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A reminder that I'll be reading FILM, starting tonight at 10 PM EST. I'll use the typical #packet channel in the main QB discord.

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This is such an amazing list! Thank you so much for sharing it!

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No physical mirrors remain, but I've announced an online shootout for next week over the Discord. See the post here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 84#p348884

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Starting next week Wednesday night (8/22) around 10 PM EST, I'll be reading through the entirety of FILM over several nights on the Discord. I'd like to do this over two or three nights, depending on how quickly people get through packets. I'll also repeat this the following week for people who can'...

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Tooting the horn for the Kirk-Davidoffs, who I got to see play in person over the Boston Open Weekend. Their coverage of art and international film is unsurprisingly amazing, but they were also pretty grand at non-academic film. Chip Horton also excelled at the trashier answerlines, while picking up...

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Here is the neg5 for FILM Thank you for posting these! I'm eagerly following along, and I hope everyone is having fun. I'll even be available for protest resolution, if needed. Looks like FILM is over. Thank you for playing! I had a lot of fun writing, so I'm really happy so many people got to hear...

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Illinois Admin wrote:Here is the neg5 for FILM

Thank you for posting these! I'm eagerly following along, and I hope everyone is having fun. I'll even be available for protest resolution, if needed.

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Considering Imaginary Landscape may not be clear, posting these stats is probably not the wisest decision. I get why you withdrew the spreadsheet that included info about answer lines, but I don't see why the scores for IL can't be posted, along with the other side event scores. Sorry, I've been me...

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When I type in a parenthesis (i.e. the "(" symbol or the ")" symbol) into any of the search parametres, the whole page suddenly goes blank until I refresh. I'm using Ubuntu and Firefox. Thanks for reporting. I've found the source of the error, and I generally know how to fix it,...

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[...] your database While I greatly appreciate the work Harry does, and don't feel like the onus should be on him to do any extra work, I feel I ought to clarify that I have no formal relationship to Neg5. It's not "my database," and while I would happily help contribute code to the site ...

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With regards to Neg5, I'd like to include it in my question database, but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to get a list of every tournament hosted on the site. If there were, I'd certainly be willing to include it. Inspecting the network request, it looks like this url gives you a JSON res...

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The FILM event ran in a shootout at the Boston Open this past weekend, raising $90 for the JED foundation. I believe everyone was extremely happy with the set, and I hope everyone both had fun and learned some stuff while playing. Also, since I thought had posted this, but apparently never did--we r...

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(now that I've had more time--everyone [at the very least, those playing side events today, Sunday] should have received this email; please let me know if you haven't) First things first: I would like to remind everyone that this is the schedule for today (all events beginning in 4-153): ===========...

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If anyone wants to team up for the side events tomorrow (I'm playing worldstar, w+o, and human use) let me know! (or, if the general consensus is waiting for randomized teams, never mind) People are totally free to start making teams ahead of time (use the [unlocked] Side Events Signups tab of the ...

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Everyone should have received the following email from me by now: Hello, here's the final email summarizing everything, main events and side events. The main addition is that we finally know exactly what room numbers we'll be using. Again, the schedule/signups spreadsheet should be your main referen...

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I'm actually not sure what I mean--it says SMT in my notes--but EMT is probably a good guess. Thanks for catching.

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I'd love to play, but would super vote for this to be done on Discord.

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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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Things should be stable now, more or less. Since my last packet posting update, the following packets have been uploaded: 2017 HFT XII 2018 CMST 2018 FACTS 2016 PACE NSC 2017 PACE NSC 2017 SMT 2018 SMT 2015 BASK 2017 GSAC 2015 SCOP MS 5 2018 IMSAnity 5 As always, people are invited to help edit/mode...

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Oh, and I'd probably run separate HS and College/Open polls.

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What might be useful to the average player or enthusiast would perhaps be an easily accessible "trophy room" section of HSQB or perhaps through the forums, where anyone could take a look at the "best sets of all time", perhaps with a blurb describing difficulty, or at least some...

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Maths Wizard (Tau is King!) wrote:So the packet set for this tournament was posted on the archives but I'm not seeing a first packet--only 2-15. IS there a reason for that?

Edit: Nvm

Was there ever an explanation for this? Still can't seem to figure out where Packet 01 is lol

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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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Thiccasso's Guernthicca wrote:^ Seconded, is there any chance it can get uploaded in the future?

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QuizDB may be down intermittently down over the next day or two as I carry out some much needed infrastructure upgrades. For example, it's down right now :P EDIT: And it's up again, after isolating the issue as a dependency that broke 12 hours ago during a new release, meaning I perfectly updated pa...

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EDIT: Sorry, I'll stop posting these. I don't mind too much, since I really should have finished a prelim. Moxon by now, and I did tell people this was the best way to get me off my ass. (Regrettably, it doesn't seem to be working either. Maybe I'll manage it after the Boston Open..?) I've gotten s...

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I would hope editors don't actually pay for unwritten questions now, contract or no contract. Usually, from what I've heard, it goes something like--I'll write 20% of the set, he writes 30%, she writes 50%, I'll edit it all, and we'll split the mirror fees proportionally. But if what the 30% writer...

