Yes, it is the host's choice. I don't want to make a public suggestion, as hosts might then feel obligated to use that as their base fee.cornfused wrote:I'm seeing lots of discount/penalty info, but no base fee. Will that be different at each site?
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- Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Full Announcement: ACF Fall 2007
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23876
- Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Full Announcement: ACF Fall 2007
- Replies: 30
- Views: 23876
Full Announcement: ACF Fall 2007
This is the announcement for ACF Fall 2007. ACF Fall will be held on the weekend of Saturday, November 3, 2007. Hosts have the option to run the tournament on Sunday, November 4 instead of Saturday if football, other tournaments, or other conflicts make doing so preferable. Date announcements from e...
- Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Memorial Classical Music NTT
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2878
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Memorial Classical Music NTT
Hello all, I once again put forth my offer to create a classical music name that tune for Chicago Open. Noted minor quizbowl celebrity and distant progeny of Edward Everett Matthew Nance will be co-writing this with me. My true hope in doing this is to inspire another legendary story involving a con...
- Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Non-Stanford Archives Question Sets
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6861
- Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Non-Stanford Archives Question Sets
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6861
Currently, a few people are working on cataloguing all tournaments that are on record as having occurred within a relevant timeframe (do our best since like 95 but really we're talking 2000 or 2002 as a backboard). We're putting together a spreadsheet with the date of the tournament, the site, the e...
- Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open lodging
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5288
For JS Mill I flew into Midway and made it to Hyde Park no problem. Though I didn't end up staying there, I had made arrangements to stay in one of the hotels in that massive fenced off hotel cluster near midway. To get to Hyde Park I simply hopped on the airport shuttle, got off, and walked to the ...
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Quite Possibly One of the FUNNIEST Things I Have Seen EVER
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9149
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DID YOU SAY MY NAME WRONG??????
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10286
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:46 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Singles
- Replies: 26
- Views: 17672
- Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Non-Stanford Archives Question Sets
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6861
- Fri May 25, 2007 10:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
- Thu May 24, 2007 10:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
OK, here are two packets from Penn Bowl 2007 which are the most representative of where I think ACF Fall or slightly harder tournaments should be going. Tossups are under six lines and have middle clues, so tell me what you think about playing on this sort of material regularly. http://www.hsquizbo...
- Thu May 24, 2007 2:05 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: GRUDGE MATCH II: Ghost Ride the Grudge Match
- Replies: 109
- Views: 33901
- Mon May 21, 2007 10:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit Singles
- Replies: 26
- Views: 17672
- Mon May 21, 2007 4:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
- Sat May 19, 2007 3:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
- Sat May 19, 2007 1:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
Your empirical observations are obviously valid. So maybe if statistics show that ACF Fall is demonstrably not as easy as an IS set, perhaps it should be. Maybe (and by maybe I mean clearly) the ACF fall bonus standards are too high. Again, this is the product of trying to cater to players who shoul...
- Sat May 19, 2007 4:16 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
- Fri May 18, 2007 9:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
The biggest problem with NAQT's IS set product is that they cannot decide whether the sets are high school questions or college questions. For most of the country, social science will not come up in high school. Yet it comes up in the regular level IS sets fairly regularly. Additionally, the sets of...
- Tue May 15, 2007 3:12 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
Of course we have the same desire, but it's not a reality. I'm pretty sure you're spoiled in the midatlantic. Sure, there are some teams who fit the description we're putting forth, but you don't live in the Southeast, Southwest, or North regions. Here it's damn hard to get a quorum for any non-CBI,...
- Mon May 14, 2007 6:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UPDATED: ACF Fall Weekend at Shorter (Nov 3-4 2007)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4972
I have no idea what's going on in the last two posts, but I just wanted to note that while Shorter had no way of knowing what date ACF Fall was thinking of announcing for, R was in fact informed of the 11/3 plan weeks ago and should have known better than to announce his tournament for that date. N...
- Mon May 14, 2007 5:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: New teams & ACF Fall
- Replies: 101
- Views: 41689
- Mon May 14, 2007 3:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: UPDATED: ACF Fall Weekend at Shorter (Nov 3-4 2007)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4972
ACF Fall did want the date, as I posted separately. We've been delaying the announcement pending confirmation of the dates for regionals and nationals, but it's clear that we need to make sure everyone knows that Fall will, in fact, take its traditional first weekend in November date. Dr. Pearson, i...
