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aarcoh wrote:I think Cameron sent them to Chris (or should have). They should be up soon

I have not received any set from Cameron.

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Sleeping the night before is super key. I totally disagree with caffeine though, in my experience it hurts play a lot. I do recommend lots of water, and jogging from match to match, if possible. Keep blood flowing, listen to good music, and enjoy yourself.

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So, we've moved beyond abolishing one clue questions, horrible hoses, spelling, or what-have-you to say that if no one gets a question two-thirds of the way through it that author has made a horrible grave mistake deserving of scornful bold-face type? I don't think any of the answers above (or back...

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Bad Boy Bill wrote: Has anyone ever merged SQBS files? Since we have two buildings this year, I thought it might be worthwhile to have two computers running. Are there any warnings or pitfalls I should be aware of?

TAAAAAFT.

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SaveComputationalMath wrote:After all, any player who comes to a scholastic bowl tournament looking anything less than their best should want to die anyway.

I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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mrichardquinn wrote:Dear Quiz Bowlers-
I'd like to invite you to Armstrong's Conceivably Regular Or Nearly Yearly Meet II aka ACRONYM II.

Who played this? Who won this?

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Dorman having lost to WJ, forced a one game final between Hunter and Dorman, Hunter winning.

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Oh yeah, as the name implies, this is a guerrilla tournament meaning there is no central editor. It'd be great if someone who is not playing this tournament (and ideally staffing it) could receive the packets from people and compile them into a zip file for distribution on the day of the tournament...

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Man I really really wish there were some sort of database where hosts could list their tournaments, and enter the location, and teams could just search by area.

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Everyone college in Michigan is obsessed with running single elimination NAQT tournaments(including my own university). I didn't even know that players actually preferred bracketed playoffs or something else until I came to college. I think a lot of the teams in this state would prefer double elim,...

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http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... arbage.zip

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http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... scinon.zip

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And so I think that Kwartler's right in that we don't need to break from a distribution to have fun. In fact, these dream packets might be more fun the more strictly we try to adhere to a common form. If the distribution isn't a constraint, then I will tell you right up front that I will enjoy the ...

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I would be interested in playing, although if it is Saturday night, my plane reservation would sadly trump quiz bowl. I don't mind writing a dream packet, although due to my lack of meta knowledge, it would probably have to be on a Minnesota team member. Mike, I'd be willing to go in on a Rob Carso...

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Our conference, the CSL, does the same thing as the MSL, the only difference being that coaches get the questions only one week in advance, which is an insignificant difference. You know, recent events would prove you wrong. I think he was saying the difference between one week in advance or months...

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marnold wrote: the unnecessarily perky teacher leading the "happy birthday".

Dude that was a kid.

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dtaylor4 wrote:Field updated above. Chris, are you for sure coming?

Oh Hey! This. No I am not.

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Hey Andrew,
I'm/South is unable to play this, sorry.

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cvdwightw wrote:Occurring in at least two rooms at Triton Bowl, and an unknown number of rooms at other Prison Bowl mirror sites:

Wrong: Whaling
Right: Incest

One team at EPITHET negged with "sex" after it had mentioned some countries have made it illegal.

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jazzerpoet wrote:Stats are now online on our Team website:

<http://www.orgs.utulsa.edu/academicbowl/tournaments.htm>

Enjoy!
Angelo

If you get a chance, could you enter in which packets you used for which rounds?

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Could you enable round report on these stats (including which packet was used which round)?

cdcarter · Re: ACF Regionals West (2/28/09) Stats? Hopefully with Round Report?

Stats? Hopefully with Round Report?

cdcarter · Re: ACF Regionals West (2/28/09) Stanford Yaphe beats Stanford Koai

Stanford Yaphe beats Stanford Koai

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Harvard beats Brown in a 1 game final.

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Chicago beat MN A in the finals.

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These stats don't have the number of 10s each team have on them, hence all the stats are bad.

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everyday847 wrote:Jesus this will be a good weekend.

All this needs is a half hour of meta pyramid and a good comedy lunch packet!

But yea, these all sound really exciting!

