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It's not just those, it's literally all of the games that carried over from prelims to playoffs (UGA A, UTK, and Kentucky A in one bracket, Georgia Tech A, Louisville, and UGA B in the other).

Unlike last year, I knew a good number of these songs before looking at the list because I play the radio in the car a lot now. Top 10 1. Can't Feel My Face by The Weeknd - I'm not a fan of this guy but this song got pop correctly. If only more of his songs like this... 2. Elastic Heart by Sia - I'm...

Oh sweet, this means I might finally be able to play one of these things. Looking forward to it!

The information is very, very recent, as I actually put that in just last week! I've been working on getting quizbowl going at UTK this semester, and so far it's going well, so you'll definitely be joining an active club when you get here! So yeah, feel free to ask me any questions you have regardin...

So I've been watching this thread, since as a freshly arrived Tennessee resident I've been curious as to what role Vanderbilt's quizbowl team has in the overall circuit (both HS and college). I've been hoping to play against Vandy at tournaments and maybe establish a friendly rivalry or something. A...

I should be able to assemble a team at Tennessee soon, but even if that doesn't happen for whatever reason I'll still play tournaments.

I just approved the packet upload, so they should show up now.

I'll end by talking a bit about what I know about things around Tennessee. In East Tennessee, quizbowl has taken a pretty big hit recently because of a decreasing number of tournaments. The biggest problem has been that there aren't really tournaments for JV kids, so many of them lose interest, mea...

I'll staff this.

I'll most definitely be at CO, and am still looking for a teammate!

It ended about 15 minutes ago. There were three packets of 10/10.

Hey, so I'll be an incoming graduate student at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and will be starting a team there. From what I gather in this thread, quizbowl doesn't seem to be very active at all in this area, and I'd like to change that. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how much time I'll hav...

As long as it doesn't conflict with ACFNATIONALS I'll play.

I want to play this. Looking for teammate.

Bowl Rd. 10 - 10. In 1993, this building was the target of a car bomb set by members of Cosa Nostra. This building was first made public by Grand Duke Peter Leopold of Lorraine. A corridor links this building to the Pitti Palace. This building was originally constructed as an administrative center ...

The worst one I was involved in: For SUBMIT at MSU last year, Max Bucher drove a car with me and Tyler (now Taylor) Friesen on a very snowy and icy day. The car Max was driving was not the usual one he'd use for getting to tournaments; it was an older one seemingly less suitable for driving in such ...

As people are finding out today, I am pulling a Stephen Liu and am actually going to get a PhD at the University of Tennessee (at Knoxville). Will try to get a team going there.

I feel like there were multiple stages for me as far as "becoming part of the community" goes, since for a while I was barely cognizant of anything going on outside of Ohio. My quizbowl journey starts further back, however, and if peopel are posting their quizbowl histories here I suppose ...

Well I, for one, will be leaving the Midwest for the Mid-Atlantic, as I'll be at Georgetown getting an M.S. in Microbiology and Immunology. Will definitely continue to play quizbowl. I hope I can get the existing club there to be as active on the circuit as possible.

2. ACF Nationals 2014 Then the Columbia B game happened. We played very badly (I recall getting questions outside of my areas, never a good sign), they had some really nice buzzes and we lost on a protest. I was definitely responsible for helping us lose that game, as I made some rather hasty moves...

I am now teamed up with Richard Yu. Team name tbd.

EDIT: Is there an actual signup sheet/list of some sort? Someone keeping track of this would be useful in organizing the tournament when it comes around.

Well, I suppose I'll have to get around to making a full side event sometime! But let's try to keep discussion on the tournament that's being advertised in this thread.

PS - There is now an audio packet of questions as well. It's just the gift that keeps on giving! Man, I wanted to be the first guy to write audio video game tossups (I made enough over the course of last year to make a packet but never released them to anybody). Also, I'm totally playing this. Seek...

It's been a while since my last CO. I'm in, and looking for a team.

On spoilers: I don't think it's a bad thing to hold trash to a different standard regarding them as opposed to literature. Unlike lit, trash relies a fair amount on recently-released/published material, and if you're able to write a good, pyramidal question that plays well to the audience on this on...

