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Yeah I voted Southside unsure of Amit's status

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State College will be there with two teams and a buzzer, along with the ability to spontaneously generate a third team if necessary. The teams will be along the lines on B and C

EDIT: Just fyi I was going to email but I couldn't find the address

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I don't know if anyone really cares about question inaccuracies or whatnot, but in the Alexius Comnenus question, the first clue about the Pechenegs is pretty vague, considering Byzantines fought Pechenegs for hundreds of years; saying this ruler "defeated the Pechenegs" isn't really helpf...

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Downside to pseudonyms: you forget who you are

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Wikipedia:

Purgly and Horthy met thanks to fortune. Not only did the uniform made Miklós Horthy an arresting man - he travelled all around the world, and had an ability to tell stories about distant lands colourfully. The affection was mutual, and Horthy felt he had found someone valuable.

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Out of curiosity, will HSAPQ be posting the results of the survey?

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I like to guess which voters rate NAQT more heavily and which prefer PACE

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Let me just say that Southside is really underrated on this poll, probably because some people left them off altogether. Even without Amit, they were one of the best teams in the country... at GSAC for example, Ming and Ben played us to the last toss up. I just wanted to give them a shout out becaus...

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Having just taken AP US, I can say that both in class, in textbooks, and in review books, the Stono rebellion was mentioned several times individually, whereas Vesey (if he was mentioned, I can't recall) must have just been in a list of slave revolts. I'm not inferring anything, I just thought that ...

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Unless I'm much mistaken, losses and victories over Southside should also be removed?

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I don't know how much historical significance should factor in to selections of religion distribution, but it seems like religions like Zoroastrianism or Gnosticism had a much greater effect on the development of world religion than did say, Rastafarianism or Santeria (speaking of Sublime and reggae...

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I'd like to point out that bounceback bonuses don't punish a team for answering a tossup, they punish a team for not knowing things

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At the NSC, there was a toss-up on Cuban literature that began with a plot description of an Alejo Carpentier work, either The Lost Steps or Explosion in a Cathedral, I forget which. Anyway, I'd studied Carpentier recently and immediately recognized the clue, but I couldn't buzz because I didn't kno...

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Personally, I'm a big fan of bouncebacks-- I can't see them slowing down the game more than a few minutes, as Cody said. As far as Mr Blessman's first point, the point of quizbowl is to reward knowledge, in my mind anyway, and bouncebacks provide more of an opportunity to do so. As far as his second...

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Are there stats out yet, and I'm just not seeing them?

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Pennsylvania will certainly be there

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Just out of curiosity, who was the moderator in conference center room 45 on Sunday? I liked him a lot, but never really figured out who he was

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I wanted to point out that State College might have missed a chance to protest after Monica(?) negged "meiosis." This is the question as Samer edited it (I wrote it originally): Leptotene [LEP-tuh-teen] is the first phase, and pachytene [PACK-ih-teen] the third phases of this process, for...

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I just want to second what everyone else said about Jeff being a great moderator and 23 being a perfectly valid number of questions to get through. The one problem I had with the round was the math comp bonus which was dramatically longer than any other question I had heard all day-- it seemed out o...

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Many internet browsers have a "Latest Headlines" bar... I frequently browse through those during school

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Immediately after the tournament State College will probably have a frisbee

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Penn State or State College usually hosts a NAQT tournament in March or April if Central Pennsylvania is within driving distance for you guys

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Haha fair enough

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Not to sound snooty, but I'm a little surprised to be ranked behind a team we beat by a decent margin at ACF nationals

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If anyone needs solid knowledge of country capital names, I'll probably be there to provide it

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Seems like just mentioning individuals would be a lot easier

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After reading the ACF Nats Finals Packet, I was psyched to get the question on Talcott Parsons, who I learned about in a Talcott Parsons themed bonus at HFT 2008

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Although we lament the easing of the difficulty, we'll almost certainly be at this, hopefully with another bus load of teams

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PA quizbowl is fine if you like driving

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State College is quite possibly interested

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If I come to CO, I will absolutely be here. And you owe me an Ngugi tossup Ike

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I assume checks should be made out to ACF?

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Not 100% committed to going, but I'll certainly help someone write a packet, and could contribute the extra 15ppg your team needs to go all the way! I'm at [email protected]

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Hey Trevor, if you could send payment information, like who to make the check out to and possible high school discounts to Smita Gandhi, our coach, at [email protected], I'd appreciate it.

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State College will be here, alone if need be

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I submitted a bid for Pennsylvania awhile ago-- could I get some sort of confirmation you guys received it?

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I had long suspected that we were the best. Now, I have absolute validation. It’s a wonderful feeling.

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If it was higher than 17.34, you would have been in the playoffs instead of Rice

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Difficulty swings on bonuses were more readily apparent to me. The one on music criticism in particular, seemed rather far out.

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Perhaps it would be better to ask which days don't work?

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I imagine there will be at least three people from State College (David, Monica, myself)

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I personally think modern critically acclaimed authors are fine; I don't know a whole lot about Adiga, but toss ups on people like Pamuk, Bolano, or Adichie seem reasonable

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Where does Euro Lit fit in that scheme?

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I'll beat Charlie Dees to the punch and say you're wrong, Tanay. At the majority of tournaments, lots of teams don't know who Gordimer or Mishima are. And I don't think either of those other things are very unreasonable-- I think they make good hard, hard parts, and that every tournament needs a few...

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Post the questions

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We've asked a few other schools if they were interested in this tournament, so far there hasn't been too much (i.e. any) response... we'll keep asking, but would HSAPQ be horribly averse to State College as State Pennsylvania?

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State College will probably be coming with two teams and a buzzer, official registration forthcoming

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Unfortunately, due to driver issues/ weather, State College will have to pull one team out. Our A team will still be attending, weather pending.

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http://quizbowlpackets.com/

Old PACE packets might help

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