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I liked the "cartoons of the New Yorker" tossup, but I wonder if this induced a lot of early negs with more general answers like "comics (strips)", or "memes". I liked how there were related tossups, such as "Vonnegut" and "Cat's Cradle", geography t...

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Are there any developments as to what time this will be held?

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Grams's Go-Go Boots wrote:I'm not going to make a ranking system for my ranking system.

Yo dawg, I heard you like ranking systems...

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Why are there so many middle schoolers commenting on question difficulty?

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I'm up, so as long there isn't a conflict with Schindler's Lit or rap.

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Fisher Catholic is interested writing questions in any category needed. Drop me a line if interested.

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I'll be attending UT Austin. I'd like to keep playing, not sure if they have an active team. They played a couple of events this school year. Danny Chupin from LASA and Daniel Chapman from Seven Lakes are there, as well as one former St. Mark's guy whose name I can't unearth right now. Isn't Jiawei...

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I want to thank NHBB for a pretty well-run tournament, definitely a lot better than last year's iteration. A few commentaries - The "opening buzz" should be done away with. It isnt interesting at all. My coaches thought that ceremony along with a video game tossup on Joan of Arc was "...

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http://www.historybowl.com/bowl_varsity ... hp?pool=19 these are transposed FYI

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Shouldn't group 20's #2 seed be Daviess County (since they are #25), or is this a special case where they are transposed with Ranney A (#26) because the #1 seed in group 20, Corbin, also happens to be from Kentucky?

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I feel like I've also heard that in league play sometime (southern/eastern Ohio). Yeah, sophism is a commie-liberal thing totally. It's not quite the same thing that happened at your place, but its in a similar vein of asininity. Saturday in our OAC regional we knocked a local public school out twic...

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Everything I can see (like the top few legit results on google search for "aida plot") seems to indicate it is burial alive and that the stone in question is the one used to seal up the entrance. Sounds pretty concise, thanks for the clarification! (Also really liked the hard parts of the...

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The third part of the Aida bonus claimed Aida and Radames were "buried alive" as the way they die, if I'm not mistaken? I'm pretty sure they are crushed to death, or at least that's how I remember it when I saw it performed. I also got this inference because the aria "la fatal piedra ...

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Why is a high school freshman one of your 86 "possible or confirmed" readers?

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So how'd this go? I am curious if Winchester Thurston, certainly a talented team captained by a phenomal player, came away with this one.

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So as long as this doesn't conflict with Schindler's Lit (and if Ryan is amenable towards high schoolers playing this), I'm down for playing this and am looking for a teammate. Pick me!!

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Jim Cordle (two-time Super Bowl champion) played for Fisher Catholic's quiz bowl team his freshman year before he transferred out.

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thyringe_supine wrote:Lightning rounds are stupid. They encourage really shallow knowledge, and are often rich in such monstrosities as spelling, extra-stupid trash, multiple-choice, etc.

Maybe that's true in your area, but vendors like HSAPQ, NAQT, and other various writers do write high quality lightning round sets.

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Um, unless I'm missing some huge metaphor, all I got out of that was "it's bad because Chip Bowl in Ohio uses it." Four quarters is an NAC/Chip Beall thing. History Bowl does it (I'm assuming) because 20/20 format isn't appealing to teams that aren't very good, especially when playing a m...

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I will say that my confidence in this year's NHBB Nationals, while admittedly not high, was lowered a bit by Greg Bossick (whom I've come to know as an excellent logistician, tournament director, and overall practical person) resigning, but I think it has reached an ultimate low after this thread wa...

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The only team from WV that is attending HSNCT is (Charleston) George Washington. I liked the Bridgeport tournament; except for the fact it didn't cut the comp math out and it also had a "no protests, no exceptions" rule which is very weird. There also weren't advantaged finals. Still had ...

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The only team from WV that is attending HSNCT is (Charleston) George Washington. I liked the Bridgeport tournament; except for the fact it didn't cut the comp math out and it also had a "no protests, no exceptions" rule which is very weird. There also weren't advantaged finals. Still had t...

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Why and how any of this is appropriate for a public forum is beyond me.

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Honestly, it's just Hunter A. It really is up to them if they want to go to NASAT. Last year, as I'm sure you know, it was Hunter A + Ryan. I've never played you, or anyone from the NYC area before, but I'm pretty sure you'd be good enough to do NASAT. The difference between NYC-land and Pennsylvan...

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Doesn't NAQT have an option for shipping if no one claims their prize at the ceremony? I feel like I've heard of this before somewhere.

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Does it compromise the questions to say that I think there should be less "history of" questions? If they aren't purely social studies, I don't think they should be in the competition. Some questions (namely trash) I don't think were really pertinent to history, academically or culturally....

