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I didn't play but only playtested, but I enjoyed the Christian theology tossups, although FYI for those wanting to write these in the future, I really dislike clues involving "Some say that Biblical Book 29:3 is used to support this doctrine." I would have liked some more creative Biblica...

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Chicago (9-1) and Minnesota (10-0) are playing an advantaged final in favor of the latter.

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Why the hell not. [email protected]

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At some point it becomes hard to tell the difference between "knowing how" and "knowing that." Jerry, you are my hero. In all seriousness, this was the point that I was attempting to get across in the IRC discussion. It's often very difficult to make a clear distinction between ...

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Now, to comment on the set itself once more: I thought the Gilbert Ryle and Two Concepts of Liberty tossups, and the Reasons and Persons/Derek Parfit/Thomas Nagel, The Conscious Mind/David Chalmers/Rene Descartes, and The Refutation of Idealism/Principia Ethica/A Defense of Common Sense bonuses wer...

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Just to note, there were a few things that were changed in the final proofreading of the set on Friday night, but the google docs should give a good idea of what the set was like.

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All of the questions are now written for this tournament. We are finalizing the packets right now.

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Hello all, Here's another reminder that this place is getting pretty cold, and that it would be advisable to bring in a good jacket, a pair of gloves, and a some warm object which covers the head. If it's going to be absolutely impossible for you bring some warm clothing with you, let me know. I ca...

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Cheynem wrote:Yeah, I just want to point out that I have no objection to the "children" tossup. I will just say that I think common links should err on the side of maybe being redundantly specific in what they are looking for.

I feel that this is a good policy regardless of question type.

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Jeremy Gibbs Free Energy wrote:People on our team seem to enjoy dropping, so if you are looking for lodging, I want to talk to you about sharing our room at the Super 8 Rantoul since otherwise I am going to have let a proportionally large amount of my own money go down the drain.

Minnesota highly recommends this hotel.

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:Err so we can't start before 12 PM on Sunday?

The student union where we have rooms opens at noon on Sundays unless we choose to pay an exorbitant fee to open the building early. We could perhaps check into getting rooms in a different building on campus.

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Seth has summarized how I feel about this.

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Yeah, I like geography, but having it relate to travel/experience is a bit shaky in my opinion. Unlike actually reading a book or performing an experiment, there's nothing inherently "instructional" about going to a particular city or country. A good geography tossup should reward academi...

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Yeah, Religion is such a bastard category because a lot of the stuff you can write there can really be placed elsewhere. As Ryan suggested, church history stuff is generally placed in the History part of the distribution. Some religions and mythological systems get pretty mixed together in the dist...

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I'll probably have more on this later, but geography should go in the social science distribution because geography, as it is actually practiced at any level other than the US Geography Bee, is a social science. I don't know how you can look at what any academic study of geography entails and concl...

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marnold wrote:Chicago will have four teams.

Team names intact. Yessss.

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Will the set/stats be posted soon? It's been two weeks boys. There were only 8-9 rounds played. This could have helped the image of the tournament a little better, getting these stats up quickly... or the actual set. Is either one going to happen? Three weeks. Im pretty sure there are multiple game...

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OctagonJoe wrote:And who would want to miss out on a trip to scenic Northfield. It's the town of cows, colleges, and contentment.

Don't forget the Malt o' Meal factory, home of delicious delicious Marshmallow Mateys!

But yes, a mirror in Iowa wouldn't make too much sense.

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I'd like to see the "Best of IS-sets" someday, featuring only questions like the shopping cart one. I think it would sell very well for practices, intramurals, or parties. This one from IS-85 packet 7 also gets featured: 8. Sometimes when two or more words are joined they form a third wor...

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jonah wrote:The QBDB server, it seems, is made of Twizzlers; it's down again.

OM NOM NOM

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The answer is, of course, both. Very true. However, from my experience, quizbowl people tend to be a smidgen less sociable than others. But, that's just from my experience. This gets falser the less in high school you are. I don't mean this as an insult in any way, but the type of people who associ...

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Hey, if anyone is still in need of a hotel to stay, $40 nets you three nights at the Best Western Richmond Airport. We have two spots open!

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The Ehler Correspondences reveal this conundrum as central to the new science calculi situs proposed as a solution to the limitations of algebraic magnitudes by Leibniz, though the first to attempt a solution trivialized its importance after announcing its resolution in the Marinoni Letter. Its ear...

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WikiTimeScale wrote:Like Ethan I will not be anywhere near Minnesota. Can I at least contribute questions to this event so it's to make it somewhat a little longer, and possibly allow someone to play without writing?

I, for one, am all for extended lunch breaks.

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Anyone want a teammate?

I do!

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HKirsch wrote:
Ukonvasara wrote:
Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:Since it looks decreasingly likely that I will be able to attend VCU Open, I do not believe I will be able to play this tournament.

This is true for me as well.

