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- Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT location?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 23625
- Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: exit, voice and loyalty
- Replies: 85
- Views: 39624
One possible solution might be to have a potluck breakfast before each tournament. Every team can bring some kind of food item, such as a roast, or a bowl of mac and cheese, or some sandwiches, and then they can get together in a room and share the food with each other, and presumably socialize whi...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Sunshine State Invitational 2007 Trash Results
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2586
- Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall Commentary
- Replies: 44
- Views: 18281
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Vancouver Estival Trivia Open question packets
- Replies: 52
- Views: 44299
There is no usually to this. Come up with one specific instance where someone who knows everything is beaten by someone who knows less that isn't a: rigged, b: a buzzer race (that shouldn't happen because the smarter player would get it before the buzzer race clue appears), or c: a non-pyramidal qu...
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Vancouver Estival Trivia Open question packets
- Replies: 52
- Views: 44299
Here are three more on Bonhoeffer.
- Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT (11/18/06) at UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2076
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: CO History Subject Tournament
- Replies: 27
- Views: 14337
- Wed Jun 07, 2006 3:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Player movement thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7236
- Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:30 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Underwhelmed
- Replies: 141
- Views: 161221
- Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: does anyone know about this NAQT rule?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7969
DII qualification doesn't affect the autobid. Think what you may of how fair that is (as previously noted in this thread, the intent is to dissuade host teams from fielding their better staffers--presumably DI players--on house teams), but I find it hard to see how anyone hosting an SCT can reasonab...
- Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:49 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: National tournaments
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8142
The official policy of the Chicago College Bowl Team (I'm speaking as an officer of the team, not as an individual) is to maximize the amount of national championships we win. We recognize ACF Nationals, ICT, and CBI Nationals as legitimate national championship conferring tournaments. As such, we ...
- Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:36 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: does anyone know about this NAQT rule?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7969
I've known about the rule since before I ran an SCT in 2003 (at which we took our autobid in DI and fielded a DII team that also received a bid). Additionally, I'm pretty sure it's in the information that all SCT hosts are sent, and I certainly don't recall it being buried in fine print. I'm sorry a...
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT invitations
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15882
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:07 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57704
- Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57704
- Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57704
Since Dan brought up CBI, I thought I'd go off on a tangent: When did NAQT packets get so short? This was the first SCT I have played since 2001 (and here I date myself), when I recall packets having 28 tossups. If my notes and memory are to be trusted, the D1 packets I played this weekend had 26 to...
- Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:18 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57704
- Mon Feb 13, 2006 2:23 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: THE thread for NAQT SCT discussion
- Replies: 99
- Views: 57704
- Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regs discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52155
- Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regs discussion
- Replies: 66
- Views: 52155
- Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SQBS for Mac?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4104
- Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: SSI Results
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9519
Regardless of how one feels about playoffs that don't include all teams, I think it's silly to act like they never happen. Jerry, you attended a tournament this very weekend where only the top eight teams participated in playoffs*. Penn Bowl, in its larger incarnations, had playoffs for only the top...
- Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:32 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: High tournament entry fees
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7641
Original text here.NAQT wrote:Hosts may charge teams that withdraw within 72 hours of the beginning of the tournament a cancellation fee of up to $40. Hosts may charge teams that withdraw within 24 hours of the beginning of the event, or which do not show up at all, a cancellation fee of up to $80.
- Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:05 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: High tournament entry fees
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7641
- Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Beloit College Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2155
Beloit has shown up at CBI regionals a few times in the past couple of years. They do have a website that lists a student contact. Good luck to your student.
- Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Overrepresentation of World Lit Topics
- Replies: 66
- Views: 37248
It's not about the language of choice; it's about the topic. Salman Rushdie writes, in at least the one book of his that I've read, about uniquely Indian experiences. He writes about Indian people, living in and near India, experiencing aspects of Indian history. On the other hand, Kazuo Ishiguro (...
- Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:48 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Biology in the modern QB era.
- Replies: 37
- Views: 45971
A few comments: -I don't see Gleevec as an unacceptable answer for the hard part of a bonus. Granted, I'm in a cancer biology program at Chicago, where Janet Rowley, whose work on the Philadelphia chromosome led to the development of Gleevec, works, so I may be biased here. I encountered Gleevec in ...
