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Regarding NAQT Northern California State 2017: The tournament occurred on April 15, 2017 . After the tournament, Ankit, Niki and I discussed Shubham's anomalous performance and decided to wait another tournament to see if it carried over, then offer him a chance to prove his abilities on clean quest...

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Either Stanford or Berkeley will probably host something in July, though we probably won't start actively organizing anything for a couple weeks or so.

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Here they are! Sorry for the delay.. unfortunately we lost the scoresheets for one room. If anyone has anything that can help fill in some of the blanks, please let me know!

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tentative field cap: 12 for each event NASAT Davis HS Saratoga Hey, do you want to join our new Blockchain, Big Data, machine learning, AI, Bitcoin, TensorFlow, NLP, deep learning startup? It's like Uber, but for quizbowl. I can handle the business side. Raynell et al. A Very Old Team with Enormous ...

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Stanford will be hosting the Bay Area’s annual Weekend of Quiz Bowl this year on the weekend of August 4–5. The schedule will be as follows: Saturday, August 4 : NASAT OCTAVIAN and Imaginary Landscape (concurrently) Sunday, August 5 : CO Trash WORLDSTAR The Human Use of Human Beings All events for t...

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Mike Bentley wrote:Any chance for a California version of this?

We'll be having a weekend of quiz bowl most likely the weekend of August 4 in the Bay Area. We'll announce that once we figure out where we can host that. In the meantime, there's a poll up on the Northern California facebook group for side events.

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stats! prelims playoffs combined Scattergories

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Field:
Bellarmine (1)
Berkeley (5)
Chicago (2)
(UC) Davis (1)
Diablo Valley (1)
Homestead (1)
Sacramento City (1)

total: 12
(field closed)

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UC Berkeley will be hosting the Eisenhower Memorial Tournament this year on Saturday, April 29, 2017, our traditional date for MUT. This is a regular-minus difficulty tournament, and it will be open for anyone who has not yet received their bachelor’s degree (including high schoolers). More informat...

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Congratulations to Bellarmine A and Bellarmine C for winning varsity and JV divisions of Bellarmine Invitational 2017!

stats: varsity, JV

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current field: Varsity (12) Amador Valley Bellarmine (2) Challenger-Ardenwood Escobar (2) Harker Homestead (2) Pi-oneers Monta Vista Valley Christian JV (22) Bellarmine Branham Dublin Evergreen Fallon (3) Fremont HIGS (2) Hillsdale Hopkinz Kennedy Los Altos Monta Vista Piedmont Hills Saint Francis S...

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Bellarmine will be running our annual tournament on Sunday, March 26, 2017 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. This year, we will have both a varsity division and as well as a JV division, as opposed to running an all-novice tournament as in previous years. We will be using NA...

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Stats are finally up. Sorry for the delay!

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Hello! I am pleased to announce the Northern California site of ACF Fall 2016 , to be held at UC Berkeley on Saturday, 5 November 2016 . ACF Fall is the year’s premier introductory-level collegiate quizbowl tournament, and we do hope that you join us at this event. The field will tentatively be capp...

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I'm not sure if this would count as an erratum, but in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms bonus in packet 8, it's not entirely correct to describe Lu Xun the general and Lu Xun the author as having the same name, since their names are written with different characters and the tones on Lu are differen...

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It's now Thursday morning, and I'm closing the field at 32 teams. Registered teams should have received an email from me with logistical details.

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current field (teams/buzzers/staffers) BASIS Independent (1/1/1) California Connections (1/0/0) Castilleja (1/0/0) Challenger-Ardenwood (1/0/0) Escobar (1/1/0) Evergreen Valley (2/1/0) Fallon (1/1/0) Graham (2/0/2) Harker (1/1/0) HIGS (1/1/1) Leland (1/1/0) Lincoln (1/0/0) Milpitas (2/0/0) Mitty (2/...

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Bellarmine’s quiz bowl team will be running our annual novice tournament on Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. We will be using NAQT’s Introductory Invitational Set #153A. This particular set of questions is intentionally geared towards newer teams....

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The tossup on The Mayor of Casterbridge (Louisiana Tech A + Dartmouth A) said that "Donald Farfrae remarries with Elizabeth-Jane, who the title character had drunkenly sold." I think it's a pretty significant plot point in the novel that the Elizabeth-Jane that appears in most of the book (and whom ...

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Congratulations to Davis, who defeated Bellarmine 310-170 in a one game final.
Thank you to all who came out to play today!

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current field (teams/buzzers/staffers)
Bellarmine (1/2/4)
Cupertino (2/1/0)
Davis (1/1/2)
Grasshoppers (2/0/0)
Haarlem (1/1/0)
Lowell (1/0/1)

total: 8/5/7
(last updated 11/04/2015, field closed)

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Hello! We are pleased to announce the Northern California high school site of ACF Fall 2015, to be held at Bellarmine College Preparatory on Sunday, 8 November 2015 . ACF Fall is the year's premier introductory-level collegiate quizbowl tournament, suited for advanced high school teams looking for a...

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Also in round 1, I think Pyrrhus should be acceptable for Neoptolomus (my teammate was negged for saying that).

