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Thanks, Mike, for a very fun set. And a big thanks to everyone who staffed; I thought this tournament ran amazingly smoothly.

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I have to admit that I'm puzzled by one of the premises of this thread: that studying for nationals is somehow different than studying for any other difficulty level. I haven't found that to be the case in the categories in which I specialize (Arts, Lit, and Thought). That is, when I was just starti...

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a named reaction wrote: ↑Sat Jul 04, 2020 8:16 pm i can't wait to vote on all the best songs of the 1780s

I presume you're joking, but I'd totally run such a bracket...

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If you can shanghai some people into reading, you could also consider running multiple rooms in a ladder format.

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Excellent!

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Is it your intention that this will be the "main site" of the tournament (akin to what playing this on CO Sunday might have been)? Or are you still planning for there to be an eventual in-person mirror (in 2021, perhaps), whenever that becomes feasible? Put another way, should those of us ...

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I've received enough interest that I can now confirm that the second mirror (starting August 17th) is officially happening. The field is open, and any teams may e-mail me or PM me (on the forums) to register. Please write "MARCATo Registration" in the subject line.

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The hotter take is that bonuses end up making a difference in a very small number of games. I've often wondered if anyone has analyzed a tossup/bonus tournament to see how the records change if only the tossup points were in play. Does anyone have data to share? I'm late to this thread. But in as m...

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36 teams have registered. The field is now closed, although you are welcome to contact me to join the waitlist. I am currently working on a delayed mirror (starting on August 17th) that was originally intended for people outside the quizbowl community. Despite that characterization, I am willing to ...

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Although the spoiler-free version of the questions work, the answer prompt sheets don't, since Box.com is not playing nice with them. So, they are attached below in downloadable form.

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Currently, 20 teams have registered. Once 24 teams have registered (which I expect to happen), I’m going waitlist teams until/unless we reach 30, then again until/unless we reach 32, then again until/unless we reach 36, at which point the field will close.

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Thanks to all of you that voted in the poll. Based on the results, I am announcing that this tournament is going to begin on Monday, August 3rd, with rounds scheduled once a day until the tournament's conclusion, except for a break on the 8th so as not to conflict with CAMP. (Once a day was the pref...

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This happened. Here are the scores:

Alston: 40
Erik: 30
Brad: 20
Finn: 15
Anson: 10
Drew: 10
Eric D: 10
Eric W: 10
Grace: 10
Sam: 10
Stephen: 10
Tracy: 10
Arthur: 5
Eric M: 5
Ganon: 5
Kevin: 0
Basil: -10
Shahar: -10

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If you intend to play this tournament and haven't yet filled out the poll, please do so in the next few days, as I'm hoping to announce the dates, format, etc. this weekend.

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For college tournaments, I would like to see "pop culture" as a category removed, but large swaths of what is currently relegated to trash being added to the fine arts canon. I think quizbowl is often too conservative about what kinds of films can tossed up, with college film studies clas...

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Unless there is something else going on that conflicts with this, I'm planning to read my annual Before & After packet in the Discord this coming Tuesday (06/02) starting at 9:30 PM Eastern.

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adosreme wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 3:22 am In a similar vein, let's say player X (on team XY) negs but player A on the other team gets it correct on the clue before. Does X still get charged with a neg?

Nope. As in an in-person game, Player A got the tossup before Player X had the chance to neg.

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To clarify the rules, if Player X negs and Player Y gets the question on the next clue immediately after, that counts as a neg for Team XY, right? (I suppose this would be entirely true in a real life scenario) Correct. Likewise, if Player X says the correct answer and Player Y negs on the next clu...

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I'm scrapping this to write MARCATo instead.

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I am pleased to announce MARCATo ( M usical A rts R emote C ooperation A udio To urnament) an online music doubles tournament written by myself and Wonyoung Jang, to be played in late July or early August of this year. It will be hosted by Qblitz, and Noah Prince is modifying their existing platform...

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Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 5:57 pm just posting memes/image macros is technically against the rules, so you'll have to start accusing each other of cowardice/posting extreme cringe the old-fashioned way

Even in AHAN Jr.? I assume that's where Will meant to post this whole thread.

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Mike Bentley wrote: ↑Thu May 21, 2020 4:04 pm So is this going to happen?

Of course not.

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Like others, I heartily agree with Bradley's three criteria for a good tiebreaker, as stated in his original post. (Although, I should note that his first two criteria should be true of any question that makes its way into a set!) If you're in the position in which you're carefully considering which...

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Ooh, exciting!

Any projection of what the trash/art, English/foreign-language, old/new balances will be?

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naan/steak-holding toll wrote: I doubt people needed more proof as to which Alston was better at quizbowl but I'd be happy to oblige in any case.

Um, you do realize that (a) you'd be playing in teams, and (b) your team has a tied record against our B team, right?

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I thought that this tournament was a triumph! Thank you to Will, Emily, and the many writers/readers for what was a very enjoyable weekend of quizbowl and something of a logistical marvel (at least for the portions I was present for), given all of the moving pieces involved. Naturally, I hope that s...

