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Considering their popularity in crappy local formats, I'm doubtful that NAQT gameplay is more common.

I like the double round-robin prelims too. hell, if we want to spend all day playing, why not have a giant, 16 team round robin for the prelims, and a small(teams with only 1-2 losses?) playoff?

I might note that this also could be a problem in artist/composer tossups(a student who has never looked at the Ghent Altarpeice or Arnolfini Marrage but happens to have heard "an Annunciation sold by stalin to andrew mellon" beating someone who does not know that fact but is very familiar...

One other idea is to look at what people are using for givaways and write tossups on those. That way, you can vary your answer selection and still be assured that they are convertible another idea- at packet submission tournaments, let player who are new to writing know how their packet could be imp...

Idea for encouraging idependent tournaments: First, deal with MSHSAA restrictions on competition. Then, offer schools the oppourtunity to obtain questions for their tournaments for reduced cost. remeber, this is a state where the basic principles of good question writing are little known(compared to...

I don't really have the time to write during the school year much, but I have some previously-written questions I could contribute.

So, any preseason predictions for the Washington,DC area?

Bravo. I would like to add only that if people tried to introduce rules into sports that gave a mediocire team an advantage/plurality over good teams, other people would be up in arms. So why do people treat quizbowl differently? God knows it's not boring to watch, at least if you understand how the...

I will concur with MLWGS-gir. Quizbowl is fundamentally a different game from the sort that I am strating to feel that Missouri wants to foist on people who want to play quizbowl. quick take Sports-designed with flash and excitemnt for the spectator in mind. Hence, single-elim(to raise the stakes of...

Lee- missouri's problem to me is the competition restrictions. If your (insert crappy local format) lets you do whatever you want in addition to it, then it can possibly coexist with good quizbowl. Of course, if these are starting to develop in alabama, than I urge you and anyone you can get on your...

Nutty idea: palace coup to install someone who cares about quizbowl less nutty idea-contact people who care about quizbowl to suggest dissacociation from school, by playing as non-school representing teams, not personally representing the school, off the school's dime. They can hardly forbid student...

Possibly there are some variances in the roman and greek tradition(say, hypothetically having ulysses sail off into the sunset right after defeating the suitors.) and between other analogous traditons.

When writing questions about fine arts, try to vary your answers a little. It does sometimes feel like 19th century french art is overemphaized. Also, it might be worth it to try writing common-link tossups, since those can more easily include clues about works that don't come up enough. edit:grammar.

Given:Schezerhade's captor
correct:Don Quixote
from and old NAQT A-set. The clue invovled damsels in distress.

I would so love a fine arts themed side event. I'll write the art history for one if I ever am in a position to push for one. mabye more theme events at lunchtime in leiu of a coaches game? if you are willing to let the tournament run a little later and have food at the school, this could be fun. I ...

What is the Order of Cincinnatus? the google results I get are for the Society of the Cincinnati, which involves descent and and has nothing to do with actual servic.

not really a bad neg, but still a interesting wrong answer.(from last year's MD spring. This was before I joined)
Moderator:blah, blah, blah, 68 ce,Vespatian
me:Great Revolt
Mod: prompt.
Me: Great Revolt of 66 ce?
Mod. Uh, more?
Me: I don't know
The answer was Jewish Revolt.

prerequisites listed above by identifying the source of your questions

For houswrites, should you just say that or should you send sample questions?

It came up in a email right before my freshman year, I decided to try it, and things sprialled from there.

The art was probably more skewed to my interests than it should have been. Since I just finished an art course on the late 18th and early 19th centuries, I initially wrote a lot of tossups on that period, resulting in some pretty hard stuff on people like Landseer and Falconet, plus an overall Fren...

Yeah, I pretty much agree with Weiner here. I don't see a pressing need for anything more than a few quick sentences of boilerplate language which say the two things that Weiner mentioned. If anyone manages to take material from our packets and make millions off of it, I think that should suffice t...

Will the set be posted anywhere? I'd like to see these art history questions.

Any good ways to help retain science clues better?(yes, I know how useful question writing is. Aside from that, I mean)

I had Whitman at 22 because of pretty much the same reason as Charlie. Based on last year's stats, the poll may actually be an underrating, because we really can't tell how much Shantanu was covering his returning teammates (although based on his reaction in this thread, his teammates may not be th...

I had Whitman at 22 because of pretty much the same reason as Charlie. Based on last year's stats, the poll may actually be an underrating, because we really can't tell how much Shantanu was covering his returning teammates (although based on his reaction in this thread, his teammates may not be th...

I'll see if anyone from Whitman is interested.
Douglas Graebner, Walt Whitman HS

I'll concur with Guy and Sarah, and I will add that the reason that Fine arts and the other lesser academic categories(ie, RMP and whatever I'm forgetting) are rarer and more sensitve to quirks of distribution is proabably the trash and less academic categories getting too much space. And Hentzel, I...

Yep, it looks like they're putting a disproportionate chunck of fine arts in the dead zone.
Anybody want to fire off an email to R. Hentzel or someone else in NAQT?

So that's where the architecture tossups have been going. Mabye they try to distribute evenly in the dead zone(so no one subject has more than a 1-2 in the dead zone) and art history/fine arts is hit harder because there are fewer to begin with. Did you see if there were any other patterns in the de...

I think part of the problem with the sciences is that it is not as easy to figure out what to study as with other areas. with lit and the arts, for instance, the You Gotta Know lists can be used to pinpoint the most-quizzed works, and these can be subjected to more in-depth study. If you were to pic...

Sorry, I forgot to identify myself. Just to clarify, I'm Douglas Graebner from Walt Whitman high school.

I also wonder if this won't widen the gap between teams from quizbowl-rich areas( who will have to travel shorter distances to find good competion) and teams from qiuzbowl-poor areas(who have to travel greater distances to find good competition), who will have to cut back on travel and in the proces...

Why is it neccesary to resort to such a controversial method of measuring mathematical abilities(presuming mathematics to be within the pervue of quizbowl, a reasonable proposition with much backing),when they can be measure either by theory(slowy introduced to allow time for canon expansion), or Ma...