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Columbia just signed up 4 teams, so we have a little more leeway on buzzers--but still bring extras if you have them!--but I'm going to cap the teams now. Any teams signing up after this point shouldn't expect any guarantee that they'll be able to play if they don't also happen to have staff with th...

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The following is taken from the global ACF registration form, so if something doesn't seem right, you'll need to change the details there. (Or I just haven't noticed/updated the difference in listings yet.) TEAM | BUZZERS | STAFF ------------------------------- Rochester A | 2 | 0 Rochester B | 0 | ...

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Hello, all! This is the general announcement for the Northeast site of ACF Regionals 2016, which will be hosted by Harvard on January 30, 2015. I (Raynor Kuang) will be tournament directing. ACF Regionals will be a packet submission college-regular tournament, and the primary method for qualifying f...

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Is the doc already up, or will it be posted sometime tomorrow when this starts?

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I've been meaning to write a handful of vanity movie answerlines, so I guess I'll write it for this.

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Can I see one of the Bible bonuses that I believe went something like David - [second bonus part] - Rehoboam? 2. The book of Psalms is traditionally attributed to this figure. For 10 points each: [10] Name this great Hebrew king. Some of the darker chapters in this man’s life include his adultery w...

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randomguy1997 wrote:The bonus about the Peleponnesian War contained something about Herodotus recording its history... wouldn't that be Thucydides?

Yes, another person has pointed that out to me--it's been fixed. Thanks!

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I must admit the Chicago Cubs - Red Sox - Steve Bartman bonus was quite easy for most of us at the Rockford Auburn Mirror. Ah, yes, I guess that is unfortunately the nature of regional sports teams :P I tried to keep the geographic distribution even, but I think it's fair to argue that Steve Bartma...

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At the prompting of HSAPQ, I think Mass. should start thinking about a NASAT team. Saumil has said he's willing to arrange tryouts at the 2/27 tournament at MIT if there's enough interest, and I wouldn't mind coaching (to an extent) any substantive team. If people are willing to center this around B...

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I think the discussions in this post are applicable again here. In my experience, I think a big part of the problem is cultural, both for the TD and the teams. Many competitive regions need to register teams before they can concretely decide on team members. A fair, contractual system would require ...

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Are there plans to mirror this at NSC again? Apologies if there are and I've negligently not looked hard enough yet.

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Oh, that is definitely not what it used to look like--I must have broken the prelim stats after trying to fix the mistakes noted above.

EDIT: Should be fixed by now.

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The Judith question now looks like this: 18. In one painting of this title, blood squirts diagonally out of one of the title character’s necks as the maid Abra calmly observes the scene on the right. For 10 points each: [10] Give this title of two paintings depicting a biblical heroine grabbing the ...

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Stats for playoffs are up now. Some issues: 1. I was unable to figure out how to manually have SQBS set standings, so to find standings you should go to the Playoff stats and compare round 11 head-to-head games in the Berdych and K . The top standings are manually reproduced below: - Bethlehem Centr...

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Apologies for not posting the question myself, still not at a computer. But I think I'm going to add Gentileschi to the first part, there's no reason not to.

And before anyone needs to ask, yes, I'll be fixing the Troy tossup as well.

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Bethlehem Central defeated Lexington A in a one-game final to take the tournament. Stats will unfortunately not be up for a few hours, as I have to catch a flight, but I'll try and find time afterward to upload the rest. Thanks to all teams for attending! I think we ran a lot more smoothly than in p...

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Prelims are up. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... s/prelims/

Missing teams/buzzers caused a late start, but we're still on track to finish by 5:30.

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Though it was only 1/1 of the set, I spent some time thinking about how I wanted to approach trash in this set. My philosophy was that trash has often been a "vanity" category in many sets, appearing merely to reflect the interests of the writer/editor, and I wanted to turn trash into more...

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As editor of the HFT X set, I tried my utmost to keep the set rewarding but fun to play and easy to access. In that vein, I tried to avoid both answer lines that were unconvertible or of arbitrary diffiult, as well as "stock clues" that teams would have felt unhappy to lose a buzzer race o...

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Post comments about particular questions or requests for specific questions here.

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Post things here related to the general feel and composition of the set. You're welcome to use specific question examples, but please keep question requests in the "Specific Question" thread so I can easily find the requests.

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Final playtesting in #hftstupidsexybrady. It's a little abrupt, but join if you want to hear trash.

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I've just emailed all teams currently expected to attend. If you didn't receive an email, please let me know.

Drops have reduced our number to 26. If you're interested in bringing a team, or dropped but can now send a team after all, we still have one or two more spots!

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The set is done, and we're doing final playtesting and packetizing.

We're still looking for multiple mirrors in the South, NorCal, and the Pacific NW. Hit me up if you're interested!

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6 days left! We're now at 27, so I'm solidifying the team cap there. Any still interested teams will appear on the wait-list. For those teams who've already registered, please check the field list above to make sure that everything is square. Full tournament details will be emailed out later today o...

