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- Thu Feb 04, 2021 7:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP Playtest Mirror [6 February 2021]
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2559
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP Playtest Mirror [6 February 2021]
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.
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 3:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP Playtest Mirror [6 February 2021]
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2559
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP Playtest Mirror [6 February 2021]
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.
- Wed Dec 30, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 WORKSHOP Playtest Mirror [6 February 2021]
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2559
Re: 2021 WORKSHOP Playtest Mirror [6 February 2021]
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...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:44 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4715
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
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...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 1:34 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4715
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
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...
- Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4715
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
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...
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 11:04 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4715
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
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...
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:54 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: BUMPY iii - A Visual Film Tournament
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2907
Re: BUMPY iii - A Visual Film Tournament
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/ ...
- Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: CANONINFLATION
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1030
CANONINFLATION
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...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 2:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1909
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
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...
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1909
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
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 ...
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1909
2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
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 ...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet Submission discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4284
Re: Packet Submission discussion
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...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet Submission discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4284
Re: Packet Submission discussion
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 ...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet Submission discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4284
Re: Packet Submission discussion
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...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 9:57 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Packet Submission discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4284
Re: Packet Submission discussion
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...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 11:21 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5522
Re: Statement on LIT Cheating Allegation: Princeton A
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 ...
- Mon Sep 07, 2020 4:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 11819
Re: LIT Mid-Atlantic Mirror @ Discord (9/5/20)
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...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: COOT 2021
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2448
Re: COOT 2021
Am I reading it correctly that there will be, at maximum, two pure astronomy questions in the set?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
- Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:45 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5728
Re: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
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...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:52 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6868
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
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 ...
- Fri May 08, 2020 3:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 6379
Re: It's Time To D-D-D-D....Duel! (Challenge: Columbia vs. Chicago)
every team that wants to participate in this should have to submit a hype video
- Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 38236
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
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”, ...
- Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:44 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4715
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
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...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 8:45 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4715
Re: QBWiki Addition Suggestions
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 ...
- Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
Re: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
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).
- Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:04 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
Re: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
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.
We will be playtesting the remainder of the questions this coming Sunday, beginning with Arts.
- Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:07 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
Re: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
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...
- Sat Feb 08, 2020 3:37 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
Re: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
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...
- Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:49 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
Re: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
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.
- Wed Jan 29, 2020 11:00 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1370
WORKSHOP Discord playtest session
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...
- Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:30 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Quizbowl
- Topic: An incident of intentional content-leaking from an unclear set
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3374
An incident of intentional content-leaking from an unclear set
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...
- Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10026
Re: Fall Open at NYU (Nov. 9, 2019)
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...
- Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17933
Re: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
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...
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 10:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17933
Re: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
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...
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 12:19 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Daylight time is different from standard time
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4660
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:10 pm
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: Logistical Barriers to Starting Successful Collegiate Quizbowl Teams
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6115
Re: Logistical Barriers to Starting Successful Collegiate Quizbowl Teams
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...
- Fri Aug 09, 2019 4:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: CO 2019 Discussion
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17227
Re: CO 2019 Discussion
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 ...
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 11:43 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Super Acronym at Jimenez
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5222
Re: Super Acronym at Jimenez
how else are people going to know I got 1 power
- Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:57 am
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Super Acronym at Jimenez
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5222
Re: Super Acronym at Jimenez
Stats are done. Round 8 is a little iffy but eh.
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 11:10 pm
- Forum: Mirror requests
- Topic: TAPIR Set Available for 2020 Mirrors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7689
Re: TAPIR Set Available for 2020 Mirrors
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...
- Fri Jul 19, 2019 9:22 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: Jimenez Ad Hoc Event
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6076
Re: Jimenez Ad Hoc Event
With Saturday drawing near, could we get confirmation on when/where we will be meeting for the Super Acronym mirror/shootout?
- Thu Jul 18, 2019 3:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eyes X Online Mirror - 7/16/19
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1453
Re: Eyes X Online Mirror - 7/16/19
On average every question was negged 1.09 times.
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:01 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11346
Re: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
i sure was upsetCheynem 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?
- Thu Jun 20, 2019 3:09 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11346
Re: 2018-19 Players Choice Awards
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...
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:59 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Why is P/BB so variable?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4086
- Mon Jun 10, 2019 2:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Imaginary Landscape No. 5
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5696
Re: Imaginary Landscape No. 5
I hope everyone enjoyed the set.
- Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:49 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: 2019 Trash Player Poll
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7799
Re: 2019 Trash Player Poll
naah this is definitely 100% legitimate
- Fri May 31, 2019 1:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CANONEXPANSION @ HSNCT
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6069
Re: CANONEXPANSION @ HSNCT
hey guys stats are up: here they are
- Sat May 18, 2019 7:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC Online Restricted Open Mirror
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3218
Re: ILLIAC Online Restricted Open Mirror
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:...