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In the spirit of Let's Remember Some Guys, I've written a 20 question packet almost entirely on NBA guys. Difficulty ranges from "sure he's pretty famous" to "that rings a bell." Come prove the superiority of your NBA guy knowledge on Sunday at 8 pm EST in #RememberingGuys on slashnet's IRC. (I don...

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In the spirit of Let's Remember Some Guys, I've written a 20 question packet almost entirely on NBA guys. Difficulty ranges from "sure he's pretty famous" to "that rings a bell." Come prove the superiority of your NBA guy knowledge on Sunday at 8 pm EST in #RememberingGuys on slashnet's IRC. (I don'...

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I think the only reason this post is remotely controversial is because of its tone. Frankly, the idea that maintaining a modicum of personal grooming habits is a cause for debate seems kind of worrisome. If you're not gonna cut your hair, at least wash it?

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My only real thought here is that I'm disappointed I didn't know SoCal tournaments are semi-open. I live here now! Hit me up, who wants 9 ppg?

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No promises, but I might write a "fun" packet akin to 1997 ISSAC, but without the 1997 conceit, if people are interested.

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Though I'm by no means an authoritative or even particularly respected source, I thought I'd throw my own rankings in, which differ a little from the ones proposed so far. In the interest of time, I'm only providing a top 25 here. 1. Andrew Yaphe (Stanford) Everyone says he's the best and I have no ...

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I was in PACE for a few years, even serving as VP of Outreach. Since PACE mostly does one, specific thing (NSC), it was very low-stress, and my only complaints about "working" for them come from the year before I joined (NSC 2011). Since they're under new leadership now, those complaints aren't real...

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I'd be interested in playing the singles tournament if I have nothing going on that day. I've always wanted to be a ritual offering for a much more powerful machine.

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I'll take Ike's post a step further. Voting in this poll or posting in this thread (or the collegiate team player and poll) is a waste of your time. Write questions for HSNCT, NSC, or NASAT instead. Why are you posting on the forums at all, when you could be writing questions? Playing video games? ...

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Much like Mike Cheyne, ACF Nationals 2011 was my lowest point in quizbowl. Unlike Mike Cheyne, it wasn't because my team let a real chance of winning the whole thing slip away [no offense intended to my teammates]. Simply put, the brutal difficulty of the tournament was unlike anything I had experie...

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40 characters in search of a username wrote:Maybe Wednesday night-ish, I'll read my well-received 1997 packet in IRC. It'll lose some stuff from not being read aloud, but we'll do our best.

This is happening at 9. HURRY

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Maybe Wednesday night-ish, I'll read my well-received 1997 packet in IRC. It'll lose some stuff from not being read aloud, but we'll do our best.

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A lot of what I wanted to say has been said, but this tournament is silly-expensive for what it was. In addition, literally almost everything in the "Internet" distribution was impossible to just about everyone in the field at the mirror, many of whom are regular people who use the Internet very oft...

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Real quickly-- the packet is essentially a comedy packet, ostensibly written in 1997, where almost every question is a joke in some way. It follows a roughly normal distribution. It's free to play because I would never think of charging for it.

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Hey everyone, while digging through Maryland's packet archives, I found a lone packet labelled 1997 ISSAC. It's pretty weird, and I don't think it's ever been seen before, so I'll read it if there's interest.

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I didn't write either question, and may have a weird knowledge base, but I really don't see why the second question is so self-evidently harder than the first.

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I won't say who it was, but I once observed one of the best players in the history of quizbowl keeping track of the tossups that he and his teammates got during a tournament. What he was specifically doing was keeping track of how many of the questions they answered were "dead ducks" (i.e., tossups...

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Woah, woah, that's an awfully high ranking for Maryland B! You guys do know I don't go there anymore, right? Next time, consider voting for a team that did not play any DI nationals last year.

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"this was indeed tricon" - only necessary discussion of this tournament

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I actually enjoyed this [though I guess I'm biased]. There were some clunkers but also some cool ideas and mostly a bunch of competent, unremarkable questions.

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Well this certainly happened! Rob Carson unsurprisingly won. Here's the packet.

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If you liked the Hunter trash packet but thought, "Boy, I wish it was only about music, weirder, and on decidedly less 'hip' stuff," you're in luck! Tonight at 9 PM I'll be reading a music packet I wrote. It's on music I like, mostly, so you're forewarned.

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When you've got as few real accomplishments as I do, your favorite quizbowl experiences really puts emphasis on the "experiences" part. 2010 T-Party Indeed, this was a fun tournament. It was my first taste of being on a team where my scoring was not... necessary. I remember powering "A Personal Matt...

