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by leapfrog314
Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:40 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
Replies: 30
Views: 6366

Re: Announcement: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 11/22/2008

This tournament has been rescheduled for February 14, 2009. We apologize if this inconveniences anybody, but the new date is better for most people, including ourselves. If somebody could change the thread name to reflect the new date, that would be great.
by leapfrog314
Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:13 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Some new question database
Replies: 29
Views: 6016

Re: Some new question database

Eärendil wrote: I decided to take on the idea of a question database. I know it's been done before,
This looks cool, and I like that you've stressed the Unicode thing here. But pretty soon we're going to have to declare a moratorium on new question databases!
by leapfrog314
Tue Oct 07, 2008 6:05 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
Replies: 30
Views: 6366

Re: Announcement: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 11/22/2008

Proposal II:

Move HO to February 14. That's the weekend after NAQT SCT, and two weekends before ACF Regionals. (Alternatively, mirror Penn Bowl on January 24.)

As a side benefit, anyone who attends would be guaranteed to have a HO on Valentine's Day.
by leapfrog314
Tue Oct 07, 2008 5:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
Replies: 30
Views: 6366

Re: Announcement: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 11/22/2008

I am somewhat interested in mirroring Penn Bowl, though I would also like to actually edit a tournament. Of course, we don't have to hold HO on January 24th; is there some better date later in spring semester? At any rate, we're a full 700 miles (12 hour drive) from Philadelphia, so I can't imagine ...
by leapfrog314
Tue Oct 07, 2008 4:01 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
Replies: 30
Views: 6366

Re: Announcement: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 11/22/2008

Attention: Due to many teams agreeing that our original date does not work very well for them, including Indiana, the Hoosier Open is being relocated to some date in spring semester. I was originally thinking to move it to the weekend before ACF Winter, but that's January 10 and we're still on wint...
by leapfrog314
Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:57 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
Replies: 30
Views: 6366

Re: Announcement: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 11/22/2008

Hey, please shoot me an email ([email protected]) ASAP if you are at least considering attending this tournament. We have heard from very few teams, and unless that changes, we will end up cancelling this.
by leapfrog314
Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:44 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Midwest EFT Mirror @ UIUC (Saturday, October 4th)
Replies: 93
Views: 17467

Re: Midwest EFT Mirror @ UIUC (Saturday, October 4th)

Indiana will almost definitely be bringing one team, and may (but will most likely not) bring two teams. I'll get back to you soon.
by leapfrog314
Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:50 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '08-'09
Replies: 1271
Views: 207251

Re: Illinois '08-'09

Nick who?

Seriously though: I recall the time at New Trier that one of Nick's best friends asked me -- in his presence -- how "my" question company was doing. He was quite irate.
by leapfrog314
Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:05 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
Replies: 30
Views: 6366

Re: Announcement: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 11/22/2008

Chris, nobody has contacted us yet about mirroring this tournament, but we'd be very interested in making that happen.
by leapfrog314
Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:38 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

a search for "Odin" brings up a bunch of questions about Rodin. Reinstein and Sarah have good suggestions. If you just search for " odin" (with the quotes) you will get everything about Odin but nothing about Rodin, and I can't think of any word that starts with "odin"...
by leapfrog314
Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:51 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Gunpei Discussion
Replies: 16
Views: 3426

Re: Gunpei Discussion

I opened up the first packet and was delighted to see that acfdb was mentioned in the first sentence. I now have an official part in facilitating quizbowl meta! Hurrah!
by leapfrog314
Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:38 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Project management tools for tournament organizers?
Replies: 5
Views: 1819

Re: Project management tools for tournament organizers?

