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The constant use of Billboard chart clues: who thinks this is interesting or helpful? Oh, Double Fantasy was "Debuting at #11 on the Billboard charts upon its release" and Accelerate "debuted on the Billboard 200 at number two"? I'll just go ahead and buzz on those totally usele...

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Would you believe if I said I had a team for this? Well, actually, I got talked into it (not that I needed a lot of persuading) by some friends, and I've apparently even talked a fourth person into this madness.

3/4 of us are not part of TRASH.

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One team (McMaster) dropped without telling us If only one team dropped ,then just put together a scab team. I'd rather have to play one match against four random WUSTL players/students impressed by said players then wait around a hour and a half. Of course, this is moot since contingency schedules...

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Update: As of now we're still stuck at the unfortunate number of 31 teams.

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Update: Our TRASHionals field is now sitting at 31 teams, as one team has just dropped out. Since I'd strongly prefer not to have lots of teams playing one fewer game than everyone else thanks to this late scratch....anyone interested in claiming the 32nd spot can email the tournament director at dc...

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The TRASHionals field is no longer full, due to some recent drops. Out of a capacity of 36 teams, there are 33 teams currently occupying slots. Anyone who played at any TRASH regional (one person or more than one person) who is interested in claiming one of those spots may do so by emailing the tour...

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It's a tricky question for sure, something I think about a lot when I write for TRASH. Submission trash tournaments involve at some level more of a democratic, bottom-up approach to what gets asked and what doesn't. If lots of people write hockey or NASCAR questions, the tournament is going to have ...

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I agree that Mike's post is great. A few quibbles... -Keep album titles to a minimum. While a few are highly notable, most are not. And yet they keep getting written about. Fixed for emphasis. I hear this said a lot, here and elsewhere. To the extent the complaint is about album titles as answers.....

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I'm not sure I want to say too much in here, as I'm working furiously on writing the questions for TRASHionals. I know I've written over the past couple of sets with an eye towards keeping in mind that there is a pretty broad target age range we aim for, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to write a...

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As far as I know, the OP is not affiliated with TRASH. (Of course, I can't confirm that because he/she has not identified him/herself.) Just to clear up the distinction, there are lots of "trash" tournaments out there, most of which have little (i.e. TRASH members doing some writing/editin...

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TRASHionals XII, to be held in Philadelphia on April 18-19, still has a full field. However, there are at least a few teams reporting that they are short on players and are looking for people to play with them. As more teams send in their rosters and let me know if they're short, I'm guessing that t...

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As of now, the field for TRASHionals XII is full with 36 teams. Northeast Region: Boston College (2 teams), Brandeis Alumni, Brandeis Students, NYU (2 teams) Canada Region: Toronto, American Bacon (Rochester Alumni), Wacky Deli Yeah! (Rochester), McMaster Mid-Atlantic Region: Maryland, Team Juan Val...

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If the issue is that no one wants to write a packet...have you guys thought about running a full or partial RC Cola Mirror? I can't speak to the feasability of that per se, and if the issue is not enough interested teams than cancelling the event makes sense. I was hoping to help out at some pre-TRA...

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However, Kearney's assertion that editing a trash tournament is really hard is somewhat of a canard; it's not somehow harder to edit a trash tournament than it is an academic tournament, because you're not going to know every answer in either case. I fully expected to not know much about many (if n...

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Last time I tried to do this I got not response from TRASH. I can't really figure out why old copies of TRASH aren't made public. When we participated in TRASHionals two years ago, I inquired about buying the questions. I forget the exact price, but I think they wanted to charge $30, or at least mo...

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For whatever reason, I really like the idea of playing trash before it happens, like the idea of having just played trash, and yet rarely actually enjoy the experience itself, but this seemed pretty good. Playing trash sounds like grad school. Except that you don't need to take out a non-dischargea...

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The following three teams have been extended invitations to TRASHionals XII:

Canada Region: Bears, Beets, et al. (McMaster)
Southwest Region: Kiss My Anthia (UT-Dallas)
West Coast Region: Team Bravo (UC-Irvine)

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Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I for one would definitely consider purchasing an archive of TRASH tournaments. Last time I tried to do this I got not response from TRASH. I can't really figure out why old copies of TRASH aren't made public. For what it's worth (not much, I know), we're currently ...

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I disagree with Mike C. on the inherent superiority of central production trash tournaments. I agree that trash writing principles should be just as solid as for academic tournaments. However, packet submission tournaments are a way for inexperienced question writers to practice their writing skill...

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The following team has been added to the list of teams receiving a bid to TRASHionals XII:

Rocky Mountain Region: Love Bubbas

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The following pair of teams has now been added to the list of teams receiving a bid to TRASHionals XII:

Canada Region: Minus Five (U. Toronto)
Rocky Mountain Region: The We Nobody Knows

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The following six teams have been added to the TRASHionals XII bid list:
Northeast: Four Horsemen (BU)
Mid-Atlantic: Flying Space Pimps (Delaware)
Southwest: Big 12 Coaches Gone Wild (OSU); Oklahoma Gladiators (OU)
Rocky Mountain: Loose Geniuses
West Coast: Stanford

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The following four teams have been added to the TRASHionals XII field and have received bids:

Northeast: Boston College B
Mid-Atlantic: Evil League of Evil (Princeton); Silver Screen Test All-Stars
Southeast: Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kodos (LSU)

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Field Update: Currently 29 of our 36 bids are reserved: From the Northeast Region: Boston College (2 teams); Brandeis Alumni Team; BC Alumni et al.; NYU A From the Canada Region: American Bacon (Rochester); Wacky Deli Yeah! (Rochester), Minus Five (Univ. of Toronto) From the Mid-Atlantic Region: Mar...

