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Yeah, Aaron, you did a fine job with the history. The only thing I found problematic was the wording of that one clue in the Sweden/Russia tossup in your room. Otherwise, well done.

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Two broad impressions about this set, which I found enjoyable for the most part: 1) It really struggled with clarity about what is being asked on a lot of questions, leaving me searching for a specific pronoun for a few lines. Using "it" is a bad idea, as is describing The Waste Land (whic...

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We're going to have to drop to 2 teams. Sorry.

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This sounds interesting and I would play it if it actually gets completed.

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Congrats to Chicago A for defeating Michigan A in the first game of the final to win. Northmont and Ohio State A rounded out the top 4, with Northmont winning DII and OSU A getting second. Actually, OSU A wins DII, as high schoolers are not eligible for DII at ACF tournaments . I apologize for our ...

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Congrats to Chicago A for defeating Michigan A in the first game of the final to win. Northmont and Ohio State A rounded out the top 4, with Northmont winning DII and OSU A getting second.

Thanks to everyone who came out, I hope you had a good time.

Final stats are here.

Rufous-capped Thornbill · Re: Announcement: ACF Fall Great Lakes @ Ohio State, 11/2/2013 Stats at lunch.

Stats at lunch.

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Hey everyone,

I'll be sending out a more detailed email later today, but just so everyone knows, registration fr ACF Fall will take place between 8:15-8:45 in Dreese Labs 113. For folks who came to Penn Bowl, it's the same place we met last week.

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As of right now, we have 23 teams. I'm going to close the field at 24, so if someone can field an additional team, go for it. Otherwise I'll fill the gap with a house team of freshmen/sophomores.

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Seram Friarbird wrote:In the first Michigan A vs. Michigan B game, we went 5/11/1, not 5/17/1 as listed in the stats - they have Neal getting 6 tossups, when he didn't get any, so we should have 350 bonus points from 16 bonuses heard, I think.

Thanks for catching that. It has been fixed.

Rufous-capped Thornbill · Re: Penn Bowl at Ohio State (10/26/2013) Stats can be found here.

Stats can be found here.

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Congrats to Chicago on an impressive victory, and thanks to everyone who came out yesterday.

I'll have stats up later tonight. I'm away from my laptop right now.

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OSU will be here with one, possibly two, teams.

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I included this in the e-mail I just sent out to teams, but I figured I'd post it here as well: This Saturday, OSU is playing a home football game at 8PM, so campus will be different than it usually is for our tournaments. This mostly applies to parking. Usually, I tell teams to park in the Tuttle P...

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Can someone from Penn State please get back to me on whether or not you're still planning on coming/with how many teams?

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Madagascar Serpent Eagle wrote:We won't be bringing a third, by the way.

Thanks, I was just about to message you guys regarding this.

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I know he graduated from Manheim Township last year, but I believe he actually goes to Carnegie Mellon now, so it may be worth making acquaintances with Campbell Fitzhugh (I think that's his name) and if he's willing, perhaps you can get some pointers from him. He goes to Case Western now, actually.

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Really sorry about this, everyone. Here is the field:

OSU (1-2)
Michigan (2)
Chicago (2)
Penn State (1-2)
Michigan State (2)
Miami (1)
Total: 9-10

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what about manga

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I agree in a vacuum with what Brad is saying; my problem with all of this though is that it effectively "punishes" the ambitious small schools, the ones who have the talent or the motivation or the moxie to either do well or strive to do well. If Small School A can actually hang with the ...

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rxailagan wrote:We are starting to approach our field cap (18 teams) but can accept 1 or possibly 2 more teams.

OSU will be bringing at least one and possibly two. Sorry for the late notice.

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Hello everyone, sorry for getting this out so late. OSU is proud to announce that we will be hosting a mirror of the 2013 Penn Bowl at our beautiful Columbus Campus on October 26th, 2013. Most of this post has been cribbed from Eric's thread. This tournament will be written entirely by a team of Pat...

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Stats. Thanks to all the teams who made it yesterday, I hope everyone had a good time!

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I e-mailed a small correction out a little bit ago, but please meet in room 312 tomorrow, not 302. Thanks.

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Hello everyone, I'm pleased to announce that Ohio State will be hosting a mirror of the Collegiate Novice Tournament on September 14th, 2013. Registration: To sign up a team, email me at the address in my profile, letting me know how many buzzer systems you can bring. The tournament will take place ...

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My reading habits have long since fallen by the wayside, but I was horrified and thrilled by Camilo Jose Cela's The Family of Pascual Duarte when I made my way through it four years ago. I have also done a read-through or two of this gem . Oh cool, I just started reading Pascual Duarte last night.

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Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano Bolano.

(Savage Detectives).

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We potentially lose no one and also gain Team Ohio members David Kramer (Solon) and Marty Mendenhall (Olmsted Falls).