Dotproject at http://dotproject.net/ I've used Dotproject before, and I don't imagine it would be at all useful for organizing tournaments. It's really geared toward large software projects, and the only features that would be applicable to running a tournament could be easily replicated by, say, G...
by leapfrog314
Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:46 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Math Question Discourse: From "An Open Letter to NAQT"
Replies: 123
Views: 29307

Re: An Open Letter to NAQT

Tegan wrote:we burn witches to the stake and eat babies by the light of the bonfires.
Done.
by leapfrog314
Wed Aug 13, 2008 1:17 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Math Question Discourse: From "An Open Letter to NAQT"
Replies: 123
Views: 29307

Re: An Open Letter to NAQT

15. Hadamard's infinite product is one expansion of it, and it can also be expanded into a Laurent series using Stieltjets constants.  The Dirichlet L-function with chi as a trivial character is equivalent to it, and its value at 3 is known as Apery's constant.  Work by Ramanujan showed that its va...
by leapfrog314
Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:04 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Actual Discussion of HSQuizbowl/Kidder podcasts
Replies: 20
Views: 3553

Re: Actual Discussion of HSQuizbowl

Perhaps it's because there are fewer humanities players taking, like, science electives (or engaging in science non-quizbowl activities) from which they could start learning clues and attaching them than there are science players who used to do debate and so know some philosophy, or have a passion ...
by leapfrog314
Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:37 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

I am also having problems with randomization. There seem to be repeats over pages. Does it store the query, create a randomization, and then paginate that, or just pick 10 at random for each page? Yeah, every page it just picks 10 random questions. If you want more random questions without repeats,...
by leapfrog314
Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:02 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Interest in a Science Monstrosity?
Replies: 16
Views: 3188

Re: Interest in a Science Monstrosity?

I would love for this tournament to actually happen at some point. I don't have much experience writing questions of an appropriate difficulty, and am far too busy to be a major contributor anyway, but I'd love to help as much as I can.
by leapfrog314
Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:42 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

Carlo, I'm having trouble getting the database to randomize the order of questions. Hey, thanks for pointing that out. I've fixed it. Also, since you drew my attention to the ordering thing, I changed it so that category ascending/descending also sorts subcategories in order, i.e. Fine Arts - Art c...
by leapfrog314
Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:35 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '08-'09
Replies: 1271
Views: 207251

Re: Illinois '08-'09

Hey, I don't think the problem is so much the IHSA -- sure, the IHSA State Series isn't top-notch quizbowl, and they have arcane by-laws that treat quizbowl like basketball. But as teams like New Trier, Auburn, Wheaton North, Loyola, etc. have demonstrated, teams can essentially behave outside the p...
by leapfrog314
Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:25 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Harvard International - 4/11/09
Replies: 84
Views: 26985

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Harvard International - 4/11/09

Since our delightful, original, and inoffensive acronym of HO was appropriated by the Hoosier Open Whoopsy stealie. I totally missed the Harvard Open pre-announcement thread. But I guess your new name is less Don Imus and more salutatational. I would also be interested in a Midwest mirror. As long ...
by leapfrog314
Tue Jul 08, 2008 11:40 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

Bruce, my only concern with adding lots of mACF tournaments is that, as Chris pointed out earlier, having a database that's TOO big might actually make it harder to use? At any rate, this would not be difficult to do, especially if I'm not the one doing the categorizing (as actually getting them in ...
by leapfrog314
Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:56 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009
Replies: 30
Views: 6366

Cancelled: Hoosier Open at Indiana, 2/21/2009

This is an announcement for Indiana University's first annual mACF tournament, the Hoosier Open, which will be held at Indiana University Bloomington on February 21 , 2009. The HO will be approximately ACF Fall difficulty, and will be packet submission. The tournament directors are Carlo Angiuli (ca...
by leapfrog314
Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:14 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: First semester college academic tournaments
Replies: 33
Views: 13186

Re: First semester college academic touraments

Indiana University will be hosting its first-annual HO (Hoosier Open, that is) on November 22, 2008. Announcement forthcoming.
by leapfrog314
Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:41 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

How would you want this to work? Would you want a list of tags somewhere to choose from? Would this work in addition to the search tool, or as a different way of viewing questions?
by leapfrog314
Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:12 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