Double

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Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:I don't really love Chipotle's vegetarian options (compared to Qdoba's specifically, but also in general).

FAIL.

Anyways, I would actually prefer something heavier since I get very hungry if I only eat a few pieces of pizza and then don't have dinner until after an exhausting day of quizbowl.

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When I'm back on campus Monday I'll look into the openness of library reading rooms and the like on Sundays; if that fails, we'll see what else is doable. Worst case, we can probably squat somewhere in Coffman. Coffman is closed all of Sunday, hence the need for the fee to be there. The libraries a...

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No, Andy, there is no separate 1/1 for trash, unlike social science. So trash and geography are getting condensed. So previously there had been 1/1 trash and 1/1 geography, in the final 20/20 and now it's turned into 1/1 trash/geo/more SS. What's the new 1/1? More big three? Are we doing 3/3 RMP an...

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gkandlikar wrote:Hello All,

I am in India being awesome.

Thanks,
Gautam

Seriously, G. Thanks for doing this work for us.

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everyday847 wrote:I will play this tournament not alone.

Remember, you, me, Hannah, and Rob are playing this.

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Cheynem wrote:Andy Watkins IS the Sister Wendy of quiz bowl.

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Cheynem wrote:As with Harvard International, I have written 1 (one) question for this. See if you can spot it.

We should form a club!

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Regarding the actual execution of the tournament: Would it be possible to hold your moderator meeting either before the player meeting or concurrently with it? The last two years, we've sat in the round 1 rooms for 30-60 minutes waiting to start. I took note that round 1 started at 10:15 in the roo...

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"Adonai" is acceptable only in a religous context. For that matter, "eloheinu" may also only be acceptable in a religous context, althogh I could be wrong.I'm not sure about El-Shaddai and the other ones; since they're fairly archaic. If you really have to do a bonus on biblical...

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I mean, the Old Testament shows what many scholars consider clear signs of amalgamation with Elohim, the tetragrammaton, El Shaddai, and perhaps some others I'm forgetting. A bonus on Adon/ Melekh/ Eloheinu or something would make my day. People who are better at Jew than I am, correct me if this i...

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It's my contention (though I can't say if it is Andy's) that saying something that, hundreds if not millions of times more frequently, refers to a different but related concept, is not "legitimate" knowledge; it's confusion of the correct answer with an incorrect one. An authoritative aca...

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I will be staffing this!

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Knowing that "purring" is something cats do while "exhaling"...different story. Sadly, I would have buzzed there. Really, though, NAQT needs to tune into the argument regarding the target difficulty of tossups and decide what they want HSNCT to be. Is it a team with tossups on t...

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When will this be?

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I think what we can get out of Guy's post is that the bonus difficulty at this tournament fluctuated wildly, and NAQT really needs to work on fixing that. I understand that they may have a leg up on other tournaments since they have their difficulty coding system, but really, any tournament that has...

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Was there really a tossup on Keyboard Cat at this tournament? Yeah, this was beyond ridiculous. I can't decide if this, spiderwebs, or purring wins the Worst Question sash. Sea World, people - Sea World. Man, I forgot about Sea World. And Fark. And Skype. How could we forget the first two tossups o...

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Borussia Dortmund is a bit tough, but isn't the 3rd part of a bonus supposed to be tough? Not that tough. As a follower of soccer, the only way someone knows Borussia Dortmund is if you follow the Bundesliga (Germany's top league.) If you want another German club as a hard part, do Hamburg or Werde...

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theMoMA wrote:This tournament is clearly my early 22nd birthday present.

Cake will be necessary.

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grapesmoker wrote:
No Rules Westbrook wrote:I don't know, I usually just bring enough stone tablets and chisels for everyone, and things go fine.

Next time, I'll just clone Ryan and have him recite the questions in every room.

naturalistic phallacy · Re: R Hentzel Chat Transcript 4.21.09 5.05.09 http://pastie.org/469580

5.05.09

http://pastie.org/469580

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master15625 wrote:
Cheynem wrote:In high school?
Well, I guess it was because I have either seen it or heard of it in some packets and recall it.

This does not make a clue stock.

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I agree that it should be specified that you CANNOT write another tossup on something that falls wholly within the other distribution. That 1/1 should be reserved, in my opinion, for Geography, Current Events, or because they cover a wide variety of potential topics, another Fine Arts or Social Sci...

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To make it sound like you need 300/300 distinct subjects to write on is rather misleading. This is my only caveat with Matt's argument as well. I don't feel that 300 distinct answers is necessary what needs to exist for any category to be considered broad enough to be asked about. I do understand h...

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The IR theory canon has come a long way since 2004. "Realism" and "Liberalism" as IR schools are acceptable answers even at lower-level tournaments (see EFT1). Waltz and Nye are fairly common answers. I feel that Mearsheimer's day as an answer is coming soon too. Once he's in, S...

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