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According to the spreadsheet, I wrote the following questions that made it into the final set. If you have comments on them, feel free to share. Tossups: Greece, Eunuchs, Armenia, Severan Dynasty, prison riots. TUs on Taiwan and Benjamin Cardozo were tiebreakers. Bonuses: Der Spiegel Affair/Strauss/...

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Jasper and I will certainly be at this, possibly with other OSU people.

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Hello, this is a formal announcement for a mirror of ACF Fall, to be held at Ohio State University on November 2nd, 2013. This is a packet-submission event, so please check with the guidelines posted here: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14595 to see what is required of your tea...

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If this isn't mirrored somewhere in he Midwest (hey UM!), then some contingent of OSU people are hoping to be able to come to Richmond to play, as long as the logistics can be worked out. If someone in the area would like to house 3-4 swell folks such as myself and Jasper Lee that weekend, please co...

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Looking at Packet 5's bonus 21, I feel that Battle of Arnhem should be prompted (at most) but not accepted, since there were drops near other cities (Eindhoven etc.) and none of the armored forces reached Arnhem, to my knowledge. Most of the fighting took place in and around Arnhem and even if the ...

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Yo, every time I try to join /lobby from the homepage link, my browser window closes, and whenever I try to join it via typing in the address or the "Feeling Lonely?" box, the only things that come up are the timer, directions, and miscellaneous bars or whatever. Latency and sync offset a...

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If people are interested, I've been granted permission from Connor Teevens to run TAMIL, a visual movie set, as a side event at this tournament. Entry fee is $5/player.

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I also wanted to comment on this At this point in quizbowl's evolution, math comp has been eroding across the country Having run a control room in years when surveys were submitted, I am dubious of this statement. Certainly this is a true statement among many who subscribe to the "good quizbow...

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I have accepted a one-year professorship at the University of Minnesota Morris. This effectively means my quizbowl career as a student is over after five years. I take solace in the fact that my final win at ICT was against my nemesis Jarret Greene and my final win at ACF Nationals was against my o...

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For all the people signing up for this ridiculous event: Have you thought that most of you won't know any more than 3 or 4 answerlines unless Madden pulls a Bruce Arthur and writes eight distinct tossups with the answerline "Constantinople?" _Constantinople_ _Constantine the Great_ _Const...

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After a while, I was really tempted to just make up what kind of competition we had competed in. (e.g. "Alchemy. This trophy was originally made of a completely different alloy.", "Cage-fighting. I wouldn't stand so close to Kevin. It's not good to make him nervous…", etc.). On ...

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I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but NAQT's trophies can easily be taken apart. When we won Small School in 2010, we just disassembled the trophy and put it in my suitcase.

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I know about Mike Fink because someone (probably Mike Cheyne, that fiend) mentioned him in some thread a year or two ago and I looked him up. But that's beside the point, which is that American Folklore is just as acceptable in the mythology distribution as anyone in the Kalevala or whatever minor N...

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No time for full reaction post now, so will just yell at Libo! This was a problem not only in a couple religion tossups but also in history; the tossup on comfort women required that exact term, but the tossup on atomic bomb survivors didn't require Hibakusha. "Comfort women" is the term ...

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Can someone give a longer explanation of what this "opening buzz" actually is and how it works, so those of us who weren't there have some understanding of what the issue is? At the end of the opening ceremony Friday night, David called up the defending bowl champion -- Hunter -- and it's...

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Another thing I liked in this tournament was that in the Swiss Catholics tossup, it stated at the beginning exactly what they wanted from players so there was no confusion (though I felt that tossup itself kinda sucked). I feel more tournaments should do this on questions that have unconventional a...

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Congratulations Illinois!

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In other news, the Roman Declaration of War was definitely powerable because fetiales (the priests who do the ritual) was in power, but it took a bit for Dallas and me to figure it out. That tossup really threw me because I picked up that it was some Roman ritual very quickly, but despite all of th...

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In other news, the Roman Declaration of War was definitely powerable because fetiales (the priests who do the ritual) was in power, but it took a bit for Dallas and me to figure it out. That tossup really threw me because I picked up that it was some Roman ritual very quickly, but despite all of th...

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Lightinfa wrote:my prediction-

A+

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NAQT is not ACF and (hopefully for the sake of variety) will never be ACF. What ACF is doesn't have to be what quizbowl is "supposed" to be. There's nothing wrong with trash, or geography, or the clock. ICT and ACF Nationals are very different tournaments, and there's absolutely nothing wr...

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Become a well-liked Club President and then ban or limit trash by force of will. But seriously, we have a clause in our club constitution banning the spending of club funds on trash and only allowing trash to be read at practice after a set number of academic packets. Constitutions can't really flat...

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