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I also think doing a 12 team round robin, followed by 3 brackets of 2, then finals, would be a great format for 12 teams. Alternately, you could do a 12 team round robin, followed by 2 brackets of 6, then finals. That would mean there wouldn't be any extra packets for playing off tiebreakers, or if ...

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The stats are here: http://quizbowl.stanford.edu/tournament ... dings.html

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Obviously not having the packets done on time is not ideal, but things happen, and it's not a big deal at all. Stuff like this has happened before, and it will happen again, and far worse things can happen. Jonathan and Eric are highly regarded writers and editors, so I would call this a fluke. I d...

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Obviously not having the packets done on time is not ideal, but things happen, and it's not a big deal at all. Stuff like this has happened before, and it will happen again, and far worse things can happen. Jonathan and Eric are highly regarded writers and editors, so I would call this a fluke.

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I don't have much to say other than to respond to what other people said. Suprematism Tossup: I negged with Constructivism on the Suprematism tossup of the Proun clue. The Proun clue referred to El Lissitzky, who I associated with Constructivism, and everything I could find in my question archive as...

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I know people have been criticizing how this tournament was edited, and I wanted to point out that we played both of the finals packets in practice yesterday, and I thought they were excellent and very well written.

Also, I agree with Ryan about this tournament and question difficulty.

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I created an account. Also, my username is Downtown. I didn't read the instructions closely until after I registered.

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Stats:

http://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament-te ... nt_id=2847

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I am signing up to play this event. It should be pretty awesome.

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After reading the rest of the posts in this thread, and thinking things over, every option/possibility has its positives and negatives. We just have to realize that this is one aspect of quiz bowl that is imperfect.

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I agree with what Charlie and Dwight said about this issue. A person could potentially slow up a game by making a bunch of unnecessary an frivolous protests, but I have never seen this. People are usually reasonable about their protests. I know that most of the people on this board believe that PPG ...

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I have interest in playing in this tournament. I don't know if I will be at HSNCT, but this is a cool idea.

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Ryan Westbrook made a good post two years ago about getting better at quiz bowl, that you should definitely read if you have not done so yet. http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=3484 I would recommend you do this or some modified form of it if you are really serious about quiz ...

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Would it be possible to set up a private discussion forum to talk about this question set like Mike Bentley did for this year's NAQT SCT? This seems like it could be a good compromise between waiting three weeks to publicly discuss the questions, and hope people playing the Maryland T-Party Mirror d...

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http://www.naqt.com/sct/hosts.jsp?year_code=2008

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I think your problem is more common than you make it out to be. When I was in high school, I was involved in sports, and other members of our team were involved with speech, debate, theatre, etc. We generally had regular practices 1-2 times a week when school was in session from October to February....

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I thought this was a great question set. I especially thought the tossup answer selection was excellent. I also really liked the geography in this set. As people have previously mentioned there were a few transparent/clunker tossups, and uneven bonus difficulty, but pretty much all tournaments have ...

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One good thing about quiz bowl is the amount of really good tournaments there have been within the past year or two. This is definitely not to say that there were not good tournaments before then as there obviously were many, but there seem to be more of them recently. It is definitely a good thing ...

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In case anyone is wondering, the league stats have been updated. They include the first four games in each division.

http://www.naqt.com/mqba/league/2008/20 ... dings.html

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I am planning on playing these tournaments.

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grapesmoker wrote: [*]South America: village of Puente del Inca (Carlos Menem)

The University of Minnesota will hopefully be sending a team to this location for ACF Winter.

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theMoMA wrote:
Strongside wrote:I would like to sign up for this tournament.

I currently don't have a teammate. If anyone wants to play with me, you can email me at [email protected]
Want to team up for this, Brendan?

Yeah. Andrew and I will be a team for this.

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I would like to sign up for this tournament.

I currently don't have a teammate. If anyone wants to play with me, you can email me at [email protected]

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This tournament was pretty awesome. I agree that it was more difficult than advertised, but I felt this enhanced the quality of this tournament. This could also be due to the fact that I like playing on harder tournaments more than I do easier tournaments. The full round robin made for a long tourna...

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Another way to potentially avoid reading round sout of order if they are not printed or password protected would be to e-mail them to the moderator one by one. For example, the tournament director could e-mail round 2 to all the moderators immediately after the first scoresheet from round one comes ...

