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Set is fully written and undergoing a last round of cosmetic/nit-pick edits now. Have fun, suckas

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I've elaborated upon this before , so I'll be brief: I agree with pretty much everything this thread says. In particular, themed questions are great, and everybody should write them. However, I am still suspicious of "creative" answer lines (creative questions are fine and good, of course...

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I've elaborated upon this before , so I'll be brief: I agree with pretty much everything this thread says. In particular, themed questions are great, and everybody should write them. However, I am still suspicious of "creative" answer lines (creative questions are fine and good, of course...

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How many rooms does NAQT believe a question has to be played in for conversion data to be meaningful?

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We are still hoping that some more free agents might be available to play Chicago Open on a 20th team, which will make our schedule work more efficiently. This team would be packet-exempt. Contact [email protected], CCing Dan Passner at [email protected], if interested.

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Given the growing organizational and conceptual separation between quizbowl* and History Bowl, and the continued disappointment on the part of many in quizbowl with various facets of History Bowl as currently put in practice, it doesn't strike me as odd that people are more frustrated now than they ...

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The Top Percentage of Rattatas wrote:
Wynaut wrote:Have you received a packet from Chris Borglum et. al. yet? Dylan says he submitted it days ago.
It's marked as submitted in the team formation sheet, so I think we're fine, though I never got a confirmation.

Yes, we received this.

Other teams: Be like Chris Borglum et. al. Submit packets!

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Given the relatively small number of matches which occur on Sunday, the team attendance record over the past few years, and the large registration and travel costs which teams often have to raise themselves to attend NASAT, has thought been given to making it a one-day event, akin to ICT? Given that...

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All, Chicago Open, to be held on the day preceding this tournament, is currently in need of at least two more experienced staffers to run successfully. If you're currently planning only to attend CO Trash, and are around and able to help with the event that makes CO Trash possible, please get in tou...

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The Oklahoma team has dropped from the CO field. This means we have the very inconvenient number of 19 teams, which would force us to use a pretty contorted schedule with multiple byes for some teams. (A full round robin is currently not an option given scheduling constraints.) We're reasonably sure...

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Is there a reason tossups are worth only 1 point in the Bowl? Just to keep things consistent with the Bee?

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Tonight is the no-penalty deadline for basically everybody -- make it count!

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2007-ish, I'd say; some topics and writing styles have gone in and out of vogue since then, but the basics of good quizbowl as it exists now were existent in Fall and Regionals from about that point forward.

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MorganV wrote:
AZQuizbowl wrote:"did you know the Rhodesian Ridgeback was bred to fight lions?"
I'd think that dragons would have a pretty easy time fighting lions

don't mansplain

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The basic principle is that you throw out and replace the tossup if there is no plausible factually correct answer to the tossup, or if the officiating of the match made it impossible to ascertain whether a team could have given a/the factually correct answer to a tossup. In the simple case where a ...

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We've received all of one (1) submitted packet so far. Hoping that number goes up drastically tomorrow, which is the -$30 deadline! As it says in the book of Deuteronomy, "the submitted packet is the life".

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Are you the greatest quizbowl player in the land? Even if I were, this certainly wouldn't determine it. I mean, the idea of an all-subjects individual throwdown isn't inherently a bad one. They just need a set of questions that is (a) rigorous enough to draw the putative best players' attention (b)...

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Huh, ACF-content bar trivia actually sounds pretty fun. I'd be curious to see the questions from that get posted after the event. Also, I do realize you guys are stuck with a set that many prominent players have heard for this year, and will be figuring out a custom set in the future, so the field t...

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Bubalus Period wrote:This thread was actually an attempt to out various quizbowlers as Canadian. There are no prizes.

i have here in my hand a list of 205 Canadians working at the state department

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Let's apply this argument to its furthest extent, and imagine a hypothetical tournament in which none of these "stale" clues are used in any question. Max Weber tossups do not talk about Politics as a Vocation, and PRB tossups do not mention Elizabeth Siddall or any other clue that's been...

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Bradley: One thing missing from your post is some reference to how significant such people as Elizabeth Siddall and such ideas as "the state is that which establishes a monopoly on the legitimate use of force" actually are outside of quizbowl. As such, it strikes me that you are inadverten...

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Reminder: The first packet deadline is tonight, and we are eagerly awaiting tasty packets!

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To pick an example about the lead-ins, there are 10 tossups on Esther in Quinterest. 2 of them mention Bigthana and Teresh in the first line and another 2 mention them in the second line. 9 of the 10 tossups include a clue on Vashti. That's cool, right? FTPs are all going to look the same. But actu...

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Our Lady Peace wrote:Honestly, if at this point you're not convinced, I don't know what to say. Jordan Brownstein is good at quizbowl and deserves a spot in your top 25.
I'll keep that in mind when I'm filling out my last few spots

eh, only if he starts learning science

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In general, the human mind tends to seize on extreme deviations from the way things normally are when deciding what is salient or memorable. In quizbowl discussion, I've seen this have the effect of highlighting one or two (or a handful of) especially unique questions, both good and bad, often while...