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This happened. We were tied 45-45 between Matts Weiner and Bollinger at the end, so I read an unrelated tossup on Peter Gabriel Music Videos, which Matt W negged, so Matt B won. Evan Nagler also powered a question that mentioned something he did last week. The packet is attached if you want it, thou...

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For the annual Maryland end-of-the-year packet, I've written a 20 tossup packet on various UMD players and events. I expect that most of the questions should be gettable at the end for people who know the Maryland program okay, though a few things will be impossible. Anyway, if you want to prove you...

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I really liked the questions Isaac wrote

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Casey's got the right idea: while it may not come up very often (and rightfully so, in my opinion), it's worth knowing these are actual dudes that question writers will write about. Obviously, it wouldn't be time well spent if you try to read every Oe book and try to reach the level of scholarship ...

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Hello everyone,

The tournament will be held in the basement of Jimenez Hall. Registration will start at 8:30 AM, games will start at 9 AM.

We look forward to seeing you Saturday!

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I'm really intrigued by this idea, but I wanted to tweak your metrics a little bit just to see what would happen. So for this build of the table, I assigned some number of points to players for the following accomplishments: 38th place finishes at PACE NSC 13th place finishes at ACF Nationals Number...

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Excelsior (smack) wrote:Can I just point out that it's ridiculous that _nobody_ voted for Sriram? Sriram is, at minimum, the third best science player in the game right now, and I'd personally put him even with Billy.

Stephen Hines has some words for you, sir.

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The Quizbowl Tribune stylebook has always maintained that "Quizbowl" is one word, and is unnecessarily capitalized.

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A feature done on my high school team in the Gazette led to this photo.

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Pseudonyms are useful is a school or coach is particularly against a team attending a certain event. In the school's case, it may be because they don't want some unchaperoned high schoolers representing their institution [wisely, it would seem in this case]. I did some sneaking around in high school...

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http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/IsaacTheBobfan/PMButton.png In seriousness, though, I really enjoyed the tournament. I thought the set was very, very good. I had been dreading playing ACF Nationals because of bad memories from the last ACF Nats I played, but this set had lots of tossups on a...

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As glad as I am that people who admit to having no idea what It's Academic even is are joining in on the discussion, it's time to put on my "2 time It's Academic finalist" hat and talk a little bit about why there are better ways to prepare. First of all, while John Gilbert has participated in a var...

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34. Berkeley B - Sorry, I'm not going to pretend like I know who is on this team. There's no way to underperform now, Berkeley B! 33. Columbia B - Same deal here. I'm sure you guys are smart, you go to Columbia! 32. Notre Dame - This is apparently a guy playing solo. I admire you, guy playing solo! ...

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Checks should be made out to "Maryland Academic Quiz Team," or "MAQT."

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Is this supposed to be funny and failing, or is it supposed to be realistic and failing?

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Hey folks, we might have to set a field cap soon, so keep registering! Right now we have 13-14 teams registered.

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They'll be posted here. The delay is on UMD's end, not HSAPQ, but they should be getting them soon.

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My quizbowl career is over after I graduate. It's been a fun 8 years, and I might get dragged out of retirement to play an open or something, but it's time to move on. As a way to cement my legacy, I'm writing a "fun" tournament that I want to be run sometime in 2015.

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Matt Jackson's post is the post I agree with the most in this thread, by a wide margin. A lot of the other posts make me kind of uncomfortable for reasons I'm not exactly sure I can articulate, but here's an attempt. However, outside of novice tournaments, there is little reason to neuter high schoo...

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Yeah, I think I'd need to hear her rationale for refusing, here. If it's not a budget thing, what exactly is it? I had a coach in high school who was often... less than accommodating about going to tournaments, but that was more a result of there being bad tournaments and formats taking up a lot of ...

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Wow, a needle to other writers that includes me and a complete misunderstanding of what people like Sam Bailey are complaining about above! DRAGOON was creatively written whether you think so or not. e.g., You should take a look at Eric's notes about how the science for DRAGOON (specifically how mo...

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My fault about the Parfit bonus. I meant to change it and apparently never did. It'll be something easier for future mirrors.

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Hey, this tournament is in, like, a week! Have you signed up yet? Why not?

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Maaaybe we'll playtest some other, too! WHO KNOWS

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GW and Penn are the only teams I've received registrations from. If you want to register, email me!

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Hello. There were some questions at this tournament that I got. They were good questions, because I got them. I especially thought the question on She Stoops to Conquer was good, because I powered it. This tournament adequately rewarded my knowledge in most aspects, and so I liked it. It was a quali...

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After this tournament, this site will run an event based on difficult 3-5 line questions Maryland players have written for practice over the past year. The distribution will be roughly even with the normal distro, though the difficulty will range from "regular" to "basically impossible." This exciti...

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