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I'd count myself as one of the more casual studiers. My last year of school when I decided to learn history, I mostly started by reading through hard sets (at the time CHBB, CO History, CO, ACF Nats) and basically getting a sense of what the hard canon is like and what types of areas to focus on ...

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I sometimes see tossups where the indicator (i.e. "this person," "this book," etc.) is placed at the end of the first sentence, or at least after enough information has been given that a knowledgable player is capable of figuring out the answer. Obviously this is suboptimal, since it means a player ...

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Gotcha. But I guess what I was trying to ask is, in an more abstract sense: Let's say we're trying ask for [This Thing], which is something commonly found and/or associated with India. While we should accept both the Hindi and English version of [Thing], and the main answer line should be either ...

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Similarly, in Bengali (I can't speak for other Indian languages here), the distinction between ś, ṣ, and s does not exist; they correspond to different Bengali letters because they were pronounced differently in Sanskrit at one point, but they are all pronounced the same now. In Marathi at least (a ...

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Thanks to those who replied, just wanted to add a couple comments and some context. A common mispronunciation that I've not yet seen mentioned is the aspirate consonants फ ph , थ th , ठ ṭh , as in फल ph ála "fruit", स्थित s th itá "firm, standing", युधिष्ठिर Yudhiṣ ṭh ira "id.". From an Anglophone pe ...

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I was inspired by the thread on Chinese pronunciation to start one on Sanskrit-derived words. I think that pronunciation can be improved both by having some rules of thumb for pronouncing these words and for having more common and consistent PGs when polishing a set. I am a native Marathi speaker ...

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I broadly agree with Andrew that the reader's primary goal should be to pronounce words in a manner easily intelligible for a fluent English speaker, with PGs meant to aid in that goal. Like others have said I don't think that "authentic" pronunciation is really a primary consideration if it impacts ...

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Just wanted to know, will this set be posted now that the online mirror has been held?

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Just for clarity, how long would you expect it to run and what time of day?

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To be clear I’d like to play TELEOLOGY 3, since 2 was already played online, though of course that’s up to Taylor.

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As I mentioned in the other thread, I edited the US History, World History and CE. I also wrote about half the history overall and most of the sports questions. This was my first time editing US History, so my focus was mostly to make it as varied as possible and hopefully keep it interesting. For ...

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I would like to echo Matt's thoughts towards everyone who worked on the set, we had a great team and hopefully provided everyone a fun experience as promised. I also want to especially thank Matt; in addition to his always-great writing and editing, he put in tremendous work on the logistical side ...

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Lastly: You really should remove the "Matt Bollinger's favorite 2020 presidential candidate Kanye West" gag from that one bonus immediately. I know many of us used to be fans of his music, but as worded it sounds like you're either glossing over Kanye's extremely public anti-Semitism, or worse ...

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Will the tournament be following the rules suggested in the initial post (20 point powers, 0 for negs, bouncebacks)?

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I'd like to follow on from Tim and thank everyone who worked on the set. This set took longer than expected to come to fruition, but once we were able to get a great group of editors and writers together everything came together. I want to give special thanks to Tim, who joined as head editor when ...

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Contra the original announcement, we will also be using Discord text channels to buzz as we believe this will give us the best chance of operating at a speedy clip. I would strongly recommend that you use buzzin.live or buzzman for buzzing, since Discord chat is laggy and puts more of a burden on ...

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I wanted to clarify since the name of the event confused me, does this set focus on Britain/Europe during the given time period or is it global?

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What would be the schedule for a 25-team CO? (Disclaimer: Jacob owns the official schedule, so I'm just speaking as an individual here, not in an authoritative capacity) If we do reach 25 teams (which would be amazing!), I envision something like this: Prelims: 9/8/8, 9 rounds Playoffs: 9/9/7, 6 ...

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This might be an issue deserving of its own discussion elsewhere, but the tossup on "violin" in jazz in one of the later packets explicitly names the jazz style developed by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, which has an ethnic slur for the Roma people in it. Given that it is the name of the ...

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As a moderator, I wanted to say I appreciated the extra effort put into things like pronunciation guides and the consideration given to answerline instructions. There were very few cases where I struggled to figure out how to rule on a given answer. This was also the first Nationals with difficulty ...

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meebles127 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:33 pm Does quizbowl talk about Henrietta Lacks?