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cdcarter wrote:Can you promise to have showered?

I can't speak for this team, but I can promise that I'll shower at some point shortly before the TRASHionals opening meeting.

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Announcement TRASHionals XII: The Dirty Dozen will be held at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19, 2009. Registration and introductory and rules meetings are scheduled for Claudia Cohen Hall, located at the corner of Spruce and 36th Streets, bet...

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If TRASHionals has had a set format for the past nine years, and no one has complained, why was it not announced that "we're doing it the same way that we have done it the past nine years" rather than giving an ill-founded explanation for why the tournament would be held over two days? I ...

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OK, I have a lot on my mind and on my plate right now. I'll start with this: I did not intend to denigrate the quizbowl circuit as a whole when I contrasted the mission of TRASHionals with that of most standard one-day invitationals, both academic and trash tournaments alike. Most invitationals, mos...

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I'll address what Chris and Dwight have been saying later tonight, after I get home. Though I ended up volunteering to administer TRASHionals XII, I was not part of the host selection decision so I cannot speak to what was said between TRASH and Penn, other than to note that TRASHionals has been a t...

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So, I heard about us hosting TRASHionals by reading this board, so I'm clearly not speaking in any official capacity and you should probably be talking to Mehdi or Sid instead. However, I'm pretty confident that a) with a little help, we should have enough competent moderators together to do this t...

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What is the tournament schedule? Is it definitely going to span two days? How many packets will there be? The exact schedule and number of rounds will depend on the field. Teams can expect to play somewhere between 14 and 16 rounds, not including the finals rounds or any theme/exhibition rounds tha...

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I'd like to thank the 11 teams that have thusfar expressed interest in accepting their bids. I now have the necessary contact information for qualifying teams who attended the Tulsa and Illinois regions and emails will be sent to those teams (unless they have already expressed interest) this evening...

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Luminaries of Illinois QB is probably interested in the bid (though we're considering if we can afford the missed work and travel expenses.) We'll get back to you later. As for finding contacts for Illinois teams, whom did you ask? If that person doesn't get back to you shortly, e-mail me and we'll...

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Luminaries of Illinois QB is probably interested in the bid (though we're considering if we can afford the missed work and travel expenses.) We'll get back to you later. As for finding contacts for Illinois teams, whom did you ask? If that person doesn't get back to you shortly, e-mail me and we'll...

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Update: Email messages regarding the first set of bids have been sent out to all regionals hosts and to all teams whose regional hosts forwarded us contact information. We are still waiting for contact information for teams who attended the Maryland, Illinois, Tulsa, and Colorado regionals. Teams wh...

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We at TRASH are pleased to announce the initial set of bids for TRASHionals XII: The Dirty Dozen, to be held over the weekend of April 18-19, 2009, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Including the defending champions, the team who played at last year's TRASHionals as "Dirka ...

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The current plan, as has been the case with TRASHionals as long as I can recall, is for rounds to begin on Saturday morning and have everything wrapped up no later than 2:00 Sunday afternoon. No TRASHionals I can recall, and I've been to nearly all of them, either as a player or as staff, has ever f...

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So, how many teams are able to stay after a tournaments for tourism purposes? Not that I want to hijack a conversation about NAQT to talk about TRASH, but, well, that's more or less what I'm doing. :grin: Those of us in TRASH-dom are always curious as to what people think about where we should, whe...

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TRASHionals location has now been officially announced.

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All TRASH regional tournaments are now complete. We're still waiting for some statistical reports to come in and we should have a TRASHionals 2009 location as well as a list of teams that will be receiving our first set of bids to the event shortly. Last year those announcements occurred in January,...

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If it helps, I'll be there to help officiate, and administer if needed.

-Tim from TRASH

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I just wish we'd gotten done earlier than 7pm on Saturday. Even subtracting out the 75 minute lunch break, that's 8.5 hours of game time (between the announced start time of 9:15 and the approximate finish at 7) to play 11 rounds. That's over 45 minutes a round, which is pretty shockingly slow for ...

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I would like to thank the TRASH staff for running a very good tournament and drawing me to Chattanooga, which I have finally visited after about 50 UTC tournaments post the start of my collegiate quizbowl career in 2000. I also thank them for being very inviting of constructive criticism, so in add...

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Okay, now that I've slept and I am once again coherent, I'll post some of my thoughts. Note: of questions I didn't hear, for the most part if a bonus was placed after #16 or 17 in a packet I wasn't likely to hear it. So, if there are numerous counterexamples to my points in those unheard questions,...

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I just want to compliment TRASH on a very well-run tournament. This was my 4th straight and the moderators were by far the best of any of the trashionals I've been to. I had no complaints about any of them. This was also my first year attending the welcoming party and I had a great time. Although t...

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While it's not terribly difficult to get a field of 22-24 teams down to a handful of worthy contenders...there can only be two finalists and only one winner, and when you have a situation where there are three teams that are hard to distinguish, any way of doing it is going to leave someone out in t...

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We were unsure who to award the bid to so we decided to be on the safe side and invite both. We probably wouldn't have done that for other regions, but that was the largest regional; only two other regonials were even half its size. A spot was also freed up by UTC (who hosted the SE regional) hostin...

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In case this is not understood, though I can't speak for everyone in TRASH with regards to anything that occurred before I joined, our policy is not "plagiarism from Wikipedia is OK." I'd be lying if I said it wasn't an important source of question writing material for many of us. As has b...

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Incidentally, does anyone have stats from the Canada, Southwest, or West Coast regionals yet?

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As I've said previously, I'm sorry that I did the distribution based off of 16 rounds... I will redesign it for Regionals next year based on the assumption that most sites will not read every packet. I'll say the same thing as the main Music Editor. While I suspected that not all rounds would be us...

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