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Eddie

We're gradually opening up the field to waitlisted teams at this point, so now is a good time to register B and C teams.

Eddie

Assuming this does not conflict with the other side events happening at HSNCT, I would be glad to moderate if needed. Thanks! I'll keep you posted. I'm down, any idea what time? I reckon this won't take more than fifteen (15) to twenty (20) minutes, so probably Friday night or first thing after Sat...

Eddie

A short preview I wrote up of what to expect from each team going to nationals this year.

Eddie

Congratulations to Francis Parker B, who defeated Christ Lutheran, 460 - 100, to win the lower division of the fifth annual Warhawk Invitational.

In the upper division, Bishop's defeated Westview, 310 - 215.

Eddie

Congratulations to Bishop's, who defeated Westview, 310 - 215, to win the upper division of the fifth annual Warhawk Invitational.

In the lower division, Francis Parker B defeated Christ Lutheran, 460 - 100.

Eddie

The team photos / liveblog on Facebook for this is awesome.

Eddie

Y'all are really pushing me to the limit here. Trilbies and pork pie hats are okay but try to bring ones that look the least like a fedora.

Eddie

University of California @,at San Diego A* went 7 - 2 to win the tournament uncontested over The University of Southern California Institute of Technology, It's the same thing but you make this a bee, and UCLA. Thank you to everyone for coming out for an excellent day of quizbowl! The full stat repo...

Eddie

The field for both divisions of this tournament is now CLOSED. Additional registrations are being waitlisted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Eddie

The field for both divisions of this tournament is now CLOSED. Additional registrations are being waitlisted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Eddie

I'm taking my contribution to this set and reading it (plus a small number of additional tossups) as a shootout at HSNCT.

Eddie

To make this clear, due to a number of messages I've received and the unfortunate date on which I announced João, this is not a joke announcement. This is an actual event.

Eddie

Hello friends, I am pleased to announce João , a solo myth singles single-subject shootout teams-of-one side event tournament slated for the 2017 NAQT High School National Championship Tournament (HSNCT) . João is a tossups-only side event with questions taken from my own recovered material from BUR...

Eddie

The current tournament field as of 19 May 2017 is as follows: Upper Division: 1. Arcadia 2. Canyon Crest A 3. Canyon Crest B 4. Westview 5. Los Alamitos 6. Rancho Bernardo 7. Cathedral 8. La Jolla 9. Torrey Pines 10. Scripps Ranch 11. North Hollywood 12. Irvine W. Del Norte W. Grauer Lower Division:...

Eddie

Quiz Bowl at UCSD is pleased to announce its seventh annual Triton Spring Tournament at UC San Diego on Saturday, 20 May 2017. As one of the longest continuously-running tournaments in Southern California, we aspire to make Triton Spring a satisfying season-ending tournament for all teams. DATE / TI...

Eddie

Hi everyone,

This is just a friendly reminder that space is filling up quickly - only six more spots remain in the upper division, and only four more spots remain in the lower division. We will start admitting waitlisted teams on 17 April 2017 if these spots remain unclaimed.

Eddie

Hi everyone,

This is just a friendly reminder that space is filling up quickly - only six more spots remain in the upper division, and only four more spots remain in the lower division. We will start admitting waitlisted teams on 17 April 2017 if these spots remain unclaimed.

Eddie

Also, having just read through the detailed stats from the last couple rounds, can I see the bonuses on Wilfred Owen/Hugh Selwyn Mauberley/Bertolt Brecht and Cote d'Ivoire/Laurent Gbagbo/soccer, as well as the tossup on comet appearance? 6. Answer the following about modern responses to Horace’s ph...

Eddie

The earliest pieces in this genre were written by composers from Milan, such as No. 32 in F major by Giovanni Battista Sammartini. Four of these pieces, the first in D major, comprise the Wq. 183 of C.P.E. Bach. Mozart wrote a D major piece in this genre whose Allegro con spirito first movement beg...

Eddie

Of course the music at this tournament was excellently executed, with a number of fresh clues (like the Op. 69 leadin above)—Eddie did a great job! I think I only heard 1.5 erratum-worthy things—the opening of the Chopin preludes tossup claims that the first prelude uses/requires hand crossings, wh...

Eddie

Err, the other one? The parts were Sumer/Dumuzi/Cain and Abel. Thanks again. 10. In a myth of this culture, personifications of summer and winter argue over whether the gods prefer their agriculture or their animal husbandry. For 10 points each: [10] Name this civilization. One of their “debate” my...

Eddie

I am not a fan of prompting on "mass" when the answer is "requiem" because it creates confusion with an already-existing musical genre, in much the same way that "John Adams" is not promptable for "John Quincy Adams." I know it's a little opaque, but it can a...

Eddie

Hi everyone, Here is the link to the detailed stats for the Michigan site of (This) Tournament is a Crime . The detailed stats compiles data on each question organised into a number of useful categories such as by author, by subject, by answer line, and by team. Because the detailed stats contains e...

Eddie

First of all, thanks to the editors who put the set together. I had a lot of fun playing and I think this did a really good job of hitting the stated Nats-minus difficulty. Even though I was at a site that will probably be one of the weaker mirrors, not a lot of tossups went dead, and the easy part...

Eddie

I am curious to hear what people thought of some of my more ambitious questions: the tossup on cello in Beethoven {...} attempted to follow in the practice of producing tightly-themed questions highlighting a single composer's distinctive style or usage of a specific instrument. I didn't play TTIAC...

Eddie

Insofar as a guiding philosophy towards the music that I wrote for (This) Tournament is Crime, I primarily focused on using fun, accessible clues rather than imposing my rightly-guided vision towards some grandiose manifesto. In terms of difficulty, at the Michigan site, this resulted in 100% tossup...