Yes though typically in the context of science or science history.

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I've been writing and playing mostly history questions for a while now, and I have rarely played or edited history questions written by women. I feel that I don't have much feedback on how women feel about the category in general, and want to get some to help with my future writing work. In my ...

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Thank you to everyone who staffed, finishing up a tournament with bouncebacks and finals before 7 PM was great.

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Was a decision made on the Sunday event? As of right now, we aren't planning on running any side events due to lack of interest. If this changes, we're flexible since I've already reserved the rooms in advance. I'll double-check with teams closer to the tournament date. I responded to you via email ...

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Was a decision made on the Sunday event?

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Having played the playtesting mirror, I would highly recommend this set, it’s one of the better regular difficulty sets I’ve seen in a while.

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I wanted to discuss the PACE mentorship program a bit further as a way to provide opportunities for writers. Victor Prieto started the program a few years ago as a way for newer writers to develop their skills and Ophir will be running it this upcoming year. One of the program's key components is a ...

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Congratulations to Aseem Keyal and John Lawrence for winning!

Stats are here. Big thanks to Jacob O'Rourke, Auroni Gupta and Matt Weiner for staffing.

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Everyone please come to LR3, I’ll give some instructions and we’ll start as soon as possible. Let me know if any teams have changed.

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As soon as MUSES ends, we will meet in LR3 for a brief intro before starting. The team list and schedule can be found here, please update your team if necessary. If anyone not listed wants to play, you can join as a third on an existing team.

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I will be running the tournament tomorrow, it will be starting as soon as MUSES is done. Please let me know if you’re playing and have buzzers available, we’ll need 3 for the tournament.

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Is there going to be another mirror/reading? Would like to play this some time.

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Can we get a field update here?

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A distributional update:

Mythology will be changed to 0.5/0.5, primarily to make room for more other academic and Geo/CE questions
Other Academic will be approximately 0.7/0.7, and Geography and Current Events will be about 0.4/0.4 each

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This year's program has concluded, I want to congratulate our graduates: Alyssa Jorgensen Charles Yang Ridge Ren Chauncey Lo I also want to give thanks to the following people: Ophir Lifshitz and Victor Prieto who were invaluable as part of the mentorship committee. Mike Bentley for his work both as ...

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Is this set going to be posted?

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Several people in this thread have mentioned the desire for more feedback on their question writing and for less intimidating ways to get involved in writing than packet submission with no previous writing experience. PACE’s Writing Mentorship Program has been running for three years, and not only o ...

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Today is the last day, please get your applications in tonight.

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Just a reminder that there are a little over three weeks before applications are due.

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I have added a link to the application form, please fill that out and add your questions there. I have also added a form for those interested in serving as mentors at the end, please fill that out if you are interested and let me know if you have any questions about the program.

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PACE is pleased to announce the continuation of our mentorship program for new writers. Program Details The program is scheduled for October 5 through January 17. Over the course of that period, mentees admitted into the program will be expected to complete 24 questions and a self-reflection, with ...

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It seems like you're on the right track when it comes to studying, basically any method of learning clues can be effective as long as you're learning relevant things that could potentially come up and are able to retain that knowledge. Of course, that improvement may not be apparent quickly but if ...

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Will this set be posted soon?

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Thanks to Oli for running a good tournament and to all of the moderators.

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I think a lot of this just boils to “write good tossups” and the only difference from the rest of the set is your third point, that you don’t want to make them too hard to convert. I understand why people would put tossups they think are worse as some of the later tiebreakers, but doing so means they ...

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I enjoyed playing MWT tossups only, I think the online format hinders bonuses more so than it does tossups and would prefer to make this tossups only as well.

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The 2019-20 PACE Writing Mentorship Program has concluded. Congratulations to the graduates of the program: Jakob Boeye Briana Magin Noah Sheidlower Tony Chen Juliet Mayer Lalit Maharjan William Grossman William Yaeger I also want to give thanks to the following people: Ophir Lifshitz and Victor ...

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Can we get a field update as well as any other logistics info?

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All applicants should have been notified of the evaluation committee's decision a little while ago. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to apply.

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Cheynem wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 10:17 pm My personal preference is if feasible, you should. If doing so would result in wordiness or lack of pyramidality, then don't. I do agree with including the information in a note in the answerline.

Agree with Mike here.

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