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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Any field updates to this? Is Maggie Walker going to sign up? Or are we really just going to run with 8 teams?

Gov is in fact in the posted field.

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This sounds like a fine cause, and one I am happy to support with my question-writing time.

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You can, but it'd be best just to leave the extra three packets for tiebreakers/backup in case something goes wrong.

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Top post updated to reflect upsurge in interest.

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This is officially being mirrored at NIU's ATROPHY and will be mirrored at Bergen if the TD ever gets back to me about it.

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Also UChicago.

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I've updated the field to relfect our very first registration, Gonzaga. If someone has registered/expessed interest and is not in the first post, let me know and that will be corrected. Also, get registered or I will start pestering people.

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I could go depending on how things work out.

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This is one(1) packet of 24 visual tossups consisting of slides along the lines of Mike Bentley's Eyes That Do Not See, writteb as a fundraiser for Marylands's NASAT team. The idea is that this could be run as a fun thing to do during lunch. It will be on the hard end of high school difficulty-ish a...

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Er, could we have an uptdate, including such information as "what teams are registered", "what teams are intersted" and "is this tournament happening"?

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I have non-board-reading teammates who may need a team depending on how many of them want to play this.

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Ok, so two reasonably important announcements:
1. The go/nogo date is probably the 28th. We need at least 8 teams registered by them
2. The visual packet is done pending final edits.
EDIT: Get those registrations in, folks. I know people are interested.

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HUZZAH!

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Fantastic!

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Get well soon, man!

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If you have the initial email, I think you reply to that with "delete me from the listserv", or something like that. It should have instructions.
EDIT: Also, Whitman would prefer the 22nd for obvious reasons. We can come if it's that date, but the 8th might be iffier.

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der_ubermensch wrote:
Prof.Whoopie wrote:
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MicroEStudent wrote:
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Cantaloupe (disambiguation) wrote:Didn't play this, but I'd like to see the discussion, and I'm not playing any mirrors.

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It sounds like what we want is some kind of sanctioning body that isn't formed of coaches, by which I mean not completely, and that excludes the influence of people entirely outside the game to the extent possible. Rather than publishing a single national format, such a body could publish criteria ...

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So due to widespread chatroom-related confusion, I'm not sure this meeting happened. Can people make a meeting at the same time tomorrow in a channel whose name is posted in this thread?

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8:00-ish, mabye?

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We should probably have a meeting to work out the logistics and UMD's involvment. Does tomorrow night in the IRC sound good?

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The other idea that assumes a minimum of 32 rooms per building would be to have 6 pools of 32 teams and run a card system in each pool with the top X in each pool making the playoffs. That way, everyone would play all their prelim games in the same building.

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First post updated with expressions of interest.

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Maybe a rotation like 1)Northeast/Midatlantic (NY/NJ/MA/PA/DE/MD etc?) 2)Upper Midwest 3)Lower Midwest 4)Southeast (GA/FL/SC etc) 5)Region of lower concentration(like CA/AZ/WA/NV/TX/ID/HI? [who wouldn't want to go to Hawaii?]/other random regions that don's fit well into other classifications) Whil...

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(2) Most scholastic bowl coaches probably philosophically disagree with most posters on this forum about the role of scholastic bowl. Most coaches, I believe, feel that scholastic bowl is meant to encourage and celebrate scholastic (that is, in-school) learning. My perception is that most posters f...

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Florida has some of the best summer weather. Beaches (best are in Pensacola), giant hotels, tourist traps... Hey, totally viable location! But really, I like the idea of having four locations that NAQT cycles through every year. Maybe a San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, St. Louis rotation. As ...

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1. Questions that primarily reward knowledge of a topic over speed, as exemplified by tossups that contain many clues arranged in rough order from most obscure to least obscure (usually denoted by the term pyramidality) and bonuses that contain "easy", "medium", and "hard&q...

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FlamingPiWalrusWizard wrote:
sir negsalot wrote:If there's a spot open, I wouldn't mind going but not playing besides maybe against alaska or wyoming and getting to put top 3 in national championship in a college resume, etc.
As long as you don't say Montana.

I concur that Montana is a fine state. Will your team be at NSC?

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Whitman is interested pending our ability to dragoon players to this.

