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The separate rooms/6 singles players cap/ladder format all seem fine to me. I also wouldn't mind doubles if you could get enough staff. I just didn't want like some 20-player shootout horror.

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I really love the idea of this, but a shootout singles format doesn't appeal to me--to me, it heavily rewards guessing and also, unless there's a field cap, really punishes people who only have middling knowledge, who otherwise might still get buzzes in individual matchups or in smaller fields. (I s...

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So I usually have the reverse (I get better as the day goes on and am bad to start), but I think this advice can apply: -First, you have to decide if the issue is fatigue, playing style, or both. If you do feel fatigued, there are some obvious pieces of advice (get more sleep the night before, eat a...

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10 seconds!

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I don't know if this is produced anymore, but I think something like the old NAQT Intramurals set, perhaps a touch easier, would be nice. Relatively short questions, fairly easy difficulty, more CE and Pop Culture than most sets. I think this could be easier to pitch to some teams/schools. "Hey...

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Mike has said he doesn't really want the commission money for this, but assuming the set is completed, is run, and I play it, I'll donate the money to a charity of his choice.

(However, as this is a Mike Bentley video game tournament, I also expect to score like 3 PPG.)

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I would also say that the archive should mark, for example, what packets are good for new teams/players and perhaps which sets have been judged to be of extraordinarily good quality or stuff like that. But none of that would involve removing packets that haven't been read anywhere or are just read a...

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i don't really get why a public reading should be mandatory for posting on the archive. There are good packets that the author just didn't have the time or energy to host a Discord reading of and perhaps just read them at a practice or for personal edification or something. There are lousy packets r...

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Regarding the Cyrus Cylinder clue, I think the wording could have been more specific but there's nothing really wrong there. It has been referred to in that way, although for nationalistic purposes. The question was not attempting to assert it actually was such a charter.

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I've kept track of the people who have volunteered to produce a set. Since this is quizbowl and people don't always finish sets, that doesn't mean any of this is locked in or whatever, so you can keep contacting me. Obviously, at a certain point, I'll cut off volunteers to avoid paying out like $1,0...

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You know how like back in the Renaissance or whatever, you had patrons commission wacky stuff from artists? Well, I'd like to do that. A lot of the sets I'd really like to play I assume no one will ever write other than me. So I'm making this offer to anyone crazy enough to accept: If someone writes...

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Coach Jim wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 5:47 pm
I like cookies wrote: ↑Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:19 pm I have just uploaded the stats online. Please let us know if there are any stat issues.
Kevin, is there a link to the online stats? Thanks in advance for your help!

https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... /combined/

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I'm tentatively interested depending on the time of when this starts.

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The sheet is view only.

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I met Ed a couple of times--nice guy and, as you said, really cared about quizbowl.

The master of the "!!!!!!" post.

Rest in peace.

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I realize now my post was fundamentally very similar to an excellent post from Olivia in last year's thread: I like this list, but I keep thinking that "identifying the current most pressing concern" is actually secondary to the greater question of our ability to solve it once identified. ...

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I don't really want to select one particular concern, as I think all of them to some extent are issues, but I think the primary issue, which connects to many of them, is that too many collegiate programs are floundering for a variety of reasons. They lack proper tournaments to play, they lack guidan...

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I blame these changes on Cory Haala.

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I think to some extent the history of high school and the history of college quizbowl, while obviously interconnected and featuring many of the same names, are rather different, with some of the repercussions and impacts of one taking a few more years to affect the other (or never doing so, as in th...

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The set has already been posted, unfortunately.

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Possibly, although certainly not too far into the 21st century.

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I will post this set soon.

I plan on reading through the packets sometime next week in Discord just as a shootout. I'm tentatively planning for 10 EST on Wednesday night.

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Yeah, really good set, and aside from a couple of questions, the basic theme of the tournament is not really recognizable. I worried going in that too many of the questions were going to be obviously inspired by the goofy Wikipedia articles that are like overly detailed minor lists, but there's not ...

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Thanks for running the tournaments. This was a lot of fun and I loved that we got as much quizbowl as possible into the weekend.

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I think we should combine baseball and Pokemon and force each team to have a baseball and Pokemon player.

