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Tokyo Sex Whale wrote:integrate Protobowl with Facebook

Typhon and Echidna wrote:Hey, that's our thing.

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Michigan A defeated Michigan B in the first round of the superplayoffs, and Illinois B won against Illinois A. Michigan A ended up winning the one-game final.

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Is it worth considering maybe asking people to create a poll for a number of teams that is smaller than 25 (such as 20 or 15)? It seems like there are few enough college teams that attempting to accurately rank 23 versus 24, or 19 versus 21, can bog people down in writing their polls and produce fe...

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Susan wrote:Here's a link showing the (registered) field for this tournament. Teams, if you need to change anything (more or fewer buzzers, removing teams, etc.) please email me at [email protected] .

The link doesn't seem to be working at this time.

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Staying up late arguing is a common ritual.

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Charles Martel wrote:Go read books

I've heard that can be fun.

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Will the Encyclopedia of Charles Hang be expanded to include last year's ACF Nationals?

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I don't think merging divisions gives a much better schedule, but it does ensure that the games that do get played are more lopsided. I mean that happens at most every tournament in a nationally competitive state. Segregation by ability division might be a good thing to happen once or twice per yea...

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IMSA somehow scored 739 despite there being no 4-4-4-4-4 bonuses present? C'est impressive.

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BobGHHS wrote: 2010 VCU Open - L'Oreal (this could be considered trash but based on the clues, I felt like it was current events at-the-time of course)

2010 GDS Ben Cooper Memorial - Stock Clues (borderline trash I guess)

2011 Terrapin Invitational Tournament - Switzerland

These are all indeed trash TU's.

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Also, there's no option to turn off getting points for answering tossups correctly. Might this be remedied?

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QUARK?

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Regarding the Churchill point, are you referring to the imprecise wording in the bonus part or did Churchill never actually say those words, as implied by every transcript of his August 20, 1940 speech I've read? Just the nebulous supposed "this group" relating to a generic answer threw m...

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Edmund wrote: 3. Winston Churchill did not say "“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to the few" as implied by the first part of that bonus.

Could you post that bonus line? I remember being a tad confused by the wording.

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TheDoctor wrote:For those interested in the progress of the competitive division, here are the stats after six rounds.

What kind of bracketing was used for the first six rounds in competitive? I've never seen a round robin turn out quite like that.

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I believe Lily Chen and Adam Kalinich, both of MIT, made a powerpoint about those very concerns.

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... sh#p252540

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bag-of-worms wrote:Feel free to post publicly about the set.

It was pretty good.

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Colby is one of the most amusing Jeopardy contestants I've ever seen... Without giving anything away, today's episode was hilarious.

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Wireless buzzers are more hassle than they're worth, plus they cost a lot of money. I've said this before on the forums, but when it comes down to it, Andersons are essentially the best easily available system out there.

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gyre and gimble wrote:Columbia B went undefeated and probably won all of the titles. Stats will be up soon.

sjmorrison wrote:Prelims and combined stats are up and can be found on the tournament page here.

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bt_green_warbler wrote:The context being "Sameer hasn't played any tournaments yet."

I'm aware of the method used, I'm just saying it's funny how it turned out.

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Out of context observation: lol @ Bellarmine B being on the list but not Bellarmine A.

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Could you post the tossups on Harding and Mary Magdalene?

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I think the MUT-style easy-plus tournament works best as a (chronologically) post-Nationals tournament, rather than as a March tournament. I've found that it is essential for keeping younger players (who are not ready for or do not want to tackle ACF Nationals) still involved with quizbowl. Otherwi...

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What was the motivation to use solely single-author packets?

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I feel like Whitney Young and what will eventually be IMSA B might be teams to watch out for by the end of the year. Both schools did quite well at our novice tournament and with a good amount of effort could finish up in the top 10.

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However, moderators: if you're reading a bonus or tossup, don't mention anything related to the bonus or tossup until it's been converted or someone's answered. This happened at least twice yesterday. We saw this happen as well. There was a bit of unnecessary directing and talking during bonuses at...