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We're currently deciding whether or not to expand the field to 21 teams or keep it at 17. A big factor in making this decision either way is knowing if there's enough interest from teams and prospective staff to make this viable. If you're on the fence about attending and would go if space existed,...

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Because more than 17 teams have expressed interest in playing CO, we'd like to do another poll. It is possible that U Chicago will grant us additional rooms and therefore let us expand the field. However, this will require us to abandon the full round robin and switch to a bracketed system. Matt Ja...

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For more on "fix[ing] your broken-ass Judge"

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With Will's go-ahead, the editors have updated the sheet somewhat to fill in some discrepancies between official registrations and the unofficial team formation sheet. This is an additional reminder as well that each team must BOTH register using the official form AND submit a packet to be officiall...

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Unrelatedly, I thought Ike's forays into new conceptual ground with his "literary theory" questions, especially the tossups on "endings" and "genre," were excellent and I'd be happy to see more questions like that from regular difficulty on up.

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Alcibiades from Plato's Symposium I seriously doubt that you would ever read the Symposium in a philosophy class because it's not even really a work of philosophy! Certainly, if you take a class on the history of ancient philosophy you would probably read Timaeus or Parminedes...I have no idea why ...

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There must be some sort of prospect theory-like effect where the appearance of greater text length makes it seem to moderators like they're reading questions that are longer than they actually are. I was quite surprised to find out that what seemed like 11-line monster tossups and 3-line bonus parts...

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As Jacob O'Rourke's thread in the high school section reminds me, it's that time of year again where people start to hear back from transfer applications, grad school apps, job offers, landlords, etc. and make plans to go places. Here is a thread in which current college players or members of the co...

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Final rankings! Michigan A is your 2016 ACF Nationals champion, having beat Chicago A in the first game of an advantaged final. Since ties below the finals weren't broken, is it more proper to say that Maryland and Yale A tied for fourth, that Berkeley and MIT A tied for 7th, etc. than to treat the...

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It would have been nice if the Pine Ridge question had dropped the pronoun earlier - as it was, when I heard a clue along the lines of "After working with the Yurok, Erik Erikson worked..." I assumed the question would ask about the other tribe he worked with, so I buzzed with the Lakota ...

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I wrote some stuff. I have no responsibility for how my DI questions were downconverted to DII. For DI I wrote the following 45 stuffs. In order of appearance: space and time (philosophy), Euthyphro/aporia/Stephanus pagination, Legal Tender cases/Chase/Coxey, Malawi/corn/escarpments, Benedict/cultur...

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I wrote that bonus. As far as I know, the "culture of honor" hypothesis, while probably essentializing and politically problematic (though largely for the opposite side of the aisle from Isaac), is (a) not a Benedict thing (b) pretty widely discussed at least in interdisciplinary social sc...

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John Lawrence is killed in a gunfight against British troops retreating from South Carolina. The war was already over. John dreamed of emancipating and recruiting 3000 men for the first all-black military regiment. His dream of freedom for those men dies with him.

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"LIGHTNING HELIX! OH MY GOD!" def. "Wombo Combo"

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Is playing in (and playing to win) college quizbowl tournaments a prospect that appeals to you? There are many great players in the history of college quizbowl who hit their stride well after finishing high school.

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A full editing team has now been assembled; it can be found in the official announcement.

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Perhaps, as Jerry says, some of the topics in and of themselves aren't appropriate for general quizbowl, but they can provide interesting ways to frame areas of the already-existing distribution. For example, the history of inventions of a particular place could be a good idea for a tossup or a bon...

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I think it's unlikely I'll be at CO this year and I'd be happy to kick in a decent number of editor questions (although not necessarily edit a subject). For what it's worth, my current status is something like this as well. It became clear to me several months ago that I am still in no condition to...

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I share the enthusiasm expressed thus far. I'm also curious, given how well-received the last two "technology" tournaments have been, whether there's interest in incorporating more of this sort of content in regular-season tournaments, as difficulty and distributional concerns permit. It s...

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Matt, I think you correctly understood my point, and I also agree that there is, of course, value in a cast recording. But the values you identify aren't things that make the compositions artistic. Maybe you'd disagree with my next point much more strongly, but the reason I dislike musicals is that...

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(To me, musicals are only artistic insofar as they are musicals--a musical soundtrack on its own is just a gimmick.) Pardon the digression, but this sentiment leaves me scratching my head in confusion. Do you mean something like "musicals are only artistic while they are being performed on a s...

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This list seems decent on first glance except for the glaring omission of Maria Theresa. Generally anybody involved in any major wars or religious events like the Reformation are good to know about. As far as I know, the people elected to the title of Holy Roman Emperor while she was empress of Aus...

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America is a pretty big country, and "the South" is a pretty big region. It seems like it's well worth setting up a mirror with far less fuss than this if the large region between Texas, Florida, Tennessee, and the Virginia-North Carolina border or so has teams that are interested. Since t...

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I haven't listened to like 30 of these yet but if the Hamilton cast album doesn't win I'll disinherit you all or something.

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