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dtaylor4 wrote:Records question:

Is LASA the first school to have 4 teams make the playoffs? I know TJ had 3 of 5 teams make the playoffs in '05.

LASA did it in 2011 too.

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geolawyerman wrote:Why is Irvington still going to the NAC? Why?

Why is this thread still getting necro-ed? Why?

I split the recent posts out into a new topic for the 2013 NAC (and archived the old one to avoid further posting there) --JTH

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I have accepted a one-year professorship at the University of Minnesota Morris. This effectively means my quizbowl career as a student is over after five years. I take solace in the fact that my final win at ICT was against my nemesis Jarret Greene and my final win at ACF Nationals was against my o...

merv1618 · Re: Chicago Open 2013 (7/20-21/13) Is the May 11th due date unchanged?

Is the May 11th due date unchanged?

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I agree with Marnold; I think having bouncebacks at any "good" college tourney would kill most to all upset potential. The concept of a "clutch buzz," one of the most exciting aspects of any close game (even the rare one between top- and mid-tier teams) would be rendered nearly m...

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For all the people signing up for this ridiculous event: Have you thought that most of you won't know any more than 3 or 4 answerlines unless Madden pulls a Bruce Arthur and writes eight distinct tossups with the answerline "Constantinople?" I wonder how many Protobowl-induced firstline n...

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I have a kind of humor/vanity trash packet I could submit should there be need for it.

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This is just something I noticed while going through the packets, though I heard it on the finals livestream as well. I'm from Missouri, and I felt the tossup on it in Finals 2 was quite difficult, probably a bit too hard for Nats-level difficulty; I found it impossible to buzz on until Stuart Symin...

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This sounds wonderful.

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Split thread for different mirrors?

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ether a go-go wrote:I think it's right.

Google agrees with you.

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bmcke wrote:"an exciting final game of NCAA basket ball"

When did Andy buzz on this Thailand question?

It was a bit after "Theravadan" had been said.

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18. MIT. An otherwise pleasant day is marred when Stephen Eltinge unknowingly and spontaneously breaks into what observers can only describe as a "perfect Charles Martin impersonation." Does this involve screaming when an opposing team powers an Ishtar tossup, or dibsing a tossup after an...

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cornfused wrote:
PISTOL SHOOTING FOR LADIES wrote:
Plan Rubber wrote:If this is morphing into the matchmaking thread, I'm going and would like teammates.
Same here.
Me too.

Yup.

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Sam wrote:Just to be clear, Chicago Open proper is still only one day, yes? July 21 will be a day of unrelated side events?

On that line, is CO trash going ahead as planned?

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"The NAQT" sounds so weird.

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What kind of attention/reputation do you think quiz bowl in general will get because of all this mess?

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Andy Watkins, I don't know you at all, but from what I've seen, your ginger ponytail didn't really work.

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Leucippe and Clitophon wrote:I still think it is OK for NAQT to pass off the questions as being written by adults because they are being edited and compiled by adults, and the overwhelming majority of them are written by adults.

So why risk the liability if most are written by "adults" ?

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Horned Screamer wrote:Aren't there high schoolers who play events on literally every level of quizbowl but D1 ICT?

That has actually happened before.

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Raynor, what exactly do you mean by "buzz the next time" ?

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Fond du lac operon wrote:I am interested in freelancing some science questions and probably also some non-science questions.

WANTED: HSQB copy-editor/logician.

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Charles Martel wrote:HSNCT placings can be very weird. Draw a bad result in the double elimination and you could be out quickly without a chance. The difference between being in and out of the top 25 has a lot of luck.

This is true, and it would be beneficial to look at PACE as well for teams like St. Anselm's.

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Something I've always wondered about the chronology of literature: is there a point where more recent American authors like Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo become more unquestioned as the basis for lit stuff as opposed to more historic or Nobel Lit-ed authors like J.M. Coetzee?

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marnold wrote:Congrats to D2 Champion Illinois B!

Andrew seems to be following in Ike's footsteps quite nicely.

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Stanford should win D2 quite handily. Unless DII ICT has the same field quality as their cupcake Sectional, I don't see that being the case. DII should be very competitive, with Stanford, Yale, Harvard, Chicago (especially if they put their best players on one team), Brown, and North Carolina all h...

