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- Mon Nov 16, 2020 3:54 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1796
Re: 2020 WORKSHOP: A Retrospective
Regarding the schedule, I recall most of the last-minute work at least on my end coming in the form of filling in question slots that were originally taken by people who flaked or wrote questions that I considered beyond my power to fix (a lot of this was certainly down to my habit of editing the ea...
- Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:16 pm
- Forum: Regular Season Tournaments
- Topic: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5533
Re: INTRODUCING THE AMERICAN QUIZBOWL LEAGUE
While the other concerns in this thread will be addressed, I would like to take a moment to emphasize that we are in compliance with all labor laws of the United States. My "in compliance with all labor laws of the United states" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 2:18 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6733
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
Always asking for directed answers is nice in theory, but it really wears you down when literally no answer is being taken without being explicitly directed. I was overall happy with the moderating at the tournament, but there's no reason it couldn't be improved at future events. As one of the mode...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:19 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Running Zoom Tournaments
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11447
Re: Running Zoom Tournaments
Another issue is that whenever a tournament I attend over Zoom, it crashes at least twice over the course of the day. This never happens on discord and tournaments on Zoom I've attended suggest to me that this isn't an uncommon problem.
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:09 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6733
Re: Oxford Open Online Mirror - Saturday 27th June
I'd like to take a moment to public apologize to Oli and other moderators for my frustration over a protest resolution that effectively decided this tournament, no doubt aggravated because this was my last event with my beloved teammates Harrison and Rafael. There was a very unfortunate situation w...
- Thu May 28, 2020 11:06 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3237
Re: Miscellaneous Distribution and Community
While I don't agree with its main prescription, Harris's post has another issue with trash writing that I'd like to highlight: the disconnect between the age of trash writers and the age of their audiences. For other categories this isn't much of an issue, but pop-cultural tastes evolve dramatically...
- Thu May 07, 2020 2:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2020 ACF Nationals Cancellation Discussion
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1764
Re: ACF Nationals 2020: August 8-9, Northwestern
If I were ACF I would simply say "no thank you" to the global pandemic that is currently unfolding. I am astonished that no one has thought of this simple solution yet
- Sun May 03, 2020 10:18 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2137
Re: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
This tournament ran pretty successfully; Harvard A and Harvard B mutually agreed to let the results of the playoffs stand, so congratulations to Harvard A on their victory! Stats are here https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6454/stats/combined/. I'd like to thank Arjun Nageswaran, Sadie Britton, O...
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 11:15 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2137
Re: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
As with Open 'SHOP, I intend to close the field and make a server and schedule after this Thursday at 6:00 PM eastern. Any team withdrawing their registration after that time will be assessed a fee. With two more registrations we will reach our field cap anyway, so if you're considering playing, sig...
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 8:30 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3379
Re: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
Thanks to everyone who turned out! This tournament ended in a 5 (!) way tie for first that, it being late, we decided against breaking. Congratulations to co-champions The Velvet Underground and Neekolul (Dylan Minarik, Taylor Harvey, Alex Shaw, and Tracy Mirkin), Yale-ish B (Stephen Eltinge, Daniel...
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 9:33 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3379
Re: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
Is this Tossups + Bonuses or Tossups only? I assume the former, since nothing in particular has been said, but just wanted to make sure. I was also wondering how many rounds might be used/how long this tournament will take. Yes, the former is the case. Plan on 10ish rounds, potentially + a couple d...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:55 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3379
Re: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
Yeah, that's fine, although I should note that we're almost at the level at which we can provide every room a reader and scorekeeper, at which point we'll close staff signup.AdiyaSivakuma wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:16 pm I was wondering, could one sign up to moderate on both days?
- Wed Apr 08, 2020 3:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 37072
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
In the current ethical morass in which we find ourselves in which no real solutions have been offered, here's a common-sense actionable policy change that likely would possibly improve the situation. This is a good idea and should definitely be implemented. Community Discussion strikes me as a good...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 11:30 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3379
Re: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
Given that with the free agent list, the number of signups already exceeds the number of field spaces, I have decided to expand the field for this tournament to 14, with potential further expansion contingent on demand and staff. I will give priority for remaining spots in the field to teams made up...
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:38 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 13220
Re: Internet Charity Tournament (April 4th, 5th)
This was cool. Thanks for putting it on, everyone who was involved in putting it on!
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:19 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2137
Re: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
We have expanded the field to 14 now.A Dim-Witted Saboteur wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:02 pm The field for this mirror is now full, but we intend to expand it to 14 or 16 if we can find another couple staffers. If you're available to read, please sign up!
EDIT: as our spreadsheet suggests, the field cap is now 16.
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2137
Re: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
The field for this mirror is now full, but we intend to expand it to 14 or 16 if we can find another couple staffers. If you're available to read, please sign up!
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 2:13 pm
- Forum: National Tournaments
- Topic: A brief, and now concluded, discussion about saving unused sets
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1051
Re: Nationals Alternatives?
