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- Wed Jan 19, 2022 3:13 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Some Thoughts on Bonuses
- Replies: 35
- Views: 15035
Re: Some Thoughts on Bonuses
The original post raises several interesting points (and the ensuing discussion is also interesting). I have a couple "good writing practices" thoughts that I'll include later, but for now, I want to raise an objection to the framing of the part about the energy placed on bonuses in light ...
- Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:58 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Gender Neutrality in Quizbowl Writing and Playing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3958
Re: Gender Neutrality in Quizbowl Writing and Playing
To me, the singular "they" is completely natural and normal in everyday speech, but it's not nearly precise enough for quizbowl questions. I want each sentence of my questions, as much as possible, to have one and only one reasonable interpretation. The word "they" has two meanin...
- Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:41 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
- Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:32 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
On the 20th anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, we remembered some guys. Across 174 tossups, we saw both the joy of remembrance and the agony of forgetting. An astounding 154 of 174 guys (89%) were remembered, but the remaining 11% remind us that we must do more. The Patriot Day editio...
- Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
Starting now, please sign onto the Zoom when you're available so we can start promptly in a half hour. If you have any trouble getting on Zoom, send me an email at [email protected].
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:41 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
I've sent out the Zoom info for tomorrow's event to everyone who responded to the interest form. If you didn't receive that email and want to play, please email me at hartam@gmail.com. And if you're planning to read, please follow the link in the previous post and fill out your info so we can keep t...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 3:57 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
If you're planning to read questions tomorrow for Guys, please fill out some basic info on this sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lWtRqWCdTIRcIEaneyvy5iuNZuUwVKT6j8LJOKlzXFU/edit?usp=sharing (If you don't sign up, no worries; everyone will have a chance to read. This will just help us c...
- Tue Sep 07, 2021 6:08 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Multi-editing accomplishments
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5148
Re: Multi-editing accomplishments
To be clear, I don't oppose the inclusion of subject editing on the page; I'm fine with people editing themselves or others onto the page claiming credit for any accomplishment they believe they're entitled to. Maybe just drop a footnote if you're basing it on different criteria.
- Sun Sep 05, 2021 10:05 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Multi-editing accomplishments
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5148
Re: Multi-editing accomplishments
For an editing threshold, I'd say that being credited internally or externally as a set editor should be sufficient. (I did not include NAQT subject editors as set editors on the page.)
- Sun Sep 05, 2021 7:11 pm
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Multi-editing accomplishments
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5148
Multi-editing accomplishments
I've completed a first-draft qbwiki page for " multi-editing accomplishments " (the editorial equivalent of the qbwiki's page of multi-championship accomplishments such as winning each of Nationals, ICT, and CO). The accomplishments I coined are the Triple Crown of Editing (Nationals, ICT,...
- Sun Sep 05, 2021 6:12 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
Zoom details will go out a day or so prior to the event.
- Tue Aug 31, 2021 6:24 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV
Based on the latest slate of responses, the best date is pretty clearly September 11. Tejas has said he's unsure if he can make it, so if you can exert any social pressure on him to clear his 9/11 schedule for remembrance, that would be good. We will begin gathering on Zoom at 7:30pm central on 9/11...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 11:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV
Based on the survey responses, it appears that the best date as of now is Saturday, September 4. I will leave open the survey through this weekend, so if the 4th doesn't work for you and you want your feelings known, please fill it out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSmAgEN6b9uOrgsyk3XYP...
- Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
- Replies: 84
- Views: 33044
Re: 2021 Chicago Open (August 21st @ Northwestern)
I appreciate all the hard work that made an in-person CO possible. Thank you to all the editors and logistics people, especially Will and Jacob, for making it happen! A minor criticism: it was quite annoying to look at the schedule and see that our round-one matchup was against Matt Weiner's team. I...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 4:44 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Thank Yous and Discussion
- Replies: 26
- Views: 9683
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Thank Yous and Discussion
More than any other category, the social science seemed to deviate both stylistically and content-wise from the way the category is asked at regionals-difficulty. I thought the space was filled with really interesting questions on things like traffic, Fordism, linguistic prescriptivism, hominid bra...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 4:29 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8705
Re: 2021 ACF Nationals: Specific Question Discussion
Crossposting from the other thread: A figure like Albert Hirschman is of fairly marginal importance to the field nowadays - I had actually never heard of him before (in my experience, his name is usually dropped from the Herfindahl index) and after looking up some of his work, it sounds very much l...
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 6:06 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys IV
If you're at all interested in playing or writing, please fill out this availability form.
