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A discussion group has been set up for those that have played the set. Thank you for the kind words Kai, Mike, and Rob!

Could I please see conversion stats for the Joni Mitchell and empress tossups? Both were somewhere in rounds 1-7.

EDIT: The one on the album Reputation as well, if it’s not too much trouble

a tournament centering on fine arts in the year 1900 and beyond Can you clarify this wording? The title classifies this as a 20th century fine arts tournament, but this statement indicates that works from the 21st century would be fair game. The set will contain material from the 21st century in ad...

I have added some updated information to the initial post.

I will be attending the University of Texas at Austin and plan on being involved with the quizbowl team there.

I will write a full packet for this.

Pranav had to drop out of the set, so we are currently looking for a classical music writer. Please email me at williamgolden14 at gmail dot com by this Friday if you are interested in writing for The Unanswered Question. We are looking for people who do not have much experience writing at high leve...

Hello! This is the announcement for The Unanswered Question, a tournament centering on fine arts in the year 1900 and beyond, aimed at being ready for side event weekend this summer. The writing team will be me (James E. Taylor High School), Max Shatan (Wesleyan University), Sameer Apte (Carnegie Me...

Hope everyone enjoyed the set! If you have comments or thoughts, please post in the discussion group. To join, press your username in the upper right corner, click on User Control Panel, go to Usergroups, and select 2019 CAST Discussion. Thank you!

We have a discussion group now! To join, press your username in the upper right corner, click on User Control Panel, go to Usergroups, and select 2019 CAST Discussion.

herbie.brock wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 05, 2018 6:24 pm

Is this the first year of this set?

Yes.

Some minor changes to the distribution have also been made, and additional mirrors have been included.

List of Planned Mirrors Glenwood High School (Chatham, IL)- January 27th Woodford High School (Versailles, KY)- February 2nd Penn Manor High School (Millersville, PA)- February 9th Cal Cup #3 (TBD)- February 23rd University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)- February 23rd Boardman High School (Boardman, ...

Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the 2019 Collaborative Academic Spring Tournament (CAST), a regular high school difficulty set. It will be available from January 1st, 2019, to May 19th (the weekend before HSNCT). We hope this set will be accessible to newer players by making sure easy parts a...

Just want to say I completely overlooked Katy Taylor's performance on IS-170, so I under-ranked them by quite a bit. Still, I'd probably only have put them around top 10 because of the P/T ratio. They had a really impressive PPB at Penn Bowl (about the same at Virginia A!) and good but not as impre...

This was ridiculously fun- thanks to all of the writers and staffers who made this possible. Will stats/packets for this be posted soon?

I think you're missing the mirror of EFT that took place at Texas A&M: http://www.hsquizbowl.org/db/tournament ... all_games/

I really enjoyed this tournament, and thought it was very well-written overall. The U.S. History Bee set was solid and had some great ideas (like the tossup on Nixon only cluing from his economic policies or the one on Monticello). Although I thought the historiography questions were interesting, th...

Would you mind posting the tossups on Hofstadter and m.a.a.d? I'm curious to see where the first one went after Godel, Escher, Bach was dropped at the beginning of the second sentence, and I wanted to see where power ended on the latter. Thanks for a great set!

The Stanford tossup was another example of this. I don't know where specifically the Stanford banned has been band from, but I know it's a lot of places, so Disneyland seems plausible enough. This is exactly what I thought when I powered this tossup. I was playing against a team of good players so ...

Are there any current plans for this tournament to be mirrored at HSNCT?

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but is there any chance these questions will be posted?

The bonus about cigarettes in art in packet 2 refers to van Gogh as a 20th-century painter. It also gave a slightly-off title for Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, the painting mentioned in the same bonus part (I don't remember the exact phrasing).
EDIT: packet 2, not round 2