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I also brought up the same issue again here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6675

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This comment isn't exactly pertinent to the discussion, but I'd like to just say I'm extremely impressed how so many high school teams played the set so well. UVA site must have been really exciting.

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Having a whole number distribution is simply a matter of convenience. There is no reason to say that to have decimal distribution (that is to say to allow slight variations in per packet distribution) is unfair. It becomes unfair only when the deviation of per packet distribution from per tournament...

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For the sake of historical accuracy, I found the thread about pronunciation which Daichi is talking about: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2900&p=36757#p36757 Sorice doesn't post in the thread. Unless this happened at a different time, perhaps you might be thinking of ...

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That common knowledge point that Doug pointed out is definitely there. I still remember Mike Sorice calling me a tool after I argued that correct pronunciation should be required for the correct answer the summer of my freshman year. That wasn't nice. Things like that, though, weren't going to affec...

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I don't want what I don't like.

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people wrote:Wow what a shock WJ is decent!

What did I tell ya about KK.

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I predict that WJ will place above at least a half dozen teams at NSC (and HSNCT if they attend). KK tends to fail to buzz in, not from lack of knowledge, but out of deference.

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Dorman "thrashing" Charter three times in a row is not an accurate description of what happened this year . . . but yeah, my prediction is that, uh, Gov will be #1 and SC will be #2 and everyone else will be pretty much irrelevant in terms of national title.

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I'm quite pleased that my unamusing parody of Cato the Elder can stop after only two posts. I like the new format very much, except that I think the distribution is somewhat odd. In particular, 15% each of RMP and FA seems like too much. Perhaps this belongs in a separate thread, but one of the few ...

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Hey. Congrats to Charter for winning and everyone else who did well at this tournament. Both the finals for NSC and HSNCT this year were very exciting, and being able to witness something so intense and breathtaking has been, for me, the best thing about being a quizbowl player. It was also quite gr...

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I thought the prelim rounds were really well-edited, although the bonus seemed somewhat too easy for nationals level. It felt like the bonus got slightly harder for playoff rounds, but statistic suggests otherwise; it may simply have been because of difficulty fluctuation, which was much more pronou...

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(I am aware of the repeats; I might fix 'em later) Predict the 16 playoff teams (two points each) SC Hunter Charter Dorman GDS Gov WJ RB Brookwood DCC Gonzaga Ike Auburn Southside Chaska Dorman B Predict which teams will go undefeated and untied in the preliminaries (one point each) SC Hunter Charte...

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PACE people should publish the brackets before Saturday - if only for this prediction contest.

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Hey Fred, can we do another pre-NSC prediction game/thing like last year? It was pretty fun.

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I'd like to make a proposal regarding the playoff format: no top-ranked team versus top-ranked team matches should take place in the first three games of playoffs, which occur on Saturday night (i.e. all three matches Saturday night will be between rank 1 and rank2). The top-ranked team of each prel...

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Monroe ran a really good tournament with competent readers. I was pleased to be able to be out of the building before 4:30 after 10 rounds of quizbowl. It would have been even earlier if I didn't oversleep - sorry, guys, and thanks, Churhern, for letting me still play the first round. I didn't think...

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I guess this thread is an appropriate place to have some pre-nationals predictions. I'm not planning to vote in this poll because I haven't followed the national scene closely enough to rank the top 25. However, for a while, I've had the opinion that the there are clear top seven teams in the nation...

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I'd like the packets too. izumickk at hotmail.com

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Does prelim record matter for the purpose of ranking within the playoff bracket? For instance, if one team goes 6-1 in prelims and 7-0 in playoffs, is that team tied or advantaged against a team that goes 7-0 in prelims and 6-1 in playoffs?

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I do not think that extraordinary level of success in quizbowl requires extraordinary natural gift. What it requires more than anything else is the willingness and ability to put in great amount of time into activities that are relevant to knowledge covered in quizbowl. They often are directly relat...

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I think raising the buzzer discounts (and if necessary the base fee) makes a lot of sense. I've always felt that the cost of bringing buzzer systems exceed $5. As for incentives: I hold that the potential for slap bowl should be enough incentive for teams to bring buzzers. Unless teams are playing a...

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The current plan for this tournament, if we end up with 18 teams, is to divide into three preliminary brackets of six, and then rebracket after lunch with the top two teams from each prelim bracket advancing into a playoff bracket of six. If any team goes undefeated in the playoff bracket, they wil...

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WJ would like to sign up. We will bring a buzzer system if we don't forget.

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Hey, I'd like to get in touch with someone from UMD ASAP concerning our buzzer system. If someone sees this, can you e-mail me at izumickk at hotmail.com, aim me at aestheteboy, or contact me somehow? Thanks. I'll post more about my response to the tournament later. EDIT: btw, for those of you who a...

