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There's been vague talk about putting together a press release, including details about quizbowl and extending invitations to the national tournaments, and sending it to all these reporters. Does someone want to take the helm of this project? It's an unfortunate event but this is the most press qui...

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I'd like to say something about cheating in general. I mean, I get it. I'll bet part of the reason a lot of us play this game is because we like the feeling of being the smartest person in the room. It feels good! And when we don't feel like that after getting beaten, it's a big blow to the ego. But...

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Would programs who qualified teams via autobid (Minnesota, Buffalo, Central Florida, Truman State, Texas A&M, Delaware, McMaster, Ohio State) have hosted SCT without that opportunity? Nope. Are there other teams in those regions who would have hosted otherwise? I'm not asking this rhetorically,...

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I edited the American and British Literature, American History, half of the European History and Trash for this tournament. Re: that F-15 tossup. Yeahh, this was a replacement for a submission on "guns," which I tried to make into a tossup on specific guns before giving up and writing a to...

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This tournament will be taking place entirely within University Hall . Please meet in room 014 of that building for registration, which will be from 8:15-45. Be on time so we can start games. I'm not entirely sure, but I think that the closest parking garage to University is is the Ohio Union South ...

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hsqb is a beef-free zone

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Since it took longer than usual to get this site announced, playing here is now packet-optional. So even if you haven't written a packet (Michigan State), you can come play. As per a Canadian hybrid team, I'm afraid we're going to have to disallow it. You can feel free to come down and play this wi...

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Yeah, as Tanay said, we'll have 18 packets, and that sounds like a lot of fun, so I'm totally good with that. I'm also adding an OSU team and capping the field at 12. I'll send an e-mail with information out sometime in the next 48 hours. EDIT: I'd like to point out that this tournament is 50% solo ...

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All teams who are coming to this tournament should send me an e-mail if you haven't already. Facebook messages, PMs, etc. are not sufficient. Specifically, I'd like to know just how many Canadian teams are coming.

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I'm going to talk to Auroni about shorthanded discounts and get back to you guys.

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This set seemed kind of hastily edited, resulting in a lot of missing words (and questions!), packets with varying fonts and formats, and the aforementioned unevenness of the bonuses. I enjoyed many questions in this set, but, for example, when Ike asked me what my favorite tossup of the day was, I...

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There's a high probability that I won't be able to make it to CO this year, so if you want any extra help editing, I'd be down for that, Marshall.

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I don't have much to add aside from what has already been said. This set seemed kind of hastily edited, resulting in a lot of missing words (and questions!), packets with varying fonts and formats, and the aforementioned unevenness of the bonuses. I enjoyed many questions in this set, but, for exam...

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The tossup on Mao's Wives was pretty terrible; let's not do that again.

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I will also note that there's nothing easy about a bonus going corvee/gabelle/tithe; if you can 30 that, then you are good at history. This is true. I don't have much to add aside from what has already been said. This set seemed kind of hastily edited, resulting in a lot of missing words (and quest...

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Senator_Jay wrote:So I could come down and play as McMaster by myself potentially?

Yes.

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Since it took longer than usual to get this site announced, playing here is now packet-optional. So even if you haven't written a packet (Michigan State), you can come play. As per a Canadian hybrid team, I'm afraid we're going to have to disallow it. You can feel free to come down and play this wit...

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So, right now we only have one team registered, and we're about a week and a half away from this tournament, so please register!

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I got the VCU Closed question on saving Jews during the Holocaust thanks to my obsessively deep knowledge of Hark, A Vagrant! : http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=144 Argh! That may be the only Hark! A Vagrant I haven't read, and as a result I watched helplessly as Richard Yu powered that tossup ...

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(Cribbed from Daniel's thread) Sorry for the delay in posting this, before I knew that Jasper and I would be editing this thing, I had reserved rooms for a History Bowl tournament in our usual space and getting more rooms requires a lot of work for a university of 50k students, apparently. OSU will ...

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OSU will be here with some number of teams, I'm sure.

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Man, can we just burn protobowl?

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Results: In DI, Michigan A defeated Michigan B in the first game of an advantaged final. In DII, Kenyon and Michigan C escaped a 4-way tie also involving Ohio State A and Michigan State B. In the final, Kenyon defeated Michigan C on the last tossup. Complete and final stats are available at the abov...

Rufous-capped Thornbill · Re: NAQT Region 7 SCT at Ohio State - 2/9/2013 Stats will be updated here.

Stats will be updated here.

