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Coldblueberry

Well, what about other Quizbowl subjects that aren't being "attacked": AP World History has 160,000 test takers in 2010 Bio has 170,000. Ap Physics B has only 60,000 and the curriculum barely relates to Quizbowl, unlike Gov (personal experience.) Physics C has only 30,000 (!). Compared to ...

Coldblueberry

[quote="People"]social science blah...quote] ? At least in my school, we are REQUIRED to spend as much time on social science (Gov and Econ; one semester each) as we are for chem, bio, world history, us history...etc. We need those classes to graduate. Plus, AP Psych is a popular class... ...

Coldblueberry

Were players complaining about the middle school part pf the lit or the high school part? There's not as much consensus among middle school english teachers (on which works are "good") as there is for high school teachers, right?

Coldblueberry

Stats has me twice...hopefully this is a courtesy so people don't laugh at my 20 negs :(

Edit: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/15 ... dividuals/

Coldblueberry

Yay for all the new teams. How'd you get them to come? Agree with this. excellent teamwork and initiative on the parts of many staffers. A final note: The FNT set needs quite a bit of work before it's played elsewhere. There were still a good number of outright factual errors, lots of repeated subje...

Coldblueberry

Torrey Pines' tournament will be on February 25th.

Coldblueberry

That is bad. We won't be buying your set if you are consciously trying to write harder than HSAPQ and think that having easy bonuses is undesirable. Our tossups should be nearly the same difficulty - we have been aiming for a bit harder HSAPQ since we started this tournament last year. However, we ...

Coldblueberry

This doesn't apply to me, but I think pretty much all of our junior-year members are taking the SAT that day so they'd prefer a date change. Also, small copy-paste typo: it says 2010.

Coldblueberry

If we're going to compare NAQT to bad quizbowl Whoaa. I'm pretty sure everyone loves NAQT, including me. Everything I've discussed : really minor changes. We should definitely thank NAQT for expanding good quizbowl. However, if there's a small change that would be beneficial for many teams, why not...

Coldblueberry

Sorry for double post but it would be really messy if I lumped erything together. If you are actually saying what I think you're trying to say, then no, there is not some kind of community uproar about the amount of trash in NAQT. What you see is a bunch of dumb threads about trash on these boards, ...

Coldblueberry

He's been invaluable to this community. I wasn't making an ad hominem attack in my post. You obviously have no idea at all just how far NAQT has come even in the last few years I obviously haven't but you're saying this like it's something I SHOULD have an idea of. I haven't been involved for more ...

Coldblueberry

Not that I cited any dumb arguments, but whatever, everyone has their own opinion. The 0.7 and all those sub-extra distributions still bug me in an OCD way. Maybe that's what's pissing me off :)

Coldblueberry

A quick glance shows me that ACF's first tournament was in 1999, while NAQT's was at least as early as 1996. Not that this really matters, but there are two "ACF" organizations that are related but different, and the earlier one has been running since about 1991. See this for more informa...

Coldblueberry

No Electricity Required wrote:When do you anticipate this set being done/available for mirrors?

As of right now, January.

Coldblueberry

rxailagan wrote:How is this tournament set up? Is there teams or is it individual?

Teams

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Coldblueberry

why the hate for World History and above average love for American History? It is a very consistent trend in our conversion data that American history is easier to answer and easier to write. I doubt that we could substantially increase the amount of world history in our packets without either a dr...

Coldblueberry

Wait, is something going to actually be done about Trash and Current Events reductions? This sounds a lot more grumpy than I actually mean, but: How come NAQT doesn't seem like it considers the opinions/trends of every other question provider when it comes to distribution? Also, why the hate for Wor...

Coldblueberry

Hi, Last year's tournament set is available for viewing on http://www.quizbowlpackets.com/ We're looking for a "partner school" with around 5-7 writers. The set is regular difficulty. Guidelines outlined here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10349 and here: http://...

Coldblueberry

nationalhistorybeeandbowl wrote:Subs in this context mean if someone can't make a game, then whoever can't make it can find a sub for them. But the conditions for allowing this are limited.

Can you make a substitution sign up list? I might want to substitute into one game (if it's possible) to see how it goes.

