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- Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 30357
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
In case anyone is still planning travel, I would like to note that - unlike what we ran during the school year - we are not beholden to a 10am room reservation start time for either day of this tournament. Do expect each day to start registration well before 9am and plan your travel / hotels accord...
- Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Collegiate Novice 4 packets posted
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1764
Re: Global Announcement: Collegiate Novice 5
The transition to collegiate quiz bowl is a lot easier if you know the questions in advance.Excelsior (smack) wrote:I think (hope) you posted in the wrong thread.theMoMA wrote:Packets for this tournament are now available here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/631/
- Sat Jun 28, 2014 11:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 30357
Re: VCU Open 2014: August 2
I'm looking for a team for the VCU site.
EDIT: Tejas Raje and I have joined forces.
EDIT2: Playing with Tejas, Ian Lenhoff, and Victor Prieto.
EDIT: Tejas Raje and I have joined forces.
EDIT2: Playing with Tejas, Ian Lenhoff, and Victor Prieto.
- Mon May 26, 2014 4:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror
- Replies: 135
- Views: 55193
Re: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror
I've occasionally complained about writers like Chris Borglum who put left-leaning political commentary/snide remarks into current events or history questions they write, but this was certainly worse than anything Borglum has ever done. Suffice it to say, when I coined the term "modern world&q...
- Mon Mar 31, 2014 8:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2039
Re: General Discussion
I guess I'll just say here, given what else may or may not be going on in other tournament discussion subfora, that the innovation of specifying "With his/her alphabetically-prior collaborator" rather than just "With a colleague" was ingenious and I hope it becomes common practi...
- Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Social Science/"Thought"/"Modern World" Questions
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2958
Re: Social Science/"Thought"/"Modern World" Questions
I totally agree. I'd be interested to hear how the writers/editors selected answers and found clues that focused on more modern research as opposed to well-worn and outdated works, because I think that might help people move beyond yet another tossup on The Affluent Society when it comes time to wr...
- Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Errata
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4580
Re: Errata
Can you please post the "private language" tossup? From what I can tell, every clue from the beginning of the second sentence to the word "Kripke" is not about the private language argument at all, but about the "rule-following problem," which appears elsewhere in Phil...
- Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General Discussion
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6578
Re: General Discussion
When writing questions, I think it's a good step to consider how people will have learned about the clues you're using. Sometimes in attempting to make "realer" clues, one can actually just make impossible ones. Here are some examples: 3. This man proposed a premise of transitivity of indi...
- Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:25 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question Specific Discussion
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7432
Re: Question Specific Discussion
There was also a bonus in the Illinois B / Penn B packet that was on complex analysis and whose third part was something that sounded like "Rouche's theorem". This theorem is very much a thing, but I don't think it is given a name very often. Okay. I wasn't familiar with it so I trusted t...
- Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2014 (July 19-20, UChicago)
- Replies: 71
- Views: 40914
Re: Chicago Open 2014 (July 19-20, UChicago)
Packet deadlines No packets before April 1, please. Packet submitted by May 1: $80 Packet submitted by June 4: $160 Packet submitted by June 15: $200 Packet submitted by July 1: $240 Packet submitted after July 1: +$10 per day (on top of $240) Is there any chance these deadlines could be altered so...
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 1:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open team formation (PRELIMINARY poll)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4312
Re: Chicago Open team formation (PRELIMINARY poll)
Lately, we've had a problem dealing with registrations. Tying registration to packet submission results in races to complete packets and thus poor-quality submissions. But having registration on a first-come-first-serve basis encourages teams that might not be serious about attending to register fi...
- Sat Nov 02, 2013 11:07 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Old-Timey Guerilla QB Event - Pittsburgh, 11/23/2013
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8059
Re: Guerilla Side Event for Arrabal? - Pittsburgh, 11/23/2013
I'd be interested in doing this.
