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We have received a registration from a final team and are intending to collapse the remaining free agents into open slots in other teams. With that, registration for this mirror is now closed.

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With the tournament two days away, we have 9 teams signed up. We would like to have an even 10, and would encourage the remaining free agents to form a team. If necessary, we will form a team on Friday from any one who has not removed their team from the list.

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Why is a high school student running a tournament for adults? Fair point. Em will continue to be in charge of pre-tournament logistical concerns, like setting up the Discord. The email to register will now be the official WORKSHOP email (quizbowlworkshop AT gmail DOT com) and the forum announcement...

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If you want to do a bit more than cursory research, I'm open to adding extensions that we're quite confident would facilitate improvements. A bit more than cursory research I can do. It seems that getting extensions is fairly straightforward (they can be downloaded with this helper here and there's...

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As far as actual additions to the wiki go, it would be really nice to have additional extensions. As one example, I would like to do things like automatically link to stats pages in people's infoboxes based on their listed name but to the best of my knowledge there is no functionality to split strin...

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There are hundreds of player pages that seem to be basically stubs with a player's name, a school, and nothing else (and just as many of those for schools too). [...] It'll be a huge task to go through and simply update all of those, much less address the other concerns. This is why I think that as...

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I agree that there is a degree of insider-ism still hidden in various odd nooks and crannies which should be swept up, but there's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater and get rid of the whimsy of the wiki. For every person outside who might enter the wiki to learn "what is quiz bow...

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Held a private reading of the set, with the following stats: Juliet M: 15/38/ 0 (605) Dylan M: 8/ 4/17 + 0/1/0 on tiebreaker (85) Jason T: 6/ 3/ 5 (85) Bernadette S: 4/ 1/ 3 (55) Tejas R: 3/ 1/ 0 (55) Rob C: 0/ 6/ 1 (55) Chris M: 2/ 3/ 2 (50) Matt B: 1/ 4/ 7 (20) - only played 3 rounds Auroni G: 1/ ...

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I’m excited to announce CANONINFLATION, the spiritual successor to CANONEXPANSION , as a side event for the summer after the next in-person season. This tournament was inspired by the whimsy of Scattergories (in particular Will’s unabashed willingness to write many “packets” on things that personall...

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Additionally, I'd be eager to see hear how this tournament's unique production schedule worked out. Was the set more on time than others, I think it ended up pretty similarly to any other set, which is a pretty good result considering the additional pressures on the editors. It came down to the las...

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using that [writing Discord server] to organize most writing processes Some context: both iterations of WORKSHOP primarily use/used comments on Google Docs to communicate between writers and editors, though this time around there's been more direct communication with editors through other channels ...

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Last year I edited biology, other science, and myths/legends for 2020 WORKSHOP , a set intended to be an opportunity for newer writers to write questions with the aid of mentorship as a spiritual successor to the PADAWAN set. This year, I am reprising my editing roles for 2021 WORKSHOP , as well as ...

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To justify requiring packet sub, ACF should create some sort of official program that either teaches writing or provides a mentorship/feedback system for new writers. [...] If ACF wants to require teams to submit packets, it should directly teach people to write instead of throwing them into it bli...

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1. Packet submission increases the cost to play quizbowl. This is true. 2. Packet submission is no longer necessary to sustain quiz bowl. There are few people who would argue that packet sub is necessary to continue holding sets in the present, including those who were around for an earlier period ...

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The arguments against packet submissions argue that for every person who does enjoy packet submission and uses that as a stepping stone to further involvement, there are numerous others who either leave quiz bowl in its entirety or at the very least just give up on being able to participate in pack...

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The primary purpose of packet submission is not to minimize waste or burden, to give submitters an opportunity for their questions to be played, to give submitters critical or comforting feedback on their questions, to give players an opportunity to learn new things or improve their quizbowl prowes...

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I am not affiliated with Princeton and I believe there is a lot of room for interpretation. In particular, I am skeptical that it is possible to observe typing over Discord to the accuracy necessary to conclude that Chase was typing after google-able words. I would consider hearing "the sound ...

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There's a lot for prospective hosts to learn from the mistakes of this tournament's logistics. It seems many of the issues could have been solved with better planning, especially regarding Discord-specific things like creating and assigning roles, so for any future hosts reading this thread I will n...

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Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:23 pm 2/2 Chemistry and Other Science, broken down over the set as:
12/12 Chemistry
8/8 Maths
3/3 Compsci
2/2 Earth Science
1/1 Miscellaneous

Am I reading it correctly that there will be, at maximum, two pure astronomy questions in the set?

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We have created a new website at www.aqbleague.com with all the information you will need, as well as definitive editions of all the most important documents in Quizbowl Putting all the other problems to the side for a moment, this claim seems eminently unreasonable. The correctness guidelines lite...

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Thanks to all the staffers who helped make this tournament happen today. I'll be honest, I did not have a great time during this tournament. Even the very best online sets are still much worse than playing in person, so there's a lot of this that can be reasonably attributed to the online aspect of ...

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every team that wants to participate in this should have to submit a hype video

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I think in this case "biking" is useful because it refers to a very specific form of cheating Does it? What does it mean? I thought it meant “cheating in quiz bowl, in any context”, though I’ve also heard that it means “cheating on the Discord”, “cheating via Googling/looking things up”, ...

