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In a year full of excellent, original sets, I have to say that Regs is my favorite all-subject set this year. It stood out above a crowded field with the polish and care put into each question. A huge thank you, too, to the editors for being so generous and responsive in discussing their editorial c...

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I’ve really enjoyed all the Tossup 21 episodes, but Episode 7 was so great that it finally pulled me out of posting hibernation to say so. This episode is so insightful about how to put together a good team as an authority figure and a professional, and I absolutely love Coach Bowen.

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I'm not sure if Olivia would agree with me here, but I think answers like "that time of the month" should just be rejected. To use a significantly more extreme example for rhetorical purposes, a hypothetical bonus part on black people would not accept or prompt on the n-word--all normal q...

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Could I see the tossup on virtue in packet J? thanks! After the “life of growth” and “life of perception” are ruled out in one text, this concept is discussed as a possible function for man. A book titled for this concept claims that the “state of grave disorder” of its author’s field is due to a f...

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Currently the primary mechanism for addressing misconduct in quizbowl is removing the offender from the community. But this is worth further discussion too: under what circumstances is that not enough of a response? When should we encourage making a report to the relevant school(s) as well? I want ...

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I'd like to thank everyone who stopped by to play this packet! This packet was thoroughly demolished in the Discord reading. (Apologies to those who got the late tossups and weren't able to capitalize on them by crushing the accompanying bonuses, since I didn't write enough of them.) Final scores: Z...

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ThisIsMyUsername wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 2:48 pm
Grace wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:41 pm Friday 3/27 at 9 PM
Eastern time (I assume)?

Oh, yes, Eastern Time! I forget that not everyone is East Coast Elite.

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Thanks to everyone who expressed interest! I've completed 30 tossups (with the possibility of more) and will write the bonuses today. The packet is complete enough that I'd like to stake out a time and date. I'll tentatively schedule the packet reading for tomorrow, Friday 3/27 at 9 PM on the Discor...

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In order to hold myself accountable and actually finish this packet, I'm announcing a difficult (Nats to CO+) packet on audiovisual other, with an emphasis on opera, but with smatterings of musical theater, lieder, and ballet. Because interest will likely be limited for this kind of material, I've g...

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I’m glad this post is still an annual tradition.

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Apologies--SQBS keeps eating my entered stats, and I simply don't know what's wrong.

Grace · Re: MYSTERIUM at Yale (4/2/16) Final stats available here.

Final stats available here.

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In a somewhat dispiriting variation on last year's call, I'm looking for female roommates for ACF Nats. If any existing all-female room would be willing to tack on another room occupant, the Yale team would be happy to reimburse you, and I would be very grateful. If you're willing to share your room...

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Thank you to everyone who attended this tournament and to all the staffers who made it possible! Here are the stats for the tournament.

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The scheduling snafu that left some some college teams with only 9 games was entirely my fault, and I'm terribly sorry about it. That definitely should not have happened, and I owe everyone a lot of apologies. Full stats are (thanks to a loaner laptop from Yale's Technology Troubleshooting Services)...

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The field listing upthread has been updated. If there are any discrepancies between what I've listed for your team and the actual situation, please let me know as soon as possible. All team contacts should expect a logistical email today. Thanks, and see you soon!

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The team listing has been updated. If there are any discrepancies for your team, please let me know as soon as possible. All registered teams should expect an email sometime today with logistical details for this Saturday. See you soon!

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The tournament will take place at William L. Harkness Hall on 100 Wall St. More details and a field update to come this weekend.

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While the official list of registered teams is available via the spreadsheet on the main ACF Fall announcement, I've included a field update below. [Updated 11/4] (Teams/Buzzers/Staff/Laptop) (14/7/0/3) Vassar (1/1/0/0) Amherst (3/0/0/0) CCSU (1/0/0/0) MIT (3/1/0/0) Cornell (2/1/0/0) Boston College ...

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I am pleased to announce the Northeast High School Mirror for ACF Fall 2015, to be held at Yale University on Saturday, 7 November 2015 . ACF Fall is the year's premier introductory-level collegiate quizbowl tournament, and we do hope that you join us at this event. Information about building and st...

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Congratulations for Darien B for winning the tournament in both rounds of an advantaged final over Bishop Guertin!

EDIT: All statistics can be found on the right hand side of this page.

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We've received the go-ahead from ACF for a HS division, but we just want to confirm staff and room reservations before making an official announcement. Thanks to everyone who got back to us in this thread about interest!

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I'd like to see at least 6 teams express serious interest before going forward, although I don't know whether that's feasible. As a point of comparison, at last year's Fall mirror, we had only one HS team, High Tech.

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On the ACF Fall for high schools thread , Colin expressed interest in a local high school mirror of ACF Fall. The closest current high school mirror of ACF Fall is located at the University of Maryland. Since there's no rule prohibiting the same site from running ACF Fall mirrors with different divi...