- Wed Oct 09, 2013 7:08 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Discuss the anime rule here
- Replies: 112
- Views: 39622
Re: State of the board discussion thread
It is a mirror of a real-life activity that exists primarily and overridingly as a hub for discussion of that activity. The anime rule, like the related 4ch*n/no memes rule, serves as sort of a buffer that reminds people they're not just "on the internet", the idea being that those are ar...
- Sun Sep 08, 2013 10:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: What protests are for & why you should make less of them
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5173
Re: What protests are for & why you should make less of them
One of the "potential errors" in the list talks about answers that apply to "all the clues up to a significantly deep point in the question." What does "significantly deep" in this case mean? Is it an instance of discretion ("anyone who knows more about Louis XVI t...
- Mon Aug 12, 2013 9:36 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Updating old "top 10" lists for best sets and teams?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 17276
Re: Updating old "top 10" lists for best sets and teams?
I actually really liked MAGNI. If I can be a dickhead for just a sec, I think there was a mild backlash against MAGNI (at least among me) when the MAGNI writers/editors seemingly kept over-praising their own work all the time. But it was a very good tournament, probably the best regular difficulty ...
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:43 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
- Replies: 30
- Views: 14016
Re: VCU Open 2013: 8/3/13 at VCU
Is there a list of officially registered teams?
- Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14401
Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
But, at this point, they're a bit stale and why use the one history tournament where the scope for introducing new things is widest to rehash the same stuff? I'm not sure gettable clues and interesting but hard clues are mutually exclusive. You obviously don't want bonus parts to be six lines long,...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 11:30 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14401
Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
While I can't speak at all for what Marshall's philosophy towards difficulty is nor can I judge anything about American history, but surely there is a minimum amount of knowledge needed to acquire a 10? This isn't the tournament to be giving out 10s because you know that the first President of Amer...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:03 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14401
Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
My general philosophy in writing for this tournament was to write some unexplored common link tossups and in general write on things that have never shown up in quizbowl, which I hope succeeded. My goal for bonuses was to have the easy part be something that's pretty well known in the quizbowl cano...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:34 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
- Replies: 41
- Views: 14401
Re: Urgent Call for Unity Discussion
EDIT: After posting a question it occurred to me this may not be clear yet. Is it?
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2013 (7/20-21/13)
- Replies: 147
- Views: 59026
Re: Chicago Open 2013 (7/20-21/13)
Maybe a little late to ask, but do any of the people providing food (either for lunch or barbecue) want any sort of monetary reimbursement from those partaking?
- Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 57
- Views: 12338
Re: 2013 NASAT Set & Tournament Discussion
I thought that maybe the rational function prompt was placed there for the synthetic division clue. The prompt doesn't apply elsewhere, but maybe it's a prompt for generosity's sake??? This is basically the reasoning. Synthetic division seemed a place where many teams would buzz, and I couldn't ima...
- Sun Jun 02, 2013 8:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd: 11/23/13 @ CMU
- Replies: 110
- Views: 41088
Re: Fernando Arrabal Tournament of the Absurd: 11/23/13 @ TBD
Is there any chance of a Minnesota Open 2012 type packet submission? Ten packets seems cutting it kind of close.
- Tue May 07, 2013 1:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule
- Replies: 79
- Views: 22889
Re: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule
I believe us at Michigan are going to be running a tournament in the October timeslot that we've run MOO and QUARK in the past two years. This will probably involve packet submission to some extent. In terms of difficulty, it seems like there'd be room for either a regular difficulty event or a reg...
- Mon May 06, 2013 5:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule
- Replies: 79
- Views: 22889
Re: The 2013-14 Tournament Schedule
Thanks, Susan. How about NAQT? I take it that SCT will be two weeks before Regionals, as is traditional; will ICT be two weeks before ACF Nationals or two weeks after, given that after seems to be an option? And it seems like Fall did go for its traditional November spot. Does anyone have thoughts ...
- Wed May 01, 2013 11:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 30082
Re: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
EDIT: If the question was irredeemably bad or Bruce didn't think it would get converted, replacing it seems fine; I haven't seen the submitted question so I can't remark on whether or not Bruce made the correct editorial decision. However, it seems ill-advised to write questions based solely on wha...
