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While discussing Auroni Gupta, we finally come up with the perfect Star Wars mashup. It will be in our Tricon packet.

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Photo attached.

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We are now at Atlanta airport, eating five guys. We elected to share a large regular fry. My burger has lettuce, tomato, grilled onions, ketchup, and mustard. JL has mayo, pickles, and grilled onions.

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No comments on bow tie. If you have to ask if he always wears one, then you don't know John Lawrence.

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While waiting to disembark, JL turns off airplane mode on his phone and receives an email, which I reproduce here verbatim:

"We went and saw the Elgin marbles again today

Love
Daddy"

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JL: My life dream is to be with a woman for whom I can bake French pastries.
Me: I'd eat anything you baked for me!
JL: yes, but you'd eat anything.

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I should note: the cause of the spill was excitement about a flashcard on an obscure Doris Lessing novel.

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Later, I spill Coke all over. The flight attendant looks at me judgmentally and drawled "really?!" While I am leaning over and cleaning up, John gently admonishes to "keep your hair out of my cranberry juice!" Sadly, the warning comes too late as I have already grazed an ice cube.

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And we're back, with JL realizing early on the flight that, for literally the first time in his life, he is wearing mismatched socks (one navy, one black, quelle horreur!)

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Not about to spring for wifi so we will have a massive stories dump on landing.

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The good ol days of an 09 guerrilla tournament at ict

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I'm so awesome let me tell you about all these "paradigm shifts" I introduced to Yale Botticelli.

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I go to the bathroom. Anything funny JL is doing now will be lost to history.

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JL asks me to hand him bag of tropical mix due to it being on top shelf. Insists it was solely because I was closer.

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JL looks at board, declares we are headed to gate aA11. Confidently strides toward concourse B.

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JL insists he did not neglect to remove it but it was in fact intentional. To support this, he references previous occasion where boarding pass fell in shoe and he couldn't find.

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JL gets his torso patted down when he neglects to remove items from his shirt pocket.

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Headed to VCU open with JL today, this will be good so I'll liveblog. From my phone so sorry for any mistakes.

edit: I should note im taking these horribly out of context, doctoring quotes etc to make it more funny

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Cheynem wrote:What's the distro?

Like a standard HS housewrite or HSAPQ set. I'd bet slight tweaks don't make a huge difference though.

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Inspired by a discussion a friend of mine and I had: If you could pick, for each country, 4 of its present or historical "leaders" (for some appropriate definition of leader), and make them their quizbowl all-star team, which country would win the tournament? What would be the lineups for ...

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-- Including more than one world literature question per packet . There is literally no official organization (not NAQT, not HSAPQ, not PACE, not ACF at the college level) which mandates that there be 1/1 world literature per packet. This is because there is far less world literature which is readi...

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We should have a top 25 voters poll.

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damisch wrote:Max, are you now the contact person for those of us who have to be let in?

Correct. I have PMed you my #, I can do so for anyone else who lets me know they need it.

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This is happening again, Wednesday in the same place. Kay Li will sadly not be able to make it

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Hello, all. HSAPQ is having a small problem with our email system; if you've tried to email [email protected] recently, please re-send your email to Jacob O'Rourke at [email protected]

Thanks!

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2-5 PM this Friday in the Reg (room 403). Out-of-towners here for CO welcome (let me know you're coming in advance so we can sign you in though).

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Cape Fear wrote:We were playing through Modern World packets at our first summer practice.

Noooooooo

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This set is now available online at http://www.hsapq.com/samples

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Shangdevin wrote:Is there a timeframe when this year's HSAPQ sets will be posted?

These are now up at http://www.hsapq.com/samples

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I saw but neglected to post for some reason -- I would certainly be interested if a Chicago contingent came down.

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If you're wanting more mashups, I wrote a set of Star Wars + academic ones for the same Chicago event JL wrote his Before/Afters; I can pass those along to whomever.

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Further elaboration, especially about our state series: Our state series will be continuing in 2015 in California, New York, Washington DC, North Carolina, Maryland, and Massachusetts. We are looking to expand to other states without an existing state championship structure. We are already confirmed...

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During the LASA B - Ladue game, there was a very nuanced protest on the neutrophils tossup. While it was handled correctly given the rules in place/facts of the question, it struck me (and some people I subsequently talked to) as rather concerning when it was brought to light that NAQT still has the...

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Charles Tian is from Texas.

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I dunno if you want to attach more (hopefully) not-terrible questions to this event, but if you/players want I can send you my Star Wars + academic mashups.

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What time is this projected to end on Monday?

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Ideally all quizbowlers would realize what events are suitable for them -- regardless of if eligibility is granted to second years, I shouldn't be playing this event (and I won't, I promise!), but quizbowl history reveals that some people who shouldn't will still play. I don't see any problem with r...

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Certain writers will be offered "full writer" status, which means they receive an assignment for each set based on their category strengths, and if they complete all of their questions for the year, they earn a profit sharing point for every additional question (in addition to regular per-...

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No, people who will be in high school next year are not eligible to write for HSAPQ. Please consider applying next year once you've graduated though!

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Just a reminder that this tournament is approaching, and we're still hoping for bids from all the quizbowl states that haven't signed up yet! Join us for what looks to be the largest NASAT ever! Below is the current field: Roster bids submitted/accepted: California Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois ...

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Hey, all! HSAPQ is now accepting applications for writers for the 2014-15 season. If you are interested, please contact Matt Weiner at mattweiner.vcu@gmail.com (if we are unlikely to be familiar with your work, please attach to your email 5 or more sample high school questions you've written). In ad...

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Hey, all. The following is some information regarding HSAPQ's plans for the coming season: HSAPQ will not be writing the National History Bowl sets next year. An announcement on the production of questions for NHBB will be forthcoming from Dave Madden later this month. HSAPQ will be writing a regula...

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I have a packet of (somewhat hard) Star Wars mashup tossups if you're looking to bundle together a bunch of unused packets into some kind of event.

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The first was on Spenser's "Colin Clout's Come Home Again" (seriously!). Michigan had no idea what that was, unsurprisingly. Amazingly, this came up in practice less than an hour ago when we were playing some early 90s packets; it was presciently noted that "Yaphe probably knows what...

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John Lawrence got 100% of the bio tossups we heard against Penn at Nats, without Eric negging.

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vinteuil wrote:
Birdofredum Sawin wrote:Our "double espressos after every round" regimen proved unfortunate.
Paging Max Schinder

What do you need, Jacob Red?

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HSAPQ is happy to announce that the official hotel for the 2014 National All-Star Academic Tournament is the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center. The Blackwell is a four-star hotel located directly on the Ohio State campus within easy walking distance of our game rooms. We will host the regular sche...

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I hope there are 64 of these so a non-terrible bracket can eventually be made.

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Very interesting set! Our team felt the same way. Was there a predefined distribution for this set? The following distribution was used: Literature 3.5/5 History 3.5/5 Science 4/5 Arts 1.5/2 RMP 1/1 Geography 1/1 Social Science (incl. Foreign Language) .5/.5 Current Events 1/.5 Trash 1/2 Computatio...

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Eleven of the twelve qualified teams have confirmed their attendance at this tournament. If any team coming has not received a copy of the logistics email, they should contact us.

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