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There will be a Skype mirror of the NASAT set on Saturday, June 21. This is open to teams comprised of any people at all who have not previously seen the questions (i.e.: both high schoolers who are not attending NASAT, and post-high-school people). Team members do not all have to play from the same location. Teams may be anywhere from 1 to 4 people.

For those who are not familiar with NASAT, its target difficulty and style is "exactly the same as ACF Regionals," so if playing such a tournament on an open basis appeals to you, this is your chance.

The tournament will start at 11 AM eastern. The fee is $60 per team, regardless of team size.

Please post here to form teams or register.

Teams:

1) Nguyen/Desai/Brownlow/Kandlikar
2) Goldman/Cole/Elliot/Vinokurov
3) Durgin/Cadungog/Whisler
4) Hankin/Teevens/Dillon/Droge
5) Dos Remedios/Amini/Rajasekaran/Zafar
6) Davis
7) Johnston/Dewan/Beeby/So
8) Minarik/Venkus/Torres
9) Wang/Busse/Zeng
10) Conder /Rangaraju/Thompson/Byrne
11) Raje/Alston/Nagari/Yetman
12) Fischer/Laird/Peterson/Jacob
13) Bentley/Grubb/Lopez-Lago/Smart
14) Huff/Patil/Punyamurtula/Kendrick
15) Karas/Gleb/Xiao/Nguy
16) Sipp/Jiao/Buetel

Readers:

Prieto
Weiner
Gupta
Pond
Eltinge
Yu
Voight
Ulusoy
Pinyan

I think Skype limits you to 8 people on a conference call, so teams of 4 people from different locations may pose a problem for you.

Anyway, we might organize some group of people in Seattle to play.

I was able to run the game between the two 4-person teams at the CHB online mirror without problems -- the call limit is apparently 25 now.

I would be interested in playing.

Does this mean the NASAT matches won't be livestreamed/liveblogged with answers, as in previous years? This sounds fun, but I'm weary of shelling out $15 or more for something if we're just taking it on good faith that nobody listened/watched online.

in on these shenanigans wrote:Does this mean the NASAT matches won't be livestreamed/liveblogged with answers, as in previous years? This sounds fun, but I'm weary of shelling out $15 or more for something if we're just taking it on good faith that nobody listened/watched online.

We are looking more to recording games for posting later, as the streaming service used in past years is no longer available.

I will have the finals liveblogged and just not use that packet in the online mirror. NASAT itself has 20 packets, and online mirrors rarely use more than 12.

I will moderate.

Matt Weiner wrote:

in on these shenanigans wrote:Does this mean the NASAT matches won't be livestreamed/liveblogged with answers, as in previous years? This sounds fun, but I'm weary of shelling out $15 or more for something if we're just taking it on good faith that nobody listened/watched online.

We are looking more to recording games for posting later, as the streaming service used in past years is no longer available.

I will have the finals liveblogged and just not use that packet in the online mirror. NASAT itself has 20 packets, and online mirrors rarely use more than 12.

Well, then this is an excellent response to that streaming problem! I'd love to play.

I would like to play this.

There's a decent chance I'll want some part in this, be it as player or moderator, as that will be a few days after grades are due.

I would very much like to play this.

I'm mildly interested. If some conglomeration of people want to play this and need a mediocre history and current events specialist, I'm your guy.

Unless some horrible prank is being played on me, I'm under the impression that Ike Jose, Billy Busse, Libo Zeng, and I are forming a team

I am probably playing this with Morgan Venkus and a few other to-be-determined Illinoisians.

Ah, one of those tournaments I can play in my pajamas. I'm signing up.

I would like to sign up for this tournament. I plan to play it with various Canadians.

Edit: The team that I have currently put together is Cameron Amini of Colonel By, Aayush Rajasekaran of Waterloo, Waterloo alumnus Huma Zafar, and myself

I plan to play this with some fellas from Rockford-Auburn.

Sounds like fun! I will play (and likely will have teammates).

I can read for this.

A UK team will play this.

