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Tanay

This is awesome. I'll be talking to our coach about this on Friday. You can probably expect a non-zero, non-one number of teams, but we'll have to see.

Tanay

I think Neil from Southside is going to Stanford too.

Tanay

I think it would be more enjoyable for the field and more beneficial for you as a player if you chose some other category to write on. This is probably true. I'm working on another tournament that probably fits this description and will write more about that when I feel like enough progress has bee...

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Javatron wrote: A question: would plays be included in the distribution?

Not as it now stands. I'm still figuring out how the distribution will shape up, though, so it's possible.

Tanay

I hope I don't sense an argument here that "man, novels are too long to read nowadays, which implies no one reads them, which then implies no one has real knowledge on them so let's not ask about them." Ike That's a fair point, but not my intention here. I'm not aiming to base this tourna...

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This is a tentative interest check for Krik? Krak! Moo: Electric Blankets are Optional , a proposed packet submission tournament to be played later in the year, perhaps as a side event at PACE if that gets cleared, or elsewhere if people are interested. All questions are to be about novellas, short ...

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This tournament is still open for mirrors. I'm planning to add one more round, replace some of the final round answers that were deemed too tough, and move those (along with some others) to a declared "hard" round that can be played for fun without necessarily being given final-round desig...

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Transportation and other logistical issues have forced Bellarmine to drop from this event. We share your disappointment (if applicable). I feel fairly qualified in saying that once the school year rolls around and we get help with finances, we can make future SoCal tournaments with some degree of re...

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Harker is always dangerous. They almost beat us in November of last year on an IS-A (chuckle if you please about IS-A sets, but they're standard here). The problem with them is that they have major gaps in the types of knowledge you generally gain from quiz bowl (they lost by 20 or so because they 0...

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It would be really interesting if, based on the votes here, someone made a head-to-head thing like was done last time for the top teams, and compared that to actual results. That would make it easier to see how precise these polls are, now that the majority of teams on here have played the others a...

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DrCongo wrote:What we do is set up a table in our coach's classroom at open houses and let people walk in.

We did this too. It's a solid idea.

Tanay

Tanay, that's great, but you're forgetting the most important word in the original post: "public." There aren't a lot of regular, public, non-rich schools that are going to let you either a) have a rally where your team is the center, or b) at all include your team in a rally that is like...

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You could try initially having incentives to come try out quizbowl: pie, pizza, pop, popcorn, etc. This is a ridiculous idea. If you have pie, pizza, pop, popcorn, etc. , keep it for yourself. What our team did was a teachers vs. students exhibition game during a school rally. This can either work ...

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I have no idea how this happened, but Juan Carlos Onetti has twice as many google results (257000 to 108000) as Kobo Abe. I eat my shoe and declare myself wrong. Maybe some of the websites dealing with Kobo Abe are in Japanese? Let's first establish that hits on Google, which total 3.3 million for ...

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If Juan Carlos Onetti or whoever where really so important, wouldn't more people than Jerry have heard of him? Onetti is actually found in quite a few anthologies of Latin American literature, so I don't really see a huge problem with expanding the canon in that direction. It's not like he's entire...

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Financial roadblocks are making it harder for us to guarantee attendance. We'll keep you posted, but prospects are grim.

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The book is Gardner's Art Through the Ages, which just became available this year in a 13th edition. I need this book for the upcoming school year and I'm sure many people who read these boards have taken AP Art History. E-mail me if you are a willing seller of a reasonably-priced copy of this book.

Tanay

Is running BELFAST a possibility here?

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I actually really like using note clues in work tossups--they're much more buzzable than "This piece's allegro vivace section features trombones playing over muted strings..." or whatever generic thing most tossups use. Are you sure about this? From the perspective of someone who has only...

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My ballot had Southside 7th and us 8th, but it seems like the points here reflect me putting us at 7th and Southside unranked.

Tanay

If it appears that online is the only way to do things, how are we going to ensure that no cheating occurs? After what happened this year at PACE this is the sort of problem that must be solved. Edit: this. I'm moving back home for a month this week so my appearances in #scrimmage will be far more ...

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It goes without saying that good teams are backed up by good players, does it not? Sure, but that assumption alone shouldn't be a deciding factor in where tryouts are held. Furthermore, Team California isn't necessarily better off just picking the players that score the highest per game or have the...

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Online sounds like a very feasible option. However, with so many people in just one room, it seems inevitable that one may not get to display a full range of their knowledge. This is perhaps unavoidable, but I propose a solution similar to MSJ's tryouts last year. Have several rooms consisting of a...

