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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best vs. Frank Ocean - Pyramids A...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Lorde - Royals Incredibly difficult choice Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel vs. Alvvays - Archie, Marry Me Vampire Weekend - Hannah Hunt vs. Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick ...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky...

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Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best Voting for Lana significantly bc of the sheer sweep of the song. It feels like listening to a Griot. Pedestrian at Best is a nice song but can't compete. Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. Weyes Blood - Movies * I had never li...

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Hello! I assist in running a yearly quiz event for college students for a professional organization. We've historically used a Quizco 4-team lockout buzzer system for our games, but this year the moderator's controller came up missing and I had to improvise with a cell-phone app. After doing what d...

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These are almost all between songs I like a lot and songs I don't. May add commentary later, but this was significantly the easiest voting for me that we've had thus far. Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko Danny Nedelko definitely does not hold up to repeated listens as wel...

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#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness I dislike Get Lucky. #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) I don't know how I'd never listened to this before, b...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Old Town Road - Remix Oh my god that chorus. Iconic. Drake - Hotline Bling vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me I generally don't much like Drake, but this track is an exception. Bon Iver - Holocene vs. Perfume Genius - Queen I didn't lik...

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#15 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream vs. St. Vincent - Cruel #15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy vs. A Tribe Called Quest - We the People…. #15 Flying Lotus (ft. Kendrick Lamar) - Never Catch Me vs. Playboi Carti - Magnolia #15 Future - Mask Off vs. Burial - Come Down to Us I can stand mumble rap. #16 Lil Nas X (...

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Minor thing - the statistics seem to be counting tiebreaker games as full games for PPG purposes (i.e. Columbia 2019 is counted as playing 17 games, but it played only 16 games worth of tossups). This has been fixed. I also noticed that for some recent nationals, WUSTL is treated as equivalent to W...

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Asking for the Lenape and naming "Delaware" instead of just allowing players to say Delaware (in the New Haven/Yale/Lenape bonus) annoyed me To give you a more in depth answer, in my understanding of Native American historiography the term "Delaware" for the Lenape is significan...

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I don't think sharecroppers is a profession, and this question should probably have just accepted farmers. I'm not sure what that extra level of prompting really screens out. That said, I thought this question was alot of fun and, answerline minor quibble aside, I thought it was very well done. Emm...

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Hi Folks! The tournament date is about one month out, so an update on set production is probably due. The NASAT set is currently at 81% completion, with literature, art, and a few minor categories completely finished. A list of writers who've contributed one question or more, in order of total contr...

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Progcon wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2019 5:21 pm Please send out an email to teams with the Discord link. I'd like this tournament to start as smoothly as possible. Thanks.

Echoing Harris, can we get a start time on this?

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Could you include these teams'Nats and ICT placement in this thread? Thanks for doing this!

On another note, people should remember that Johns Hopkins was playing without their top scorer at Nats, so their placement there seems misleading as to their actual strength.

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I don't bring this up to expose Ramapriya, rather, I bring this up to illustrate the absurdity of the witch-hunt culture that Jakob's post may lead us to. Yes, cheating is bad. Don't do it. But don't call out people who happen to have had suspicious stats at a tournament which is no longer relevant...

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Given the lack of personal contact between reader and the person being read to online, it's no secret that it's easier to cheat on online packet readings than real-life ones. That doesn't mean, however, that cheating is ok if it happens online or that it isn't detectable. Just by way of review, chea...

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This sounds cool. I'm very much looking forward to playing it!

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It's not for everyone, but I don't see the issue with playing around with the distro like this. I find it very weird that 1/1 myth (or "legends", as people now call it, as if this actually changes anything) is basically enshrined into the distribution at almost every tournament. That hasn...

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frasier wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 2:17 pm We also cut myth entirely and replaced it with thought

Muriel Axon wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 2:20 pm wait, what?

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excuse you both maps of Chicago say I'm from there

https://imgur.com/a/22wNbeV

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After having playtested this set, I hope I'm not spoiling anything to say that, while hard as hell in places, this set was an absolute delight to hear, even in categories that I'm not very good at. I highly recommend playing this if you can and look forward to seeing what the writers and editors of ...

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In the absence of any stats on this, I declare us the champions.

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As many of you already know, there was a conspicuous scoring irregularity involving a house team player during a tournament hosted by Okemos High School this past Saturday. A security protocol had been in place to prevent any of the participating Okemos players from having access to the question pa...

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Tim Morrison is the best math player (sorry Samir and Naomi, you're a close second/third) and also the best film player. His generalist skills can't be doubted either, leading a Chicago B team to top-of-second bracket finishes at both nationals. I would like to ditto tim morrison stanning if you ha...

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Ok doing this demonstrates that you've learned nothing from what we said earlier about using questions from the packet archive. The next time more experienced people give you good faith advice, please take it.

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I'm told that Joseph Chung had access to the packets from this set beforehand, put up this statline https://stats.neg5.org/t/Q_hAp-noJ/okemos-spring-invitational/player-full#player_43951300-6172-11e9-9e43-e13877ab411f, which is not comparable to anything he's done before, and offered the excuse to t...

