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Megachile dupla wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 12:44 am Will this set be posted soon?

Not Erik, but it hasn't been played in Canada yet (y'know, the home market of this tournament), so probably not.

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Player Poll (Top 25 + Top 5 Open players) Open 1 - Aayush Rajasekaran 1. Derek So 2. Rein Otsason 3. Jay Misuk 4. Chris Sims - I thought about putting Chris third, given his consistency, ability to grab in multiple categories at a high level, and Jay’s wild variability due to his penchant for the -5...

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Jack wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 7:55 pm Thank you. Thank you for this. I don't know if I'll be able to play, but I'm sure reading it will be just as awesome. (as an aside, I hope you're not counting the great players Jacob Ardown and Olly Postanin as "meme" content.)

I think you mean Nolli Postagain, noted consumer of burgers...

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After I finish my PhD in (fingers crossed) July, I'll be moving to Montreal to take up a postdoc at UdeM, based at the Montreal Botanical Garden. I can staff tournaments in Montreal, if there are any, or perhaps as far as Ottawa. But I will never call packets "[the thing Canadians call them]." ( st...

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Fyi, I apparently asked the wrong question, and got the answer I told you as a result. When the field is common among the among the playoff bracket (as in this case), we rank first by playoff bracket, then by *total* record. The rankings are being updated. I apologize for the confusion. Problem sol...

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Anyone perusing the official NAQT results for this tournament will encounter a troubling peculiarity in the Div II results. Namely, that a 6-4 team is ranked second, ahead of a 7-3 team with better statistics across the board. Dennis has passed on to us NAQT's position that in these situations, res...

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This tournament happened. Stats: http://hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/5617/. McGill A cleared the field in Division 1 at 10-0; Toronto C did the same at 10-0 in Division 2. Note that for NAQT reporting purposes, Toronto J is listed as Toronto B, which bumps down each subsequent Toronto team by one l...

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Logistics have gone out to all the team contacts.

We'll be running house teams in each division to have six teams in D1 and eight in D2.

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Is there a recommended parking lot? Would the ones beside and below Frank Tindall Field be fine? Will be in your logistics email, but the recommended parking is the above-ground lot beside Tindall Field (the below-ground lot is permit-holders and locks on the weekend, so you can't get into it witho...

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Field

Division I
McGill A
Carleton A
Toronto A
Toronto B (aka Toronto J)
Toronto C

Division II
McGill B
Carleton B
Waterloo
McMaster
Toronto D
Toronto E
Toronto F

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The Queen's University Trivia Club is happy to announce the Canadian NAQT Sectional on February 9, 2019 in Kingston, Ontario. Location & Logistics We are once again in Jeffrey Hall, where most of our recent tournaments have been held. Please meet in the control room, Jeffrey Hall 126, for 9:30 AM fo...

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Congratulations to Toronto A, who cleared the field at 8-2, ahead of Toronto J, Toronto C and the Open Team, who all went 6-4. Thank you to all the teams who came from Toronto and the US today (seriously, everyone who played was from one of these two locations). Infinite thanks are due to my staff t...

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Logistics have gone out to the teams, and the field is now closed at six teams. See you Saturday!

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We have late permission to allow open teams at this site to boost field size from Penn, which is now reflected in the addition of Erik Christensen's team in the latest field update. I'm going to close the field on Thursday to give time for anyone else who would also like to come. (edited to add regi...

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What are the eligibility restrictions/ policies on open teams for this tournament? I just realized this tournament is less than three hours away from me and I might consider coming if I don't have to play solo. Penn Bowl is closed, unfortunately, but this is a nice reminder that Kingston is only ab...

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Can I see the tossup on British anthropologists? I (and at least one other room) negged with France on the structuralism clue (seemed like bait for Lévi-Strauss)

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Field

Toronto (4)
Michigan State (1)
Erik Christensen et al

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The Queen's University Trivia Club is happy to announce the Canadian mirror of Penn Bowl on October 27, 2018 in Kingston, Ontario. More information about Penn Bowl can be found in the global announcement (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21304). Location and Logistics We are back...

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I'll be working New York at this time and would love to play this event and maybe run FTP 3 on the second day, Let me know if you'd like to play with me or if you could give some advice on getting to Toronto from NYC. VIA Rail/Amtrak does a joint day-train (8am-8pm) either direction from Toronto to...

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The Ottawa-based team of Ian Dewan, Brendan McKendy, Shelby Robert and Rodrigo Morante defeated the Martingrove alumni team of Paul Kasinski, Erik Christensen, Ian Grieg and Mark Grieg in the first game of an advantaged final. Thank you to everyone who came to Kingston today, and especially to the q...

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Could I see the tossup on Québec please? From memory, it felt basically like an old-timey Geo question asking physical features in the empty space in Northern Québec, without much else there.

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I think this perception may also stem from the differences in question length between ACF and NAQT - the character cap on NAQT questions leads to shorter questions than in ACF. So while the hypothetical power numbers are similar in terms of the percentage distribution, you're hearing more question ...