Coldblueberry

The problem with powers is that they assume the powering team has significantly deeper knowledge than the other, when that isn't necessarily the case. For example, if the 2nd clue is the last power clue, and team A buzzes on clue 1, but team B got buzzer beat or knew the 2nd clue, there isn't much ...

Coldblueberry

http://www.naqt.com/practice-questions.jsp?ms=yes

2011 New Middle School Package 41 $69.00

It says 41.

Also, I assumed it didn't include Middle School Series 1.

So, 41+10+18 is 69.

Coldblueberry

I went there too...a club definitely didn't exist. Maybe you could help convince the administration to buy 69 packets for 97 dollars (if the "starter package" doesn't include the $20 set). Then with CMST I and II, and maybe some IS A sets and NAQT speedchecks, something could be worked out...

Coldblueberry

Honestly, the easiest way to get better at literature is to, as Harry White pointed out, read packets. A bunch of 'em. The Mahfouz Memorial on the packet archive is probably a good place to see rounds that are all just literature. ...why would you recommend that set to someone who's just "star...

Coldblueberry

I don't see much of a problem with increasing finals difficulty if its only the clues that are increasing in difficulty. I understand that the results of the finals could be skewed if the answer difficulty goes up significantly, but whats wrong with a difficult tossup on Hemingway or Neptune? Sorry...

Coldblueberry

To save time and power mark in less than 30 seconds: Instead of making it subjective, why not just set a universal clue number? This would lead to very uneven powermarks across and in categories, the effects of which are mentioned in another post in this thread. So would a "subjective" as...

Coldblueberry

Hi, I'm currently in high school. Our coach has expressed interest in starting a team in the feeder middle school. Additionally, my younger sister will be attending that school 2011-2012. The existing league in the area is a bad-question league without a middle school section. To start this team wit...

Coldblueberry

To save time and power mark in less than 30 seconds: Instead of making it subjective, why not just set a universal clue number? For example, "place a power mark before the 4th clue" From 2008 HSAPQ NSC 2 -One neurometabolic disorder resulting from a mutation in these structures is called L...

Coldblueberry

Yay Sharad.

Did someone mention the fact that the "All" box remains checked even when you select a specific option? It's just a small detail.

Coldblueberry

Uclajerry, Yeah--depends on what we suggest to the to coach and/or which old NAQT sets our team has. Regarding VHSL-like: why not just use VHSL questions? We won't have to commission questions; they can give a discount the first season. Also, if you just wanted to introduce pyramidal into the region...

Coldblueberry

Off topic: "especially since it's rumored Academic League may lose support during the next round of budget cuts" If this happens, would UCSD guys be interested in helping to set up some sort of HSAPQ-VHSL-like league? That would super-awesome; probably the only good thing about the recessi...

Coldblueberry

Coldblueberry

how is it supposed to be played? Why can't I try and get better the way that I think is the most efficient?

Coldblueberry

Ugh, forgot to do an inb4 Culture Page.

I have no way of distinguishing what's for HS and what's for College.
I want difficulty like FallNovice >>>>> HFT and MUT/EFT Undergrad stuff.

Within canon!

Coldblueberry

:( Not helpful, still have absolutely no desire to study SS. Thanks guys!

Coldblueberry

Torrey Pines is hosting one?

Coldblueberry

On the NAQT distribution, I see Chemistry_Non_Element 2 19 / 17 0.7 / 0.7 Chemistry_Misc 1 10 / 8 0.4 / 0.3 Can anyone explain what these categories are and point me to a place with Chemistry Canon? Reading acf and Pace packets, I see a lot of "identify this molecule/compound" type of ques...

Coldblueberry

Westwon there's only like 16??

Coldblueberry

Also, (i don't know what sets are, are they packets of questions from tournaments?) are there any purely literature sets of questions? (from a lit tournament?)

Coldblueberry

Lists aren't the best way to study, right? ...then what should I do to study? All I do is read lists, memorize authors, and read books that are high frequency on the list. Where can I find questions with stock clues for literature? Also, reading the wiki synopsis for books....i just can't really rem...

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