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If/When it's academic is canceled, a lot of DMV high schools will completely end their quizbowl programs. When I was a kid, I felt differently, but it really does keep quizbowl alive far more than regional tournaments too.

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My two favorite games of mine. https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/game.jsp?game_id=320136 This game brought us the moniker of being "the most unpredictable team in quizbowl." We were down by a bunch and needed to sweep, power, and 30 3 straight questions to win...and we did. Plus the 2018 ict ...

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The best practice I ever had at what some call "frauding" was through doing every other word bowl. That's where you read every other word in a tossup and try to get it. Of course this isn't a real game play scenario. And that's why I think people who claim fraud are barking up the wrong tree. When ...

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Great question. So while it is generally good in life to read the news and be literate in the issues of the day, it is not an effective way to study CE. If you want to study CE, you are studying to mostly get points at NAQT. Going to the Wikipedia list of elections for the year and learning the ...

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Nikhil and I are free agents as well and looking for a score

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Sam Blizzard was a great solo player but i think at the time Max Schindler was the person to beat - he just had a really strong team behind him as well. Sameer Rai had an unbelievable amount of hype attached to him at the time as well.

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looking for a team

Ill be your 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st, whatever works.
Really would love to play!!

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Overreport clearly implies sending in information that the group themselves have decided are outside the scope of the form. A clear misreading by Naveed.

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LKJ is great. He just received an honorary doctorate from the UWI, Mona. Knowing a bit about him, I think that's a greater honor than a Nobel.

Wilson Harris, who is now dead, would have been a good candidate. I dont see the academy giving it to Jamaica Kincaid. (Or Merle Collins or Dionne Brand).

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Riding a bus on a muggy morning. I'd love to just walk around in the woods today but i'll be in Evanston instead. By the time I get to Evanston, she'll be....

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Eating a momo...yearning (i wish my girl could have came)....waiting around in the cavernous and gauche Laguardia terminal....reading Mariarosa Dalla Costa...drinking ginger ale (only thing i drink on planes). Sitting in the blue...line Watching all the people I'll feel much better on the other side ...

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The game is played on terrain.
The one who controls the terrain, controls the game.
So at CO, who will stand taller
Than the one wearing a green collar
And holds three letters (i,K,D) to his name

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Sardorbek Eminov wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 11:37 am Doug, as we drive over the Cuyahoga River: “hey let’s throw a match into it!”

Rewrite the book and rule the pages
Saving face, secured in faith
Bury, burn the waste behind you

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Sink water down there hits different, can confirm

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WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING! Evanston! With a pocket for my oatmeal and a pocket for my salt, I will be travelling from scenic LaGuardia airport to my friend Naftali's apartment in Logan Square this Friday night. Like Darby Allin, I want to face the "Best in the World," and I know that Chicago is ...

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I'm considering running a bluegrass bracket starting probably around June and am wondering if people would actually be interested in such a thing. I plan on running the gauntlet all the way from the old days of Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers to about the year 2000, with a few exceptions. I am ...

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I am a FREE AGENT for this tournament. I know much of this world.

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Louise Glück - advisor to quizbowl star Laurence Li!

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Nice name

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What I most want to highlight here is this, men in quiz bowl need to be willing to lose face and to lose standing in our personal relationships to make quiz bowl a more open and accepting place. Until that is more widely accepted and practiced, it is going to be hard to make meaningful change ...

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BORN TO RUN!!!

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--I was sorely tempted to pick a Fleetwood Mac song I think is like the fifth best on its album, but the mystique (some might say overrated status) of "Stairway" makes it win for me. Hey, did I tell y'all that I had a neighbor who was a Seventh Day Adventist who told me about backward masking about ...

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Psycho Killer vs. Ohio - Ohio is of the 70s . Raw, sharp, guitar that gets you. Talking heads had nowhere to go but up from Psycho Killer Won’t Get Fooled Again vs. Wish You Were Here . Wish You Were Here has the groove and the groove is soverign. Stairway to Heaven vs. The Chain . To quote another 7 ...

