with more specific praise/feedback, but wanted to share a couple things first. Victor (who made this nifty app for viewing the buzz data ), Young, and Henry were kind enough to let me add the CO stats to my...
- Fri Jul 14, 2023 3:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Announcement: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” (2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4501
Re: Announcement: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” (2023)
With the first mirror of QBOWLOSM coming up next weekend, wanted to post a couple updates on the set. The packets will be 20 questions each instead of 22. There will still be 10 packets total. Accordingly, the approximate per-packet distribution is now more like: 3.0 Literature 4.5 History 1.0 Scien...
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:35 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12616
Re: Should ACF tossups be shorter?
I whole-heartedly endorse Andrew’s posts in this thread and hope they will be remembered and quoted during all future iterations of this topic. Anyway, I'm a little surprised by Angry Kevin's suggestion that scrounging around for leadins is a major time sink for writers. In my experience at the 3-do...
- Thu May 18, 2023 1:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Announcement: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” (2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4501
Re: Announcement: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” (2023)
Since it looks like this event won't fit on CO Sunday, I'd like to encourage hosts of side event weekends this summer to mirror “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me.” I don't plan on collecting mirror fees, but hosts are welcome to charge teams for the purpose of paying staffers or club...
- Mon May 08, 2023 7:22 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Five Questions I Liked From 2023 ACF Nationals — And Five I Didn’t
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4742
Re: Five Questions I Liked From 2023 ACF Nationals — And Five I Didn’t
Thanks for posting this, Michael! I like the idea of chopping it up a bit about questions that didn’t attract any “specific questions” discussion, but are still worth praising or analyzing. The buzzpoint data is amazing to have, but I don’t want to rely too heavily on it for assessing questions; aft...
- Thu May 04, 2023 11:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
- Replies: 25
- Views: 24121
Re: 2023 ACF Nationals: April 22-23, MIT
I've deployed a simple app for viewing the Nats buzz and bonus data here. Thanks to Caroline Mao for supplying all the good ideas for the ui (if you don't like something it's safe to assume I came up with it).
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 3:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14693
Re: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
This is probably an even less common take, but I don't particularly like swerves even if they're in category. The Elena Ferrante bonus is the one I remember best - I was excited to hear a bonus on a book I read a week ago, and quickly picked up the first two parts, only to be confronted with a hard...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:39 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Best Debut Performances?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8248
Re: Best Debut Performances?
Jeff King's is surely up there; he had never before played quizbowl at any level when he put up 27.00 PPG on a challenging Illinois Open set.
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:39 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Announcement: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” (2023)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4501
Announcement: “Questions based on Wikipedia links Ophir sent me” (2023)
sorry any wiki pages shared in this chat are all rights reserved of the ophir links tournament For many years, my friend Ophir has sent me links to Wikipedia articles he’s come across on his endlessly mysterious internet travels. About 5 years ago, I floated the idea of writing a tournament themed ...
- Wed Mar 08, 2023 9:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36179
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
I just remembered a clue I found confusing: Hayden Ellis proposed that defects in this faculty are the cause of the Capgras delusion. I've repeatedly heard Ellis's theory described as holding that people with the Capgras delusion are able to recognize faces, but don't experience the same sense of fa...
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Thank Yous and Acknowledgements
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1736
Re: 2023 BHSU: Thank Yous and Acknowledgements
I liked what you had to write Wang
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:54 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 Carper Award: congratulations to Edmund Dickinson and Joe Su!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1827
Re: 2023 Carper Award: congratulations to Edmund Dickinson and Joe Su!
Congrats Edmund and Joe!
- Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
- Replies: 59
- Views: 36179
Re: 2023 BHSU: Specific question discussion
(I'd also put this tossup in the bucket of 'things that narrowed down the answer space very quickly'.) To add some qualitative data re: Matt’s last point here, the tossup didn’t play that way at all in my room. Ophir didn’t even realize it was a ling tossup for the first couple sentences, and Nick ...
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 7:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14693
Re: 2023 BHSU: General discussion
I was impressed with how well the set hit the difficulty/style benchmarks Matt B laid out: The tournaments I have in mind as models are 2010-2011 Minnesota Open and 2010/2015 VCU Open. Although the Minnesota and VCU Opens were written in very different styles, they both give out early buzzes and 30s...
