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Ryan Humphrey has resigned from PACE.

PACE is proud to announce the following new members for this season:

Naveed Chowdhury
Connie Prater
Kady Hsu
Olivia Lamberti
Tejas Santanam
James Malouf

Congratulations to all and welcome to PACE!

Excuse me if I'm sounding like a broken record here, but I'm not a big fan of the schedule as it looks. Super ACRONYM is a hard tossup/bonus tournament, by shoving it into a morning slot you're either being unrealistic or making this stacked field play a truncated tournament. Cambridge Open being se...

Jason Loy and Chuck Pearson have resigned from PACE. Jordan Brownstein is going on Inactive status.

I'd sacrifice a few fingertips for an opportunity to play this

If MUSES is full tossup/bonus I'd rather cut CamO for more zany side event action. All-subject tournaments are overrated.

Nick Clusserath has returned to Active membership status.

In order to continue putting on an excellent national tournament every year, PACE has created a survey for all attendees of the 2019 NSC to fill out.

If you would like to give feedback on your experience and what you want the NSC to be like in the future, please fill out the survey here.

This year's NSC is now posted on the archive. We at PACE hope everyone enjoyed the set!

Seeking teammates. You could get me at my Scattergories 1 (pretty good), or you could get me at my Scattergories 2 (terrible). But I'm fun and whimsical!

Jakob Myers and Julie Gittings have resigned from PACE.

Superplayoff seeds are posted.

Official playoff seeds are here.

Here is this year's NSC program. Special thanks to Emily Dickson for taking the lead on compiling it!

Effective May 15, 2019, PACE has made a few important changes in our ruleset. PACE's current gameplay and eligibility rules are available here . The four rules changes are in the gameplay rules, sections A.6.b ("Assistant Coaches"), H.3 ("Lodging Protests"), H.12 ("Protest Resolutions"), and addendu...

This is a preliminary announcement for the 2020 PACE NSC, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois over the weekend of June 6th. More information will become available in this thread in the months leading up to the tournament.

Hello everyone, From now until the beginning of round 1 of this year's NSC, PACE Member Ian Drayer is offering to match all donations to PACE by non-members dollar-for-dollar up to $1000. If you would like to make a match-eligible donation, please donate via our PayPal link (found on this page ) and...

I sent an e-mail to Michael Li about a week ago reminding him of the PACE Side Event policy. Michael and Anson are obviously free to host this event as long as they comply!

Below is the template distribution for the PACE NSC 2019 question set, courtesy of head editor Ike Jose. This distribution lists how many tossups/bonuses will be included from each category out of the 20 tossups and 20 bonuses in regular play per packet. For an example, 4/4 Literature indicates that...

I just now realized this was happening, so I'm a free agent if somebody wants me.

EDIT: Joining the Ryan/Coates/PC team.

Hello everyone, The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) is currently seeking interested staffers of all types for the 2019 NSC, taking place at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA the weekend of June 8-9. If you are interested or have questions about staffing, please fill out t...

The Uranus tu has been fixed, I apparently was on autopilot when writing that and wrote like 2 clues on the basis that Rhea, not Gaea, was his wife. Really sorry about that- hopefully it was easy enough to figure out in protests.

I'd like to give a special thanks to Matt Bollinger for inviting me onto Regionals when Religion/Mythology needed a new editor, and Will Alston, JinAh Kim, and Jordan Brownstein for providing some invaluable feedback on my questions even when I didn't have time to set up public playtesting. I did my...

I'm now playing this with Auroni. Very much looking forward to it

It's that time of year again, quizbowlers! The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is again seeking nominations for new members! Nominations are due to secretary Michael Hundley at secretary@pace-nsc.org by Sunday, January 20 at 11:59 PM Eastern time. PACE has many objectives, which incl...

Jackie Wu has won an election to finish Chuck's term as VP of Outreach. She will serve until the next officer elections are held in summer 2019.

