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Bohemian Rhapsody -- Look, it's Bohemian Rhapsody, it's the #1 seed for a reason. There's a lot that can be said about this song, but I'm going to save it for a more worthy matchup. Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood -- This is a good three-minute song. Unfortunately, its runtime is listed as 10:29. Rid...

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No commentary this time unfortunately, except to say that I'm sad that Pink Floyd's entry is essentially the postscript to Time. It's not Pink Floyd's entry; it's Claire Torry's entry, featuring Pink Floyd. Torry completely improvised the vocals on her own. In my mind, it's one of the best performa...

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No commentary this time unfortunately, except to say that I'm sad that Pink Floyd's entry is essentially the postscript to Time. Walk on the Wild Side vs. Funk #49 Lawyers, Guns and Money vs. Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) American Woman vs. Teenage Kicks 25 or 6 to 4 vs. Pressure Drop I’ll Take You Th...

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Stay with Me -- I usually find Rod Stewart's voice grating, but it works really well with the guitar. I find the whole "invite a girl for a one-night stand" song concept kinda tired, admittedly. Rapper's Delight -- Rap is a genre that I don't really have too much interest in, but I have a...

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Cruel to Be Kind -- It's a very catchy pop song, but it's one that gets old quickly, as with many songs that are about two-thirds chorus. It's also poor life advice. The City of New Orleans -- I hadn't heard much of Arlo Guthrie before, but I enjoyed this song. It told a story well with a great voc...

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Goodbye Stranger -- Breakfast in America, and this song in particular, is solid despite not really being stand-out in any way. It's a longer song than I remembered, but it doesn't feel long, which is a point in its favor. Cold as Ice -- This is another song that was on heavy rotation on my local cl...

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Doctor, My Eyes -- Jackson Browne is one of those artists whose music I keep forgetting I really enjoy. The song isn't tremendously deep, but it's by no means exceedingly shallow either. Roadrunner (Once) -- I feel like if you're going to sing by mostly talking, the lyrics need to be significant en...

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Surrender -- To me, this is one of those songs that doesn't necessarily stick out musically, but I have pretty much never not enjoyed listening to it. Right Place Wrong Time -- This is the first time I've listened to this song, and while it's not bad, I couldn't really get into it. Short People -- ...

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Finally, I get to have opinions about 70s music! Heart of Glass -- This song manages to combine new wave and disco and top it off with great vocals. Yeah, it's not going to have a deep message, but sometimes you just want to enjoy a classic that holds up over time. Down in the Tube Station at Midnig...

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#1 What'd I Say vs. #2 Shout (Parts 1 and 2)

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3/62: Thermidor v Self-Existing
30/35: Pédale v Frederick
19/46: Absolu v Lilius
14/51: Shakespeare v Moses
11/54: Prairial v Descartes
22/43: Bureaucracy v Chaos
27/38: Hypatia v Pluviôse
6/59: Discord v Palotin

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1/64: June v Sip
32/33: Qiyue v Kisaragi
17/48: December v Eryue
16/49: Kartika v Sotz'
9/56: September v Shimotsuki
24/41: Chaitra v Ashwin
25/40: Kannazuki v K'ank'in
8/57: Minazuki v Mak

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45 seed: Daθušō v Āθrō
51 seed: Xšaθrahe Vairyehe v Amərətātō
62 seed: Elul v Tammuz
63 seed: Paremhat v Parmouti
64 seed: Sharaf v Nur

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#1 What'd I Say vs. #12 El Paso
#2 Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. #6 Mack the Knife

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Yes please!

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With the exception of really old stats that longer exist elsewhere, someone could fairly easily find tournament results for basically anybody thanks to Harry’s database, but this is the only information that literally can’t be deleted or Jonah will threaten to ban you. Meanwhile, it is strongly dis...

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40 seed: Thargelion v Anthesterion
49 seed: Gamelion v Metageitnion
52 seed: Sabatu v Abu
58 seed: Addaru v Tisritum
60 seed: 1 Deer v 1 Flower
62 seed: 1 House v 1 Flint
63 seed: Boedromion v Maimakterion
64 seed: Pharmuthi v Mesore

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#1 What'd I Say vs. #9 Kansas City
#2 Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. #7 Money (That’s What I Want)
#14 Memphis, Tennessee vs. #6 Mack the Knife
#13 Back in the U.S.A. vs. #12 El Paso

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ryanrosenberg wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 6:47 pm I voted for Pop to spite the Midwest

I never miss an opportunity to spite the Midwest.

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What'd I Say vs. What a Diff’rence a Day Makes Shout (Parts 1 and 2) vs. Love Potion No. 9 There Goes My Baby vs. Memphis, Tennessee I Only Have Eyes For You vs. Back in the U.S.A. Ne me quitte pas vs. El Paso Mack the Knife vs. Somethin’ Else Money (That’s What I Want) vs. Sea of Love A Teenager i...

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Since ACF Regionals is approaching, I have created schedules with byes for 12, 16, 20, and 24 teams. If you're running a tournament with a different number of teams that needs byes and doesn't, let me know and I can quickly whip up a schedule. In other news, I have a Patreon if you want to support me.

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Since people are already making teams for CO proper, should there be a team formation sheet for CO Trash?

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Hey guys! I now have a Patreon set up for my site and my various Quizbowl projects at https://www.patreon.com/hdwhite. I'm mostly doing this to cover hosting costs and to help motivate me to continue working on projects.