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Joe Feldman and Tyler Vaughan are going to update tournament results. (Joe has already started, though he plans to stretch the work out over several weeks.) I’m not sure if this is being approached from the direction of compiling all the results from mirrors of a set or placing tournament results f...

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Are we going to ever change the guidelines for what information shows up on players’ pages? With the exception of really old stats that longer exist elsewhere, someone could fairly easily find tournament results for basically anybody thanks to Harry’s database, but this is the only information that ...

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We are anticipating a 2 PM ET start time again - the same invite will work, and anyone who has indicated interest on the sheet will be contacted (including those that did so after the previous playtest).

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Thank you to everyone who attended the playtest yesterday - we appreciate your feedback.

We will be playtesting the remainder of the questions this coming Sunday, beginning with Arts.

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This is happening now - we have just moved on to history. If you are still interested, just let me know - we expect to have additional categories play-tested next week as well, so if you want to do those let me know as well or sign-up on the sheet and we'll get you in before then. More reasonable sc...

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To clarify on the original post, this will be held at 2 PM Eastern Time . EDIT: it has been brought to my attention that I didn’t do math good and there isn’t enough time for each category, so I’ve updated them This is the order of categories and proposed itinerary of the playtest - this is not fina...

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We recently announced a closed Discord mirror of the tournament for 3/7 here; if you’re currently eligible to play the set with your school, consider attending that rather than the playtest.

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I would like to announce a playtest session for WORKSHOP to be held in a private Discord on 2/9. Initial plans are to begin at roughly 2 PM ET and see how much progress is made, with 2/16 functioning as a spillover date for any additional playtesting needed. This playtesting session will be free. Al...

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Earlier today I was alerted to the fact that Aatreyo Bhattacharyy of Churchill MS was attempting to leak unclear packets in the high school Discord. I banned him preemptively from both the high school and regular Discords and asked for proof of the allegation. I was given screenshots that I consider...

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We'll be mirroring Reel Knowledge , an academic film set, after the conclusion of Fall Open. Format will *probably* be a one- or two-room shootout, but this could change depending on how many people want to participate. Express interest here: https://forms.gle/j9fREezsZ4h8SBXt9 . There will be no c...

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Anyways here's links to all the currently posted mirrors - I will not be updating this: Discord playtest: 9/21 New England: MIT (10/5) Northeast: Columbia University (10/5) Mid-Atlantic: UMD (10/5) Lower Mid-Atlantic: UNC (10/5) Southeast: Auburn (10/5) Florida: UCF (10/5 or 10/12) Texas: Rice (9/28...

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The post is up, and it seems to have been made before Justin made his comment, though presumably not made it through the mod queue before then. Regardless, there's very little I can personally do besides tell hosts to post their stuff, but in the future if there's an issue with asking for school fu...

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2019 9:02 pm Has this confused anyone ever?

I mean I imagine it would confuse ASU.

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As someone else who has been thinking about the problems with quiz bowl at small colleges, I'd like to second a lot of what Michael has been saying, as well as offer some comments of my own. (Issue #1): The best thing that happened to me when starting the Bowdoin team was meeting another very excite...

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Hey, so I wrote what was (as far as I can tell) the hardest science tossup in the set, judging from me asking around on the day of - the tossup on oozes , which made it in unedited from our team's submission. I intended for the tossup to link disparate pieces of knowledge about ocean science that I ...

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Ndg wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:10 pm No one is going to begrudge a few friends playing packets at someone's house, but posting the stats publicly and posting a link to them in the thread about the actual event undermines the notion that that's all it was.

how else are people going to know I got 1 power

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Stats are done. Round 8 is a little iffy but eh.

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So when you say the editing of this set will be based on the feedback of various experienced players, most of whom I note do not have significant writing or editing experience, will they actually be performing the editing or will that also be undertaken by you? If you are indeed doing it on your own...

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With Saturday drawing near, could we get confirmation on when/where we will be meeting for the Super Acronym mirror/shootout?

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On average every question was negged 1.09 times.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 9:49 am While I appreciate the commentary and the compilations, I'm confused how some of these are upsets. Eric Mukherjee leading a team to beat a Dylan Minarik team? A really good open team at Minnesota's PIANO (with a significantly better PPG and PPB) beating another good open team?

i sure was upset

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I'd like to present the following games as potential candidates for upset of the year: Sun God @ JHU: Robert Bork A 235 - JHU A 230 James Kuang/Kevin Wang/Benjamin Xu/Fred Zhang (8-3), the high schoolers of Naveed Bork Memorial High, beat Robert Chu/Eric Bobrow (8-3). Kevin Wang doesn't get any poin...

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DavidB256 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2019 8:04 pm I understand that P/BB is a function of both the skill of the team and the skill of the teams they play against (playing against better teams would decrease your P/BB because they are more likely to get all of the easier bonus parts)

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I hope everyone enjoyed the set.

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naah this is definitely 100% legitimate

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hey guys stats are up: here they are

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The last 5 packets + the replacement tossups were written in a shootout format. I took some stats. Kevin: 84.55 PP20TUH (21/21/12, 110 questions heard) Benji: 77.06 (15/25/11, 109) Ben: 60 (4/3/3, 25) Daniel: 30 (2/1/2, 20) Thomas: 20 (1/1/1, 20) Max: 10 (2/4/3, 110) Chandler: 8 (2/3/4, 100) Harris:...

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