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To return to the topic Jacob initially asked, would a template "contract" posted to the ACF website be helpful? To be used by housewrites, packet sub, and collaborative tournaments alike, easily modifiable for dollar values and "criteria" of writers/editors joining a set. Not mea...

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I'm intrigued how you can ask these things in a visual tournament (unless you mean this is just a tournament about visual trash?). Well, I'll certainly try! To clarify, I might include a tossup asking 'name the person who killed these characters', and show various deaths from the Halloween franchis...

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acz13 wrote:I would suggest using Raynor's QuizDB.org instead of Quinterest

I endorse this suggestion, but I understand that this is partially from my fault to (still) not complete Moxon yet

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I'm on a team with Peter and Alex Schmidt and we are looking for a fourth. If anyone is interested, please email me at avmanmirza@gmail.com. Thanks! I know some high school players in the area that might sign up as free agents in the coming days; this information might be helpful for anyone looking...

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My preference might be--if we have a decent amount of time on Saturday, do FILM as doubles or teams. If we don't, do my event as a shootout. Then, do the remaining event (probably as a shootout of some sort?) on Sunday. I'd highly recommend the FILM as some kind of teams, doubles or whatsoever--the...

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It looks like Saturday still has only three teams signed up, so presumably we'd be just taking turns playing each other for the entire day. Not saying this isn't OK by me (having lots of byes is actually pretty nice)--but just wanted to confirm the TDs have no plans to change anything in regards to...

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It looks like Saturday still has only three teams signed up, so presumably we'd be just taking turns playing each other for the entire day. Not saying this isn't OK by me (having lots of byes is actually pretty nice)--but just wanted to confirm the TDs have no plans to change anything in regards to ...

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Please note: I am not speaking on behalf of the Harvard playing team, or the HFT writing/editing team. I do have editing input for HFT this year, but it's extremely minimal compared to in years past. Ultimately all decisions about difficulty, distribution, etc. are up to Jon Suh and other active Har...

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So is 9PM definitely going to be the start time? Also, do you know about how long this will run? I might have to move between locations later, and I'd rather try to do so now if it'll take a while to play out the set.

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Is it alright to discuss the set now? I wrote two of the CS tossups, and though my contribution was minimal, would love to get feedback on those if people had any.

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CPiGuy wrote:I assume you mean Worldstar is starting Sunday?

This is accurate, and I've fixed that wording.

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Additional, probably important clarification: I'll prioritize sending emails over updating this thread, so just that pay attention to that more as the weekend gets closer. On that note, the following people are listed as playing side events, but I don't have your emails (though you may be on a CamO ...

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I hope everyone enjoyed Chicago Open! Here are in-depth details about scheduling, packet format, and payment, both for the CamO main event and the side-events. Please be sure to read carefully; all teams and side-event players who have provided emails in the signups sheet will receive another email ...

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FYI: you can pay with cash, Venmo (username @Raynor-Kuang), or check (made out to "Raynor Kuang"). If you don't have the money the day of the tournament, then you won't be able to play. Remember to bring extra money for side events! (Cash or Venmo; please don't include it in your main chec...

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There are eight teams now listed on the signup form--but only six have officially registered. Reminder that you must email me to officially register! Once we hit eight (official), I'll add a waitlist section. We should be free to expand to 10 teams whenever, but to avoid the dreaded bye, I won't exp...

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For scheduling purposes, and since I've never attended/run an audio event before, is it alright if I ask what's your expected play time per round / the "written" length of a question? (If you'd like to also help me estimate the play time per round given actual players, since I'm not super ...

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Maybe people in an activity shouldn't be garbage to others in that activity who are volunteering to do what amounts to unpaid outreach work. I agree with this in sentiment, in that these are, as Fred says, just volunteers doing their best, but I feel like I have to speak up that this language of &q...

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Is there an official Awards Committee provided definition for how to evaluate "top" in a voting context, or is it left to the voter to define? (e.g. Lebron James is probably the "most valuable [to the team]" every year, but that's not how the NBA MVP voting works.)

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A reminder that the main event is (initially) field capped at 8 teams, and the current # of people signed up comes to about 7 teams. You're not guaranteed a spot in the field unless you're on a team and have registered by emailing me. (So far, that's only "Some Kind of Team Name.")

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My goal is to cover all major eras and genres from early games to the modern day, and I plan for every packet to have content from each era and genre. That said, because of how I plan to approach the answer line selection, I don't want to lock myself into saying that there will definitively be X nu...

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Do you have any idea what the subdistribution will generally be like? I'd really like to get an even spread of time, platforms, and genres, but I understand if, for example, there's a lot of 2000s JRPG questions and not as much, say, retro arcade cabinets from the 80s. I'm just curious to know ahead...

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By the way, I think it would be good to move all these Quizbowl-related websites such as Neg 5 under the purview of (or sponsorship by) the nonprofit organizations that already exist in quizbowl. Microsoft offers $5,000 a year for nonprofits to run applications on their cloud, Azure, which would ta...

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