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Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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 ...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

AGoodMan wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:05 am Actually, can I also see the Ezekiel TU in full as well please? The lead in confused me.

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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 &...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

More excited than Gary Neville post-Torres goal about this

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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,

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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!

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

Regionals has been posted, can this set be posted as well please?

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

Would people like to do another postseason roundtable to discuss the teams this year?

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

Sorry to bring this up so long after the fact, but will this set ever be posted?

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

High Tech A and B and Ithaca played EMT at Princeton yesterday. Stats here. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

Beautiful, though in all likelihood I won't be at CO so hopefully this can get some other mirrors too.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

I will probably write a packet for this and do my best to ensure that the Philadelphia bias is not too noticeable.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

Just wanna give a shout out to the author of the First Manassas bonus for justifying my entire summer internship there.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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...

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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!

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

VCU

Roanoke played D2 SCT last year, though I know nothing of their current status

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

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.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

Brian McPeak wrote:what has happened to our once proud club?

Looks like regression to the mean to me.

Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock

I powered the MLK tossup on Cubans at the mention of Fort Chaffee, which I know because there was a Ghost Adventures episode there.

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