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My main concern with the set involved its answerlines, many of which were long and complex but did not address answers that a knowledgeable player might reasonably give. Often the answerline listed a lot of synonyms & related terms to the main answer, but didn't take the important step of consi...

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Mahria - I'm horrified and sorry about what you went through on UChicago quizbowl. It was our responsibility as club officers to foster a welcoming and inclusive club atmosphere, and I deeply regret how we failed you in that. How to respond to an individual in the club who threatened that goal of in...

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Just a quick note: the above information solely pertains to CoCs for tournament events. With regards to CoCs for college clubs, UChicago quizbowl officers in 2018 (Samir Khan, Alston Boyd, Jason Zhou and I) looked into whether we could adopt a code of conduct for our club, with sanctions for members...

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I'm glad to hear of community attention and effort on a code of conduct. Below I share some considerations for establishing a code of conduct - I had described many of these a year and a half ago during internal PACE discussions for instituting a code of conduct for the now-cancelled 2020 NSC , but ...

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The jury's still out on how much your brain is "like a muscle" (c.f. the replicability problems of Roy Baumeister's "ego depletion' idea), but it sure does use energy. Echoing Matt: I find that a huge portion of quizbowl mental fatigue can be mitigated by judicious application of sna...

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The first master sheet and the by region sheets are redundant with each other. Is there a way to consolidate info so people just need to update info in a single place? eg delete master sheet and just have people update by region sheets, or have people update master sheet and protected by region shee...

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This is such a fantastic post, thank you Tora. I had some thoughts on the environmental impact of quizbowl that I wrote up at the beginning of the year for PACE. These thoughts are not nearly as developed or well-articulated as Tora's above. I've just adapted them below as additional scattered thoug...

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I'll be driving from Stanford and back on Sat and Sun - if anyone needs a ride, let me know.

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I really want to be there, but this is unfortunately going to conflict with META and Imaginary Landscapes. Is it possible this could get recorded for those of us who can't be there and posted online later? We do plan to record this and post it online later. We know that there are a bunch of other s...

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Hey, I'm really sorry to hear that you're going through this. That person's conduct is definitely out of line. I'm sorry to hear that talking to your coach has not been a productive solution - I'm confused and upset on your behalf that they have not taken action. I don't want to request more details...

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Amiable Vitriol wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:32 pm I'll be attending Stanford University, and hope to be involved with the club there!

<3 welcome!!

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I too don't think teams need to form lines to approach each other to shake hands. This is pretty minor, but I do think that players should shake hands with other players, make eye contact, and say "good game" or something of that sort with sincerity. Many times after a match, I've encounte...

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I will be continuing my slow westward migration by heading to Stanford for a PhD in developmental psychology.

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The ability to vocalize this action is heavily limited within the Pama–Nyungan language family. Children have implicit knowledge of how to do this action, according to the “principles before skill” argument advanced by Rochel Gelman. E. L. Kaufman analyzed how this action could be performed quickly...

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Aaron's Rod wrote:I hear there will be live-ish stats, anybody got a link?

Here.

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is thrilled to announce its new Board of Directors for the 2017-2018 term. We're excited to kick off another excellent year! President: David Reinstein Treasurer: Mike Bentley Secretary: Mike Hundley Vice President of Tournament Direction: Ryan Ros...

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PACE welcomes our summer 2017 cohort of new members: Alex Damisch, Dylan Minarik, and Ryan Humphrey! We are delighted to work with such talented and energetic folks. PACE elects to invite new members twice a year; the next round will be in January 2017. To learn more about what we do and how PACE me...

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Since this is related to the logistics of this year's NSC, I am going to post this here. This tournament's Saturday rounds were, for lack of a better word, disappointing. We went well over the time scheduled in Washington B's prelim bracket (we were almost 2 hours late, and had played 4 matches by ...

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Videos from the 2017 PACE NSC are available on our YouTube channel. Click [CC] on the bottom right corner to enable captions on select videos. - 2nd place tiebreaker match: Barrington (IL) vs Westview (CA), All-Star Game, awards ceremony (+captions) - 6th place tiebreaker match: IMSA A (IL) vs La Jo...

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Oo-kamakiri wrote:Today, we will be having practice in Crerar 320b from 7-10pm. If anyone has trouble getting in or finding the building, send me a PM via the forums or Facebook.

EDIT: Actually, we're headed to Alston's apartment. Message him.

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Congratulations to Detroit Catholic Central High School A of Novi, Michigan, the 2017 PACE NSC champions! They have won NSC by virtue of clearing the top superplayoff bracket.

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For me, the stream only plays content in 5-10 second bursts. I hear Niki Peters read, like, a sentence and half of a tossup; the screen freezes up; it stays that way for minutes, until there's another weird staccato fragment. It's like I'm watching bebop quizbowl. I believe we've maxed out the band...

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Can someone confirm for me which teams are carrying losses into tomorrow's final eight? Superplayoff seeds . In the top superplayoff bracket: - Dublin Scioto carries over a win against Westview - Detroit Catholic Central A carries over a win against TJ A (VA) - *IMSA A carries over a win against Ch...

