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I could use a teammate for Unanswered Question.

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Minnesota A cleared the field to win this site. Minnesota B took the UG title, and Carleton claimed the D2 title. Stats can be found here.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 19, 2018 1:10 pm
Wow, the order of the questions in the packets got REALLY changed from the first running.

If anyone wants a copy of the version played in "Chicago," I can send that out by e-mail.

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Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote: ↑
Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:52 pm
Are there any more remaining mirrors? If not, can it posted soon?

The set has been posted.

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Thanks to everyone who played today. Due to the small size of the field, we decided against doing a full tournament and started with a quick round robin of three games. The stats for the round robin, which was won by the team of Chip Horton, Brian McNamara, and Delano Barnes, can be found here . Aft...

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I just put my name down as a free agent for some things. Let me know if want to team up.

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I realize this is the height of "nobody cares," but I don't think Leon is actually Air Controller Macias. Macias is the guy who says such lines as "Maybe we ought to turn on the searchlights now." He wears kind of a light colored tie and seems older yet has slightly more hair than Leon, who has a d...

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If anyone wants a copy of the set, send me an e-mail. Please do not distribute it to anyone who did not play or staff on Sunday.

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I'd like to see the question on "Behind Blue Eyes"; I have zero doubt that I made a bad reflex buzz, but as soon as I heard this was a song originally slated for the Lifehouse album and then a reference to Meher Baba (I think by name?), I negged with "Baba O'Riley," which now outside of game play I...

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Alice (née Andreas) Stoehr was really good at film back in the day and probably still is.

Cheynem wrote:If we only focused on mumblecore, Carsten Gehring might possibly make the list.

Or if we made a list of people who have made you swear by beating you to movie tossups.

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I don't know if this will cause any issues for quizbowlers, but there is a road closure on I-35W this weekend to be aware of.

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Since I've already initiated a fussy punctuation/editing discussion, I'll point out that in NAQT's IS-174, which we read for the CC SCTs yesterday, it seemed consistent (though I haven't gone back to double check, so maybe it was sporadic?) that proper names ending in -s used as possessives did not...

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Technically, British style would be to use single quotation marks pretty much everywhere that we (correct Americans) use double quotation marks, so people who use double quotes and exterior punctuation aren't really following any common publishing style (I say without double-checking if that's true)...

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Given that Eddie has just ceded his spot at CO 2018 and that there were two other audio tournaments vying for spots at NSC and HSNCT, I would like to move the main site of Imaginary Landscape to CO 2018, with the possibility of running additional post-CO mirrors either on Discord, or at one or more...

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We read 4 rounds of GRAB BAG. Stats are here . The scores ending in 1 and 6 are not errors. The cumulative individual stats (which are hard to figure out from the SQBS stats) were as follows: Erik: 0/5/22/0 295 Carsten: 1/9/5/2 191 Danny: 0/2/17/2 190 Sam: 0/7/4/4 125 Foster: 0/1/5/1 60 Adam: 0/0/2/...

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What is the fee for each event?

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I'm looking for a team for The Modern Age, I guess. Or I can staff it.

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I sometimes come across plagiarism in old sets and just brush it off since most were written a decent amount of time ago, but I feel like having a thread to document egregious examples would be fun. This is not meant to be witch-hunty since most of the offenders probably aren't even active anymore;...

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I've put out entreaties for additional staffers. If ACRONYM runs first on Sunday, I would probably be able to make it work that I could staff on Saturday. (If it runs second on Sunday, I would need to fly in to Michigan on Saturday to avoid missing two days of work just to play a trash tournament.)...

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Auroni wrote:followed by HIT and ACRONYM (in that order) on Sunday.

Isn't it usually standard to play the full tossup/bonus tournament first and then the niche tossups-only side event afterward?

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STATS

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AsherJ wrote:Despite my best efforts, I think I put this up correctly. Stats: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

UMN C has 5 players who played all 10 games, which is impressive and inaccurate.

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I wrote a half packet comprising 3 groups of 3 tossups that share a theme and 1 tossup that might elicit the statement "that's random." I'll read it on the IRC sometime when there are people to hear it.

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If there are people not playing this live, I'll read my "team"'s packet tonight at 8:00 (so about 1.25 hours from right now) in #guerrillabride on the IRC. This packet by quizbowl favorites Sam Bailey and The Rob Carson will be read any minute now. Also, Jonathan Magin is offering to read his packe...

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If there are people not playing this live, I'll read my "team"'s packet tonight at 8:00 (so about 1.25 hours from right now) in #guerrillabride on the IRC.

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:Carsten and I are planning to write a packet for this.

Sam Bailey has joined this packet.

