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- Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:44 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College quizbowl stats website
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2082
Re: College quizbowl stats website
Jordan is being far too modest; this is really really good stuff and a high bar for another project to clear.
- Sat Jan 29, 2022 2:01 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College quizbowl statistics database
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2321
Re: College quizbowl statistics database
I've added the rest of the college tournaments on the database; there's now fairly complete coverage back to the 2011-12 season, and scattered tournaments before that. Team stats and player stats With the bulk of data scraping done, I'd like to begin the process of cleaning and resolving team and pl...
- Thu Jan 27, 2022 4:29 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College quizbowl statistics database
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2321
Re: College quizbowl statistics database
Thanks to some assistance from Maxwell Ye and Harry White, and some suggestions from Dylan Bowman, I've now been able to scrape stats from the remaining college tournaments on the database. I'll work on cleaning them up and publishing them, hopefully over the weekend.
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:48 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Tournament Database R package
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1864
Tournament Database R package
I've put together an R package to scrape team and player stats from a stats report on the hsquizbowl.org tournament database. Installation and usage instructions are on the package GitHub page . This package was used to compile the college quizbowl statistics dataset I put together. If you have ques...
- Wed Jan 26, 2022 1:47 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: College quizbowl statistics database
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2321
College quizbowl statistics database
Inspired by the data analysis from the bonuses thread , I've scraped and compiled stats from the last five competition years of college quizbowl (including open tournaments listed as college tournaments on the DB). My hope is that this dataset enables both more research to better our understanding o...
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:34 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Are college quiz bowl questions too long?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3428
Re: Are college quiz bowl questions too long?
What should we expect top-end and low-end PPBs to be like for two-part bonuses pitched at 66% and 33% conversion? I'd be worried you'd get a fair number of PPBs in the 19 range and a fair number < 5.
- Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:32 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Are college quiz bowl questions too long?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3428
Re: Are college quiz bowl questions too long?
I was going to post saying that bonuses are too long, but Henry basically already did that as part of his thread here. Condensing bonuses is the easiest way to ensure matches move quickly.
- Wed Dec 22, 2021 5:38 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: A Message for Quizbowl Adults Online
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8772
Re: A Message for Quizbowl Adults Online
This is a good post, and I hope people (including me!) take it to heart. I've also heard variations on "[the main quizbowl] Discord is terrible", "I enjoyed [online quizbowl socialization] much more when I don't look at mainqb", "oh I never read mainqb" from a variety o...
- Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:16 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Misconduct Reporting Form
- Replies: 17
- Views: 26092
Re: Misconduct Reporting Form
IAC's membership on the form committee has lapsed. The active form representatives still plan to work with IAC and alert them of relevant reports, as with other quizbowl organizations that are not part of the form committee.
- Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:14 pm
- Forum: Community Discussion
- Topic: Misconduct Form Website
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4264
Misconduct Form Website
The members of the Quizbowl Misconduct Reporting Form are pleased to announce the release of a new website for the form, containing an FAQ, a diagram of the report handling process, and summary statistics about past reports. You can access the site at qbmisconduct.com.
- Sun Nov 21, 2021 1:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARCADIA @ McMaster (11/20/2021)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1527
Re: ARCADIA @ McMaster (11/20/2021)
Thanks for playing ARCADIA! If you'd like to discuss the questions, there's a discussion forum that you can request to join from the Usergroups tab of the User Control Panel. There's also a Discord discussion server (once you join, you'll need to post in #verification to get access to discussion cha...
- Sun Nov 21, 2021 1:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARCADIA @ UGA/GT (11/20/2021)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2222
Re: ARCADIA @ UGA/GT (11/20/2021)
Thanks for playing ARCADIA! If you'd like to discuss the questions, there's a discussion forum that you can request to join from the Usergroups tab of the User Control Panel. There's also a Discord discussion server (once you join, you'll need to post in #verification to get access to discussion cha...
- Sun Nov 21, 2021 1:08 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARCADIA at Northwestern (11/20/21)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3103
Re: ARCADIA at Northwestern (11/20/21)
Thanks for playing ARCADIA! If you'd like to discuss the questions, there's a discussion forum that you can request to join from the Usergroups tab of the User Control Panel. There's also a Discord discussion server (once you join, you'll need to post in #verification to get access to discussion cha...
- Sun Nov 14, 2021 3:49 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ARCADIA General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3409
Re: ARCADIA General Discussion
We've set up a discussion server, which can be joined here: https://discord.gg/pWGDMVSzhv
- Sun Oct 10, 2021 1:57 am
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: ARCADIA General Discussion
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3409
ARCADIA General Discussion
This thread is for general discussion of ARCADIA (i.e. anything not involving analysis of a single question), though I certainly imagine there will be references to specific questions in this thread. I want to start out by thanking everyone who worked on this set: Annabelle Yang, Ashish Subramanian,...
