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My heart always leaps up when I see evidence of Quiz Bowl activity in the Intermountain Region, but it always seems to be a false start. BYU was active before I started playing a long time ago at Occidental (1998), and then got a big boost from Ryan Cooper from James Island only to be defunded the n...

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Congratulations again to Jeff Hoppes, who went 7-0 to win Part 2 of The Geography Front - The Lost Rounds. Statistics are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AKPAylwgY8toOJ9i_3u5PDowHqitySU8yX9RQ2CUWFA/edit?usp=sharing Thanks to all who played any part of these tournaments, and to George f...

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All, the Discord Channel access code for this event is

https://discord.gg/BJbes9S7

We will begin shortly

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The final Geography Front - The Lost Rounds Part 2 will begin at 8AM Pacific Time on Sunday, October 10. I will send out the Discord Server link shortly after noon on Saturday, October 9, so if there are any who would like to play not on the interest list, let me know before then so I can add you to...

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Congratulations to Jeff Hoppes, who went 6-0 to win Part One of The Geography Front - The Lost Rounds. This tournament featured a smaller but aggressive and competitive field, and amazing buzzes were had by all. Statistics are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-4oi--4cWNhglsZ12Li8NMMJWbu...

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Hi,

For those who I may have missed, the Discord Server for this event is at

https://discord.gg/B5V9ST6S

If the old code no longer works, try that one. We will begin shortly.

castrioti

All, For all who have signed up for this Sunday's event who haven't e-mailed (I don't have an e-mail address for all of you), please do so before NOON on Saturday, September 25. I will send out the Discord channel and Buzzin.Live game codes shortly thereafter. I will plan to start the event on Sunda...

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I have not yet heard from potential scorekeepers, and so will increase my offer to $45 per event for a scorekeeper.

I expect these events to take between 4 and 5 hours each.

Wesley

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All, I will read the remainder of the rounds for The Geography Front (The Lost Rounds) on the following weekends on Discord: Sunday, September 26, 2021 (Rounds 6-11) Sunday, October 10, 2021 (Rounds 12-18) The interest list for these events is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jNism67tve...

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meebles127 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:31 pm Will there be a discussion forum

I have opened discussion here:

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=25345

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The Geography Front in-person tournament at Northwestern and the Online Mirror are complete and packets 1-5 used for the events are posted https://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/2687/ . We still have Rounds 6-18 to go through (in subsequent events TBA shortly), but a forum for discussion is in deman...

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Congratulations to Ashish Subramanian, who went 4-1 to win The Geography Front Online Mirror. Statistics are here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19sNqurDaCiSP0X9TYNZcE1UXVt6m3gTtfFBqfmQIs28/edit?usp=sharing This was a great field, with players demolishing some very difficult questions prett...

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All, I have heard from most of you, so I will begin sending requests for payments via Paypal to those who I have registered (If your name is under the "Interested in Playing" column, then I have an e-mail from you and you are registered). There is one day left to register (Friday at Midnig...

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A week out and some details to communicate: First, if you haven't confirmed you are playing by e-mailing me, please do so by Friday, September 10. That will enable me to send you the codes and names to access the Buzzin.live buzzer system we will use, as well as any last minute instructions. Second,...

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Awesome, glad to see there's an online mirror of this! There will be further rounds to read at some point at a later date following the mirror as well, as I have 15 regular rounds (including the 5 to be used for this mirror), 2 playoff rounds and an "extras" packet. I'll call the ones we ...

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meebles127 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:31 pm Will there be a discussion forum

Yes, once the mirror is done.

castrioti

For those who couldn't make it to Evanston, or those who had to leave early, I will offer an online mirror of the tournament on Sunday, September 12, 2021 on Discord. It will consist of 5 rounds of 30 tossups each, and like the in-person event will cost $15 to play. Signup Sheet is Here https://docs...

