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Posted: **Sat Sep 07, 2013 1:04 pm**

If you'd like to read a packet on the IRC, post here so we don't take up lots of threads. I am writing an impossible trash packet that will be read tonight or tomorrow.

Packet will be read tonight at 10:30 EST/9:30 CST. Parental discretion advised.

Posted: **Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:27 am**

SCORES ON PACKET (I'll post the packet later)
Lafer: 120 (14/4)
Weiner: 80 (10/4)
Dan: 20 (4/4)
Brian: 60 (7/2)
Stephen: 35 (5/3)
Gabe: -5 (1/3)
Jonathan: 25 (5/3)
Sam: 15 (4/5)
Will: 20 (2/0)
Ian: -5 (0/1)
Doug: -5 (0/1)
Eric: 10 (2/2)
Auroni: -5 (0/1)
Alejandro: 15 (2/1)

Posted: **Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:23 pm**

EDIT: I scrapped the bonus idea and will be doing like a speedcheck 2 line tossup related to the tossups. This turned into basically writing 20 more questions for a total of 85 questions. I'll post the packet after the weekend.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:57 am**

Here is the packet.

Posted: **Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:43 pm**

In honor of the Vikings' loss earlier today, I wrote a 40 short tossup trash packet. I can read it after the fantasy draft/Night of Champions tonight or some other time.

Posted: **Sun Sep 15, 2013 4:44 pm**

Posted: **Mon Sep 16, 2013 8:48 pm**

I'm writing a random assortment of twenty questions with either clues or answerlines that I like. Most answers will be pretty accessible by the end, some of the clues will be absurd. I'll read it tonight if I finish it soon or tomorrow if I don't.

Posted: **Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:32 am**

This happened. Rob Carson reigned supreme.

Posted: **Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:58 am**

I will post my packet later tonight (Rob Carson won, despite a fantastic surge by Matt Weiner who tied Dylan Minarik for second place). I also wrote a SNL themed packet involving material from the last five years (and a couple things slightly earlier, effectively the time Bill Hader was on the show). It will be very hard and very slapdash. To assure my creditors, I will also write HSAPQ questions tonight.

Posted: **Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:59 am**

Cheynem wrote:I will post my packet later tonight (Rob Carson won, despite a fantastic surge by Matt Weiner who tied Dylan Minarik for second place). I also wrote a SNL themed packet involving material from the last five years (and a couple things slightly earlier, effectively the time Bill Hader was on the show). It will be very hard and very slapdash. To assure my creditors, I will also write HSAPQ questions tonight.

Are you reading the SNL pack tonight?

Posted: **Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:06 pm**

Probably.

Posted: **Tue Sep 17, 2013 1:12 pm**

I'll claim tomorrow night for an all tossup trash packet following the CO trash distribution on answerlines that interest me. I don't have any sort of sense of trash difficulty, but I predict good buzzes on most questions.

Posted: **Wed Sep 18, 2013 12:51 am**

My packets.

Posted: **Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:24 pm**

Since MFT playtesting is happening tonight, show up in #quizbowl at 8:15 PST if you want to play my packet. If playtesting is done by then, we'll start immediately, if not, we'll wait it out and start whenever it finishes.

Posted: **Wed Sep 18, 2013 11:09 pm**

I'll get these posted to Wastebin at some point.

Posted: **Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:52 am**

Rob's winning streak on random IRC packets continues.

Posted: **Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:03 pm**

An American history textbook I'm reviewing has a bunch of "Key People" listed as apparent study (?) points. I'm amused at the relative obscurity of some (well, many) of these key people, so I am writing a fairly simplistic 50 question or so packet about it. Each question will be on a person identified in the book as "key" and it will be very hard. To be read either tonight or tomorrah.

Posted: **Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:55 pm**

I'm writing a packet of common-link lit tossups, mostly ill-advised ones. I'll read it tonight at 11:00 EDT if it's finished by then, and tomorrow at the same time if it's not.

Posted: **Sun Oct 13, 2013 10:18 pm**

I just finished the packet, so I'll be reading it tonight.

Posted: **Sun Oct 13, 2013 11:41 pm**

Rob won the common link packet, as is his wont.