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This looks like an unfortunate situation. For non-NAQT tournaments, you could maybe try to convince the coach/school that the team would do better, and be better prepared for tournaments, if they could play on a variety of question styles and authors. Maybe you could also demonstrate the that the pe...

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Matt Weiner and I have agreed to team up for this tournament.

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I am looking for a partner for this tournament. My e-mail address is [email protected]

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Here are my predictions with some comments. 1. Chicago This team is pretty stacked. Plus they add Paul, and Shantanu to an already awesome team, and they won ACF Nats with only 3 players. 2. Brown Jerry and Eric are really good, and Dennis and Aaron are solid. I don't know if Michael Wright will pla...

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I remember in the 2005-2006 season R. worked to set up 4 NAQT quiz bowl meets in outstate/ non Twin-Cities Minnesota. The cities chosen were Duluth, Rochester, Moorhead, and I think Alexandria. The idea was that the top team from each site would qualify for a single-elimination tournament in St. Pau...

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Interesting list. As for the lack of quiz bowlers prior to 2004, the problem is that there were no NAQT meets or pyramidal questions (at least none that I knew of) before October of 2003. Before then, no individual stats were kept, and team records might be spotty, and are either difficult to find, ...

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I would like to sign up to play in this tournament. I am currently listed as one of the 6 other Minnesota people under the maybe category.

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Would it be possible to post the difficulty level/ number of stars each packet was? I am curious as to see what packets were ranked what, and how that affected each match's results and statistics.

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How is PATH computed again? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/quizbowl/message/8561 In short it is: (Total points scored * 20) __________________________ (Number of tossups heard - number of tossups gotten by a players teammate (excluding the player we are calculating stats for - number of -5's gotten ...

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This is an interesting statistic. In addition to what Matt mentioned about how Paths doesn't account for when someone buzzed, it also doesn't account for whether a person got the tossup after the other team negged. For example, if you lost a buzzer race to the other team early in the question, (and ...

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In case anyone is curious: I changed my signature to reflect this, and some people have heard. I am transferring to the University of Minnesota starting for the fall 2008 semester. I will keep playing quiz bowl as well. I am still an undergraduate, and am entering my junior year. I plan to be at the...

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This was only my second trash tournament, and I am not a very good trash player, but I enjoyed the tournament, and thought it was very well written.

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Yeah, I agree with what Matt said about the "youthfulness" at this tournament. This was my first Chicago Open, but I remember getting the feeling last year that Charlie Dees was doing an unusual thing by playing Chicago Open as a high schooler. There were numerous people at this tournament...

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I enjoyed this tournament. It was well written, and I was pleased with the level of challenge the tournament provided. The main thing that I didn't like about the tournament were the tossups where it was necessary to accept "obvious equivalents." I feel that these tossups tend to be confus...

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This was a really well written tournament. Thanks to Jonathan and the other writers for producing another great tournament.

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This tournament was awesome. Logistically it ran very smoothly. It obviously went late, but there is no way for a 17 round tournament followed by a championship series to end early. I liked the full round robin because it was the most fair way, and I got to play everyone, including numerous really g...

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It is sad to hear about the death of Mr. Ruhmann.

I met him and talked to him briefly once or twice. I have a friend who played quiz bowl at Apple Valley under Mr. Ruhmann several years ago, and I remember that he had good things to say about Mr. Ruhmann.

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Yeah. Jacob Durst and I have agreed to play together for this tournament.

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I am still a free agent, and looking for a teammate if anyone else wants to play. I can also just show up to the tournament and see if anyone needs a teammate there, or play solo if there is an odd number. My e-mail is [email protected]

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I am looking to join a team for this tournament. If you need/want another player, you can e-mail me at [email protected]

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My teammate for this had to drop, so I am looking for someone to team up with for this tournament. My e-mail address is [email protected]

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I am looking for a teammate for this, or two teammates if it gets changed to triples. I can be e-mailed at bjb87@comcast.net Also, if there aren't enough moderators, would it be a good idea to give teams byes, and have them staff at that time? I would have no problem doing that during a bye. I don't...

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Trevor Davis and I have agreed to team up for this tournament.

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I haven’t been to very many high school meets the past two years, so I won’t make any predictions, but I agree with most of what has been said. As for Sam Peterson being the next me, he will easily be better than I was in high school barring something unforeseen, and there’s a very strong chance he ...

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Paul Drube and I have agreed to play in this tournament together.

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