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heterodyne

My point is something like this: it's clearly possible to have equally hard tossups on answerlines that, in themselves, have rather different "familiarity rates." If, as Jacob says, the questions are written with an eye to keeping difficulty consistent and then, after the fact, you decide ...

heterodyne

I'm against making the questions harder in the finals, but I'm perfectly fine with shifting some of the harder answerlines in the set to later packets, and we should make sure we're distinguishing between the two when we talk about it.

heterodyne

I think MJ/Jacob's assessment of this set as "nats with generally more accessible answerlines" (apologies if this is too much of a caricature) pretty accurately characterizes my experience playing it. I certainly do not think it qualifies as nats+, at least in those categories where I know...

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Why is the history side event being run in the evening if there are no planned side events for Sunday*? I imagine we will all be rather tired after a long day of quizbowl, and running it in the morning seems somewhat better for everyone involved, unless there are extenuating circumstances that I'm u...

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In my experience, many (in fact, likely the majority) of buzzes that are "on the first sentence" or "on the first clue" have a buzzpoint somewhere in the second sentence or later, because of parsing time/cautiousness/etc. In addition to the many arguments given elsewhere on these...

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Echoing what was said above, I was very excited for some of our newest players to get a chance to compete without the shadow of more experienced teammates. These are promising and motivated players, and it's very sad to see a group of true novices miss out on a tournament win to a team with a combin...

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Milhouse wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:17 pm but isnt that not chicago b then

Yes. Chris likely marked it as such, not realizing B would be somewhere else. This will be resolved before the tournament. In the meantime, I am sure you will survive the disarray this confusion has thrown you into.

heterodyne

Is the Chicago B registered here the same Chicago B that's playing this at Hopkins two weeks prior, did Chicago drop their second team from the Hopkins mirror and that post just hasn't been updated, is the second Chicago team at Hopkins actually Chicago C, is "Chicago B" here a questionab...

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Detailed statistics are useful to any team trying to identify their weaknesses and improve, as well as any team attempting to compare their knowledge base to opponents they were not playing in a given game. Suggesting that their utility for player analysis only applies to the top 20 teams is mislead...

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Mitski
KSG

Lucy Dacus
Earl

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#1: Mitski - Be the Cowboy vs. #8: Parquet Courts - Wide Awake! #2: Snail Mail - Lush vs. #7: IDLES - Joy as an Act of Resistance #3: Beach House - 7 vs. #6: Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place #4: Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy vs. #5: Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel #1: Kids See Gh...

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First off, it’s just veritably false that UIUC would have a smaller local staffing pool than Lexington. The population of quizbowlers around Champaign during the summer is so much higher than Lexington that I just don’t understand how the conclusion that UIUC would have less local staff could be ma...

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The other bid was from Champaign, Illinois. It was a good bid, but it included less local staff and equivalent travel costs for teams. I also spoke with a few people from Illinois, who told me it would be easier to travel to Lexington than Champaign. Jacob has already commented on the insanity of c...

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We didn't actually rewrite the set from ground up, and I'll bet you actual money that you wouldn't have said this about any other set if someone said "hey I liked _____," because this is the set you chose to perform your drive-by crusade against It's unclear to me why you still think I am...

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I'm going to cross post this into this general discussion so we don't derail the science discussion, but certainly my own decision for Sun God Invitational to be the first and only time I'll head edit a set was informed by how tiresome, disingenuous, and dishonest some of the criticism leveled at u...

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Will, Ryan's point was in the other thread precisely because it wasn't really a complaint about any of the *particular* bonuses, but rather about the choice to have all of them at once. Responding by pointing out that, taken separately, each one is a fine thing to ask about misses the idea that by a...

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To clarify my problem, it's not that the name Selin is too easy to have there simpliciter, but rather that it is easier than the other clues from the novel used in the tossup. The empirical stats aren't going to be much help, since very few people are buzzing on the first two clues (as it should be)...

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Clueing from Batuman's novel, which has been widely read and written about and was in general quite trendy last year, is fine. Dropping the (quite distinctive) name of the main character in the first line, however, strikes me as antipyramidal.

heterodyne

Is it true that this tournament had less than 1/1 Philosophy? What was the rationale behind that decision? Why was it not announced? (In fact, why was 1/1 Philosophy explicitly announced then?) As to the former two - because we wanted to make room for more Other Ac / Misc questions. We felt philoso...

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Since this is something I only announced in this thread, I'll also announce here that the Pop Culture National is not going to debut in 2019. I'll be looking at 2020. Won't CO Trash also be happening in 2020, as a presumably better candidate for the descriptor "open tournament intended to dete...

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In addition, I would argue that it's incorrect to refer to Nietzsche as a "nihilist"' philosopher. If anything, he saw the central purpose of his philosophy as combating nihilism. It's important to remember that the point of a quizbowl philosophy question isn't to do philosophical work bu...

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As I also mentioned, as far as I know, I don't have privileges to put the stats anywhere else relevant, and I don't know how. If anyone can and wants to put them elsewhere, great. I am a bit confused by this. As far as I can tell, creating a tournament on the DB can be done via a single button and ...

