Quizbowl Trivia Chatroom?

AndyShootsAndyScores · Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:45 pm

I've heard talk of a chat room where readers take turns asking questions on a mic and others answer. I've heard of a room like this on PalTalk, but I believe I'm thinking of a different board. Can someone enlighten me about it?

bulldogmike · Post by **bulldogmike** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:56 pm

There is indeed a trivia room in Paltalk, though I haven't been there in months. Look in their chat rooms, and you will find it. It's not too bad.

Gonzagapuma1 · Post by **Gonzagapuma1** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:57 pm

talk to Chris Ray

Sir Thopas · Post by **Sir Thopas** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:06 pm

Chris Ray (volkov3k on AIM) runs AIM chatrooms; Bob Kilner (TheAmazingBobbo) is a good contact for Skype (the microphone rooms).

Post by **DumbJaques** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:00 pm

As mentioned, anyone should feel free to shoot me a message anytime. Chat rooms often arise spontaneously when someone reminds me that I'm supposed to be running them.

I actually will plan to get a more organized thing going next year, perhaps primarily for top high school players/younger college players, or anyone looking to become one of those. If that sounds like your idea of a good Saturday night and you avoid the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, let me know.

AndyShootsAndyScores · Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:28 pm

DumbJaques wrote:As mentioned, anyone should feel free to shoot me a message anytime. Chat rooms often arise spontaneously when someone reminds me that I'm supposed to be running them.

I actually will plan to get a more organized thing going next year, perhaps primarily for top high school players/younger college players, or anyone looking to become one of those. If that sounds like your idea of a good Saturday night and you avoid the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, let me know.

Are these AIM chat rooms or PalTalk ones that you run?

Strongside · Post by **Strongside** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:45 pm

Alex Friedman from Minnetonka High School runs quiz bowl chat rooms on AIM. His AIM screen name is amaxwellfriedman

Youse Da Force · Post by **Youse Da Force** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:16 am

AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:
DumbJaques wrote:As mentioned, anyone should feel free to shoot me a message anytime. Chat rooms often arise spontaneously when someone reminds me that I'm supposed to be running them.

I actually will plan to get a more organized thing going next year, perhaps primarily for top high school players/younger college players, or anyone looking to become one of those. If that sounds like your idea of a good Saturday night and you avoid the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, let me know.
Are these AIM chat rooms or PalTalk ones that you run?

AIM.

Alejandro · Post by **Alejandro** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:40 pm

This isn't exactly the same thing, but there is an IRC bot on EsperNet that should be on 24/7 (in theory). More info here or here.
I think the PalTalk room stopped a while ago after Eric stopped coming.

-Alejandro

AndyShootsAndyScores · Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:55 pm

Do I have to have AIM 6.1 to participate in the chat rooms, or can I still do it with 5.9?

Sir Thopas · Post by **Sir Thopas** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:54 pm

AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:Do I have to have AIM 6.1 to participate in the chat rooms, or can I still do it with 5.9?

Dude, AIM has always had chat room capabilities.

Alejandro · Post by **Alejandro** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:38 pm

metsfan001 wrote:
AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:Do I have to have AIM 6.1 to participate in the chat rooms, or can I still do it with 5.9?
Dude, AIM has always had chat room capabilities.

I think he's talking about the microphone capability.

Sir Thopas · Post by **Sir Thopas** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:30 pm

NCRedhawks wrote:
metsfan001 wrote:
AndyBrindlee Mountain wrote:Do I have to have AIM 6.1 to participate in the chat rooms, or can I still do it with 5.9?
Dude, AIM has always had chat room capabilities.
I think he's talking about the microphone capability.

AIM chat rooms are textual. The microphone goes down on Skype.

tomburr · Post by **tomburr** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:28 pm

when do these chats happen?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) · Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:30 pm

When the moon is devoured by Hati.

Jeremy Gibbs Lemma · Post by **Jeremy Gibbs Lemma** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:30 am

EVERYBODY WHO SEES THIS

Live QB games at the EsperNet chat room. There are 4 of us there now.

If you know how to use IRC, join us ...

the room is #scobowl.