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I predict...not. I predict not. I do not have any more money left to make predictions. Central Florida - Did any of these people go to Valencia? Alas, no. CC players (excluding George Berry and Charles Hang, if we consider the latter to have ever really been a CC player) generally don't continue pl...

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I predict...not. I predict not. I do not have any more money left to make predictions. Central Florida - Did any of these people go to Valencia? Alas, no. CC players (excluding George Berry and Charles Hang, if we consider the latter to have ever really been a CC player) generally don't continue pl...

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Golden-bellied Starfrontlet wrote:Auburn defeated Belvidere North 400-370 to advance from their sectional. There was an interesting protest that I will discuss once questions are cleared.

Leucippe and Clitophon wrote:Fremd won. Feel free to comment on questions.

Do tell.

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Uh, split from the splitting-teams-at-SCT thread. --Mgmt. How does that logic apply to autobids then? I say this because my team is extremely affected by them this year. What does this refer to? -Seth There have been UG teams which received an autobid to ICT which, speaking factually, had worse sta...

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How does that logic apply to autobids then? I say this because my team is extremely affected by them this year.

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I'm quite surprised Stanford ended up so low on the list.

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There's been a lot of heated debate about whether splitting up a school's A team at SCT to qualify more for ICT should still be a thing, especially recently. As this year's SCT is now over, I feel that it would be good for this to be hashed out. (Whether or not people also want to talk about autobid...

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This might be a bit late, but thanks to Chicago for hosting this and to Kay for being an effective TD.

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First of all, can we award a medal of some sort to whoever wrote the tossup on "people who have dated Taylor Swift?" Because that was awesome. Oh MAN. Could someone post that question? That was Dan Donohue's work. 2. The observation of rain in the bedroom of one of these individuals indic...

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Also in the _Euler-Mascheroni_ constant bonus part, _Euler's_ constant could have probably been taken as well. However, my only problem with them is the answerlines--other than that the bonuses were quite well-written. Edit--in retrospect it's a stupid distinction between that and 'e', Euler's 'numb...

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On this linear algebra bonus: [10] While not every square matrix has enough linearly independent eigenvectors to be diagonalizable, every square matrix can be transformed into this form using similarity transformations. This form is an upper triangular matrix with repeated, grouped eigenvalues on th...

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I'll be the one to ask about the polar ice melting TU. It didn't seem to go off well as opposed to the rest of the earth sci in the set.

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I'm pretty sure Illinois already had theirs. (In that they have a Team Illinois selected which goes to NASAT; I'm not sure if there is any formal difference.)

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It was up to certain players/writers not to delve into ICT subject pages, too.

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Truman State should be probably put in that huge list also, as they just took a regs mirror title without their full A team.

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Cheynem wrote:Yes, Trevor "T-Dawg" Davis is at Alberta.

Ok; I know he and Sinan played some tournament a while ago, but I can't seem to find stats from it. Could someone post a link as it's probably the only thing they've played this year?

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theMoMA wrote: Alberta

I've heard rumors that Trevor Davis is in some grad program there; is that true?

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Cheynem wrote:I'm writing another Disney packet; I should have it done by the end of Sunday. It is the same format as my previous Disney packet (lots of short questions, pretty hard). I will read it in the IRC and then post it when I am done.

Is this happening tonight or later?

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Dominator wrote: IMSA was behind MVHS going into the second teamwork section, but ended up winning in a too-exciting finish.

The power of teamwork!!

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Jeremy Gibbs Paradox wrote:WUHSAC is now MSHSAA approved.

How the heck did you manage that

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I can't say much about this since the set's not clear, but I 30ed a history bonus on Saturday because I lost a library book in Boston once. (Losing a library book in Boston tends to make that book and what it's about unusually memorable.) I should probably get and lose a copy of The Critique of Pur...

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Plan Rubber wrote:We managed to leave without our judge. If anyone has an extra one that says Michigan State on top and has two broken green and one broken red lights, let me know.

This also goes for our Anderson system in a white and purple tackle box.

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Inkana7 wrote:that tossup on Stalin using clues on biographies on him was pretty awful and turned into a buzzer race at the giveaway

I concur but feel like this was mainly due to methodology than writing. How often do historiography tossups pop up in sets?

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As I understand it, there are also some schools who divide their teams by age alone, so the team of upperclassmen is always A and the underclassmen always B, even if the B-team puts up better numbers. This should probably stop, but it's A Thing that happens. Case in point: Hallsville in MO; the B t...

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