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- Mon Mar 02, 2015 11:59 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Maintaining High Levels of Mental Stamina?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9056
Re: Maintaining High Levels of Mental Stamina?
I go on walks between rounds (like through the halls).
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:02 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: George Oppen @ Columbia University (2/21/15)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 19322
Re: George Oppen @ Columbia University (2/21/15)
Thanks for the fun tournament, Columbia.
Wilton is good at Eyes, but apparently he's GRRRRREAT at negging.
Wilton is good at Eyes, but apparently he's GRRRRREAT at negging.
- Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The Great American Challenge?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3173
Re: The Great American Challenge?
Same. By the years you give, I'm guessing this is a 6th-8th grade thing?t-bar wrote:I was unaware of either meaning of this term until Vasa enlightened me.
- Sat Jan 24, 2015 8:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
Re: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
All stats are now up. In addition to overall 2nd, Yale takes the undergraduate 1st, and Dartmouth takes undergraduate 2nd. Princeton takes DII 1st, and MIT B takes DII 2nd. Much thanks to all my staff who helped make this tournament happen. I'm glad both they, and all the teams (well, 3/4 of them) c...
- Sat Jan 24, 2015 8:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
Re: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
After playing an effective best of 3 in a row, and going 1 each, MIT and Yale played a winner-take-all game with MIT coming back from down by over 150 to take the tournament. Stats will be up as soon as my hands stop shaking.
- Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:19 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
Re: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
Our final field is down to 12, with Columbia B and all of Brown dropping.
After a few (snow related) delays, we're off to the races! Staaaaaaaaaaats can be found here:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2750
and will be updated throughout the day.
After a few (snow related) delays, we're off to the races! Staaaaaaaaaaats can be found here:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/2750
and will be updated throughout the day.
- Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8793
Re: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
Thanks for pointing that out--I actually don't have a copy of last year's set, but I'll talk to Stephen Liu or Will about it.Shangdevin wrote:By the way last year's set has yet to be posted....
- Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8793
Re: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
Coulomb's law- method of image -infinite plane of charge polyploidy-speciation- orthologous galaxy-Hubble- Triangulum inverse- first isomorphism -commutative nitrogen-azide- N2O3 deserts-rain shadow- yardangs enzymes-Arrhenius- Michaelis-Menten uncertainty principle-time- matrix mechanics drosophil...
- Thu Jan 22, 2015 12:17 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8793
Re: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
12. A goddess normally depicted standing atop an intertwined Kama and Rati performed this action to herself during the god-demon war, and is named Chinnamasta. Saint Denis preached a sermon after this action occurred to him on Montmartre [mon-MAR-truh], making him a cephalophore. In an Oscar Wilde ...
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 5:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8793
Re: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
Sorry about the delay. 9. Joseph Stella is best known for his Precisionist paintings of one of these entities in New York. In a painting by Gustave Caillebotte [kye-BO] set on one of these entities “of Europe,” a dog walks away from the viewer and a couple walks toward the viewer. While in Arles, Vi...
- Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
Re: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
With ACF's okay, the field is now closed and the field is final, assuming no teams have forgotten to alert ACF and/or me. Since 17 is an awful number to work with, if any teams would like to split off a team, or register a non-packet requiring team, that would be fine by me. Otherwise, we'll use a h...
- Sat Jan 03, 2015 2:51 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Split screens in Word for Easy Reading
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3894
Re: Split screens in Word for Easy Reading
I prefer to use Eddie's strategy, mainly for the font thing he described and since alt-tab feels more natural. I don't even bother with Explorer--it takes 20 seconds to Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, open a new Word file, Ctrl-P, and scroll to the bonuses. Same with pdfs, though in that case I might have to copy t...
- Mon Dec 29, 2014 2:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
Re: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
Just a note that despite that, despite that link Stephen just posted, teams still need to make sure to register by email with me! This is especially important since we now, with Columbia's registration, only have two spots left open in the field (not including the waitlist). We're trying to expand t...
- Tue Dec 02, 2014 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
Re: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
The OP has been updated with the registration form.
- Mon Dec 01, 2014 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
Re: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
Field Updates (Final)
Team (16/18)/Buzzers/Staffers
Boston College/0/0
Dartmouth/0/1?
Yale(*2)/2/0
Brown(*3)/0/0
Amherts/2/0
Princeton/0/0
Rutgers/1/0
NYU(*2)/0/0
MIT(*2)/1/0
Columbia(*2)/1/0
Team (16/18)/Buzzers/Staffers
Boston College/0/0
Dartmouth/0/1?
Yale(*2)/2/0
Brown(*3)/0/0
Amherts/2/0
Princeton/0/0
Rutgers/1/0
NYU(*2)/0/0
MIT(*2)/1/0
Columbia(*2)/1/0
- Mon Dec 01, 2014 3:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4707
ACF Regionals 2015 Northeast @ Harvard (1/24/15)
Hello, all! This is the general announcement for the Northeast site of ACF Regionals 2015, which will be hosted by Harvard on January 24, 2015. I (Raynor Kuang) will be tournament directing. ACF Regionals will be a packet submission college-regular tournament, and the primary method for qualifying f...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:04 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Question-specific discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 53
- Views: 8793
Re: Question-specific discussion
Could I see the TU on The Master and Margarita and the bonus that went Franklin/Speak, Memory/Dahl? I thought the set was decent for the most part but both of those questions were not very good ideas? At one point in this novel, a character shoots a pistol in a theater, causing banknotes to fall fr...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67894
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
That said, please stop trying to associate Harvard with Harvard QB. If you have an issue with the club, don't let your stereotypes about the university as a whole taint your other arguments (especially since you have a reasonable amount of other evidence below). raynor plz I'd encourage future part...