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Congratulations to Harker, who defeated Stratford Santa Clara A 410-335 in a one game final. Full stats are forthcoming.

Thanks to everyone who came to play today; hope to see you all next year!

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I was just looking back over Bellarmine's packet and noticed a factual error in the Caddy tossup, created when a sentence was removed from our original submission: 15. This character marries a "minor movingpicture magnate" in Hollywood and divorces him in Mexico five years later. This character wash...

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Thanks to everyone who came out to play or to staff yesterday! Stats here.

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It is Wednesday now, and I'm freezing the field at 28 teams. The form will still be open for registrations to the waitlist.

EDIT: I will also send an email out to registered teams with logistical information sometime tonight.

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I have just uploaded the set to the database. It should be publicly viewable soon.

EDIT: link

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Current Field: School Name (Teams/Buzzers/Staffers) Milpitas (1/1/0) El Cerrito (1/0/0) Mountain View (1/0/1) Davis (4/2/3) Monta Vista (1/0/0) Challenger-Ardenwood (2/0/0) Fallon (1/0/0) Lynbrook (1/0/0) Northgate (1/0/0) Leland (2/1/0) Valley Christian (2/2/2) Saratoga (1/2/1) Challenger-Berryessa...

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Bellarmine’s Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce that our annual novice tournament will be held on January 17, 2015 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. We will be using NAQT’s Introductory Invitational Set #143A. This particular set of questions is intentionally geared towar...

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Could I see the tossup on the bow, to see how it was described? I believe it was in IS-130.

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Would it be considered bad sportsmanship (or otherwise frowned upon) to mispronounce an answer deliberately (for example, pronouncing Camus the way it looks like in English)?

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bird bird bird bird bird wrote:I believe Bellarmine is considering keeping their housewrite for fall mirrors.

Yes, that's true, we'll be posting BELLOCO after the end of next semester (or earlier if there are no more mirrors).

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I would actually like to see the Tripitaka tossup: I remember vaguely recognizing it through the reference to Tang Sanzang, but I wasn't sure enough to buzz until the very end. I'd also like to see the tossup on the blood of Christ. Our teammate buzzed in on the clue about Longinus, somewhat confuse...

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This set has been deemed exemplary by PACE! We will be extending mirrors into next semester (fall 2014).

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10. This note’s Dorian mode contains only white keys on the piano. This note’s major key was “the key of glory” for Baroque trumpets until the invention of the valve trumpet. The entirety of The Art of Fugue is written in this note’s minor key, as is the first movement of Sibelius’ violin concerto....

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13. Key locations in this game include the Fort Duquesne Bridge and a fictional university whose mascot is the Bighorns. In one cutscene, one protagonist entrusts another with a pistol after nearly drowning; in another, giraffes stroll through Salt Lake City. This game’s developer was criticized fo...

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The New Zealand tossup mentioned the Hutt Valley (specifically the Hutt Valley campaign), not the Hutt River, and it looks like there's only one of those in the world. (or at least, the one in New Zealand is the first result on Google) Privateers was marked as promptable for pirates, but not mercena...

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We changed both seamounts and Gulf Stream. I might get around to posting a list of questions that we changed completely after the UCSD mirror sometime. We looked up Neruda again and have changed it to Elemental Odes . As for the others (USS Constitution, Paris Commune, Becket), I'm thinking we shoul...

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Congratulations to Davis A, who defeated Homestead 305-300 in a one-game final! Thank you to all who came to compete, and congratulations to Saratoga A, Homestead, Menlo-Atherton, Davis A and Amador A for qualifying for PACE. Also a big thanks to all our staffers, who allowed this tournament to run ...

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The field is temporarily full, but we will be starting a waitlist and may expand the field, depending how many staffers we can get.

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We are pleased to announce that this tournament has been awarded platinum certification by PACE. The top 25% finishing teams will qualify for PACE NSC on May 24-25 outside DC.

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Bellarmine will be hosting this tournament on February 22.

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Team Name: Teams/Buzzers/Staffers Acalanes: 1/0/0 Albany: 2/2/1 Amador Valley: 2/6/0 Castro Valley: 1/0/0 Davis: 3/0/1 Escobar: 1/4/0 Harker: 1/0/0 Homestead: 1/0/0 Lynbrook: 1/1/0 Menlo-Atherton: 1/1/1 Mills: 1/1/0 Mitty: 1/0/0 Moreau Catholic: 1/0/1 Saratoga: 5/1/1 TCPS: 1/0/0 Valley Christian: 1/...

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Bellarmine’s Quiz Bowl team is pleased to announce that the homesite tournament of our first housewrite set, BELLum Omnium Contra Omnes (BELLOCO), will be held on February 22, 2014 at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California. The initial field cap will be 24 teams, with possible expans...

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Could I also see the Schubert tossup?

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Personally, I liked the lead-in to the bonus about Feynman. ("A bonus on Richard Feynman? Surely you're joking!") Although that makes me wonder if it would be feasible to write a trash bonus about Richard Feynman using stories from his autobiographies. That man did some amazing stuff. I also felt th...

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