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- Mon Jan 18, 2021 12:20 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6459
Re: 2021 ACF Regionals: Global Announcement (January 30)
What should teams in the Great Lakes region do? I held off on signing West Virginia up because the region did not have a host, and since it appears there will not be one, I am curious what ACF would suggest for these teams.
- Wed Dec 09, 2020 5:40 pm
- Forum: New High School Teams
- Topic: Need help on how to study
- Replies: 2
- Views: 891
Re: Need help on how to study
Hi Adhvaith, I'm by no means an expert on these things, but I'll give each question my best shot. 1. Hard high school tournaments, especially housewrites, have a lot of trickle-down from collegiate tournaments these days. If you feel comfortable doing so, I might suggest looking at college sets on t...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1907
Re: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
Just as a quick update, this set is now halfway written. I have been informally playtesting the questions I have written thus far with non-quizbowler Civil War field friends and will continue to do so as I complete my writing/editing processes.
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12256
Re: Longhorn Invitational Tournament (LIT, Fall 2020)
Can the implementation and enforcement of a code of conduct that establishes behavior standards and outlines punishments for violations of those standards, such as that posted by Marianna Zhang/PACE, be included in the requirements for tournament directors as well? I am looking forward to hopefully ...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 4:36 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: General Misconduct Discussion (TW: sexual harassment)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5754
Re: [TW: Sexual Harassment] Harassment in the THAT Online Quizbowl Discord
Even more, from a more personal perspective, this event was held in my church, who's campus we borrowed. I did not attend the event myself because of a church event, but as someone heavily involved in my church, I understand the events and policies that we have. On Saturdays we have many other chil...
- Sun May 03, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1907
Announcement: LINCOLN (A Civil War Era Side Event)
After kicking around the idea for a while, I'm happy to announce LINCOLN ( L ots of I nteresting and N ovel C ontent O n L egendary N otables), a side event on the Civil War and Civil War Era. While the majority of this set will focus on the years 1861-1865, it will also include material from the 18...
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:08 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 37141
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in how the quizbowl community has handled the events of the last few days. Apparently we have reached the point where vague posts led to random accusations in a Discord server, which led to piles upon piles of fancy-looking statistical analysis that ser...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 37141
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I have to say that I'm extremely disappointed in how the quizbowl community has handled the events of the last few days. Apparently we have reached the point where vague posts led to random accusations in a Discord server, which led to piles upon piles of fancy-looking statistical analysis that serv...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:35 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1997
Re: Your nationals stories—no title teams allowed
Getting the Civil War bonus at 2019 Nats and hearing the other team (Yale B I think) audibly groan as they realized that I was gonna 30 it was pretty fun and funny.
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:27 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4572
Re: 2020 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
I would agree with what Will said regarding the lack of "meat and potatoes" content in certain categories. I definitely noticed this in the visual arts, and while I wouldn't say it significantly impacted my personal enjoyment of the category (except for getting my brilliant plan to write s...
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 11:40 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 5770
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
The Georgia Tech A/UCSD A packet mentioned "LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall," then the Cornell A/Penn State B/Wesleyan packet asked for what city the concert hall was in later on.
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 4:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Should Baby Seals Smile While Being Clubbed? Or: Why Should Newer Teams Stick Around College Quizbowl?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5564
Re: Should Baby Seals Smile While Being Clubbed? Or: Why Should Newer Teams Stick Around College Quizbowl?
I'm very glad to see that Chris D. posted here, as I think his perspective is very valuable for those of us who have been around the college game for many years and view things like knowing what packets to read, how to study, etc. as old hat. It seems nearly impossible to overstate the value of such...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21600
Re: Where are you going next year? (Collegiate 2019)
I will be attending West Virginia University for a 2-year MA program in Public History starting in the fall. May try to get quizbowl going there depending on my time availability and motivation.
- Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10939
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
It's very short notice, but the fourth member of our team dropped, so if anyone doesn't have a team yet and wants to play, you're more than welcome to join me, Danny, and Conor Thompson tomorrow.
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 43
- Views: 15568
Re: 2019 ACF Regionals Thanks and General Discussion
For what it’s worth, I wrote this tossup and most of it is the same as my submission, and I took the lead-in from the opening verses of Ezekiel 33. Apologies for the somewhat confusing wording though.
- Wed May 30, 2018 4:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
- Replies: 153
- Views: 74931
Re: Matt Bruce (cw: sexual assault, pedophilia)
I have nothing else to say that has not been covered by my colleagues. Gettysburg will not participate in NAQT tournaments and I will not contribute to NAQT sets until Matt Bruce has been removed and NAQT provides a proper explanation of why this monster was allowed near children.