Posted: **Mon Oct 14, 2013 1:43 pm**

I am writing a lit packet of "postwar lit" (late 1940's-1950's stuff, although probably a few outliers). It will mostly be genre stuff, though, like sci-fi, children's, and pulpish. I guess it's hard, I don't know. I'll read it when it's done.

Posted: **Tue Nov 26, 2013 10:37 am**

I never finished the literature packet...but I DO have a "Thought" packet I will read tonight.

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:25 am**

Jonathan Magin won this packet.

Magin: 75
Nediger: 60
Passner: 40
Carson/Lafer: 30
Bailey: 20
Manners: 10
Chiego/Bollinger/Gupta/Larsen: 5
Gehring: -10

Posted: **Wed Nov 27, 2013 12:32 pm**

I'm writing a packet of 20 power-marked tossups (mostly TV and movies) for my family this Thanksgiving. I can read it this weekend.

Posted: **Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:44 pm**

I will be writing a vanity packet of 20 to 30 Broadway/musical theater tossups to be read online some time in later December once I'm on break. Difficulty will be "hard". Will certainly keep people updated when it's done and ready to be read.

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2013 4:22 am**

I have a short, 40-tossup vanity Trash packet that I've read to a few groups of Ontario quizbowlers. I don't have plans to read them in IRC or anything, but I am happy to post the packet if people are interested. I should note, however, that the packet has some CanCon, including a little bit of Canadian meta.

Edited to attach packet

Posted: **Sat Dec 07, 2013 7:39 pm**

adosreme wrote:I have a short, 40-tossup vanity Trash packet that I've read to a few groups of Ontario quizbowlers. I don't have plans to read them in IRC or anything, but I am happy to post the packet if people are interested. I should note, however, that the packet has some CanCon, including a little bit of Canadian meta.

I'd like to see it.

Posted: **Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:08 am**

I plan on reading the "Barbarians" packet I've been sitting on for a while tomorrow in the IRC - probably around 6PM Eastern Time, but I can do whatever time is convenient for people. If people want to stick around, I can also read 60 fairly difficult world history questions I've had for a while.

Posted: **Tue Dec 24, 2013 12:53 am**

My Broadway/musical theater vanity packet will be ready to read this Sunday at 9 PM, in the IRC channel #quizbowl. It'll be 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, so I'll keep score individually for tossups and we'll also see how high a PPB the room can get.

Posted: **Tue Dec 24, 2013 1:10 am**

The "Barbarians" packet was read. Results were as follows:

Jeff Hoppes: 10/0/1 (145)
Matt Jackson: 1/1/3 (10)
Eric Mukherjee: 2/0/0 (30)
Patrick Liao: 2/0/2 (20)
Auroni Gupta: 2/1/1 (35)
Matt Bollinger (off the last two questions): 1/0/0 (15)

I didn't track the PPB of the room, but I'm pretty sure it was north of 25, thanks to contributions from Rob Carson, Doug Graebner, and Matt Lafer.

EDIT: I noticed a small error in one of the tossups, so I fixed it and re-uploaded the packet.

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:54 pm**

RyuAqua wrote:My Broadway/musical theater vanity packet will be ready to read this Sunday at 9 PM, in the IRC channel #quizbowl. It'll be 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, so I'll keep score individually for tossups and we'll also see how high a PPB the room can get.

The packet is done and this is still happening tonight on IRC, though it may start a few minutes late.

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:47 pm**

RyuAqua wrote:
RyuAqua wrote:My Broadway/musical theater vanity packet will be ready to read this Sunday at 9 PM, in the IRC channel #quizbowl. It'll be 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, so I'll keep score individually for tossups and we'll also see how high a PPB the room can get.
The packet is done and this is still happening tonight on IRC, though it may start a few minutes late.

I'm assuming this is 9 Eastern?

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:12 pm**

merv1618 wrote:
RyuAqua wrote:
RyuAqua wrote:My Broadway/musical theater vanity packet will be ready to read this Sunday at 9 PM, in the IRC channel #quizbowl. It'll be 20 tossups and 20 bonuses, so I'll keep score individually for tossups and we'll also see how high a PPB the room can get.
The packet is done and this is still happening tonight on IRC, though it may start a few minutes late.
I'm assuming this is 9 Eastern?

