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Hello, I am pleased to announce the formation of a new quizbowl organization for the state of North Carolina, the North Carolina Academic League (NCAL). We aim to promote good quizbowl within the state of North Carolina, and we plan to host several tournaments for the upcoming school year. We aim ...

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Other people have done a good job of giving deserving people their due, so I'll be brief here. I've become increasingly less of a fan of posts of the form "you must rank x person top y or you're an idiot" so I'm going to try to present these opinions in a more mild-mannered way. * Rasheeq Azad is ...

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Thank you to all the writers and editors who helped make this set happen; it was a greatly enjoyable end to my undergraduate playing career. I think the lower difficulty was well-executed generally and definitely a needed change given how hard 2024 nats played and the fact that the field was ...

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I voted for 2, but I think I'm pretty similar to Forrest; I usually can get to 1 upon fairly minimal reflection. I think at least relative to most other quizbowlers my level and above, I have a pretty poor memory for clue retention (and just in general I think). This may be related to the above, but ...

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Feels like to me you need more positions than just two types of generalists and specialists, those categories feel pretty meaninglessly broad at the moment

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I guess I would note that outside of the Northeast region, it's difficult to know whether this is a demand issue or hosting issue; perhaps others could weigh in on this. The NC research triangle, for instance, certainly has enough interest to run open tournaments (we ran ESPN at Duke in the spring ...

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Here are the results of the preseason poll. Thank you to those who voted: Ned Tagtmeier, Eva Wang, Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt, and Jeremy Cummings. Because of the low number of ballots I received, I did not drop either the lowest or highest ranking a team received, but I did decide to only rank teams ...

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thebluehawk1 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2024 6:16 pm Is this still happening?

Yes, planning on releasing the results today.

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Congratulations to Inveterate Blitzers (Eric Mukherjee, Taylor Harvey, Ophir Lifshitz) for winning in the second leg of an advantaged finals! And thank you to everyone who playtested, we greatly appreciate it.

Please also remember to pay Jacob for the tournament if you haven't already.

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You will receive an invoice sometime prior to the tournament. The fee can be payable through a check to UNC Chapel Hill Academic Team, cash, or Venmo- if you want Venmo information, please contact us privately.

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The following spreadsheet will track player statuses, people can feel free to add people or even modify the format as they wish: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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For a bit of reference, I can post my own 100% factual and totally correct ranking of teams at the end of last year: 1 Chicago 2 WUSTL 3 Stanford 4 North Carolina 5 Toronto 6 Cornell 7 Waterloo 8 Berkeley 9 Indiana 10 Georgia Tech 11 Columbia 12 Minnesota 13 Illinois 14 Georgia State 15 Texas 16 ...

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Its been a few years since this has happened, but I figured I would revive the preseason poll. To participate, rank your top 25 collegiate quizbowl teams for the upcoming competition year (including non-American teams) and email this list to [email protected]. As there was no postseason team poll ...

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We are pleased to announce that the Lower Mid-Atlantic site of 2024 ACF Fall will be held at UNC on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The tournament will take place in Dey Hall. The opening meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9 AM. I, Jonathan Shauf, will be the tournament director ...

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This year's CO, being my first, was a lot of fun to play, even though (as my statline should indicate) most of it was pretty over my head. I thought there were some very fun ideas in Religion and the Histories especially, though, and its been a while since a tournament made me as eager to learn more ...

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Although certainly the best players in the game at any level are going to do most of their improvement outside of practice, I do think even on a very functional game-centric level practice can be quite important. Selecting which personnel to put on which team and what a team's overall strengths and ...

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A couple more miscellaneous shout-outs: Ashish Subramanian is as others have mentioned, very good. The sample size at nats isn't really sufficient to demonstrate this but he's certainly the best geography player in the country. He's also very good at history and beliefs and worthy of consideration ...

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I feel like Toronto is getting underrepresented when they had a 4th overall prelims scorer at ACF Nats and a 4th place finish at ICT just saying 👀👀 I personally would love if someone in the know would discuss some Canadians and their relative position in comparison to American players in the polls, ...

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People have mentioned Vincent Du in this thread, but I think that he's better than even some here are suggesting-- I consider him strongly in that second tier of players behind the Matthews. He may not have the requisite generalist ability to make top bracket solo, but he just dominates the game a ...

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I haven't worked on enough sets to know to what degree this is standard practice, but for the ARCADIAs the history editors have always sub-distributed by time period, and certainly the early medieval period is one of those time periods. It seems not at all unreasonable or difficult to mandate 1 or 2 ...

The Blind Prophet · Re: 2024 DMA @ UNC 3/2/2024 *Current Field:* UNC A UNC B UNC C UNC D Duke

Current Field:

UNC A
UNC B
UNC C
UNC D
Duke

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I’m delighted to announce that UNC will be hosting a mirror of DMA on March 2nd, 2024. DMA is a 1.5 dot set, meaning it is about halfway in between the difficulties of ACF Fall and ACF Winter, and so should be a great set for teams newer to the college quizbowl scene. More information about the set c ...

