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I've been waiting for the chance to draft myself in a fantasy league -- I'm in.

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I did not make the final decision for the date of ACF Nationals, but April 27-28 is the date of NHBB Nationals. NHBB Nationals monopolizes a lot of staff. I supposed I'd be interested in seeing exactly how much overlap there is between the two staffer bases; I'd heard talk that it wasn't as big as ...

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Assuming Karsten Rynearson stays enrolled at Greens Farms for high school, they should be able to legitimately challenge Darien for the title of top team in Connecticut, while Wilton will obviously continue to be a strong team (though I'm uncertain about how solid they will be in literature, science...

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The geography problem is that people don't always know which stats to look at. I don't expect everybody to dig up stats from a random school across the country that has a terrific player but didn't attend every tournament and consistently puts up mediocre showings at national tournaments. Again, th...

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Pablo Picasso 2 wrote:We are discussing the possibility of hosting a NASAT mirror - if are interested in helping out, or playing, please post or PM us.

If this is not in July or the first week of August I will almost certainly play.

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Is there a list of people who voted?

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To throw in a couple cents late in the game: Hunter, Plano West, TJ, and Wayzata should have close to half the spots in your top 20. Playing with other great players tanks your ppg, and to get to the finals of a national championship you need to either have an absolutely legendary player (like Clark...

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I would sign up to play this.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:Meet on the tenth floor at 7:10

Can we push this back? Some people are involved in tiebreakers.

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Are there many people who wouldn't be able to attend the weekend of Aug 4-5? I would love to attend, but that weekend doesn't work for me. Unfortunately, I could only attend if the tournament is July 7 or earlier, or August 18 or later. I'm not going to get my hopes up for a drastic date change, bu...

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:
An Economic Ignoramus wrote:The WQC sitting is rescheduled to 9 on Saturday. A signup sheet is forthcoming.

Edit: here one is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... p=drivesdk
Sorry, I missed this, what's WQC?

World Quizzing Championships.

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Due to conflicts with FILM and not enough content having been written, we will not be running this playtest.

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote:
Finally, we need buzzers! I am to understand that team buzzers are locked away for PACE, but any extra buzzers would be greatly appreciated.

I have a set of buzzers that I can (hopefully) remember to bring.

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If Matt Bruce is not removed by NAQT or NAQT fails to explain their oversight with regards to the very obvious nature of his blog posts, I will do my best to make sure that CTQBA-supported events and any sort of tournament Bowdoin hosts do not use NAQT sets, and I will not in good conscience be able...

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Team sign-ups are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

We'll tentatively be running this as doubles.

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This is a brief announcement that there will be a side event/playtest of the Max and Friends packet on Friday night at NSC. The set will not be complete, but we anticipate having 5 packets whose distribution includes 1/1 of the following: Golden Age of Animation Cartoons tropical fruit in history an...

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I will be organizing a Friday Night (after David Riley) playtest of Max and Friends Wet N' Wild Summer Fun Packet(s), a guerrilla set written by moderators of ILQBM. We will likely have about 40/40 or 50/50 of total content ready for play.

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Personally I get really tired of people who have nothing to be afraid of feeling empowered by the reactions of the community to shitty things that happen. I'm sure some of you mean well, but honestly when you say things like you're 'buoyed" by the support blah blah and in the same breath call ...

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I love this game to death and can't stand by while these incredible people feel hurt by the inaction of the quiz bowl community. As someone in the groupchat referenced above, and an employee of an organization that allowed one of these individuals to staff their national championship, I am a complic...

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I'm also looking into running a Boston event, with a main event on Saturday (I'm thinking NASAT right now) + smaller events dotted throughout Saturday & Sunday. I'm not sure of the state of the MSU event, but would anyone/site be very against this happening? For reasons of redundancy, too far f...

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Because I'm somewhat bored, here's a shorter ranking of just Freshmen/below this year: 1. Me. I know, I know. 2. Matthew Lehmann 3. Clark Smith 4. Rahul Keyal 5. Luke Tierney 6. Tracy Mirkin 7. James Malouf 8. Annabelle Yang 9. Nitin Rao 10. Jonathan Tran 11. John Waldron 12. Ashwin Ramaswami 13. P...

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troyharris wrote:Quick correction. AMSA is not the only team going to PACE. Plymouth is also going.

As are Darien and Wilton, to the best of my knowledge.

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Something the newer members of my team commented about to me at SMT Saturday was how "intense" they found most of the other teams to be. It seems to me that college quiz bowl could do a better job of getting newer teams opportunities against weaker opponents, rather than very experienced c...

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My point is, Harvard was asked to host SMT, as an act of charity to the circuit. From my understanding, Harvard didn't want to, because they would have much rather played it. But they did host it. Considering this seems to be the case for basically every tournament in New England, it might be worth...

