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Is it perhaps too late to ask for non-performance polls as well, such as most improved, nicest player, best captaining, etc? I seem to remember something like that happening last year, but that might not have been a ballot thing and just a simple google form instead. I think that’s the Players Choi...

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Is it perhaps too late to ask for non-performance polls as well, such as most improved, nicest player, best captaining, etc? I seem to remember something like that happening last year, but that might not have been a ballot thing and just a simple google form instead.

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Illinois Admin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 10:50 pm 2/2 Polyhymnia - hymns (1/1 Ancient, 1/1 Non-Ancient)

Really looking forward to how this fills out in a 12 packet tournament

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I'm sure other programmers can chime in on this, and not to beat a dead horse, but Rust is pretty important, and that's from someone who's never even used it yet. (It's that important.)

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Last weekend of July sounds good to me at this juncture. In terms of side events, I'd personally be very interested in, and like to agitate for: Scattergories RULFO Golbez Imaginary Landscapes Assuming these are ready + available for mirrors/haven't been over-mirrored by the time late-July rolls ar...

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nycaqb1999 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 8:31 pm Any idea when/where this might happen?

Yeah, sorry, been busy--I need to email the NYU people and confirm the likely date, but probably the last weekend of July.

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It's been brought to my attention that QuizDB is "broken" on mobile--I'm fairly certain that cause is actually the stupid code I wrote to get it to have offline functionality, which doesn't even properly give offline functionality. If that's the case, then you should be able to go to Priva...

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Hi all, I'm in initial stages to plan a Summer Open in NYC, similar to the one I ran in Boston last year . It will have a main event (tentatively Oxford Open, although this is extremely up in the air) and several side events (also extremely up in the air). As with last year, it will likely take plac...

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Thanks for writing/running this, Saul! I would disagree with the set title, it's not weird at all and had a really good distribution of content (the lack of post-1991 does present itself a little, but that's what it says on the tin) and was really fun to play. Also disagreed with some of the soapbox...

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Super excited for this, and also to get destroyed by people who actually know things.

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In general, playing upper/competitive in a tournament is the way to go if you want to improve. I really think this "in general" has to be stressed. Good teams buzz so much earlier in questions that often you're not even learning clues because you couldn't even figure out what the question...

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they offer the opportunity for people to buzz on their knowledge of frequently-taught scholarship and the chance to incorporate topics/people that have been underrepresented in past approaches to the category [...] The challenge [...] is to find good middle clues and to word the question in a way t...

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What a classic Raynell face...

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Beside the online mirror, do you have any idea of where this will be hosted yet? e.g. which nationals events / summer opens this might be aiming for?

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Generally the organizer of the online tournament will post in a thread about logistics for forming teams, registration, etc. From there the registered team usually just gets a link/email to the specific Discord/Skype server, and it's up to you to make an account and be there on time. If you're askin...

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Random idea that popped into my head, but have any writers tried just explictly emailing a Google form to the coaches/teams after a tournament and asking for feedback? (Or if a mirror site, asking the hosting site to do so on their behalf?) Just something with standard questions about difficulty, pa...

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How should I send you the Prison Bowl 2018 packets? I think I can get them into word document form without too many format issues Thank you! You can email me them (see my user profile for address), or PM me a link to a Google Drive. EDIT: I'm a clunking doofus, and forgot--it would also probably be...

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This may have been previously mentioned, but when downloading questions as a JSON and then converting to Excel files to import into Anki, some punctuation marks like apostrophes or accents translate into jumbles. An example would be "this author's" becoming something like "this autho...

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Hello! Could whoever has access to the set upload a Word files version to the archives as well, or just PM me with a link to the Google Docs/Word files? (Currently the archives only have PDFs.) Having access to the Word files helps a lot for parsing the packets, which helps get them uploaded to ques...

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Hello! Could whoever has access to the set upload a Word files version to the archives as well, or just PM me with a link to the Google Docs/Word files? (Currently the archives only have PDFs.) Having access to the Word files helps a lot for parsing the packets, which helps get them uploaded to ques...

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Ray does have 5 of the 11 Indian films listed on TSPDT. For the other directors: Guru Dutt - 1 results (Scattegories '13; Pyaasa was mentioned without Dutt's name at the 2018 NSC) Ritwik Ghatak - 0 results Mehboob Khan - 0 results (Mother India was clued in Scattegories 2) Ramesh Sippy - 0 results ...

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An Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:30 pm I'd also be interested in seeing an expansion in Nollywood content but recognize basically no one would convert that.

And excuse me, but someone (I think one of the Kirk-Davidoffs?) first lined my FILM Nigeria tossup, so don't count your chickens!

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Satyajit Ray IMO comes up more frequently than Krasznahorkai, but at the rates we're comparing it's definitely just subjective. (With all due respect to Justin) they're both fairly arcane to even regular college playing levels, and _definitely_ to high school level players. I actually tried to do si...

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As someone who wins a decent amount of buzzer races, but also notoriously negs a lot, let me just say that you should be careful what you wish for.

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Wanted to add on that Matthew and Simon contacted me about working on this a while back, and I gave them my blessing. I found them really good developers, who made fast progress on the app, which I appreciate since QuizDB work has stalled somewhat lately (no need to rub it in...). I encourage you to...

