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This was my first time editing any tournament, so I would greatly appreciate any feedback you have on the history, religion, myth, and current events questions (which I edited). I did not update the current events questions after finishing editing the set sometime in February.

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Round 8 indeed had two geography tossups and a part-geography miscellaneous tossup in the first 12 tossups. I don't have my notes on hand, but I recall the first half of this round being science heavy (so much so, it caused one of my players to tell me that he should sit out for the tiebreaker rath...

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To make sure I understand: many people have deep enough "White Collar" (the show) knowledge that they buzzed on the first sentence? If so, that's entirely on me; I wasn't sure how deep to go on clues about White Collar (the show) for my lead-in, and I presumably would have made the same m...

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People in my car played the 2009 ICT D1 set on the way up to Chicago on Friday night to practice. When I played this year's D2 set, I noticed a couple of word for word repeated bonuses (with changed third parts): the Ishtar/Anu/Ea bonus (Antu was the original third part and it was word for word repe...

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Mike Bentley also has some sort of QB randomization program. Usually you have to move between 1-3 things, but it's better than nothing.

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You'd be better off using the money you spent on study guides and practice questions to sightsee when you go to HSNCT or if you qualify for another tournament. You can find questions from old tournaments by searching the High School Quiz Bowl Packet Archive (just use Google to find it). Don't forget...

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I'd be curious to see the full text of... Essays of Mark Twain and Tombs of Canova. 7. A later one of these, published in 1889 includes a proposal to use “Simplified Spelling.” They include one addressed to children about using pictures to make history dates stick, as well as one that discusses the...

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We'd like everyone to arrive by 8:30 am ET, for a 9:00 am ET start. 8:30 am ET start = 4:30 am CT departure from Aurora. That wouldn't work for us. If the start time were 10 am, I think we could do it. I personally don't have any objection to a later start. However, those with longer drives may not...

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We will not be bringing a moderator.

evilmonkey wrote: Interest
Indiana
More Depauw
IMSA

I hope to see these teams at this mirror.

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Westwon wrote:Thanks to Coach Price for running a solid tournament. I was very impressed with what I saw from the students.

Ditto. I know that others I drove from UIUC say they enjoyed the experience and feel much the same way as the above post.

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I'm figuring on using PPB (controlled) to break multi-way ties. Head-to-head ties will be broken on the match result from that pool. After Junior Wildcat, I really don't know what to do with the wildcards... I mean, Daniel Wright B, a decent enough team, got the wildcard on PPB, but I think the sam...

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I'd like to thank Ike Jose, Craig Messner, and Dayne Rogers for showing up to help staff this tournament. I hope all of the teams that attended this site found the tournament enjoyable.

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Rom and Friends (Rom Masrour, Bruce Arthur, Richard Mason) is still looking for a 4th player. If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please let one of us know. I have joined this team, apparently despite the best efforts of Charles Martin to assign me to some sort of free agent team wi...

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Illinois will be at this tournament with 2 teams, 2 buzzers, and, potentially, 1 moderator.

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If you have claimed free agents or are bringing people that I have included in my first post in this thread, please let me know. I will add all free agents that have not been picked up to shorthanded teams on Friday.

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At no time in this question is "Moral Hazard" possibly correct as an answer. All of the clues clearly relate to hidden information (adverse selection) rather than hidden action (moral hazard). Furthermore, the tossup is festooned with words like "separating," "pooling,"...

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Could you post the increasing returns and adverse selection tossups? From what I remember about the adverse selection tossup, the third thing described (somewhere near line 4 or 5) was a case of moral hazard, not adverse selection, therefore I buzzed in with information asymmetry and convinced the o...

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I'll attempt to do this with some sort of order and not repeat too many points made by others: I just want people to know that this was honestly the worst tournament I've ever been to. Then you have not been to many tournaments. See the thread about last year's Indiana SCT if you would like to see w...

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On the topic of side events, I haven't heard anything about Guerrila RPG 2, so I'm assuming that it won't happen. Therefore, I have no plans to run that side event unless people write and email me packets by 8 AM Friday morning. Wissenschaftlehre will be run. The format will depend wholly on how man...

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There are 15 packets for this tournament, hence there will be some form of a round robin before teams are broken into an upper and lower bracket. An ACF style final will be played if necessary. I will provide a final schedule when a final team count has been decided. I would prefer to avoid byes if ...

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I informed Bowling Green about the existence of this mirror of MUT. Hopefully they will sign up for this tournament on their own. Failing that, I urge someone from Notre Dame to get in contact with one of their players and encourage them to come to this tournament.

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I have updated this field. Mike Sorice is available as a free agent for this tournament. I have been told that Seth Teitler is also playing this tournament, so I have put him in the free agent list. I strongly encourage more teams (Chicago?) to attend this tournament. If you believe you are playing ...

