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This is a short announcement for a playtesting/side-event of FILM , at the 2018 PACE NSC. FILM is a 10 round, tossup only set, with both trash and art film content. Most answerlines will be accessible at the strong high school level, but with question content at a college nationals difficulty level....

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Are they any intentions to add the new released hs sets once summer comes around? Yep! I work on a Machiavellian love/fear of the community basis, though, so best way to get the sets you want uploaded is to post about specific ones here, and I'll do my best to upload those first :) Here's some: 201...

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vinteuil wrote:
UlyssesInvictus wrote:I work on a Machiavellian love/fear of the community basis
moxon or pitchfork mob, your choice

:( I got halfway through last Sunday until midnight hit and I turned back into a pumpkin. (Or work called, your choice.)

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tksaleija wrote:Are they any intentions to add the new released hs sets once summer comes around?

Yep! I work on a Machiavellian love/fear of the community basis, though, so best way to get the sets you want uploaded is to post about specific ones here, and I'll do my best to upload those first :)

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UPDATE: I've been told that many people who want to play PACENSC are either playing or staffing ACRONYM, which I expected. Our tentative plan now is to run our event at around 9:00pm on Saturday. Hopefully that will significantly reduce conflicts. As for packet writing, we're making good progress. ...

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Thanks for saying that Erik, I definitely should have commented this is my personal experience, and I'm also wondering if people have felt similarly in their QB experiences. This could easily reflect more on me or the teams I've been part of then any general, or even common, QB experience.

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I do agree that new players will generally acclimate to what's presented as good to them, and it would be worth examining the issue more of how they might respond if the "standard" tournament (ACF) were to introduce powers. (And inversely, have responded to the fact that ACF does not have powers cur...

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On a different topic of thought, I'm also interested to hear how people might have dealt with insularity in other clubs/disciplines. What I'm wondering right now is if the problem isn't just that all "activities" are insular by default, and some are just very good at finding ways to inclusively work...

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Such a response has not been garnered by Conor's, my own, and others' completely contradictory anecdotal accounts, which in the other thread were rightfully received with reticence for reason of their nature as particular reports. [...] I think at least why I liked Charles' story is [...] I'm inter...

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This is about 70% done, and I'm very excited with its current state!

Assuming all goes well, I'll be playtesting a "mini" version at NSC, using reduced rounds and likely using a shootout format.

It's still to be announced, but the main summer side event bonanza is the main target for this set.

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As penance, and to build on this idea of learning from mistakes, I'd very much like to contribute to any effort to centralize TD information. Obviously, any proper centralization of information would require a lot of (basically) one person: - collecting that data, and organizing it - somewhat editor...

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Hi Mostafa: I'd like to talk about possibly taking over management of Neg 5 for you. I can't promise that I'll devote time every weekend (or even any weekends) into outright implementing new features, but that I will occasionally look over any PRs from forks, as well as do general maintenance to mak...

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To reiterate before saying anything else, any opinions here are solely my own, and have nothing to do with the Harvard team. First, to Sam, I do think you're being a little unfair with regard to Neg5. I remember using paper scoresheets for years before Neg5, and there was just a great a chance with ...

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I haven't been reading the forums for a day, but now that I have, I'm pretty sure I'm at least one of the people in question that acted rudely to Max. I want to go ahead and apologize for this, because there's really no reason for me to have behaved the way I did. The only excuses I can make are tha...

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Instead of fees, how do people feel about a "commitment" to staff a tournament? Right now, in the Northeast at least, there's a lot of under-the-table horse trading to figure out who has to host what. Some regularized "you staff this, we staff this" system would simultaneously act as a quid pro quo ...

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This has been suggested before, but I'd very much like to have more book prizes that reward things like "top scoring freshman" or "top scoring first time quizbowl performance" instead of 8 top scoring prizes. You'd have to do some data collection beforehand as TD, but in my experience these things j...

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Thanks, that is pretty good. You should strike the part where it says "say "answer?" on second 4 (of a tossup)" since that's not a rule anywhere and all. Yikes, good catch. I still want to figure out where and when that started one of these days! It's a great example of a meme in the original meani...

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How long do you expect this to take? (i.e. how many rounds are you planning on running?)

Also, what's the field list look like right now?

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Just for the record, I've toyed with the idea of working with PACE in my head, but I think I'm disconnected enough from the community that I wouldn't be nominated and as we all know, self-nominations are "discouraged." That always struck me as a good way to keep an "in-crowd" mentality. Me as well,...

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Does "the side event must conclude by 11 PM" refer to all side events, or just those conducted using (any number of) PACE provided rooms?

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Given that we can't answer questions we've seen before, how will we know when we've answered/seen all 160 questions?

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David wasn't a member at the time, but around 2010 when PACE was having a serious crisis under a president that a number of the most active members had good reason not to trust, one of the biggest problems was that PACE had a very large number of members who had zero involvement anymore (and some w...

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Were these ever posted to the archives?

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Perfect time for me to pub my own side-event *cackle*: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=20695 I'm really excited about how the set is turning out so far--I think I've been judicious in getting a really good blend of trash, historic film, academic film, and artsy fartsy foreign film....

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To be fair, I assume they offer more than they get people to accept; I've turned down both PACE and ACF memberships in the last few years. Really? That's surprising to me: I would have thought there was little reason to turn down a membership, but it may just be that I'm vastly underestimating the ...

