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Regarding the names of the Catholic sacraments, Catholic Encyclopedia agrees that the names in-packet are the official names for the English-speaking world, as do my theology books from Catholic high school. Perhaps the sources are in error, but I'd want someone to cite a source better than Catholi...

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Rothlover wrote:Was Magin as insane as the stats suggest? Also, congrats to ROM on his first title.

The room that I scorekept in was dominated by Magin except for his first match. I guess he needed a round to figure out that it was a lit tourney and then pwn all.

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It was a fun tournament, even if we had to play 14 matches well into the night.

You had to pay yourself, Brendan?

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1.a Wayzata B is more stacked than it should be, and I will also say that they are not too far behind from Wayzata A. If there is some rearrangement of the teams, Wayazata will be much better off. I won't say much because it's not my business to... but if you want to have more balanced teams, then ...

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Mitu wrote:Well, our coach has changed her mind: Wayzata A will definitely be in attendance at SOCIAL. Dont know about the lower teams though.
Good.

And Anant's taking the ACT that day, which is a bit surprising given that I doubt his need to.

That's really great that you will be there. De won't be.

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Granted, there is the other argument: if there are ONLY 6-7 tournaments a year in an area, there are plenty of weekends to fill a gap with one's own tournament, or else you can pay to go elsewhere. Intersect with DCC during their tournament tour a few times. Noting: Wayzata is coming to DACQ Weeken...

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I also just got one for Chicago... but it's the same day as Brainal Leakage. Now the question is whether I should ditch our own hosted tournament for a chance to get on the college tourney .... why'd they have to make it difficult with that date. Me too... I got one too.... And I have the same dile...

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Mitu wrote:Anant is conspicuously missing. Can he not make it to SOCIAL?

Yeah. Where is he?

(I almost called him an it.)

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Mitu wrote:And it's official: Wayzata will not be in attendance at SOCIAL, save our coach deciding at the last second to let at least A team attend to represent Wayzata.

We'll miss you. And abstaining to "teach a lesson" is bull.

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I think the best idea for divisions would be to have Wayzata, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, and Orono/Chaska in separate divisions and wait for playoff time to decide who is the best. This is a very elitist view, as I'm sure 4 out of these 5 teams could bust and end up not being their division's top se...

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I would like to say thanks to Andrew Hart, Rob Carson, Quentin Roper, et al. for spending the last two weeks or so editing and creating packets for Deep Bench from what I hear were some pretty mediocre questions at best. They were all pretty sleep-deprived yesterday, and I think they deserve to hear...

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You guys should invite people from places other than Southwest suburbs to this forum. There seems to be a surprising lack of "other voices" in this thread. EDIT: And it's a positive externality for quiz bowl blah blah I'll see what I can do about that, G, for I have connections. :) But, r...

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Mitu wrote:Damn, well, looks like our coach is just refusing to let us go then.

Um, yeah. You guys should just talk to Hentzel about her, for she's an idiot.

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This was an awesome tournament, good food, great questions, well-run. I can only say thanks for making my first college experience pretty damn awesome.

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IS-68 is being used by UMN for GINVIT HS tournament, so it probably means that we cannot attend unless the tournament is held earlier than Dec 8. [:neutral:] IS sets [/:neutral:] That's the problem with those. If we weren't so short-staffed, some of us could just not read, so that we could actually...

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It was pretty awesomely bad, in so many ways. I can't believe that they asked for absolute zero.

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Byko wrote:
Tegan wrote:
Songs For Silberman wrote:Marcel Marceau. Saw him once. Showed that mime can actually be really really entertaining.
<<Moment of Silence>>

thank you
Shouldn't it really have been a moment of noise?

A Moment of Laughter

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Well, that is no fun.

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G, nice name. And Almost Dewey would be cool, especially for us to see how competitive we really can be in Minnesota.

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Or would it be possible for schools to travel to tournaments elsewhere? That would probably have to be the best option for seekers of early season QB, for, like Mitu pointed out, there probably would be little interest in a house-written packet outside of the top contenders in Minnesota (which amou...

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Is that what your name got changed to? Wow.

I would have to agree with Carsten's assessment there.

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I would have to second the Richard Thompson req, but you must also listen to "Wall of Death" by him as well (and the REM version if you have it, too).

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Certainly there are numerous teams out there which could probably beat Eden Prairie. Those teams could also probably be beaten by Eden Prairie, which belongs in any top listing of teams. At this point nobody has pulled away from the field (it's September, come on). That question was intended toward...

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David Riley wrote:Though truth be told, it is much better to hear Pavaotti singing LaBoheme, than to see him perform it.

But that's why he was the voice, not the body.

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Now that the polls are out and three Minnesota teams have made an appearance, let's discuss. Why EP in the top 25 and not Wayzata or Minnetonka? Why Minnetonka with only two votes? Can EP be beaten by Wayzata or Minnetonka? Can EP be beaten by anyone? Was anyone left off the list that deserves at le...