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Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is soliciting nominations for new members ! Nominations are due to secretary Michael Hundley at [email protected].org by Thursday, June 15 at 11:59 PM Eastern time. PACE has many objectives , among which are: • to promote and encourage the growth of q...

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PACE is exploring platforms, including Facebook Live, for livestreaming parts of NSC this year. More details to come!

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Big Y wrote:If you want to be guaranteed to receive the hotel room block discount, you should reserve rooms today or tomorrow. Follow our hotel link.

The deadline for reserving a room at the discounted PACE rate has been extended to this Sunday.

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Father Comstock wrote:I see there are some pretty good teams on the waitlist.. Is there any chance the field will expand?

Field expansion is not an option we're considering for the 2017 NSC due to logistical limitations, but it is something we are keeping on the table for future NSCs.

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Congratulations to the inaugural winner of the Morgan Costa-Rhodes Memorial Scholarship: Casey Wetherbee from Ithaca High School (Ithaca, NY)! Casey is a high school senior who will be attending Georgetown University next year, where he plans to continue playing quizbowl. For more about Casey, check...

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Just a reminder that applications are due in about 2 weeks on March 1st! The recommendation letter is also due by the same date, so we encourage potential applicants to locate and contact a recommender if they haven't done so already.

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PACE welcomes Ophir Lifshitz as a new member! We're enthusiastic about the skills and work ethic he brings to PACE in our work to support high school quizbowl.

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Not yet, we'll announce new members shortly.

Internal voting on nominations is currently occurring. Once internal voting finishes, membership invitations will be sent out. After invitations are accepted or declined, a list of new members will be publically posted.

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As someone whose first venture (along with a lot of other British quiz bowlers [britbowlers?]) onto the IRC was this year's Festivus,one thing I would note is that for a lot of people, especially newer players, IRC is something before their time which requires somewhat archaic programmes to use and...

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We are expecting many registrations to come in during February, so we recommend that qualified teams complete their registration soon to guarantee a spot in the NSC field! In addition, if you're interested in staffing the NSC, let us know. Interested staffers who are not affiliated with a registered...

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PACE is proud to announce the Morgan Costa-Rhodes Memorial Scholarship, a one-time $2000 college scholarship for current high school seniors. PACE plans on awarding this scholarship annually. About Morgan Costa-Rhodes During her short time at Parkersburg High School, Morgan Costa-Rhodes achieved suc...

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Auroni Gupta has resigned as well. We're grateful for his time with us, and wish him well!

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Happy new year! It's that time of year again when the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence opens up for nominations for new members . Nominations are due to secretary Michael Hundley at [email protected].org by Friday, January 13th at 11:59 PM EST. PACE has many objectives, among which a...

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Matt Bollinger and Allison Murner have resigned. We're grateful for their time with us, and wish them the best with their future endeavors.

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Happy new year! We remind qualified teams to register soon if they have not already. Wildcard bids are now open for teams who have not qualified through qualifier tournaments. To submit a wildcard bid, email PACE’s Wild Card Coordinator, Ian Drayer, at [email protected].org with the following: team ...

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is proud to announce that the 2018 National Scholastic Championship will be held at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA, part of the Washington, DC metro area, on June 2-3, 2018. The Hyatt Regency Reston has been the site of the 2015 NSC, as we...

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Cheynem wrote:Maybe we could apply for a PACE grant or something.

You're welcome to; such an application would need to demonstrate how the community question clinic supports high school quizbowl.

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is proud to announce that the 2017 National Scholastic Championship (NSC) will be held at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare on June 10-11, 2017. The Hyatt Regency O’Hare has been the site of the 2016 NSC, as well as numerous quizbowl national championships...

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Ben Herman has resigned from PACE. We thank him for his work with us, and wish him well.

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Nicholas Karas has resigned from PACE. We're thankful for his outreach work with us, and wish him the best in his future endeavors! (Victor Prieto succeeds him as Vice President of Outreach.)

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Victor Prieto has been elected as the new Vice President of Outreach, succeeding Nicholas Karas.

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is now accepting submissions for the 2016-2017 PACE Outreach Fund , a program funding outreach for high quality quizbowl around the country. The program is designed to support state organization and tournament hosts in their efforts to recruit new ...

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Oh this thread exists. I have a travel disaster story to share: my return to Boston after side event weekend in NYC last Sunday. On Monday morning in Boston, I was scheduled to present a poster at my internship's end-of-summer poster session. This poster presentation was to represent the culmination...

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I also have had a fantastic experience as a member of PACE, although I haven't been a member for very long. To me, PACE feels like a very small tight-knit community where there's always a project to work on, depending on your skillset and interests. In my time as a member, my fellow members have bee...

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Big Y wrote:*former coach

Sorry about that; fixed!

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Is that "David Reinstein" David Reinstein, or some other David Reinstein? Congratulations to PACE. If this is the real David Reinstein, you have an experienced leader who has weathered through difficulties and shown some great results. The proper name "David Reinstein" refers to...

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The Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence is excited to announce its new Board of Directors for the 2016-2017 term. We're grateful to these officers for volunteering their efforts. Together, we're looking forward to another fantastic year! President: David Reinstein Treasurer: Michael Bent...

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