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Looks like Sunday 15th September is the most popular date, so I will go for that - 18 people are signed up, so six teams of three seem ideal, to play a round robin on the first 5 packets, with two more packets for finals or shootout depending on the results - team formation sheet here . If anyone ha...

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In what might be a record, a whole two years and five months after the original announcement (https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=19807), I'd like to organise an online mirror of OCTAVIAN on Discord in the coming month or so - this initial post is to gauge interest/find dates which mi...

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As far as I can remember, this is the only quibble I had with the actual content of a history question, which happened to have a major effect on the outcome of one game and consequently our weekend - the question on Denmark in WW2, specifically the line about the White Buses, which iirc said somethi...

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jinah wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 15, 2019 11:35 am
adaptations of Juvenal by British writers

This was extremely enjoyable Classical Reception, which was a pleasure to hear being asked about

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If and when I have the time, I might talk about my views on specifics of history in more detail, but I'd say almost all the history was well written and well-clued, if perhaps slightly too canonical for my idiosyncratic tastes, but that fits with the set's philosophy (which perhaps just suggests tha...

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Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:37 am
Is there any chance that this set will get posted soon?

There will, hopefully, be a mirror of it in the UK after OOT, after which I hope to hold an online mirror on Discord - apologies for the wait, life has been quite hectic in recent months.

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I will be doing my best to ensure that there is a UK mirror of this

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There are other errata, but the Sappho bonus' final part is just plain wrong. In a poem found in 2014, Sappho waits for her brother Charaxos to return from this conflict. Odysseus fights in this war in Homer’s Iliad. The Brothers poem isn't (at least on the level of the basic text) about the Trojan ...

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Could I get a link to the Oxford site stats? Oxford and Edinburgh have been added. If someone knows what the Briticizing process was for these sites and can let me know, I'd appreciate it; I'm going to hold off on including that version in combined stats until that's squared away. The combined stat...

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At least at our site, criticism of the populism tossup included that fact that it's not really an ideology, which led to negs with answers that are definitively ideologies.

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I enjoyed playing this set, and would like to particularly praise the history, which seemed to sit nicely within the overlapping circles of "accessible" and "interesting to experienced players".

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A quick note, might come back with more once I've got a copy of the set - if I remember correctly, Glaucus and Diomedes exchanging armour came up twice, with each used as a clue for the other

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Could I get a link to the Oxford site stats?

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Considering that it has already been played at one site (VCU), do you think that there will be an online mirror of this in the near future? I know that I would love to give this tournament a shot, but, like so many others, can’t attend an actual mirror site. Thank you, Will look at running one in S...

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Extremely looking forward to this

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UlyssesInvictus wrote:
kearnm7 wrote:Hate to nag, but is there any idea of when/if this will be done and where it will be played? Would love to give it a go.
Bump on this as well, I've gotten a few requests to run this at the Boston summer event.

The aim is to have it done by the end of June

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Extremely dull Classics post below: First, there seemed to be a lot of unforgiving answerlines relative to past years. The examples that come to mind are kykaon (the substance in the leadin seems to just be called a potion in many translations, the substance in the Ascalaphus story is just listed as...

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I appear to be mostly writing pro-British posts at the moment, but Oxford should 1) come higher on your ballots now then they did before and 2) be noted as only missing out on the top bracket by (iirc) 20 points in their tiebreaker game.

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From a British perspective, I would suggest that people should vote for Jason Golfinos of Cambridge, who lead his team to the highest placing ever of a British university, Daoud Jackson of Oxford, who led his team to a way higher finish than most predicted, and Evan Lynch of Southampton, who top sco...

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I am looking forward to this, if only to justify the amount of time I spend on twitter.

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"Question: This historian's labelling of a people as "shepherd-kings" was referenced in a debate over the origins of the Jews found in another writer's tract Against Apion. The accounts created by this historian, which are largely corroborated by the Turin Canon, include a description of the wicked...

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As for Briticization, I'll admit that I aimed this at an American audience. If asked for a Briticization, I would happily have handed off some potentially offending content to tweak for difficulty and probably would have cut the US history to EFT level or so. Sorry, I should have been clearer - I d...

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I liked most of the history in this tournament and I didn't think there was much to complain about. I didn't like the tossup on "beys" because I think that a lot of the clues ended up being contrived but I recognise that a lot of those things are hard to ask about so I praise the intent. I think th...