- Wed May 01, 2013 10:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
- Replies: 129
- Views: 30082
Re: ACF Nationals 2013 Discussion
[*] Tanzania (all mine. Columbia submitted a tossup on “Marxist Geography”, along with a warning telling me that if I replaced it with a tossup on Tanzania I was ignoring what academic geographers actually did. I took it as a challenge) A good choice! Why is this a good choice? EDIT: If the questio...
- Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: National History Bowl - 2013 College Nationals: Sun. Apr. 14
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14751
Re: National History Bowl - 2013 College Nationals: Sun. Apr. 14
If this is paired with VCU Open at some unusual time (say, Friday during the day or evening), would that greatly affect a lot of people who can't get out of their summer employment and otherwise wanted to come? I personally like this idea the best, for the reasons Chris Ray outlined above. I think ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Different Way to Quantify Buzzing
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5745
Re: A Different Way to Quantify Buzzing
This exercise is a bit discouraging, since I reluctantly would conclude that this measure is not very useful by itself. Even combined with power rate and neg rate, it doesn't tell us an extraordinary amount of information. I think it is too early, however, to completely dismiss it. It is definitely...
- Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:54 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: A Different Way to Quantify Buzzing
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5745
Re: A Different Way to Quantify Buzzing
This looks potentially interesting, but what new information does it provide, exactly? Based on the numbers I would guess UVA has a better chance of beating Chicago C than vice versa, but it seems PPG would show the same thing.
- Fri Mar 29, 2013 12:17 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Terrapin 2013 General Discussion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1614
Re: Terrapin 2013 General Discussion
There were also a lot of common link ideas that I heard some people didn't really care for, with someone even hilariously suggesting that I'm attempting to sabotage the common link crusaders' movement. It's certainly not true I'm trying to sabotage the common link argument, as I wrote them to incor...
- Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Chicago Open 2013 (7/20-21/13)
- Replies: 147
- Views: 59026
Re: Chicago Open 2013 (7/20-21/13)
Just to be clear, Chicago Open proper is still only one day, yes? July 21 will be a day of unrelated side events?
- Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Tournament Discussion
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11218
Re: Tournament Discussion
I believe only one or two instances of boring common-link tossups on words like "normal" or "simple" or whatever. So, yeah, if you want a model for how to write math, you could do a hell of a lot worse than this tournament. Answer lines like these allow the question to ask about...
- Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Thinking about the Quizbowl Distribution
- Replies: 72
- Views: 10925
Re: Thinking about the Quizbowl Distribution
Most complaints about the structure of the distribution seem to really be complaints about lazy question writing, and changing the former won't fix the latter. I like that VCU Closed and WIT both tried out distributions slightly different from ACF (as many other regular season tournaments have in th...
- Thu Mar 07, 2013 6:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: autobid thread split
- Replies: 62
- Views: 10769
Re: autobid thread split
To summarize: out of the top 24 teams (as determined by infallible poll), one didn't play SCT, and one had some of its strongest players compete in DII. The other 22 earned bids (some of which were declined). Team number 25 probably won't squeak in. How consistent is the number of teams that declin...
- Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:38 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: DI specific question discussion
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7117
Re: DI specific question discussion
There was one bonus whose lead-in asked players to name Old Testament books, and then went on to have questions on Jude, Acts, and Romans. This was confusing as those are not Old Testament books.
EDIT: It's also possible this was read wrong, or I just misheard it, in which case never mind.
EDIT: It's also possible this was read wrong, or I just misheard it, in which case never mind.
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 12:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Talk About Science History
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9014
Re: Let's Talk About Science History
A good science class might have a discussion on how creationism keeps cropping up as creation science, intelligent design etc when learning about initial resistance to Darwin's ideas. I was joking because "is taught in class" is often used as a criterion for answer line or clue selection,...