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First of all, thank you for making this database. It is my go-to for creating study material for my team! I'm writing because I used to use Quinterest (which is down now), and it seems that QuizDB gives me back significantly fewer results than Quinterest did. I think I read that QuizDB is a larger ...

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In the original thread, you mentioned potentially hosting a playtest mirror in December, but it looks like the only poll dates are in late November. Just to clarify, is this the only playtest mirror you plan on hosting? Thanks for running/making this! I'm really excited to play again. (I can't belie...

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If we're considering staffing, how should we make ourselves available for this?

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Looking for teammates--I know lit and FA, and a smattering of myth and science.

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Any recommendations for good page turner art books? Non-fiction preferred, but if it's a good novelization (like the suggested Agony and Ecstasy upthread), I would give it a go. It doesn't have to be a survey book. For reference, I liked the Art of Rivalry, which covered four notable two-wise relat...

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Any recommendations for good page turner art books? Non-fiction preferred, but if it's a good novelization (like the suggested Agony and Ecstasy upthread), I would give it a go. It doesn't have to be a survey book. For reference, I liked the Art of Rivalry, which covered four notable two-wise relati...

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Jon and Ricky would have to give their own opinions, but Harvard successfully used Neg5 today, and from what I can tell, it shaved off nearly an hour because stats that would otherwise have to have been input during rebracketing, forcing teams to wait around to discover a tiebreaker, allowed multipl...

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I'm aware of the occasional timeout issues for QuizDB, we're basically hitting the server limits as the site (and QB) gets more popular. I still plan to migrate off of Heroku to Azure, but that doesn't really solve the cost issues, just scales the cost down. (I don't really have the bandwidth to imp...

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vengefulsweatermensch wrote: ↑Thu Nov 08, 2018 1:34 pm The set has been posted in the packet archive.

Any chance I could get the Word/Google Docs version of the files?

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Hello! Could whoever has access to the set upload a Word files version to the archives as well, or just PM me with a link to the Google Docs/Word files? (Currently the archives only have PDFs.) Having access to the Word files helps a lot for parsing the packets, which helps get them uploaded to que...

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There seems to be a significant amount of interest for this and a few Penn people have said they would run it, I'll post in this thread if/when we confirm a date. Would love an online mirror. Personal request is, if at all possible, for a date to be determined before this Saturday, so I can decide ...

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Wanted to give a quick update, since nothing has happened in a couple months: As mentioned in another thread, I'm moving to a new job right now, and it's adding a lot to my plate in terms of any free time whatsoever. In addition, I volunteered some of my time to help out Neg5. However, I very much s...

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I'm moving to NYC in a few weeks for a new job. I'll happily staff college and HS tournaments once I've had some time to settle in.

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A Very Long Math Tossup wrote: ↑Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:55 pm QuizDB is down right now.

It's working for me as of 10:08 PM. Could you describe the issue you experienced?

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I wouldn't mind being included on a team. My details are listed in the spreadsheet Jordan linked. I'd prefer not to write questions, but I wouldn't mind doing so if that's the only way to play.

I'm still a little iffy about being able to travel for this.

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https://neg5.org/ Pros are the obvious: essentially everything you asked for. Cons: not really maintained right now i.e. a little flaky in terms of hosting (should be reliable for a midsize tournament) & if something bad happens you may not be able to get tech help; UI can be a little unintuitiv...

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Thanks to Stephen's other post, I just learned a Wolf Hall tossup exists, and now I'd really love to see it, just for the sake of seeing it. (I didn't play all the rounds in the mirror.) Although, before I even see it, that does seem rather difficult as answerline :/ Not out of the pale, though, I g...

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Some various things I've seen good coaches do: - Keep score. The players could do this, but maybe you have the kind of player who would play worse if they were distracted by having to keep score. - Call timeouts. Again, the player could do this, but a third party (i.e. you) can often better sense ru...

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You know, now that this is being brought up, does anyone know why physical tournaments usually happen on Saturdays? Because schools usually only allow their buildings to be leased on Saturdays? Because of religious conflicts (i.e. Christian church; I know of Sabbath, but I apologize for not being ve...

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Made a Google Form for predictions. https://goo.gl/forms/kw1hdZ3Qc4UZGT202

No reason for you to enter except boredom, which is a very powerful reason indeed.

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I wanted to get another chance to read the set over Discord, but that's looking increasingly unlikely, so I'm going to go ahead and officially release the set (it should be on the archives soon), and wrap up donations. That means we've closed out the total make from FILM at $300 , which means I'll b...

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Yeah, it'd be nice to know some of the estimated incentives for hosting as well. ACF Nats has the nice incentive that you qualify a team and you don't have to travel at all, but I'm wondering about estimated money split, tradeoffs from not being able to play the Pop Culture National, etc.

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Another reminder that I'll be having another go of a FILM reading tonight. Please be punctual if you can, lest we mistakenly cancel it again :P

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Apologies for the continual updates: on second thought, I've decided to just use a private server for this. You can join here: https://discord.gg/Wm9bz2q This was cancelled due to lack of interest. Next reading will be Tuesday evening, 10 PM EST as well. If there's trouble getting players then as w...

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Apologies for the continual updates: on second thought, I've decided to just use a private server for this. You can join here:

https://discord.gg/Wm9bz2q

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