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If you write questions for NAQT, and were therefore not able to play this tournament, shoot me an email at [email protected] if you're interested in playing a mirror.

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This is the discussion thread for our second all-audio movies tournament, Dede Allen 2. I want to thank Andrew Hart for ensuring that people could play this tournament by figuring out a way to host it through NAQT's Buzzword platform. Andrew was always responsive to our questions, and was very ...

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As a reminder, there's still time to register for the first week of this audio film tournament. If you're interested, the link to register is here: https://naqt.com/go/film-clips . The link to register for the second season of this tournament is now live: https://www.naqt.com/buzzword/special ...

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As a reminder, there's still time to register for the first week of this audio film tournament.

If you're interested, the link to register is here: https://naqt.com/go/film-clips.

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magin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2024 8:39 pm We'll be reading more of the remaining packets this Thursday at 8 PM Eastern in the Discord. See you all there.

I'm not feeling well tonight, so this will be postponed. I'll let you know when the new date is.

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We'll be reading more of the remaining packets this Thursday at 8 PM Eastern in the Discord. See you all there.

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We had a great time reading the first three packets tonight. We'll be reading a few more packets tomorrow night at 8 PM in the Discord; everyone is welcome.

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In honor of our upcoming audio film tournament (registration here: https://naqt.com/go/film-clips ), Jules Bosse and I will be reading the questions from the first Dede Allen audio movie tournament in the Quizbowl Discord this Sunday, 9/29, at 8 PM Eastern. If you like movies, or audio questions, or ...

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Jules and I are excited to announce that this tournament will be hosted by NAQT on Buzzword this fall, starting on October 10. It will be a solo tournament instead of a doubles tournament, so you don't have to worry about wrong answers canceling out buzzes from your teammate. The tournament will be ...

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The Song of Solomon clue, to me, is a break, because a person needs no particular interest in African-American folklore or traditional beliefs to read that book and accept that a character in it is capable of flight. I can see the point that straightforwardly rewarding plot knowledge specific to a ...

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This has been a pretty interesting thread (and thanks to Jordan for posting the site with data about where questions were converted, which is an amazing tool). I think that a useful way of thinking about difficulty is from a game design perspective. Producing a set of questions is mainly about ...

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Sorry for the delay; here's an update on Dede Allen 2. Jules and I were planning on running it this fall. However, we intended to run it on QBlitz, which is no longer available. We've talked to Geoffrey Wu about potentially hosting it on QBReader. If that works out, we're tentatively hoping to run ...

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We're still looking for playtesters for Dede Allen 2--if you're interested, please contact me.

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Here's an update: we now have over 195 questions written, and we're looking for playtesters. If you're interested in playtesting this exciting event (all audio questions whose clues are clips from movies), please email me at [email protected]. You can also message me here or in the quizbowl ...

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Do you expect to use a similar format as last tournament? Correct. Like last time, it will be a doubles tournament where the first 8 rounds count towards a team’s final score, with the final 2 rounds being the final. The top 2 teams by aggregate score will play the final, the next 2 will play for t ...

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Dede Allen 2, the sequel to our all-movie audio tournament, is currently over halfway complete. We do not currently have a tournament date, but we are planning to run it in the fall of 2023. If you're interested, you can access the questions and answer lines for Dede Allen 1 at this link: https ...

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I had a great day at the online mirror, but my favorite buzz was getting " core and periphery " from Samir Amin knowledge. Really glad to see him come up! Yeah, it was great to hear a clue about Samir Amin, and I thought this answer line was a really clever way of asking about this material. My ...

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Working with Jules on the first Dede Allen tournament was a blast. If you like movies and think you'd enjoy crafting interesting questions, don't hesitate to contact us.

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Also, here are some of the movies I enjoyed using as early clues: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? , A Face in the Crowd , Love & Basketball , Bang the Drum Slowly , Ace in the Hole , Short Term 12 , Beau Travail , Hardcore , Christine , Diner , Halloween 3: Season of the Witch , American Honey , The ...

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One thing I'll note is that I think the sheer amount of "Name this color" or "Name this number" questions meant that as you got later in the tournament, it became easier to narrow the answer down based on actually tossupable colors or numbers (unless, I guess, answerlines could be repeated). I ...

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Jules and I would like to gauge interest in a second mirror of Dede Allen. If we get interest from at least 10 teams, we're interested in setting up a mirror. If you did not play Dede Allen already but are interested in playing a future mirror, please add your name to this spreadsheet: https://docs ...

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Jules and I would like to gauge interest in a second mirror of Dede Allen. If you did not play Dede Allen already but are interested in playing a future mirror, please add your name to this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18gDtjvP_8Wl6EVJjUeygxEwQ2Vu0osRKUfKkGBg0A9Q/edit?usp ...

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gyre and gimble wrote: ↑Wed Nov 03, 2021 11:37 pm Bummed that I didn't realize this existed. I don't know how much interest there is, but I'd play if you guys ran it again.

Stephen, we are actually planning to run this again for people who didn't play the first time. Stay tuned for an announcement of a future mirror.

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Thanks to everyone for playing Dede Allen! If you'd like to provide feedback, there is a discussion forum set up under the Trash section (https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=19). I believe you have to be logged in and then request authorization to join the 2021 Dede Allen Discussion ...