- Tue Feb 05, 2013 4:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Talk About Science History
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9014
Re: Let's Talk About Science History
Intelligent design is something people definitely learn in science classes. Not good science classes, but still...touchpack wrote:On the ID tossup I personally was buzzing from things I learned from watching a PBS special, for example.
- Mon Feb 04, 2013 7:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Talk About Science History
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9014
Re: Let's Talk About Science History
John Snow, the IAS, Challenger, for example, are incredibly important subjects in the history of science (I edited an essay on Snow once for one of these classes), but people don't like questions on them because no one actually studies the history of science and so they play poorly. I'm not sure th...
- Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT (March 2013)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5717
Re: WIT (March 2013)
Should RMP and Fine Arts be divided equally into their usual subcategories (i.e. 1/1 R, 1/1 M, 1/1 P and then 1/1 visual, 1/1 concert music, 1/1 other)?
- Thu Nov 29, 2012 7:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion
- Replies: 84
- Views: 10080
Re: Question-specific discussion
I don't know enough about the Luces or Schurz to comment on question quality, but I think Kurtis's comment and the complaints about the achievement gap and punishment questions point towards a more general issue. In choosing answer lines, the primary focus should be on the game play aspect, rather t...
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MO Side Event: Oh You Didn't Know...This Was Vanity?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 10841
Re: MO Side Event: Oh You Didn't Know...This Was Vanity?
That should come up more.Cheynem wrote: There are no tiebreakers of any sorts; ideally all matches end in a tie in a Feit Thompson paradox.
EDIT: I'd also be interested in playing this, conditional on not inconveniencing anyone sharing the car I'd be in.
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 11:08 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11352
Re: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
I mean, I'm not really sure what you want from me here. If a bonus is submitted to me that has a decent medium/easy/hard structure and where, as far as I can tell, all three parts are reasonably important, I'm not going to waste limited time editing it to be super-exciting. When you say that "...
- Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
- Replies: 61
- Views: 11352
Re: ACF Fall 2012 Discussion
But yeah, overall I really enjoyed playing this. There weren't any particularly flashy answer lines, but there probably shouldn't be given the goal of the tournament. I think it could actually have stood to have a couple more flashy answer lines. Many of the bonuses especially seemed not so much ea...
- Sun Nov 04, 2012 4:40 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Midwest at the University of Wisconsin 11/3
- Replies: 22
- Views: 11704
Re: ACF Fall Midwest at the University of Wisconsin 11/3
One other thing I noticed which was that after the prelims finished around four or five pm (!), stats were still being hastily compiled forcing several teams to leave (at least NU and Truman) before the individual awards were announced. I'm also wondering why Wisconsin A (Alex) was playing while th...
- Sun Sep 30, 2012 5:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: General discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2624
Re: General discussion
I thought this set this a much better job of achieving a reasonable difficultly level than MOO and many other tournaments from last year that advertised a difficulty of "regular plus." The biggest weakness was the bonus difficulty: it was pretty variable, with many bonuses that were diffic...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: (Abbreviated) College Preview, 2012-2013 Season
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10448
Re: (Abbreviated) College Preview, 2012-2013 Season
It wouldn't be a predictions thread if someone didn't start a sentence and
- Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
- Replies: 83
- Views: 27160
Re: KABO: Kurtis and Ashvin's Backyard Open (8/4)
It would be personally more convenient for movies and KABO to be the same day, but the division as it is now makes sense.
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012
- Replies: 131
- Views: 41935
Re: CO History Doubles: 7/22/2012
I agree with what everyone else has said about this turning out better than expected, both from a logistical and question-quality perspective. A grand time was had by all. One logistical change I would suggest if this happens next year is an earlier final deadline for packets. Obviously a guerrilla ...
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO Lit and History Scheduling Compromise
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7922
Re: CO Lit and History Scheduling Compromise
I would miss all or most of WELD if it started around 4.Mike Bentley wrote: From a practical perspective, is there anyone besides Matt Bollinger and Jonathan Magin whose flight on Sunday night preculdes them playing WELD if it starts around 4?