Quadfest
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Quadfest is a competition held on the second Saturday of each term at Duke East and Duke West, in the same vein as Color Wars, but with the dorms pitted against each other. It includes such wondrous activities as the Jello Snarfle, the Dorm Blob and Day At TIP. It is analogous to many far less enthusiastic competitions at different Campuses.
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[edit] General
The event generally begins directly after lunch. Before the official advent of festivities, dorms engage in general pep-building frivolity. Common activities include TIPsters gathering and cheering outside of their dorms and attempting to cape B. Duke with their dorm's colors.
Then, at approximately 1 pm, the dorms enter in a totally random order, or, Alspaugh, then Brown, then Bassett. Directly after entrances, it is announced that instead of performing both of the prepared cheers, each dorm would only perform one. These are again done in a totally random order, or, Bassett, then Brown, then Alspaugh. As the judges confer, almost invariably, an unprecedented event occurs: the dorms are all exactly tied in their scores, so they must perform the second cheer as a tie-breaker.
After the announcements of scores for entrances and cheers, the individual events commence. Until 4 pm, a constant stream of events with varying lengths are carried out. Generally, the events that end the day are the Interpretive Dance, the judging of the Scavenger Hunt, and Boat Race.
In recent years, Bassett almost without exception has won Quadfest, and it is viewed as something of a secret 4th Year Privilege to win the event. After Bassett's victory has been announced, one will frequently hear a gaggle of 2nd and 3rd years complaining about rigging, but they are overshadowed by the euphoric cheers emitting from the rambunctious 4th years.
[edit] Colors
When first years still attended Duke East, the four colors were:
There was a year a dorm, and all was well. And then: the years were split up. This wouldn't have been bad, except that the fourth years were split up. Most reports place this in the mid- to late-1990s, especially 1996. The fourth years did not wear their dorm colors that year, instead wearing their year color: then, now, and forever, the fourth year color is black. This led to a short period of time where year colors instead of dorm colors were worn and dorms did not have colors. As of Term II, 2004, the following colors were relevant:
East 2006 colors were(Bassett being closed for renovation):
Since 2007:
[edit] Throwing Quadfest
Term I in 1998, Bassett decided to throw Quadfest. This continued for a few years, until every dorm decided to throw Quadfest. Throwing Quadfest was then banned. This was brought back by Alspaugh (4th years) in 2006 at East II. See Throwing Quadfest.
[edit] Cheers
[edit] Bassett
"Doggy, Doggy, Doggy" is probably the most famous Bassett cheer. The leader of the cheer will shout "doggy!" repeated one, two or three times. The crowd responds with "woof" the same number of times. The most common way to do it is Doggy three times repeated twice, Doggy once repeated twice, and Doggy three more times.
There are a few variations on that - the first was "Ducky, ducky, ducky" "Quack, quack, quack". At Term II, 2003, some residents of Alspaugh used "Cow, cow, cow" "Moo, moo, moo". At Term II, 2004, "Faucet, faucet, faucet" "Drip, drip, drip" was used. At Term I, 2005 the Alspaughians inexplicably chose to use the variant "llama, llama, llama" "Baa, baa, baa." There was also a version with "Carpet, carpet, carpet", as the fourth years of Bassett take an immense amount of pride in their carpet. Term II 2007, Both aLspaugh and Brown made variation by chanting "neuter" and "leash", respectively after chanting "doggy". "Doggy, Doggy, Doggy" is said to have been started by third years in Brown, who took the cheer with them when they moved. It may have started after the summer of 2000, where the Australian Olympic Team had the rallying cry of "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oy Oy Oy".
A variant on "We've Got Spirit" is often used by Bassett - "We've got carpet, yes we do, we've got carpet, how about you?"
Bassett is also known for the cheer, "Blue is the color, there ain't no other, and if you don't like it, then *uh!* your mother!", where the *uh* is a guttural grunt accompanied by a pelvic thrust.
Another call out and respond cheer that Bassett has been known to use is "How do we do it?" "Doggy style!" *Edit by Caro: During Term II 2005, RCs threatened to disqualify Bassett for the Doggy Style cheer and the TEAMWORK cheer (Give me an O! R! G! Y! What's that spell? TEAMWORK!!), so some clever 4th years started saying "How do we do it?" "TIPPROPRIATELY!" (On a side note, the "teamwork" cheer was repeatedly used by a group of 2nd floor girls in Giles at Duke East II 2006.)