First Chairman · Post by **First Chairman** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:47 am

Folks,

It may be easier (since this is the summer) to post a schedule and any instructions on joining your chat room. It's too hard to just blitz people "immediately" sometimes.

Jeremy Gibbs Lemma · Post by **Jeremy Gibbs Lemma** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:50 pm

Hey, I got one person to show up :P.

He did not stay but still... one person saw the ad and joined so it wasn't a total failure.

Post by **DumbJaques** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 1:10 pm

There isn't really a schedule, per se. I'm generally available to host games at a wide variety of dates and times, so just IM me if you're online, have some time, and want to play. It's rare we can't get a game going.

Alejandro · Post by **Alejandro** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:52 pm

E.T. Chuck wrote:Folks,

It may be easier (since this is the summer) to post a schedule and any instructions on joining your chat room. It's too hard to just blitz people "immediately" sometimes.

If you're talking about the bot, it should be online 24/7 so that people can play (with others or by themselves) at anytime they want.

-Alejandro

Matt Weiner · Post by **Matt Weiner** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:41 pm

The collegiate/general-audience room is at irc.slashnet.org #quizbowl . Packets are read when we have them.

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:13 pm

Matt Weiner wrote:The collegiate/general-audience room is at irc.slashnet.org #quizbowl . Packets are read when we have stolen them.

Fixed.

tomburr · Post by **tomburr** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:26 pm

Where is the bot at? I found the IRC room

Matt Weiner · Post by **Matt Weiner** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:31 pm

tomburr wrote:Where is the bot at? I found the IRC room

Assuming you're referring to #quizbowl: There is no bot, questions are read by live people when they are there, which is usually around 10 PM to 1 AM eastern. Try again later tonight.

millionwaves · Post by **millionwaves** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:37 pm

The bot is in #scobowl, on EsperNet. You'll know you're in the right place if there's an admin (or whatever the IRC term is) called TriviaBot present.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:56 pm

If interest is satisfactory, I can always start up my good ol' Quiz Bowl room on Paltalk again...

It was pretty good given the mic capabilities. Moderator read the questions while players typed 'Buzz' to answer and then their answer in a considerable amount of time.

Not completely like the real thing, but you know.

What is also good, is there are scorers that can be used on Paltalk.

The old website is @ http://www.freewebs.com/qbpd

Maxwell Sniffingwell · Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:13 pm

I'd be up for that, Eric.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:28 pm

I may just have to open it then... it would be better if a few more would express interest so I can keep it open this time, lol.

If you all want me to get this started, I have to have someone help because I will be gone from the 23 until around the end of July for the KY Governor's Scholars Program.

That means I will need an admin(s) to open/close/maintain the room while I am gone.

I am willing to get it back going if a little more interest shows quickly.

AndyShootsAndyScores · Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:38 pm

EricLeMaster wrote:I may just have to open it then... it would be better if a few more would express interest so I can keep it open this time, lol.

If you all want me to get this started, I have to have someone help because I will be gone from the 23 until around the end of July for the KY Governor's Scholars Program.

That means I will need an admin(s) to open/close/maintain the room while I am gone.

I am willing to get it back going if a little more interest shows quickly.

I'd definitely be interested in getting the PalTalk room up again.

JohnAndSlation · Post by **JohnAndSlation** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:33 pm

cornfused wrote:I'd be up for that, Eric.

I second Greg's motion.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:08 pm

Well then...

How about I launch a little orientation tomorrow at--- say around--- 1:00PM EST?

If you all get the hang of it, I'll go ahead and make a few people admins as I will be in packing-mode for a 5-week span of dorm-life for GSP.

It's a great idea for practice and is pretty fun altogether; those who frequented before liked it, and I am sure the new ones will like it, too.

http://www.paltalk.com (Go ahead and download it for tomorrow, and when you get online, message Xx_Eric_xX)

Room name will be, as it was before, 'Quiz Bowl Practice and Discussion' in the Games>>Trivia/Puzzles category. It should be on around 1-ish.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 1:35 pm

Looks as if I am gonna have to change the name a little bit...

It's claiming the room name's been taken, but it will not list the name I put the room under... oh well.