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This thread is for discussing specific questions in ARCADIIIA.

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This thread is for general discussion of ARCADIIIA (i.e. anything not involving analysis of a single question).

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I'm delighted to announce that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be hosting the Lower Mid-Atlantic site of the 2023 NAQT SCT on Sunday, February 5th. The opening meeting will be at 8:45 AM and gameplay will begin at 9 AM. I, Jonathan Shauf, will be the Tournament Director ...

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I'll close the field tomorrow, so if you want to sign up please do so over the next day.

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I am pleased to announce the 2022 Tarheel Cup will take place on November 12, 2022. This tournament will use the Show-Me set, Information about which can be found here: https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25949. The tournament will take place at Dey Hall at UNC. The opening meeting will ...

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I am pleased to announce that UNC will host the lower mid-Atlantic site of Winter Closed. More information on the set can be found here . The tournament will be hosted in Dey Hall, and the tournament director will be Jacob Egol of Duke. The Opening Meeting will begin at 8:45 AM and gameplay will ...

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RESULTS: 16 ballots received: Jonathan Shauf, Vincent Du, Henry Goff, Nathan Zhang, Amogh Kulkarni, Tracy Mirkin, Matthew Lehmann, Caleb Kendrick, Connor Mayers, Max Gedajlovic, Jacob Augelli, Michal Germaisiuk, Ben Miller, Lia Rathburn, Will Alston, Tim Morrison 1. Matt Bollinger 350 (consensus 1 ...

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I second everything Henry said about Vincent; he is a wonderful quizbowl player and human being. You should definitely consider ranking him in your top 10. Also definitely rank him subject wise for science, afa, and thought, he is top 5 in all of these categories for sure. You should also be ranking ...

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Note: The initial post has been adjusted to account for some suggested changes in the discord.

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Here is the player poll for this year. Vote for your top 25 active players who played at least one tournament this season. By popular request, it is also required that ranked players must have either played ICT or ACF Nationals (or was planning to until a cancelled flight or something like that) to ...

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I thought this set was really fun to play. As someone playing nats for the first time, it was far more enjoyable than I had anticipated. The philosophy in this set in particular was overall a blast- the tossups on Gorgias, Tarski, and al-Farabi were some of my favorites and the SEP and Kyoto School ...

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Due to a lack of registrations, we have decided to cancel the tournament.

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Hi all, due to a lack of registrations and some issues with reserving buildings at UNC, we have decided to postpone this tournament to 4/16. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Given responses we have had from teams, we have decided to postpone this tournament to March 19.

The Blind Prophet · Re: 2022 Tarheel Cup (04/16/2022) [this post reserved for field updates]

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I am delighted to announce that the UNC Academic Team will host the Tar Heel Cup on March 19th, 2022. This tournament will use the Dart II question set, a hard high school set. I, Jonathan Shauf, will be the tournament director. Please direct any questions about this tournament to me at jonajo@email ...

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I don't know a ton about most high school teams in NC these days, but East Chapel Hill definitely comes out of the gate best team in the state, with BMB being one of the best players in the country. Enloe returns Chinmay if I recall correctly, so them and TJ Classical, who return everyone from their ...

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Vincent Du and Annabelle Yang both deserve heavy consideration for this poll. Vincent is among the top 10-15 in the country in sci (especially chem and physics), FA, and PSS and gets good buzzes across the distribution. He outscored some very good players at the NASAT UMD mirror and scales ...

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I am curious as to who counts as an "adult" here- is it just anyone over 18?

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I will step in to plug my alma mater for a minute. Thomas Jefferson Classical consists of geography-based humanities generalist Dominik Mystkowski, Science Player Camden Sloan, History/Geo/CE Player Aidan O'Reilly, and Lit/CE/some general humanities player Jack Parker. The team is almost assuredly ...

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I'm going to UNC Chapel Hill next year, and will definitely play as much quizbowl as possible.

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TJ Classical would like to register a team.

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Presumably, this tournament is no longer happening?

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As a person not very familiar with the work involved in running any kind of tournament, what is the feasibility of running any sort of nationals replacement tournament online? A small tournament involving just the top few teams would not involve my team and hundreds of other teams, but could perhaps ...

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I am also a literature player, but for a long time lit was my weakest category. I have actually had the opposite experience you describe; I have learned more about lit than any other category through quiz bowl, as I have gone from not caring for the subject at all to potentially considering it for a ...

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did this tournament happen already?

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I agree, although it seems the Charlotte circuit is taking some slow steps forward. Myers Park has been active in recent years, South Iredell is becoming serious, and at least one player at Providence (Samanyu) is interested in taking quizbowl more seriously. Good luck in that Aadit, that sounds ...

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I would second everything Aadit said. I would also like to add South Iredell into the mix. They were a young team and return all of their major scorers. They beat us at regionals, and if they cover up some of their weaknesses, they could be a real contender at states. Enloe is another team well ...

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