- Thu Nov 17, 2005 6:48 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 108309
10. Adenine might be a bit hard; I wrote an adenine question for ACF regs last year, and there's very little you can manufacture other than structural clues before the thymine. Clues relating to cyclic AMP or to ATP would be, I think, easier than structural information but still okay before thymine...
- Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:42 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Fall discussion
- Replies: 107
- Views: 108309
A sample of biology tossup answers included in the set: PCR, archaea, cnidaria, adenine, mimicry, prions, Calvin cycle, scapula, vitamin D... Gosh, I wonder why the tossup on sonic hedgehog wasn't used. Also, hurrah for this year's ACF Fall not being as much of an anatomy-fest as previous years have...
- Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:49 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Fall @ Chicago Results
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3992
- Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23898
- Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: personal stats data analysis
- Replies: 55
- Views: 29911
Hey, I got bored and generated the linear regressions (as described in Paul's initial post) for everyone at IO who scored over 10ppg. Somewhere Among Us A Stone Is Taking Notes: Andrew: y = 13.694x + 63.338 Paul: y = -12.739x + 19.732 Jerry: y = -34.395x + 45.478 Kentucky: Seth: y = -69.066x + 99.34...
- Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Seth's myth tournament
- Replies: 33
- Views: 23898
Seth's myth tournament
I just wanted to be the first to thank Seth Teitler for running his completely awesome myth tournament. The questions were excellent and, I believe, will be made available pretty soon, so all y'all who didn't go should check them out.
Also, congratulations to Seth Kendall for winning it.
Also, congratulations to Seth Kendall for winning it.
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:59 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7690
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WIT discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7690
- Sun Oct 16, 2005 5:14 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: how not to write questions
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11976
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:38 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: RMP (or just M) singles?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5461
- Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Post CO discussion?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6883
- Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:27 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Man, does CBI suck...
- Replies: 77
- Views: 91152
I'm pretty sure that the last CBI winner to receive money was the University of Chicago when we won in 2003. From what I understand, Ford is no longer a sponsor of CBI, hence the $10,000 first-place prize, as well as the reimbursements for travel and lodgings at the NCT (up to $1500 per team if I re...
- Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nats Results
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8695
Quoted from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quizbowl/message/15339 :
"Finally, just a quick note on div 2 eligibility. Any undergrad who has
not been to acf nationals before is eligible in division 2."
"Finally, just a quick note on div 2 eligibility. Any undergrad who has
not been to acf nationals before is eligible in division 2."
- Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:17 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Nats Results
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8695
- Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:57 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: What do you get out of Quiz Bowl?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10623
I know you were asking Bruce, but since I've been here forever, I can answer this: the University of Chicago used to have quite a lot of suicides until they started putting people in inpatient psych at the slightest hint of suicidal ideation. Undergraduates do still get a winter holiday called "...
- Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:18 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Regionals Commentary
- Replies: 51
- Views: 61775
The text of the relevant part of the Parkinson's disease question: A. Parkinson's specifically degrades this collection of cell bodies outside the CNS that comprises the substantia nigra, caudate nucleus, and putamen. Answer: basal ganglia Confusion due to the fact that anything ending in ganglia is...
- Tue Mar 08, 2005 5:54 pm
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: ACF Regionals Commentary
- Replies: 51
- Views: 61775
Commentary on a few of the bio/biochem/chem questions (neither as extensive nor as well-informed as Seth's): Generally, I thought the science in the set was very good in terms of both answer selection and writing (a step up from, say, last year's Nationals on both counts). I felt the answers stayed ...
- Mon Feb 21, 2005 12:14 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The essential CBI & ACF & NAQT
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8097
- Tue Feb 15, 2005 7:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ICT Bid discussion
- Replies: 38
- Views: 23717
Maybe I'm missing something, but shouldn't the strength-of-schedule compenent of the S-value account for the supposed disadvantage of having to play DI teams on DII questions? It doesn't seem to me that it should be all that different from having to play against a very strong DII team. That said, I'...
- Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:21 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals Midwest
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1801
ACF Regionals Midwest
The University of Chicago will be hosting the ACF Midwest Regional Tournament on Saturday, February 26, 2005. Fee structure: $100 - base fee -$10 per functional buzzer system -$10 per functional moderator Packet-related discounts: January 14th: -$30 January 28th: -$20 February 4th: +$0 February 11th...
- Tue Dec 28, 2004 11:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: over-, under-, or mis-represented topics in QB
- Replies: 38
- Views: 24979
- Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:56 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2004-2005 Predictions?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15056