- Sat Jul 24, 2021 5:54 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3640
Let's Remember Some Guys IV: 9/11 at 8pm central
Let's remember some guys again! What is a "guy"? Each tossup will be on a single athlete. The "guys" somewhat memorable, but not particularly dominant or otherwise notable. The main criterion is whether, after hearing the tossup, the players will go "oh, yeah, I remember tha...
- Fri Apr 16, 2021 4:28 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ICT general discussion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1395
Re: 2021 ICT general discussion
Just want to thank John, Rob, Billy, and Seth for their work on the DI set this year. I think it turned out nicely, although I wasn't able to watch any of the games while serving on the protest committee, so I couldn't see for myself. In any event, it was nice to have ICT again, and I hope the teams...
- Sat Mar 06, 2021 12:44 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Carper Award winners
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2426
2021 Carper Award winners
ACF is pleased to announce that the 2021 Carper Award winners are Matt Bollinger and Jim Dendy! Matt received the award via the ACF membership's vote. His accomplishments are too manifold to describe in a tidy capsule, but it's worth reminding everyone how central he has been to college quizbowl sin...
- Sat Dec 05, 2020 4:14 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (see new announcement thread for 2022)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13143
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (postponed)
The editors of CO Trash have determined that a summer 2021 event, even if safe because of a covid vaccine, should be postponed. This is because the number of available weekends for in-person tournament play, if any, should be reserved for making up more important events. We're hoping that the state ...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Packet Submission discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10336
Re: Packet Submission discussion
The question at the heart of this argument is whether quizbowl operates on a community or consumer model. The consumer model supposes that, at its core, quizbowl is a series of arms-length economic transactions in which question producers sell their questions to tournament hosts, who then sell them ...
- Tue Jul 21, 2020 2:11 am
- Forum: Quizbowl History Forum
- Topic: Chris Ray vs. Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering | 2006
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5825
Re: Chris Ray vs. Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering | 2006
I did watch the video back in the day, and I seem to recall that it had audio all the way through.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
- Replies: 52
- Views: 28720
Re: Paired Tossups and Bonuses
Bouncebacks add a significant amount of time to gameplay and potentially a significant amount of additional time when readers boot them and it ends up mattering. I've noticed a few attempts in this thread and elsewhere to claim that bouncebacks are friendly to new teams because they avoid situations...
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 2:26 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Laws and Treaties: A Vanity Packet
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2984
Re: Laws and Treaties: A Vanity Packet
Could you post the packet somewhere? I'd be interested to read it. Thanks!
- Mon May 25, 2020 2:23 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4580
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
One hour into Memorial Day, I am pleased to report that we collectively remembered 128 of the 169 guys tossed up at Guys III. Naveed usurped Tejas's throne to reign supreme as guy rememberer. The standings by PPG (points per guy) are: Naveed Chowdhury: 1.26 Tejas Raje: 1.11 Ryan Rosenberg: 0.76 Andr...
- Sun May 24, 2020 10:11 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4580
- Sun May 24, 2020 6:00 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4580
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
The remembrance is nearly upon us. If you are planning to write a packet but cannot join us to read it, or would prefer someone else read in your stead, please send me an email before the Zoom call begins; there's a gracious offer to read if anyone needs or wants it. I will email everyone who filled...
- Sun May 17, 2020 9:48 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4580
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
We've got at least 9 people who are going to be remembering guys a week from today (at 9:30pm central). So far, everyone says they're writing a packet, so we should have around 120 tossups to play, if not a few more from later sign-ups. Speaking of which, if you're interested in remembering guys but...
- Thu May 07, 2020 10:24 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (see new announcement thread for 2022)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13143
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (postponed)
With CO now officially postponed until summer 2021, CO Trash will plan to make its triumphant return on the Sunday after the tournament takes place.
- Wed May 06, 2020 10:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4580
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
It has come to my attention that May 23 is the beginning of Eid, and that May 24 would be better. Thus, I am changing the tentative date to 9:30pm on Sunday, May 24 (the day before Memorial Day, fittingly enough). If you've already answered that May 23 is good for you, but May 24 is now not good, pl...
- Wed May 06, 2020 10:31 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4580
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
In honor of the canceled HSNCT weekend, I'd like to propose a "remembering guys" online event to take place via Zoom on Saturday, May 23, at around 9:30pm central. There will be no cost, and writing a packet is not required to participate, but come on, what else do you have to do? Anyone f...
- Mon May 04, 2020 2:42 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (see new announcement thread for 2022)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13143
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (postponed)
I suspect you will have the better field and tournament if you just waited until 2021 summer, but obviously not my decision. Yeah, my sense is that summer 2021 is most likely, although if CO ends up happening during the school year, we will probably poll possible attendees to see what a field would...