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I tell my teammates that they each get to hit me if I neg too often ("often" being dictated by which team we're playing that round). It's not the most conventional method, but it's curbed my negging a bit and helped me remember things that I've negged far better than just being berated by ...

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If I determine that there's enough money for this, there will be a UIUC team or two.

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EDIT: Answered my own question.

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Bumping this b/c I could use a few more moderators... There will be a full car (5 people) from UIUC. I don't know exactly who those people will be yet. Martin Garb? Is someone gonna be in charge of making sure he wakes up? I'm not beyond making a wake-up call.... :wink: Messner? These two have spok...

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Moving Day wrote:Bumping this b/c I could use a few more moderators...

There will be a full car (5 people) from UIUC. I don't know exactly who those people will be yet.

Papa's in the House · Re: IO @ UIUC - 3/5/11 I encourage more teams to sign up for this tournament.

I encourage more teams to sign up for this tournament.

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Two of our freshmen dropped, so we'll only have one team.

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We are bringing one team and at least one buzzer (two if I remember to talk to Ike).

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Because I'm an idiot and forgot to get buzzers from Ike, we will only have one buzzer.

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Members have until Monday to tell me if they're attending. I'll let you know then if we'll have a second team (if I say nothing, we're only bringing one team). We will have 2 buzzers.

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UIUC will be bringing 2 buzzer sets.

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millionwaves wrote:we 5 teams in the DI bracket and 11 teams in the DII bracket (with one more DII team listed as "in process")

Fixed

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Chicago will sign up soon, most likely with 3 teams in each division. Are there other Division 1 teams out there who are coming? I know UIC will try to sign up a team soon, and have Rom play solo for DI. Hey, we'll actually have non-combined fields. Awesome. Please bring moderators if at all possib...

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Side events will take place on Sunday starting at 10:00 AM in David Kinley Hall.

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EncyclopediaCDRom wrote:What kind of side event is this? Would it be Saturday evening, Sunday morning, or Sunday afternoon?

Watching over my recovering (from spaying) Anna,
Rom

Side events will be held on Sunday.

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Is there any news of a possible East Coast mirror? That's a good question. I emailed a couple of people and invited proposals for mirror sites, but I haven't had much interest. So I'll put it out there again: I would like the tournament to be mirrored if anyone is interested in hosting. Brown would...

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Is there any news of a possible East Coast mirror? That's a good question. I emailed a couple of people and invited proposals for mirror sites, but I haven't had much interest. So I'll put it out there again: I would like the tournament to be mirrored if anyone is interested in hosting. Brown would...

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Cheynem wrote:RPG

And Wissenshaftslehre (I don't remember the exact spelling right now).

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Because I used Excel and didn't script anything, this took a long time to do, so I don't know how excited I'll be to do it on other data (of course, if someone who likes that stuff wants to spend their time doing it...). If you have access to it, I would use Crystal Ball to run further Monte Carlo ...

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I feel fairly confident saying that at this point there isn't anyone in the CC crowd who has any business consistently beating Dallin on high school/ DII sectionals questions outside of 1-2 bump-in-the-road surprise losses (at low difficulties, they happen). (BULLETIN BOARD) While I'm sure Dallin w...

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Edward Elric wrote:
dtaylor4 wrote:I wish I could provide insight into the Illinois CCSCT, but I'm slated to staff, and I've heard jack shit.
I haven't heard anything either. The TD doesn't answer emails.

You should be able to reach Michael Schrader of Moraine Valley CC at [email protected].

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With a little over 3 weeks until the tournament, there are only 2 teams registered for this tournament (SIU-Edwardsville and Eureka College). Please sign up soon.

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I apologize if I sound impatient here; this seems like a really simple hosting bid and I don't know what could possibly be holding us up. Some people are still on break and a subset of those people work over break. I'm sure they'll get to your bid before the tournament takes place elsewhere in the ...

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Chris C.'s post contains many of the basics. Do your best to follow tip #1; you don't want to be next Indiana SCT 2010. You could also read this thread for more information, but be sure to keep in mind that this poster was trying to use non-standard rules and a non-standard format. I think this thre...

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It is true that motels in Evanston and the surrounding area are not cheap. There is a Motel 6 in Glenview, about a 30-40 min. drive to Northwestern, which may be your best bet. There are many hotels in the Gurnee area and other northern suburbs (~30-40 min. drive to Northwestern). Most of these hot...

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I have created a logistics thread for the main site. See here for further information.

On a side note, I would be quite happy if a moderator decided to move all posts related to the UIUC field from this thread over to the one I created.

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Since I'm taking over as TD of this tournament, I don't want this post to wind up in the middle of the main IO thread and be ignored*. Therefore, I have created this thread for all logistics information, field updates, team registrations, etc. I will make periodic updates to the field in this post. ...

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We'll have 2 teams and 2 buzzers. An email has been sent.

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