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Florida mirror announced! viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24643

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

Our preliminary field cap is going to be set at 16 teams.

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

FIELD (14)

TAG A
TAG B
TAG C
TAG D
Russellville A
Russellville B
Strake Jesuit A
Strake Jesuit B
Kinkaid
Karl's Nursery for Smol Brains
K.J. Henry Science and Math Academy A
K.J. Henry Science and Math Academy B
Boulder
Lambert

Staff: 10

Last updated 11/10/2020 at 2340 EST

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

LONE STAR has been Platinum Certified by PACE, meaning that the top 25% of the field, or 8 finishers, have qualified for the PACE NSC.

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Our Main Site mirror is on 11/14 and is announced here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=24597
We are also planning to run a Florida mirror on 1/9. Details to come.

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Hello all, LONE STAR is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our “Main Site” mirror on Saturday, 11/14/2020! All teams from the the following states may play: Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Arizona. We are also accepting teams from the Southeastern US who were not able ...

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After hearing about another night of delays and cancelled events, I would suggest running future events with an individual Zoom link for each room/game rather than using a single large Zoom room with breakout rooms. This would both speed up rounds starting and substantially decrease burden on the TD...

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Thank you so much for playing the 2020 Northeast Regional Kickoff tournament, hosted by LONE STAR! We hope all teams had an enjoyable experience with both the questions and the tournament itself. Congratulations to Hunter A for winning the tournament after winning a thrilling final 435-295 against P...

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California mirror has been given to USCD

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Yes. Four players at once, and each player should have their own Discord account. I'll detail this and some other online-specific logistical things in an email soon

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Expanded to 30. This is likely to be the final cap.

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War · Re: (10/10/2020) LONE STAR Northeast Kickoff Field expansion to 28

Field expansion to 28

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In accordance with PACE regulations, all players will be required to have cameras on.

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Field full! Future registrations will be placed on the waitlist and will be added to the tournament as we get more staffers.

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Only a few spots left! The field cap is not rising until we get more mods, so get those registrations in soon!

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Information is forthcoming on a Great Lakes Mirror. We're still looking at local hosts and seeing whether a house-run mirror is feasible. Apologies for any delay.

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EDIT: LONE STAR will be on a later date

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Ah yes. Sorry for my oversight; the rest of New York is welcome to play as well. Eastern Pennsylvania may play as well. On the other hand, western Pennsylvania will be included in the Great Lakes mirror.

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FIELD (30 of 30) Ridgewood (2) Belmont (2) Phillips Andover (2) Livingston (3) Ithaca (2) Staples Lexington 2) "Democritus" (2) Northview* Choate (2) Hunter (4) Manheim Wilton Phillips Exeter Hotchkiss Darien East Brunswick (2) STAFF: 26 of 30 Field expansion possible given sufficient staff and tea...

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Hello all, LONE STAR is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our Northeast mirror on Saturday, 10/10/2020 as the first regular high school difficulty tournament in the area! All teams from the NYC region and further northeast, as well as western New York, may play. If you are unsure of whethe...

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The additional (currently unstated) geographic restriction is that teams from the DC area circuit and further north should play the DC area mirror that we will announce soon.

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LONE STAR will be mirroring in the NE on 10/10. Details to come.

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Provisionally, we will be running our own regional online mirrors for the Northeast, DC Area, Illinois, Texas, California, and perhaps the eastern Midwest (Ohio/Western Pennsylvania/Indiana/Michigan etc). Dates are being determined.

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Ah of course, I did not intend to imply that you were unappreciative or anything; apologies if it came off that way. I know that other people had also been surprised by the length of the tournament, so I wished to explain publicly before getting more questions. Indeed, 9 hours online does feel longe...

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Wrap-up post: Congratulations to Churchill A for winning the tournament with a perfect 10-0 record! Middlesex got 2nd place after an impressive series of victories, winning their final game over Churchill B to qualify for the 2nd place tiebreaker as the 4th seed and then winning both stages of it. C...

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The tournament indeed lasted longer than anticipated, and we truly apologize for that. There are some lessons I've learned from this experience that I will apply to future mirrors. Most of the delay resulted from delays at the start and a very low-probability and complicated tie that we had to break...

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Emails are going out tonight, and I am drafting them now. I sincerely apologize for the delay.

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The field is currently closed at 12, but new teams are still welcome to register and be on a waitlist in case other teams drop or more teams sign up.
Logistics emails about payment, how to play, rules, etc. will be sent out shortly as soon as we finalize our plans for the field.

