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Dominator wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:39 pm Standing.

It's so effective that the IHSA banned it.

ah yes, the patented strat of charles dees

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Yeah it’s real easy

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I wrote a bit for this set, mostly in other ac, mostly aiming to have things that people would know about or that I thought would be generally enjoyable while also trying to make sure there would be clues people were likely buzzing on from “general interest” or “quizbowl adjacent content”. I hope pe...

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Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Dreams wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 2:40 pm Oh boy! I can't wait to play noted set CANONINFLATION at the 2023 national tournaments. I'm so excited!

All of the free time infamously available at nats

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Suggestion: the reader counts down from five on their fingers and calls time when they're all down. That way, players always have a warning for when they need to say an answer, but it's not a distraction that interrupts the thought process. This is a hassle for the moderator. Please do not require ...

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Suggestion: the reader counts down from five on their fingers and calls time when they're all down. That way, players always have a warning for when they need to say an answer, but it's not a distraction that interrupts the thought process. This is a hassle for the moderator. Please do not require ...

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u underranked billy

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34 + P.J. Dozier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 5:44 pm We could very easily just write a whole literature tossup on Lord Byron entirely cluing his rumored sexual escapades and miscellaneous yet amusing quotes, and it would probably annoy a lot of people

what? this would rule you dork

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The science distribution seems odd to me. More than 50% of the other science is math and no astronomy? Astronomy is more than astrophysics, which is why sets have always explicitly distributed astronomy. The distribution means all but 2 packets will have 1/1 chemistry, which, to me, seems like such...

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jmarvin_ wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:14 pm Brevity is not an intrinsic good

yo w/ all due respect bruh this post is so long

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I do think that Connor is right in pointing out that it's very strange to both go for "Midwestern teams" and big 10 because one sort of defeats the point of the other (and to some extent weakens the idea of online play)

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This is a cute idea but I have a sneaking suspicion that the BHSU writing team would not really approve use of the set for this given that the main site (midwest) ((est. 2/25/23, come play)) would presumably be aiming to get teams in this hypothetical field

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Oh boy! I can't wait to play staff noted set CANONINFLATION BHSAT BHSU on date laid out in tournament database February 25, 2023. I'm so excited!

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great idea

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Look, I was a straight C student in high school for writing based courses but as Mike points out, given that this is 7 pages longer than it needs to bem it goes from "these are fair points that have been brought up and would have been fine" to "given that 70% of the length of this is ...

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I thought the protest process occasionally took too long in the sense of especially in rooms that only had one staffer, that staffer had to stop reading and fill out a protest form in the middle of a game. In most cases, the protest made no difference, and in most cases, the teams didn't really nee...

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I thought the protest process occasionally took too long in the sense of especially in rooms that only had one staffer, that staffer had to stop reading and fill out a protest form in the middle of a game. In most cases, the protest made no difference, and in most cases, the teams didn't really nee...

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Damn rob if you were so "holistic" on these comic strips why wasn't there more weeb content after all manga allegedly outsells all comics these days amirite

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Santa Claus wrote: ↑Sun May 22, 2022 8:19 pm Oh boy! I can't wait to read noted set CANONINFLATION on date laid out in tournament database August 6, 2022. I'm so excited!

I'm sure all of the inflation fetishists are fuming with excitement

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The tossup on acrosome was very good and interesting. However, there's a hellish alternate universe where, in a nail-biting Finals 1 tossup 24, a knowledgable player hears "The protein IZUMO1 localizes to the membrane" and negs with sperm, with no prompt whatsoever. Also more importantly ...

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The tossup on acrosome was very good and interesting. However, there's a hellish alternate universe where, in a nail-biting Finals 1 tossup 24, a knowledgable player hears "The protein IZUMO1 localizes to the membrane" and negs with sperm, with no prompt whatsoever. Also more importantly ...

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Yeah Owen I don't really want to pile on further but that 1 cheating allegation line really comes off like this

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I’d neg every tu yeah

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Funnily enough at least two of these cases were previously pointed out by Ophir.

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nice post this u?

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Ok, just wanted clarification since I'm under the assumption that less than 50% of the teams in a given field have read the (admittedly) trendy articles on the sterile insect technique (and the Jurassic Park thing, which I am not familiar with and had to look up is literally not remotely similar bec...

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Responding to Eric's post, I've heard of daisy chain drives, which is not true of most science hard parts. I think it's gettable. Male also seemed quite gettable to me. I also found Male extremely confusing and could not figure out what the hell to say despite having (years ago) read some npr artic...

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I think one of (Ike, Matt Jackson) is a no-brainer. I would also very strongly endorse a UK candidate, with Edmund being around long enough that he might reasonably be a fit for the "older" Carper? I know that's largely intended for folks from bygone QB eras, but Edmund seems more than de...

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the absolute madman just cut the objects from words and objects

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Alan makes an excellent post, which also highlights an even more important point (that even chemists do not have any fucking interest in learning shit about functional groups, but whether or not ochem can be written in fact "well" or even "better" than stupid name reaction stuff...

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Alan makes an excellent post, which also highlights an even more important point (that even chemists do not have any fucking interest in learning shit about functional groups, but whether or not ochem can be written in fact "well" or even "better" than stupid name reaction stuff ...

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Excellent post, but I think the superplayoff stats from 2011 Nats are missing

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I forgot about Moxon until now and honestly kind of miss people posting incessantly about it

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As a sort of weird side point as an editor I don't really want players to know specific which books that I'm more likely to write out of if they look at my previous work because it would feel weird to me to get meta-studied (Not to say that I've writing exclusively from a single textbook but the pos...

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In case that hack aseem's praise wasn't helpful to the readers at home, this set's science is so good that often >1 time a round I'd think to myself "that's a great idea" or even say it out loud (delaying the tournament I assume)! I only speak ill of questions so this is literally an unacc...

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robobo really needs to pull his weight

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you're too good for ladbrokes now?

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How many Tutterows are there?!

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jmarvin_ wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:47 pm (much like FLopen and the upcoming BHSU open)

Buddy the U in BHSU stands for open

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The amount of Japan content in the editors' packets was oppressive, especially since some of that content seemed impossible (the tossup on Nikko, for instance). Looking through the set, it looks like rather than one writer going wild, this was the product of several writers coming up with more ques...

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I think it would be tragic if quizbowl associates were not familiar with how much of a treasure Aaron Rosenberg is. While he’s gone off to bigger and better things for the most part, I am going to skip over his great work in the last with editing, PACE stuff, and him generally being a cool cat with ...

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hopefully not too many players retire to spend their days preparing for IHSA eSPORTs

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To be clear my contention is that this is a very "fluffy" question and it is possible to provide clue-dense language which both provides context and also explicitly buzzable points because this could be condensed into like 2-3 lines and be functionally equivalent I understand what you are...

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To be clear my contention is that this is a very "fluffy" question and it is possible to provide clue-dense language which both provides context and also explicitly buzzable points because this could be condensed into like 2-3 lines and be functionally equivalent

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I will now demonstrate how a radically different Mali question would likely solve the problems described in this thread. "The ruins of this empire's town of Tadmekka lies in the modern-day town of Essouk, which means "the market" in Arabic. Ibn Khaldun wrote about the contemporary fa...

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I probably should not have giggled as much as I did while trying to make sure I was not misparsing the whitehouse.com clues after having micronapped through most of the tossup thinking "wasn't this on a last name?" (whether or not I had the ability to remember that whitehouse is a surname ...

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In city of Chicago I am somehow now father drom Evanston please send help

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