I don't know about you, but when I'm going through a list of like 40,000 tossups trying to get a database off the ground, I love putting in like 300 free-floating tags. Which is why Carlo's system allowed anyone to categorize tossups, and why at this point people could simply add a set of tags if t...
by leapfrog314
Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:40 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '08-'09
Replies: 1271
Views: 207251

Re: Illinois '08-'09

bonuses that include computation, which will continue to be in the old IHSA format (all read at the beginning and then allowing 30 seconds) except that they will be three parts worth ten points each I understand maintaining lots of computational math is necessary to have any hope of passing this, b...
by leapfrog314
Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:00 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '08-'09
Replies: 1271
Views: 207251

Re: Illinois '08-'09

Illinois wins!
by leapfrog314
Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:04 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '08-'09
Replies: 1271
Views: 207251

Re: Illinois '08-'09

Chichono wrote:Expect BIG things from New Trier. If you count us out, I have a feeling you'll be wrong, and it would be such a shame if someone in a forum were wrong...
Welcome to the boards, Ben. I look forward to the many amusing posts you will make this year!
by leapfrog314
Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:59 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Indiana 08-09
Replies: 8
Views: 2134

Re: Indiana 08-09

Also, as far as I know, the only people involved in Indiana HS on these boards are Mr. Dillon, Mr. Blessman, and myself, so that conversation might be better suited to e-mails. I am henceforth declaring myself involved in Indiana HS quizbowl as well, at least a little bit. Also, maybe we can look i...
by leapfrog314
Sun Jun 08, 2008 1:05 am
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

Personally I would categorize books of the bible as religion instead of literature. I think most of them in this database are under literature. Actually, almost all of them are under religion. The decision was that the tossups on the Bible that treated it as literature were literature, but that mos...
by leapfrog314
Sat Jun 07, 2008 4:08 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

I also wanted to know if there were a way to do that for the PACE NSC set. It would just require parsing the PACE sets, and then getting people to categorize all of them. I would be happy to help with the former, but the latter in particular is very time-consuming. But there's no reason it can't be...
by leapfrog314
Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:10 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '08-'09
Replies: 1271
Views: 207251

Re: Illinois '08-'09

Prediction: Greg Peterson and I find a loophole in IHSA rules and return to another year of eligibility as a "Midwestern University Cooperative," handily winning the Class A title.
by leapfrog314
Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

Re: ACFDB - a new tossup database

Hey, they're all categorized now! All of 'em. Mike, if you hit Search without entering anything in the box, you can get a search that returns all the questions. You can then hit "save as text" and get a neatly-organized text file with the entire search results (i.e., the entire database). ...
by leapfrog314
Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:54 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: Great News! CBI "Susp"Ends!
Replies: 89
Views: 28524

Re: Great News!

COLLEGE BOWL CAMPUS PROGRAM SUSPENDED Los Angeles, Calif. (June 3, 2008)— After 31 years of collaboration I guess this means I will have the privilege of never having played CBI...though I've had my fair share of dismal high school quizbowl... :party: Seriously, crazy. And nice job already swooping...
by leapfrog314
Thu Jun 05, 2008 4:46 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: ACFDB - a new tossup database
Replies: 79
Views: 23577

ACFDB - a new tossup database

Hey guys, I know that Jerry already has QBDB , a quizbowl question database with searchable packets. However, I was looking for a good way to study particular categories from packets without actually reading whole packets, and found that none really existed. So I decided to catalog tossups by catego...
by leapfrog314
Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:11 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Senior Destinations 2008
Replies: 103
Views: 22951

Re: Senior Destinations 2008

Is anybody besides John Brown coming to Indiana University? Anybody?
by leapfrog314
Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:00 pm
Forum: College area archives
Topic: MCMNT 2008 Discussion
Replies: 63
Views: 14352

Re: MCMNT 2008 Discussion

I've noticed that nobody's commenting on Indiana's packet. Indiana's team was only reincarnated this year, and this is the first packet we wrote, so I'd like all the advice I can get. It also represents the first college-level questions anyone on our team has written. If some kind nitpicker would li...
by leapfrog314
Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:26 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '07-'08
Replies: 1091
Views: 245727