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:51 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
- Replies: 64
- Views: 34647
Re: How Can We Make Quizbowl More Approachable and Inclusive
Airing dirty laundry on the forums appears to also be the sort of thing that might make people not want to join the quizbowl community.
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14399
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
This is perhaps tangential to the current discussion, but is there any chance we can get a log of this posted somewhere? I'd love to see a series of "close readings" of the Regs packets in line with the advanced stats we have access to (the inner nerd in me wants a podcast but that's prob...
- Sun Feb 11, 2018 2:57 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14399
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
We had a discussion in the Discord tonight in which we analyzed tossups from a packet (E. Delaware A + Kentucky A + Cambridge A) to try to put together qualitative thoughts about their clues with the buzzpoint histograms. There were a few major conclusions at which we seemed to arrive. 1. Probably a...
- Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:45 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
- Replies: 47
- Views: 14399
Re: 2018 ACF Regionals detailed stats
Based on the extremely scientific method of copying this data into an Excel spreadsheet and running the average function on the data, it appears that the average first buzz on tossups in this set came at 51.33 words. Considering that the same function shows that the average amount of words per tossu...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018 ACF Regs Specific Questions and Errors
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13449
Re: Specific Questions and Errors
As an addendum to my previous post, I ought to note that there were lots of cool ideas in submitted and editor-produced content. I liked, for example, the specific tossup on James Longstreet that focused on his Reconstruction career as a good example of military history (sorta) beyond the sort of &...
- Tue Jan 16, 2018 7:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Battle of the Burgh XXI (3/24/18)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3751
Re: Battle of the Burgh XXI (3/24/18)
I'm curious as to why teams will be charged an extra twenty dollars in order to receive a copy of the questions they are already paying to play. This seems highly unusual to me and I'm wondering why this policy is in place for this tournament.
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:09 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: FIFAS Annoucement
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7296
Re: FIFAS Annoucement
More excited than Gary Neville post-Torres goal about this
- Wed Jul 12, 2017 1:47 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Caught in difficulty limbo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6468
Re: Caught in difficulty limbo
Any idea where I can find more LIST packets? There's only one (1) on the packets database. EDIT: WHAQ packets too. I don't think I saw any in the hsqb database. LIST 2017: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/1978/ LIST 2014: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/592/ LIST 2013: http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/5...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 5:29 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Caught in difficulty limbo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6468
Re: Caught in difficulty limbo
In particular, the WHAQ and LIST sets are of approximately normal high school difficulty. Here is a list of the difficulty of high school sets from this year (a higher number means the set is more difficult). I like this a lot because it's great for comparison, but based on the information given on...
- Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:42 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Caught in difficulty limbo
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6468
Re: Caught in difficulty limbo
If you have some money to purchase IS sets from NAQT for practice, those would be best. Or for a free option, the VHSL sets should also be good. And you are correct that you are looking at two ends of the difficulty spectrum with SCOP and PACE,
- Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:45 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts on Skype (July 15th, 2017)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8511
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts on Skype (July 15th, 2017)
If someone who knows film is looking to join with somebody who likes to think he knows stuff that's not film, drop me a line. Though ultimately I'm not that particular, so just let me know if you're interested in teaming!
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 9:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 ACF Fall Global Announcement (5 Nov 2016)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 24293
Re: 2016 ACF Fall Global Announcement (5 Nov 2016)
Regionals has been posted, can this set be posted as well please?
- Fri Jun 02, 2017 11:26 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
- Replies: 37
- Views: 21423
Re: Parts of the Lit Canon worth the time to read
The Great Gatsby has been my favorite "classic" lit book for quite a while now. Plus it comes up a ton in quizbowl, so it's definitely worth the read.
Great Expectations, on the other hand, is not so great.
Great Expectations, on the other hand, is not so great.
- Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Postseason Poll
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7299
Re: Postseason Poll
Would people like to do another postseason roundtable to discuss the teams this year?
- Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Listory 2016: General Discussion
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3486
Re: General Discussion
Sorry to bring this up so long after the fact, but will this set ever be posted?
- Sun Apr 16, 2017 9:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Help with HSQBRank & 2x check this tournament list please!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18158
Re: Annual call for help with HSQBRank!
High Tech A and B and Ithaca played EMT at Princeton yesterday. Stats here. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/
- Sun Apr 16, 2017 3:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 EMT General Discussion
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8740
Re: 2017 EMT General Discussion
I thought in many ways this was a very fun set to play, and my team had a really good time doing so yesterday. I want to commend the writers for coming together so quickly and producing it for us to play. That said, I think this set had two big issues on which I would like to provide feedback for th...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 2:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcement
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10693
Re: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcemen
Quick reminder that non-Skype mirrors of this tournament are beginning this weekend! Teams should definitely sign-up for their local EMT mirrors, if they haven't yet! This set is one of the final chances to play a regular-minus tournament this semester, and being similar to previous years' MUT's in...
