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Tejas

I’ve played a number of Skype tournaments over the past few years and staffed one, and while I’ve had very positive experiences on the whole there are a few general issues I’ve had with how the tournaments have been run. I’ve seen a few easily fixable problems arise multiple times, as well as some t...

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May I suggest that all tossups end with "For 10 points, remember this guy who ..." with a question mark at the end.

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To clarify, will this mirror be open?

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I am also curious as to how Yale got two DI bids. I assume one is for hosting and one is for Jacob and Stephen editing SCT, I'm not clear as to why they get two for this though.

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I liked the set a lot and wanted to note a couple positives from it. One is that the editors did a pretty good job keeping difficulty consistent through different packets and categories. This wasn't perfect, as Jordan notes, but good given the vague "regular plus" stated difficulty. I also...

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Unfortunately we couldn't read this at UChicago due to WAO running late, but a group of us got together and played it later. Scores are below: Athena Kern - 305 Rob Carson - 115 Will Alston - 110 Dylan Minarik - 95 Bryan Berend - 80 Bernadette Spencer - 75 Tejas Raje - 75 Ike Jose - 75 Alex Damisch ...

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Culture of Improvement had many great questions, but this one stood out for me. 20. This man operated Mississippi's first luxury motel, where guests could pay to have a crow named Jim Crow pick the coin from their cuff. On May 7th, 1931 this man was driving a car from Hell's Half-Acre which got into...

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I got The Burdens of Brotherhood from Ian Drayer. Looking forward to it, thanks!

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I sent my gift, should be there sometime next week.

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Tejas Raje
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1. Any of the world history books from this list

2. A novel by an Indian author that's not Midnight's Children.

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Everyone's waiting in the IRC.

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I'll play this. I'm even worse than Mike Cheyne at Lit.

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This was great, thanks Jasper and Anderson for writing it and for holding this mirror.

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I'm moving to Chicago soon, I'll be available to staff things and play open events.

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Cheynem wrote:In the spirit of college basketball, those questions will be worth 50% less points than the other questions and be written in a whiter font.

But you'll work harder on those questions so it's fine.

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Cody wrote:Was photonic crystals really only gotten in one room? I'd assumed from Billy's post that both he and I got the tossup.

Billy wrote the question, I believe.

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Full conversion stats can be found here.

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Can the set be posted?

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This tournament was great, many thanks to Rob, Andrew and Carsten for writing it.

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Okay here's some data: 2012 ICT had a tossup on Haydn string quartets that went like so: ...The "Sun" and (*) "Erd\"ody" [air-DOH-dee] groups of these pieces were written while their composer was employed by the Esterh\'azys. For 10 points--name these chamber works by the c...

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Okay here's some data: 2012 ICT had a tossup on Haydn string quartets that went like so: ...The "Sun" and (*) "Erd\"ody" [air-DOH-dee] groups of these pieces were written while their composer was employed by the Esterh\'azys. For 10 points--name these chamber works by the c...

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I'd like to play this.

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This was fun, thanks to Rutgers for writing and Sam, Joelle and David for reading.

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Looking for another teammate for this, let me know if you're interested.

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As of now, I believe it will be played at the Michigan site of side event weekend.

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This tournament was very fun, many thanks to Erik for writing it.

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I won't be in until pretty late Friday night so I'd prefer to have it Saturday, is there any way to have the tournaments not conflict?

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Then please explain to me why ACF Fall doesn't have a ban on experienced players, either? Again, if you think this tournament is too easy for you then you should not play it. This is a guideline that has worked before and which I suspect will work again. We insist that this tournament will not be &...

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In some sites, wouldn't Jerry playing solo (or Ike, or Rob, or even Tejas) be one of the best teams? I don't understand the idea of letting retired players play the set at all, unless it's a mirror specifically for them. How flattering. I don't think having mixed fields is a good idea at this level...

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I'd like to play

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We're currently deciding whether or not to expand the field to 21 teams or keep it at 17. A big factor in making this decision either way is knowing if there's enough interest from teams and prospective staff to make this viable. If you're on the fence about attending and would go if space existed,...

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I SEE YOU REGIONAL #1 Miracle On Ice vs. #5 MAY DAY MAY DAY #2 Go Crazy, Folks vs. #3 I Don't Believe What I Just Saw STOP IT, MIGGY REGIONAL #1 The Giants Win the Pennant vs. #4 New Home Run Champion #2 Havlicek Stole the Ball vs. #11 The Double COUNTRY STRONG REGIONAL #1 We'll See You Tomorrow Nig...

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I SEE YOU REGIONAL #1 Miracle On Ice vs. #9 Holy Roller #2 Go Crazy, Folks vs. #10 Johnny the Jet Rodgers #3 I Don't Believe What I Just Saw vs. #6 Yes, Sir #4 Spectacular Move by Michael Jordan vs. #5 MAY DAY MAY DAY STOP IT, MIGGY REGIONAL #1 The Giants Win the Pennant vs. #8 Plano East vs. John T...

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I SEE YOU REGIONAL #1 Miracle On Ice vs. #16 Where's Wright Waters?! #2 Go Crazy, Folks vs. #15 The Mays Catch #3 I Don't Believe What I Just Saw vs. #14 COLD...BLOODED #4 Spectacular Move by Michael Jordan vs. #13 Secretariat #5 MAY DAY MAY DAY vs. #12 Jordan Crawford #6 Yes, Sir vs. #11 By George ...

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I'll play this I guess.

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I would definitely check it out, but I don't know where I'm even going to college yet, but that's another topic entirely. The other thing is that, although I'm good at HS level quizbowl, whenever I look at college packets they are so hard that I'm lucky to get it by the giveaway, so I'm not sure ho...

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One that comes to mind is the Hippodrome question, where an early buzz of Constantinople was not prompted. There may have been others, I know some readers mentioned there were very few alternate answers throughout.

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EDIT: I'm going to change my mind and expand the field size to 12 teams on account of a massive recent surge in interest (this also means I'll need one more staffer). This means the format will be as follows: 1) 5-round round robin for initial brackets of six 2) Single-round crossover game 3) Tiebr...

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I'll play as part of an open team, please pm me if interested.

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Ike wrote:Tejas sent me volumes one and two of The Greatest Video Game Music. What a great gift!

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Hope you enjoy!

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I received Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World as well as God's Chinese Son from Rob Carson. Thanks, I look forward to reading them!

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I was inspired by Jason's idea to write a packet on games that annoyed me. It will hopefully be 15-20 questions.

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merv1618 wrote:
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The Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 are great.

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Tejas Raje
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1) Any good history book, I'll copy the list Mike posted of award-winners. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/news/recent-awards.html
2) Any work of 20th century literature

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I'd be interested in playing as part of an open team, please PM me if you want to team up.

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I'd play this, and wouldn't mind keeping it Britishized.

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Thanks to Will for running this and Will H and Jacob for writing it, this was fun.

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Tomorrow night works for me.

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I'd really like to play this but won't be free Thursday, is there any other day when this can happen?

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