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Well, don't think if it as being "stuck" reading a bunch of books - instead, perhaps, consider that you "get" to read a bunch of great works of literature.

Also, somehow I don't think paying for flashcards counts as real knowledge.

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ryanrosenberg wrote: ↑Sat Jun 22, 2019 8:42 pm Looking for CamO, MUSES, and Unanswered Question teammates, especially if we haven't played together before.

oh but also sacronym too

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The cell phone field says to not list a cell phone, I don't know what to believe.

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This set is fantastic - if you have any interest im science fiction and things of that nature, I highly recommend that you play it!

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This set was still incredible the second time!

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Are there real stats anywhere? It's very important to me that I flex the first buzzes I got because I remembered clues from Chicago Open four years ago.

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Top level of the atrium, outside JFK

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Alright, more updates - I've closed the field at six teams, so with a five game schedule, that should actually allow us to do full tossup/bonus games. We'll meet at 9:30ish in the top level of the atrium, and figure things out from there. I'm definitely in favor of playing full games, given the hig...

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They're not listed on the sheet, but we actually should be okay on staff for now - I'll let you know if that changes, but I think we should be set.

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Alright, more updates -

I've closed the field at six teams, so with a five game schedule, that should actually allow us to do full tossup/bonus games. We'll meet at 9:30ish in the top level of the atrium, and figure things out from there.

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So, some updates - Due to scrimmages, it looks like the start time is going to be 9:30 at the earliest, hopefully this doesn't pose any problems. As a result, I think we're gonna do this as tossups only, so that people can get to bed before midnight. Watch this space for updates on where to meet, wh...

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This will depend on when staffer tasks are finished on Friday, with possibly a short delay to accommodate dinner.

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Hello, this is an announcement for a mirror of CW Rock and Roll Hall of Shame to be held at the 2019 NAQT SSNCT on Friday, May 3rd, at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare. I understand that this is relatively short notice, but hopefully everyone staffing SSNCT that wants to play will be able to. Logistics You ...

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Something that I have always found interesting is how different the community's answer to this question is at the high school level versus the college level. It seems as if the community believes that, relative to their respective sets, high school teams should perform significantly better at natio...

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I think they're usually fine - I've used them at quite a few tournaments in the past, but the problems are in rebracketing - either you pick a fixed number of teams from each bracket to advance and run the risk of rising to a higher bracket than a team with a better record than you, or you just pick...

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A format which requires 14 rounds but only 1 tiebreaker (as opposed to 13 rounds and two tiebreakers, as the current format does), without expanding the field, is: 4x9 crossover brackets (so, each team in pool A plays each team in pool B and none from their own; likewise for pools C and D) Split to...

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This set is a fucking delight, quite possibly the best event I've played in recent memory.

If you're on the fence about it I highly recommend going to a mirror!

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Update - the posted stats have a handful of errors that have been pointed out to me, those have been corrected and the stats now have a new home at
https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/s ... t_id=10117

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Apologies, the mistake preventing the other stat reports from showing up has been fixed.

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5494/

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Hey guys, thanks for registering for the 2019 KY NAQT State Championship, this Saturday, March 2. This is a guaranteed NAQT HSNCT qualifier, as well as a PACE NSC Platinum qualifier. An important note is that this tournament will be held in a different building than usual. Registration will begin a...

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For those of you looking for a site to play this tournament might I humbly suggest March 30 at the University of Minnesota? I hear that tournament is announced and has a field and everything, so it's sure to satisfy all your quizbowl-playing needs. As has been established, Michigan would prefer not...

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For those of you looking for a site to play this tournament might I humbly suggest March 30 at the University of Minnesota? I hear that tournament is announced and has a field and everything, so it's sure to satisfy all your quizbowl-playing needs.

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An email will be sent out shortly, but teams may now register for this tournament on the NAQT website at https://www.naqt.com/registration/field ... t_id=10117.

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If you read what I said, I'm mad that the editors required that hosts take advanced stats, and then (read closely, since this is the important part) did nothing with them! I changed a number of questions based on advanced stats from the Discord mirror read closely, since this is the important part ...