- Thu Mar 23, 2017 1:37 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcement
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10693
Re: 2017 Eisenhower Memorial Tournament - Global Announcemen
Quick reminder that non-Skype mirrors of this tournament are beginning this weekend! Teams should definitely sign-up for their local EMT mirrors, if they haven't yet! This set is one of the final chances to play a regular-minus tournament this semester, and being similar to previous years' MUT's in...
- Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:52 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Jordaens Visual Arts
- Replies: 36
- Views: 19648
Re: Jordaens Visual Arts
Beautiful, though in all likelihood I won't be at CO so hopefully this can get some other mirrors too.
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament at Princeton - April 15
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9621
Re: Eisenhower Memorial Tournament at Princeton - Date TBD
For Gettysburg, April 29 would be the preferable date. People may have plans to visit family over the weekend of the 15th as it is Easter weekend and then May 6 is the weekend before our finals. We would look into the possibility of attending on either of the latter two dates should it be the most p...
- Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:38 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: "Let's Remember Some Guys"
- Replies: 44
- Views: 21756
Re: "Let's Remember Some Guys"
I will probably write a packet for this and do my best to ensure that the Philadelphia bias is not too noticeable.
- Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARTSEE 2016: Apologies and General Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2783
Re: Apologies and General Discussion
I hate to be the guy who does this, but will this be posted? I'd definitely like to take another look at some of these clues now.
- Sun Feb 19, 2017 10:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
- Replies: 90
- Views: 24801
Re: 2017 ACF Regionals - specific-question discussion
Just wanna give a shout out to the author of the First Manassas bonus for justifying my entire summer internship there.
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 5:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2017 ICT bids
- Replies: 157
- Views: 46464
Re: 2017 ICT bids
Would it be worth considering moving the ICT out of being held at a hotel then? It seems that it would be more cost-economical for NAQT, because they'd have to pay less for facilities and could potentially accommodate more teams, which seems to be something that most people are in favor of. Also jus...
- Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:16 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: What keeps you doing quizbowl?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 12638
Re: Quizbowl?
Well, you're definitely not the only person to ever wonder this. Heck, even all-time greats like Matt Bollinger and Andrew Hart have done the same. As far as my own answers to your questions, I'll write my honest opinions as opposed to waxing eternal about quizbowl's many virtues. Not that there's a...
- Thu Dec 22, 2016 12:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 53978
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
I will have some number of assorted trash tossups with no theme other than "things I like enough to write about" for this. It's currently at 6, though I hope to have it at somewhere between 10-20 by Friday.
- Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
- Replies: 120
- Views: 53978
Re: IRC Festivus 2016: Still Not Dead Yet
Go to mibbit.com and load up the client. On the drop-down list that says "Connect: Mibbit", select Slashnet instead. Type in a nick (your name, your forum username, something not stupid) and type "#quizbowl" into the space for the channel. Press the button that says "Connec...
- Sat Dec 17, 2016 6:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false names
- Replies: 56
- Views: 20835
Re: Non-students playing closed tournaments under false name
I won't pretend to tell every circuit what to do. Certainly, at times Minnesota has used quasi-open tournaments at times. But I would say this should not be the norm for the following reasons: 1. It is very unfair to teams in the lower and mid standings, as it is another game in which they presumab...
- Fri Nov 25, 2016 12:24 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2016 Terrapin General Discussion
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5314
Re: 2016 Terrapin General Discussion
Just wanted to add to the general sentiment that this set was very well-written and enjoyable to play. I thought it hit reasonable difficulty targets and agree that that level will hopefully be emulated more in the future!
- Mon Oct 10, 2016 2:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Virginia universities active in QuizBowl?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2289
Re: Virginia universities active in QuizBowl?
VCU
Roanoke played D2 SCT last year, though I know nothing of their current status
Roanoke played D2 SCT last year, though I know nothing of their current status
- Sun Oct 09, 2016 1:55 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: EFT 2016: Detailed Stats
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1997
Re: Detailed Stats
Just wanted to make sure I give you guys my thanks for putting this together. This is absolutely fascinating stuff to scroll through! The quizbowl sabermetrics revolution is upon us.
- Fri Jul 08, 2016 1:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Maryland summer practice
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7648
Re: Maryland summer practice
Looks like regression to the mean to me.Brian McPeak wrote:what has happened to our once proud club?
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 9:14 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Odd Ways of Learning Things
- Replies: 177
- Views: 150537
Re: Odd Ways of Learning Things
I powered the MLK tossup on Cubans at the mention of Fort Chaffee, which I know because there was a Ghost Adventures episode there.