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I can't top Alaska to Atlanta, but I once drove ~1,000 miles from Tallahassee to Ann Arbor for 2006 ACF Nats, ~900 miles from Tallahassee to College Park for 2006 ICT, and ~800 miles from Tallahassee to St. Louis for 2008 ICT.

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I am going to this tournament (plane ticket and hotel room purchased) and looking for teammates. I am decent at science and fine arts. Contact me if you're interested.

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Distance model wrote:Are the packets posted somewhere?

Will the packets be posted soon?

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Valencia College will host the 17th (?) iteration of our community-college level Delta Burke tournament on Friday, November 8, and Saturday, November 9. The set will be available anytime after that for $20/team (negotiable) to any college or HS team which would like to run it. The questions are clos...

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I have all the scoresheets from the Valencia mirror. In the upcoming days/weeks, I will be posting some tossup and bonus stats that could be useful in making minor edits to the set for upcoming mirrors. Round 1 No one powered the tossups on Taurus, Russia, Los Angeles, or The Potato Eaters. The toss...

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Make sure your seatbelt is fastened wrote: Roughly 30% of the tournament has been written thus far, and it is on pace to be completed by late May. The tournament will feature thirteen 20/20 powermarked packets.

Is the set finished?

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Matt B, could you please update the packets received post when you get a chance? Thanks!

wd4gdz · Re: Terrapin at Alabama (4/6/13) I don't think I'll be coming to this. Sorry :(

I don't think I'll be coming to this. Sorry :(

wd4gdz · Re: Terrapin at Alabama (4/6/13) I'll probably come.

I'll probably come.

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Matt Weiner wrote:People are free to move the questions around if they want, but I will be posting a version without all of the embarrassing mechanical errors in about a week on the TDB.

Has this set been posted online yet? If so, could you please provide a link. Thanks!

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We decided to just release the set instead. But you could always mirror the 2013 iteration!

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I would almost certainly be there.

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Will this tournament have at least 3 buzzers?

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I'm able and willing to attend, but the field size doesn't look promising.

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I am expressing interest in attending.

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Stats

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /all_games

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Hey Ike,

I was wondering if it would be okay to have an informal mirror of your myth tournament this weekend at the Valencia mirror of KABO. If so, could you please send me the packets? Thanks!

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This happens a lot more than most people think, as far as I know. I emailed the DCC coach ([email protected]) awhile back about this instance of plagiarism, but he never responded.

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I don't think Mark Morris is on our team??? Borglum might join us though, if his wife lets him.

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This is a great idea, but the date is the same as the Penn Bowl mirror in Athens, GA.

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Any chance this "great set of questions" will be posted online?

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Stats for the initial round robin: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/64/stats/initial_round_rodin/ UF (8-1) had a one game advantage over Chipola A and UCF (both 7-2). Chipola A (Paul et al) defeated UCF (Mickey et al) 355-40 for the chance to play UF in the finals. Chipola A then defeated UF...

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This email with a final update was just sent out to all teams and staff.

http://pastie.org/2696080

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If anyone has a suggestion and/or preference for a ten-team schedule, please let me know.

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There's a slightly updated field above. Based on the number of moderators and buzzers, I'm going to tentatively cap the field at 16 teams. That means there are only a couple more spots left.

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Field:
Chipola x 2
FSU x 1
NFCC x 1
Ohio State [aka Travis Vitello] x 1
UCF x 1
UF x 1
Valencia x 3

Buzzers:
Billy x 1
Chipola x 2
FSU x 1
NFCC x 3
UCF x 2
Valencia x 2

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Why not use a good question set instead?

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Valencia College in Orlando, Florida will be the site of a MAGNI mirror on Saturday, October 15. It is a regular difficulty college tournament. Logistics: The tournament will almost certainly be held at Valencia's West Campus. We are aiming to begin play promptly at 9:00 AM, with registration taking...

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I'm obviously going.

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Would it be possible to get a list of what pieces were used in each tossup?

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Sign me up, please.

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Please e-mail if anyone has comments/constructive criticism they'd like to share about the science.

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Is it true WUSTL only had one-sixth of one packet done the Tuesday (11/9) before the tournament, even though the deadline for two packets was Halloween, more than a week before that?

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The match in question may or may not have been 445-220.

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Rumor has it Maclay beat Pensacola and won the NWFSC tournament this past weekend. I can only assume Pensacola was without some of their key players?

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scquizbowl wrote: Polk County Academic Tournament, from Florida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppunyGv0va4

The section from 1:24 to 1:53 really demonstrates how awesome this format is.

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I was in #quizbowl waiting for this before Matt Weiner kicked me out. Anyone happen to see this and care to tell me what room, assuming not #quizbowl, this is in?

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Matt Weiner wrote:1) Douglass's Law will hold true as every quizbowl player in Florida continues to transfer among every college in Florida until they have played at least one semester for every team that exists south of the Okefenokee.

Not to be confused with Douglass' Law of Teams Leaving Early, I guess?

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I think Linda has already spoken to HSAPQ about Loyburn. uh oh :sad: OK, so what mirrors are available for late fall semester? HFT's out, GSAC's out, HSAPQ's out, NAQT's out (according to sources, the three IS sets scheduled to be done by the new year are reserved for IHSA format rounds, Kickoff, a...

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I guess this is analogous to waiting 27 minutes despite being told Lebron would reveal his decision within the first 10 minutes.

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My random guess is Athens HS because I think he went to Athens State at some point.

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Terrible Shorts Depot wrote:I have no idea how this happened, but Juan Carlos Onetti has twice as many google results (257000 to 108000) as Kobo Abe. I eat my shoe and declare myself wrong.

Maybe some of the websites dealing with Kobo Abe are in Japanese?

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71% tossup conversion at Chicago Open really doesn't faze me. What was last year's conversion? 2007 and 2009 were about 81% by room; 2008 was 72.5%. I think this is the lowest ever; I could also run 2006 but I can't imagine it was somehow harder. But it's partly a function of the field that played ...

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Awesome

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I am interested in knowing (and would be impressed!) if anyone was able to get the Tallahassee tossup before the penultimate line.

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"White Plains netted 30, given the title of the Spanish edition of Hemingway books, and identifying the original English titles. Klein then netted 30 on COOKING 101."

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I bet I know who ballot S belongs to.

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Next year @ Bama: Jonathan Thompson + Jake Sundberg = the best graduate tandem EVER!

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Sure, but it looks like Penn's team is very young. Surely there are teams that might want to go to TRASHionals which do not have a member that is old enough. There are many college teams on the circuit that do not have a 21 year old around. "You can for an extra $83 RT fly from ATL to Athens v...

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In case you are not a fan of NAQT on facebook: St. Charles Community College defeated Northeast Alabama Community College in a one-game final, 410-225, to win the 2010 Community College Championship Tournament. Snead State finished third.

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