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Cheynem

Okay, after a VERY long delay, I'm into the last few innings of completing this set. I see there's no big event on Sunday after CO--would this work as a later day event there? Or should I just have this run as a Side Event Open thing?

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Well, the *purpose* of an advantaged final is to correctly ascertain the best team. However, in most quizbowl contexts, if a team "clears" the field (2 games or more), there is no need for an advantaged final, so while I'm not 100% sure what happened in your tournament, this seems like a t...

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I have actually always just marked "Friends/Family" each time I've paid using PayPal. Most of quizbowl is my family.

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Another very interesting post. I 100% agree that we should be confident and approach quizbowl as a fun thing that we're passionate about (I find there is too often a strain of anti-quizbowl quizbowlism that intentionally or not depicts quizbowl as this boring, socially horrible thing). I do think th...

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Ideally something like the old school Side Event Weekend might be a good idea--do COOT as the main event on Saturday, followed by some shorter side events, and then have all side events/a trash tournament + side events on Sunday.

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I think advisors are great, but it is probably somewhat difficult to find a dedicated advisor who really has a passion for quizbowl. It could be a huge timesink for a lot of faculty members, I suppose, although there is a wide range in how much participation a faculty member/advisor demonstrates.

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I guess both Jordan Palmer and Collin Parks studied the same history!

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I posted this in the other thread, but I am looking for a team. I know how to use Chat GPT to write packets, I'm very good at saying "Oh yeah, I knew that" after the other team gets a question, and I have only occasionally left a tournament early.

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I don't know if we want another thread for matchmaking, but I'm looking for a team. I generally write promptly and I generally arrive on time. I generally don't answer questions.

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Could last year's Acronym (and maybe even the previous year's Super Acronym) be posted?

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The actual audio part is really good--even the issues where the voice doesn't pronounce things right kind of simulates having a poor reader, which can be useful. I agree with Young Fennimore that having like a "press space to buzz" feature would be good (even more so than qbreader, you're ...

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I again think an award honoring people who have done invaluable work in Canada and the U.K. is in order. From previous discussions, I know the names of Joe Su and Edmund Dickinson have been floated here. Ryan Westbrook needs to win this at some point in his career. I have never met either of these p...

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I was actually curious what prompted the Babe Ruth tossup in this set, since I don't remember ever hearing many of those clues before.

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Moderators should just be consistent. I find doing the fingers thing to be the most consistent, but as Mike said, occasionally you're drinking a water or pausing to do something else. That's fine. Just find a consistent way to count and be clear about that to teams.

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If I recall, the moderator should also not say similar things if a tossup is about to go dead and nobody has buzzed in (i.e., "Anyone?" or "Last chance").

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I'm very annoyed with NAQT's decision to make the online SCT mirror open to all teams. Essentially every team that would normally attend the upper mid-Atlantic site, Columbia, Cornell, Hopkins, and Rutgers, is attending the online site. This isn't meant as criticism of these teams, but they are (to...

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The link doesn't actually go to the packet.

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I don't know if people are just unsure if they are up to the task of doing CO...it's actually easier than a fair number of other tournaments to do because you are mostly working with submissions, the questions don't have to be gradated as perfectly, and it requires less packets. I had a splendid ti...

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Here are some rough ideas I have: 1. Packet deadlines should be moved up sooner and the drop dead deadline should be much sooner. 2. A field cap should be set up that allows for a round robin or for brackets that only require a small number of editors packets in the playoffs. How do we set the field...

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What, exactly, is the difference between reading Walter Scott in your spare time for fun and listening to Kendrick Lamar on Spotify in your spare time for fun? What's the difference between visiting the Bull Run battlefield and reading the signs and going to a Kendrick Lamar concert and listening t...

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I think the issue for me is kind of what Emmett is getting at. Kendrick Lamar writes far better "poetry" than a lot of poets that come up in quizbowl, including that hack Edna St. Vincent Millay. But I would guess 90% of people experience this poetry by just listening to "popular"...