Due to computer problems that probably won't get fixed by the end of the week, I'm going to withdraw from the tournament. Apologies to Rohith, Dylan, and Sid.

Auroni wrote:Can a board staffer create a subforum for discussing the questions?

This has been done.

Re: Announcement: Oxford Open North America Online (03/01/20 I'll play I guess.

I'll play I guess.

Since this is presumably a middle school tournament, I moved this topic over to the appropriate forum.

Finally managed to get through them all. Here are my lists: Top 10 1. "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic 2. "The Monster" by Eminem featuring Rihanna 3. "Rather Be" by Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne 4. "Brave" by Sara Bareilles 5. "Happy" by Pharrel...

So since I've heard about or listened to almost none of these songs (I think - I've never went out of my way to do so and I keep my car radio on classical music almost all the time), I'm going to marathon my way through the entire list in the next several days and make what should be, more or less, ...

I'm not writing for it, but the Ohio trash set is definitely happening once again this year.

EDIT: some information about it here: http://ohioqbforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=64

Since I'm now almost certain there won't be any conflicts for me on that day, I am going to sign up. If anyone wants to join my team, feel free to message me. Would you be interested in combining with the other current open team? Right now it's just me and a friend, so that would make it three of u...

Since I'm now almost certain there won't be any conflicts for me on that day, I am going to sign up. If anyone wants to join my team, feel free to message me.

I will express interest in attending this tournament as part of an open team.

Yeah, I thought these tossups skewed on the difficult side, as well. These were the trends I noticed: -Some number of clues about pieces simply just described their type and key. That's usually not helpful for someone playing the question, as in most cases that isn't something that could help point ...

I think this was, overall, a good set. The only things I have to mention right now (since I don't have the full set with me) is that the Taiping Rebellion tossup claimed it occurred during the Ming dynasty (should be Qing), and that I felt some of the literature answerlines seemed to skew harder tha...

There is a joinable usergroup called "Maryland Spring 2014 discussion," which I would assume is about this set.

As the biology editor for ACF Fall that year I cut that tossup mostly because I didn't think it would be easily converted and it wasn't well-written. I'm also not sure if it has any significance to what biologists and zoologists study, either (is there something noteworthy about it to scientists tha...

SinceDelta Burke has been confirmed, it looks like the best option for hosting an early December collegiate tournament and attracting a good-sized field that fits the type of teams/players you're looking for, as it's written with less-experienced players in mind.

I took a look at the list of universities that still operate on the quarter system; here is the list of those with quizbowl programs (that I know of): Chicago Dartmouth Northwestern Stanford UCLA UCSD Washington The full list is dominated by universities on the west coast, so in those areas it would...

I suppose I'll note my interest in playing an online mirror, as other people are.

Ohio State also loses Max Bucher and Joe Wells.

I don't know which of these moments were the worst. I'll just list a bunch of candidates: -2009 HSNCT. We didn't play particularly well on the (really hard) questions, having to play (and lose to) Rancho Bernardo twice in the prelims was annoying, and we lost 95-475 in the first playoff game we play...

Mewto55555 wrote:Oh my god what just happened

Why don't you fill us in?

I probably won't be able to actually play this tournament, but I'd like to write for it. I'd prefer to collaborate with someone who can write trash, SS/Philosophy, math, and/or technology, since I'm not very good at writing in those categories.

EDIT: I'm now writing this with Nick Karas.

I'd really love to play this, although my being out of the country for the entire summer makes it essentially impossible for me to do so for that time period, sadly. But if the second summer open happens and there aren't already too many side events lined up for that, then it seems like a good place...

I wonder what his negs were like, given he had more of them than basically every previous cheater combined.

I highly enjoyed this tournament, and of the last four ACF Nationals I liked this year's set the most. In particular, I liked the bio/chem a lot more than last year's, and the middle clues in the chem bonuses like "regioselectivity" and "one pot" were good ways of testing knowled...

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

Congrats to Michigan A for winning!

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