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Knowing several players on both teams, I feel like I am well prepared to write one of my universally well-received Teddy Atlas style "tale of the tapes" for this, complete with notes on the producers of questions, the strategic styles of the teams, the "x-factor" of Jacob Reed's science knowledge ...

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Live and Let Die vs. The Gambler - While I don't enjoy either of these songs, The Gambler most resembles a song I would enjoy. Kenny Rogers has that storytelling style and has a solid studio backing, but man's stories are banal. Live and Let Die - what's up with the production here, everything sunds ...

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I inherited my distaste from my mom, who always got pissed at parishoners for suggesting they sing "Imagine" at church.

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Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) vs. I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home) - Long Cool Woman is clearly the better song, but listening to Grand Funk reminds me of hanging out with my good friend Louie Chaverini. And sometimes you just have to surrender to the twang. No Woman No Cry vs. Fly Like an ...

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My old QB coach and MD alum Casey Reterer told me a story of once leaving THE JUDGE in a classroom overnight and coming back to discover that the university had called the bomb squad, which drilled a hole clean through it.

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Go for runs (or the gym) during the lunch break! There's a small park in Rosemont that's got a nice little path.

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Without a doubt, the single best way to get points in "Current Events" is to do some deep dives into political histories of most countries. This is something that Wikipedia can do yes, but you are going to have to ask yourself if that's the way you learn things. I am a partisan of working class ...

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I'll also add that we have always provided lunch at every tournament we have hosted - even taco bars - so if you are going to complain about prizes please consider folks who provide lunch too - this is often a major cost that I rarely see when I travel to other tournaments. I can't speak for ...

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Wish I could have played the whole tournament, but was cutting down forsythia in Inwood.
Reel Knowledge was a lot of fun - much respect to the hosts - they kept it moving quite quickly for a side event.

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Absolutely love the Before series... Funny Ha Ha (and all of Andrew Bujalski's following films) definitely fits in. Lovely movie, very ambling. On Amazon Prime, I believe. Additionally - Miami Vice (2006) - cool cool cool breeze, fast boats, Audioslave, early mornings Chan is Missing Rebels of the ...

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Can I suggest censoring the names of the location of this event? Just for extra security...

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Would anyone - Jews/gentiles alike - want to do havdallah Saturday night at HSNCT???

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I think the "play-along" aspect of Finals is something that a) is fun and participatory from afar and b) has been very hard to capture outside of a live setting. I'm talkin' bout when the whole audience is whispering to each other before, after, and during the buzzes. ("would you have gotten that ...

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physical activity such as push-ups, core exercises, and runs during lunch break will do you just fine.

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One thing I might recommend is always trying to be what I'll call "intellectually curious." If you've got a few minutes, read some online articles on topics you don't know much about (or even just Wikipedia summaries). My analogy for this is the "doctor's office"--whenever I end up at a doctor's ...

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Where's the ethnography?

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The Dunkin Donuts Cambridge Open sponsored by Store 24 and presented by Feral Isaac

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I'm working in the White Mountains this summer, so I should be able to come down (perhaps with my better half as well

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Finally, justice.

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Is there an ETA on the recordings of the final?

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I do think that it overranks Isaac (sorry Isaac) for his NAQT ability, at the expense of players like Kenji and Caleb who are much stronger ACF players (remember, ACF is the dominant format, even if ICT is one of the two nationals). It does not overrank me, if anything it underranks me. I'm ...

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Kenji is really, really good, and probably the only active player who had my number at NAQT.

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Is this how Dees thinks quizbowl games end?

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On the couch of my aunt, I'm thinking about the many mysteries of ACF Nationals this year: WHO is responsible for the "mysterious" closure of the T and was Charlie still on? WHAT FORCE gave Penn a flat right outside of WWE World Headquarters and Joe Nutter's old stomping grounds? WHY was that Indian ...

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Crows and Blackbirds are different

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I have to condition for a trail crew job, so you better believe Quizbowl crunches are back. can you please do this on jacob reed's desk when we play you thanks I did these before almost every round. Also, I went for a run during lunch and saw so many deer. They were used to humans, so they didn't ...

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