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:28 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: General discussion (HFT 2014)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2615
Re: General discussion
Edit: I posted an explanation, but decided to make it a PM.
As for the questions, I'll take a look at the bonus consistency. I'm sorry to hear there was a sense that there was a mountain on the third parts--I'll myself go back to the science and try and level that mountain.
As for the questions, I'll take a look at the bonus consistency. I'm sorry to hear there was a sense that there was a mountain on the third parts--I'll myself go back to the science and try and level that mountain.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:18 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67894
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Given that it's fairly standard among the community to refer to teams simply by the (generally shortest convenient) name of their schools, I don't think Joe is trying to say anything about your institution of higher learning. I'm not interested in warning you for telling people how to post over thi...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67894
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
...the questions were simply amazing! Definitely tied for my favorite set of all time (alongside Penn Bowl 2014). Thanks for saying that! I really want to praise Will for this here, since Will definitely was responsible for putting the personal stylistic touch on the set as a whole. I suppose now I...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:11 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67894
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Hey everybody: don't tell people how to post. But also don't try to avoid discussion of perfectly relevant quizbowl topics on the quizbowl forums. See my above post for why I asked to move this to sub-forums. Actually, at this point, I'd rather just explain the full details--of this PARTICULAR--pro...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67894
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
If you want to hear more about this, I'd rather we do it in the subforum. Screw you, why can't we criticize Harvard in public? Well, you can do this, and I actually welcome it, but I'm trying to preserve personal details about non-Harvard affiliated people. Feel free to discuss the other problems--...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 11:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67894
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
Given that it is reasonable to assume that most students at Harvard own computers Reasonable. and that at least a few tournament attendees probably had brought laptops with them, wouldn't it have made more sense to see if someone could loan her a laptop for the duration of the tournament Not so muc...
- Sun Nov 16, 2014 10:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
- Replies: 105
- Views: 67894
Re: HFT IX @ Harvard (11/15/14)
I wasn't at this tournament and can't comment on the circumstances that resulted in a random parent reading in a room and repeatedly reading the wrong packet, but I am amazed that Harvard thought, in 2014, that it was a good idea to just give staffers all the packets and trust them to do the right ...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 4:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Packetizing and set building software
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2993
Re: Packetizing and set building software
Yup, Ashvin already pointed me to the github. Thanks for letting me know; I guess this will turn into a vanity project, then, or maybe something people can play with before QEMS2 is released.Cody wrote:The ultimate intent of QEMS2 is that it will be available for the general public.
So, yes.
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How to auto-number your packets in MS Word - For Dummies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4976
Re: How to auto-number your packets in MS Word - For Dummies
Ah, okay--I guess this will end up just being a vanity project for myself, then.
Thanks for the response!
Thanks for the response!
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:14 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Packetizing and set building software
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2993
Packetizing and set building software
So I'll probably post in the tech forum soon about this as well, but has the recent slate of efforts to combine qb with tech done anything about packetizing? It seems as if the focus is mainly on tournament handling, but I'm not aware if anyone has considered packet building, since I haven't been p...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 1:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How to auto-number your packets in MS Word - For Dummies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4976
Re: How to auto-number your packets in MS Word - For Dummies
Not to speak for Jerry, but this is an obvious feature for eventual inclusion in QEMS2 (if it isn't already there - I haven't checked). This is the HSAPQ system, right? Is HSAPQ planning to make this open source? NAQT has Ginseng as well, but that's not really something available for house-writes o...
- Mon Nov 03, 2014 9:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: How to auto-number your packets in MS Word - For Dummies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4976
Re: How to auto-number your packets in MS Word - For Dummies
So I'll probably post in the tech forum soon about this as well, but has the recent slate of efforts to combine qb with tech done anything about packetizing? It seems as if the focus is mainly on tournament handling, but I'm not aware if anyone has considered packet building, since I haven't been pa...
- Sun Oct 26, 2014 1:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17913
Re: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
I have one, but I'll wait for the editing team to do it themselves or give permission.
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 1:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Suzhou, China
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1163
Re: Suzhou, China
I remember that there was some tower here that had a fairly impressive view, along with interesting folklore adorning it (though attempting to get that out of the badly translated Chinese-to-English in these places might not go well). Wikipedia tells me it's the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Hi...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11660
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
[10] This creator and trickster god was said to have freed people from a clamshell on the beach. This black bird was a deity to the people of the Pacific Northwest like the Haida. ANSWER: Raven [do not accept “Crow”] So what's the accepted thing to do about raven/crow answerlines? This question was...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11660
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
For the Michael question, a teammate buzzed in around Eastern Orthodoxy with Saint Michael. At first the mod took it, then realized he said Saint instead of Archangel and negged him. At the time, everyone agreed that was the right decision, and Yale was handily beating us anyways, so it didn't matte...
- Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:47 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17913
Re: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
This strikes me as incorrect. To turn this into a learning experience, I was under the impression that Cronenberg was known for his "body horror" style and Naked Lunch, but was declining in relevancy and "artistic merit" (however you want to define it) recently; I'd genuinely ap...
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17913
Re: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
Oh, that's right, I thought Cronenberg was another trash question, especially since it was absurdly hard and the question seemed to focus more on his films' zany plots than the themes and art style located therein. Also, I'd bet money that way more people know who he is in qb from Rick and Morty tha...
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:43 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Psychology
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2925
Re: Studying Psychology
Oh, and I highly recommend reading Zimbardo's textbook if only to read his description of the Stanford prison experiment.
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Studying Psychology
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2925
Re: Studying Psychology
Basically what everyone's said so far. 1. Studying packets to get an idea of the HS canon and what famous experiments/terms you should focus on below 2. Reading AP textbook to get an overview of the subject 3. Reading primary articles of the experiments to definitively lock those experiments down, a...
- Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
- Replies: 43
- Views: 17913
Re: Welcome to the 2014 Penn Bowl Discussion forum
Was the FMJ tossup fine arts then? I also feel like there was some music/geeky PC bonus somewhere in the set, but I've long forgotten it by now. I genuinely thought the first tossup was a tossup 0, and even asked the mod to double-check after we got it. I'm honestly okay with it, it just seems a rat...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl at Harvard (10/18/2014)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8366
Re: Penn Bowl at Harvard (10/18/2014)
This is a valid point, but I think most people would indeed have chosen Harvard-Yale over DEES, even considering MIT is hosting.Matthew Jackson wrote:This is only true if "most people" choose to watch a football game rather than play DEES.
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 8:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Penn Bowl at Harvard (10/18/2014)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8366
Re: Penn Bowl at Harvard (10/18/2014)
Thanks to all the people who attended the tournament, and to Stephen's nice, polite words about my reading and our running of the tournament. I enjoyed playing the set, if not every single question. To respond to Stephen, I think you were being very fair in all your assessments. I can only quote Wil...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 6:58 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11660
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
If I had to guess, I'd assume people are referring by "first" clue in the Tahiti tossup to the right-left viewing, not the suicide. Either way, I agree that clue is too early.
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Will's Questions (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10650
Re: Will's Questions
Oh, speaking of that Russian myth answerline, I'd consider swapping Slavic to be the main answerline and Russians as an acceptable answerline--when you say "these peoples," that made me think you wanted Slavs, and there was a tense few seconds while the mod figured out if Slav was acceptab...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Will's Questions (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10650
Re: Will's Questions
You did, in fact, buzz on a description of the Disembarkation at Marseilles! That's not the most famous painting in the world though, let alone the most famous by Rubens, so I see absolutely no problem with giving you 15 points for that. That's thing though, I do--giving power for that seems very i...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014 Penn Bowl literature discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1398
Re: Penn Bowl literature discussion
Oh man, I loved that Atlantic tossup! Can I see it? I thought it was a history tossup at first, but I can see it as a lit-hist tossup. The Murakami translator bonus was interesting as well; I sometimes wonder why we don't use translator clues more often. Maybe they've become more popular recently? W...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11660
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
Alright--he said evolution initially and then when Will looked hesitant, started trying to figure out what the question wanted. Could you post the tossup and point out exactly where evolution might have stopped being promptable (if ever?) My research is sort of in this thing, so I'm also interested ...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Will's Questions (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10650
Re: Will's Questions
Can I see the Nuwa, Mexico, and Jormungandr tossups? The choice of Nuwa as an answerline seems inordinately hard, and the ox-head clue for Jormungandr seemed way too early considering how famous the Thor fishing story is. I agree that some of the tossups were far too transparent: I buzzed on a wild ...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014 Penn Bowl literature discussion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1398
Re: Penn Bowl literature discussion
Can I see the Gao Xingjian tossup? I remember that I found the lit to be pretty non-offensive across the board, which equates to being really good in my book. Don't remember any curious answerlines that deviated from the standard author/work formula, but if there were any you were particularly proud...
- Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Questions Discussion (2014 Penn Bowl)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11660
Re: Specific Questions Discussion
To speak up for Sriram, since I don't think he visits the forums, was evolution / natural selection promptable? He buzzed on the second or so clue and was denied.supervillin wrote:Could I see the tossup on genetic drift?
- Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:15 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: October Means HSQB Literature Nobel Prognostication!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1025
Re: October Means HSQB Literature Nobel Prognostication!
Modiano clearly wasn't deserving, by the only metric that matters.
EDIT: added a sarcasm tag since the replies below seem to imply people actually believe I believe that crap
/sGoogle wrote:Your search - site:quizbowlpackets.com "modiano" - did not match any documents.
EDIT: added a sarcasm tag since the replies below seem to imply people actually believe I believe that crap