At Term II 2007, Bassett used "Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion, Upset Stomach, Diarrhea," and "Nerds!" and "Basset is above you, your mother doesn't love you"
In Term I 2005, a heavily Lil' Jon-influenced Bassett chose the cheer: "Bassett--WHAT! Basset--YEAH! Bassett--OKAY!"
In Term II 2006, the Alspaugh 4th Years used the cheer, "How do we do it? Under a tree!", referencing the couple who were gettin' freaky under the tree outside the gazebo at the treasure hunt.
In Term I 2008, Bassett also used "We are the Bassett beast/ on tiny TIPsters we will feast." Various variations on "Doggy, doggy, doggy" were attempted by both Pegramites and Alspaugn, but were drowned out by catcalls. Popular among many fourth years was "Bassett - HOORAY!", to be completed with a High School Musical-style jump.
[edit] Brown
One of the more amusing Brown cheers that was used at Term II in both 2003 and 2004 asked the respondants to spell "Green" and then asked "What does it spell?" The proper response was, obviously "BROWN!" Other cheers used those years were "Green is the color, there is no other, and if you don't like it: UH, your mother. Green is the color, it is the bomb, and if you don't like it: UH, your mom," and "Whose house? Brown's house! Whose house? Brown's house! Whose house? BROWN'S HOUSE!"
[edit] Dorm Entrances
Please add information from years you attended
[edit] 2009
- Alspaugh: The Alspaughtan army, under the general Dominique (with notebook-paper abs), spproaches the Brown and Bassett armies. The leader of the Brown and Bassett armies, doubted that the young Alspaughtans, who had lost so many, could ever defeat them. However, he was sadly mistaken, because, as Dominique proudly proclaimed, "THIS... IS... ALSPAAAUGH!"
- Brown
- Bassett: A horde of H1Z1 zombies are attacking TIPsters. Alspaughn fall quickly as they are too naïve to run away from the advancing enemy. The Brownies are too concerned for the well-being of their stuffed animal, so fall quickly as well. Only Bassett remains, forming an American Pie line, doing the can-can, and slowing down the enemy, but even they begin to falter. Luckily, as they are surrounded, at the last minute, Giles suddenly appears and infects the zombies with swine flu, killing them, reverting the TIPsters to their healthy state, and saving the day.
[edit] Complete List of Quadfest Events
[edit] Current
- Limbo
- Jello Snarfle
- Tug of War
- Boat Race
- Cheesy Poofs
- Day at TIP
- Interpretive Dance
- Pudding Fling
- Shazam Fest
- Dizzy Bat
- Dorm Blob
- Frisbee Throw
- A few Mystery Events including:
- All-Day activities:
If you wish to take pictures during Quadfest, it is important to make it known you have a camera and wish that people do not get it wet...or you will kill them. To get people to listen to you (especially people you know that are somewhat considerate), it is recommended to tell them that they can put SOME water like on your back or something, thus they spray you and move along to your next victim. This is especially important when outside and/or are around events involving water. Jell-O Snarfle, Interpretive Dance, and Pudding Fling make for great pictures. --Emily Fry
[edit] Inactive Events
[edit] Quadfest at West
On the West campus, many of the same events are used. However, TIPsters aren't separated by dorm; instead, different RAGs are grouped together. Usually each group gets a similar number of each year and gender so that the teams are supposedly fairly even. Yet in 2009 many speculated that the Blue Team was stacked as they seemed to end up with the most athletic 4th and 3rd years both terms.
[edit] Grello's Legacy
Because there are four teams at West instead of East's three, a fourth team color had to be added. For many years this color was Grello, a combination of Grey and Yellow because not many TIPsters would bring yellow shirts. Historically, the team did not perform so well in the actual Quadfest activities. The tradition was broken in 2008 when the color was changed to simply yellow. At Term I 2009, Yellow was replaced by Black. Grello returned in Term II 2009 when some of Rajhai's 4th year girls, having won the "Pick your Color for Quadfest" reward from the Scavenger Hunt and also wanting to uphold the TIP tradition they had once known, insisted on being Grello. This team eventually went on to win that term with the help of the Zulu Force.
[edit] Results
(Incomplete, please assist!)
- Term II 2007
- Champions:Red
- Term II 2008
- Champions: Red
- Runner-Up: Green
- Third Place: Blue
- Fourth Place: Yellow
- Term II 2009
- Champions: Grello
- Runner-Up: Red
- Third Place: Green
- Fourth Place: Blue
