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I think Bob Fosse is a fine choice for a regular difficulty tournament. My art film class delved pretty deeply into the Fosse film canon (most specifically Cabaret and Lenny), and cinematically, he is pretty relevant to the development of film as an art form. Even though Fosse only shows two relevan...

ak47

The Ilan Ben-Meir and Basileus incident bring back fond memories of SoCal hs quizbowl. Thanks for this trio of posts, Dwight.

ak47

What time should teams be there, and exactly what room in Sever Hall should we meet?

ak47

MIT now has a full team for this tournament.

ak47

I had to drive 12 hours and around 700 miles, pay hotel and tournament fees, and in the end never got to play any questions. Is it too much to ask for some MIT quizbowlers to spend even half of their day to walk a couple hundred feet and staff this tournament? Sorry, Barry. That does sincerely suck...

ak47

Just to resolve the Flushing HS case, the reason Flushing played no playoff games was simply because they had to leave the tournament for their high school graduation ceremony on Sunday.

ak47

I think clues about the theatrical interpretation of dramas are fine as long as they are genuinely significant to the drama's development or significance. Just as it would be disingenuous of me to include random analyses of minor characters in a tossup about some work of literature, it would be pret...

ak47

Since many of my sentiments regarding the HSNCT set echo the criticisms posited by a lot of people already, I won't rehash them. Instead I'll give my thoughts on Gaddis. First, I thought the tournament was amazing. Gaddis pretty much salvaged my weekend. After hearing an interminable barrage of TUs ...

ak47 · Re: Henry Darger Tournament of the Unreal, 5/24/09 at GMU I will play this.

I will play this.

ak47

Regarding the NCAL question source, I think I heard once (while watching a telecasted match on ITV) that some old lady was responsible for constructing the original archive of questions. The archive then builds up questions by requiring coaches to submit ten or so questions (both tossups and bonuses...

ak47

I believe the score recorded for the RB/UCLA match is correct.

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I'll play.

ak47 · Re: San Diego Open - 6/6/09 - La Jolla Rancho Bernardo will be there.

Rancho Bernardo will be there.

ak47

I second this.

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I wanna play this.

ak47

Hey Max. Baby Anteater was not Lucas's first tournament; I believe ZOT Bowl was his first.

ak47

I'll be headed to MIT in the fall and will definitely be playing quizbowl.

ak47

This is a swell idea, Dwight.

The weekend of the 16/17 works fine for RB. In terms of the question set, I lean toward HSAPQ PACE #2 to gear up for the NSC. A mirror of a collegiate regular difficulty tournament would be chill, too (at least for the top division).

ak47

EDITTED FOR STUPIDITY

True dat, brother.

ak47

Beside the late tournament start (that like Micah said was really just funny) and J. Luna's random departure (ostensibly for "complicated" reasons according to Marcus) that caused our extremely late round against Arcadia B, the tournament was well-directed. So thanks to Dwight for directin...

ak47

Yeah, my bad Dwight. I should have informed you of that as well. :(

ak47

As a proponent of mACF quizbowl, I also really don't understand this "WE DONT DO PACE!" attitude either. Does Santa Monica consider the NSC less legitimate than the HSNCT because there are less teams playing? I mean, like, I don't even understand the barrier between NAQT quizbowl and mACF ...

ak47

RB's mirror of NNT is going to make the great amount of people very happy because: (1) The set for NNT is probably the best set targeted toward high schoolers in Southern California in as long as I can remember because the questions are written and edited by people who are actually competent and ext...

ak47

I don't see why you guys would have to wake up at 5 to get to our tourney on time. It starts on 9, a quick google map search says it takes 2 hours to get to RB from Arcadia. Leaving from Arcadia at any time from 6:30-7:00 seems sufficient ...

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We are using the official ACF Fee Structure Base fee: $120 per team Buzzer system: -$5/buzzer, no limit Staffer: -$10/staffer, no limit Laptop: -$10 (one per team) Distance: -$10 per 200 miles one-way (this means Bay Area teams get a discount of at least $10, I'll have to check if any of you meet t...

ak47

Let's not make too big of a deal about this. It was a solid final match, and Santa Monica came out on top in that game (deservedly so). Though I also find the scheduling/winner decision somewhat confusing and nonsensical, whatever happened happened. Onward we go.

ak47

RB will do its best to put up a good fight against you guys.

ak47

RB A won't be at full strength in Caltech due to the loss of Zhao. Alex, who on Arcadia's not going tomorrow? So it appears that the only team that will be at full strength is Santa Monica?

ak47

Seriously, this is pretty ridiculous how terribly late and delayed the distribution of packets and the posting of statistics are taking. I hope this is just an aberration that will be corrected in the future, because I've enjoyed many of the UCLA tournaments I've been to in the past.

ak47

University is the school right across from Irvine I believe.

ak47

Hey Sarah,

Like Zhao, I would be willing to write if the need arises.

ak47

Ditto.

ak47

Like Zhao and Auroni, I would be grateful if people could send me some feedback regarding the Rancho Bernardo packet. My eMail is [email protected].

ak47

Sort of like no one could pick against Federer at Wimbledon until Nadal finally beat him in the final, I think it would be unfair to Santa Monica to say they will not fare as well as last year just because they lost some awesome senior players. Their coaching is awesome, and they have some good pros...

ak47

Thanks to Dwight and the two Rays for putting together the Zot Bowl. It was definitely a great experience contributing to and playing my first mACF tourney.

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