Eddie

Could I see the tossup on trumpets in movies? I negged this tossup on the Bernard Hermann clue on Taxi Driver with saxophone. 14. About a minute into the title theme of Elmer Bernstein's score to The Magnificent Seven , the main melody is reprised by a solo for this instrument. A pipe organ solo is...

Eddie

The beginning mostly just suffers I think from the misplaced Sun Records clue, but you've got Pat Boone and Little Richard right out of power--I think most people are aware of when they were most relevant musically. I liked what this tossup was trying to do and everything in the tossup is super imp...

Eddie

Eddie, I'd probably like to see the whole 1950's tossup before judging any further. 20. This decade saw the release of a two-part instrumental single whose second part features a saxophone solo by Clifford Scott and ends with its composer’s signature organ. The I - vi - IV - V [“one six four five”]...

Eddie

Thank you for playing (This) Tournament is a Crime! We've set up a private forum (User Control Panel > Usergroups) for you to join and discuss the set.

Eddie

Can you post the tossup on vibrational modes, please? 16. Monique Tirion showed that a simple uniform potential models these entities effectively in proteins. The inversion of the “bullet” configuration of GroEL was shown to closely resemble one of these entities numbered “18”. When modelling prote...

Eddie

Hi Mike, I'm glad you enjoyed the music. The waltz and trumpet tossups were written specifically to make music accessible for people like you who have a casual, but deep, interest in areas of the canon that are not considered strictly "pure" or "academic," so I'm glad you enjoyed...

Eddie

Hi everyone, I hope y'all enjoyed the set. I had the pleasure to edit music, legends, and the auditory other art for this set. Using the power of detailed stats, I was able to see many strong buzzes and 30s throughout the tournament, which made me happy. I have a couple of questions that I'd like to...

Eddie

Some various formatting, typesetting, or factual errors that I'm already aware of: Round 1, TU 11 does not have a buzz point tracker. Round 6 does not display bolded and italicised text correctly Round 6, B 6 is missing "or" between "[" and "Francis" Round 6, B 10 is mi...

Eddie

Discuss errors and errata here.

Eddie

Discuss specific question content here.

Eddie

Thank you to everyone for playing (This) Tournament is a Crime. Our editing team was as follows: Auroni Gupta (Head): Literature, Biology, Religion Ike Jose: Math/Other Science, Painting/Sculpture, Other Art (Visual), Thought, Social Science, Geography/Current Events/Other Eddie Kim: Music/Opera, Ot...

Eddie

Thank you for playing (This) Tournament is a Crime! We've set up a private forum (User Control Panel > Usergroups) for you to join and discuss the set.

Eddie

Thank you for playing (This) Tournament is a Crime! We've set up a private forum (User Control Panel > Usergroups) for you to join and discuss the set.

Eddie

Thank you for playing (This) Tournament is a Crime! We've set up a private forum (User Control Panel > Usergroups) for you to join and discuss the set.

Eddie

I thought that the music in this set was excellent, in terms of both answer line selection and clue selection, and that Benji produced a good successor to the music in "stanford housewrite." I thought that the difficulty was extremely appropriate (to the point that I think this is a good b...

Eddie

Madison High School is pleased to announce its fifth annual Warhawk Invitational , to be held on Sunday, 30 April 2017. The tournament director for this event will be Eddie Kim. DATE/TIME: The tournament will be held on Sunday, 30 April 2017. Check-in will begin at 8:00 AM, and matches will begin pr...

Eddie

Madison High School is pleased to announce its fifth annual Warhawk Invitational , to be held on Sunday, 30 April 2017. Warhawk Invitational V is a dual-division tournament that serves as an exciting finish to the 2016 - 2017 quizbowl season in Southern California. The tournament director for this e...

Eddie

UC San Diego A went 12 - 0 in a quadruple round robin to claim first place in Division I. Full stats are available here. UC San Diego B went 10 - 0 in a double round robin to claim first place in Division II. Full stats are available here. Thank you to Claremont, CSU Northridge, UC Irvine, UC Los An...

Eddie

The field for this tournament has now closed. Because we currently have enough buzzers signed up to run the tournament, we will no longer be accepting buzzers with new registrations. Just a tip: You should really have at least a few extra buzzer sets available, because even experienced quizbowl club...

Eddie

This post is reserved for the field count. TEAMS: 1. Design 39 A 2. Design 39 B 3. Mesa Verde 4. Pacific Trails 5. Wangenheim A 6. Wangenheim B 7. Oak Valley A 8. Oak Valley B 9. Oak Valley C 10. Black Mountain A 11. Black Mountain B 12. Black Mountain C 13. Black Mountain D 14. Marshall A 15. Marsh...

Eddie

Stats for my meme packet:

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Player 15 10 -5 PPG

csheep  2  0  0  30
Finn    1  0  1  10
Conor   0  0  1  -5
Kenji   0  1  0  10

Eddie

Spheal With It wrote:In case Kenji's doesn't come to fruition, I'm also writing an "internet content" (aka memes) packet. There are currently four TUs, hopefully more to come.

Alas, this will also not come to fruition.

Eddie

Hi, everyone. To clear up the situation, I did make sure to receive permission from both Jordan and Hidehiro (the TD) before playing the SoCal mirror of Terrapin, and I've been careful to receive similar forms of explicit clearance at every tournament I've played at under similar circumstances. In p...

Eddie

In case Kenji's doesn't come to fruition, I'm also writing an "internet content" (aka memes) packet. There are currently four TUs, hopefully more to come.

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