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The online mirror of RULFO will happen on Saturday, August 17. The fee will be $10 per player. When you have a team, register by emailing me at justinfrench1728@gmail.com. Here is a team formation spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nx3yy7lRSWEfWrVNaoV8dbkRIs4mWLPeEJAflzrmPtE/edit?u...

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wjg wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:55 am
Hi,

Do you happen to know if/when this is likely going to happen yet? Thanks!

This will happen on August 17. I will post a full announcement shortly.

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In general an entire post about a specific clue placement would be absurd. However, cluing "Quiet Night Thought" too early is an epidemic that must be stopped. Any line from "Quiet Night Thought" should not be in power at any difficulty above HS regs. For the vast majority of people who play quiz bo...

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In my admittedly limited opinion, this might not be a good idea. Geography, Current Events, and Trash aren't really taught in school. There is a lot of extracurricular interest in these categories (and also in math and parts of social science), unlike philosophy, which has a fairly small amount of ...

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Can you comment on the reasoning behind the unorthodox distribution of this tournament? We elected to have a smaller than usual amount of philosophy (.25/.25) because we believe that philosophy is not commonly learned in high school classes and is not a large area of amateur interest among high sch...

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A NASAT private discussion forum has been opened. You can access it by going to your User Control Panel, going to the tab Usergroups, and then scrolling down to 2019 NASAT and selecting the option to request access to that forum.

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There will likely be an online mirror of RULFO: http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22039&p=353847 . The fee will be $10 a player. The field cap and structure will be determined based on interest. If you are interested in playing RULFO online, vote in the poll. Vote on every day on whic...

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This text's prologue mentions a "war-duke" of Thrace named Lorikus, who becomes the foster father of a child born to a man named Munon and a daughter of King Priam named Troan. In its first section, a king gives a wandering woman as much land as four oxen can plow in a day, only for her to plow up ...

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Difficulty is always a tricky thing. I think everyone in quizbowl wants the set to be only as hard as necessary. But sometimes I feel that it's necessary to stretch difficulty in the service of other goals. To bring up something that Olivia astutely pointed out -- the inclusion of women in quizbowl...

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We are looking for volunteers to playtest NASAT. If you are interested, message me on here or on discord with a list of the categories you are interested in playtesting. You can also email me at justinfrench1728@gmail.com. Note that for question security purposes playtesters must have graduated high...

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Dropping the highest and lowest rank usually does a good job of making up for silly mistakes like forgetting Shan, although obviously this requires more votes.

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The first mirror of RULFO has been played: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5782/. I have requested a discussion forum. In the mean-time, anyone who has played the sets should feel free to pm me with questions or comments about specific tossups or the set in general. I have no idea if I screwed...

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The first mirror of RULFO has been played: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5782/.

I have requested a discussion forum. In the mean-time, anyone who has played the sets should feel free to pm me with questions or comments about specific tossups or the set in general.

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I have edited out all references to specific people in my posts and suggest that the other people in this discussion do the same at least until they actually speak to the people involved in running the tournament.

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Suggesting that the stats Rama put up are in the same neighborhood of implausiblity as those Jakob cited is idiocy at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst. Yes, I agree that saying Rama cheated would be absurd, but nonetheless people did say he cheated, so I was using it as an example of why a...

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Suggesting that the stats Rama put up are in the same neighborhood of implausiblity as those Jakob cited is idiocy at best and intellectual dishonesty at worst. Yes, I agree that saying ____ cheated would be absurd, but nonetheless people did say he cheated, so I was using it as an example of why a...

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Yeah, I think winning ICT versus not even making top bracket at states is dramatically different. Also, did the Andy Watkins story emerge because people looked at the stats again, or did it emerge because NAQT found actual evidence that was a smoking gun?

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Hitherto, I've kept things anonymous, but here I'll cite a specific example: _____. _____ is well known to have cheated on diverse occasions on discord readings, and lo and behold, further investigation has uncovered a highly statistically anomalous performance on _______. While there is no smoking...

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Packets are the packets of packets.

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Banned Tiny Toon Adventures Episode wrote: ↑
Tue May 07, 2019 12:57 am
My sources lead me to believe that wolfram poh of Ucla 30d a bunch of science bonuses at nats And should be consideration for your science ballot so

can confirm that wolfram is very good at science

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fwiw i'm excited for a large amount of postmodern/contemporary poetry and I don't think the current quantity would require cuts too much deeper than what one would expect for this sort of tournament

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ivanilyich wrote: ↑
Sun May 05, 2019 5:17 am
2.5 Brit / 3 Anglo / 2.5 Euro / 2 World.

what is anglo?

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is this event in place of the usual norcal weekend of quiz bowl or is it a separate thing

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I would very much like to play this at NASAT, if at all possible. I don't think NASAT typically has side side events, unless you're referring to a NASAT mirror other than the main site, in which case a mirror of RULFO would absolutely be possible assuming that the site requests it. There will be an...

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I have no idea why we won the protest against Oklahoma, but what is ironic about the situation is that the protest actually ended up having a negative effect on our final standing. Since we had the PPG tiebreaker over both Michigan and Oklahoma, the protest only determined whether we would carry ove...

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krollo wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 10, 2019 3:49 pm
(1/1) Other Anglosphere Literature (US-dominated)
(1/1) European Literature
(0.8/0.8) World/CL Literature

Will things like English-language Nigerian literature go under "Anglosphere" or "World"?

