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- Thu Nov 07, 2019 1:22 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2941
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
Is there any update on the progress of this set or plans for mirror sites?
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 7:53 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3711
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
From Packet L, Tossup 8 ANSWER: Mario Vargas Llosa (“YO-suh”) [or Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa ] From Packet O, Bonus 16 ANSWER: Federico García Lorca [prompt on García ] Similarly, I recall that in the past I've been prompted if I said "Márquez" for Gabriel García Márquez. Why are these answer l...
- Mon Nov 04, 2019 2:27 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
- Replies: 51
- Views: 3711
Re: ACF Fall 2019 Specific Question Discussion and Errata
The Krebs cycle tossup probably should have accepted _tricarboxylic acid cycle_ or _TCA cycle_.
- Sun Nov 03, 2019 9:08 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1331
Re: Michigan Winter @ Rutgers University (2/15/2020)
As long as small fractions of the interested parties in this tournament are making requests for when it should happen, February 15 is fine for me but if it were changed I would prefer it get moved earlier into January than later.
- Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:46 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9368
Re: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
I believe is also contrary to the half-packet distributions we were assigned for Regionals, which I recall included something to the effect of “European/Canadian/Australian History.”
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 2:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Regionals Global Announcement: January 25, 2020
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9368
- Fri Aug 30, 2019 2:25 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: JHU Collegiate Novice (10/12) (CANCELLED)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1988
Re: JHU Collegiate Novice (10/5)
I suppose I can't blame you if this is the only day you could reserve rooms, or if you did so before knowing that Maryland's EFT mirror would be the same day, but it would be reasonable to assume that this could lead to relatively few teams attending this tournament. Also, as I've noted for the last...
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 7:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 15275
Re: 2019 Early Fall Tournament (EFT)
To be clear, does this mean that a Maryland mirror is not yet confirmed, or that it is confirmed but the date has not yet been? In either case, is there an idea of when details regarding it will be confirmed?
- Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:50 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4791
Re: Faster (Human) Parsing of Answer Lines
Yeah, both of those sets of arguments are reasonable. Thanks!
- Mon Aug 05, 2019 10:14 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4791
Paired Tossups and Bonuses
Split from Parsing Answerlines thread - Mgmt. At the risk both of iconoclasm and derailing this thread, surely the simplest significant quality-of-life improvement to be made in quizbowl packets would be to put bonuses between tossups and have the bonuses associated with dead tossups be skipped; th...
- Fri Jul 12, 2019 10:45 pm
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: Stop putting "Quiet Night Thought" in power for Li Bai
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3876
Re: Stop putting "Quiet Night Thought" in power for Li Bai
wow your so good at literature
edit so this doesn't get FZ'd: I strongly believe that you and whoever you're getting anecdotal information from overestimate how much Chinese poetry most high school quizbowlers know.
edit so this doesn't get FZ'd: I strongly believe that you and whoever you're getting anecdotal information from overestimate how much Chinese poetry most high school quizbowlers know.
- Fri Jun 28, 2019 3:17 pm
- Forum: Practices, Scrimmages, Online Packets, and Playtesting
- Topic: MONTH
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3128
Re: MONTH
Will this be open? Do you have an idea of the general date (eg this summer, this fall, next summer)? How much of this has already been written?
- Tue May 14, 2019 12:07 am
- Forum: Theory
- Topic: QuizDB settings for MSNCT
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3163
Re: QuizDB settings for MSNCT
In any kind of studying, it's best to be practicing on questions harder than you're usually going to be playing; that way you'll be seeing clues that appear at the beginnings of tossups or in the hard parts of bonuses more frequently as they're used as middle clues and middle parts at harder difficu...
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 7:20 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 33693
Re: Player Poll 2019
Vote for Emmett for nicest person, but don’t vote for me in this poll. I can’t scale worth

- Fri Apr 19, 2019 6:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 33693
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:24 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
- Replies: 37
- Views: 15638
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Logistics/format
Essentially, this is the classic "pick 2 out of 3" situation: * Large ACF Nationals, with more than 40 teams * Championship bracket with 10+ teams playing a full round-robin * Tournament of a length that writers and editors can produce at a high quality; that moderators can read without losing thei...
- Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:12 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: MUSES Announcement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7111
Re: MUSES Announcement
To be perfectly clear, does "classical" here mean western art music, or music from classical antiquity (I'm assuming the former)?Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:50 pm2/2 Euterpe - music (1/1 Classical, .75/.75 “other,” and .25/.25 whimsical)
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:25 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30844
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion
This was the best reg+ set I have ever played. If you’re implying that this set was too easy, then, uh, have you considered the possibility that you’re very good at quizbowl, because I think a lot of other people would disagree strongly with that. My apologies if by reg+ you merely mean “harder tha...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 10:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion: Question Content
- Replies: 90
- Views: 30844
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 discussion
Various people have expressed concern over a seeming lack of non-computer science math in this set. Would it be feasible to post a list of the questions in this set considered math and computer science so it can be determined if this was the case? Despite this issue (which I don’t actually care abou...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 52736
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
What determines whether an UG or D2 finals game will need to be played? Also, is there are a list of teams that will be UG or D2-eligible; the A-value spreadsheet may not be accurate to the rosters teams are bringing to Nationals.
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 10:10 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 52736
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
I would assume that the change in the tiebreaker policy is because having fewer tiebreaks reduces the likelihood that any one of them will take overly long and slow the tournament down. I know that last year Delaware was involved in a tiebreaker determining if teams would go into the bottom or secon...
- Sun Apr 07, 2019 4:59 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
- Replies: 73
- Views: 23376
Re: GOLBEZ -- A Video Games Tournament (Saturday Night @ ICT and HSNCT 2019)
Given the exuberant praise this set has received, would there be interest in an online mirror for people who didn’t/can’t play it at ICT or HSNCT? I would be happy to staff such a thing, or to organize and run it if Jason would not prefer to do so himself.
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 11:01 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Old time bonus formats
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8595
Re: Old time bonus formats
Y'all will probably hate this, but at early Delta Burkes (from 1998 till about 2007, I figure) I would have exactly one bonus in the tournament, usually coming in Round 7 or after, which had four five-point parts, and which asked the team captain to designate a player to answer one part based on an...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:24 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 52736
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
Is there an explicit limit on the number of players a team may have on their roster (i.e. with subbing in and out)?
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 7:14 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Harder Questions in the Finals?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5010
Re: Harder Questions in the Finals?
I think that having more difficult questions in later packets (i.e. "the playoffs") is a bad idea because many sites will have different schedules, resulting in different packets being in the playoffs. It makes absolutely no sense to have a more difficult packet in the sixth round of prelims if you ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:00 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2019 ILLIAC @ JHU (3/31/19)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4607
Re: 2019 ILLIAC @ JHU (3/31/19)
Is it correct that there are 13 teams registered for this tournament out of a max of 12? Is the field size staff-limited, rather than buzzer or room limited?(Delaware may or may not end up sending a team to this, but if it does I can staff)
- Sat Mar 02, 2019 2:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5388
Re: Delta Burke at Purdue (3/2/19)
To be perfectly clear, it is Toronto who is out of line here.
- Mon Feb 25, 2019 11:47 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11181
Re: 2019 NAQT ICT: April 6, Chicago
Why is it that Colgate was offered a hosting autobid? My understanding (though I will admit I wasn’t there) was that CYPRAS, not the Colgate club, provided both the TD and a large portion of the staff.
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:17 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5738
Re: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
but isnt that not chicago b then
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:44 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 9927
Re: PIANO/Minnesota Open @ JHU (3/9/19)
Is the Chicago B registered [at the OSU site] the same Chicago B that's playing this at Hopkins two weeks prior, did Chicago drop their second team from the Hopkins mirror and that post just hasn't been updated, is the second Chicago team at Hopkins actually Chicago C, is "Chicago B" [at OSU] a que...
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 10:38 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5738
Re: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open at OSU (3/24/2019 - SUNDAY)
Is the Chicago B registered here the same Chicago B that's playing this at Hopkins two weeks prior, did Chicago drop their second team from the Hopkins mirror and that post just hasn't been updated, is the second Chicago team at Hopkins actually Chicago C, is "Chicago B" here a questionable open tea...
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7646
Re: Small Colleges, LACs, and ICT
There may be an issue in terms of having enough teams who qualify, but it seems to me that the undergraduate classification would be more meaningful if it were restricted to institutions whose student body is overwhelmingly or entirely made up of undergraduates. It seems like this would have the ef...
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:37 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ILLIAC (Spring 2019 - ACF Fall + Set)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7584
Re: ILLIAC (Spring 2019 - ACF Fall + Set)
Is there any update about the date of the Johns Hopkins site of this?