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Sit Room Guy wrote:
Mike Bentley wrote:The last mirror I know about took place last weekend. Let me know in the next day or two if you still want to mirror it, otherwise I'll post the set.

(I'm also open to doing another online mirror for anyone who missed the in-person ones.)
I'd be interested in a second skype mirror

Same

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Are there plans for a private discussion forum within the next few days? I didn't see it on the list in my control panel. with modern technology we might even be able to run a public discussion thread I was asking about a private forum in light of the possible continuation of NASAT; ACF Regs was us...

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Would be interested in this.

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armitage wrote:Are you saying you are canceling this weekend's mirrors?

Sorry if this was not clear, but yes. This week was meant to be spent finishing up, but family has intervened.

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Apologies to those who hoped to be playing this tournament this weekend, but it's not going to be finished to the standard I would like by then. I had hoped to use this week to finish it up and apply necessary polish, but events have got in the way.

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Update: this is ~75% written, of which 50% I'm mostly happy with, and the other 25% needs bashing around into decent shape still. I'm also currently in Greece, and have therefore picked up various new ideas/clues. Thus I think this tournament will probably be ready to play by August. In the meantime...

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Short-beaked echidna wrote:I wonder which three post-Blair PMs will be tossed up.

Does depend on how many general elections we can fit in the next month to be fair.

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I will be there early on Saturday morning I guess.

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Am very ready to reveal embarrassing levels of knowledge about Lincoln Chafee and other obscure candidates.

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Will be taking the light of Quizbowl to the far north as I go to St Andrews for a 1 year Masters.

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People who I think should get a bump from last year: George Corfield - Holy Christ this dude is good at biology and music - apparently Oxford had 26 PPB on the former and 22 PPB on the latter at Nationals. Despite being a specialist (he can get a lot of science in general) he was also his team's to...

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Would be interested at some point.

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This may have long become myth and legend, but I'm about halfway through a 20/20 Wheel of Time packet on the few things I remember (and some things I don't) from the series. Let me know if anyone's interested in a reading when the packet is finished (probably in the next week). I could probably als...

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This is a preliminary announcement for OCTAVIAN (Oli's Classical Tournament About Various Interesting Ancient Nuggets) This will be a tossup-only tournament written by me. I plan currently on 12 packets of 24 tossups, power-marked, of about 8-9 lines. I aim for the answerlines to be about 1/2 that c...

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• Jurassic Coast as a tossup ?! And what's more, including "this coast" and fossil stuff in power ??. For the original British audience, I think it is reasonable as a tossup (I agree that the fossil stuff should not have been in power, and would have said so to the editors if I'd had the time to lo...

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This was the best time I ever had playing a quizbowl tournament. It was far from perfect, but brought a lot of cool material into the quizbowl fold - particularly the sort of material that used to keep me endlessly fascinated at night in middle and high school, and which inspired me to start playin...

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-The tossup on the Covenanters, along with the tossup on Waterford, Ireland, were two examples of the systematic British bias in the set. It seems that though the editors Americanized the set, they either failed to un-Briticize it, or had little idea of what American players know. I wrote the tossu...

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If it dealt with the ancient world, chances are I wrote it. Various other history was also mine.

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Yeah, the Oates bonus--those are pretty memorable last words but it's very, very hard to pull the exact verbiage. I might have asked for a portion of the words ("Oates said he was just going outside and he may be what?") or given the words and asked for the situation. Amusingly, at the UK site, thi...

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Yeah, the Oates bonus--those are pretty memorable last words but it's very, very hard to pull the exact verbiage. I might have asked for a portion of the words ("Oates said he was just going outside and he may be what?") or given the words and asked for the situation. Amusingly, at the UK site, thi...

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I'd say more in detail in a private discussion but: 1) for a 1 man tournament, this was exceptionally well thought out, with a few exceptions. 2) Perhaps my major criticism (which may well have been dealt with by further editing!) was that some answerlines, especially descriptive ones, quite often c...

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Any chance we could get a discussion forum for this?

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Having just played the UK mirror of this tournament, I would highly recommend playing this set.

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I'll talk about the ~drakaina~ because it's so rare I get to talk about female dragons and because it illustrates a central point. I will admit, the clue about Herodotus should be worded better, but I would not say it's incorrect, that...thing, is definitely a drakaina even if Herodotus doesn't use...

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Myth is a weird category - it crosses over with pretty much every other category (apart from the Sciences). I do not think it should be treated as a pure literary category, but if it is, then it should be written with same view of testing the knowledge of people who have read the texts as literature...

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