Frankly I think you'd get very, very few sign ups for anything resembling this idea, including from my team. The whole point of nationals is to play against other people in real time. Your suggested format would allow for none of that. Also with regards to national organizations saving their sets f...
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:07 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15940
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
By my estimation, neither Will Alston nor I have reached the level of 3rd-year Matt Bollinger or Jordan Brownstein, or 4th-year Matt Jackson. Judging from the trendlines, I wouldn't even expect either of us to be there next year. There is plenty of room for a Jakob Myers-type (how does he fit into ...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:29 pm
- Forum: National and Regional Comparisons and Discussion
- Topic: Calendar of Online Events
- Replies: 22
- Views: 8658
Re: Calendar of Online Events
Can this thread get pinned?
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3379
Open 'SHOP: An open WORKSHOP online mirror (4/25/2020)
Hi everyone! Given the cancellation of several of our in-person mirrors, we on the WORKSHOP team are announcing a second round of online mirrors, one closed and one open. The following announcement covers the OPEN mirror, which will happen on April 25, 2020. Any 4 players, as long as they have not p...
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:57 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2137
Closed 'SHOP: A second Closed WORKSHOP online mirror (5/2)
Hi everyone! Given the cancellation of several of our in-person mirrors, we on the WORKSHOP team are announcing a second round of online mirrors, one open and one closed. The following announcement covers the closed mirror, which will happen on May 2, 2020. As a closed mirror, this tournament will b...
- Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:42 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College Nationals and Its Problems
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15940
Re: College Nationals and Its Problems
They are creating a new generation of quiz bowl that is not restricted to elite academics. What is this supposed to mean Young players are not going to accept the dogma that quiz bowl has to be intellectually and financially inaccessible. Who is saying this Also, fam you're arguing against maintain...
- Wed Mar 11, 2020 7:51 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8669
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
Given the potential cancellation of in-person mirrors (and, selfishly, my own desire to play the set despite not having been able to play my local mirror or the closed online mirror), is there any consideration being given to running an open online mirror at some point? Would you be open to such a ...
- Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1680
Re: WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
Thank you to everyone who came out! The 4-team field that resulted from a late drop and the resulting combination of Washington and Oregon was cleared by University of Muri; we hope everyone had a great time!
Stats are here:
https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... und-robin/
Stats are here:
https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/6 ... und-robin/
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1680
Re: WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
Our final field is as follows: The Triumverate (Plano West) Oregon Washington Hong, Kumar, Orbis Tertius (Saratoga) North Carolina University of Muri (pseudonym) We need another staffer reasonably urgently; I am willing to negotiate rises in the rate of pay for such a staffer should they arise. If y...
- Thu Mar 05, 2020 5:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: IO SATURNALIA (easy college, Fall 2020)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3451
Re: IO SATURNALIA (easy college, Fall 2020)
Not to contradict Harris too directly, but I don't think the 1.5/1.5 world for Spartan Housewrite generated too much adverse commentary on the difficulty of that segment of history in particular, and nothing about the experience of editing a distribution with that specific change suggested to me tha...
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 6:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1680
Re: WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
Hi! I will be closing the field and sending out logistics information Thursday, so if you plan to register, please do so by then! Thanks!
- Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1680
WORKSHOP Online (Closed mirror, 3/7)
Hi everyone! I am pleased to announce a Discord mirror of WORKSHOP for March 7. Given the availability of discord playtesting sessions and to encourage graduates to staff other mirrors of this tournament, this mirror will be CLOSED . High school and collegiate teams are both welcome to sign up as lo...
- Fri Jan 31, 2020 10:39 am
- Forum: Collegiate Announcements & Results
- Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8669
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: 2020 WORKSHOP
Yes. An announcement for a closed online mirror is forthcoming.
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:33 am
- Forum: New Collegiate Teams
- Topic: New Team, resources to study
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2611
Re: New Team, resources to study
Hello, my name is Karan Menon. I am a freshman and President of USC Quiz Bowl. Our members have high school quiz bowl experience and we have gone to two ACF tournaments so far, but are finding ACF questions very difficult. What is the best way to prepare for ACF level literature, philosophy, and sc...
- Sun Dec 08, 2019 12:02 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: QuizCo Equipment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1359
Re: QuizCo Equipment
Hello! I assist in running a yearly quiz event for college students for a professional organization. We've historically used a Quizco 4-team lockout buzzer system for our games, but this year the moderator's controller came up missing and I had to improvise with a cell-phone app. After doing what d...
- Tue Nov 19, 2019 2:42 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: ACF Statistics Database
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2747
Re: ACF Statistics Database
Minor thing - the statistics seem to be counting tiebreaker games as full games for PPG purposes (i.e. Columbia 2019 is counted as playing 17 games, but it played only 16 games worth of tossups). This has been fixed. I also noticed that for some recent nationals, WUSTL is treated as equivalent to W...
