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Multiple people have said that the value of these question readers is not in multiplayer. I agree that it's not the end-all be-all of studying, and I more frequently do solo study. But, isn't there value in knowing what points in the question need to be learned with deep study? I don't understand ...

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studying isn't about playing multiplayer. Whether or not you have online opponents does not actually give you meaningful value online if you're playing like, HSAPQ 15 and 2009 wuhsac over and over If you're trying to get better at quizbowl questions from the year 2025 (and on) it's more relevant to ...

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I do not know exactly who's returning who, but as a starting point for what I hope will be a lively discussion downthread I may as well post a list of top bracket or near-top bracket teams from ACF Nationals that are likely to enter next year with the great majority of their scoring intact ...

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I do not know exactly who's returning who, but as a starting point for what I hope will be a lively discussion downthread I may as well post a list of top bracket or near-top bracket teams from ACF Nationals that are likely to enter next year with the great majority of their scoring intact ...

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Adventure Temple Trail wrote: ↑Tue Jun 10, 2025 6:08 pmI have never posted on Twitter and have not actively visited the site in over two years.

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Figure out how good you want to be and set your expectations based on that. If you decide it would be cool to try to become a contender nationally, use podcasts as a reference to figure out how good the best teams are and where they're actually buzzing. Pretty much anyone can get good at high school ...

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coming back to this to add that writing questions helped me more than literally anything else There are a lot of ways to study, but one of the things people often don't put together right away is that it's very easy to learn clues or facts without being able to recognize them in real time - turning ...

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flashcarding is only useful as a retention tool and can be done any time. If you have dedicated time available where you can focus on things, it's far more in your interest to try to study topics you want to learn more about in depth (and perhaps prepare tools for retention such as flashcards for ...

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If you are simply aiming to improve your power percentage, a simple way to do this is to only buzz on the leadin and not be willing to buzz on the first sentence lest you risk only earning ten points. Hope this helps! ^__^

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akshar and michael got really good this year and somehow figured out what to cover in a way that didn't a lot of overlap for illinois and without them and justin making up for me negging stupidly we could never have had the nats success we did. vote for all of them in whatever the hell they buzz in

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Yeah I think for the most part people are in agreement with this to start and this doesn't really need extensive explanation.
Similarly if I had learned this was the case of a tournament I played, I would also want naveed's money.

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There isn't anything specific to study for a lightning round I'm not really sure why anyone would have the idea that there is. Hypothetically if you had all the time in the world you could try to link as many things possible with tenuous links (famous edwards? authors from some state?) but your hit ...

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no/no/idk/no

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Out of curiosity, do you have any explicit examples or any particular explanations for why specific uses or non uses of original language terms cause problems? I'm not exactly sure what the problem at hand is. I will note though that a writer or editor may choose to use an English translation of a ...

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Teams should actually be aggressive more, particularly when it would convenience me.

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Especially in HS regs, the bible content is very shallow and you can often get them quite early even without any knowledge pertaining to it, but rather just by memorizing stock and playing lots of tossups on it. In contrast, other religions usually have tossups about their texts (eg. the Vedas from ...

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With all due respect to middle schoolers aiming to play "Naveed Chowdhury Tournaments" you are likely to get many more points by just studying packets for an hour than spending a few hours theorizing edge cases and 10 fast and easy tips to be an elite quizbowl captain

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Not really sure what I get by adding to this pile-on but at the end of the day, protests are a system in place to prevent players from being wronged by insufficiencies in the packet. It's pretty disappointing for a pretty clear hail mary "eh let's protest and see what happens" hater protest to have ...

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In general, if your goal is to identify questions that are "interesting" and "well-written" I think it's generally best for you to look at a bunch of sets on your own and identify what you both like and dislike, and use that to generate insights about what you would want in questions. In general ...

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These are just clues that show up in packets. Read a lot of packets/questions and you will notice things come up, sometimes you will forget what you want to say when hear those things, in which case you should take the hint and look them up. You can also just look up specific answerlines in like a ...

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So is this saying people should be consistent at a circuit level because this seems more a local thing? My understanding is (based on the publically available page in the high school eligibility rules for naqt) that players can request exceptions which appear to have been granted to players for the ...

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In general I would not recommend obsessing over individual stats since it can get pretty unhealthy. The most facetious answer to your question of course is "get more points/tossup questions" in order to get a higher PPG. More practically this is just "study" (read packets, look at things on a db ...

