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Do you anticipate needing staff? I might be able to help out if I know fairly well beforehand.

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Just as a heads up, it looks like the string "ten" got changed to "10" everywhere it appears (at least in my packet); so words like "content" and "often" appear as "con10t" and "of10"

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If you aren't wild about the choices being offered for book prizes and there's a possibility you'll win another book prize in your career, feel free to let your prize go to a lower-scoring teammate. I only read (and enjoyed!) The Day of the Locust because Andrew Yaphe wasn't wowed by the selection/p...

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InvadErGII wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:36 pm

AKKOLADE wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:26 pm
How many packets are you expecting to have?
Should be at least 10 (like SNICK had), but if we can make more we certainly will.

Off topic, but was SNICK ever posted?

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Just an update. I've got one more question to write to finish a full packet. Assuming writer's block lets up I'll get it in very soon.

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5-10-15 Three part bonus, but the first part was worth only 5 points, the second part was worth 10 points, the third part was worth 15 points. The first part was really easy, the third part was hard. I always had a spot in my heart for these types because these were the only 3-part bonuses on which...

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I'm not the best person to make this thread because my college quizbowl career only briefly overlapped with CBI, but I'll kick it off and perhaps other veteran college quizbowl players can run with it. In ancient times (like the 80's or something), there was a TV game show run by an organization ca...

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I will submit at least 10 questions to this, possibly a full packet, and will try my darndest to be somewhere nearby where/when it's played

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An Economic Ignoramus wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:49 pm
Shill time: NASAT is notably available for mirroring as a summer open and is not terribly difficult!

I honestly didn't know that. Where 'bouts?

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Let me clarify a few points that I've seen in response to this post in the Discord. First of all, I didn't intend to give off any perception that I'm "not willing" to do things like staffing, outreach, question writing, etc: 1. Staffing: Before moving to Syracuse, I was quasi-regular staffer at Yale...

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Please indulge my terrible poetic instincts for a moment as well as the mildly melancholic post to follow: To a QBer Growing Old The time you won the round at PACE You beat them on a buzzer race Coach and teammate sat cheering by At your Physics buzz on Debye Today, the match all players come To a w...

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I always like non-CO Open difficulty opens, so I'm looking forward to this.

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In Steven Liu of High Tech's new article for Groger Ranks, he delves into the common question about the applicability of national rankings, such as ours. You can find that here: https://grogerranks.wordpress.com/2018/11/10/the-applicability-of-groger-ranks-to-actual-games-an-analysis/ The reason I ...

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Are there any more remaining mirrors? If not, can it posted soon?

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This is a really great idea and I hope it streamlines the issue of finding staffers. The only possible suggestion I'd make is somehow giving some leeway when it comes to distance willing to travel. As long as I can drive there in the morning and get back at a reasonable hour, I'm fine staffing whate...

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What are the eligibility restrictions/ policies on open teams for this tournament? I just realized this tournament is less than three hours away from me and I might consider coming if I don't have to play solo. Penn Bowl is closed, unfortunately, but this is a nice reminder that Kingston is only ab...

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What are the eligibility restrictions/ policies on open teams for this tournament? I just realized this tournament is less than three hours away from me and I might consider coming if I don't have to play solo.

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This must be the best possible tournament name.

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Bartleby wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:24 pm
Hey folks -- I am still looking to play this, and will gladly be placed on a free agent team if necessary, but if anyone would like to team up, I co-wrote CO Trash in 2014,

Don't let him fool you. This misrepresentation won't stand. It was 2013 CO Trash.

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Don't really know of any doings up around the Syracuse/Central/Upstate NY area, but if there's a tournament within say an hour's drive, I'm willing to help out. Just thought I'd drop that here.

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I don't know to what degree nitpicking the incident is worth it, but it seems to me as someone who's been on various antidepressants and mental health treatment since 1994, that mocking you for negging and being angry about negging is ridiculous and reprehensible. However, as someone who's been the ...

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If anyone other than Charles is interested in having a conversation about this with me, please continue, but I'm pretty much done having my well-intentioned posts needlessly picked apart and misinterpreted to satisfy Charles's ego. I keep trying and trying to explain very minor points only to have i...

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As for "arbitrarily accusing" ACF of being "incapable," I did nothing of the sort... I retract my use of the word "arbitrarily," which was unwarranted. I stand by the rest of my paraphrasing of your argument and would be happy to explain why. Lest anyone believe what Charles is saying, I do not thi...

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...the power text takes up a too substantial portion of the question (for me this would probably be anything over roughly 40% of the text)... ...NAQT does a pretty reasonable job placing powers. These two statements are contradictory; looking at the sample packet from last year's ICT, almost every ...

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...if 6 out of 8 lines are power, that doesn't give you a whole lot of space to write non-power clues. I never said anything about having "6 out of 8 lines" in power. Is this another number you "pulled out of roughly nowhere?" If there is a set where 6 out of 8 lines of each tossup are regularly in...

Habitat_Against_Humanity · Re: Chicago Open Trash 2018 (July 22, 2018) I'm interested in playing!

I'm interested in playing!