But yeah... it will be a minor edit, but you should be able to tell what room it is.

EDIT: Lots of technical difficulty, so let's do this tomorrow...

JohnAndSlation · Post by **JohnAndSlation** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:02 am

Blargh...I'm at work then. Maybe an evening instead? *begs*

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:35 am

Wellll... I could try it then and later in the evening... I can't really set a time for the evening one yet, but let's say.... 10ish (EST)?

And that's if I can get the darn room re-registered. I have a feeling it's just the fact I'm using Firefox to do it, though... So I'll fix that tomorrow, lol.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:29 pm

Room is now set and is open.

If I have a red-dot beside of me, I'm away and you can just leave a message.

The room's under the same name it used to be: Quiz Bowl Practice and Discussion.

I will try to have us a few games going @ 10 today as a preview (or what-have-you), so hope to see a few there!

Jeremy Gibbs Lemma · Post by **Jeremy Gibbs Lemma** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:00 pm

is that 10 est ?

either way, I will most likely stop by.... I just installed paltalk and tested it out .. it should be fun

Maxwell Sniffingwell · Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:17 pm

I'm not seeing it up... i'll check again closer to 10.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:13 pm

Kentb426 wrote:is that 10 est ?

either way, I will most likely stop by.... I just installed paltalk and tested it out .. it should be fun

10 EST, yes. :)

Everyone join in @ 10EST tonight and I will get some stuff going. If I am delayed, it's because I am packing-- lol.

Maxwell Sniffingwell · Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:13 pm

Be there, folks... it's looking promising.

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:56 pm

For clarification, what's the advantage of Paltalk over AIM other than the presence of more quiz bowl nerdery?

Sir Thopas · Post by **Sir Thopas** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:01 am

leftsaidfred wrote:For clarification, what's the advantage of Paltalk over AIM other than the presence of more quiz bowl nerdery?

Microphones.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:20 am

leftsaidfred wrote:For clarification, what's the advantage of Paltalk over AIM other than the presence of more quiz bowl nerdery?

Microphones... AND better room administration console, place to put room info and links, it's just overall more orderly...

It's actually pretty darn nice.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:22 am

ATTENTION THOSE COMING TO THE PALTALK ROOM:

We have had several new members and admins come in today--- keep it coming!

I will be out of town, Sat-July 27, so it will be up to those admins to make new admins, maintain the room, and make room times and dates.

Hope you all have fun!

As for tomorrow, I will be on around 1pm and perhaps around 10pm EST.

C-ya!

AKKOLADE · Post by **AKKOLADE** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:23 am

Well I guess I'm not going to be using that until squirrels stop attacking my Internet!

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:57 pm

Room's open.. stop by!

P3nguinP0wered · Post by **P3nguinP0wered** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:04 pm

Is there a chatroom of similar quality to Paltalk that supports MACs?

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:44 pm

Great news if you can't use PalTalk:

http://chat.paltalk.com/g2/group/100272 ... etails.wmt

You can chat via your browser in the same way you would with the program by clicking the above link. Just remember to sign up with a user name first! To chat click 'ROOM OPEN! CHAT NOW!'

Join us tonight at 10--- if I'm late, one of the other admins should open the room if possible. I am gonna be one busy man tonight.

EricLeMaster · Post by **EricLeMaster** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:11 am

I'm leaving in a few minutes for my Gov.'s Scholars Program camp, so will not be around to operate the room.

ADMINS: Be sure to post some time/day schedules and keep the room going in my absence. I may be able to pop in only occasionally.

They don't allow laptops, TV's, or personal DVD-players, so yeah... that bums me out, lol. I do get to use the on-site computers when I can, before curfew, though...

So yeah--- everyone have a great summer!

Jeremy Gibbs Lemma · Post by **Jeremy Gibbs Lemma** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:05 pm

I have made another room on PalTalk and will be around on most nights for a while at least. If anyone wants to get games going and the other room is not up, check out: http://chat.paltalk.com/g2/group/111811 ... etails.wmt

The group name is just Quiz Bowl.

Jeremy Gibbs Lemma · Post by **Jeremy Gibbs Lemma** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:48 pm

Paltalk room is up now if anyone is interested.