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announcing that i have changed my position to specialist entirely for taysom hill-esque fantasy consequences

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Sorry that a lot of this is going to be nitpicking. In generally mostly comments about how a lot of clues, particularly ones in technical categories would have really liked a lot more pinning down. This bonus part on schizophrenia is extremely confusing because as far as I can tell typical and ...

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i think ur takes are normally insane (but fun 2 read) but pretty much everything you've said here is right (with a disclaimer of I only use flashcards for school and vocabulary because I am busy being married to multiple choice question exams) (shoutout to the anking card " Serum {{c1::iron}} is a ...

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I found this set very enjoyable! I noticed in general there were a reasonable amount of questions that had a kind of funky choice of pronoun/descriptor and do feel there were a few questions that were on items that were probably too general that played badly as a result (off the top of my head I ...

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Like many fringe discussions, there is no reason to spend any substantial time on this as opposed to just "learning more things"/"getting better at the game"

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I would not encourage asking chatgpt for facts if you aren't VERY aggressively vetting for validity - consider just doing database search, qbreader's db lets you just look at previous tus and look up what's coming up a lot in tossups on the topics/answerlines you want to learn more about. (Also as a ...

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If you were super duper smart and had heard of Girodet's Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, what if you happened to say something like the Haitian Revolution? He's from Saint Domingue and there was a Haitain Revolution going on alongside the French one.. super duper co-sign - Justin from Illinois in ...

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A good way to fraud is to apply what you know to what you don't know. For example, take a question that begins with "This organelle..." I have 2 organelles carded, mitochondria and ER. Using this, if I hear clues that don't correspond with these clues, I can fraud and guess something different ...

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It sounds like you haven’t really thought enough about what you’re missing. If you know more clues you can buzz on other categories, if you study enough you can identify what answers exist, etc. I guess if you just become more clever you can be better at just guessing but that’s not really a produ ...

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I think these are very good points and worth trying to think about in cluing (and would be pretty uncontroversially "fine arts" in the "other" portion) even if an explicit distributional implementation doesn't necessarily happen! A lot of times writers and editors have blind spots in these sorts of ...

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I'm probably going to be excessively harsh here but the decision to have this tossup on nucleosides showed absolute disrespect or perhaps contempt towards the player and I'm extremely disappointed that amongst a large team of writers, editors, and presumably playtesters, either nobody had the high ...

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I'm going to be real with you buddy, that's not rephrasing the question, that's a completely different question. If you want to succeed at a nationals level you should practice and play on material that's at the minimum equal to or harder than the sets you plan on playing on though. Length of ...

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Not sure what difficulty you're looking for but quizbowlpackets.com has a lot of free questions almost all of which should be pyramidal, but very few of which are limited by category. Most of the questions there are on qbreader.org/db - which both has reading functions and filterable search options ...

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I guarantee that it will be higher yield/more personally beneficial to just study more than to spend "literally any amount of time" trying to figure out how to optimize this

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The real winners are the fans attending who get to watch such impressive teams ^_^

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By far the most important thing is just to prepare before your events with study and practice - no specific ritual is going to benefit you more than this kind of preparation

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The best general advice I can give you is that no single formula is going to work for everyone, and there's no streamlined guide that's just going to tell you how to be good or a contender. That being said NASAT, ACF Nationals, and NSC are all extremely different in difficulty and none of them are ...

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I liked this tournament a lot and it had a very high volume of clues that made me like, extremely excited to hear come up. I did like that the set didn't spoon-feed a lot of easy parts but it also definitely led to some feels bad moments and combined with the long day definitely led to uh, a pretty ...

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Hey, I hope this goes well but I Think this would probably work a lot better as a google form or osmething like that :)

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The tossup on Cohen was also pretty frustrating to play. Did the giveaway really need to suddenly mention Sacha Baron Cohen (that too, by literally saying it was "paired with Baron") after cluing a bunch of academics (IIRC)? Maybe there's some underlying link among them all I'm not aware of, but in ...

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pretty poorly since I'm not in middle school

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The AP curriculum is probably good to serve as a base for your studies (I assume that IB should be fine too?) - I would consider looking at stuff from ~2012 ish even because there were more topics on the exam back then I would also just recommend looking at a bunch of quizbowl questions because it ...

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messed up that american comics gets such a heavy distro as opposed to the comics ppl actually read lul

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Auks Ran Ova wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 10:51 pm

is this real

It's real! We're featuring the $1 Vodka Raspberry Lemonade the entre month of June!

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if Paul's basement was such a good location why hasn't ACF been getting bids for it so far?

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what?

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