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If you write a leadin that no one gets, and a second clue that a few teams get, it's still fine; Although I agree with pretty much everything else you are saying here, and everything Mike, Charlie, Daichi et al. are saying, you have to be careful here when writing under length constraints. If say i...

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TheKingInYelliow wrote:I have to agree with Guy on this one, this toss-up strikes me as solidly pyramidal, at least from my knowledge of the subject.

Auroni isn't saying that it isn't pyramidal, just that the first couple clues are too hard for the set, which I would be inclined to agree with.

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Hey, most of the people in this thread are top tier teams. Top tier teams SHOULD be buzzing on leadins. A normal HS invitational should not be having clues nobody is buzzing on. The first goal of quizbowl is to reward the team with the most knowledge. Remember this. Even if you are putting up 22ppb,...

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So overall this was a super great set. I absolutely delighted playing on it, and Hunter definitely out did themselves, even with the high expectations after last year. The science was amazingly well written, and it was nice to use legitimate science knowledge in high school quizbowl. So hats off to ...

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So Naren finally cleared me to post the set http://quizbowlpackets.com/archive/2009mohit.zip! Go, download, discuss.

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http://quizbowlpackets.com/archive/2009prison.zip! Enjoy.

I will be posting thoughts of the set tomorrow.

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Yeah, I was probably complaining too much about this before the tournament... I really don't think that a State Championship should not be determined on A-Series questions, especially when the prize is not only a trophy, but free nationals registration for the top two teams. I also agree that an IS...

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How did league playoffs go? Alls I have heard is that Chaska beat De by a bunch.

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South should be there with one team, and at least me and maybe Molly to play Lit.

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Sarah, Charlie, and anyone else in the "parents might not let us come" camp. Having gone to CO as well as several other long-distance tournaments and having come back fine, I am sure my parents would be willing to write something down saying that you will be fine and that QBers are good pe...

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Just use a Century family font, guys!

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I am all for any July date, although I would prefer the 25th. I want a quizbowl birthday!

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To put it in the fewest words possible, you don't "practice" Ramadan. Or even take part in it. If you phrase a question like that, you're asking for a neg on "fasting" or "sawm". I'm sure Jewish/Hindu/Buddhist/Christian/etc. questions will have the same effect in some ...

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Can you promise to have showered?

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Here's the set http://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/a ... dclass.zip! Take that, Stanford archive!

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Round report is still only showing for rounds 1-5, so those round numbers don't seem to be entered... If you could fix that, it'd be great!

Also, yea, I totally understand, just was wondering, about both the schedule and the finals.

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This tournament was really awesome, and it was a great chance to play good teams on good and more difficult questions. I though the staffers were all very good moderators, and they all made good decisions when the (very few) protests occurred. I'd like to thank everyone who helped out, as well as th...

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gaurav.kandlikar wrote: Full stats will be posted once I make sure everything is correct and figure out the best way to upload them.

You can upload them for free here: http://www.scobo.net/tc.aspx. Also, please enable round report when you do!

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gkandlikar wrote:
everyday847 wrote: This is now eight people and two sciencers.
They're called SCIENTISTS, Andy Watkins!

Once again we prove that Andrew Watkins hasn't slept.

cdcarter · Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: EPITHET (2/14/2009) at EPHS Field update?

Field update?

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I have access to scanners and could probably assist in the paper-to-digital transition using our archiving setup outside of office hours. As for the OCR process from there, I'm pretty sure we have a workstation outfitted with Adobe Capture somewhere around here, unless there's a better communal opt...

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No, those are both accurate. Jason and the argonauts all participated in the Calydonian Boar hunt, and Theseus was an Argonaut. He may be confusing the Calydonian Boar with Heracles's Erymanthian Boar. Actually, Theseus isn't usually counted amongst the crew of the Argo, but he and Pirithous did ta...

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if I were doing this again I'd certainly be happy to have Mike Bentley and any other recently-graduated people playtesting the questions (perhaps also some confirmed staffers at host sites?). For future years (or even for ICT), consider some high school students who are definitely not playing on th...

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