- Mon Oct 04, 2021 6:30 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: ARCADIA: Announcement
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10802
Re: ARCADIA: Announcement
We have some slight changes to editing assignments to announce: Jacob Egol will now be editing Auditory Arts, Annabelle Yang and Jacob will be co-editing Other Fine Arts, and Vincent Du and I will be collaborating on Other Science.
- Sun Oct 03, 2021 11:29 pm
- Forum: Collegiate Discussion
- Topic: Misconduct Reporting Form
- Replies: 17
- Views: 26092
Re: Misconduct Reporting Form
Kevin Wang has been added to the Misconduct Reporting Form in his role as admin of the Quizbowl Discord . The Discord has grown rapidly and is now a hub of online quizbowl social communication; we as a group want to ensure that people feel safe and confident in the form to handle instances of miscon...
- Fri Sep 10, 2021 10:53 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Another spring novice?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2987
Re: Another spring novice?
I won't have time to produce it, but would be happy to see one happen again. I had heard some tentative interest from a team but I'm not sure what the status of that is.
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Chicago Open: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1437
Re: Specific Question Discussion
For what it's worth, none of the stuff in that bonus was from class, but I think it could stand to be a bit more explicit without giving away the farm. It saddens me that people with serious knowledge couldn't get it. Hopefully people enjoyed some of the other business relevant content - it's hard ...
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 11:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Specific Anecdote Discussion
- Replies: 9
- Views: 799
Re: Specific Anecdote Discussion
I buzzed on the "skateboarding" tossup on the clue about Mind the Gap ; Marianna and I watched the first 30 or so minutes of it but had to stop because we were getting motion-sick from the tracking shots in the film (we are both unusually sensitive to this, so don't worry about it if you w...
- Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
- Replies: 47
- Views: 18716
Re: WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING: 2021 CO Travel thread
yes pleaseOh No You Didn't wrote: ↑Thu Aug 19, 2021 10:26 pm anyone wanna get walker bros in wilmette at like 6 am on saturday
- Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: NAQT is now accepting writer applications
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2101
Re: NAQT is now accepting writer applications
Can California residents apply?
- Sun May 16, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7374
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
This set is now clear and the questions are posted! https://hsquizbowl.org/db/questionsets/2593/
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 4:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice at Toronto (March 27th, 2021)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2275
Re: Spring Novice at Toronto (March 27th, 2021)
Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel). Actually we didn't finish playing the tournament yet. It was 7pm when we got to the end of round 8 and since ...
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:51 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice at Toronto (March 27th, 2021)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2275
Re: Spring Novice at Toronto (March 27th, 2021)
Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel).
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:50 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice at UNC and Duke
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2118
Re: Spring Novice at UNC and Duke
Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel).
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice at Carnegie Mellon
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2471
Re: Spring Novice at Carnegie Mellon
Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel).
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice at Purdue [Online] [4/17/2021]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2495
Re: Spring Novice at Purdue [Online] [4/17/2021]
Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel).
edit: haha I can't read/remember things
edit: haha I can't read/remember things
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:48 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice @ GT (Discord) [03/27/2021]
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1981
Re: Spring Novice @ GT (Discord) [03/27/2021]
Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel).
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:47 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice Upper Mid-Atlantic @ Rutgers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2004
Re: Spring Novice Upper Mid-Atlantic @ Rutgers
Thanks for playing and staffing yesterday! Players and staff are encouraged to join the Spring Novice discussion forum (it can be found under the Usergroups tab on your user control panel).
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:45 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Spring Novice: Specific Question Discussion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 48
2021 Spring Novice: Specific Question Discussion
Discuss questions here. We aren't planning on releasing the packets due to question security concerns, but I or one of the other writers would be happy to post specific questions here.
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:43 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 Spring Novice: Thanks and General Discussion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 55
2021 Spring Novice: Thanks and General Discussion
Thanks First, I'd like to thank the writers of this set -- they were fantastic, and are responsible for the lion's share of the interesting content. Not only that, but many of them are first-time or second-time writers. I was really pleased with how the open writer application process brought in so...
- Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:09 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7374
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
A general note: if teams cannot make their local mirror (e.g. because it falls over spring break or the club is hosting a MS/HS tournament), they should feel free to register for another regional mirror on a different date.
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:17 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Bluegrass Music Bracket Interest Check
- Replies: 6
- Views: 816
Re: Bluegrass Music Bracket Interest Check
Also interested.
