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Although I haven't been to many tournaments, I might as well post what I think is going to go down. These are roughly in order of general rankings, but they're entirely interchangeable. High Tech : Both High Tech teams have had terrific runs this season, and although they lose key scorers in Sean, P...

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Thanks for the advice. We have a history expert who is actually better at HS packets than MS due to his depth of knowldege. WEll he's this WWI and II expert who wrote this: At the end of WWI, when Germany had its land taken away, this man said, "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twen...

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Hopefully Ithaca will be able to head down and compete in a couple of tournaments in NJ/NYC next year. We're taking hard hits with our other three A team players (excluding myself) graduating, and I don't know how much of contenders we will be. We bring up two other motivated freshmen, and we'll be...

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Hopefully Ithaca will be able to head down and compete in a couple of tournaments in NJ/NYC next year. We're taking hard hits with our other three A team players (excluding myself) graduating, and I don't know how much of contenders we will be. We bring up two other motivated freshmen, and we'll be ...

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http://www.wikihow.com/Memorize-a-Poem-Quickly How effective is this for memorizing poetry? It's subjective; certain methods for memorizing poetry are bound to work better than others. Some, like these, are common sense (in a way). I've recently been writing poetry down and reading it aloud as I wr...

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It's counter-intuitive to tell someone not to learn something. It's Japanese lit, and while it may not come up all the time or even at every tournament, it's worth knowing for the times that it may come up. Most of the authors that you'd need to know on the high-school level have been posted. Most i...

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Although there is no universally agreed-upon guideline regarding the use of compound words in the English language, in recent decades written English has displayed a noticeable trend towards increased use of compounds. Recently, many words have been made by taking syllables of words and compounding...

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Turner Island wrote:
Crazyflight wrote: As for the other usage, I just say ballin and baller/balla[h] when describing it.
This does have the unfortunate side effect of making you sound like a total tool.

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I instinctively type "quiz bowl," but it honestly doesn't make a difference.
As for the other usage, I just say ballin and baller/balla[h] when describing it. Quizbowling and quizbowler sound terrible to me.

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A field update would also be great.

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Can I play but not be considered for a spot? I'm taking my ACTs I feel like allowing this would probably take away from the other players actually trying to make a place - especially considering that your specialties may conflict with some players and not others. I did this last year and I assumed ...

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Can I play but not be considered for a spot? I'm taking my ACTs I feel like allowing this would probably take away from the other players actually trying to make a place - especially considering that your specialties may conflict with some players and not others. I will communicate this with my tea...

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If the margin is ever _that close_, especially in a low scoring game on a JV-level set, the difference lies in the bonus parts that are not converted. Surely when you go 11ppb (110 bonus over 10 tossups), the only way you can go is up. We can advise all we want about this "final tossup, what d...

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So we went to a JV tourney and on the last tossup, we were down by 5. We were taking it easy, and the other team negged on something about [QUESTION CONTENT IN A SET THAT IS STILL BEING USED --the mgmt] at the end. So we ended up winning, but this was not agaisnt a very good (relatively) team. So w...

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Might be a challenge, but see about setting up a middle school team, or getting middle schoolers in your district involved in NHBB (try asking history teachers) so that you get a number of incoming 9th graders each year with some experience. Also, why can't you have practice more than once a week? ...

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Are all of the mirrors for this set over?
If so, will discussion be open about this set?

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Thank you for a well-run tournament! Erewhon had a fantastic time.

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I should study more than I do. I will definitely be studying a lot before HSNCT, but I really only study (not including Protobowl) when I have a burst of inspiration or free time, both of which are very rare. I'm not sure how much per week that amounts to, but probably very little. Packet study is a...

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This is a really trivial thing that I'm about to bring up, and probably matters even less now that the tournament is over, but: is it typical for book prizes to be awarded in reverse order? Like, top scorer picks last? Because if I remember correctly, that's what happened on Saturday, and I'm not s...

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Mark: I stupidly didn't mention this earlier, but geolawyerman's post reminded me that there one way remaining that Bethlehem can qualify for a spot at HSNCT, without having to worry about the waiting list: attend and win the Saturday, April 19, NAQT Upstate New York Championship tournament to be h...

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If we are trying to promote respect in (and for) quizbowl, we may want to start by disallowing names like "#CashCrew." There's a line between disrespect and having fun. It's a pseudonym. I don't see how that could possibly be a good place to start. Ultimately, the two teams paid to play, ...

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Varun. This is a regular season tournament, not HSNCT...... Very productive comment from noted quiz bowl expert Abhinav Kurada. Anyways, people paid money, took out an entire Saturday, and traveled out to RM from various places to attend. This situation changes the winner of the tournament, so I th...

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The mod forgot to account for the fact that Maggie Walker should have received a neg for that tossup now that their answer was deemed incorrect giving us the win by 5 points. According to my scorekeeping, the final score before the protest was decided was 340 to 315. After our protest, your team lo...

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Also, the Chinese performing arts bonus was something I found stupid and an unnecessary ppb killer. I would be interested if there were conversion stats on this bonus. Conversion stats for the Hunter site have been crunched. This bonus averaged 18.13 ppb in 16 rooms. The 0/10/20/30 spread was 1/6/4...

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I'm starting a very in-depth grammatical analysis of each tossup, but I'd like to know if it would actually be worthwhile. Uh, would it? I was also going to do interpretation and stuff like that, but there were many nitpicky mistakes that I noticed.