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Hello friends, sorry for the delay, but stats are now posted!

http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5496/

I~~'ll add the finals in a moment, and~~ may eventually fix the display of the non-ascii characters.

edit: fixed the finals not actually being added

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RIP, I'm a bad moderator now

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"One Shift, Two Shift, Redshift, Blueshift" (Maximilian Shatan, Geoffrey Chen, Hidehiro Anto, Greg Peterson) clinched by defeating "Will the Real Ben G. Wynne Please Stand Up" (Stephen Liu, Benji Nguyen, Michael Coates, Chinmay Kansara) 325-295 in the first game of an advantaged final. Thanks for ev...

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Now that I've heard back from everyone, I'm officially locking the field - we're at eight teams of four and two of five, so we're confirmed for a simple nine game round robin, with finals. I've posted the tournament schedule on the team formation spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...

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Hello all, I'll be taking over as TD for this tournament. Right now it looks like we have ten teams signed up, with five empty spaces for six free agents. Unless we get a huge surge of interest, I'm gonna go ahead and cap the field at that number, and on, let's say Wednesday afternoon, i'll assign a...

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Yes, but that could caused by simply entering the wrong command, or because you're using a different version of python - the file is written for Python 3. If you can take a screenshot of those errors and post them here, I can tell you which is the case.

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Can you post the errors that you're getting? It's likely that you may have the wrong version of python installed.

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is this an out-of-season april fool's joke?

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So, the main reason I was so dismissive was that the situation that Harris has presented where he's attempting to get payment but the dastardardly and/or incompetent bureaucracy isn't responding to him is patently untrue. On November 2, 2017, over two weeks before the tournament, the University of L...

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I'm not now nor was I then officially officially affiliated with UofL Quizbowl in any way, but I find your outrage rather incomprehensible. UofL Quizbowl is a part of the University of Louisville, and as such, as absolutely no ability whatsoever to simply mail out checks to people. UofL teams have b...

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cool, I'll probably be a little late then, but I'll join as soon as I'm able!

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Is there any way this can be pushed back an hour or so? I'm extremely looking forward to this set, but I don't get home until 9 tonight.

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Stat reports can be found on the tourament page here. Note that in the combined stats, the teams are not listed by order of finish - the correct order of finish can be found by looking at the stat report for Playoffs.

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Stats at lunch (full prelims):

http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... standings/

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I converted those histograms into a cumulative graph, to get a bit of a better idea of what the buzz pyramid looked like:

https://i.imgur.com/PglFlef.png

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Are you willing to make available the subdistributions within the big three?

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Did this ever get resolved, one way or another?

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Hey everyone, sorry for the delay, I misplaced the floppy disk with the stats and so had to recreate them from memory. Kentucky A went 10-0 to clear the field and win the tournament. Detailed stats can be found by joining the discussion group for this tournament, and standard stats can be found here...

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It is not accurate to imply that staffers were blind to the use of the system, unless the tournament director failed to inform them of such. We sent out the scoresheets ahead of time. I apologize to Nick for not adequately anticipating the difficulty of checking his email and reading documents on t...

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The University of Louisville Quiz Bowl Team is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2017 Early Fall tournament on Saturday, October 14th . This tournament will be taking place in the Bingham Humanities building, the same location as any previous tournaments at the University of Louisville...

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vinteuil wrote:Is Kurtis still eligible?

No, I don't believe so, at least not for Louisville.

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I've submitted the packets to the DB for approval, so hopefully they'll show up soon. Please let me know if I missed any egregious errors so that I can fix them.
That said, I sill haven't fixed the stats errors because I'm a slacking slacker who slacks, but that will happen...eventually.

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This happened - Eric and Jordan thoroughly beat up the packets, in that order; results are here:

edit: fixed: http://i.imgur.com/ZORRqRj.png

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So it looks like today is the most popular day, I'll be reading at 9:00 EDT tonight on discord! I hope to see people there!

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So it looks like today is the most popular day, I'll be reading at 9:00 EDT tonight on discord! I hope to see people there!

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I've posted this elsewhere as well, but I'm planning on reading the remainder of the edited CO packets over Discord in the near future. Please respond to this poll to let me know when would be the best time.

edit: fixed link: http://www.strawpoll.me/13560297

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