Or conversely, perhaps Trotsky was deflated?
by leapfrog314
Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:47 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '07-'08
Replies: 1091
Views: 245727

Is he very, very, good? Yes. Is he God? No. Well, there go my aspirations to found a new religion. Seriously, though, most of the math questions were highly doable in 30 seconds. They were all on topics covered in typical high school math courses, and I would argue that most were doable in 15 secon...
by leapfrog314
Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:21 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '07-'08
Replies: 1091
Views: 245727

The problem is that the Technology questions are too hard. The finals had a question about a virtual machine that hasn't even been released yet. Mashup is a term only used by technology pundits. The PHP question was entirely full of arcane information about PHP, with no clue that was both simple and...
by leapfrog314
Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:41 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Which buzzer has the most pleasant sound?
Replies: 24
Views: 7176

Do you mean The Officiator from Anderson Buzzer Systems? It has a pleasant sound, and is named The Officiator.
by leapfrog314
Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:42 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '07-'08
Replies: 1091
Views: 245727

I predict Gauthier will be morning champion. Somebody unexpected will win the Desperation Shot. The other seven finalists will be known names, but some known names will not make the finals.

And of course, Dewey will handily defeat Truman.
by leapfrog314
Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:25 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: NT Varsity III (12/15/07) at New Trier (Winnetka, IL)
Replies: 35
Views: 10521

NT Varsity III (12/15/07) at New Trier (Winnetka, IL)

New Trier’s Third Annual Scholastic Bowl Varsity Tournament will be held December 15, 2007 at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. The questions are written by Aegis Questions, Inc. , a company closely affiliated with this tournament since its inception. This year, however, we will be chan...
by leapfrog314
Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '07-'08
Replies: 1091
Views: 245727

Back in my day, the Illinois board discussed quizbowl. Ah, how things have changed.
by leapfrog314
Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:03 am
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Computational math in high school quizbowl
Replies: 73
Views: 81851

charlieDfromNKC wrote:ACF generally precludes computation.
We're from Illinois, though, so we might get shot if we have no computation. We're not sure how we're going to handle math yet. And frankly, we have some other tournaments to take care of before we can start thinking too hard about the NT set.
by leapfrog314
Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:24 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '07-'08
Replies: 1091
Views: 245727

Age has nothing to do with ability. But age has a LOT to do with experience, and experience has a LOT to do with ability. Age directly, no. There are certainly some fantastic underclassmen. But since even they get better with age, the best players tend to be older ones. There are of course exceptio...
by leapfrog314
Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:22 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: New NAQT qualification rules
Replies: 1
Views: 1826

Re: New NAQT qualification rules

Now small schools qualify by being the top school so long as they finish at least in the middle of the field. This seems to accomplish the objective of bringing in small schools, without bringing in awful small schools. Obviously there will be some tournaments at which being at the middle of the fi...
by leapfrog314
Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:06 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Out-of-state interest in Chicago-area tournament 12/15/07?
Replies: 9
Views: 3911

Going for the eight year plan now Charlie? I'm taking Yaphe's approach and putting it in high school. Actually, I'm pretty sure that you only get one degree from high school no matter how many years you go. Back on topic, we have decided to change the format of NT Varsity from Illinois format, as p...
by leapfrog314
Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:01 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Illinois '07-'08
Replies: 1091
Views: 245727

Tegan wrote:black is white
No, Coach Egan, that was last year. Blue is the new white.

Also, I think Riley meant that he can't wait for an all-Harry Potter tournament amirite?
by leapfrog314
Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:57 pm
Forum: High school area archives
Topic: Reviving some HSNCT discussion
Replies: 87
Views: 29855

All this talk about trash (trash talk, perhaps?) is bringing back fond memories of 2006 HSNCT, where the first tossup was on (censored) Snakes on a (censored) Plane.