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Statistics can be found at the below link, since I was not able to get Yellow Fruit or SQBS to work with a shootout format. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1R9x-D-VZAgcS7iIzpJXvVVf7iuaCipcx_861yQC6Mgk/edit?usp=sharing We got through five rounds. I will announce the online mirror shortly. It w...

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We plan to start between 6-6:30, some are taking a food break and others did not attend Muses and need to arrive.

Please come to M345 as soon as possible to get started.

castrioti

We have a quorum, and still space for three more, so this event will happen tomorrow at the Northwestern University Technology Center, Room M345, immediately following Muses II for those who missed the announcement as CO was ending. Edit: we have a buzzer system, but I would like to have one backup,...

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Two days to go, and after a dropout or two there are still three spots open on the interest list.

I expect to clear 6-8 rounds of tossups with a playoff if needed, may adjust based on timing actually available due to Scattergories and Muses II.

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All, After discussing with potential players, CO staff and Victor, who is also running JORDU at the time, I have decided to move The Geography Front to the third spot on Sunday, August 22 to avoid requiring players to spend an additional night in Chicago. The field cap will be 10 people (3 more spot...

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We have settled into the 3rd slot on August 22, 2021 following Chicago Open. The tournament will be abbreviated to accommodate those not wishing to stay in Chicago for another night. Interest sheet is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GmzsiXD_OZ9CV5koZyZo5OMR-3xP7BGDuUaImKcnolY/edit Also e-ma...

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Perhaps some of this could be run while JORDU is going on? That tournament doesn't have too many people signed up right now. I'm guessing you'll get more interest in a few people playing some rounds on Sunday than coming back on Monday. That is also the thinking of most of my potential attendees. I...

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Given the lack of interest in this event as advertised, I am taking the following actions: 1: I am eliminating all single round robin / ladder play scenarios. That will also eliminate the need for staffing. 2: I am decreasing the entry fee to $15 per person without the need for a tournament staff. I...

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Apologies for the long hiatus for those interested in this tournament. I will hold the tournament on Monday, August 23 at Northwestern for anyone interested. Based on interest so far, this will likely be a smaller event, and we will have five rooms to work with at Northwestern. I am now considering ...

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Since three votes is not minimally statistically viable, I will extend voting on this tournament's date for one more week. As a note on tournament length, I have timed reading of the rounds to 33 minutes per round, adding in 5 seconds until the timer per question (assuming the tiebreakers are needed...

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This tournament is ready and the tentative announcement for it is at

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=25125

Vote for your preferred date.

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All, As previously suggested, pending sufficient interest, this round robin singles tournament will likely be run on Friday, August 20, 2021 or Monday, August 23 as a side event to the Chicago Open. Please vote on your preference with the knowledge that I expect it to last about 12 hours (something ...

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I can't imagine the demand for this tournament as written is so high to basically take all of the Sunday slot. No, and I do not expect it to. I don't want to push aside or compete with other events, as the CO weekend has always been about playing as much quality quiz bowl as possible. As others hav...

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All-- The Geography Front is complete and ready to play. Provided the Chicago Open time space isn't too crowded (I see two other side events), I would like to run this tournament as yet another side event. I am seeking staffers, and will buy you lunch should you decide to moderate this tournament. T...

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All, The questions from the exhibition packet are now posted at https://collegiate.quizbowlpackets.com/2612/ . Some thoughts: First, I apologize to anyone who wanted to play who was confused by the announcement that the event would occur on Mountain Standard Time. I am glad I logged in early and was...

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All, Here is the text of the exhibition packet read this morning for discussion. THE GEOGRAPHY FRONT - A World Geography Tournament Exhibition Packet 1. Among the nearly 30 people groups that inhabited this city are the Tharawal and the Dharag, many of whom still live in its suburb of Redfern. Its N...

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The first packet of the Geography Front was read this morning, with the following results. Michael Coates 0 Josh Rubel 0 Min Kanh Phung 10 Alex Li 10 Victor Pavao 20 Stephen Eltinge 60 Daniel Ma 40 Max Yang 0 Nick Jensen 100 Conor 10 Alex Jenkins 30 Thank you all for participating, your feedback and...

