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The set has been uploaded to the archive.

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Also, bonus C.12 appeared to be primarily themed around rape in ancient Rome. To me this is a surprising and, honestly, dubious choice so I'm curious--what was the process that led to its inclusion? Was this a considered decision, or an oversight, or something else? The horrific treatment of actres...

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I am glad that people seemed to enjoy the "fresh" ideas and emphasis on underrepresented groups in the set. These were goals we consciously aimed for when editing. I enjoyed working with everyone on this set, but want to give a special shoutout to Nick Jensen, who was the MVP of this set (...

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This is the thread for general comments about 2020 ACF Winter. I am ecstatic more than 170 teams played the set! The goal was to have a mix of standard and creative content at a difficulty halfway between ACF Fall and ACF Regionals. Here is the category breakdown: Ganon Evans: World History, Other F...

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This is the thread to discuss specific questions from 2020 ACF Winter, which will be posted to the archive later this week.

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Post updated with every team that made the +$50 deadline. Teams still have until November 1st to submit a packet, although the penalty is an extra $10 a day starting from last Sunday. We're excited for you to play this set!

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American and world history playtesting is starting in just a few hours. If you are not in school and want to participate, send me a message.

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A reminder that the +$50 deadline is tomorrow (Sunday, October 25th).

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Playtesting for ACF Winter will start on Sunday, October 25th and last until Tuesday, November 3rd. Please message me on the forums or email me at [email protected].com if you are interested in participating. I will reply to the interested parties with a private Discord link (I have lots of school...

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High school teams at high-school-only mirrors are exempt from the packet submission requirement. I have updated the original Winter announcement to reflect this. Sorry for any confusion!

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We have found hosts for the Midwest, Lower Mid-Atlantic, and United Kingdom sites. We are still searching for another east coast mirror and a high school mirror. I have also updated the list of teams that submitted by the +$25 deadline.

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Don't forget that the +$25 deadline is tomorrow (Sunday, October 18th) at 11:59 PST!

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The original post has been updated with a registration link , the list of sites, and the list of teams who submitted by the -$0 deadline. We are still looking for a Midwest site, two additional East Coast sites, a UK site, and a high school site. Registration and requesting a half-packet distributio...

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I've updated the list of submissions by the -$25 deadline. There are three days until the next deadline, which is at 11:59 PDT on Sunday, October 4th. The original post listed the three upcoming deadlines as being on Saturday night; I've adjusted it so that the deadlines are on Sundays.

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T-minus 24 hours until the extended -$25 deadline is over. Get those packets in!

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The -$25 deadline has been extended to 11:59 PDT on Friday, September 25th. Please send your packets in, and make sure to request a distribution if you haven't already!

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Reminder that the -$25 deadline is at midnight Pacific time on September 20th. I've also updated the main post with a list of teams who submitted by the -$50 deadline. Please let me know if that information is inaccurate.

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A reminder that the first packet submission deadline is tonight! Are there plans to have some kind of advanced stats at this tournament? For example, TangStats (https://gemeln.github.io/) was used successfully at the BLAST online high school mirror in April (https://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic.p...

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Is it ACF's policy not to specify which editor is in charge of which categories? I assume that some people know who's doing what anyway, either from talking to the editors or by knowing their specialities, so it might as well be publicly announced. I'm happy to specify each editor's categories: Gan...

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This is the official announcement for 2020 ACF Winter, which will be held on November 7th, 2020 . (Note that this is two weeks earlier than the original date.) It will target a difficulty halfway between ACF Fall and ACF Regionals. The tournament will be head edited by me (William Golden) and subjec...

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Scores from the first reading. Congrats to Nathaniel on the victory. Henry - 30 Rohith - 35 Jamie - 15 Connor - 25 Mazin - 25 Nathaniel - 45 Rudra - 15 Taylor - 15 Matt D. - 10 Alex M. - 10 Halle - 15 Vikshar - -5 A few people have told me they'd like to play the packet but were unable to make today...

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I wrote a packet about hip hop from 2007 to the present. It's 20-22 tossups long (depending on how much I end up writing for the last few questions), and the difficulty is hard. I will read it on the main discord channel at 8 p.m. central on Wednesday, April 22nd. If there's enough interest, I'll ho...

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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!

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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

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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...

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I have added some updated information to the initial post.

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

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I will write a full packet for this.

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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...

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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...

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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!

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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.

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herbie.brock wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 6:24 pm Is this the first year of this set?

Yes.

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

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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, ...

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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...

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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...

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

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

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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...

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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!

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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 ...

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

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

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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

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