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#4 has the least chance of success. I think that if we are going to have some sort of West Coast Invitational or another tournament that pits the two circuits against one another, which it looks like we will, then #3 and #1 both make sense. Teams have about 6-8 months to figure out how to get there ...

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drno wrote:About NASAT tryouts, Bellarmine and MSJ would like a location more convenient to Northern California, preferably a location at an invitational in mid-California.

This would be nice but for the fact that I don't think they even have any quiz bowl in mid-California.

Tanay

How were conversion stats for the "spelling bee" common link TU?

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Can we see the conversion stats for Puig?

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I doubt that quizbowlers are organized enough to sign up and show up on time in an orderly fashion, but if you set it up I'm sure you will find that every once in a while, two bands of 3-4 people will challenge each other. Perhaps to settle some bar-room style #quizbowl brawl over LaTeX or Chris Ra...

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I would be interested in this.

Tanay

Might it be a good idea to try and get BELFAST to play after the main event here? I know it's being played at CULT this weekend, but there doesn't seem to be much overlap between the two fields. BELFAST has been completed and looking at the field, I don't think there's any overlap at all. As of now...

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Was it intentional that packet five was way, way, more difficult than the others? The last packet will feature questions that are slightly harder than the others (practically all of the questions will be college level) so that any final round will be sufficiently challenging for those involved. Yes...

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I don't remember if this was in an IS-set or HSNCT, but would it be possible to see the conversion stats for The Garden Party?

Tanay

So I heard that BELFAST happened, although there were some randomizing issues (which are being resolved as we speak, and which are not an issue in the packets I sent to Mike Bentley for the CULT mirror). If anyone has any criticisms or comments about the set, please e-mail me, as I would appreciate ...

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This set is about 75% complete and will be finished by the weekend, in case any high school teams are wondering about hosting mirrors during the school year.

Tanay

Once you start reading packets, pay attention to how the questions are written and how clues are placed. Then go ahead and start writing questions of your own. Writing a question on a topic is, by far, the best way of ensuring that you'll remember it within a round. Here's another thread that could ...

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Hey so is this tournament going to be done by next weekend? I think there'd be some interest in playing it at CULT at VCU after everything is done.

We will have five operational packets by this weekend. Is there interest in this mirror?

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bt_green_warbler wrote:I'm not sure what Gaius's plans are, but I would like to run some tournaments whether or not he is able to help out.

Awesome. Do you have access to the Bay Area quiz bowl e-mail list?

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yjna4006 wrote:I'd rather not run into some conflicts with him.

Like what?

Tanay

Also, if anyone who will be staffing BELFAST is interested in playtesting, arrangements can be made.

Tanay

Looking at BELFAST, if each writer does 3-4 questions per day until Friday, we will be done. Not a bad position to be in, and I plan on writing about 5-6 questions a day anyway. The project, at this point, is 85% likely to finish on time.

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Here is the Northern California Date Claim for 2010-2011 so far: September 11: September 18: September 25: October 2 : October 9 : SAT October 16 : Cal Classic @ UC Berkeley (NAQT IS #96) October 23 : October 30 : BELLEROPHON @ Bellarmine November 6 : SAT November 7: Cardinal Junior Classic @ Stanfo...

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The sub-distribution is roughly: 10/0 Visual - 3/0 Painters - 3/0 Paintings - 1/0 Architecture - 1/0 Sculpture - 1/0 Common Link - 1/0 Miscellaneous (film, photography, art movements, literature about art, etc) 10/0 Auditory - 2/0 Classical Music Pieces - 3/0 Composers - 1/0 Jazz/Modern Music - 1/0 ...

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BELFAST has been fortunate enough to receive the help of a few good men. The outlook is better now than it was yesterday, and it's possible that we can get this set out by next weekend. However, more writers (especially music) would be appreciated.

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Sorry for the late response. I got back from Kansas City (with sporadic Internet access) earlier today. Two of our five writers opted out of the project (and subsequently, their writing assignments) within the last week, so it doesn't look promising. I'll do what I can, but the completion of this se...

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When will packets be posted?

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I can write for this.

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I noticed that some of the Lit in this set was very similar to the Lit from last year's HSNCT (at least judging from however much we had heard of the question). The O'Connor and O'Casey questions led in with the same work being namedropped, and I think this may have been the case with the Kundera qu...

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These are really pretty cool:

http://www.hippocampus.org/US%20History ... 546F91D551

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I guess that's the point of "current events" but there should be some distinction between engaging, relevant topics and stuff about random politicians who did some sort of important thing once. :w-hat:? This is a national-level tournament and the current events matched these standards. Yo...

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This is a possibility for Bellarmine, although money might be a problem. We'll keep you posted.

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