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vinteuil wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:58 pm And what was the logic behind calling bebop a "genre"?

This was certainly not the ideal indicator here. As Will said, 'style' would have been more appropriate. My apologizes for any confusion this caused.

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I am seeking a team. I am good at lit, fine arts, and RMPSS and can get assorted rare buzzes in science and history. Message me if interested.

Edit: Found a team

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Perfume Genius - Queen LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean vs. Tame Impala - Let It Happen Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. M.I.A. - Bad Girls Mitski - Your Best American Girl vs. Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d. City Kanye West (ft. Pusha...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Perfume Genius - Queen vs. Björk - Stonemilker Rosalía - Malamente (Cap.1: Augurio) vs. LCD Soundsystem - dance yrself clean Tame Impala - Let It Happen vs. Grimes - Oblivion Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky...

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Lana del Rey - Video Games vs. Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian at Best Childish Gambino - This Is America vs. Weyes Blood - Movies The first time I ever listened to the Weyes Blood album and this song was at the Orlando airport waiting for our 10-hour-delayed flight to 2019 ACF Nationals. We were sup...

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Kanye West (ft. Pusha-T) - Runaway vs. IDLES - Danny Nedelko Sky Ferreira - Everything is Embarrassing vs. Ariana Grande - thank u, next Gotye (ft. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used to Know vs. Danny Brown (ft. Ab-Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Earl Sweatshirt) - Really Doe Lorde - Royals vs. Gorillaz - On...

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#1 Daft Punk (ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky vs. #16 Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness #8 Taylor Swift - Blank Space vs. #9 Jamie xx (ft. Young Thug & Popcaan) - I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times) #5 Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company vs. #12 M.I.A. - Bad Gi...

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Robyn - Dancing on My Own vs. Lil Nas X (ft. Billy Ray Cyrus) - Old Town Road - Remix Drake - Hotline Bling vs. Angel Olsen - Shut Up Kiss Me Bon Iver - Holocene vs. Perfume Genius - Queen Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) vs. Björk - Stonemilker Beach House - Space Song vs. Rosalía - Malam...

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I am pleased to announce that the Florida site of 2020 ACF Regionals will be held at the University of Florida on Saturday, January 25, 2020. The tournament will take place at somewhere on UF's campus (building TBA), with team check-in beginning at 8:30 AM and gameplay beginning at 9 AM. I will be t...

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After novice a few of us played Screentest. The following were the cumulative scores across the 8 packets unless otherwise noted: Anthony Delgado: 2090 Taylor Harvey: 845 Will Grossman: 65 Ezra Cockram: 25 (played 2 rounds) Henry Hill: 5 Jason Zappulla: 0 (played 3 rounds) Jonathen Settle: -25 (play...

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The PDF packets that were just posted seem to be corrupted and cannot be opened.

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One more thing - given the planned festivities for the night after CO, I've been thinking of starting this event later than normal CO Sunday fare. Would people be amenable to starting at 10 AM sharp? I don't expect it to last more than 3 hours, since there are reasonable length caps and no bonuses....

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I want to thank everyone for playing today, I think we all had a good time. The team of Mike Bentley, Daniel Hothem, Chip Horton, and Victor Pavao won the tournament by going 7-3, so big congrats to them. I'd also like to thank Jonathen Settle and Tracy Mirkin for moderating all day and keeping thin...

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The logistics email was just sent out to everyone whose email I have. Some others have received Facebook DMs with the server link. If you still need the server link please contact me.

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It looks like the overwhelming preference is for a six team tournament, so we will go with that. We've gotten several more sign ups, so it looks like most teams will have more than two people. Free agents can arrange themselves onto teams on the above sheet as they see fit. If free agents are not li...

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This is a week out and there does not look to be a ton of interest as of right now. We have one full team of four and seven free agents signed up for a total of eleven interested players. I think we two options here: 1) One room shootout of all the toss ups with all eleven players. This will run fas...

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A Discord open mirror of the 2019 Florida Spring Torunament (FST) is being held on June 15th 2019. The fee will be $15 per player. The tournament is completely open to all of those who have not heard the set, and teams or free agents may sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oplH6e6j...

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Just wanted to clarify-most of the Auburn players are eligible, while the Georgia people to my knowledge are not. I recognize that this distinction may be somewhat arbitrary. I used the Canadian eligibility criterion of playing two regular difficulty tournaments or harder that were attended by Flor...

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In hopes of starting a bit of a discussion, I am posting my preliminary ballot and a few comments on each player here. This is subject to change and is largely based on 6 years of observation while playing in this circuit and some cursory stats browsing. All the players here are very worthy of prais...

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We are planning a discord open mirror sometime in June. Details are forthcoming.

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Are there plans to mirror the Guerilla History side event after this? Our teams would greatly enjoy if this happened

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I plan on writing a full packet for this. This set sounds like a really fun idea!

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nycaqb1999 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2019 12:36 pm Will there be an online mirror of this set?

We are strongly considering doing one. If it happens, it will certainly be after nats season is over. Announcement will be forthcoming once we decide, but for now expect late April or May.

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It says in the post for this tournament that it’s difficultly is regular minus (so EFT, Terrapin) but it also says it’s the same difficulty as 2018 FST which in turn is the same difficulty of 2017 ACF Fall. So which one is it? The set is similar in difficulty to 2018 FST, and is a notch easier than...