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I'm probably just not going to attend at all. Thank you very much for the offer, though. Alright! You may not be in contact with Scott Blish, but he runs most of the pyramidal tournaments in our area. There is a solo tournament being held at Victor High School (Rochester area) with some fairly high-...

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We likely won't be going to DC - funding is an issue and we'll probably only be going to HSNCT. I was the only one who actually did NHBB this year from Ithaca, and I did so independently of the school. I'm not all that interested in getting a rivalry going, in all honesty. You did a good job at Pris...

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Thank you.

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Is there a current field for this tournament?

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Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Reading short stories is really helpful. It helps me to be able to find poems being orated - it helps me remember it better than just reading it, and it also decreases the amount of confusion between two similar poems. For example, reading Ariel by Sylvia Plath will let...

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Sparknotes is an incredible tool for important works (novels/plays, mostly, although I think there's a Sparknotes of Keats' Odes or something like that). I've used it for a lot of books and I can usually power them afterwards. Not only do they include all of the things that are usually included as s...

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BroNi wrote:Is there a field listing available for this Regional?

Or any other regional, for that matter?

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There seem to be some errors with ppbs. Grace Christian got 60 ppb in one game.

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If one uses Quinterest's "study" tool to look up Social Science, it returns the message "Sorry, there are no matching results study." [sic], even though searching typical social science answerlines (e.g. Margaret Mead) brought back plenty of questions, all of which were labelled...

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Hey, where's Ithaca in these rankings? No one really knows anything about us, so I'll fill everyone in who's interested. We're going to be attending Prison Bowl down at Hunter and the GSAC at St. Joe's, so we'll definitely be seeing some people from this area who we haven't had the chance to play be...

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I think that Prison Bowl's distribution of RMP and social science is somewhat absurd; 2.5/2.5 and 1/1, respectively. However, I also believe that philosophy and social science are better grouped together than apart. They're both fundamentally similar, and they're also fairly easy to learn. There are...

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I'm a freshman. Almost all of my quiz bowl knowledge has not been taught to me in school. I learn things for the fun of learning about them. I love reading books (and Sparknotesing them), and I love looking at art and listening to music. I have almost no educational background in my specialties (phi...

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Two or more pieces of related information of different types, such as author/book, president/organization, or actor/role, but not two authors, three books, etc., may be given and treated as one answer. If any part contains the answer being sought, and the items are correctly related, the answer sha...

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quizbowllee wrote:I have used the line "Can you be more vague?" on a few occasions as a moderator.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. And if it's acceptable informally but not every moderator knows about it, it would be best to write a rule on it (either allowing them [reverse prompts] or not allowing them).

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Okay, I seem to understand what you're saying. But with that, who's to say that an answer with absurd extraneous information isn't part of a larger thought process? If someone buzzes in on an e.e. cummings tossup and says "Hamlet by e.e. cummings," they'd be correct by your logic. But som...

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Then what's the difference between that and saying "Hamlet by Marlowe," or even "Hamlet by e.e. cummings" in a tossup on Hamlet? Maybe there's a tossup on a more obscure author that a question reader may not know, like Heinrich Böll (for sake of example, I don't really know how ...

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My apologies if I've muddied the water with an inferior example. The point I was trying to make was more along the lines of "here's why I don't understand the logic behind example A--if I replace example A with example B, it doesn't make sense to me." I grant you that a random list of hol...

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Is it though? Yes. I don't recall the NSC rule off the top of my head, but neither the NAQT rule nor the ACF Rule suggest that the blitz must correlate with the clue being read or a clue in the tossup at all. [Such a reading would require every moderator to have knowledge of every clue in the quest...

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2. a tossup with an answerline of "Tennessee Williams" even if the Williams TU had previously mentioned works of his other than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but the clue I buzzed on referred to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This is fine even if you are mistaken and the clue is not about Cat on a Hot T...

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I do see the point that's trying to be made. However, the tossup example is pretty bad. What would be the answer line? Plain old "religious holidays?" If so, I do think that "Jewish holidays" would deserve a prompt at that point. It doesn't require that the moderator know what's ...

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Just to confirm that I correctly understand the creator-created work rules as they currently stand, under NAQT and ACF rules: Can you answer an author and the work at ANY time during a tossup with an answer of either the author or the work? If I'm not sure whether a tossup is asking for Tennessee W...

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If a person buzzes in early on a "Divine Comedy" tossup, where the only clue given is on Purgatorio, and they answer "Inferno," they are wrong. We can all agree on that. However, later in that same tossup, a clue about Inferno may come up, and they might buzz and say "Infer...

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Was this actually an issue in this thread? Only pertaining to the other parts? If you buzz in on a clue about Purgatorio and say Inferno, you're 100% wrong with no argument. That argument hasn't actually happened in this thread. The argument is whether or not Inferno should be accepted/prompted/neg...

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What happened on a television show we may or may not have appeared on was there was a question on "Inferno" and a notably good quiz bowl player on the other team had buzzed in with "The Divine Comedy". Because the person who wrote that question must not have envisioned someone b...

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I do agree that a "reverse prompt" should be given in this situation. For all the player knows, the past clues were about Inferno, and not the other parts of the Divine Comedy. It wouldn't be fair to neg them because of that. It's the same thing as the trees thing. To be honest, I think a ...

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