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Ah, I can see how buzzing on the first clue of the question could lead you to be confused about whether "Cannonball Run" was the required answer; my apologies for not including a prompt. Carsten or Rob, could whichever of you has the set that will go out to mirrors please add a prompt for "driving ...

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This group recorded a 2002 song about a teen boy who hooks up with a male rapper clearly intended to be Eminem, prompting a response in “Canibitch” in which Eminem and Dr. Dre hit this group with a car. Joss Ackland joins members of this group in a taxi in one of their music videos, which was actua...

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In this film, the main character refuses to get on a plane and insists that his brother rent a specific blue Buick for their drive back to California, during which he explains that he bought a plot of land in the title place because he may have been conceived there. One scene of this film takes pla...

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This character has a vision of hell that he describes as “the Emerald Piper . . . an Irish bar where it’s St. Patrick’s Day every day, forever.” In an early episode, this character is forced to wait for hours in a bakery, prompting him to shoot the clerk in the foot. Later in the series, he avenges...

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This ten-syllable phrase was adapted from Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango’s 1972 song “Soul Makossa.” For 10 points each: [10] Give a reasonable approximation of this nonverbal ten-syllable phrase that is repeated many times at the end of Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Something.” ANSWER: m...

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I think, and the conversion data backs me up, that the tossup on "sign language" ended up being tragically transparent. Am I correct in that it did use a fun clue from Nashville, though? The clues were from Lake Windfall , Children of a Lesser God , The Tribe , and Mr. Holland's Opus . That questio...

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A wrecked ship in this game is home to roaming collections of souls called Covern. Audiences during speedruns of this game customarily spam the chat during the credits with the name of its development team, Deer Force. Stoke, an unused enemy from this game, resembles a miniature version of an eight...

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In a 2015 film, parents with this profession force their children, played in later scenes by Maryann Plunkett and Jason Bateman, to sing a song with the lyric “kill all parents so you can keep living”; those parents conspire to disappear so that they can reemerge after they are declared legally dea...

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If anyone playing heard any errors (or in reading, saw any errors or typos), you can e-mail me and I'll do what I can.

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theMoMA wrote:We'll provide . . . what Carsten promises to be a readable set!

If Rob ~~misplaces~~ places all the punctuation ~~around~~ and quotation marks in the most logical and aesthetically pleasing fashion again, I can make no such a promise.

fixed some obvious typos --mgmt

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The packet was played and an individual prevailed with 45 points. Stephen Liu finished second with 40; Tejas, Ryan B., and Kenji tied with 20; and Richard and Chris M. had 10. Who *IS* this mysterious "individual"? What *WAS* he doing winning this packet? These are just two of this thread's most ve...

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Does this tournament need staff?

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I went 1/1/0 in the first round, not 3/6/1. Presumably Rob went 3/6/2 and the fiendish statskeeper done screwed up. On a related note, I find it questionable that we went 3/20/2 over the course of 24 questions in Round 6.

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I wrote a packet with a secret. . . . I'll read it again Sunday night if enough new people are interested in hearing it. I'll read this tonight sometime shortly after the World Cup Final ends, so probably around 8 Central barring extra time. The channel will be #thatsrandom. This was played. A good...

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OctagonJoe wrote:I wrote a packet with a secret. . . . I'll read it again Sunday night if enough new people are interested in hearing it.

I'll read this tonight sometime shortly after the World Cup Final ends, so probably around 8 Central barring extra time. The channel will be #thatsrandom.

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I wrote a packet with a secret. I read it tonight on the IRC and Rob won, as is his wont. I'll read it again Sunday night if enough new people are interested in hearing it.

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I'm probably going to this site unless I don't go to VCUO at all, so I am tentatively looking for a team.

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If there are enough interested people who haven't played it and I remember that I said I would read it, I will use the channel #mikecheyneisafiend at roughly 9 Central (not quite 4 hours from now) to read the packet I wrote (and already read to a number of people) last week for the drive to ACF Nat...

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If there are enough interested people who haven't played it and I remember that I said I would read it, I will use the channel #mikecheyneisafiend at roughly 9 Central (not quite 4 hours from now) to read the packet I wrote (and already read to a number of people) last week for the drive to ACF Nati...

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Stats.

Thanks to Macalester for hosting.

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I might play this tournament and I always get a packet in for the earliest deadline. I do not, however, answer questions or win games.

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The stats still show my team lost to the Gehring team. We actually won this game after our protest was upheld and then scored points on the subsequent bonus. I think history is unclear on the real outcome of that whole protest. Other than the part where Kurtis tried to play a bonus he already heard.

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I have a packet of easy-ish basketball questions that Frank Firke wrote. I can read it tonight in the IRC sometime around when the lottery is happening so as to avoid seeing the Wolves lose their pick to the Suns.

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carsten.gehring is my Skype username.

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