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Alston, Justin(e), and Vishwa are correct: the irresponsibility of this approach is pretty astonishing. I don't think anyone in this thread is disputing the value of saying something along the lines of: in recent months, there have been rumors of cheating at Discord tournaments; we are now moving to...

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Heart Of Glass vs. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight Radio Radio vs. Burning Love Friend of the Devil vs. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood Roxanne vs. Fooled Around and Fell in Love Lust For Life vs. Baker Street Marquee Moon vs. Let Your Love Flow Highway to Hell vs. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)...

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Shout (Parts 1 and 2)

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#1 What'd I Say vs. #12 El Paso
#2 Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. #6 Mack the Knife

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#1 What'd I Say vs. #9 Kansas City
#2 Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. #7 Money (That’s What I Want)
#14 Memphis, Tennessee vs. #6 Mack the Knife
#13 Back in the U.S.A. vs. #12 El Paso

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Grace wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:41 pm Friday 3/27 at 9 PM

Eastern time (I assume)?

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Excellent.

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Perhaps it makes sense that the best year in the history of jazz should be (apparently) a lackluster year for pop....But there's some wheat here among the chaff: What I’d Say vs. What a Diff’rence a Day Makes Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. Love Potion No. 9 There Goes My Baby vs. Memphis, Tennessee I Onl...

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This got a low response rate. So, I'm scrapping this plan due to lack of interest. I'll scheme to write something else simpler instead.

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Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:35 pm I remember John attempting to use the vowel rule to get points on an answer of "clostrodium" for a tossup early on

That's right, I totally forgot about that! That definitely should have been accepted! Argh, my precious science points!

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I found this comment by Jarret an ironic choice of vacuous framing in a thread that was explicitly part of an effort to acknowledge people and games cut from prevailing narratives: My very first ACF Nationals was in 2011, which is an, uh, infamous tournament where only the packets and Matt Jackson t...

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Since Andrew Hart has opened up the door to reminiscing about playing ACF Nationals 2013 solo... Just how much of a wacky roller coaster that tournament was going to be for me was forecast by my first game (my first ever encounter with Andrew Wang): he beat me to a tossup on "Erlkönig" (th...

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I was unaware of plans for the Internet Charity Tournament when I proposed this. However, seeing as that tournament seems like it's going to be for individuals rather than teams, and not all-subject, I hope there is room for both. Let's say that my Google Form will remain open until this Saturday (0...

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It appears that recent events may cause this season’s spring tournament schedule to be bare, to put it mildly. Given this, I wonder whether it might be possible to use advanced stats to run a tournament of sorts—admittedly one that is not a fully adequate substitute, but which should be more fun tha...

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Having now read the first post more carefully, I'm alarmed to discover that the tossups are going to be 10-11 lines long. What is the reasoning behind this? This would be concerning for any sort of tournament, but especially for one that's on a fairly specialized topic (by the standards of quizbowl).

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I eagerly await playing this.

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Wonyoung Jang has agreed to be my co-writer.

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I am writing another iteration of Imaginary Landscape, an 8-packet set of auditory tossups. I'm not sure when/where I will try to run this. It will definitely be ready by PACE NSC. But if there is a particular site that wants to run it earlier than this, I can have this completed earlier. The overal...

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Apologies for my negligence. I just realized the other day that I still hadn't posted the set. It is here . Contained within that folder is a spoiler-free version as well. Also, I've changed my mind about this being the last Imaginary Landscape that I'm going to edit. I'm going to do one more, which...

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The target difficulty of Terrapin Open is halfway between ACF Regionals and ACF Nationals... no more than a third will be above ACF Regionals difficulty (with at most one CO-only answerline per category). How can you write a Nats-minus tossup on a CO-only answerline? It's called VCUO 2015 (EDIT: to...

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This happened. We played three events: BUMPY II, Look at This Photograph, and Matt Weiner's audio tournament. (I'm sorry. I don't know its name.) Given the informality of the occasion, I didn't keep statlines but I kept a running score, and it was as follows (below the line indicates that the player...

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I'm fine with prompting on Russia. I'll add that. (EDIT: On second thought, I'll just make Russia acceptable, given what you noted about Canticle of the Sun.) In the case of Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields, it simply never occurred to me that anyone would say just St.-Martin-in-the-Fields, as th...

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I'm happy to add "purportedly" to the lead-in. I'm not sure citing particular sources (e.g. Sondheim and Granger) makes much sense, unless you have reason to suspect that these are somehow the canonical sources from which most people are learning the Merman story. The thing I find more puz...

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I edited the auditory arts for this set. My thanks goes to my writers: Sameer Apte, Halle Friedman, William Golden, Wonyoung Jang, Max Shatan, and Evan Suttell. They generated a lot of creative ideas, and it was my pleasure to help them execute them. I don't have too much to say about my philosophy ...

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