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Score for the tossups of Alex Wallace's Terrific Trash Packet (bonuses went unused): _ik -10 Deis2 10 FestivusMaximus 40 Silverman 10 Hbunker 15 Foos -5 Conor|CPIguy -10 Yonker 10 InfiniteStryker 5 Kenji|wynaut 10 T-bar 10 Matt2718 30 Finn 0 10 = 10 Williamgolden 10 HidehiroAnto 10 Alejandro -5 dgra...

RexSueciae wrote:Nah, the order gets improvised.

If that's the case I might be a bit late - my dad wants to do lunch at the time it starts.

Will we be going in the order as seen on the document?

In the brief time I played there (1 semester in 2010), Dan Leifer was the club president, Mark Guerci had recently disappeared, and Matt Morrison was still making the occasional appearance at practices & tournaments. That's about all the help I can offer, since I wasn't really very involved wit...

Has the Google Doc gone up?

Alex Wallace's Terrific Trash Packet (20/20) is ready for Friday.

Is the UVA Novice tournament clear? If so I have one from that.

Only album from this year I listened to in its entirety was The Last Stand by Sabaton so that's it for me.

When will we be exchanging contact information?

I wanted to make a minor comment on Alex Wallace's Nationalist China bonus above. "Nationalist" China usually refers only to the KMT government that was founded in Guangzhou, launched the Northern Expedition, and ruled the ROC from then on. Even Sun Yat-sen is not considered part of this ...

Might as well do what Mr. Wolfsberg did and post my unused questions for ACF Fall at Maryland. A slogan commending Arthur Harris has been used by the German far-left in support of one of these actions, in reference to the British officer that ordered it. One of these actions in Pforzheim destroyed t...

I wrote a stupid packet called Alex Wallace's Terrific Trash Packet. We could use that. It has internet nonsense, video games, movies, some music, and other stuff.

As it currently stands I am William & Mary's premier history player, with a particular focus on modern history (but I can do some premodern, depending on how you define 'modern') as well as the main geography player. Is there anything in particular I should do? Any strategy? I'm only recently ge...

If these questions are going to be used in the future, you should not discuss them here. Is there accepted protocol, then, for discussing theory and advice? It seems as if providing an example is complicated by this standard. Post questions that you're not planning on selling, or hire a set editor....

This leads me to my ultimate question: what difficulty should I be writing high school questions, the average high schooler or the average high school quizbowler? Everything that Jack said is amazingly good advice. I'd also like to second the recommendation that, if you're really serious about writ...

Big Y wrote:If these questions are going to be used in the future, you should not discuss them here.

Is there accepted protocol, then, for discussing theory and advice? It seems as if providing an example is complicated by this standard.

Gauging difficulty as a new writer is probably one of the most difficult parts of the craft, and something I still struggle with from time to time. A very important concept to learn is that tossup difficulty and answerline difficulty do not have to go hand in hand, and there are many ways to adjust...

RexSueciae wrote:I write things and crochet socially.

I did a lot of creative writing in high school but it's dwindled in college; I'd like to get back into it this December.

Auks Ran Ova wrote:I read What If? once, but I mostly wanted to post to say that I'm charmed by the existence of something called "Steve's AH Place". How delightfully old-internet!

It's a nice little place, if quiet.

RexSueciae wrote:I haven't posted on alternatehistory.com in probably at least a year.

But yes.

Oh, wonderful! We might have crossed paths!

At the College's activities fair this year I had a pitch that got us over a hundred signatures, with an ultimate yield of about ten members of the team, mostly freshmen, with three returners, including myself. This was the pitch: Me: DO YOU KNOW THINGS? Freshman: Uh, yes, I think (or something simil...

Played the tournament at Maryland on William & Mary A; most everything I had an objection to has been covered.

There was a lot of France, as has been said. On that note, did anyone notice a lot of characters being prostitutes in the literature questions?

Besides Quizbowl, what are/were your other extracurricular activities that you participate(d) in? As of now, I do Model United Nations (have done it for six years, a year longer than Quizbowl barring some Knowledge Masters in middle school - I had a reputation in the Northern Virginia high school ci...

Would there happen to be anyone here who's also an alternate history fan? I use the same name as I do here on several AH sites (alternatehistory.com, Althistoria, the Alternate Timelines Forum, Endless Worlds, Steve's AH Place, Diverginguniverses). I've written a lot in the past few years but very l...

I'm currently part of writing a high school tournament for high school with the intent of it being played in early February. Over the course of writing it (we've been working since September on it), I have gotten feedback from my teammates regarding the questions, overwhelmingly history and geograph...

Would posting questions I intend to use for a high school tournament be kosher? Given how strict the community seems to be about leaking questions I'm hesitant. If a question is going to be used a tournament do not post it in an open forum. There is no way to control who would see it and you would ...

As you can see I am a current student at William & Mary and one of the leaders of the current team (albeit not the captain - that honor goes to James Cole). We are currently at a bottleneck point in club history, with the greats, as I can tell, having either graduated (Sean Smiley, Chris Miller,...

Would posting questions I intend to use for a high school tournament be kosher? Given how strict the community seems to be about leaking questions I'm hesitant.

VCU Roanoke played D2 SCT last year, though I know nothing of their current status I am a idiot for forgetting VCU. I went to VCU last year for competition. Seeing RexSuciaes' post, I can see GMU does stuff and Roanoke did one thing. I've also run into Duke and Maryland at Virginia events. I've bee...

As you can see by my signature I'm at William & Mary. I know that Virginia Tech, UVA, and Liberty all have active teams. Are there any other colleges in Virginia that have active teams?

(This is not about your most recent question of hosting a college tournament, sorry.) In terms of "after that," transitions can be particularly difficult when one person has run the club for a long period of time. To try and counteract that, the most important things you should do are del...

Don't quote Donald Trump as a joke, for one. Don't listen to this man. As to the main point of the thread, attend lots of tournaments, practice as often as you can, and start writing questions as often as it's necessary. Writing a packet for a regular difficulty tournament can be a daunting task fo...

Sign up for the University of Maryland's EFT mirror on Saturday, October 8th! It's meant to be an introduction to the rigor of collegiate quizbowl on more accessible answers, so it'll get you used to playing as a team on some tougher clues without throwing as many hard answers or tough bonuses at y...

Hi all, I'm Alex Wallace, graduate of Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia in 2015 and current sophomore at the College of William & Mary. To make a long story short, I joined the W&M team last year, where I shared a year with our departing greats Sean Smiley, Chris Miller, and ...