I'm playing this and seeking teammates. I'm not good at science but will buzz everywhere else whether you like it or not.

Chuck Pearson has resigned his position as VP of Outreach. He is remaining a member of PACE. Jackie Wu will be performing his duties in the interim while PACE goes through the procedure of electing a replacement.

I was the primary editor for the Religion, Mythology, and US History in this set, and edited some of the Other Science with the assistance of Ike Jose. Special thanks to Young Lee for writing some RM, Tejas for writing a majority of the US History, Auroni for writing some Religion, and Rob Carson fo...

A text written as teachings from this figure to a group of sages is known as his namesake “Laws.” For 10 points each: [10] Name this figure, a son of Brahma who was warned of an impending flood by Vishnu in the form of the giant fish Matsya. ANSWER: Manu [10] The Laws of Manu illustrate the Vedic c...

This was a lot of fun, thanks for running it!

The field should now be current. Since the OP of this thread only has 3 posts, every edit needs moderator approval.

The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is proud to announce that the 2019 National Scholastic Championship (NSC) will be held at the Hyatt Regency Reston on June 8-9, 2019. The Hyatt Regency Reston has previously been the site of the NSC in 2014, 2015, and 2018. PACE looks forward to co...

Seeking teammates for this, I guess. I've very high-variance these days but can still get tossups.

I agree with Tejas that two consecutive film events is not ideal. I'd definitely play anything, but I think it would be good to not hyperconcentrate the film.

The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is thrilled to announce its new Board of Directors for the 2018-2019 term (website update pending). We're excited to kick off another excellent year! President: Fred Morlan Treasurer: Michael Bentley Secretary: Mike Hundley Director of Communicatio...

There's a huge lot that's open on weekends on the southeast end of campus next to one of those newfangled giant buildings. Just enter on Sheridan before it intersects with Chicago Avenue. Yup, this is free on weekends, and we've always encouraged people to park at it for NU-hosted tournaments in th...

Dudes, don't post the contents of private conversations to a public forum without permission from the other member(s) of the conversation.

someone who knows old things and wants to win play this with me pls

Due to issues with the room reservation process at the University of Chicago, this tournament will instead be held at Northwestern University . :party: :party: :party: Tomate, Chicken Shack, here I come! :party: :party: :party: In all seriousness, if anyone wants food suggestions/needs any help wit...

I'll probably be at this. I'll likely be pretty bad due to being born in 1995, but I can hopefully nab some video games and music points at the very least. Contact me if you wish to team up.

I believe there was a tossup on the Chiefs in this tournament that referred to them as being quarterbacked by Alex Smith. That is now incorrect, as he was traded to Washington several months ago.

In about a month I'll be moving to Milwaukee to start a new job. I'll do my best to keep playing opens and generally staying involved in quizbowl, and who knows, may even try to get a stronger Wisconsin circuit going?

Is this still planned for Saturday night at HSNCT? Need to know if there will be a conflict with the guerilla staff event, which i would of course skip for Pokemon.

I'm going to this, I'd definitely prefer an all-side event slate to a main event, though of course would gladly play a British main event if that's what people want.

-I wonder if the clue about octrees is unique to collision detection? From my cursory reading it seems like octrees are used in a lot of applications to partition space before doing whatever it is you set yourself to do (disclaimer: I almost negged with N-body simulations at that clue for this reas...

Hi friends! I wrote and edited all of the jazz and computer science in this set (with the exception of a guest submission from Ike). This was my first time doing this much work at this high of a level, so I'm looking forward to hearing about what people thought- always feel free to PM/DM me in addit...

okay but WHERE is my science TRASH at

Can I see the tossup on "ports?" I misinterpreted it the way I heard it as referring to Kingston and got really confused, and am not sure if that should be on me, the moderator, or the packet.

I wasn't sure if the conceit of this tournament could work over 100 tossups, but it absolutely did and it was a blast! If you're at all interested in this sort of stuff, this event is a must-play.

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