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For anyone who's interested, we'll actually be doing round robin prelim brackets of 4 and 6 playoff crossover rounds, because I know teams are interested in maximizing games against similarly-skilled opponents at this point in the year. Do I see four brackets of 4 followed by double round-robin in ...

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I'm also interested in the side-event thing since I will most likely be stuck on the Maryland campus until 5:00 or so. Is this going to actually happen? And where will the questions come from?

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Wow, I didn't even realize that this event was on a Saturday. This is quite an awesome discovery, and WJ will attend with one team.

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I haven't checked the set, but the fact that people are discussing the appropriateness of a mistletoe clue or whatever suggests that this set was very good. Good job, guys.

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It's the day after our prom, so I don't know if I'll make it or not. WJ's attendance becomes more likely with things like powers and a strong field.

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I feel like the field is good enough for it to be meaningful to have 3 cross-bracket matches (i.e. top 6 from the prelims have potential to win the tournament), especially since 8 non-finals rounds are not that many games. But I do understand and respect your concern about ending the tournament at a...

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Either its organization and leadership structure were seriosuly flawed, or its members just didn't care. Judging from what apparently happened and what HSAPQ (members) have said so far, HSAPQ wasn't very serious about meeting the deadline. To me, it just seems terribly unethical. Now, I'm not an HS...

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My first impression about this set was that writers were too self-indulgent. It seemed like people were just using whatever they liked for the third parts. Many of the hard parts seemed pretty interesting and worthwhile to learn about, but it quickly became pretty annoying when it became a trend. So...

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Wow, this is absolutely incredible. I would be truly disappointed and disgusted if what Mr. Campana described in the first post are all true. People who are talking about the printing time or the question quality are obviously missing the point. I don't agree that the tournament has to be postponed ...

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More teams should register for this fine event.

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A few quick comments before I take a nap: Congrats to Hunter on some great performances this weekend. Thank you PACE for running the Weekend of Quizbowl and Ike for writing lit singles. I really liked all four tournaments, and I enjoyed the weekend a lot, even if it meant 4 hours of sleep for two ni...

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I wouldn't be surprised if some teams that went last year don't go this year.

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Hey, WJ will attend with one team and one buzzer system.

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Teams attend tournaments, especially a state championship, for several reasons other than to simply qualify for a national championship. I don't think the fact that many teams have qualified already affect the participation that much. Also, if I recall correctly, there have been two NAQT tournaments...

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Yeah, WJ will most likely come to this.

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I'm not quite sure if you your objection is that 1. the connection between "world maps" and "maps" (or "Manhattan" and "NYC") is not obvious enough, even for a person who knows that the clue that he or she buzzed off of refers to a world map, or that 2. player...

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See, I think that kind of thing is ridiculous. Barring absurd vagueness on the player's part (which "maps" is not), it's crazy to give clues that all apply to one thing and then make the answer a more specific set of that one thing and expect players to psychically know you were limiting ...

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I agree that colonial America seems like a weird thing to ask in the literature distribution; it probably should have been cut. I don't know enough about the Massacres of Jews to really comment. The clues may have been poor, but I don't think the answer choice per se was a bad idea. I would argue th...

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I've never really understood why so many tournaments finish so late. I mean, I can understand why that could happen, but I don't understand why people tolerate the fact that it seems to happen at almost every tournament. I feel that it is not only reasonable but necessary to expect a higher degree o...

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Why couldn't the tournament director just declare that Russell had forfeited by not showing and just run the tournament with one team missing? That seems like the only logical thing to do, rather than to penalize all the teams that came out from far away just because one team tried to cheat with the...

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Yeah, I have to say that I'm hardly "worried" about buzzer races between Charter and SC. Sure, it's not desirable, but I really don't think it's a problem that we can reasonably address. Other than the Atwood tossup, which I regret not editing, I don't think the tossups Ben mentioned were ...

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Yeah, I definitely agree with Chris and Charlie. There's no point in using clues that people don't know, and an ideal tossup would let the most knowledgeable person playing the set buzz off the lead-in. I think all good writers aim to write tossups where the lead-ins are buzzable by at least one tea...

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I will play at this tournament. I'm pretty excited.

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I guess the discussion can start now since all mirrors have concluded. I think Guy will post the set or send it to Chris, since he has the final, edited version of the set. Again, thanks everyone for playing. I had fun writing.

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This tournament was really fun. It was very cool to be able to play 8 competitive games over 11 rounds. The questions were really good, and the few problems that I had with the previous HSAPQ sets seemed to have been addressed (for instance, the third parts of the bonuses were often moderately chall...

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