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Our field is at 10 teams and counting! We're aiming for a field of at least 12 teams and preferably 16, or we may have to postpone the tournament for a later date.

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viewtopic.php?f=46&t=24302 Forums link for our first mirror!

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At least for the fall, when presumably no in-person tournaments will be occurring, the dates of basically all tournaments are going to be controlled by a small number of people, namely those who are logistics managers for each housewrite, plus NAQT and AQBL. This issue of too many sets has only gott...

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FIELD: (14)
Midtown Classical A
Midtown Classical B
Monrovia
Greenhill A
Greenhill B
Churchill A
Churchill B
Churchill C
West Point
Arab
Middlesex
Herberger Young Scholars Academy
Howard
Hazel McCallion

Last updated 8/19/2020 1430 EDT

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

Hello all! LONE STAR is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the first mirror of our set, as well as the first mirror of this new season, on 8/22/2020, open to ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY . The tournament will be held online on Discord on 8/22/2020, starting at 10 AM EDT. At le...

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Two announcements:
1. Michael Yue is joining us as a literature editor and general advisor for the set!
2. Our first mirror (to be announced soon in more detail) will be a national online middle school mirror held on 8/22. Get excited to be playing the first tournament of the new season!

Subotai the Valiant, Final Dog of War

There are two ways people get better at quizbowl, in general. The way I like to analogize this is with a landscape of sand. New learning is represented by adding sand. Every point on the landscape is a particular topic, and the height of the point is how deeply you know that topic. In general, peopl...

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By contrast, I included Arizona (also Mountain Time) in West Coast because I don't know of any instances where Arizona players really go too far outside Arizona / SoCal or try to do so and so that grouping made sense to me. If this is being run before Daylight Savings ends, as intended, most of Ari...

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We're over 2/3 done and have started rapidly editing. We expect to have playtesting sessions in the near future for people not eligible to play the set (i.e. people older than HS) and perhaps a middle school online mirror in late August, specifics TBD.

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I think there's a distinction to be made here between "coaches" and "adult supervision". It should probably be the case that all HS and MS teams attending tournaments be required to have some adult supervision (NAQT's chaperone policies at NCTs are a good model for this). However, I think it's pret...

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First mirror request received! [EDIT: First two mirror requests received! Thanks so much for all your support!] MIRRORS 8/22: National Middle School Mirror, Online 10/10: Northeast Regional Kickoff (online regional mirror) 10/31: Vanderbilt University (online regional mirror) 11/14: UCSD (online reg...

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It is seeming like, at least for a substantial part of the season, in-person mirrors won't be allowed (even if they're technically allowed within the reopening, I doubt many schools would like the liability issues and actually let them be held). For example, if in-person college classes of people fr...

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I have found that truly engaging with material taught in classes is a great and easy way to become at least above average regionally at most categories, although unfortunately none of the categories you've named are really taught in school (not to worry; this will make you good at the other categori...

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There will be computer science as a small part of the math distribution; I forgot to mention this. Thanks for the catch!

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We have been writing at a remarkably efficient rate and have done 40% of the set in 20 days. As such, we are taking mirror requests for tournaments occurring at any point in the season.

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EDIT: Message reminding players about the date of the tournament no longer applies; feel free to delete

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Nikita Nair and Eric Mukherjee have joined the set team, and the original post has been updated to reflect this. Eric will be editing science.

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LONE STAR (Look Out, a New and Exciting Set of Texan Academic Rigor) will be ready for mirrors from the start of the entire 2020-21 season! I, Daniel Ma, am head editing this set; besides Dr. Mukherjee and Michael Yue, all other set members, as of now, are Texans, hence the name. The set team is cur...

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To clarify, I don't think tossup/bonus cycles should be intentionally of the same category (that does indeed help extreme specialism too much, as Alistair has said), but I don't think they should be intentionally different categories either. It's very discouraging if you're a team that's relatively ...

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Adding to Eric's points, paired bonuses would make tracking conversion data a lot easier. Currently, moderators often skip bonuses (either by mistake or misunderstanding), making it difficult to tell what bonus was read in a given tossup/bonus cycle, therefore making it difficult to read bonus conv...

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Is this Tossups + Bonuses or Tossups only? I assume the former, since nothing in particular has been said, but just wanted to make sure. I was also wondering how many rounds might be used/how long this tournament will take.

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Agree with Michael; Hunter 2014 and 2015 won no legit tournaments so far as I can remember, and Hunter 2016 won only a few. Certainly not undisputed number 1.

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