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For reference, as far as I know, these are the prices for the events (side events could be different):

COOT: $30 a player
WIKIPEDIA: $5 a player
PTA: $10 a player, I think
KYOGRE: $10 a player
BASEBALL: $10 a player
SUPER ACRONYM: $25 a player
GORILLA FILM: Free, donations encouraged

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I suspect Guerrilla Film might work best as a shootout, but we can play things by ear.

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Ted Hot Lilly Peppers (Jonathan Mishory, Paul Kasinski, Emmett Laurie) defeated Dallas McPherson's Son (Jonathan Magin, Ryan Rosenberg, Gabe Brison) to win this tournament. Stats to come at some point.

Stats: https://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/8 ... all_games/

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There is currently one slot open on a two person team (plus I am unsure if some of the people signed up are actually playing). So if you want to play tomorrow, let me know ASAP.

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Is it true that they named Ravel "Maurice" because he speaks of the pompatus of love?

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This tournament will be 6 teams of up to 3 players. I will send out more information about how the tournament is going to run and the Zoom link etc. around Thursday or so (it will be on Saturday, probably starting around 1 EST--it's 7 tossup only packets, so I don't see this going very long). What I...

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Not having gotten any staffers and not anticipating any (there are two other online events that day, which I was unaware of), I will say we should just do 6 teams of 3 players each. I understand that Jordan Parks actually has a 3-person team already that just isn't on the spreadsheet, but if everybo...

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I'm not going to be at CO, but I'll share some observations: 1. It's hard to run three different events consecutively and not go late. In my experience, around 4 or 5 PM or so on Sunday, you have people start to leave to make flights. This could be troublesome for the cinema event, although other ev...

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I am looking for some teammates for this. I don't know much about artistic film, though.

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I have one more staffer, so we can support 6 teams. I would suggest at the moment that the players signed up as free agents form teams, but one or two teams at the moment might need to have 3 people. (If I get another staffer, we can do 8 teams).

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We currently have 8 people (or four teams). If this is the field, we'll do a double round robin-finals, but I'll keep registration open through next week.

In order to have more teams play, though, I would need more staffers. So I will again repeat my call for staffers--I will pay $10.

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Thank you Professor Kirksey.

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Is this an open?

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I wouldn't mind playing through this while drinking at Minnesota Open, but that is mid August.

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Naveed, Evan Brown, and I are still looking for a last teammate. If you know something about modern music or modern TV or Pokemon, that would be great.

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This is an announcement for an online mirror of my all-tossup side event about baseball in the second half of the 20th century (roughly 1950-2000, although there will obviously be plenty of clues not from this time period). The tournament will run Saturday, August 12 . I would expect, since this is ...

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Unless the results really change over the weekend, this is going to be on August 12 or 13. I'll have a full announcement and sign-up info next week.

If we can get 16 people, that sets up a very convenient 8 doubles teams that can play a full round robin. If we get more or less, we'll improvise.

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I'll leave this up for a few more days, but looks like we're leaning more for one of the August dates.

If more than 10 people sign up, we'll do teams; otherwise, we'll do a shootout.

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I'm posting this to see if there's interest and how much for an online reading of my 7-packet, all-tossup baseball set (mostly focusing on 1950-2000). Format would be contingent on how much interest there is (if there's not a ton, we'll probably do a shootout of some form) and how many moderators I ...

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I think part of the difference is that hopefully, the people who ran BBB would be receptive to (polite, instructive) feedback and criticism (and it seems like in some ways they have been!) and the people who run stuff like GATA or whatever have demonstrated over the years to be completely un-recepti...

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I would also purport that if we made Nats tossups six lines instead of seven (or what have you) that most lead-ins would still generate pretty few buzzes.

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A lead-in is very rarely worthless--many times, they provide invaluable pieces of context, help to get players in the right time frame/location/etc., or at the very least, are entertaining and interesting. That's not to say that 10-line tossups featuring fascinating lead-ins are a great idea, or tha...

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Oh yeah, pre-modern China and Japan offer a wide amount of clues and answerlines. I'm unsure if I like Canadian history placed in the 1/1 U.S. history. I agree that Canada shouldn't take up room in world history, but there also doesn't seem to be a great place for Canadian history to be honest. Howe...

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Naveed and I are looking for teammates for Super ACRONYM, particularly if you know modern music or video games.

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I appreciate all the work that was put in making these statistics, and I think your overall point is logical. I do agree that quizbowl history does tend to skew more "modern" (using modern in a very loose way here). One reason I see for that happening at a lot of tournaments is that I thin...

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