- Mon May 14, 2007 3:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Preliminary Announcement: ACF Fall (11/03/07)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2175
Preliminary Announcement: ACF Fall (11/03/07)
ACF Fall 2007 will take place this year on the weekend of November 3rd and 4th. The editing team will be: Head Editor: Mike Sorice Assistant Editors: Andrew Hart Jay Sridhar Jeremy Hixson Noah Rahman Jason Loy Patrick Hope Kevin Koai Dennis Jang Jonathan Magin The editors will come out with a full a...
- Sun May 13, 2007 8:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spider-Man 3
- Replies: 87
- Views: 35183
- Fri May 11, 2007 2:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 71
- Views: 32370
- Tue May 08, 2007 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 71
- Views: 32370
- Tue May 08, 2007 8:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 71
- Views: 32370
EDIT: While I'm on the topic of bonuses I'll throw in this classic of unfinished editing from Penn Bowl: In his Requiem , this composer was the first to eliminate the Dies Irae movement, replacing it with In Paradisum . More clues I must say I'm a bit confused here. This seems like a perfectly fine...
- Tue May 08, 2007 12:57 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27933
stuff about what I said All right, I'll buy it. Saying that you have been continually pilloried in this forum is, well, apparently untrue. I just don't think that you can take that as evidence that your questions were fine and dandy. I know that wasn't your point. You clearly know that your questio...
- Mon May 07, 2007 6:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 71
- Views: 32370
- Sun May 06, 2007 7:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Criticism of Criticism
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14573
- Fri May 04, 2007 7:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" is insulting
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8413
- Fri May 04, 2007 4:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" is insulting
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8413
- Wed May 02, 2007 1:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for Quiz Bowl
- Replies: 71
- Views: 32370
In a well written question, it shouldn't matter. Not only is that question absurdly phrased anyway (I hear the Soprano family of HBO fame was not contemporaneous with the Borgias), having something that calls for air quotes is a recipe for parity disaster. Different moderators will do different thi...
- Tue May 01, 2007 2:59 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18199
- Tue May 01, 2007 1:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18199
- Tue May 01, 2007 12:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27933
I kind of like the idea of questions on The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and characters from the Bridge of San Luis Rey (and I like the idea that things I know would come up at ACF Nats), but they are too hard for the target difficulty. Now, are we talking about the book by Oliver Sacks here?...
- Tue May 01, 2007 12:12 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How to Write Questions
- Replies: 29
- Views: 51578
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27933
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Criticism of Criticism
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14573
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27933
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27933
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:07 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: How to Write Questions
- Replies: 29
- Views: 51578
DO NOT write questions about elements...Elements are a cheap way out of a potentially good chemistry question. I generally agree with this, but I propose one notable exception. At tournaments with difficulty levels (maybe significantly) higher than ACF Fall I endorse and enjoy the occasional biolog...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Criticism of Criticism
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14573
I've seen my share of flame-worthy shit, and it's fine to get angry when anger is necessary, but it shouldn't be the norm. I am in no way suggesting that anyone scale back the negativity of their evaluations; if something deserves to be pilloried, it should be pilloried, but I think unduly violent e...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Criticism of Criticism
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14573
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Stuff that is not related to Ghetto Warz or Moon Pie
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27933
Seriously, Charlie, since when do you go mouthing off about ACF tournaments including the 16th most famous Nigerian author and tossups with 8 SENTENCES in them when you know for a fact that that's just idiocy? Your arguments here make you look like a child whose candy has been stolen and nothing els...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ghetto Warz Discussion and Moon Pie Complaints
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41932
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: May Avatars
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1701
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Ghetto Warz Discussion and Moon Pie Complaints
- Replies: 43
- Views: 41932
You know it might not produce good quizbowl but if the TD/QE doesn't say it needs to be fixed what incentive do I have to go through more trouble writing questions for people? Basically if people sent me stuff that was too atrociously bad I would tell them to rewrite (which I did several times), ot...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Objects of Interest
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18199