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MorganV

Just for the record this is definitely wrong, Loyola was so bad at history that when Dave Madden asked us whether we wanted to come to NHBB nats Nolan laughed at him

MorganV

Re: "buzzer faking", this rarely if ever works and can be considered pretty rude (both because it's angle-shooting and that you're insinuating the other team is naive or impetuous enough to fall for it). There's very little reason to try, unless you have a good existing relationship with your oppone...

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mlaird wrote:
Guile Island wrote:someone who knows old things and wants to win play this with me pls
Dylan, let's do this.

et tu Matthaeus

MorganV

ErikC wrote: 11 Trash Lit (includes musicals)

I for one welcome the new 30 question distro

MorganV

Speaking as a former bright-eyed high school student from the Weinerian era, I had a quite negative impression of the community from some of the exchanges I saw on the forums, which contributed to my decision to step away from the game for my first couple years of college. While I think we've improv...

MorganV

Definitely the 2013 NASAT tossup on parties in Pride and Prejudice which led to me buzzing in and excitedly saying "Like... Darcy's balls?!"

MorganV

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) wrote:Few people I've met in quizbowl have a more tiresome internet presence than you.

have you met this charlie dees fellow

MorganV

DumbJaques wrote:(with apologies to the Chuck Berry enthusiasts, that seems like an awfully niche thing to bump Tricon for)

Yeah, wouldn't want a tournament as niche as rock music to get in the way of the many fans of 1970s fads, US cities with population less than 50k, and numbers greater than 100

MorganV

heterodyne wrote:
Borel hierarchy wrote:
Mewto55555 wrote:We throw one of Kai's rare pepes off the ferry. Say goooodbye to Exooooodia!!!
why are your posts the exact opposite of the other posts in this blog

*the other of course referring to alston's
this was my joke go back to danganronpa dear

you spelled p5 wrong fool

MorganV

heterodyne wrote:Max exclaims "An all time classic!" while turning up the radio. Dead and Gone by TI begins playing.

to be fair, he's right

MorganV

Can Dylan do better than his NCAA team did??

MorganV

Auroni wrote: same caveat as the opening post applies

i.e. the lack of ACRONYM stats?

User was warned for requesting stats multiple times within a week.

MorganV

but where are the detailed ACRONYM stats

MorganV

not sure if I can write for this as i'm utterly unashamed of any of my high school interests

(jk I'll put something together)

MorganV

Ike wrote:
John and Max are, you might recall, not the same person.
Really?!?! A recent survey by Ike Analytics found that 69% of QBers find JL and Max to be the second-best shipping.

Only second-best?

MorganV

Shorts are comfy and easy to wear wrote:

The Top Percentage of Rattatas wrote:

I sense a conspiracy

MorganV

Ike wrote:This was a lot of fun - just a reminder that quizbowl is a lot more fun without that biology crap.

Sid Dogra: 0
Also don't forget that Sid didn't win his first game until Sunday.

Sid I saved you

MorganV

This was a ton of fun. The format was really unique and brought a lot of variety and exciting moments to the weekend. Thanks so much to all the writers and to Michigan for hosting!

MorganV

Habitat_Against_Humanity wrote:So the as-yet-unnamed team of myself, Sara Burke, Sam Bailey, and David Seal has lost its David Seal to work commitments. Are now looking for a free agent. Sports knowledge a plus. PM me or something.

Not every Chicago Open Trash team can afford him

MorganV

Major hype for the Gato Sandberg meme becoming reality

MorganV

considering there's only two packets and probably not that many people who want to play would it be easier to just run a shootout format?

MorganV

Steeve Ho You Fat wrote:While I fulfill 50% of those requirements, unfortunately HiiiPowers has no free roster slots.

Jake, build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs

MorganV

Craise Finton Kirk Royal Academy of Arts wrote:Do note that our PPB at Missouri Open is a bit inflated, since Morgan Venkus jumped on board our team making us an open team. Morgan is not enrolled at Northwestern, so he won't be playing any tournaments with us.

dammit

MorganV

TRIGGER WARNING: MATT JACKSON GIF

One thing that helped me a lot in biology and chemistry courses was to visualize things - if you try to find videos on the krebs cycle, bonding, etc and draw out the diagrams in your notebook, it helps a lot more with conceptual understanding

MorganV

chris ray when is your mixtape dropping

MorganV

Uh so where/when is this happening tomorrow?