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 1:26 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: HARI (Hari's Academic Regular(-Minus) Invitational)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7427
Re: HARI (Hari's Academic Regionals(-Minus) Invitational)
I think you could run 14 tournaments on this if teams are willing to make some sacrifices on finals scenarios and such.buffaloz1331 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 12:55 am 14 packets? Sounds like enough for two tournaments! Looks exciting.
- Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:48 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1755
Re: Announcing: The MONTHS TOURNAMENT
rip months
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:16 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest
- Replies: 36
- Views: 11917
Re: The Geography Front - Gauging Interest
I'm interested.
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 8:39 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7374
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
Initial post updated with our full set of collegiate mirrors.
I'm also planning on running a mirror for competitive trivia players (drawing mostly from the excellent Online Quiz League USA) -- let me know if you're interested in staffing!
I'm also planning on running a mirror for competitive trivia players (drawing mostly from the excellent Online Quiz League USA) -- let me know if you're interested in staffing!
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:13 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2021 ACF Regionals Invitational (1/30/2021)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6541
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:42 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2145895
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [SEMIFINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/2]
Once in a Lifetime I'm on mobile so no links but: "Tell Me When It's Over" by Dream Syndicate "Harborcoat" and "Feeling Gravitys Pull" by R.E.M. "Graceland" by Paul Simon (in retrospect I really should have proposed something from this album for the bracket, I...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 4:33 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite Global Announcement
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11876
Re: Southeast-Midwest Housewrite Global Announcement
Playtesting The Southeast-Midwest Housewrite is seeking playtesters. We will be playtesting the first 14 packets' worth of content in January and early February. We will playtest another 6 packets in April. Keep in mind that there will be several college and open mirrors so only register if you do ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 3:15 am
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2145895
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [QUARTERFINALS, SUBMIT BY 12/30]
5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" vs. 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come on Eileen" 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" vs. 3 Prince, "When Doves Cry" 1 Michael Jackson, "Billie Jean" vs. 6 Joy Division, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 5 Talking Heads, "...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 1:27 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7374
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
I've updated the original post with a list of our confirmed mirrors. We're still looking for hosts in some regions, particularly the Northeast, Great Plains/South, and UK; please send an email to [email protected] if you'd be interested in hosting.
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 1:14 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2145895
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [ROUND TWO, PART TWO: SUBMIT BY 12/19]
1 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, "The Message" vs. 5 Tracy Chapman, "Fast Car" 6 Nena, "99 Luftballons" vs. 7 Dexy's Midnight Runners, "Come on Eileen" 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind" vs. 12 Van Halen, "Panama" 3 Prince, "When ...
- Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:13 am
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: 2020 PAveMEnT: Discussion Regarding Specific PAveMEnt Questions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 382
Re: Discussion Regarding Specific PAveMEnt Questions
—[PO] I don't know if this is specific to me, but the first song on the Sly and the Family Stone tossup felt very "Sly." I don't think there's any other way of describing it, other than to say that I've never listened to that song but it sounded so much like a Sly song that I buzzed in an...
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Databases and Quizbowl Software
- Topic: Misconduct Reporting Committee Statement on Protobowl
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6005
Misconduct Reporting Committee Statement on Protobowl
The Misconduct Reporting Committee has received a complaint regarding the online quiz bowl site called Protobowl and the site owner's ongoing tolerance of racist, misogynist, homophobic, and other offensive content on this site. We have received screenshots documenting the use of horrendous racial e...
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 5:52 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7374
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
The announcement has been updated with the tournament's writers. Question production is underway and I'm excited to help bring this set to you all!
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:13 pm
- Forum: High school area archives
- Topic: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [FINALS, SUBMIT BY 1/5]
- Replies: 420
- Views: 2145895
Re: Best Song of the 1980s Bracket [ROUND ONE: SUBMIT BY 12/2]
1 Madonna, "Like a Virgin" vs. 16 Pixies, "Where is My Mind?" 8 Bruce Springsteen, "Born in the USA" vs. 9 AC/DC, "Back in Black" 5 Wham!, "Careless Whisper" vs. 12 Van Halen, "Panama" 4 Whitney Houston, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody&qu...
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 11:04 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7374
Re: Spring Novice (March-April 2021)
I'm excited to announce that Katherine Lei has joined the team as our science editor!
There's also still a couple of days left to apply to write for this set -- we've already gotten some applications from new writers, but there's still plenty of room, definitely apply if you're considering it!
There's also still a couple of days left to apply to write for this set -- we've already gotten some applications from new writers, but there's still plenty of room, definitely apply if you're considering it!
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 10:56 pm
- Forum: College area archives
- Topic: Spring Novice writer application
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3000
Re: Spring Novice writer application
Tuesday is the deadline to apply! Please make sure to get your applications in by 11:59 Pacific time, or PM me here or email at [email protected] if you need some more time.