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Bump for under two weeks left! We are sitting at 25 teams right now. A multiple of 3 would be optimal, so let's see if we can get up to 27 or 30! Writing is 99% done, final editing is taking place, and they look to be very enjoyable :D

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Bump on this, since only one person has messaged me all week.

Also, I forgot to mention, but we now have a mirror site at Rockford Auburn in Illinois as well!

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The set's close to done, so I'll be playtesting some various finicky questions (mainly lit, history, arts; some science, RMP) this Thursday at 7:30 PM EST on IRC in channel [just kidding, see edit] and server slashnet. Use your real name for your nick; you'll be expected to identify yourself regardl...

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Just remembered the umbrella question as well. Was there a conscious decision not to include "Description acceptable" at the beginning of the question, since it apparently was? A few other questions did that, and I was happy they did. Did the editor feel it would have generated even more t...

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the uranium question can only be one of a few things the moment you mention "mine," and then you mention Australia and the thing being mined being capable of contaminating an entire site I don't understand what this means; I don't know why it's a problem that you could get the question if...

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I think it's more like tossups along the lines of "hm what's something you mine that you really wouldn't want to get in your water supply" This, but also dropping equator in power for the Coriolis force question (in addition to Jacob's regional thing). Maybe you don't mind someone buzzing...

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Finest Hour speech (I don't ever remember seeing a tossup on that), German POWs, Soviet space program, Navy SEALs, and the uranium history question. I just thought those answer lines were fresh and good examples of accessible but challenging places history questions can go. These are interesting ex...

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Also, to save me the trouble of finding the location in the set, does anyone know the round of the Trunks question? Jeez, that one came out of left field. And, it was decision that favored our team, but I'm interested to hear why reflection wasn't promptable for total internal reflection (or at what...

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I don't really like making this complaint since it sort of sounds like "oh I've played lots of quizbowl look at how I figured things out," but I did think the "fraudability"/figure-it-out-bowl of a couple questions were really egregious--I felt rewarded for taking a chance and as...

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I think there were two different bonus parts on incompressibility.

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A few teams have dropped, so we have plenty of space. There's only a month left, so get those registrations in!

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Thanks to more staff, I've upped the team cap to 27. We're currently sitting at 26, so get those registrations in!

I know I'm starting to sound like a skipped record at this point...but we still have no team staff! So please, sign those staffers up.

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Are there are any more details about this? I sent an email signing up a team a while ago, but never received a response.

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I had a lot of fun moderating this. It was really nice to see the growth of the local Mass circuit that Stephen fostered!

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The team cap has now been filled, at 24 teams. Please continue registering, as I'll maintain a waitlist, and I do expect that we'll be able to increase the cap size. I also want to reiterate that team brought staff are crucial to expanding the cap size . Right now not a single team is bringing a sta...

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Another update: we now have mirrors in the Mid-Atlantic (RMHS) and Canada (Toronto U). We're still looking for mirrors in the South, NorCal, and another Midwest site. If you're interested, please contact me!

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This is a x-post of an idea I proposed in one of the Theory posts when someone asked about spreadsheets. I think it would be a good idea to have a regularly updated sticky at the top of this subforum containing links and brief descriptions of all the completed (or mostly completed) software and soft...

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It seems like great tools are continually being created and then recreated as the threads disappear. Is there a sticky that can be made of all the free tools that people have created over time? These spreadsheets, Quinterest (and like the two other question databases I can't remember), the various o...

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I've explicitly added a rule about the size of rosters allowed (6 players). If this is a problem for any of the teams who've already registered, please let me know. Furthermore, as we hit 2/3 registration, I want to reiterate that staffers are crucial to how much we can extend our team cap . I under...

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I'm pleased to announce that HFT X has been awarded platinum certification, which means that the top 25% of teams (rounded to the nearest integer) will qualify for the PACE NSC championship in June! Contact me or PACE if you have any questions. Full details can be found here.

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It's the last practice of the summer! If you're at all around for whatever reason and looking for something to do, come by.

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What? No! Those situations are not the same! If you hear a clue about magnetic flux in a law named after this man, and you buzz in and say "oh, that's referring to Faraday 's law!" then you are correctly identifying the answer of a question based on a clue that you heard! What that has to...

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If I were editing these particular questions, I'd probably prompt on "divine wind" and "lightning war". Even if the literal translations aren't technically correct, NAQT questions are read faaaast in real-life tournaments, I never want to neg high school players for 90% knowing ...

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50% of available spots have been taken! Though I anticipate increasing the cap size, this is still by no means guaranteed and any staff you can bring (especially coaches willing to moderate) will assist greatly. Get your registrations in while you still can!

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A slight tangential question I have is, if people would like to see easier regular-level questions, what's their opinion on how the national questions should change in difficulty? In the CO thread, I think people made a compelling argument that since CO is targeted at and written by people who enjoy...

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