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:51 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: NAQT SCT @ Rutgers (2/9/19)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5196
Re: NAQT SCT @ Rutgers (2/9/19)
Also, why on the NAQT website is Princeton A ahead of Delaware A in the overall rankings but second to them in UG? EDIT: Looking at it more closely, I guess the answer for this is that the UG finals series was counted only for the UG rankings and not the overall rankings, since you don’t do an advan...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 3:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: NAQT SCT @ Rutgers (2/9/19)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5196
Re: NAQT SCT @ Rutgers (2/9/19)
I'd like to echo Charlie's praise for the speed at which this tournament went (though Delaware had to leave later due to an Undergraduate finals series [which Delaware won over Princeton A in the tiebreak of the second game of a disadvantaged final after beating NYU A for the right to play them, unl...
- Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:45 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite Mirror at UVa - 2/16/19 - Cancelled
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1474
Re: Spartan Housewrite Mirror at UVa - 2/16/19
Could a field update be provided?
- Wed Feb 06, 2019 11:20 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: 2019 Terrapin announcement [medium-difficulty, March 2019]
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8675
Re: 2019 Terrapin announcement [medium-difficulty, March 2019]
Given that it's less than a month away, can an announcement for the Maryland site be posted?
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 9:09 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
- Replies: 105
- Views: 52736
Re: ACF Nationals 2019 - 4/13-14/2019 - University of Pennsylvania
(This is not directly related to this year’s nats but I’m not sure where else to say it.) In the first post of this thread’s linked post explaining ACF Nationals qualification , an explanation of how each team’s A-value is calculated is deferred to NAQT’s explanation of the D-value calculations thro...
- Sun Dec 09, 2018 8:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SGI: CLOSED Online Mirror (12/29)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7140
Re: SGI: CLOSED Online Mirror (12/29)
One would think that the sheet shouldn't have a free agents area since this tournament is closed.
- Thu Nov 22, 2018 11:55 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ACF Regionals @ Swarthmore (1/26)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6086
Re: ACF Regionals @ Swarthmore (1/26)
Could we get an update on the wait-list (preferably including in what order teams on it will be added)?
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:12 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18873
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - Specific Questions and Errata
I’m not fantastically knowledgeable about music, so I’m not sure if it’s technically correct to call the Große Fuge a string quartet, but I feel like that tossup should have accepted fugue in the first two sentences that were talking about it.
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
- Replies: 89
- Views: 36110
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2019 PIANO/Minnesota Open
My opinion is probably both the least important for a good field, and the least affected by Will's idea of anyone who could be called Mid-Atlantic, but I'd go up to a Yale site.
- Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite Playtest Discord Mirror December 22, 2018
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9089
Re: Spartan Housewrite Playtest Discord Mirror Date Poll Inside
I suspect a large number of people may want to know if there is a physical mirror near them, of which only MSU's and TJ's have thusfar been announced, before they commit to playing this online mirror.
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 9:36 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 51
- Views: 8103
Re: EFT 2018 - Specific Question Discussion
I get why you’d want to write a question on _carbon and carbon_, but saying that you want “these two elements” seems objectively misleading. It seems to me that you could pull off the same thing by changing the pronouns and making the answerline _carbon-carbon bonds_ or _making carbon-carbon bonds_ ...
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 7:48 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Spartan Housewrite (Regular difficulty, January 2019)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14892
- Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Please hold online playtesting mirrors on Sundays
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3173
Re: Please hold online playtesting mirrors on Sundays
I think Naveed's point is that the players of online playtesting mirrors (of whom there are typically on the order of 20-40 depending on the mirror's size), who are typically out of college since those mirrors are usually open, may have chosen by playing that online mirror to not staff some other ph...
- Sat Sep 15, 2018 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) @ University of Maryland, College Park on 9/29
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5355
Re: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) @ University of Maryland, College Park on 9/29
Is there/what is the field cap?
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
- Replies: 38
- Views: 28122
Re: ACF Fall 2018 - November 3rd, 2018
I mistakenly filled out the registration form twice when I meant to edit it, so it should be noted that only one of the listed Delaware teams on the spreadsheet is correct (the one listed as packet-optional). I emailed the ACF Fall email account about this nearly a week ago but no action seems to ha...
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 6:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) @ University of Maryland, College Park on 9/29
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5355
Re: Early Fall Tournament (EFT) @ University of Maryland, College Park on 9/29
Has no one really signed up for this yet?
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: NAQT Collegiate Novice (CNS-177C) @ Johns Hopkins (10/6/18)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2535
Re: NAQT Collegiate Novice (CNS-177C) @ Johns Hopkins (10/6/18)
Me, in the thread for this exact tournament last year wrote:Also given that the fees as listed are per-player it might be smart to have that as a field [in the registration form] in addition to the number of teams.