Benji Nguyen and I are playing this. Email me if you want to team up.

EDIT: Austin and Gautam have joined this team.

I will be playing this tournament on Benji and Nikhil's team.

I will be playing this from Dubai and will likely be on Aaron Dos Remedios's team, although this is yet to be confirmed.

I'll be a free agent for this.

I'd like to play. I won't score much, but I'll at least pay my portion of the entry fee.

I will be playing this with John Gleb, Di Xiao, and Andy Nguy. Our team name will be UC Berkeley.

EDIT: updated 4th player

Another Canadian team featuring myself and a hodge-podge of other people will be playing this as well.

I'm playing this with Rohith Nagari from Brown and Tejas Raje from Cornell. If anyone would like to play with us, please contact me via PM. I'd like to play with someone who knows things about lit and arts.

It's looking likely that there will be 2 Seattle teams, although I still need to confirm the final numbers.

I can read for this

I know this may cause even more delays due to this tournament being run via Skype, but would it be possible to give teams location slightly longer on bonuses, due to potential lag issues in conferring for teams that are not all playing in the same location? Not by much, just a couple extra seconds or so.

For completeness' sake the "UK" team will be me, Tris Cole, Jonathan Elliott and noted non-British person Jerry Vinokurov.

I'll read for this.

Galadedrid Damodred wrote:I will be playing this tournament on Benji and Nikhil's team.

I am also on this team now.

-Gautam

A second Canadian team consisting of University of Ottawa and McGill players has formed. If a third team does not form, there may be one or two Canadians in need of a team.

odin_envy_me wrote:I will be playing this from Dubai and will likely be on Aaron Dos Remedios's team, although this is yet to be confirmed.

I will also be playing on this team, not from Dubai.

I will be playing this with a couple other Alberta people. We probably have room for a free agent to join us.

Some Kentuckians that are not me may or may not play this.

Just a reminder to keep updating your status -- if teams have formed, consolidated, or dropped out, I'd like to know, with as complete a roster as possible, so that an accurate schedule can be made and I can make sure we have enough readers. The first post is updated with everything that has been posted so far; please let me know about any further changes.

Virginia Morgan Keynes wrote:Another Canadian team featuring myself and a hodge-podge of other people will be playing this as well.

pandabear555 wrote:A second Canadian team consisting of University of Ottawa and McGill players has formed. If a third team does not form, there may be one or two Canadians in need of a team.

These two posts are referring to the same team. Roster currently in the process of being finalized (EDIT: see below). There won't be a third team from Eastern Canada.

EDIT: Roster: Chris Johnston, Ian Dewan, myself and Derek So. Brendan McKendy on standby if Derek can't play (possible Skype problem).
EDIT2 (Thursday evening): Roster update: Chris Johnston, Brendan McKendy, myself and Derek So.

I may be able to offer some services in this, though it may be just as a scorekeeper or stat organizer. Hoping to add to my quiz-credibility.

Would anybody who expressed interest but does not have teammates like to team up? Or alternatively, anybody still need a fourth player? Ideally I'd like to play on a full team of four

Is there any estimate on the end time for this tourney?

I'd like to play for this, but I don't think I'd do very well.

It's looking very likely the 2nd Seattle team will need 2 additional players. If there's any free agents or half-teams out there that want to team up, shoot me an e-mail at [email protected]. To set expectations, this 2nd team is likely going to be in the bottom quartile of teams unless joined by two strong other players.

Amol, Ujwal, and I will be playing together with a possible forth teammate.

I'm gonna withdraw as a player/free agent and moderate instead.

jonpin wrote:I'm gonna withdraw as a player/free agent and moderate instead.

Just want to take this opportunity to single out Jon Pinyan as one of quiz bowl's good people.

I'm going to project an end time of 7 PM. If we stay with a number of teams similar to what we have now, we'll do two brackets followed by 2-3 crossover games and then a final as needed.

My team is currently Ramapriya Rangaraju, Jason Thompson, and myself. We'd definitely be interested in taking on a fourth.