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Creation science.

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Why none of my favorite science?!?

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Mike Bentley wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:09 pm I recognize this shift but am largely not incorporating a ton of recent internet culture into the set.

Good!

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I'm considering going to this wonderful tournament for some mild fun. What is the U of Minnesota's current vaccination/mask/Carsten Gehring policy?

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Tentatively, John's packet begins around 8 PM eastern and mine to follow after that, so I would guess like 8:30ish.

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Hi. I didn't have time to write a Festivus packet for Festivus, but I have one post Festivus. It is a mystery theme (it is trash, both in terms of topic and quality)--but it's one of those themes where it's very obvious after the first question. I'd like to read this on Friday, depending at what tim...

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Yeah, that's a fair point--you certainly measure the strength of a total program/team. Certainly nobody would deny that Chicago is number one in that regard (and number one in many other things).

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Oh, the project is certainly interesting and worthwhile and a lot of work--I just find some of the conclusions to be confusing (but maybe they were meant to be tongue in cheek).

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I don't think anyone challenges the idea that UChicago wins a lot is the premiere quizbowl team, but determining this by just counting highest number of "wins" over the last ten years when a. not every team plays the same number of games, b. not every team plays the same difficulty of team...

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John makes some good points, and I think some of them are correct in a vacuum, but I'll say this: I think the primary use of quizbowl questions are to be played by teams/players at tournaments. In that moment, almost all teams and players are focusing on winning the game and correctly answering the ...

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To be clear, you are referring to the 13 schools who play Big Ten football and Northwestern, correct?

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Can there be questions on gorillas

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I'm actually kind of surprised that we stringently put in line caps on tossups, when arguably many times not every line is even read, but not character/line caps on bonuses, which has the potential of having every line or word being read. What I do for the categories I edit in NAQT is I shoot for a ...

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They definitely should not be released publicly before the set is clear in my opinion. I don't see a problem in letting players who played the tournament privately access them.

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ACF Nationals should just be four teams.

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L.H.O.O.Q. wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 1:06 am Feedback's clear - this would be restricted to Big 10 schools only.

That makes sense to me. Like if you claim to be an exclusive conference and just like let schools out in California or New Jersey or Maryland play, does that make any sense?

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If the point is a Big Ten tournament, then do the Big 10 schools. If the point is a Midwestern tournament, then do Midwestern schools.

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I am literally tone deaf, so perhaps not a good example, but I listen to a fair share of music, classical and popular, and have no idea what any note clue means. That's not an excuse obviously to end such clues, but I don't think it's as immediately easy to pick up on as any other clue.

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I understand the frustrations in the first post. I guess in my opinion I would rather see more 1.5 or 2 dot tournaments than keep tweaking the exemptions for Fall. Of course, no eligibility guidelines can be completely inclusive and there should always be exemptions, but I generally think Fall shoul...

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My general feelings about trash in tournaments is that it: a. should be well-written b. well distributed c. avoid hitting simply the authors and editors' favorite things (or perhaps more accurately, at least try and vary the favorite things being asked about) Something like what Stephen is proposing...

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I assume by saying "regular" tournament, Connor is talking about tournaments billed as regular tournaments during the season. I don't particularly care what opens or open level tournaments do, so I'll leave those aside. In terms of those regular tournaments though, I would have to agree. I...

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I don't know if the list is accurate, but there is a spreadsheet showing a number of teams in the first post.

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I also enjoyed the set a lot. The difficulty is indeed probably a touch harder than advertised (although few questions are really of the "stump the chump" variety). I also was impressed at the varied amount of content packed into the questions--it really didn't feel like you were playing s...

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I blame Ganon for these changes.

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This would be pretty neat as part of a CO Trash event, but I can also see an argument for some other summer open mirror too. I suppose each summer is a mystery!

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Do you have an idea if side events, whether on that day or the next, will also be run?

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I had a lot of fun playing the playtest mirror. Is there a discussion group forum for this tournament?

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