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1. Caleb
2. Liam
3. Tony
4. Mati
5. Gareth
6. Adrian
7. Ben C
8. Sky
9. Parth
10. Micah
11. Michael
12. Raymond
13. Jared
14. Kunaal
15. Colin
16. Wenying
17. Ben W
18. Nick
19. Jack
20. Albert
21. Russell
22. Asha
23. Kevin Y
24. Jason
25. Ishan

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I am only considering tossups between the 2 dot and 3 dot level of college. Firstly, I notice every Soyinka Tossup at this difficulty tends to clue the "eater of leftovers" line or random quotes from the preface in the first or second line. If the tossup is feeling especially daring, it will clue ...

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The idea of having a greater proportion of CS “making sense” was also reinforced by the submissions that teams sent in — CS questions spanned a wide variety of disciplines, whereas Earth science questions tended to be concentrated almost exclusively on geology and landforms; by my count, there were ...

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Overall I thought this was a strong Regionals set, if slightly harder than last year (but still at a good 3-dot difficulty). I appreciate you posting the uncorrected packets quickly, as I find it much easier to give feedback confidently when the tournament is fresh in my mind and I can refer to the ...

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For what it’s worth, I would personally be disappointed to travel 5+ hours each way for a tournament to play only 9 games.

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- The sonic booms bonus apparently made no sense. Very sorry about this one, I changed clues around at some point and the answerline didn’t get fixed to account for that. I also could have done a better job warding off answers of “breaking the sound barrier” — it seems like lots of teams at our site ...

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Mostly enjoyed the science, but I was curious as to why "archaeology" is promptable for the "dating" question (H14)? At least to me this is really stretching what should be promptable, since no clue refers to any other task in archaeology except for dating, and establishing chronologies is arguably ...

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The question on superconductivity used the presence of Bogoliubov quasiparticles as a clue. While the term 'Bogoliubov quasiparticles' is most often used in reference to superconductivity, they are found and used frequently in most areas of many body physics and so I don't think the clue is unique ...

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Congratulations to Waterloo A for winning the overall and UG titles, and Toronto E for winning the DII title! Stats are available here.

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abovethetreetops wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 6:20 pm Can we get a field update?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1920242141

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I am pleased to announce that the Eastern Canada site of 2024 ACF Winter will be held at the University of Toronto on Saturday, November 16, 2024. The tournament will take place at OISE (252 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6). The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9:00 ...

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1. Toronto B 2. Toronto C 3. Toronto D 4. Toronto E 5. Toronto F 6. Toronto G 7. Toronto H 8. Toronto I 9. Toronto J 10. Toronto K 11. Toronto L 12. Toronto M 13. Toronto N 14. Toronto O 15. Toronto P 16. Toronto Q 17. Toronto R 18. Toronto S 19. Toronto T 20. Toronto U 21. Toronto V 22. Toronto W ...

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club will be hosting our traditional 2-day open mirror of HSNCT on Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23. I, Benjamin Chapman, will be the tournament director. Logistics The tournament will begin at 9:00 AM both days and will be held in OISE. Please arrive ...

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I would like to second everything Raymond said about Sky — they are an outstanding player and teammate (as are Gareth and Tony). Sky is hurt by the NAQT distribution/style much more than the rest of Toronto A and Nationals is indicative of their true strength as a player. I would also urge people to ...

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1. Gareth Thorlakson Imagine how good Gareth would be if he showed up to practice more than 3 times a year! We were so good for that one practice where we read SCT but thought it was ICT. 2. Tony Chen Tony is the Cassandra of Toronto A. At least 5 times per tournament, Tony will state the correct ...

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I am unsure of the wisdom of selecting Krasnogorsk as an answerline. When the media reported on the terrorist attack there in March, it was referred to as a "Moscow attack" or "Moscow concert hall attack" and Krasnogorsk was usually referred to with some variant of "a Moscow suburb" or "the ...

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I very much disagree with Andrew's proposal for several reasons: 1. One of the underlying assumptions is that it's only "supporting players" who are getting moved around. However, this proposal fails to consider that there are many scenarios where someone can serve as an anchor for the B team but ...

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I just sent out the logistics email; please let me know if you are your team's contact and have not received it yet.

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Just a reminder that this tournament is in 2 weeks, we'd love to get more signups! Also, since I failed to specify before, I will be setting a tentative registration deadline of January 17 at 11:59 PM EST.

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I am pleased to announce a playtest mirror of Booster Shot will be held on January 20, 2024. More info on the set can be found here . I, Benjamin Chapman, will be TDing this tournament. Logistics This tournament will be run using a Discord server for organization and Zoom + buzzin.live for gameplay ...

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Canadian Novice is now clear; the paсks have just been uploaded to the archive and are awaiting approval.

EDIT: Here are the questions.

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Robert is right on the money here. Most university quiz bowl teams just don't have an easy place to store something that large (such as a display case) and students generally don't have lots of extra space to hold onto such things.

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Congrats to "Summa Iran-Contra Gentiles" for winning Ahead by a Century and "Milan Fernandez, tell me, if you know, / For 10 points each:" for winning QBOWLOSM. Stats are available here.

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Since a couple regions weren't able to host Canadian Novice mirrors this spring, we will be keeping the set available for this fall. If you're from a region that didn't previously host a mirror and are interested in hosting, email me at [email protected].

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club will be hosting two side events on Sunday, August 20. These will be in-person at Sid Smith. We will begin at 9 AM and finish by 5 PM. In the morning , we will be hosting a mirror of Erik Christensen's Ahead by a Century . In the afternoon , we will be ...

