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- Fri Jun 20, 2014 10:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
The remaining free agents have combined and we're closed at 16 teams. See everyone tomorrow at 10:45 eastern.
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 1:03 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
You could try to form a team with the remaining free agents, since we have a spot for that.bobodoll wrote:I know its pretty late, but is anyone willing to let me join their team? I only heard about this today.
- Fri Jun 20, 2014 12:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
A team has dropped. There is still time to enter this tournament.
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:21 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
An update email was sent out to one member of each team today -- please consult with your teammates if you need more info.
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Fix your buzzers & buy new ones
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9095
Re: Fix your buzzers & buy new ones
Reminding people to take note of this thread now that all high school nationals are done -- you have all summer to get the repair process taken care of. You can probably even get more buzzers back in time for Chicago Open if you start it now. I will also reiterate the part about buying new buzzers i...
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open 2014: August 2
- Replies: 57
- Views: 33490
VCU Open 2014: August 2
The 2014 incarnation of VCU Open will be held on Saturday, August 2nd at VCU. It will begin at the normal time of 9:00 AM because our room reservation policies have become less weird than they were in the recent past. The tournament will be held in the Harris building, which faces Main St, Harrison ...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 7:01 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
First post updated again.
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:55 am
- Forum: Best of the Best
- Topic: Making Interesting Geography Questions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 20052
Re: Making Interesting Geography Questions
It's absolutely bizarre to say that the locations in a particular city which are of significant architectural, cultural, or entertainment importance are not relevant to why you would know about that city. As if knowing the names of the five largest reservoirs in Abuja is somehow "relevant"...
- Wed Jun 18, 2014 10:55 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Making Interesting Geography Questions
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14685
Re: Making Interesting Geography Questions
It's absolutely bizarre to say that the locations in a particular city which are of significant architectural, cultural, or entertainment importance are not relevant to why you would know about that city. As if knowing the names of the five largest reservoirs in Abuja is somehow "relevant"...
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:37 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
I'm going to project an end time of 7 PM. If we stay with a number of teams similar to what we have now, we'll do two brackets followed by 2-3 crossover games and then a final as needed.
- Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
Just a reminder to keep updating your status -- if teams have formed, consolidated, or dropped out, I'd like to know, with as complete a roster as possible, so that an accurate schedule can be made and I can make sure we have enough readers. The first post is updated with everything that has been po...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 5:35 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 nAC
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12500
Re: 2014 nAC
The section on the JV title (in which an undefeated team was relegated to second place based on a paper calculation a week later) shows the formula used there, which differs slightly from the middle school formula. Both of them are just a series of completely arbitrary numbers added together; there ...
- Mon Jun 16, 2014 12:42 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
- Replies: 64
- Views: 33397
Re: 2014-15 Schedule Discussion
I think it would be good for quizbowl to have a regular or "regular minus" tournament as early as possible. PADAWAN in early October would mostly fit the bill, but I think we should start the season in September. The vast majority of colleges are in session by the second week of September ...
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 65640
Re: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
Texas wins and Illinois is second!
California and New Jersey are playing a third place game in the ballroom imminently.
California and New Jersey are playing a third place game in the ballroom imminently.
- Sun Jun 15, 2014 11:07 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 65640
Re: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
Stats through round 16 are up: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/1680/stats/2014_nasat/ Texas, Illinois, and California are still alive based on possible results of round 17, which is now in progress. Teams are playing for a chance at the final here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/882589...
- Thu Jun 12, 2014 1:46 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search
- Replies: 131
- Views: 144793
Re: Quinterest: Hassle-free Database Search
http://www.pdfonline.com/vinteuil wrote:I just put in packet 2 of PACE 2013, and it took me about 7 minutes (partly because copying and pasting from a pdf is a little harder than from word)
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:42 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 nAC
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12500
Re: 2014 nAC
It was this past weekend, though you wouldn't know it from the total lack of anyone in actual quizbowl communicating. The official summary is up on the Chip site, confirming my info was correct. This would be a good time to tell Jesuit that there's nothing left to do at the scam tournament and they ...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 6:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
Does this mean the NASAT matches won't be livestreamed/liveblogged with answers, as in previous years? This sounds fun, but I'm weary of shelling out $15 or more for something if we're just taking it on good faith that nobody listened/watched online. We are looking more to recording games for posti...
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 5:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Re: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
I was able to run the game between the two 4-person teams at the CHB online mirror without problems -- the call limit is apparently 25 now.
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:44 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 65640
Re: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
Those not attending this tournament may wish to play the open online mirror.
- Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
- Replies: 91
- Views: 51870
Open online mirror of NASAT -- June 21
There will be a Skype mirror of the NASAT set on Saturday, June 21. This is open to teams comprised of any people at all who have not previously seen the questions (i.e.: both high schoolers who are not attending NASAT, and post-high-school people). Team members do not all have to play from the same...
- Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:45 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 nAC
- Replies: 27
- Views: 12500
Re: 2014 nAC
My source tells me that New Orleans Jesuit won this.
Maybe now that they've picked up a trophy here they can move on and play a real tournament.
Maybe now that they've picked up a trophy here they can move on and play a real tournament.
- Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:34 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open/second summer open this year
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22781
Re: VCU Open/second summer open this year
The tournament will be held at VCU on August 2, with mirrors on that date based on people e-mailing me asking about them. It will contain 15 centrally written packets. There will be side events on August 3. More later.
- Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: All-time all-state teams
- Replies: 61
- Views: 54138
Re: All-time all-state teams
On the two most lauded all-round players of the 90s: Jeff Johnson I believe he is from Tennessee. John Sheahan As mentioned by Susan, a DC native. Specifically, he was from St. Anselm's. DC has three of the most accomplished #1 scorers in quizbowl history, and if they add either science from Dan Suz...
- Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:47 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: All-time all-state teams
- Replies: 61
- Views: 54138
All-time all-state teams
In recognition of the upcoming 18-team NASAT, I thought I would bring to the board a popular discussion topic from IRC, namely a discussion of the theoretical best four-person teams comprised of all players who ever graduated high school in a given state. Assume that they are playing on questions of...
- Wed May 28, 2014 11:10 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open/second summer open this year
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22781
Re: VCU Open/second summer open this year
I haven't heard much response to my attempts to get someone to write science for this. What do people think about a tournament with very little science in each packet? The alternative is probably not doing a full-scale tournament at all.
- Tue May 20, 2014 4:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror
- Replies: 135
- Views: 64661
Re: Modern World Tournament - Post-NSC Mirror
Hey guys: This set is 13 full tossup/bonus packets long, so it will take longer than a traditional "side event" to run. PACE reserved space to run it as a Sunday evening to Monday morning event and the operators of this tournament applied for the slot on those terms. The event is being run...
- Mon May 19, 2014 5:27 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
- Replies: 46
- Views: 65640
Re: 2014 NASAT: June 14-15 at Ohio State
Hey, I'd just like to remind everyone that tomorrow is the last day to book the official hotel. We still have a few rooms available and it really is the best deal you're going to find at $119 for a four-star venue that is directly on the campus adjacent to the competition buildings & has an airp...
- Sun May 18, 2014 7:36 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
Congratulations to Jeff Hoppes for winning this tournament. After an exciting 305-300 defeat in the final round of the playoffs to the team of Ryan Rosenberg, Laurence Li, Ben Herman, and Andrew Kiss, Jeff came back to win the first game of an advantaged final 430-130. Stats are here: http://www.hsq...
- Sat May 17, 2014 10:25 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
We need another volunteer reader for this.
- Sat May 17, 2014 12:20 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
OK -- let me know who it is. I'm going to put you in spot #8 and ask Jordan to join an existing team.Fake 4-ball wrote:Just to clarify, I wasn't on the fence at all. I have a full team lined up.
- Sat May 17, 2014 10:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
Here is what the registration list looks like (revised 1:06 PM 5/17): 1: Ryan Rosenberg, Laurence Li, Ben Herman, Andrew Kiss 2: Jeff Hoppes 3: Victor Prieto, Jerry Vinokurov 4: Dennis Beeby, Brendan McKendy, Charles Korwin, Joe Su 5: Dave Madden 6: Corry Wang, Boyang Jiao 7: Aaron Dos Remedios, Bri...
- Thu May 15, 2014 9:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
I would like the individuals who expressed interest in playing to start consolidating into teams (or clarifying that they want to play solo as the case may be).
- Thu May 15, 2014 4:35 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
- Replies: 169
- Views: 141165
Re: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
The old Penn Bowls were a delight. Of course the questions were terrible, the staff (Penn never had anything near a large enough team to support 32 simultaneous game rooms) was hit and miss at best, and the tournament inevitably came to a screeching halt at least once as teams found themselves locke...
- Tue May 13, 2014 5:02 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: VCU Open/second summer open this year
- Replies: 44
- Views: 22781
Re: VCU Open/second summer open this year
If this is going to be centrally written, we will need a core science writer.
- Tue May 13, 2014 11:02 am
- Forum: Middle school area archives
- Topic: 2014 NAQT MSNCT: Congratulations Harmony-Excellence!
- Replies: 86
- Views: 43424
Re: 2014 NAQT MSNCT: Congratulations Harmony-Excellence!