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I'd think if we started powermarking ACF Nats, it would be an almost entirely wasted effort. If the power mark appeared roughly at 25%-33% of the way through the tossup, frankly, I don't think we'd be seeing a lot of powers. Why would the powermark have to be 25-33% of the way through a tossup? Chi...

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I'd think if we started powermarking ACF Nats, it would be an almost entirely wasted effort. If the power mark appeared roughly at 25%-33% of the way through the tossup, frankly, I don't think we'd be seeing a lot of powers. As for powers being a self-esteem boost, I kind of feel the opposite way; w...

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Also, the money quote is from the Princeton team.

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jonah wrote:
Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:I really want to know about "Harmonic Divergence Bowl".
I have the packets from a 1994 tournament at Berkeley called Harmonic Convergence Bowl, so I assume this is a follow-up to that.

Yeah, I think I meant "Convergence", which is in the program, but not in math.

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I really want to know about "Harmonic Divergence Bowl".

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Thank you both for the help!! That article was pretty good and I’ll definitely go look at those packets. :grin: You're in Jamesville-Dewitt????!!!! I just moved to JD last July and have been bemoaning the lack of qb in this area. Please hit me up with any questions. I'm more than willing to help ou...

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Not to bring up a certain sore topic, but evoking private messages from "quizbowl luminaries" in order to malign people that disagree with you in collegiate discussion does not help quizbowl's case against insularity or being unprofessional. It is not a good look for quizbowl to give off the impres...

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In the poll on "What is the most pressing issue facing college quizbowl today?", "too insular" was the winner by a decent margin. "Too insular" could mean a lot of different things, or combinations of thing; I'd be interested to hear from people who voted for that option how they define "too insula...

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Just for the record, I've toyed with the idea of working with PACE in my head, but I think I'm disconnected enough from the community that I wouldn't be nominated and as we all know, self-nominations are "discouraged." That always struck me as a good way to keep an "in-crowd" mentality. Me as well,...

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If somebody is nominated to be a member of PACE, but then found to not be worthy, do you at least tell the person what they can do to meet your standards? It kind of sounds like the standard is "we know what a PACE member looks like when we see one" and that always risks devolving into just invitin...

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The Dear Prudence thing is an awesome idea and should implemented if for no other reason than that there'll be a way of aggregating issues people have. On that note, does anyone think it would be beneficial to have like an actual climate survey type thing? Anonymous of course. I think I could get m...

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You folks weren't around when an identifying signature wasn't required, but suffice it to say, it's much easier to be "toxic" when you're anonymous. If making people consider their words more carefully is the cost of keeping things more civil, I think it's a fair trade-off. That said, it's occasion...

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I'm slightly nervous about posting this here when I know it's not anonymous. Yeah. This is me whenever I post something here, so I feel the need to word everything correctly. It's good to know that there's at least one other person who feels this way. Will second (third?) this as well. I've definit...

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Are you straight? Are you identified as a man? Are you adopting a fashion to intentionally be provocative? Are you wearing your hair in such a way that it says something about your self-expression? Are you wearing your hair in a way that you feel looks actively better than other, more traditional o...

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ValenciaQBowl wrote: --Believed he had read a Nigerian novel called "The Palm Frond" that some of us made up on the way to lunch at a CO back in the mid-aughts

This is still probably my all-time favorite qb story, especially with "Giovanni Deformata" part.

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Probably won't be able to play, but this looks like a great idea and tons o' fun, 'specially if there's questions on specific Catholic hymns written post Vatican 2. I got that "Be Not Afraid" and "One Bread, One Body" knowledge on lock.

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Looks like there's a full slate of questions/packets. Given that a.) My Mountain Goats questions probably have a fairly limited appeal and b.) my larger family is doing their Christmas on the 23rd, I'm gonna hold off on my reading my questions for a while. That said, I still might be able to drop by...

Habitat_Against_Humanity · Re: Northeastern University Trash Tournament 12/9/2017 How'd this go?

How'd this go?

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Further, I argue that people who are paying often many hundreds of dollars to come to my tournaments deserve to not have to play next to someone who thinks they're less human than he is or would want to kill them. I believe this to be a fair position. Finally, I would argue it's inappropriate to ma...

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~10 questions on the Mountain Goats, assuming I'm available to read them

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Given that there's a TV aspect, you may just be out of luck. There's a reason Jeopardy isn't ACF Regs. If they expect people to watch, the viewers will have to get some enjoyment out of it and let's face it, to the uninitiated, quiz bowl is really not much of a spectator sport. Honestly, rather than...

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One thing to bear in mind is that the ease at which software is learned doesn't translate into being able to use it quickly and efficiently (which is of course paramount to running an on-time, successful tournament). I'd like to think I understand both R syntax and regular expressions pretty well; ...

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One thing to bear in mind is that the ease at which software is learned doesn't translate into being able to use it quickly and efficiently (which is of course paramount to running an on-time, successful tournament). I'd like to think I understand both R syntax and regular expressions pretty well; h...

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Hey all, This is just a quick announcement for what I'm tentatively calling "Songs for David Seal: A Mountain Goats Packet". Accepting applications for better names, though. Yep, it's a set of likely 15-40 tossups about the best of all possible bands, The Mountain Goats. It's gonna probably end up b...

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