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msacks wrote: ↑Fri Dec 20, 2019 5:35 pm 7. Returning team of Andrew Yang and others TBD

I'm glad he was able to find a break in between presidential campaign stops.

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It has occurred to me that it's been a really long time since I've seen "The Knot". It was a 16-player buzzer system, obstinately for four teams of four, but with all 16 cables coming out of a central console. The cables naturally became tangled up in a way that seemed to defy 3-dimensiona...

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Additionally, you can now print schedules for each individual team and room! (Example here)

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Generated schedules should now be printable and give you a QR code that'll take you to the web page. In theory they should work with all schedule formats without any wonky printing issues, but if you see something arise please let me know.

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For what it's worth, aceqb.com redirects to acequizbowlcamps.com, which is down, and sciencechampionship.com is also down.

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Note that NAQT (IS-###X) sets have 13 packets, but they (historically, at least) do a poor job of ensuring hosts are aware of this option. For the record, our current policy is that we ask every host if they would prefer the 13-packet version of the set. (and more generally, we switched from 14-pac...

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My concern for some of those schedules is that NAQT (and several other housewritten sets) only have 12 packets. If you assume you need 2 for finals, that leaves only 10 rounds to do everything else in.

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As part of my schedule generator (see sig), I'm hoping to make a bunch of high school schedule templates for people to use. However, there are certain numbers of teams where things don't exactly lend for an obvious schedule. As such, I would appreciate advice on how to construct acceptable high scho...

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I think I have it working such that results from recent Yellowfruit tournaments no longer have odd links in there that shouldn't be there. It's fairly likely that new releases of Yellowfruit might inadvertently mess up the HTML parsing that I've been doing, so if there's a result that should be ther...

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There should now be schedule templates up for all ACF and NAQT-approved college formats up through 24 teams. The one caveat is that at the moment some schedules (I think 16 and 20 teams, for a couple of examples) don't have byes built-in, so if you're hosting ACF Fall, were planning on using this, a...

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I've added some more schedules for tournaments between 4-10 teams. Assuming nothing surprising happens, I should have all of the suggested ACF formats available with time to spare before ACF Fall. In addition, I fixed a couple of issues regarding escaping characters and a really dumb bug involving b...

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The Quizbowl Schedule Generator I created a tool that will automatically generate a Quizbowl schedule. Simply tell it how many teams you're expecting, the format you want to use, and fill in the brackets and room numbers, and it will do all the hard work for you! It comes with a live preview and th...

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One of TJ's tournaments (the one that used to be MLK weekend I believe) used to do this. If you answered a tossup on say Alexander the Great, you got a bonus about the lands he conquered. Or perhaps films about Alexander. I wouldn't want it every week, but I kinda liked it. The major problem having...

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In a given competition year, a player may only compete at NAQT championship events at the secondary or post-secondary levels, but not both. The secondary-level NAQT championships are the Middle School National Championship Tournament, Small School National Championship Tournament (SSNCT), High Scho...

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Oxford Open staaaaaaaats

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The database once again contains results from NAQT tournaments! Some of the division labels might look a bit funky, but that should hopefully be resolved soonish.

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I'm glad that the HSNCT final video is up and has decent audio and video quality, but the video immediately starts with tossup 1 before the title card even goes away. There's no context at all for the grand finals of a 336-team national tournament.

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EDIT EDIT: I've just been reminded that the company logo is literally just the letters "NAQT" with the full name in tiny print below it, which seems less than inspiring to be quite honest. To be fair, NAQT does have some really excellent logos for their individual tournaments, which they ...

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I suspect I'm on a one-man crusade here, but "High School National Championship Tournament" is a really bad name for an event in terms of outreach. It says absolutely nothing about what it's about, unlike similar championships like the "National Scholastic Championship", "N...

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Maybe it captures a mood that a lot of people between the ages of 13 and 23 feel frequently? That mood, of course, is "being Mr. Brightside". Well once you get past the age of 23, it's a lot harder to say that you're "doing JUST FINE" But you start asking yourself, "How did...

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cchiego wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 4:31 pm Apparently that miscommunication issue continued at SSNCT: a link promising a livestream on the YouTube channel was spread, but the livestream never happened, for reasons that still aren't clear.

The livestream did not take place because the hotel WiFi was not good enough to upload live video.

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Fuddle Duddle wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:23 pm excuse you both maps of Chicago say I'm from there

https://imgur.com/a/22wNbeV

I guess it does make sense that the Field Museum is located within the corn part of Illinois.

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As someone who would very much like to get to the bottom of this, I think that the best option here is to see if Joseph's stats hold up at HSNCT (which I believe is the next tournament that Okemos will be playing). I don't think this is as cut and dry as Jakob said, but it's hard to prove or dispro...

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One mitigating factor of going to 3x12 -> 6x6 is that one fewer tiebreaker game has to be played, which means over a round's worth of time doesn't have to be spent confirming records and playing lunchtime tiebreakers. You'd only need one additional packet's worth of questions and time, not two.

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Can confirm that this was an amazing set to play.

Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:57 pm Stats will be periodically uploaded here

Due to SQBS limitations I do not have a way to individually record who got final boss tus

Full stats

Slight error in the stats -- my name should be spelt with two r's.

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Unfortunately I have been informed that this site violates the terms of use of naqt.com, and so therefore it will no longer be including NAQT results for the time being. I would encourage you to use NAQT's player/team search in conjunction with my site.

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It's been long overdue, but Neg5 results are (finally) being indexed. As usual, let me know if there are any issues that arise.

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