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I've felt for a while that QBDB has been not as great as a resource as it used to be for those very reasons you mentioned. I too have encountered several issues you pointed out (namely how messed up the search function is), along with how I can't change what pace the reader will operate at. I person...

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For future reference, is it at all possible to have Battle of the Burgh announced/invitations being sent out further in advance? Fisher Catholic usually attends this tournament, but since this was announced so late, that window closed and we can't go now (well that, and the fact we're attending a co...

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Can't go wrong with book prizes. If bratty quiz bowlers aren't appreciative of prizes, then that's their fault. As the TD, you aren't obligated by any means to buy prizes for them, but it's a great gesture nonetheless and I appreciate them regardless.

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I feel a lot less comfortable doing anything online under my real name, unless I'm in some "friends-only" space like Google+ or Facebook, but that's totally personal and I could be the only one. I know this is beside the point and all, but you already use this forum with your "real n...

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thyringe_supine wrote:Anyway, is there anyone who actually saw this Dunbar match happen? Because I'm sort of mystified.

Dunbar's "B" team is good. Just like most schools that have traditionally strong quiz bowl programs.

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Um, no, I don't think so. Are we talking about the same guy? I mean the Northmont guy. From Ohio. Which would make me think that they most likely wouldn't attend. Besides, Macomb was there last year, so i expect them to attend and therefore even if he was, it wouldn't be the biggest threat. Northmo...

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St. Xavier is from Kentucky, not Ohio, for what it's worth.

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I don't think there's a problem with negging a question because you didn't know an earlier clue. Saramago's The Double is different from Dostoyevsky's The Double . I remember I got stung one time as a freshman when I negged a Hawthorne tossup on a clue of "this author of The Marble Faun " ...

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A lot of the local teams you might play as apart of your league are probably like a football or basketball coach with likely no teaching position or has a gig like teaching gym and being the faculty advisor for such a quiz bowl team is apart of what keeps them employed by the school district. This i...

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Richard Montgomery's shirts at HSNCT are pretty neat.

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While it may seem a bit late, I would like to say that Fisher Catholic is interested in contributing questions to any tournament (that we likely won't end up playing) that needs stuff written. We can be good for a few packets, or writing n amount of questions on topics that need written. Feel free t...

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Fisher Catholic has interest in attending.

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So, basically I would say you shouldn't read a quizbowl-relevant book unless you actually find it interesting. You won't remember things if reading it was an unpleasant experience. Legit knowledge isn't actually very rewarding at all, especially when half the time you're looking for authors. You ca...

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Would Sparknotes really be sufficient for HSNCT level lit? For some books, even just Wikipedia is sufficient; sometimes important characters come up as the first clue ( The Cherry Orchard and À la recherche du temps perdu last year...). So for the top 50 or so most frequent books, a deeper knowledg...

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If this doesn't get finished (and if you still have the questions) would you consider releasing them to the public?

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bt_green_warbler wrote:
Willmune Sof Burrghtenstein wrote:
bt_green_warbler wrote:We will post the survey results once they are compiled; and, yes, location change is on the table for the 2014 HSNCT.
Are they compiled yet?
Not yet; we expect to have the final results within the next few weeks.

Where can we find this?

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I'll reply to this out of chronological order. Tom, I find it odd that you're calling USGC irrelevant or that you're "infuriated" since you were the first person to like it on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/USGeoChallenge For starters, how is Geography Olympiad (a competition that is no...

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already 42 students have competed, so clearly, once again, we're doing something here that people are excited to have the opportunity to compete in. Yeah, I find it highly unlikely among these 42 students that there's a student who has gone to both NHBB Nats and NAQT/NSC, and would therefore have a...

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If people don't want it at the HSNCT or would rather have it somewhere else too, I'm open to anybody's advice on that. If you're cool with high schoolers playing this, I would definitely be interested in playing this set somewhere (preferably in Atlanta considering Loyola's trash set was pretty goo...

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Some of my team mates were curious if there was a way for Qub to have an alternative source of questions, for when Sharad's program doesn't work. Is this possible?

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As ashamed as I am to say, getting a tossup on "Kublai Khan"(Coleridge poem) early from listening to "Xanadu" by Rush.

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The Economist is a good read and prepares you well for world current events, especially for HSNCT. I have found that you don't have to be a constant viewer of news shows or an avid reader to be good at current events. Speaking from my experience, if you have Facebook and you "like" a news...

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Maybe it's a more internal issue on my end, but I tried to look up "Wise Blood" today during my class where we were watching the movie based on the book, and I got the first result as the novel by O'Connor (which is what I wanted) but then 800+ additional results of various crap. I realize...

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The Geography Olympiad idea was announced at Marietta back in July, I just didn't know it'd go through.

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