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My question is: what's the rationale for ACF and PACE not just offering membership invitations far more freely than they are currently? I suppose there's a desire to make sure people aren't besmirching their good names, but every year it seems like PACE posts a <10 person list of new members when su...

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While I'm at it: 2013 NASAT Round 3 #1 Question: One of these events is the site of the first appearance of Mr. Hurst, his wife, and his sister-in-law, Caroline, the latter of whom disparages the possibility of one of these events occurring at Netherfield as a punishment, not a pleasure. A mischievo...

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Interestingly, here's another one on the soliloquy in Listory: 2016 Listory Round 7 Question: A character in this passage wishes to have a conversation with an educated person, but laments that she would need fez slippers and either a new morning gown or her old dressing jacket. A portion of this pa...

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When I was brainstorming my own Packetizor, I had a design to just have a "Randomization" options page with common "fengshui" violations: - No trash tossup in first/last three questions. - No back to back questions of same category. - No tossup/bonus of same category on the same "number" And other t...

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Can we see the full Medea tossup? Owen Meany is a long book, and I'm struggling to remember if Medea is actually an important part of the book or more of a throwaway details that's kind of punishing, even as a lead-in.

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Also, for those who can pay by Venmo, what's your venmo username.

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Tournament was fun, thanks for hosting.

I think some lessons were learned about Discord's reliability for large numbers of people in the server, but I don't think the tournament ended up going too long.

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Is there going to be a logistics mail sent out? Last online tournament I played there wasn't one and it resulted in problems like teams and moderators not showing up on time. Whoops, sorry, I didn't consciously realize the other people on my team hadn't gotten the email and neglected to forward it....

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Robert can't end up making the mirror, so we have a fourth slot now available on our team. First person to fill their name in gets it.

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Just a heads up to you that there already a significant number of side-events at HSNCT planned.

But Pokemon is life, so you guys do you.

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Yeah, my bad, it looks like a 10th team was formed in between when now and when there was an open request to split people off into a 10th team.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:In gross violation of a post I made earlier in this thread, I'm now playing with Stephen Liu

With all due respect, this seems like a...very strong team, given that a 10th team still needs to be created.

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2017 Penn Bowl Lederberg 2 GRAB BAG 2018 ACF Regionals 2017 EFT Questions uploaded today. Sorry that I haven't uploaded in two months: it may be significantly faster, but I still have to work up the effort to get it done... Gonna try and do a bunch of MS/easy HS next, but it looks like there aren't ...

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Kind of hoping FILM would run elsewhere since this schedule is pretty huge. Yeah, I wanted to run FILM at CO, but I was just concerned I was going to get crowded out by Chicago Trash, and there's no confirmed summer side event yet. The odds are looking good for this to end up at NSC, though. I'll c...

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I've created a running list of declared and/or putative side events here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20995&p=341469#p341469 This is not official, and I don't claim to be speaking for NSC in any way/shape/or form. It's just to help organize information. I don't remember what PAC...

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I've created a running list of declared and/or putative side events here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20994 This is not official, and I don't claim to be speaking for NAQT in any way/shape/or form. It's just to help organize information. I don't remember what NAQT's official pol...

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This is a hub for the announced and/or putative side events at the 2018 NSC. Please post if you have any more information about these side events (a main thread, for instance), or believe that I'm missing one: Event | Subject | Day/Time | Chance of Running ========================================== ...

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This is a hub for the announced and/or putative side events at the 2018 HSNCT. Please post if you have any more information about these side events (a main thread, for instance), or believe that I'm missing one: Event | Subject | Day/Time | Chance of Running =========================================...

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Anecdotally, my most frequent experience is that you actually don't need to worry about the bottom bracket speed: a lot more questions tend to go dead, skipping bonus cycles and saving time. It's the second-to-bottom bracket that really tends to drag. Some other stray pieces of advice: - Be mindful ...

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Gonna chime in that you can also just write questions to stow away for personal or later use. I think some of the more charitable people here have written packets (or even sets) that they read in Discord later, where they tend to always find at least one person happy to play them. You can also just ...

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I'd rather Discord as well, though I understand if Skype is easier to set up on the modding side. My main preference is because Discord has less lag and works perfectly from in a browser. However, not sure if Mike is suggesting that you can't use mic for bonus conferring in Discord? Because as far a...

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My question is, is NAQT themselves helping at all? I've never had to ask in the time I've run tournaments, but since it's for an event that NAQT has a vested interest in seeing run well, does the organization ever offer to help recruit staffers, or contact active members so that they'll staff?

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I remember well the staffing problems that the Northeast used to have c. 6-7 years ago. In those days, it was very difficult to find hosts for tournaments, because effectively only four schools (Brown, Yale, MIT, and Harvard) were capable of running a tournament. The circuit could only sustain itse...

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Some quick thoughts: - You can click outside the modal (not actually click on the Accept button) to dismiss it. This might be intentional. - A link (visible while playing) to the initial info on the modal / QANTA's website / the forums might be helpful. - Love the live highlights, text snippets, and...

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The only time I find myself chafing against these rules is when the sentence is something like: One line in this poem repeatedly yells, "Moloch!," and another line And I can't for the life of me get used to that comma right after a punctuation mark. Even worse when it's a period ending the sentence ...

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