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All, Thank you for expressing interest. We have a quorum, but could always use more. I've replied to each of you that has expressed interest in a PM with the Discord link, and will send a final e-mail out tomorrow night to each of you. If you don't have the link, let me know. I will send the Buzzin ...

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The Exhibition Match is happening and the announcement is here:

viewtopic.php?f=311&t=24986

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All, As requested I will be offering the reading of an exhibition packet for my TBA tournament, the Geography Front, on Saturday April 3, 2021 at 9:00AM Mountain Standard Time. I will use a special Discord link for this reading. PM me on this site with the e-mail ID you intend to use for the link if...

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Given how hard most of those sample questions are and the sheer quantity of questions here, any consideration of making a version of this set just with the easier answers? I suspect that would get a much bigger interest. I'm personally uninterested in playing 600 tossups if 450 of them are going to...

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I would be delighted to play and appreciate the hard work on what I think is an underrepresented subject in quizbowl. I just wanted to ask: are there powers and/or superpowers on this set? I've gone back and forth on this idea, and haven't decided yet. Once I have every question finished and edited...

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Absolutely. I will post them Sunday night, one from each difficulty level. I will also likely be in a position to do a scrimmage round or something like it by mid-March. I am editing continent-by-continent / sea-by-sea, work full overtime and have a family, thus the slow-burn approach to this. Here...

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vishalsareddy wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:08 pm Would high schoolers be allowed to play this (assuming it's online and not in-person at a collegiate tournament)?

Yes. I will turn away no one.

castrioti

Would it be possible to post a couple of sample questions? Absolutely. I will post them Sunday night, one from each difficulty level. I will also likely be in a position to do a scrimmage round or something like it by mid-March. I am editing continent-by-continent / sea-by-sea, work full overtime a...

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I am gauging interest in the format, location and timing for an open level geography tournament. The tournament will be called The Geography Front. I started writing this tournament in 2007, but then entropy happened, life happened, and the set was lost. I found it again last May, and over the cours...

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It appears that my attempts to produce a quality set of physics questions has ended in disaster once again. I chose to help Eric and Gautam out because it seemed that no one better wanted to. I believed I could do it based on Seth's and Jerry's suggestions from a year ago and and an improved databas...

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Since I have the set of blind tossups I wrote in front of me: Physics Tossups Thevenin's Theorem Liouville's Theorem Einstein's Field Equations neutrino oscillations dispersion Aharonov-Bohm effect albedo Type II Superconductivity Langmuir Waves ferrimagnetism (extra) Lyman effect (extra) Auger effe...

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I wrote the following physics tossups for ACF Nationals: Glashow-Weinberg-Salam interferometer Reissner-Nordstrom vorticity Wigner Energy Ranking these from most difficult (in my mind) to least, they would have been: Wigner, Reissner-Nordstrom, Glashow-Weinberg-Salam, interferometer and vorticity. M...

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In my opinion, if you're going to write physical geography questions, don't write them on specific mountains, rivers, lakes, etc; rather, write them on non-specific physical features of the Earth. Careful; if we put this into practice, especially along the lines of underlying processes then what we...

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By the way: While I know "geography" is an academic discipline, I can't imagine that it has much in common with the tossups on rivers, mountains, and countries which fill up the geography distribution at qb tournaments. You're exactly right here. You're also right that it doesn't need to ...

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My own opinions stand thus: I do not believe that there is a problem with geography remaining a part of the ACF distribution. 1/1, or 0/1 or 1/0 is fine. To answer my own questions: N1: I believe that geography is important as an academic discipline because it attempts to understand patterns of huma...

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Greetings, I've done a search of these fora for geography discussion, and can't seem to find much actual discussion on the boards specific to the unimportance or importance of the subject in collegiate QB. I've heard a lot of groaning at tournaments (especially NAQT) about how much of it there is, b...

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