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While it's obviously good that longer questions can have more content for interested players to look up after the fact, I don't think we should prioritize that (relatively minor) benefit at the expense of the more tangible improvement to the gameplay experience itself from not-super-long questions ...

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Congratulations to "Hey I'm Cameron, I thought you were American" for clearing the field on Saturday and "3/7 of us have Lyme disease" for clearing the field on Sunday. Stats are available here.

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club will be hosting our traditional 2-day open mirror of HSNCT on Saturday, June 17 and Sunday, June 18. I, Benjamin Chapman, will be the tournament director. Logistics The tournament will begin at 9:00 AM both days and will be held in a building TBD ...

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I don't think collegiate quizbowl can support 3 in-person nationals in a year. Last year's online event was a success, and I think many of the teams that attended would be unable to play this tournament if it were held in person. I'd advocate for this to be held online again.

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Rookie Ballot: 1. Mattias Ehatamm (University of Waterloo) 2. Michael Du (University of Waterloo) 3. Caleb Ott (University of Waterloo) Not much more to really say about Mattias, Michael, and Caleb; they were all able to hold their own against much more experienced players at difficult tournaments ...

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Noted non-American (or so he insists) Gareth Thorlakson had the highest PPG on American History in the Nationals field.

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1. Sky Li (University of Toronto) Toronto's number 1 American has had a great season, serving as the lead scorer on the winning team of every closed tournament they played. Of particular note is their Penn Bowl performance, where Toronto Winter Closed went 3-0 against the stacked Henry/Derek/Daniel ...

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We are still looking for mirrors in the Northeast, Great Lakes, South Central, and Northern California; get in touch with me if you're from those regions and interested in hosting!

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I had a lot of fun playing this set (despite the unideal weather circumstances that forced me to solo for the first time ever); thanks to all the writers and editors for their work putting this together. With regards to Andrew's discussion of bonus difficulty, I felt like most of the Es were pretty ...

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Abdon Ubidia wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:47 am The clue that gave "yes I said yes I will yes" in French was hilarious and probably my favorite lateral thinking buzz I've ever made

Would it be possible for this question to be posted? I'm kicking myself for not picking up on that and am very interested in seeing it now.

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Decided to toss together my list of the top 8 D2 teams:

1. Waterloo
2. Rutgers B
3. Chicago D
4. Claremont
4. Stanford
6. McMaster
7. Princeton
8. Inver Hills

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We are still looking for mirrors in many regions of the US; if you're from one of the regions that doesn't have a mirror listed above and are interested in hosting, shoot me an email at [email protected].

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Now that all the regular season ACF events and SCT are over, I would like to point out an issue with ACF (and NAQT's) choice of dates for their tournaments this year: Regionals and SCT are one week apart The one-week gap between Regionals and SCT creates a lot of strain on clubs by forcing the ones ...

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Some of this thread is in AHAN (aka social distancing ad nauseam) now. I have chosen to keep some lighthearted posts that technically contain genuine information or feedback in this thread. Please do not take the tone of those posts as license to keep shitposting in this thread when I have made a ...

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The above post has been updated with information about eligibility and mirroring the set.

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Congratulations to Waterloo B, who defeated Waterloo C in the first game of an advantaged final 335-280. Stats are available here.

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The University of Toronto Academic Trivia Club will be hosting a mirror of NAQT’s Collegiate Novice tournament (CNS-213C) on Saturday, September 24, 2022. I, Benjamin Chapman, will be the tournament director. Logistics The tournament will begin at 9:00 AM and will be held in the Bahen Centre for I ...

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I am excited to announce Canadian Novice , a novice-level collegiate quizbowl tournament available in March 2023 . We are targeting the difficulty of past "spring novice" sets, such as Spring Novice and Boilermaker Spring Novice . Canadian Novice will be edited by Dennis Beeby (formerly of Queen’s a ...

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In a vaguely similar vein to Matt (insofar as we are talking about chemistry), I want to shout out the Suzuki reaction tossup as particularly strong. Normally, chemistry tossups on named reactions can disintegrate into ultra-boring eponym bowl, but this one avoided that. I don't remember all the ...

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Rookie ballot to follow. I know my top 7 are the same as Max's but I came up with these independently. Either that or he did a great job setting the narrative. 1. Benjamin Chapman (University of Toronto) 2. Giorgo Karam (University of Manitoba) 3. David Snoddon (University of Toronto) I think David ...

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1. Lia Rathburn (University of British Columbia) Before ICT, I didn’t really know who to put first, but probably would have put Lia first anyway just because she played more. However, after Lia’s ICT performance, it’s impossible to rank her anywhere else even though Henry also played great. She was ...

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For what it's worth, on the "Si, se puede" tossup, I was trying to remember how to say "We shall overcome" ("Nosotros venceremos") in Spanish for a while before the other team got it because I thought that could have been the answer. The answer space was certainly drastically shrunk by the pronoun ...

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A quick perusal of their website reveals that they are rather nakedly trying to push an agenda, which I don't believe should be the goal of a supposed academic competition. In addition to the whole "we won't reveal our sponsors" issue that Jon Pinyan brought up, there are a couple other troubling ...

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Ok, thanks for the clarification.

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This tournament will run on Boilermaker Spring Novice, a set meant to be challenging, but not overwhelming for players without much experience. Purdue are now claiming that this set is supposed to be "challenging" for inexperienced players. However, This tournament will match the style and ...

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