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You might also want to inquire with Matt Groth. For our mirror at Delaware, he edited the set to replace Canadian-specific questions with American ones, and added a twelfth packet in the process.

Bentley Like Beckham wrote:
Cheynem wrote:Are there any future mirrors of this?
We're looking to mirror this at UW later in May.

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Stats now up: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mpellegr/bla ... dings.html

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Yes, I'm working on that. (Someone else has the stats. I'll see about getting them up ASAP)

Gonzagapuma1 wrote:For anyone wondering, a team of Chris Ray and Ben and Sid from Penn swept for the field, with a team of myself, Mehdi and Ozzie coming in second. I assume stats will be up eventually?

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This tournament has a lot of potential, but it also had some organizational problems that should be addressed. Even setting aside the issue of a lack of experienced quiz bowlers to run the tournament (which as Dave pointed out, could not be helped) there are a lot of easy-but-nonobvious things that ...

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If we're still doing it by email, I'll take a copy.

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Yes, this is going forward. As it now stands, the field is:

* Wissahickon HS
* Concord HS
* Richard Montgomery HS
* NYU
Plus 1-2 house teams and a free agent.

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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:Hopefully Mark or Bill Tressler will post them in time.

Bill has them.

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Stats now available here: http://udel.edu/~nlacock/antwerp%20stat ... dings.html

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We should have enough staff on hand to form a house team (if there's an odd number of teams) or to supply some free agents to teams that are under strength (if there's an even number of teams). Given that the field for this (with the exception of Maryland) appears to essentially be a conglomerate of...

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We'll be sending about 4-5 moderators to this event.

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The University of Delaware is interested in mirroring this tournament sometime in April. Give us a week or two to hash out the specifics.

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We'll be helping moderate this event, but don't have any definite numbers yet.

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For parking - I strongly suggest parking in the Trabant parking garage. It's two blocks from the tournament and the whole day's parking should run you about $5. (Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Trabant+University+Center+Garage,+Newark,+DE&aq=&...

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For parking - I strongly suggest parking in the Trabant parking garage. It's one block from the tournament and the whole day's parking should run you about $5. (Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Trabant+University+Center+Garage,+Newark,+DE&aq=&s...

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DumbJaques wrote:So is this tournament canceled?

Yes.

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IS-105 is reserved for state championships i believe (which apparently Delaware will not have for the first time in nearly a decade). We're considering hosting this in April, if there is sufficient interest from local teams (April seems to be a conflict-prone month for quiz bowl) and if everything ...

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DumbJaques wrote:I personally would have anti-prompted you

What's an anti-prompt?

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The only questionable TU choice I recall was the Obama tossup in the Penn packet that referenced anime and his fictional sexual relationship with Hilary Clinton. There was also a TU on the Anglo-Boer where I negged with Battle of Rorke's Drift. I'd have to see that question to know if it was my faul...

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lazcisco wrote:Make sure you send us an invoice for how much we owe for the tournament and where to send the check to (you can email it to [email protected]), I'd feel bad having played and not actually paying for it.

Ditto.

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Just thought I'd say that I had a good time at this tournament. It was a very competitive field, and the packets were well edited. (The only issues I had were that the first round had a bonus where the third answer was mentioned in the second question, and the Penn packet had an extremely dubious tr...

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Delaware will be bringing one team (At least one. It's theoretically possible some other club members will decide to come, but I doubt this will happen). We will submit the packet before the end of the week.

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Batsteve wrote:Unless something terrible happens that makes me lose faith in the fifteen, there will be powers.

Are question writers expected to put in power marks, or is that something only the editors are doing?

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I had an exceptionally good time at this tournament. The questions were accessible and the field was competitive. We had three of our matches - against State College, Princeton A, and George Mason - come down to the final question and managed to lose all of them :sad: There were a couple of inexperi...

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Lapego1 wrote: If we cut those two and have some of you join Nick (and Bruce?) and some Jerry + Trevor (if they're okay with it), I have no problem with it. We'd do a full round robin with 12 teams + finals if necessary (no byes).

No objections here.

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Lapego1 wrote: Actually, it'd be great format-wise if your two could join up with a team already out there because we won't be able to field house teams and are still stuck at 17 at the moment.

I certainly don't object, and I don't think anyone on my team will. Anyone out there want to merge teams?