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Hello! I am pleased to announce the Northeast site of ACF Fall 2015, to be held at Yale University on Saturday, 7 November 2015 . ACF Fall is the year's premier introductory-level collegiate quizbowl tournament, and we do hope that you join us at this event. Registration time and location will be up...

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Yes, all mirrors have concluded, and the set has been uploaded to the packet archive and should appear there, pending approval. A huge thank you to all our mirror hosts and to all the teams who played the tournament! Your support and feedback were essential to us. We'll have an announcement posted r...

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The Yale team is planning to book rooms for ICT sometime in the near future, and I'm looking for female roommates to offset the cost of our stay at the Hilton Atlanta. Niki Peters of Berkeley, Emma Stevens of Maryland, and I are already in an informal agreement to room together, but if anyone else (...

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I'd like to see the Don Quixote ballet tossup, since I didn't get to hear it (and I've been on a bit of a ballet bender in the last few weeks). A non-title character from this ballet was one of the most popular roles of the Argentine bombshell Julio Bocca. This ballet contains a dream sequence in w...

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I'd like to see the Don Quixote ballet tossup, since I didn't get to hear it (and I've been on a bit of a ballet bender in the last few weeks).

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Yale does have space on its teams, but we're a little loath to pay the "open team" registration fee. How would taking on a free agent work, payment-wise, Aidan?

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UCSD's mirror of BHSAT at Triton Winter IV has been confirmed for March 7. Please contact Jason Cheng ([email protected]) for details.

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Yes, and the remaining game stats are forthcoming. Sorry about the delay!

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We're pleased to announce that BHSAT 2015 will be going ahead tomorrow morning at the scheduled time. If all teams arrive by 8:30 AM, we should be able to start and finish the tournament early enough to get teams back on the road before conditions become difficult. (If your team feels that it would ...

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We'd love to hear what you thought of our 2015 BHSAT question set, so if you would like to provide feedback, or if there were any questions that didn't sound quite right to you, please join the private discussion usergroup for the set. You can do so by going to "User Control Panel --> Usergroup...

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We're less than two weeks away from the tournament, but 3 spots remain in our field.

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BHSAT's Texas mirror will be hosted at Rice University in Houston, TX on March 7. Please contact Amanda Pinchbeck for details ([email protected]).

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Due to a number of drops, we have 3 spots open in the field. We are now opening the field to more than three teams from any given school. I'll be sending additional tournament information to teams in about a week, so please sign up soon if you would like to do so.

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BHSAT has been Platinum-certified by PACE, meaning that the top 25% of our field will qualify for the NSC.

We are also expanding our field to 32 teams, so there remains 1 more spot in the field!

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We're pleased to announce that Western Illinois will have its own BHSAT site at Galesburg High School on February 14th. Please contact Coach Spindler for details ([email protected]).

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The field for BHSAT is now full, though spots on the waitlist remain open!

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Results from my packet:

John: 30
Jason: 5
Auroni: -5
Sunny: -5
Amol: -5
Will: 15
Carsten: -5
Matt Jackson: 25

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Would anyone be interested in (very few) somewhat difficult opera tossups written off lyrics and plot because I don't know how to describe music?

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There are, I think, two different cases addressed in your post: 1) that of the last-week drop and 2) that of the tournament no-show (or the drop with less than a day's notice). I don't believe that anyone thinks that tournament no-shows are permissible or acceptable, but I do think that the intense ...

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The tournament announcement for BHSAT's main site at Yale can be found here . If you know the contact information of any teams in the Northeast which do not usually visit the forums, please pass that link along to them! We may have included a contact-person from those teams in our email invitation, ...

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The announcement thread for the main site at Yale on February 14th can be found here.

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Yale Student Academic Competitions is pleased to announce that our twenty-fourth annual Bulldog High School Academic Tournament (BHSAT) will be held on Yale's campus on Saturday, February 14, 2015. The tournament will use untimed rounds of 20 tossups and bonuses from our housewritten BHSAT set. Team...

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Thanks so much for checking with us, Mr. Commo. Registration has not yet opened, but I will send out an email inviting all regional teams before the end of the week. Sorry for the tardiness on our end! EDIT: "End of the week" refers to 12/19, even though that's not the end of the week by a...

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I believe that the main site will be at both. STIMPY will not be open eligibility, as far as I know.

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Congratulations to Brown A for sweeping the overall, undergraduate, and DII championships! A hearty congratulations, too, to Penn B, which finished in second place in every category after some hard-fought second place play-ins. Full statistics will hopefully materialize after Ben Zhang (blessed be h...

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Per a suggestion from the ACF Fall editing team, we may be able to finish the tournament with fewer rounds (12, instead of the planned...15) if we have a field of 35 teams rather than 33 teams. Adding two more teams would probable ease logistics for everyone, so if anyone would like to claim those a...

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