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Here they are! Description acceptable. In a treatise on doing this activity, Saint Augustine of Hippo suggested the influence of active and contemplative virtues on people who may have been symbolized as a lion, a man, a calf, and an eagle. The Diatessaron was an early attempt to accomplish this goa...

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I've been forgetting to plug this, but for people who played RAPTURE and would like to say things about it there is a private discussion forum for doing that! I hope people had fun at the last RAPTURE mirror before the online event.

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Sure! This group’s “cultic sites” were analyzed by Scott Langston, who studied the etymology of cities controlled by this group such as Kephirah and Ramah. This group was described as a “ravenous wolf” which devours prey in the morning and divides the spoils in the evening. The men of this group are...

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When writing for high school events (particularly back when 1/1 World Lit was still a thing -- for obvious reasons, few if any question sets continue the practice in the present day), I used to lump any literature not from the US / UK / Europe into "World" because it was a struggle to get ...

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My reader used their discretion and prompted me on "shoulder," I think, but my exhausted brain couldn't pull it.

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Link to previous announcement for posterity.

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This was fun, and I found this very enjoyable at VCU. I've forgotten most answerlines because I have a piss-poor memory but since it was mentioned in the other thread, may I see the tossup on Madame X's dress strap? I was fumbling somewhere in the middle like "oh no what could this be is this h...

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The round 4 tossup on "circumcision" contained an unnecessary prompt which did not affect the actual question text. While writing that question, I had originally included a clue about David being instructed to "forcibly perform this action" a hundred times, before discarding that...

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Now that I think about it, doing this Saturday morning EST would be pretty silly. Much better to do this afternoon or evening, but I am still open to suggestions.

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The original post has been updated with details on the online mirror.

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VCU's mirror happened, Boston and Illinois and the online mirror are left (I swear I'll update the thread for the latter tomorrow afternoon). Once you've heard this tournament, there's a private forum created to discuss it! Go to your Usergroups and apply to join if you are a person who is clear to ...

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If you're reading this, presumably you've already played RAPTURE and have things to say about it. I had fun! I don't really have any big thoughts about my objectives when I went into writing this, other than the fact that I tried to be a little bit cautious and also I ended up with 1 Mormon question...

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Another update to the original post -- this side event has solidified at six packets of 20 tossups plus maybe some extras for tiebreakers. Also, an online mirror! August 25 (probably?) run by me (I guess?) on Discord, and I'll add a spreadsheet for signups once I finish all the business of actually ...

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Given the results so far, this event will probably happen on August 25. Details to follow.

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Poll's closed; date chosen was August 25 There will be an online mirror of RAPTURE on August 25 to be held on a to-be-announced Discord channel. This date can change if enough people request (e.g. there's a nationwide political protest that everybody wants to attend, or the actual rapture takes pla...

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Another update just to prove that this project is still active. The original post now has links to those upcoming events which have indicated that they'll be running RAPTURE. I will not schedule any events earlier than the VCU site, where RAPTURE will be played for the first time. I've heard whispe...

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Another update just to prove that this project is still active. The original post now has links to those upcoming events which have indicated that they'll be running RAPTURE. I will not schedule any events earlier than the VCU site, where RAPTURE will be played for the first time. I've heard whisper...

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I'd hoped for a Virginia site to materialize, but I haven't heard anything from my friends and I don't have the time (or the classrooms) to organize something myself. If there isn't a RAPTURE site within easy distance of me I'll look into doing an online mirror or something, and similarly I wouldn't...

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Just as an update, since I've been a bit busy lately, this question set is still on track to be finished by August. Please reach out to me if you're looking to organize a mirror (presumably, once your local Side Event Weekend schedule coalesces) or if you have any questions!

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gnosticism Hey, I wrote that one! As this may very well be the last ACF Nationals that I play, I want to thank all the writers, editors, and staffers who made this event thoroughly enjoyable despite my waking up with a severe cold Sunday morning and playing the second half of Nats feeling very much...

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there was precedent for using "tribe" to refer to the Iroquois Confederacy from last year's EMT Heh. Oops. Something I just remembered -- may I see the tossup on "Caliban"? I was very happy to hear it (and asking about Caliban from adaptations of The Tempest was a brilliant idea...

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That DCC guy wrote:So when will stats be posted?

Detailed stats have been available in the private discussion forum since Sunday evening.

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Oh, right, could I also see the tossup on the Los Angeles Times bombing, from the same packet as the last two questions? Nothing wrong with this one, I just wanted to see it again since it is apparently more notable than I first thought.

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Could I please see the bonus where the middle part (if I remember correctly) (at least, it was the second of the three parts) was "holotype"? The answer we gave was "type specimen" which was evidently not deemed acceptable or promptable.

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Killers of the Flower Moon. I saw that in an airport bookstand! It was located near a staggering number of quizbowl-notable books (mostly modern literature that had come up at recent practices). I actually don't remember very much of the main event after the first few rounds due to being very tired...

