t's nice to see that this club exists; hopefully it will be a good place to have conversations and share information. Thanks, David, for starting this up!...
set up the Quizzer Program again. Some of you may remember it from the Berkeley Quizbowl Home Page.<br>It is a java based quiz program, it lets you buzz in,...
ctually, in a lot of ways, I think that this has the potential to be even better than the newsgroup. I like the fact that with the "Calendar" feature and other...
ey, check out the photo I added to the Quiz Bowl Album. Warms your heart, eh?<br><br>I say we should move some of the philosophical discussions over here. The ...
e've moved up to fourth place in the "Other" category. Pokemon Center Tokyo, here we come!!<br><br>It does seem like no one ever logs on when I do, for the ...
egarding the use of this forum to replace the group and/or mailing list ...<br><br>This requires more effort to keep up with than the mailing list does; there ...
oes anyone out there have info on what constitutes a High School Canon, in particular in the arts & letters. <br><br>That is, are there lists of most ...
acket Breakdowns for ACF Tournaments<br><br>The tossup and bonus sections of the packet should each follow this<br>distribution.<br><br>Category First 20 ...
YU Perpetual Motion VI<br><br>BYU will be hosting an ACF tournament on March 5-6, 1999. There are no<br>entry fees, and packets are due on February 20. The ...
he University of South Carolina would like to announce the 1999 South Carolina Gamecock Invitational to be held in Columbia, SC on the 20th of March. The ...
nnoying Illinois High School Quiz Bowl Circuit, I can surmise the following.<br><br>High school students do know (in order of depth):<br><br>1. American ...
he Wichita State University Academic Quiz Team will host Freeze Your Buzz Off III and the Thumbs On Ice Buzzer Revue on Saturday, March 27, 1999. Entry fees,...
he Wichita State University Academic Quiz Team will welcome the submission of free-lance packets to its tournaments on March 27, 1999. Since we are running...
n an effort to inspire some interest in this message board, I'll throw out some thoughts on the failings of the three major formats (CBI, ACF, NAQT.) Maybe...
UIZ BOWL AS TV GAME SHOW<br><br>To CBI, for example, quiz bowl is a TV game show, that just happens not to be on TV at the moment. Pretty much every complaint...
irst, thanks to David Levinson for this impressive new resource.<br><br>Now, I will just add my 2 cents to Mr. Mason's recent post...<br><br>As the ...
Interesting" questions are what help players get through rounds and tournaments full of stuff they've never heard of and don't care about. And no matter who ...
t's common for us older or retired players to suggest that quality question writers are a dying breed. While I will agree that Fall '97, where everything was ...
lthough I admit to being a fan of NAQT, I think I've played enough ACF (rather hard not to in my part of the country) to have some thoughts about its flaws....
uestions boring (except those about Tycho Brahe and the fact that Olivia Newton-John is the granddaughter of Max Born). Do I edit out all questions that I, as...
noticed that one of the features of this club is that the founder could install regular quotes of the club's stocks. (?!)<br><br>This moves me to report on the...
imothy Joseph Young, Future Esquire, wrote:<br><br>"It's common for us older or retired players to suggest that quality question writers are a dying breed....
eam leaders are doing to fill the void, so to speak. ... I do wonder if anything is being done to make the new generations great players AND writers AND ...
irst, as an designer and human-computer interaction researcher, this interface bites.<br><br>Now, responding to a message:<br><br>"Although I admit to being a ...
CF editing staff prepare the best tournament possible, how do we make questions "interesting"?<br>----------<br><br>Here is one simple, relatively concrete...