Having seen the surveys that come back at HSNCT, there is a large set of players and coaches who keep asking for *more* computation. I suspect that most of those opinions are coming from people who are not readers of this board, so having battle #1,646,835 over it here is probably futile. Uh...ther...
- Sun May 11, 2014 8:58 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB Nationals thread
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14890
Re: NHBB Nationals thread
If you enjoyed the challenging questions from NHBB Nationals, or staffed and wished you had a chance to play, you may be interested in the online College History Bowl mirror taking place this coming Sunday, May 18:
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =8&t=15853
http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =8&t=15853
- Sun May 11, 2014 8:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
I have 3 total readers right now. If we go beyond 7 teams, we will need more; I will get in touch with people who have volunteered if that happens. Thanks.
- Sun May 11, 2014 7:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
OK, this will be at 11 AM eastern this coming Sunday, May 18. The cost is $60 per team. Teams may contain up to four people from up to four locations. You are responsible for making sure you have Skype, a microphone, headphones, and a suitable Internet connection present and working BEFORE the tourn...
- Sun May 11, 2014 11:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Online mirror of College History Bowl
- Replies: 49
- Views: 18737
Re: Online mirror of College History Bowl
I would actually like to move this to Sunday, May 18, after all, to accommodate personal plans as well as the MUT mirror on the 17th. Full details to follow shortly; let me know if playing on the new date is an impossibility for anyone.
- Fri May 09, 2014 11:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: MUT over Skype (5/10)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7784
Re: MUT over Skype (postponed to 5/17)
Please make sure you are not competing for teams or moderators with the CHB mirror already announced for this date.tiwonge wrote:This tournament has been postponed to next Saturday, 5/17.
There is still room for more teams, if people are interested.
- Tue May 06, 2014 10:15 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Revised protest rules
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6559
Re: Revised protest rules
Let's add revisiting this to the scheduled meeting about answer acceptability.jonpin wrote:Are there any amendments, clarifications, or responses to the above now that ACF Nationals has come and gone?
- Mon May 05, 2014 7:12 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
- Replies: 169
- Views: 141165
Re: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
So because of this thread's discussion of old quizbowl and the evolution of the game, I reached out to Jeff Kipnis, who the qbwiki credits with setting packet length at 20 questions when he was a player with Georgia Tech in the 1970s. He has agreed to meet up with me so I can ask him questions abou...
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:16 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
- Replies: 169
- Views: 141165
Re: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
The 5-10-15 bonus was from a time when there was very little conscious thought about what bonuses were for and the same sort of "feels right to the layman, is totally wrong when you think about it" instincts that produced head-to-head tiebreakers also gave rise to the idea that certain ans...
- Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:10 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB & USGO Nationals Set Thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12724
Re: NHBB & USGO Nationals Set Thread
The distro is set from NHBB's end, but I'm given to understand that it is made with the goal of answering the question "how exactly is anyone (HSAPQ or any other putative writer of this set) supposed to write a set with 1692 answer lines without making it too hard for high school players?"...
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:02 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
- Replies: 169
- Views: 141165
Re: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
Another aspect of this was the '90s-era debate about "dinosaurs"--i.e., people who were beyond (in some cases, well beyond) their undergraduate years. The lines of demarcation will be unsurprising: people who advocated a cult of "amateurism" were in favor of capping participatio...
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:52 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NHBB & USGO Nationals Set Thread
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12724
Re: NHBB & USGO Nationals Set Thread
There was 1 sports history question and 1 non-sports historical trash question in each round. The following answer lines about the USSR were in the set: Brest-Litovsk Trotsky/Kronstadt Rebellion New Economic Policy Judaism (all clues about Jews in the USSR) Yuri Gagarin Nikita Khrushchev Sergei Eise...
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:35 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Praise Song
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15325
Re: Praise Song
I've always felt that Jonathan Pinyan is the most under-appreciated person in quizbowl, measured by just how much he does for the game and how little public praise he receives from it. If he shows up to your tournament, your tournament just got a whole lot better run. This is very true -- his calmi...
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) Date Claims, 2014-15
- Replies: 47
- Views: 26074
Re: New England (CT, MA, VT, NH) Date Claims, 2014-15
Tentative dates for HSAPQ MA championship and any other state champs launched in New England next year: regionals on January 17 and states on February 28.
- Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:57 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
- Replies: 169
- Views: 141165
Re: Quiz Bowl Survivor: 50 Buzz, 49 Neg
There are other people still extant in the world of quizbowl who were playing at the tail end of the previous era (e.g. Seth, Jerry, Matt Weiner), and who have much more first-hand experience watching current players on top-level questions than I have. I would, of course, be interested to hear thei...