- Mon May 04, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: Trash
- Topic: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (see new announcement thread for 2022)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 13143
Re: Chicago Open Trash 2020 (July 19, 2020)
As other events look toward potential postponement until the summer because of the pandemic, we'll be monitoring the situation and may have to announce a rescheduling of CO Trash. I hope we'll be able to maintain our claim on CO Sunday in the event that CO has to be rescheduled to accommodate other...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:11 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 146930
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
This is a premise that I’m not willing to accept solely because you think this way. I believe you that more people than we’d like to think have been tempted to quickly look up a clue during a one-off packet reading, or whatever, and that the means and opportunity are certainly there. But this seems...
- Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:29 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 146930
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I take exception to this bit: He is now admittedly the kind of person who would succumb to the temptation of looking up a handful of things online during an online tournament, but quite frankly, I thought he was that kind of person before this, not because he's particularly dastardly, but because I...
- Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:15 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 146930
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
It's simply the case that, at an online tournament, there is really nothing stopping people from cheating in a modest way, and because of that, I assume that many people in this community, if they were being honest with themselves, would have to admit that they did something at an online event or pa...
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 4:12 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1045
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
The organizers of the MONTHS TOURNAMENT humbly apologize to the members of the hsquizbowl forum community for the gap in "posting" that has taken place this week. Before taking advantage of the remaining week of "rest and relaxation" leading up to the next round of voting, which ...
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:45 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1722
Re: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
Due to "covid doldrums and general lethargy," the MONTHS TOURNAMENT will be taking a one-week (1-week) hiatus and make its triumphant return on April 13. The organizers encourage everyone to take this time to engage with the hsquizbowl forum's other venerable "bracketed voting experie...
- Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 146930
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I appreciate the data that various people have brought to bear in this thread since I first posted. My earlier inquiry seems to suggest two further avenues for contextualizing TO performances. The first is whether the TO performances in question are of a similar magnitude, in comparison to earlier p...
- Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: This Time, A Stern Warning
- Replies: 179
- Views: 146930
Re: This Time, A Stern Warning
I find it slightly concerning that the "ridiculous" and "anomalous" performances on the high side of your residual plot are roughly the same magnitude as the outliers on the low side. Obviously no one is suggesting that we simply turn the chart upside down and accuse the people o...
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 5:55 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1045
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
Voting closes tonight!
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:56 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1574
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
The second "quadrant" to close its first-round voting is reform 3, which delighted voters with matchups of whimsical months. Whether it was because of this whimsy, or for some other reason, voters found it harder to separate these months out than their secular counterparts. This "quad...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:55 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4580
Re: Let's Remember Some Guys III: Let's Remember Yet More Guys
I'll keep everyone interested in remembering guys updated on what we're planning to do. My preference is not to schedule the event online unless and until we know for sure that HSNCT will not be rescheduled for a later date. (The email canceling HSNCT says that NAQT would like to reschedule the even...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 6:01 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1574
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "reform 3" quadrant
Folks, mere hours remain in the voting process for the reform 3 "quadrant." If you have strong thoughts about Bureaucracy vs. Chaos, or any other matchup in this "quadrant," you should vote now!
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:36 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular 1" quadrant
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1681
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular 1" quadrant
As voting closes on the first "quadrant" of the MONTHS TOURNAMENT, it's clear that some of these months were ready for the tournament, and others simply came in unprepared. For the most part, the better-seeded months simply outclassed their worse-seeded counterparts. Six (6) of the eight (...
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular 1" quadrant
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1681
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "secular 1" quadrant
Reminder: voting in this "quadrant" ends tonight!
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:20 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1722
Re: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
The MONTHS TOURNAMENT will return on Monday, April 6 (4/6) with new bracket "quadrants"; until then, please vote in the four (4) "quadrants" (one from each corner of the bracket) that are live. Voting in those will conclude on consecutive days starting today and ending Sunday, as...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 6:37 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1045
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
4/61: Dumuzu v Athyr. Dumuzu as a 1 seed is a cool story, and I'd hate to see it end here. 29/36: Mounichion v 1 Crocodile. Our Secretary of Treasury, Steven Mounichion, needs all the support he can get. 20/45: 1 Rain v 1 Jaguar . I can't imagine I'm the only one for whom this combo of jaguars/Quetz...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 12:00 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1045
Re: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT: "ancient 4" quadrant
In the 4/61 matchup, observers of the MONTHS TOURNAMENT have been talking up the strength of Dumuzu for, quite literally, months, but it remained to be seen until now if the organizers would reward the month with a top seed. The revelation of this quadrant of the bracket answers that question in the...