MorganV

minor issue I had while reading: the Iliad bonus says "Chryses" (the priest) when it meant "Chryseis" (his daughter and Agamemnon's war prize at the beginning of the Iliad)

MorganV

heterodyne wrote:Auburn returns the far and away best player in the state. Depending on his improvement, Auburn could be the best in the state by the end of the year.

I'm pretty sure Usman graduated, actually

MorganV

"Welcome to indiana. We don't like it any more than you do."

MorganV

7:35: "Did you know that twice as many accidents happen to people going a given amount under the speed limit as above?"

pray for us pls

MorganV

"Streetlight manifesto... is that related to giacomo balla?"

MorganV

7:17 Mike sorice informs us that mcdonalds will not let you get non integral amounts of hash browns since employees won't be able to figure out what pi hash browns is

MorganV

supposed departure time: 7:00 AM
Current Time: 7:10

"Yeah, I'm just making them wait because I'm a dick."

He then chugs the shit out of a mug of coffee

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Hello, I am an unidentifiable figure who has hijacked Morgan's phone, and now partially this thread, which shall now contain information about Mike Sorice's trip to the NSC (this may just be "questions are read for 11 hours and he answers many of them)

MorganV

Matt Laird's name is spelled wrong in stats.

Otherwise, I really enjoyed this tournament and was glad to play it and get possibly my all time favorite buzz. Similarly to mike Cheyne I declined to play playoffs because I was falling asleep at the buzzer

MorganV

I once lost a match to Dylan Minarik partially because I said "triwizard tournament" for a tossup on what I think was the ryder cup. So there's that. we ended up winning our quarterfinal match against LASA at HSNCT, but my team has never stopped giving me shit for negging a tossup on "Bookstores" i...

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the return of AHAN wrote:I know that Barrington HS has reserved a spot for PACE. HSNCT bumps up against final exams and they're not jazzed about having that sort of conflict.

yeah that would sure be a shame

MorganV

Now that this is a real tournament, will the writers be paid?

MorganV

christino wrote:I will once again inquire into the existence of a regular-minus event in the fall; if it's not happening, I would encourage someone to pick up the effort.

Be the change you wish to see in others

MorganV

I predict that IMSA finishes T-13 for the fourth time in five years

MorganV

How were the playoff assignments made?

MorganV

Steven Hines wrote:Anyways, the tournament goes well up until we play against Loyola in playoffs and lose - we got demolished on every category except science and trash.

I apologize on behalf of Loyola for any and all negative externalities we exacted on the greater qb community by winning our first playoff game

MorganV

Cheynem wrote: I do think there was some overly specific trash answerlines (a supporting character from Phoenix Wright?)

Could I see this tossup out of pure vanity

MorganV

A few stylistic things that bothered me while reading: I agree with Jonah on the quizbowlese in this set; in particularly WAY too much "identify this so-and-so". This might just be a pet peeve of mine but "name this so-and-so" will suffice in pretty much any situation and is easier on moderators who...

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Auburn B's top player is actually one Steven Vo, with Usman playing on Auburn C for several tournaments. My apologies. Replace Auburn B in the rankings with Auburn C, with the same comment. I also intentionally left out IMSA B as their roster is inconsistent and Salij may be on the A team going for...

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As I'm bored and always relish the opportunity to steal Dylan Minarik's thunder, here are my thoughts on Illinois quizbowl post-first semester: Top Tier: Auburn Evan Pandya has had a meteoric rise over the course of the season: 10/5: Earlybird, 47.73 ppg en route to third place behind Stevenson and ...

MorganV

Will the skype mirror be closed and packet-required?

MorganV

-Catholics: Does this part on "real presence" do enough to disambiguate it well enough from "transubstantiation"? I'll readily admit to being uninformed if it does. If someone posts it, I'd be glad to be schooled in some Catholic doctrine. [10] Impanation argues that this doctrine is incorrect: Chr...

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I may have an unedited copy of the packets, but the Everything that Rises tossup in packet 1 claims O'Connor wrote a short story "Parker's Case"; the story is "Parker's Back".

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