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https://imgur.com/a/1ZeARt3 This was posted in the moderation chat before I left the moderation team. Ameya, even with "editing" and the fact that this tournament didn't charge anything, passing off someone else's work as your own and dishonestly promoting it as such is highly unethical, ...

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Besides the above 25 people, here are a few others I think deserve your consideration and have entered play or gotten really good since last year (note that this is by no means an exhaustive list, and some picks are more intended to draw attention to underrated players than to indicate what my ballo...

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MaestroExtraordinaire98 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:59 am This tournament has been cancelled due to a lack of interest.

Would fielding a house team not bring this to a viable field size?

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As far as I can remember, this is the only quibble I had with the actual content of a history question, which happened to have a major effect on the outcome of one game and consequently our weekend - the question on Denmark in WW2, specifically the line about the White Buses, which iirc said someth...

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My spicy hot take is that some of the pull towards greater accessibility for non-western auditory art went a bit too far -- I felt as if some of these bonuses were easy 20s or 30s even for those without much musical knowledge. The Ewe music bonus seems like a good example. I'll re-evaluate this cla...

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Unrelated to this incident, I found the questions in this tournament to be irredeemably miserable. I don't know if this is the fault of the editors or whether this is merely a symptom of the difficulty, but listening to thousands of impossibly difficult clues, many of which seemed quite unimportant...

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Speaking purely schedule-wise, I think Sunday was a good length and one that accommodates teams the best because it isn't always possible to get later flights at a good price point. I do not think it is wise to have the rounds for most of the teams end past 12:00 PM, which means you can only ever o...

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This was quite possibly my favorite set I've ever played. The categories I knew about were almost uniformly well-written, fair tests of knowledge that showed that quite a lot of attention was paid to representation and difficulty control, and the categories I didn't were at least interesting to list...

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Matthew Lehmann
Vishwa Shanmugam
Alston Boyd
Berkeley A
Alt: Eric Chen

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Yeah I'll withdraw my complaint about McGill's seeding; with the data available where they were seeded is definitely fine.

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I know NASAT has been run as a summer open in the past; that should likely be included as an option.

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Considering the inherent variability with NAQT format Because teams don't split rounds when they play in other formats and see the result swing 330 points in their favor the second time around. If the results are supposed to exactly follow the seedings, then why bother to play the matches? While in...

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I agree with Jacob's critiques regarding the set as a whole; I kinda felt cheated after failing to parse a lot of what seemed like excessively vague wording on easy parts (which led to far more frequent than usual Maryland 10s and Michigan 20s on our part). Will's critiques regarding the CE and &quo...

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That being said, I really don't like the ingratitude of the tone on display here. The ICT took a lot of extra work to put together this year specifically so it could have enough tiebreaker packets available - and it seems like these tiebreakers generally shook out in favor of the better teams. Extr...

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I agree with this post. I would also add that the sheer number of tiebreakers it was necessary to play after prelims indicates that the number of prelim rounds currently on offer does not have sufficient resolving power to fairly sort teams into brackets. More transparency on a seeding method that p...

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Part of this is on the staffer's end: introducing yourself to the teams you're reading for if they don't know you is a good habit to get into. However, I strongly agree that staffers need more recognition, especially when they're not from the school that's hosting. If you don't already, thank your m...

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For this particular example (Notker the Stammerer and Jacob Burckhardt in the same question), Andrew strikes me as being more correct. These are people who lived nearly a millennium apart, one of whom (Notker) is not terribly notably Swiss; it's difficult to speak of a separately Swiss culture in an...

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The Swiss history question seemed quite difficult: Jacob Burckhart has been a hard part of a few bonuses, but that's all of the clues after power until cantons basically - this seems like an immense drop in difficulty. Maybe he's very famous among history students/historians, but another clue that ...

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Is the set now clear? Were the Wright State and Discord (closed) mirrors the last ones? This set is still being used for various states' NASAT trials, and there will be a high school mirror at TJ on May 4, so public discussion is a bad idea, but for collegiate teams, yes. Contact me if you want a c...

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This happened (mostly) successfully! Stats are here. Congratulations to Maryland B (Jack Lewis, Vishwa Shanmugam, Jason Shi) for defeating Maryland A (Caleb Kendrick, Weijia Cheng, Graham Reid, and Justin Hawkins) in a thrilling one-game final! Congratulations are also due to this tournament's top s...

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Our field is currently sitting at 5 teams, so I'll wait a bit longer to close the field in hopes that another will sign up. Please do so quickly if you're on the fence!

Edit: field closed

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As a youth, I enjoy hearing stories about quiz bowl in the 1990s (and, to a lesser extent, the early 2000s) a lot. I can gather some things from reading QBWiki and old threads, but I think a thread specifically about it might be interesting and beneficial. If you were around in the 90s, what was pla...

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this is analogous to a Holocaust survivor telling people in the 60's to not whine about civil rights. I am not convinced this analogy is necessary or correct. Charlie's point about fitting the severity of forum rhetoric to the severity of the problem should, to me, be a relatively uncontroversial o...

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