- Wed May 22, 2019 4:54 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
- Replies: 72
- Views: 39656
Re: 2019 IQBT NASAT - 6/22 and 6/23, Lexington, KY
Hi Folks! The tournament date is about one month out, so an update on set production is probably due. The NASAT set is currently at 81% completion, with literature, art, and a few minor categories completely finished. A list of writers who've contributed one question or more, in order of total contr...
- Fri May 17, 2019 6:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC Online Restricted Open Mirror
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3180
- Tue May 14, 2019 6:08 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5889
Re: 2018-19 Collegiate Post-Season Poll
Could you include these teams'Nats and ICT placement in this thread? Thanks for doing this!
On another note, people should remember that Johns Hopkins was playing without their top scorer at Nats, so their placement there seems misleading as to their actual strength.
On another note, people should remember that Johns Hopkins was playing without their top scorer at Nats, so their placement there seems misleading as to their actual strength.
- Fri May 10, 2019 6:52 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9716
Re: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
I don't bring this up to expose Ramapriya, rather, I bring this up to illustrate the absurdity of the witch-hunt culture that Jakob's post may lead us to. Yes, cheating is bad. Don't do it. But don't call out people who happen to have had suspicious stats at a tournament which is no longer relevant...
- Fri May 10, 2019 5:56 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9716
The Quizbowl discord, and why cheating on it is still cheating and still bad
Given the lack of personal contact between reader and the person being read to online, it's no secret that it's easier to cheat on online packet readings than real-life ones. That doesn't mean, however, that cheating is ok if it happens online or that it isn't detectable. Just by way of review, chea...
- Sun May 05, 2019 2:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UPDATE - All the Lit We Cannot See (2020)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2976
Re: Announcement - All the Lit We Cannot See (Winter 2019)
This sounds cool. I'm very much looking forward to playing it!
- Thu May 02, 2019 5:36 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22346
Re: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
It's not for everyone, but I don't see the issue with playing around with the distro like this. I find it very weird that 1/1 myth (or "legends", as people now call it, as if this actually changes anything) is basically enshrined into the distribution at almost every tournament. That hasn...
- Thu May 02, 2019 2:28 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Why don't we have 1/1 math?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22346
- Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:23 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Top 25 History Players in the City of Chicago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11689
- Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Announcement - 2019 RULFO (Rather Underrepresented Literature and Fine arts Open)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7372
Re: Announcement - 2019 RULFO (Rather Underrepresented Literature and Fine arts Open)
After having playtested this set, I hope I'm not spoiling anything to say that, while hard as hell in places, this set was an absolute delight to hear, even in categories that I'm not very good at. I highly recommend playing this if you can and look forward to seeing what the writers and editors of ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:28 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7903
Re: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
As many of you already know, there was a conspicuous scoring irregularity involving a house team player during a tournament hosted by Okemos High School this past Saturday. A security protocol had been in place to prevent any of the participating Okemos players from having access to the question pa...
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 7:27 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39394
Re: Player Poll 2019
Tim Morrison is the best math player (sorry Samir and Naomi, you're a close second/third) and also the best film player. His generalist skills can't be doubted either, leading a Chicago B team to top-of-second bracket finishes at both nationals. I would like to ditto tim morrison stanning if you ha...
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 4:17 pm
- Forum: Single-Subject Events
- Topic: 2019 NHBB Discord Tournament
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17473
Re: 2019 NHBB Discord Tournament
Ok doing this demonstrates that you've learned nothing from what we said earlier about using questions from the packet archive. The next time more experienced people give you good faith advice, please take it.
- Sun Apr 21, 2019 11:26 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7903
Re: Okemos Spring Invitational, April 20th 2019
I'm told that Joseph Chung had access to the packets from this set beforehand, put up this statline https://stats.neg5.org/t/Q_hAp-noJ/okemos-spring-invitational/player-full#player_43951300-6172-11e9-9e43-e13877ab411f, which is not comparable to anything he's done before, and offered the excuse to t...
- Sat Apr 20, 2019 3:48 pm
- Forum: Single-Subject Events
- Topic: 2019 NHBB Discord Tournament
- Replies: 37
- Views: 17473
Re: 2019 NHBB Discord Tournament
https://imgur.com/a/1ZeARt3 This was posted in the moderation chat before I left the moderation team. Ameya, even with "editing" and the fact that this tournament didn't charge anything, passing off someone else's work as your own and dishonestly promoting it as such is highly unethical, ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 5:41 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Player Poll 2019
- Replies: 92
- Views: 39394
Re: Player Poll 2019
Besides the above 25 people, here are a few others I think deserve your consideration and have entered play or gotten really good since last year (note that this is by no means an exhaustive list, and some picks are more intended to draw attention to underrated players than to indicate what my ballo...
- Fri Apr 19, 2019 1:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ILLIAC at Brown
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2794
Re: ILLIAC at Brown
Would fielding a house team not bring this to a viable field size?MaestroExtraordinaire98 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:59 am This tournament has been cancelled due to a lack of interest.