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I liked this tournament quite a bit, thanks Jonathan and Jules! It was one of the more enjoyable side events I can remember. I thought the answerline selection for this tournament was excellent. The emphasis on commonlinks was a good idea---the variety was enjoyable as a listening experience and I ...

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Please use this thread to discuss specific questions from Dede Allen. We’re interested in your feedback! If you want to know which clues we used for a question, we’d be happy to post them here. We’re also curious about how successful some of our question types were. For instance, here are some commo ...

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I want to thank Jules Bosse for being a terrific co-writer for Dede Allen. I didn’t know Jules before he reached out to me and offered to help with the set; he not only wrote half of the tournament, but he came up with great ideas for questions and suggestions for clues, was incredibly responsive, ...

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Update: Registration on QBlitz is now live! You can register for this tournament by clicking on this link (https://www.qblitz.online/events#Audio_Challenge) and selecting the Dede Allen Audio Film Tournament. Please contact Noah Prince ([email protected]) with any website issues or if you have any ...

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One quick update: I've heard from a few people asking about the amount of film score clues in this tournament. There are very few questions where all the clues are taken from film scores. A healthy number of questions have one or two clues taken from film scores to reward that knowledge, but we're ...

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We're also looking for playtesters! We're interested in playtesting during the second or third week of September. If you'd like to playtest these audio film questions, please email me at [email protected]. All are welcome. If you'd like to playtest, there's still room--we'd like to start ...

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We're also looking for playtesters! We're interested in playtesting during the second or third week of September.

If you'd like to playtest these audio film questions, please email me at [email protected]. All are welcome.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 12:43 am The spreadsheet is view only.

Sorry, this should be fixed now.

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I've created a sign-up sheet for teams and free agents here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

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Pursuant to Will's post, may I ask how arty/trashy this set plans to be? There will be many questions on classic movies and movies that could be considered art cinema, as well as many questions on movies that could be considered popular or trashy. I can't give you a clear breakdown, since a number ...

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Jules Bosse and I are pleased to announce the Dede Allen Audio Film Tournament, an online, asynchronous audio film tournament. It will use basically the same format as MARCATO, PAVEMENT, and MIKE (players listen to audio clips of about 65 to 75 seconds arranged in pyramidal order). All the clues ...

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I'm currently putting together an Imaginary Landscape-style tournament where the all of the clues are audio clips from movies. If you're interested in working on this kind of tournament, please email me at [email protected]. I'm not the best on foreign films and contemporary films, so I'd ...

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ThisIsMyUsername wrote: ↑Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:48 pm As expected, this tournament was an utter delight! Thanks to Mike for writing it and to Noah for running it.

100 percent agreed. This was fantastic.

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I'm going to be reading my miscellaneous audio packet on the main quizbowl Discord on Tuesday, 12/21, at 10 PM Eastern. I already read it on Festivus, but some players who didn't get to hear it wanted a chance to play it as well. There is no distribution, but it includes trash (with a healthy amount ...

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I was also really impressed by the Qblitz platform and thought the “Review Questions” and “View Matches” sections were great features. Agreed. I was not expecting to enjoy seeing the buzz distribution for each question while re-listening to it, but that became one of my favorite things to do each da ...

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I thought the classical music questions for this set were excellent. Since this tournament was played in doubles teams instead of room-wide shootouts, the decreased difficulty was ideal, I think. I really enjoyed the themed tossups on answers like gardens and the young. I also thought the multimedia ...

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OK, I'm planning to read this packet on the Discord at 9:00 PM EST tonight. If you'd like to play this packet but would prefer a different time, please let me know.

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I'm in the process of writing an extremely difficult vanity packet all about John Milton. There will be at least 20 tossups; hoping to have it ready by the first or second week of April.

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I'm only speaking for myself here, not ACF. I sympathize with people bringing up concerns about the current packet submission model for Fall, and I'm sure that ACF members are open to changes to ensure a better experience for writers and editors, much like the way ACF moved to half-packets from full ...

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This post was prompted by my experience at Michigan's Penn Bowl mirror this past weekend, but my intent isn't so much to call them out as to raise this issue more broadly: that was far from the first time that I've seen a selection of books that frankly nobody wants handed out as "prizes." Don't do ...

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The only criticism is that the lit bonuses seemed much more difficult than any other subject (to be fair we did not have a lit player, but even at this difficult level we all have pretty much a basic knowledge of author’s names or main characters). My teammates have commented on the music and my k ...

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If any teams are interested in receiving feedback on their CO literature questions, please shoot me an email at jonathan.magin AT gmail.com.

I'll try to respond as promptly as I can.

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I edited literature for CO, with the help of Wonyoung Jang (who wrote and edited the tossups on playing tennis, characters with the first name Mildred, Szymborska, Spring Awakening , Leonora Carrington, Medea , ghazals, Russia from eatly 20th century poetry, Laura Esquivel, British authors with the ...

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In theory, it's OK to increase difficulty in the finals because the teams are better. In practice, I think it's almost always a bad idea and encourages set editors to write sadistically hard questions. I've seen finals between good teams that turned into brutal endurance tests, and they didn't seem ...

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I'm much more skeptical that competitiveness is toxic, or that in-game passion is a symptom of an abuser, or that well-known players are more likely to offend than more anonymous players. Matt, I don't see anyone saying these things. I think Tamara is correct that we still tend to place far too ...

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I'm looking to play this tournament. I'm not bad at sports and good at frauding pop culture questions from academic knowledge.

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