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I think I remember the question on Powhatan refer to them as a "tribe." To be fair, I don't know of many non-transparent ways to refer to them (a similar problem exists with questions on the Iroquois / Haudenosaunee) and it didn't affect my enjoyment of the question (it was good to see tha...

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This was fun. I think the questions were good. People should play this set.

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I will be attending William and Mary as a law student starting in the fall. I will likely go on hiatus for at least a year as I flounder my way through education, but may be available to staff events at William and Mary if needed.

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Works of architecture located in this country include a pair of belfries known colloquially as the "Towers of the Teeth", which are connected by a structure called the Morannon. This country's agricultural center is the southern region of Nurn, and most transit across this country's borde...

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:grin: I don't remember many other specific questions (I suppose I could check my notebook sometime) but I remember that this question set, despite occasionally erratic difficulty, had quite a few answerlines and clues that were Cool Things to hear in a tournament. (On a related note, could I see th...

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Whoever wrote the bonus part on the Na Nachs: you are perfect and I love you.

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Frauny Von Smiley wrote:As of right now, the field consist of:

Delaware
Gettysburg

I believe Virginia should also be registered?

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I get my hair cut at the same barbershop that my father's gone to for decades. My most recent haircut came from a fellow by the name of Nick B. Styles, which is the best damn name I have ever heard (especially appropriate for a barber). If you're ever in Richmond and in need of a trim, look him up, ...

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Could I see the two tossups on South Carolina? I remember the first one clued slave rebellions and the second one clued Revolutionary War battles, but it still threw me off a little to hear a tossup with the same answerline on similar categories (colonial American history, unless my memory's mistake...

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Thank you to Georgetown for running a very enjoyable tournament!

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As an addendum to my previous post, I ought to note that there were lots of cool ideas in submitted and editor-produced content. I liked, for example, the specific tossup on James Longstreet that focused on his Reconstruction career as a good example of military history (sorta) beyond the sort of &q...

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I enjoyed reading this set, and echo the general themes made in the general discussion thread. I would like to highlight two specific questions. There is a bonus part in Editors 1 on "Orthodox Churches" whose third part asks for the Coptic Church, which is identified as an Orthodox Church....

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4:30 is crazy late. I'd like to report that while one bracket of the Virginia Regs site got delayed and took longer to get through than the other, Ophir's stats system allowed us to keep moving so that after those issues were ironed out we were able to conclude seven prelim rounds and release all te...

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I am pleased to announce an all-religion side event to be played sometime over summer 2018! RAPTURE [the R eally A cademic P rocedure T o U nderstand R eligious E xperience] is slated to be a tossups-only side event of somewhere between five and ten packets, or however much I manage to finish before...

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Oh boy. Here's a list of the books which I brought to UVA's site of the Early Fall Tournament for book prizes: Eisenhower and the Cold War (Robert A. Divine) History of Russia (I forget the author) The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States [2nd ed.] (Theodore J. Lowi) Democracy...

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(although now that I think about it, the video could also just be shown to staffers in the morning all at once before they're given room assignments). That's what we did! Although to be fair, the UVA site had both Ophir and, like, most of the writing/editing staff personally present. Allow me to ad...

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Hey guys! Out of the mirror sites for the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament, the following have sent in payments: WUSTL, Washington, BYU, Texas Invitational, VCU, Minnesota, Berkeley, Cambridge, Chicago, and Valencia. Special thanks goes to Valencia for being very helpful in navigating their payment sy...

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You can expect a packet from me at some point tonight after I discharge a few of my other responsibilities.

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Hey, Ike, I emailed you about this four days ago, but the team of Clarke, Mehr, Xu, and Simon will unfortunately not be in attendance (despite having already submitted a packet).

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Eddie wrote: Also, how do I upload files onto forum posts? The "Upload attachment" tab is completely blank for me.

From my computer, it looks like the file upload thing is already there under Options, and clicking "Upload attachment" then clicking back makes it disappear for me.

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As of this past weekend, we've gone through every mirror that was planned. Unless somebody really really wants to mirror this set in the summer (in which case you should've asked me before, and anyways you could probably just mirror NASAT or a UK-written set or something else), the Eisenhower Memori...

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I wanted to fire a question at the author of the Millay bonus in the Maryland packet -- for the bonus part on "tetrameter," which of her sonnets were you thinking about? I pulled this eventually while thinking of her "Three Sonnets in Tetrameter," which are some pretty dope sonne...

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starting Wednesday, I'm going to get in touch with recent hosts about specifics with mirror fees Update on this, I sat down and blasted out emails to everybody who has so far hosted an EMT mirror. Let me know if there's a discrepancy or to discuss payment and so forth. Mirror hosts for the 15th sho...

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Just submitted 8 questions. Someone let me know when this is going to be played.

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I have written a packet, which I will title [DATA EXPUNGED], consisting of a number of questions on the SCP Foundation. I'll read it this Wednesday on the IRC at 10pm EST. If that time doesn't work for you, then fill out this poll , and I'll try to read it again next week at some time. I'm interest...

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