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Thank you for running this and organizing the data! I'm sure it must have been a decent amount of work.

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Not to harp on the subject more than needed--and I'll note that, as always, if most of the conversation about your set revolves around a single question, then that means, overall, the set was pretty good!--but the impression I'm getting from this thread is that many of the people who played the ques...

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Depending on the weekend, yup.

edit: might as well note that the weekends of 6/23-24 & the Boston Summer Open, 8/4-5, are the ones I'm trying to avoid

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From what I know of trying to organize the Boston summer open, there probably aren't enough people at MIT over the summer to host MIT practices. I'll see if Harvard is interested, though I think there's also not (too) many people on campus over the summer.

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Well, the vox populi has pretty firmly indicated they'd like the date to stay the same, and so it shall.

Expect room details and more logistics to be posted in the next two weeks.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: I'd like to especially thank Mike Hundley for going out of his way to get rooms for side events. You're a hero.

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I appreciated that the schedule/records was online, in an easy to access format. I did overhear some teams complaining that their schedule online didn't match their paper schedule, so perhaps it might have been useful to leave space on the site for disclaimers or misc info for each bracket. The late...

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To proselytize for someone I've never personally met, I keep hearing the stat quoted that Clark Smith (of Dublin Scioto) had 20 ppg at ACF Nats--on a team with Chris Ray. That's some astounding deep knowledge.

Oh, and vote for Fred Zhang, as well as most of the TJ A team.

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I'd be completely unable to attend this tournament if it was moved to any later of a date, so I'm hoping it can stay where it is. I can also only attend this date and have already booked travel for this date. This is the other reason it'd be a terrible idea to change the date. People who have alrea...

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This happened, and I believe people had a lot of fun. Here are the scores. Note that especially in the later rounds, people moved around rooms or left. You can find full round reports at these Google sheets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r9wpA7R31zLBt7zSvLi9v1m3g5CXM-S9bKv-YRScx0k/edit?usp...

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Just a heads up that there's very active discussion about possibility using this set (among others) for the various summer events, so could any release of this set wait until the Illinois and Boston events have confirmed what sets they're using? Thanks! (Side events thread here: http://hsquizbowl.o...

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If anyone is interested in going to Fenway Sunday night (8PM*) to see the Yankees play the Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball, DM me. It looks like there are still some reasonably priced tickets available directly through the red sox website. *Assuming that there won't actually be any side events run...

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Oh and double thanks to Emmet Laurie and Jon Suh for reading for me.

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Thank you to everyone who played this: scores will be tomorrow, after I'm done staffing NSC. I raised $195, so let's call that an even $400 going to charity.

If you'd like copies of the set, just email me and I'll send them your way.

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Adding 5 minutes to allow peoppe to gradually filter in.

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Last update! I won't give room numbers (so people don't accidentally wander there early), but we'll be meeting at 9, at the buzzer room as planned.

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I'll give people this info in-person at our initial meeting at 9 as well, but here are the initial (randomized) seedings of rooms: message me directly to get what room you're in, or wait for this to update. if you're not sure, just pick a room out of these three at random Room 1003 Evan Annie Alex M...

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More updates! We'll be running three rooms, and we'll be meeting by the buzzer room (the alcove to the right of team sign in.) I'll give updates there.

I'll be wearing the Capitals baseball cap (eagle logo), which you can use to find me.

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How are teams going to work? Based on current numbers, IMO it's easiest to just have shootouts in both rooms, with reseeding after initial playing to make sure rooms play out competitively. Otherwise, I'd have to force everyone to pick one of four teams, and I don't feel great about that working ou...

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Based on current signups, we will run two rooms for 3 rounds of shootouts of randomized groups (seeded by me), before reseeding based on scores and playing until 11 or we've finished all packets, whichever is sooner. If people drop moment of, we can coalesce back into a 1 room shoot out. I'll update...

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An Economic Ignoramus wrote:The WQC sitting is rescheduled to 9 on Saturday. A signup sheet is forthcoming.

Edit: here one is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... p=drivesdk

Sorry, I missed this, what's WQC?

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PACE just sent out staffer emails, and staffers are officially supposed to help set up Friday night, if they're there, until 9 PM. It's not ideal to be doing so, but as a result I'm going to set the meeting time for FILM to be at 8:45 PM, with the grace 15 minutes for setup. I'll update night of if ...

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An unimportant (but important to me...) side-note is that Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final is in DC on Saturday night, so I'll probably trek out to a bar in RTC to go watch it, if anyone would like to join, or even host a viewing in the NSC hotel bar.

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The Stately Rhododendron wrote:I'm working in the White Mountains this summer, so I should be able to come down (perhaps with my better half as well ).

Looking forward to having you!

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I have updates! Like all other mirrors of FILM, the proceeds from this playtest will go toward the JED Foundation, a 4-star charity dedicated to suicide prevention for teens and young adults. I have changed the "recommendation fee" to $10 , but will make playing this playtest "pay wha...