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Here's a thought experiment - what if ACF Regionals had powers? Not to argue for whether it should or not, but rather to test difficulty predictions / presumptions. In my experience editing, power marks usually are somewhere between 40 and 70 percent of the way through the vast majority of tossups ...

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The Queen's University Trivia Club is happy to announce the main site of the Canadian Hybrid Tournament on Sunday, March 18, 2018 in Kingston, Ontario. More information about the Canadian Hybrid Tournament can be found in the global announcement (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=...

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I sent in a registration on Friday in which I said I needed to write a pack and emailed yesterday to ask for a distribution. Can someone please get back to me and give me a distribution?

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In case this hasn't been caught yet, Bonus 20 of Pack 14 incorrectly claims that Nikos Katzantzakis wrote The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.

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Glad you enjoyed the set, Christopher. The ancient Egyptian history bonus was intended to have Memphis as middle and translating hieroglyphics as hard. I don't have much real knowledge of Egyptian archaeology, so it is certainly possible that the hard part was not difficult enough. I don't think it...

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Stats are done: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournaments/4596/

Thank you to everyone for coming today - we hope you enjoyed the tournament.

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McGill beat Toronto to win in the second game of an advantaged final. Derek So was top scorer. Full stats in an hour or so.

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Current Field:
McGill
Toronto
Carleton
House (x3)

The field is now closed.

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The Queen's University Trivia Club is happy to announce the Canadian mirror of Penn Bowl on October 21, 2017 in Kingston, Ontario. More information about Penn Bowl can be found in the global announcement (http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=19987). Location and Logistics This tourna...

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Two stories for this thread, now that I have a functional car: The Friday before SCT 2013 there was a massive snowstorm across Ontario and into the Northeastern US. For whatever reason, there were two SCT sites that year within range of Ottawa - at McMaster in Hamilton, and at Buffalo. Being Canadia...

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Hey I need to get other stuff done tonight and tomorrow so final stats for this and ACRONYM aren't gonna be up until Tuesday. A hodge-podge team of Rafael, Ian, Huma, and Paul won the tournament. Are you referring to Rafael Krichevsky? Yes, this is noted Canadian Rafael Krichevsky being referred to.

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Toronto A went 10-0 to clear the field. McGill finished second at 8-2. Ottawa won the UG title by virtue of being the lone UG team to make the top bracket. Toronto C placed highest of the two Division 2 teams, one game clear of Waterloo B. Ian Dewan of Ottawa was the top scorer (both overall and amo...

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Live Stats (round robin): http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... und_robin/
Live Stats (playoffs): http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... /playoffs/

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Other bit of errata: [from Horton/Swift/Ankit], Michael Moore directed Bowling for Columbine, not Bowling for Columbia.

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Errata: Tom Thomson died (in 1917) before the Group of Seven "officially" formed in 1920; as such he's only associated with/influenced it, rather than actually being a member.

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Current Field:
McGill A
McMaster A
Ottawa A
Toronto A
Toronto B
Toronto C
Waterloo A
Waterloo B

Link to the ACF field Spreadsheet.

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The Queen's University Trivia Club is happy to announce that the Canada/Niagara mirror of 2017 ACF Regionals will take place at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, on February 18, 2017. More information about ACF Regionals can be found in the global announcement: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/forum...

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Periplus of the Erythraean Sea wrote: Spring: MUT?

Minnesotans, is there any word one way or another on if MUT will happen this year?

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It's come to my attention that a screenshot of this thread's original post was posted in a Canadian quizbowl groupchat before Penn Bowl was played in Canada, which meant that a question had to be replaced. Apparently, these Canadian writers not only can't be trusted with writing questions, they can...

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I'm moving to Queen's University to pursue a MA in Economics and a JD (combined program). I still intend to play tournaments.

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I'm looking for a team. What little I answer will likely be history.

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ACRONYM stats. Team "I love Kanye" (Aayush/Ian/Mark) defeated the Eukaryotes of Fire (Jay/Adam/Patrick/Cole) in a one-game final.

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Signing up as a free agent, given the paucity of interest from my current and future universities. I also will bring a buzzer set.

EDIT: I have become "American" and joined Michigan State.

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In Pack 5, bonus 8 (Carthage/Rome), the bonus seems to suggest (or did when I played this set) that the Battle of Cannae came after the Battle of the Metaurus River, which is incorrect.

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Since this is Sunday I can play this now, so sign me up.

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I'm only qualified to comment on sports. Most of my broad comments on that are already in this thread through other people; the only thing that I'd say is that the golf seemed jarring in part due to being in back-to-back rounds. Over 15 rounds, I don't think two golf questions is absurd...that said,...

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The TWA Flight Centre comes up in both the Finland and Airports architecture tossups.

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There was a bonus which mentioned artwork found on Swiss money in the lead-in, and then asked for Switzerland as the second part of the bonus.

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