EST, yes. And the potential lateness-causing Thing has been cleared away, so there should be no timeliness issues!

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:28 pm**

This happened. The room got 27 PPB.

Scores (15/10/-5 = overall):
Dan Donohue: 8/0/3 = 105 [winner!]
John Lawrence: 3/1/1 = 50
Mike Cheyne: 1/1/0 = 25
Susan Ferrari: 1/1/1 = 20 (sorry about the timing thing!)
Drew Scheeler: 1/0/0 = 15
Dan Passner: 1/0/1 = 10
Anderson Wang: 0/1/0 = 10
Saul Hankin: 1/0/2 = 5
Lawrence Simon: 0/0/2 = -10
Connor Teevens: 0/0/2 = -10

I've attached the packet for posterity. Hope everyone had fun!

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:18 am**

I wrote a horror(ish) movie packet that was just played. It skewed modern enough that even Will Nediger scored points. But Rob Carson reigned supreme once again on my questions.

Since not many people took part, I can read it on the IRC again sometime if there is interest.

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:33 am**

In that vein, I'm writing a packet of dumb common links on art film, which I'm planning on reading tomorrow at 10:00 Eastern. Even Carsten Gehring should be able to score points on it.

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:33 am**

What about Saul Hankin?

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:13 am**

women, fire and dangerous things wrote:In that vein, I'm writing a packet of dumb common links on art film, which I'm planning on reading tomorrow at 10:00 Eastern. Even Carsten Gehring should be able to score points on it.

Any chance you could push this to 10:30 for purely selfish reasons?

Posted: **Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:17 am**

MLafer wrote:
women, fire and dangerous things wrote:In that vein, I'm writing a packet of dumb common links on art film, which I'm planning on reading tomorrow at 10:00 Eastern. Even Carsten Gehring should be able to score points on it.
Any chance you could push this to 10:30 for purely selfish reasons?

Can do.

Posted: **Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:15 am**

Susan Ferrari and Mike Cheyne co-reigned supreme on my film packet, which is attached here.

Posted: **Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:37 pm**

I'm writing a final random packet of stuff for the road. Probably will read Wednesday night.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2014 12:00 pm**

This packet will be read at 9 EST. It is 60 tossups.

Posted: **Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:35 pm**

Auroni Gupta: 10
Carsten Gehring: -5
Chris Manners: 20
Dan Passner: 70
Dan Puma: -10
David Seal: 10
Drew Scheeler: 20
Dylan Minarik: -15
Eric Douglass: 25
Eric Mukherjee: 65
Evan Adams: 10
Evan Nagler: 25
Gooseburger: -10
Joe Nutter: -10
"Lordjim": 0
Matt Bollinger: 10
Matt Weiner: 135
Mik Larsen: 15
Ramapriya: 5
Saul Hankin: -10
Tejas Raje: 30

Matt Weiner won, followed by Dan Passner and Eric Mukherjee.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 11:05 am**

I wrote a sports packet of unspecific length and quality.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:10 pm**

It will be read now.

Here is the packet.

Scores:

Chris Manners: -5
Dan Passner: 75
Dan Puma: -5
David Seal: 15
Enum: -10
Eric Douglass: 15
Evan Adams: 20
Evan Nagler: 40
Joe Nutter: 10
Jonathan Xu: 10
Matt Lafer: -5
Matt Weiner: 15
Mike Malloy: 25
Pat Freeburn: -20
Ryan Rosenberg: 5
Rob Carson: 10
Saul Hankin: 10
Tejas Raje: 100

Posted: **Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:10 pm**

I'll be reading a short packet of tossups on arbitrary TV show episodes in IRC in about fifteen minutes.

Posted: **Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:53 pm**

I will read a packet in the same vein, starting probably when the basketball game ends.

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 6:26 pm**

I wrote another film packet (with a mystery theme), which I will read tomorrow at 11:00 Eastern, if there are no objections.

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:38 pm**

women, fire and dangerous things wrote:mystery theme

Meaning unspecified, or about movie mysteries?

Posted: **Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:37 pm**

merv1618 wrote:
women, fire and dangerous things wrote:mystery theme
Meaning unspecified, or about movie mysteries?

Who knows? It's a mystery!

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