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If there's still packets to be done, I can help.

Something to distract from the monotony of stats would be nice.

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Canadajin wrote:I think that Justin Timberlake's cover of "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse was pretty sub-par (and hilarious at that).

Personally, I would like to see Britney Spears cover that song, considering how it's quite appropriate.

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Madeline L'Engle :( Yeah, her and Pavorotti dying on consecutive days just hit like a punch to the gut. I've had it with this epidemic of awesomeness dying. It's time we did something, like cryogenically freeze all the awesome people. I just think she missed him too much to live more than one day w...

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DeisEvan wrote:I don't think he's the absolute greatest ever, but someone should throw The Boss out there. Thus:

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND

Springsteen is really one of the best out there.

And I've got to echo the Simon and Garfunkel sentiment. They were amazing together.

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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, Etc. Who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continu'd Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Fel...

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charlieDfromNKC wrote:
Having a vagina does not make the Nintendo Wii or Cincinnati Reds poisonous.
Quote of the month.

The Wii, amazing. The Reds, not so much.

But to assume that we don't care/know about such things is like assuming males know nothing about Fine Arts.

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Back to Edina: median income per Edina household. It was like $66,000 according to Wikipedia. Apparently my hometown of Chanhassen is somewhere around $84,000, but Edina's per capita income is significantly higher. I couldn't find a ranking of household median income on wiki, but based on per capit...

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Actually, now that I think about it, I wonder whether we should even have the 1/1 religion writing req for tourneys. I mean, is anyone really that excited about writing the millionth tossup on Bahai or Wahhabism or one on another Jewish holiday? You can write Bible stuff if you like doing that, but...

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Our team t-shirts had a quote from an eccentric teacher that read

"There is no such thing as trivia, only people with limited minds."

It was great.

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Quiz bowl gives kids like me a great excuse to live out of a history or physics textbook. This can't be. What trash exemplifies is that to be above average, you need the above (i.e. the academic only questions) and the average (i.e. "trash"). Your team isn't good if they complain that tra...

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Way to represent, Michael :)

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If you want a female opinion, I'll be glad to help. And I promise I won't divulge questions regardless of how well people bribe me, Kirk.

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It will be very interesting to see how this coming year turns out, for a lot of great players graduated this year that formed the basis of some stellar Minnesota teams. But that will only make next year that much more exciting. I have to got to say that Minnetonka has a great chance of being great i...

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Congrats to you, EP, for placing 12th. You certainly deserved it.

would be proud.

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Gautam,

You are my favorite. That is just hilarious. Someone should memorize it and perform it as a monologue for theatre.

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Just being mentioned in the same post as Gautam is amazing and to play on a team with him would be amazing.

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Maybe it's my browser, but I'm not seeing results from the Deep Bench Tournament (WISDOM) or the NAQT Minnesota tournament up there yet, just links to the announcements. It's not your browser. Stats aren't up yet, but that's where they'll be. I read at the tournament, and was, overall, impressed. E...

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hmquizbowl, Congrats on taking second at State. My team, Wayzata, took fourth after losing to Eden Prairie in the semifinals and then to Minnetonka in the consolation game (by 20). Not to take anything away from Minnetonka's win, but it should also be noted that we were missing people and had to sh...

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charlieDfromNKC wrote:The question that's begging to be asked here is -Did you think your team had any upsets and wanted other people to talk about it?
The other question - Who are you?

That seems to be a pattern on these boards.

I would have to agree.

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Yes, god forbid Wayzata offend you, the arbiter of HSNCT attendance. Seriously, dude. As has been said before, those "other, possibly better" teams should have simply qualified earlier. Teams like Wayzata are not, and should not be held, responsible for other teams failing to qualify earl...

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As soon as Alex got those huge glasses, I knew the series was doomed. No game shows are good anymore. I don't think 1 vs. 100 is but so bad. Sometimes they have weord questions, but its generally pretty good. I've never even heard of that. Perhaps it's not in MN. *checks out on Wiki* I remember whe...

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I wish that high school quiz bowl in Minnesota had more opportunities to compete like that. Anyone in Minnesota want to mirror High School Celebrity Shoot? :) Man, I wish we could do that. Unfortunately, we're all just preparing for Nats. A huge amount of Minnesota teams are going this year. :razz:

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...perhaps sniff out a Mexican restaurant superior to that dump in Rosemont. Now that would be a worthwhile expedition. I don't recommend this. Last year, at least two of our team members got food poisoning at one near the hotel. I don't remember the name, but I think we've introduced a ban on all ...

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Wrong: East Jerusalem
Right: West Germany

I know... I am challenged.

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As soon as Alex got those huge glasses, I knew the series was doomed. No game shows are good anymore.

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