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[Having more powers than tens] happens more to specialists than generalists: in matches against crappy teams, the generalist usually picks a lot more questions at the end, which boosts his stats overall, but dilutes his power-to-ten ratio. When you consider that he's playing next to Neil, a highly ...

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I find it odd that a senior who's played ACF fall throughout college but never played nats would still be D2 at fall yet not at nats.

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The Ununtiable Twine wrote:In addition, the neg award was vehemently rejected by Billy - once he saw what it was, he threw it back at me.

I'm curious as to what said prize was.

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Any updates?

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As Dan and Malis will never let me forget, I once got a nice science power from remembering a description I read once of 4th-gen Pokemon weather conditions.

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The Popul Vuh (Mayan) is fairly easy to find and read.

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From what I've gathered, there were a lot of negs on the Mexico TU on the clue for that Buñuel dinner party movie. Was it placed to reward those who knew it was filmed in Mexico or just an arbitrary clue placement?

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Yes but with the former you get the pleasure of reading it.

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Anderson brand buzzers are usually regarded as some of the best ones around. They're a bit smaller than the ones on Jeopardy but they hold together well, last a long time, and are relatively painless to set up and use.

You normally order them online.

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Something has to be done about answers counted as correct. I've seen Iran Contra taken for the Warren Commission, Auld Lang Syne taken for God Save the Queen...the list goes on.

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Sulawesi Myzomela wrote:
DumbJaques wrote:The prize is free Bryce Avery questions??? Is it too late to sign up?
If first prize is a one year subscription to Avery questions, I can only assume that second prize is a two year subscription.

The real question here is does it continue arithmetically or geometrically?

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It's like I said in my ballot: they're both excellent players, but they're both science-oriented generalists, so I expect some minor overlap. Maybe I underranked them at 11th, but it's the eternal problem of every preseason poll: nothing's actually happened yet.

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Everybody wrote:something speculative about Adam Silverman

Here are some stats from him playing college stuff solo in Texas (against mostly HS teams)
DII ICT, 305.9 PPG, 15.92 PPB
ACF regs mirror, 267.9 PPG, 15.83 PPB

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David Riley wrote:Adam: Will you guys be writing your own middle school set this year? If so, perhaps Alabama could mirror it? Just a thought.

I'd very much like to but you'd have to ask Dan Don about that.

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Horned Screamer wrote:
Joshua Rutsky wrote:After our disastrous experience with Olympia last year
Do tell.

We had notable problems with one of their MS sets last year too.

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4nay wrote:and (most importantly) many games of Mao.

Draw four for misuse of the name.

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List of Fighting Spirit characters wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSS5dEeMX64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lb3MTlIrC4

I played these two on loop the night before HSNCT playoffs.

The secret is out!!!

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A teammate of mine and I would listen to Public Enemy's "He Got Game" before big tournaments. I'd like to hear theories on how to avoid the dreaded post-lunch lethargy. Mind what you eat at lunch. Bring light snacks to push away the stomach rumblings. This is true. Light meals, and coffee...

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I've found that telling jokes in a group helps. Laughing a lot right before a match gets you in a good mood and makes you more aware without tensing up.

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Jeremy Gibbs Paradox wrote:Field edited to add Ladue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3VsesS ... lated#t=4s

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The Ununtiable Twine wrote:On a side note I don't think Kelson the Younger will be at UF.

Aw.

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At the risk of causing an uproar comparable to my ACF nats prediction gaffe, I figured I might as well throw my two cents in. 1) UVA. Matt Bollinger's the best in the game today, plus last year's nats results, etc. They seem to be What will we be? I HOPE THE BEST AROUND! Cuz nothing's ever gonna ke...

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At the risk of causing an uproar comparable to my ACF nats prediction gaffe, I figured I might as well throw my two cents in. 1) UVA. Matt Bollinger's the best in the game today, plus last year's nats results, etc. They seem to be 2) Penn. Eric's only major support last year came from Saajid, and st...

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