- Thu Aug 18, 2022 6:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12469
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
Thanks for the considered response, Jordan! I actually agree with the points you and Nick have made. I don't really envision a better quizbowl world as one where players have to sift through deep clues they have no real chance of buzzing on (which makes my use of the O. Henry story in my example ra...
- Tue Aug 16, 2022 5:31 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12469
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
Philosophy: especially in the editors packets, Young did a great job of picking buzzable clues for significant thinkers and texts. For the sake of offering feedback, one suggestion: for hard parts that both sound and are very hard (thinking of stuff like The Logic of the Moral Sciences , the Menexe...
- Mon Aug 15, 2022 4:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12469
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
A few notes, by category: Literature: while Kurtis’s answer difficulty restraint was impressive, I thought he picked his spots well in the harder end of the lit content too--the few canon-busting tossup answers (e.g. Renata Adler ) were well-chosen, and the hard parts seemed reasonable. In case my s...
- Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:50 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12469
Re: 2022 Chicago Open: General Discussion
Thanks to the editors for a very fun set! I’d like to post some more feedback soon, but a couple other things for now: I did, however, want to draw attention to a question-writing practice that I find creates janky gameplay. Many of the literature commonlinks in this set took a very wide (as opposed...
- Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Logomachy (side event, late 2022)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5012
Re: Logomachy (side event, late 2022)
This set is an absolute delight, play it if you get the chance!
- Thu Jun 02, 2022 7:51 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2022 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6623
- Sun Mar 13, 2022 2:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Illinois Open 2021 - General Discussion and Thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2068
Re: General Discussion and Thanks
I enjoyed playing this set. Many categories--especially lit, history, and "belief"--included an enviably high proportion of clues that were a blast to listen to (and sometimes outright hilarious--the "dog kings" bonus part comes to mind) even when we didn't know them. Thank you a...
- Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:44 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5601
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
This set was largely solid , but seems to follow a trend of "weird" regular(ish) difficulty sets (along with, to varying extents, this year's Regionals, ARCADIA, HARI, and Winter; but this "weirdness"--which I feel is invariably the bad kind of "weird"--probably prompt...
- Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Packets
- Replies: 2
- Views: 921
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Packets
The packets as played at Yale are attached.
- Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:14 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4685
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
Yep, I agree that conflict theory is too hard for a medium, my bad for not changing after Eric noted the issue above. Adjusted that, and added Lacan's name to the "Mirror stage" bonus part, before sending the packets out for this weekend's mirror. In general, I agree with Brad's dictum tha...
- Sat Mar 12, 2022 11:39 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5601
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Thanks and General Discussion
Thanks for your detailed feedback, Brad! I think the truth about the difficulty of the thought (i.e. SS and phil) tossups lies somewhere between your sense that the power clues were mostly “unbuzzable,” and my fanciful hopes that clues coming up a couple times recently and/or being famous in my head...
- Sun Mar 06, 2022 11:12 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2022 WORKSHOP: Packets
- Replies: 2
- Views: 921
Re: 2022 WORKSHOP: Packets
The packets as played at the 3/5 mirrors (and, with a couple minor modifications, the 2/26 mirrors) are attached.
- Sat Jan 29, 2022 6:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2071
Re: College quizbowl stats website
Thank you Alex, should be fixed now!alexdz wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 5:44 pmFYI, I just tried to use this form and it says it's only accessible to members of the owner's organization, so it looks like some settings may need to be tweaked to collect data with the form.Jem Casey wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:12 am For now, I'd like to collect reports via a google form, ...
- Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:12 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2071
College quizbowl stats website
Ryan's exciting announcement of the college quizbowl statistics database project prodded me to finally share a personal project in a similar vein. A couple years ago, I scraped all the college and open tournaments I could find on hsquizbowl.org (as well as some from neg5 and qbwiki) going back to 19...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 8:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5141
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals - General Discussion & Thanks
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4265
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals - General Discussion & Thanks
I had a blast editing the philosophy for this set, in large part thanks to Jaimie and my co-editors being such a delightful team to work with; thank you all! I also enjoyed reading all of your submitted questions. This is by no means a complete list of the quality material we received, but the philo...