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R4 -Munich Massacre may need expanded answerline. Player on UGA B buzzes and basically describes Munich Massacre in a sentence but is negged because he doesn’t say whatever is in answerline. Could ‘Munich” be answerline instead? This is not an attempt to refute the point being made here, but for wh...

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We will be having our second round of playtesting tomorrow night (3/10/19) at 8 PM EST. We will be doing Fine Arts and RMP. PM me if you are interested in helping out, and I can send you a link to the discord server.

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I took notes throughout this tournament in the hopes of giving some minute-to-minute thoughts on the questions as they were played. I would take most of these difficulty judgements with a grain of salt: I can be a bad judge of what is easy and hard, especially in the heat of playing. Hopefully the w...

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Congrats to the editors and writers on a solid set. I took notes while playing on my thoughts on specific questions, which I will dump in the specific question thread shortly. Some general thoughts on the set overall: -This set felt a notch harder than EFT, particularly on some of the TU answerlines...

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Is this tournament too easy for me to respectably play, or is it designed for all teams to show up and do their thing? I think that probably depends on the site strength. People with lots of experience are not explicitly banned from playing but it is written with newer players in mind. I'll say if ...

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This is the official post for the main site of the Florida Spring Tournament (FST,) to be held at the University of Florida on March 23th. Information about the set can be found here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21591 This tournament is open to college and high school teams,...

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We still have not received the $400 in mirror fees for this tournament. Why?

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I want to thank the writers and editors for producing a fun and interesting set! It certainly needs a bit more polish, as has been noted, but as Jonathen said everyone at our site had a great time with it. The set managed to ask about a ton of cool and interesting stuff and kept things relatively ac...

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I have about 30-50 TUs on various wacky topics I can read at this.

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I really enjoyed this set. It is among my favorite in the last few years. I constantly felt rewarded for pockets of knowledge I have from outside quiz bowl studying, so if that was what is meant by "realness" then this set succeeded. The mostly-freshmen players on our B and C teams also se...

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Mirror Sites Update: Main/Florida: University of Florida, 3/23/2019 Southeast: VCU, 3/23/2019 Mid Atlantic: Princeton University, 4/27/2019 Mountain West: University of Colorado Boulder, Date TBA Canada: Carleton University, 3/23/2019 Midwest: University of Chicago, tentatively early May Northeast: ...

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I was recently looking through some older packets on the archive a noticed a number of old sets had broken links when the packets are clicked for download. Some packets download but upon opening the PDFs or Word Docs appear blank. In other cases, the packets will not download at all. Could this have...

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I am pleased to announce the second iteration of the Florida Spring Tournament (FST), an easy collegiate quiz bowl set. The set is planned to debut in mid March of 2019. The set will be head edited by me, Taylor Harvey, with Jonathen Settle, Alex Shaw, and Tracy Mirkin acting as subject editors in S...

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I logged out and could still see the threads (along with threads from CMST, SMT, Historature, and others) a ways down the first page, as could two of my teammates when logged out.

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I can see both threads on the "Collegiate Discussion" sub forum. Maybe I can only see these threads because I am in the original usergroup? It looked to me like it was view-able to anyone, but it could just be me/ others in the original usergroup.

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It appears that the 2018 FST General and Specific Question discussion was transferred from a usergroup to this forum. The set was not clear and there was still a planned mirror at Virginia Tech in the fall, though now that mirror will need to be cancelled for question security reasons. This is partl...

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I have six packets from the 2018 IHO Geography Bee and two packets from the 2018 IHO Pop Music Bee that I will read on Discord. I will read some tonight after the Earth Science packet at 8 EST, and the rest tomorrow night or later this week. The music is rather easy and the geography is rather chall...

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Set felt pretty good overall, some nitpicky stuff below: Packet 2 Bonus 6, on _Five Pecks of Rice_ [*]Should probably include some alternate answerlines, like “Five Grains of Rice” and “Way of the Celestial Masters”, as well as Chinese names “Wu Dou Mi” Dao, “Zheng Yi” Dao, and “Tian Shi” Dao, and ...

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The only gripe I had with this otherwise great tournament was the sloppiness of some of the individual scorekeeping. Going back through the posted stats and comparing them to the stats we kept for ourselves, our team noticed many errors in individual attribution of gets and negs. A misattributed tos...

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Post your comments and thoughts on specific questions here.

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This is the general discussion for the FST 2018 tournament. Many thanks to all of our writers, editors, and hosts. This tournament was a lot of fun to write and edit, and we are very grateful to everyone who was willing to give the tournament a shot and play. Leave your general thoughts and feeling ...

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Ianissimo wrote:I don't suppose there's a moderator discount?

No moderator discount as with a field size this small I think we already have enough staff lined up. If you do want to come and staff though we'd be happy to have you!

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This is the official post for the main site of the Florida Spring Tournament (FST,) to be held at the University of Florida on March 17th. Information about the set can be found here: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20769 This tournament is open to college and high school te...

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Some quick updates on this set. We are presently 85% done with writing the set and as stated above the final tournament will features 12 power marked packets of 20/20. We are seeking possible mirror sites in the non-Florida Southeast, Northeast, and West Coast Regions. If you are a school from one o...

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Mirror List:

Main site at University of Florida: March 17th
Michigan Mirror: March 17th
Michigan Tech Mirror: March 24th
BYU Mirror: April 7th
Wofford College: April 14th
Virginia Tech Mirror: Fall 2018

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