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Hey everyone, This tournament will be held in the Central Classrooms Building, with the opening meeting occurring in Hitchcock Hall 131 before we head there. Please be inside Hithcock by 8:45 at the latest so that we can begin play by 9; registration will take place between 8 and 8:45. The closest p...

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Overall I enjoyed this tournament, but I would agree with a lot of folks in that it was about average. Mostly good, but nothing extraordinary. However, that tossup on Stalin using clues on biographies on him was pretty awful and turned into a buzzer race at the giveaway. A lot of the poetry bonuses ...

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Big thanks for Northwestern for hosting this. Everything went pretty smoothly and you guys did a great job.

On another note, is the last playoff round going to be entered into the stats anytime soon?

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Firmly stick to the full-line switch at the half. Even taking out the player who answered 7 toss-ups in the 1st half. You must take that player out, he's answering too many questions. I feel like I know a specific team you are describing here. You have clearly never been to many tournaments in Illi...

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Firmly stick to the full-line switch at the half. Even taking out the player who answered 7 toss-ups in the 1st half. You must take that player out, he's answering too many questions. I feel like I know a specific team you are describing here. You have clearly never been to many tournaments in Illi...

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Hello everyone. I'm pleased to announce that Ohio State will be hosting NAQT's SCT for Region 7 on February 9th, 2013 Location and field: As with most OSU tournaments, we will most likely be playing games in the Central Classroom Building after a quick meeting in a nearby lecture hall. This will be ...

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A lot of the local teams you might play as apart of your league are probably like a football or basketball coach with likely no teaching position or has a gig like teaching gym and being the faculty advisor for such a quiz bowl team is apart of what keeps them employed by the school district. This ...

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OSU would prefer the later date, as the 16th falls within our spring break.

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Obviously Doug won this, but are there any extant standings for the curious?

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Well, I guess that settles that. Sorry, everyone.

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Regarding things I wrote or edited... 1. One theory about this formation is that it was built to align with the summer solstice sunset. For 10 points each: [10] Name this 411 meter long archaeological formation that features a spiral tail and an open mouth. ANSWER: Great Serpent Mound [10] The build...

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This trend of high schoolers telling other high schoolers that actually reading things is a waste of time is really annoying and should stop. Starting to learn things for quizbowl can be a very daunting task, but the best advice ever given to anyone when trying to improve is also the simplest: "...

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Gerard Louis, a member of our team, was the tournament director who handled stats and made sure everything kept moving and all of the other fun things TDs do during tournaments (he was the one who caught the fact that an incredibly sleep deprived staffer had read a wrong packet, and handled it)... ...

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Gerard Louis, a member of our team, was the tournament director who handled stats and made sure everything kept moving and all of the other fun things TDs do during tournaments (he was the one who caught the fact that an incredibly sleep deprived staffer had read a wrong packet, and handled it). Wha...

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Sorry for the delay in stats. Prelims can be found here, combined stats here. For 2nd place, we had a 3 way tie after Michigan cleared the field to win. Chicago A, Chicago B and OSU were seeded by ppb, with OSU having the highest and thus the birth in the 2nd place "championship," where th...

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Michigan A won this at 9-0. Chicago A, Chicago B and OSU are currently playing off for 2nd place.

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Be in Dreese by, and preferably before, 9. I sent an email out to people I had contact info for last night.

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Unless a team really really wants to join the field, I'm gonna close the field at 14 right now. We'll be meeting in Dreese Hall 113 (the large lecture hall) in the morning and then playing the tournament in the Central Classroom Building. I'll be sending out an email with final details sometime soon.

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sephirothrr wrote:UofL would like to send one team. I tried to send an email to the address a few days ago, but no one responded.

Sorry about that, I must have missed it! Welcome to the field.

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Still a week to sign up for this tournament!

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I just sent an e-mail out to as many Midwest teams as I could find contact information for, but this tournament is three weeks away and we have no one signed up yet, which is weird for the Midwest. So please, sign up!

Rufous-capped Thornbill · Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Penn-ance at Ohio State (10/27/2012) Indeed it is.

Indeed it is.

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Case Western B beat Wright State in the first game of an advantaged final to win this. Due to some very last minute drops, we had to drastically change our schedule, and were only able to play 7 games, but I hope everyone had a great time. Final stats can be found here. Thanks again to everyone who ...

Rufous-capped Thornbill · Re: Collegiate Novice at Ohio State (SUNDAY, 9/16/2012) Staaats

Staaats

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Adam played with Will at BARGE, too, IIRC.

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