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An Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:33 pm I don't want to be the annoying stats guy, but is there any chance stats from this tournament could get posted to the DB soon?

I do mean to be the annoying stats guy, since it's been a few months now.

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Jakob
Clark
Stephen
Duke
alternate: Ryan Humphrey

heterodyne

"Nor all his weeping ways through weary wastes have found The castle where his Greater Hallows are interned; For broken bridges halt him, and dark thickets round Some ruin where an evil heritage was burned." what if you could gain the power to win any duel at the cost of having to read an...

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If teams are allowed prep time, John Lawrence is the greatest asset possible in this contest.

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Jakob Myers
Clark Smith
Grant Li
Minnesota A

ALTERNATE: Nick Collins

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DROP Mike Etzkorn
ADD Grant Li

heterodyne

I'm sorry if I wasn't super clear - I think that *both* the inefficiency and the potential conflict of interest are concerns, the latter more than the former.

heterodyne

I don't really see how these differences make a big difference on the user end. I'm more interested in how this program improves that user experience - you say that it's an additional forum to get feedback, but I'm not sure why that's more helpful than just doing more for the PACE program. I don't t...

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Quite in.

heterodyne

How do you see this differing from PACE's writing mentorship program? In your capacity as PACE president, why do you believe community resources are better used on this program than on PACE's?

heterodyne

For the record, I both believe what I'm quoted as saying and think this poll is a good idea and that Jack is doing a service by organizing it.

heterodyne

With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it. Inspecting the network request, it looks like this url gives you a JSON res...

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Quizbowl players like stats. One might even say they like stats too much. This surfaces every so often in a plague of people asking for stats in the thread of a tournament immediately after - or even during - the tournament happening. Because of how annoying that kind of pestering can get, we might ...

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While I can't really speak to stuff outside my categories, the history and non-Western content in this set was a lot of fun. In terms of representation, this set laid out a fairly clear vision of where quiz bowl needs to go in the future. Solving the puzzle of how to translate that ethos to regular...

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The University of Chicago will be holding our customary pre-CO practice in the South Lounge of the Reynolds Club from 2-5 today. The Reynolds club is located at the southwest corner of 57th and University, 5706 south University. The room is located on the second floor. Take a right from the staircas...

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Practice will be in the same room and timeslot, and will be there and then on Mondays and Thursdays for subsequent weeks unless otherwise noted.

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Practice will be held today from 7-10 in room 503 in the Reg. If you need to be let in, please message me.

heterodyne

As per usual, the University of Chicago will be hosting summer practices, beginning this week. These practices will be from 7-10 in the Regenstein library, on days to be determined following of a Doodle poll I will be distributing shortly (watch this space). Practice is open to anyone in the area wh...

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Hello everyone! You can download this year's conference at the following links. Hour one (even though it's only half an hour due to a recording error) Hour two I hope everyone enjoyed this year's conference. As always, if you have any feedback, you can post here or email me at fredmorlan@gmail.com....

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There are two hypotheses for why Matt Bruce remains an NAQT member at the moment. The first hypothesis is that NAQT does not care or understand why these blog posts are a problem. The second hypothesis is that NAQT intends to remove Matt Bruce but can't do it at instant speed - perhaps they need to...

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I agree with Mike's post, especially that the best option for everyone is for Matt to step down from NAQT membership. I'd like to add that several of Matt's blog posts seem to suggest his blog was read regularly by NAQT members. They were written in a different time, so I can't say for sure, but I h...

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Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) wrote:I think it's very strange that the best Canadian quizbowl player in history is at his peak and you guys come up with rules to exclude him.

wait I thought he graduated after last year

heterodyne

t-bar wrote:Should we be expecting an SQBS report at some point? I know we have the scoresheets in the subforum, but many of the results that are easy to read off of SQBS reports are harder to extract from the raw data or Ophir's summary sheets.

bumpe

heterodyne

In this instance, "according to Birkhoff's theorem" establishes the reference frame for the rest of the clue, which is thus about the properties of the vacuum solutions in the context of Birkhoff's theorem. To claim that the clue is outright wrong because it doesn't specify "spherica...

heterodyne

While Jaimie and JinAh certainly overlap, the stats seem to suggest that Clark is better than either of them individually - even if we award one all of the tossups that the other got, Clark is only about 6 playoff ppg below this chimera (eyeballing it), despite 1) buzzing on around the same swathe o...

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It is worth recalling that Chicago B did not play a full team at ICT, so I would advise taking their ACF finish as indicative.

heterodyne

There's plenty of people who deserve recognition, and if nobody has brought them up in a few days I'll do my best to make a case for as many as I can. In this post, however, I want to make a case for why I am choosing the order of my top four in the manner that I am (and hopefully convince some of y...

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Right now, when teams shake hands at the end of quizbowl games, it is mostly a shitshow where people are throwing their hands into a massive disorganized pile-on of players. This reeks of quizbowl. It would be better if teams stayed in the order they were sitting, faced each other, stood in lines, ...

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