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Delaware has 6 players for our two teams. So if there are any free agents or half-teams out there, contact me and we can work something out.

Also, none of my teammates want to do Eyes that Do Not See, so it looks like we won't be staying for it after all.

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I think at least one Delaware team will be interested in playing Eyes that Do Not See II. I will ask at our meeting this week to confirm and post here afterward.

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For the record, the specific question I had in mind is a bonus in which the first part is a non-fictitious work of history, the second part is the author, the third part is another non-fictitious history by that same author. But getting back to my original question - assuming that we all agree that ...

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I apologize if this has been discussed previously, but where in the standard academic distribution do non-fictitious works of history go? I'm thinking of works along the lines of 'History of the English Speaking People' by Winston Churchill or 'A People's History of the United States' by Zinn. Would...

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I wrote a large chuck of the Delaware packet, but ended up missing the tournament. I'm curious to see how it got edited. Anyone know when this set is going to be posted?

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As noted here U. Delaware is planning to send 2-3 teams.

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Due to an unforeseeable circumstance (a death in my family, and a funeral on the same day as this tournament) I personally won't be able to attend. Since I was driving the team down in my car, we're looking into alternate transportation.

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Delaware will be bringing one team. (Possibly a second, but that's exceedingly unlikely)

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Is there a forum thread somewhere for the Virginia/Mid-Atlantic ACF Fall mirror?

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Thank you for your patience. I've posted the stats here: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mpellegr/ACF ... dings.html

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We're training a new stats person, so we're going to be a little slow getting stats up. Please bear with us. A quick summary: we had 3 U Penn Teams and 3 house teams. We did a double round-robin. James, from U. Penn won (I think he went 10-0, but I'm not positive) The questions were well edited. The...

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Are the packets for this tournament posted anywhere?

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Just a quick field update: Upenn is now up to 4 teams. The house will be fielding either 2 or 4 teams, one of which will be Alex Gross by himself.

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~ Will the University of Delaware step up and host more than one tournament? Well, I can't speak for UD just yet, but I'd totally be up for running multiple tournaments. I think that with a little more effort and outreach, we could help build up DE quizbowl so that it becomes more than a 3 school a...

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Cheynem wrote:I'm glad that neither of you wrote the tossup on Silence of the Lambs: the musical which ended up in your packet.

I wrote that one. What was wrong with it?

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I didn't go, but I helped to write the Delaware A packet. If anyone has feedback, I'd like to hear it.

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It's been several days. Can we get stats?

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(Mark assures me that his Van Buren question did not claim that VB ordered the Trail of Tears). 19. The burning of a ship that had been supplying rebels by Canadian loyalists caused this man to protest to Great Britain, to no avail. His second running mate, the grandson of a previous president, was...

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I'm still waiting for a copy of the packet set, but I wanted to mention that I felt the Colombia C packet had a substantial amount of net bait. I believe there were 9 or 10 negs in the Delaware/Maryland match. In particular: * In the battle of the Teutoburg Forest question, the second or third clue ...

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I was at Buzzerfest yesterday, and I'd like to chat about it.

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During the Trash set that UD wrote for the annual Blue Hen trash round, this happened too. It did happen in the BHI tracket, but only twice (TUs 7 and 12) and only because the BHI trash packet was mostly recycled from the unread generic DWI trash packet. (The person who was in charge of the BHI tra...

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Thanks Nick. Apparently it was a heck of a game, had to go to TU21. Wish i could have watched but i was moderating. It was just pointed out to me that this wasn't resolved correctly. A tiebreaker is supposed to be three tossups. Sorry that we didn't emphasize that at the opening meeting. I'll take ...

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Carangoides ciliarius wrote:well, "kids," i guess, some of them are my age!).

Or older :)

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Order of finish: 1. GDS A (Matt Jackson playing solo) 2. Caesar Rodney A 3. Grand Theft Charter 4. Richard Montgomery A 5. Blake 6 Call of Charter iV: Modern Quizbowl 7. Chartercrafft: Buzz War 8. Charter Charter Revolution 9. Richard Montgomery B 10. Charter Gear Solid 11. C. Milton Wright A 12.. G...

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We're going to do a postmortem on the question set tomorrow. So if anyone has any other feedback (particularly about the packets nobody has commented on yet - lit, military history, games, and the internet) I'd be interested in hearing your opinions.

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