Also, will US literature not written in English be under Anglosphere?

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The problem with all-bracket entry tiebreakers is that they do significantly delay the tournament because there are far more tiebreaker situations to determine and read -- look no further back than PACE NSC 2018. Having played PACE NSC 2018, I did not notice any delays anywhere significant enough w...

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At the end of the round robin, only ties that concern entry into the top playoff tier will will be broken on a tiebreaker packet (Round 9); all other ties will be broken by PPG. This is a terrible decision. Why is the top bracket the only bracket worth playing a tiebreaker for? The difference betwe...

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you appear to have mistakenly placed a mandatory "other history/other academic" question in the other science distribution : I would recommend amending this Agreed, "Any science" with one being mandated as "history science" feels like its going to be slotted into "other science," which is not what ...

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I expect all questions to be shorter than 850 characters, or 7 lines of 10-point TNR 850 characters is still quite long— for comparison NASAT has a maximum of 900 characters. 24 tossups of 850 characters is about the length of 22 tossups of 900 characters, and 24 bonuses will take substantially lon...

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A short anecdote: because of this discussion, I went back to look at some first-lines and I noticed in particular this lead-in for the "Volsunga saga": A poem about the “Lovers” of a character from this work appears in the third part of The Earthly Paradise by William Morris After a bit of researc...

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Attached is the reason why UCLA will not be attending ICT D2:

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The thing your eyeball isn't taking into account is actual buzzes As has been brought up in other threads, tossup points are a bad way to measure team strength because they are incredibly field dependent, and they do not distinguish between teams past a certain skill level. Imagine if to distinguis...

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Beside the online mirror, do you have any idea of where this will be hosted yet? e.g. which nationals events / summer opens this might be aiming for? We're looking for mirrors at summer side-event opens. Also, although the original post says "online playtest mirror," we are afraid that having an on...

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To go off that obviously rhetorical question, people like looking at advanced stats to see how players and teams from across the country compare. Having mirrors without advanced stats fucks with the point of having advanced stats in the first place. I don't know how it got in your head that the sol...

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Justin, here's some unsolicited life advice: I get that you're upset that these 3 questions were not great. Ideally, every question would be great. But a difficulty miscalibration on 3 out of several hundred questions is not a socially acceptable reason to angrypost. You may think you're making som...

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I'm looking at advanced stats for earlier mirrors of EFT and I'm seriously questioning why it was necessary to take them at all. The stats confirm unequivocally things that should have been obvious to the editors: T.S. Eliot was far too easy, the 1400s were far too fraudable, and Winterreise was far...

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We are now 50% done with RULFO. Some notes: - The literature is double distributed. In addition to the geographical distribution in the announcement, we are also using a genre distribution. This is the overall literature distribution: 7 American long fiction 3.5 American short fiction 3.5 American d...

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Smuttynose Island wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:55 pm
Directors such as Satyajit Ray are occassionally clued and asked about.

UlyssesInvictus wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:33 pm
Satyajit Ray IMO comes up more frequently than Krasznahorkai

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:14 am
I get 22 results for Satyajit Ray searching the DB there.

TIL there is only one Indian director.

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Pascal Plays Poker wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 20, 2018 9:46 pm
obscure Hungarian movies like Satantango

Sátántangó is hardly obscure. Also, it has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

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AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:04 pm
We will continue to keep cost under control

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:04 pm
Teams travelling by air are advised that the closest airport is Lexington's Blue Grass Airport.

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:04 pm
The entry fee is $650 per team

2018 NASAT wrote: The entry fee is $600 per team

2017 NASAT wrote: The entry fee is $560 per team

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The set is now 1/3 of the way to completion.

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15. A man gives a thumbs up while inclining his head towards the viewer in this artist’s painting The Lunch, whose composition is similar to his Farmers’ Lunch. For 10 points each: [10] Name this Spanish artist of Las Meninas. ANSWER: Diego (Rodríguez de Silva y) Velázquez [10] The aforementioned g...

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I don't think the bonus part on Things Fall Apart did a good job testing knowledge of Things Fall Apart. The way it was written, it was essentially "can you name these minor characters that show up in the first ten pages." Someone who carded the Sparknotes character list would have a better shot at ...

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While the set had a reasonable amount interesting content, the consensus at the UCLA site seemed to be that the questions were not particularly well written. First, a good deal of answerlines should not have been answerlines at this tournament. "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," "Wolf Hall," "Winterreise,"...

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Current Field (7 teams):
UCSD (3 teams)
Caltech
The Ch_n(g)s
PCC
UCLA

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UCLA is pleased to announce the SoCal mirror of EFT, to be held on Saturday, December 1st, 2018 . This tournament will be a mirror of the 2018 Early Fall Tournament. More information about the set can be found at http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20808 . We are running this as an open...

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Even if all of these problems were always framed in terms of coins, coins still would be a pretty icky answerline for this tossup since there is nothing about these problems that is fundamental to coins. There's no interesting mathematical property of coins that makes them the object that must be us...

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justinfrench1728 wrote: Symphony of Psalms and Chichester Psalms are by far the most famous works written on the Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Matthew_Passion Okay yeah this is what I meant by blanking on something super famous. Regardless, the point still stands that the question seems tr...

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The question on Psalms was transparent. Sure, people write music on other books of the bible or even other biblical "texts," but could you really write a tossup on those works at this level? Based on comments in the thread, most high schoolers don't even know that there is music written on other bib...

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