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I was accepted into my dream school, turned it down because the financial aid wasn't good enough, and I couldn't be happier that I did. Make the best of your situation, and keep in mind that you'll end up in the right place.

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I will speak for myself first as I had an inexcusable role in the breakdown, however my words do not represent the viewpoint of any other members of the FACTS team; I was the sole writer for humanities questions for the 5 Charter packets that were agreed upon (due to the mysterious incident of all ...

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I'm a big fan of powers per game as a base statistic.

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I don't know if this is possible, but it would be really awesome to be able to sort programs by their "program status," or even if they just have a listed coach/contact as I'm currently going through a list of the 190 CT schools in the database and clicking on the links to get that informa...

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Just want to note that Bowdoin would be interested in fielding 1-2 teams for this tournament if it gets rescheduled to, say, March 3 or April or some date we actually have time to plan for. Maybe you can afford to announce less than 100 hours in advance when you have several Harvard, MIT, Tufts, etc...

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Tornrak wrote:What set is this on?

Looks like IS-174, based on NAQT's website.

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Harvard is almost certainly going to mirror the Stevenson Memorial Tournament (SMT) in March/April. While it is geared for college students, we also encourage high schools to consider playing as it will be good practice for nationals. Pending final approval from the school, we plan on hosting SMT o...

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Mr. Brightside, but only because I am emotionally attached to the song.

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I'm no expert on the 70s, but nobody's mentioned "The Boxer" yet.

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Mr. Brightside
Hey Ya!

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So, rather than a strict limitation, would a disclaimer stating something like "This tournament is intended for newer teams" suffice to illustrate the idea that schools should consider bringing more inexperienced players over seasoned ones? That will likely keep national contenders from a...

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NSC probably does a better job of determining the best team in the country on an annual basis, but the flip side of that is HSNCT is just a much more exciting tournament to be a part of. The vast majority of the top 200 teams in Morlan Rank will play HSNCT, while NSC's field will lean more top-heavy...

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Do you have Columbia Fall on there? No, because they never posted combined stats and I've yet to try to calculate those myself. Speaking of this: if you know anyone at the following tournaments who could post combined stats, it'd help me out greatly. Darien Invitational VCU Winter Hunter SCOP Picke...

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Crazy
Wake Me Up When September Ends
Mr. Brightside
Since U Been Gone
Clocks (plz knock out Kanye)
Wake Up
Toxic
Chasing Pavements

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Since Connecticut is also part of New England: Darien is not as good as in the past 2 years, but is very likely the second-best team in New England (to a full Lexington A). Julia Tong is a very talented player, but the team's younger players will need to step up if the team wants to be in the nation...

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Little Lion Man
Since U Been Gone
Not Ready to Make Nice
Do You Realize??
Best of You
Clocks
Standing in the Way of Control
Chasing Pavements

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I think an important question is whether the individual's presence would make tournament participants feel threatened or extremely uncomfortable. For example, a member of our team was often bullied at tournaments by a student at another school, and I've been prepared to ban said student from our tou...

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Never mind, mods please FZ this.

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It's probably worth noting that Hunter A held a 165-point halftime lead in the final before one of their players had to leave.

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Thank you Darien for hosting yesterday's tournament. Everything ran smoothly and West Egg had a lot of fun playing. For the most part, I really enjoyed the set and I thought that the questions were well written with accessible answerlines for newer quiz bowl players. I think the first couple of pac...

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Sorry for being really non-specific there, but there were a bunch of questions that struck me as probably not belonging in what was advertised as an easy set. I should clarify that a lot of those seemed hard for the intended target difficulty of WHAQ II, which I believe was regular-minus (that being...

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Things that should not be tossed up: Potsdam, Miranda(?), Etruscans(?), Hansberry, electrolysis(?), Ostrogoths, Natty Bumpo (why not just do Cooper?), Cesar Chavez(?), Finn Maccool, Kadesh Many more answerlines seemed to resemble a regular/regular+ set and were not particularly accessible. The philo...

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Updated Field:
Greens Farms (2)
Suffield (2)
West Egg (1)
Wilton (1)
Middlesex Middle (2)
Hunter (1)
Kellenberg (3-4)

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Field update?

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IMPORTANT: High school players may not staff (or observe) SCTs. (NAQT is expanding the use of the Division II SCT set for spring-semester high school tournaments.) Just for avoidance of doubt: this also applies to high school coaches, correct? Correct. (This one isn't a change and applied last year...

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IMPORTANT: High school players may not staff (or observe) SCTs. (NAQT is expanding the use of the Division II SCT set for spring-semester high school tournaments.) Just for avoidance of doubt: this also applies to high school coaches, correct? Correct. (This one isn't a change and applied last year...

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