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Some random things I forgot to mention: - I reserve the right to split up any teams that are too ridiculously OP compared to rest of field - I'm not tied to the current date. If no one voices serious objections to it by...let's say end of NSC, then it'll be locked in. - Any free agents not on a team...

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Skepticism and Animal Feed wrote:So you're running a mirror of Cambridge Open in Cambridge, MA but calling it the Boston Open?

en pointe, monsieur

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This set is essentially done, with the rare question + packetizing to be completed. I'm also announcing that all funds raised from playing this set will be donated to the JED Foundation , a 4-star charity dedicated to suicide prevention for teens and young adults. In addition, I'll personally match ...

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The FILM set (a side-event set for film :P) I was writing turned out to have more academic content than I expected, so I'm x-posting it out of the Trash subforum and into the main announcements here. You can find the original thread below: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=20695 ...

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We'll be running Cambridge Open as our main event, with the expectation that it will be slightly abbreviated to fit in side events, as time requires. We'll be running a very aggressive seven side events, with the understanding that not all events are guaranteed to run, or with some taking place as l...

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As an addendum, I will probably be putting in some personal work to Americanize any questions I find too Queen-ly, so anyone else hoping to mirror CamO can probably collaborate with me on that.

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I actually just emailed back and forth with Ewan McAulay today, to great success on setting up a Cambridge Open mirror (after, of course, mistaking the 2017 mirror post as the 2018 one). Besides using Jason as a bridge, perhaps you could try messaging him as well? (By the way, congratulations on you...

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Awesome, thanks for making this! It's prior to the beginning of the school year, but I imagine many local kids will still be around, so heads up that we'll be running a Boston Summer Open (Cambridge Open + side events) in early August. Many of the side events, and probably CamO itself, should be app...

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Just a bump that this helpful listing exists for your (you, the viewer!) aid. At this point, it seems that the four events in the OP will be the final slate of side events, and I'm unlikely to update the original post further. I won't be at HSNCT, so any updates @ Atlanta are unlikely to find their ...

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sharkcrossing wrote:Hello everyone,

Based on the results of the poll, HORROR will be read on the Discord Sunday night at 8 PM. Hope to see plenty of people then!

I couldn't attend, but how did this go / could this set be posted? Would love to read it!

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kearnm7 wrote:Hate to nag, but is there any idea of when/if this will be done and where it will be played? Would love to give it a go.

Bump on this as well, I've gotten a few requests to run this at the Boston summer event.

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Is there any expectation for how many packets this will be? And whether the plan is currently still to only have tossups?

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With that in mind, are you still expecting this to be 8 packets?

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Boston event announced here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewto ... =8&t=21286

The sooner people volunteer to staff, the more concrete I can get about details

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Signup for both the main event and side-events here.

Note that, for the main event, you are not officially registered until at least one person from your team emails me, officially registering!

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This is the official announcement for a Boston Summer Open, as mentioned in the organization thread . Almost all details below are subject to change as staff are acquired or lost. The tournament will be at MIT, and the tentative dates will be August 4th and 5th. A main event will take the majority o...

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Just a heads up that there's very active discussion about possibility using this set (among others) for the various summer events, so could any release of this set wait until the Illinois and Boston events have confirmed what sets they're using? Thanks! (Side events thread here: http://hsquizbowl.or...

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I'm also looking into running a Boston event, with a main event on Saturday (I'm thinking NASAT right now) + smaller events dotted throughout Saturday & Sunday. I'm not sure of the state of the MSU event, but would anyone/site be very against this happening? For reasons of redundancy, too far fr...

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For ten points each, give the following about a seemingly interchangeable group of Hollywood stars, the Chrises. In a 2017 appearance on this show, Chris Pine attempted to teach the audience of Studio 8H that he isn’t Chris Evans, Pratt, or Hemsworth with a song set to “Uptown Girls.” Meanwhile, Ka...

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Could you also add the human-computer question writing competition , Saturday night, details TBA? It's not a traditional side event, but it has cash (well, check actually) prizes and will only take an hour or so. Updated! IDK what you wanted to call it, or what questions you're running on, so I've ...

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A thread for the NSC playtest is here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21234

The set is nearly done!

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Just a subtle bump that the OP has been updated to show that FILM (Friday), Historature (Saturday), Soundtrack (Saturday) events are confirmed running, with links. Will continue to update if more come.

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:Is there a DOCX version of these sets that could be uploaded to the archives?

I've received a link to the Google Drive, from which I downloaded the Word files. Thanks! This will be uploaded to QuizDB soon.

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aseem.keyal wrote:Uploaded a zip of the docx packets on the packet archive, it's currently pending.

Thank you!

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Oh yeah, it looks like these are pre-Augur questions. I'll mark it down and work on parsing the TeX at some point. Thank you for the update!

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