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...UMD is involved in the team Maryland decision process... Presumably the next step is to make sure you guys can come, and then submit the team bit. Uhh, so are the UMD people gonna be handling the bid? Also, when does the team bit need to be submitted? I suppose they will be handling the bid. Als...

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My graduation is the next day. Since I probably don't need to do anything besides look kind of alert and am assuming that I can get back into DC the evening of the 13, this should be no obstacle.

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There aren't really enough active teams in DC itself for a viable championship tournament, so by decree of NAQT there's a combined DC and MD championship.
Offical comedy title for the visual packet: The Shantanu Jha Packet of Dandyish Foppery.

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Isaacbh wrote:Yeah, this is a tournament Blake should be at, as Blake, I hope.
However, I've already played the Visual Arts tournament, darnit.

No, the visual packet is Whitman homebrew. A suitable comedy title will be forthcoming.

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For 18 teams, you could do 3 brackets of 6, then rebracket into brackets of 4 for the top 8(top 3 prelim finishers plus a wildcard determined by ppg, then next 3 with wildcard...and so on). For consolations, see how many teams stay and work from that.

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What about listing multiple pronunciations where there's a common-but-incorrect pronunication(for instance, GO-ethe versus GER-ta,), so moderators know to accept the correct pronunciation as well?

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Unless I misheard something, Gov won the final. CR and Whitman were 5th and 6th, respectively, no information about 3rd and 4th although it was presumably Hunter and TJ in an indeterminate order. Congrats to Gov and St. Anselm's and kudos to GDS. The set was mostly good, although there were a few an...

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This book contains some useful sketches/outlines of the major philosophers, although it's rather limited:
http://www.amazon.com/One-Hundred-Philo ... 459&sr=8-1

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I don't understand what the issue with math is here. The same is true if you replace math with anything: whenever an ANYTHING tossup dies, the proportion of ANYTHING bonuses goes up. With that understanding, a team which is weak in ANYTHING will be punished two-fold (once by dead toss-up and once b...

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One of the 50 U.S. states was purchased in an agreement that was not popularly supported at the time.In fact, the agreement was widely referred to as Seward’s Folly. *What is the capital city of this “controversial” state? So, this question could still ask for the capital city and would not be a ho...

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Perhaps you could enlighten me as to what a "hose" is. I think I have figured out what a "pyramidal" question is. It's a question that screws over someone with knowledge. A recent example is this question from the Ilinois state series(EDIT:Actually masonics): One of the 50 U.S. ...

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QU writes unpyrimidal and frequently hose-filled questions. Rather more seriously, QU's ethics are questionable-there is a long and well-documented history of plagiarism and quite a few suspicions of match fixing. You really, really shouldn’t go to QU nationals or indeed any other QU tournament in t...

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I neglected to mention that there will hopefully be an all-tossup visual packet at lunch in imitation of Mike Bentley's visual tournament. The questions will be difficult, but the answer lines will mostly be gettable for decent high school players. The distribution will be as follows: 24 13 painting...

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I will anticipate that someone will say "but they could write their own tournament!" In order to write, you need to get good. Getting good often requires going to good tournaments to be exposed to good questions. Again, this isn't a cut and dry fact, but I think that even learning to writ...

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Could you post a conversion analysis for a IHSA set? Might be an intersting comparison.
Also, note the assumption that we are talking conversion by weak teams. For at least middling teams, conversion numbers will be significantly better.

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Whitman is more or less officially hosting the MD/DC state championships. Date: May 8, 2010. I realize this is not a great date at all, but due to scads of non-quizbowl conflicts in March/April this is pretty much the only date we could get rooms. Where: Walt Whitman HS, in Bethesda. Directions will...

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This happened. UMD people read and kept stats. Presumably one of them will announce who they think the team ought to be.

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For 21, does 3 brackets of 7, then rebracketing with the top 2 from each bracket making it into the top playoff bracket work? That gives exactly 12 rounds plus finals.

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From what I can tell, our weak spot is the tossups; when we've got a bit less time pressure and can take the time to confer with one another on bonuses, we're alright, but we lack the confidence to buzz in early in tossups, even if we think we know them. (I know that I personally suffer from this a...

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